Lin Yang lifted his rod, and it was another small Tangjiao Fish.
While he was unhooking the fish, he glanced at the handbook. One hundred yuan, a little experience, and points, unfortunately scant rewards.
After breaking the drought, the two of them began to continuously catch fish, mostly Tangjiao Fish, with the occasional Carp and Crucian Carp also biting.
It must be said, the resources here were really good. Although they hadn’t caught any particularly rare species, it was still interesting to have continuous bites.
It wasn’t until more than an hour later, Lin Yang had another extremely fierce black float!
He didn’t pay much attention, thinking it was another Tangjiao Fish, and lifted the rod subconsciously.
The fish wasn’t big, and was quickly pulled ashore.
However, the moment it reached the shore, joy couldn’t help but spread across his face. The fish was sleek all over, with star-like spots on each side of its body, looking very beautiful.
"Seven-star fish!"
Lin Yang held the fish in his hand, examining it carefully, the ancient fish species were really beautiful.
He then looked at the handbook rewards, five hundred yuan, five points of experience and points, which did not match its ancient fish species status.
But thinking about it, it was normal. In some places with good water quality in the south, Seven-star fish were quite common.
On the other side, Li Xiaopeng was looking at Lin Yang’s fish with some envy. He had been wanting to catch a Seven-star fish, but had not been successful despite fishing for a long time.
"Don’t worry, since there are Seven-star fish here, you can catch one too."
After Lin Yang finished speaking, he suddenly remembered that he and Li Xiaopeng were using different fishing gear. His several fishing rods, as well as floats and lines, were all fishing equipment rewarded by the handbook.
Although Yue’er and he would use his equipment, there were still some items that were ordinary goods from the market.
He thought to himself that after returning, he would change all of their fishing equipment. Although it cost a lot of points to exchange for fishing rods and floats from the handbook, as the people closest to him, they should use the best equipment.
And with a competition in a couple of days, it was necessary to upgrade their gear to win the big prize.
About half an hour passed.
Just when Li Xiaopeng was about to give up, his float suddenly dipped!
"Hey, got a bite!"
Li Xiaopeng was hopeful, wishing it was a Seven-star fish.
When the fish surfaced, he immediately laughed: "Hahaha, speak of the devil, I’ve caught a Seven-star fish, too!"
Indeed, his rod had successfully landed a Seven-star fish.
"Nice, this trip wasn’t in vain."
Both of them had caught Seven-star fish, making this fishing trip quite fulfilling.
They continued to fish in the same spot for a while. The area was indeed rich in resources; although it wasn’t non-stop action, almost every cast resulted in a fish bite within five minutes.
After fishing for more than two hours, each of them caught another Seven-star fish as a final catch and decided to call it a day.
Packing up, the two men released most of the fish they caught, only keeping a few Seven-star fish and Tangjiao fish to bring back to the guesthouse, where they could be used for an extra meal at lunch.
After packing up, the trio picked up their gear and walked out, following the babbling stream.
Suddenly, Yue’er, who was walking ahead, spotted a small animal that leaped from a blade of grass by the water into the stream.
"Huh, what’s that?" she stopped to watch.
Li Xiaopeng also stepped forward curiously: "What was that just now, a frog, or a snake?"
Considering the animals that could fall into the water from the shore, he instinctively thought it was either a frog or a snake.
Lin Yang, following behind, chuckled: "It’s probably neither."
As he spoke, he took out a set of fish hooks and line and baited the hook with a small piece of worm. Without using a float, he simply tossed it into the water.
"Cousin, what are you doing? Can you even fish like this? Don’t tell me you want to catch a snake to make snake soup," Li Xiaopeng said.
In Yunnan Province, snake is indeed a delicacy, and many people enjoyed eating snake soup, though Lin Yang and his group hadn’t tried it yet.
Lin Yang didn’t reply but instead gently tugged on the line, as if to tease the target beneath the water.
It wasn’t long before the line tensed up, tugged toward the deeper water.
Seeing this, Lin Yang immediately yanked, pulling up the creature from the water. It was a fish similar to the Crucian Carp, but its back was lined with sharp spines like those of the Gu fish.
Its color was a greyish-green or dark blue, and like the Black fish, its body also secreted a mucous substance.
"What fish is this? It looks a bit like Tilapia, but it’s definitely not, could it be a Crucian Carp?" Li Xiaopeng, looking at the fish Lin Yang had caught, was puzzled.
"You’ve eaten this one before, it’s climbing perch, also known as Mountain Crossing Carp."
"So that’s what it is, not tasty."
Once told it was the fish they had eaten yesterday, Li Xiaopeng remembered it very clearly—the fish and mushrooms they had were all delicious, but the climbing perch was not very tasty.
"Brother Yang, was that the fish that jumped from the shore just now? Can it also leave the water?" Yue’er asked, curious.
"Right, watch this."
Lin Yang said and removed the climbing perch from the hook and threw it onto the ground.
The climbing perch, which had been lying on its side, used its pectoral fins to stand up, and began to move across the ground, surprisingly fast, driven by its fins.
Soon, it made its way to the water’s edge and leaped in, vanishing from sight.
"That’s incredible..." Yue’er gaped, astounded.
Indeed, the climbing perch was a very curious fish. When it was first discovered by people, it was found on a tree, and it was still alive.