Chapter 29: Investing in Strength, Reeling in a Three-Hundred-Fifty-Eight-Pound Giant Carp!
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The moment Jiang Fan’s rebar fishhook caught something, all four men turned their eyes toward him.
“Holy crap, that rebar and aircraft-carrier arresting cable actually caught a fish?”
“Brother Fan, reel it in! Reel it in! Don’t let it get away this time!”
“If you can’t handle it, I can give it a try!”
He Qiang was visibly ecstatic, rubbing his hands together like a fly.
“Is it that giant fish again?”
“It definitely looks like it!”
The rods Zhou Hong, Ma Dongdong, and the others had dropped were moving across the surface of the water.
Clearly, it was the same enormous creature that had dragged their rods away!
“Zzzzt!”
The miniature aircraft-carrier arresting cable was dragged beneath the water. Rubbing against the rebar fishing rod, it gave off a sizzling sound, with faint sparks flickering in the darkness!
Jiang Fan was thrilled. Through his sunglasses detector, he could see the silhouette of the giant fish. Sure enough, it was that enormous black carp!
Surely the rebar rod he was using this time couldn’t possibly break, right?
Unfortunately, Jiang Fan was celebrating far too soon.
A fish weighing three hundred and fifty-eight pounds possessed an absolutely terrifying amount of strength!
Even a man who stood six feet tall and had eight-pack abs couldn’t withstand the monstrous pull of the fish as it dragged him back into the water.
The weight of the rebar itself only made things even harder.
After barely a minute of struggling, Jiang Fan was already unable to hold on—even though the black carp had yet to exert its full strength.
“Brother Fan, let me do it. You can’t handle it!”
“I can handle it.”
“You can’t.”
“I can!”
At that very moment, a flashing red light appeared on the system panel, just like the warning light on Ultraman’s chest after being beaten down by a monster.
【Ding ding ding!!! The host’s strength is insufficient!】
【Ding ding ding!!! The host’s strength is insufficient!】
【Ding ding ding!!! The host’s strength is insufficient!】
【Ding ding ding!!! Host, quickly expend Emotion Points to increase your personal strength!】
Expend Emotion Points? Increase his personal strength?
Jiang Fan was a little confused, but the moment he opened the explanation, he understood.
Strength Enhancement Explanation: Whenever the host’s strength is inferior to that of a large fish, the Strength Enhancement passive ability will activate. One Emotion Point may be expended to gain one point of strength. It is similar to breaking through one’s physical limits during exercise, as though the host’s strength has been enhanced.
So he could add points to his strength? Wouldn’t that mean he could catch a whale in the future?
“All right, all right, add the points! Give me a hundred!”
【Ding! Congratulations, host. Strength +100. Emotion Points −100!】
As soon as the system notification sounded, Jiang Fan seemed to transform into a Super Saiyan, dragging the giant fish back toward shore and leaving He Qiang, Zhou Hong, and the others utterly stunned.
“No way! He can actually pull in a fish weighing hundreds of pounds?!”
“I knew it! A man who could hold down a one-hundred-and-thirty-two-pound bigmouth catfish with one hand wouldn’t be defeated that easily!”
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“That’s incredible! Brother Fan has gone straight into Super Saiyan Four!”
“Dandan, K.O., K.O., R.O., he’s being dragged away…”
“Hey, Blondie, why are you playing the Dragon Ball GT theme song?”
“It fits the situation!”
“Shut up! You might as well record a video and post it on Douyin!”
“Damn! I’d completely forgotten! If we post this video, it’ll go viral across the entire internet!”
…
“Zzzzt!”
Jiang Fan reached the shore and once again entered a stalemate with the black carp. The aircraft-carrier arresting cable and the rebar rubbed together again, sending out another shower of faint sparks!
But before long, Jiang Fan was dragged back into the water once more.
The moment He Qiang saw this, he charged forward—even limping on one leg—to grab hold of him.
After setting up the recording equipment, Zhou Hong, Blondie, and Ma Dongdong also rushed over, each grabbing onto the man in front of him!
He Qiang shouted, “Wait, who just poked me in the butt?”
Ma Dongdong grinned. “Teacher He Qiang, that was me.”
He Qiang exploded. “What the hell! You fat bastard! Are you from Chengdu or something?”
Ma Dongdong cursed indignantly, “Don’t be prejudiced, all right? I’m simply well-endowed!”
He Qiang: “…”
At that moment, Blondie was clinging to Ma Dongdong from behind.
“Hey! Can you two stop yapping? I can’t hold on any longer!”
Behind Blondie, Zhou Hong exerted every ounce of strength he had.
