GBP Chapter 306 Fishing and Hunting
Chapter 306 Fishing and Hunting
101 days after birth.
"Brother Chen, why don't you just stay on the sidelines and watch? With your luck, hogging a fishing rod is a complete waste of resources!"
Seeing Yichen catch another seaweed, Bai Jue listlessly played with her hair with her index finger.
"Never mind that! I refuse to believe I can't catch even a single fish!"
Yi Chen, his face dark, removed the seaweed from the fishing hook and gritted his teeth.
A day has passed since Bai Jue made the fishing rod.
During this period, apart from eating, sleeping and going to the toilet at night, Yichen spent all his time fishing.
But as a result, he didn't catch a single fish from beginning to end.
However, with his ability to always catch something when casting, he still managed to catch quite a few strange and unusual creatures.
Among these are human creations, such as smelly shoes, mineral water bottles, fishing nets...
Other marine plants, such as kelp and laver, are the most abundant.
In addition, there are some things commonly found in the ocean, such as corals, shells, and conches.
Of course, conch only has a shell and no meat inside.
Therefore, from beginning to end, Yichen failed to catch a decent fish, and it can be said that his luck was extremely bad.
On this day, Cangnian dived down to the seabed again and caught a few sea spiders to give to Baijue as materials for making fishing rods.
To improve hunting efficiency, Cangnian restored Baijue's spiritual power and then made new fishing rods. A total of thirty rods were made, but only twelve are currently usable.
Because these fishing rods are designed specifically for the game, they not only guarantee a hookset when casting and a catch when reeling in, but also offer durability.
With each cast, the durability decreases by a little.
If you reel in the line and it comes ashore, the durability will be consumed based on the prey's strength, size, and the intensity of its struggle.
The stronger and larger the prey, the more it struggles, and the more durability the fishing rod consumes.
Take yesterday's great white shark, for example. It was a level 3 prey, strong, large, and its struggle was astonishing. After I caught it, it almost exhausted the fishing rod's durability.
Therefore, in order to reduce the wear and tear on the fishing rods, Cangnian instructed Qin Changyi and other third-tier evolved individuals to only cast the rods without hooking or reeling in the line.
Meanwhile, Cangnian himself, along with his tiger father, tiger mother, tiger brother, black king snake, little sable, and little ferret, were soaking in the seawater, guarding the fishing float, waiting for their prey to be attracted by the fishing hook.
Then, when they are attracted by the fishhook and lose their senses, ambush them, kill them, and then have the little sable put them into the storage space.
This simple tactic is exceptionally effective in practical applications.
Those various evolved creatures attracted by the fishhook seem to have lost their minds, oblivious to their external environment, and single-mindedly focused on biting the hook.
Although the Cangnian family are not aquatic animals, they are good swimmers and their fighting ability in the sea is not greatly reduced, making it easy for them to ambush and kill their prey.
During this process, Cangnian kills as many prey as possible to accumulate more proficiency in his Extermination skill.
After a day of baiting and fishing, Cangnian had a rough estimate of the probability of Baijue catching prey with his fishing rod.
The time it takes to catch a fish after casting the line is not fixed.
Sometimes, the goods can be delivered in two and a half minutes, and sometimes it may take two and a half hours.
After all, this is reality. It's not like in Minecraft where a fish magically appears out of thin air in the water and gets hooked. Instead, a real fish or something else needs to swim or drift near the hook and get caught.
There are also general patterns to the items that are stocked.
Generally, 50% of the items are random, useless things, like smelly shoes, plastic bottles, and fishing nets.
Next, the other half consists of living things, half of which are plants and half are animals.
Of the animals, 50% are first-order evolved beings, 40% are second-order evolved beings, and only 10% are third-order evolved beings.
Overall, there is only a 25% chance that an animal will come up, and only a 1 in 40 chance that a third-order evolved creature will come up.
As for ordinary organisms, Cang Nian discovered that there seemed to be no ordinary organisms left in the ocean.
This is not difficult to understand.
Even among the ordinary survivors of Kangcheng and Mucheng, the proportion of evolved biological flesh in their food is now quite high.
With the consumption of evolved meat, the physical fitness of ordinary people has also improved. They are no longer ordinary people in the strict sense as they were before the spiritual energy revival.
The same applies in the ocean. In the most primitive and purest relationship of eating and being eaten, evolutionary factors circulate among different organisms, promoting their evolution.
It's been almost two and a half months since the spiritual energy revival tide began, and ordinary creatures have become rare.
As for Bai Jue and Qin Changyi getting a third-tier evolved creature on their first turn, it can only be attributed to good luck.
However, Yichen cast his line hundreds of times throughout the day without catching a single fish, which made Cangnian a little less confident in the probability he had calculated.
Fortunately, none of the catches he makes are real, so the wear and tear on his fishing rod is minimal, and he hasn't even finished using one yet.
Originally, Cangnian thought it was a waste of resources for Yichen to be holding a fishing rod, so he planned to let him give the fishing rod to another third-tier evolver.
But seeing his bloodshot eyes, and knowing that he would be haunted by inner demons if he didn't catch a fish, Cang Nian could only let him go.
Anyway, Bai Jue has made enough fishing rods now. With twelve rods fishing at the same time, he can go and check the situation as soon as there is any movement near the float.
If it's an animal-type fish, Cangnian won't care whether it's a first-tier, second-tier, or third-tier fish; he'll just go up and kill it.
The third-tier item was placed in the storage space by the little sable, to be distributed to Qin Changyi and the others after the hunt ended and they came ashore.
For first and second order, it depends on the situation.
If the target hasn't taken the bait yet, Cangnian will kill the target and then let the Black King Serpent eat it.
If the fish has already taken the bait and is still hanging on the hook after being killed, then let the evolved being holding the rod pull it ashore.
In this way, it can serve as a food source for migrating caravans.
Marine life is generally at a higher evolutionary level and is also larger in size. Even a common second-order fish can weigh several hundred kilograms, and some can exceed one ton, enough to feed thousands of people for a day.
Meanwhile, the ordinary people in the migrating group, as well as other evolved beings, were not idle either.
They carried containers and searched the beach for various creatures that had been washed ashore during high tide but failed to return to the sea during low tide, leaving them stranded.
Previously, when they migrated through the snow, the extreme cold alone was enough to be fatal. They could only be protected by evolved humans, and even their food came from the hunted animals.
Now that everyone has the means to earn a living and is capable of doing so, they naturally won't continue to sit back and enjoy the fruits of others' labor.