“Brother Fan, this fish is way too strong! Once you get it up here, let me parade it through the streets for three days!”
Jiang Fan was still thinking of telling them they didn’t need to help, but the system issued another warning.
【Ding ding ding!!! The host’s strength is insufficient!】
…
【Ding ding ding!!! Host, quickly expend Emotion Points to increase your personal strength!】
“My strength isn’t enough again?”
Jiang Fan was just beginning to look puzzled when all five of them were dragged into the water.
He Qiang, Zhou Hong, Blondie, and Ma Dongdong swam back to shore.
As for Jiang Fan, he had vanished without a trace!
“Where’s Brother Fan? Could he have been dragged beneath the water?”
“Holy crap! Don’t tell me he never let go!”
Just as the others panicked, Jiang Fan added another hundred points of strength.
Because being underwater reduced his strength considerably, the system immediately warned him that even the additional hundred points were still insufficient.
A hundred points still aren’t enough? Fine, then—another hundred! And another hundred! And another—
【Ding! Strength enhancement has reached its limit. Please upgrade the host’s title!】
“…”
Seeing this notification, Jiang Fan couldn’t help feeling depressed.
It turned out that the title “Spirit Angler” could only grant him four hundred points of strength.
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But four hundred was four hundred. Surely he could take you down this time!
Jiang Fan unleashed the primordial force within him and finally managed to drag the three-hundred-and-fifty-eight-pound black carp back toward shore.
The four men on the bank were so stunned by the explosive scene that their jaws nearly hit the ground.
“Brother Fan’s strength… Is he even human?”
“I don’t mean that as an insult. I mean, he’s a god!”
Jiang Fan reached the shore once again. On land, he had far more leverage, and all four hundred enhanced strength points revealed their full power.
This time, no matter how violently the black carp struggled, it could not budge Jiang Fan even an inch. Instead, it was mercilessly dragged onto the bank.
Blondie happened to be livestreaming at the time. When the viewers in his livestream saw Jiang Fan hauling a fish weighing several hundred pounds onto shore, they were completely dumbfounded!
Viewer: Holy crap, Little Blondie! Who is that guy? How is he so fierce?!
Viewer: Yeah, Brother Huang, what’s going on? That strength looks enough to lift a cow. He’s got the bearing of Xiang Yu lifting a bronze cauldron!
Viewer: I thought Lu Bu was invincible beneath heaven, but I never expected someone even more ferocious. Whose general is this?
Blondie: Hahaha, impressive, right? That’s my dad! His Douyin handle is Handsome Xia. Go give him a follow!
Viewer: I suddenly remember! Isn’t that the handsome guy from Little Blondie’s video a few days ago—the one who walked a one-hundred-and-thirty-two-pound bigmouth catfish with one hand?
Viewer: Holy crap! It really is him! How much does this one weigh?
Blondie: No exaggeration, no lies—three or four hundred pounds, probably.
Viewer: Holy crap!
Viewer: Holy crap!
…
The seven or eight hundred viewers in the livestream repeatedly flooded the chat with the words “Holy crap!”
But the true spectacle had yet to begin.
After the several-hundred-pound black carp was dragged onto shore, it continued thrashing wildly. Jiang Fan grabbed a wooden club, walked over, and performed a Shaolin landing-net maneuver—
For a moment, nearly a thousand people in Blondie’s livestream burst out laughing.
Viewer: America has the American landing net, and now our country has the Shaolin landing net?
Viewer: Hahaha, this handsome guy is pretty good-looking, but who knew he’d be so hilarious too?
Viewer: I can’t take it anymore! My stomach hurts from laughing!
…
At that moment, some of Blondie’s loyal followers began sending him gifts.
A wealthy man who loved fishing happened to pass through the livestream.
The moment he saw the scene, he burst out laughing in public at the airport.
Then, with a grand wave of his hand, he sent Blondie a Douyin No. 1 gift.
It was the first time Blondie had ever received a Douyin No. 1 gift. He immediately began calling the donor his godfather.
Blondie: Thank you for the Douyin No. 1 gift, Godfather “Grand Duke Liu Goes Fishing”!
Blondie: I wish you a long life, Godfather! You’re so handsome it’s almost blinding. Men go crazy when they see you, women lose their periods when they see you, you’re the greatest enemy of depression, the alarm clock of vegetative patients, and the lucky star of yours truly, Blondie!
Blondie: Everyone, please give this godfather a follow!
Blondie: Godfather, and everyone else in the livestream, if you like Little Blondie, please give me a follow too! And if you can, give my dad, Handsome Xia, a follow as well!
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