I Go to the High Seas for Fishing But Get Hunted by an Aircraft Carrier
Chapter 56: Rise to the Top by Real Strength

Chapter 56: Chapter 56: Rise to the Top by Real Strength

"Someone came to claim yesterday’s corpse, today the handgun was handed over, and the grenade was detonated."

"Are there still people doubting it’s real? Do they think we officers are just playing along with a performance?"

A colleague on the side let out a wry laugh: "It’s because he’s gaining popularity. The other streamers here are just riding the wave, right?"

"Besides, you know what the online community is like—most of them are keyboard warriors."

"There’s a saying that goes well: meek and compliant in real life, throwing heavy punches online. Remember the fool who was trash-talking us officers on the internet?"

"Ended up being brought to the station—his attitude changed so fast it was unbelievable!"

"Plus, the stuff this guy has been fishing up really is a bit ridiculous. It’s normal for him to have some haters in his live stream room."

After finishing, this colleague looked at Zhou Tao with interest and asked, "I say, Captain Zhou, you seem quite interested in this guy, huh?"

Hearing this, Zhou Tao raised his eyebrows and let out a bitter laugh: "Interested? Isn’t it just this guy causing us trouble every day?"

The colleague shook his head, speaking helplessly, "That’s true, but our biggest headache at the moment is still the giant python in the Gold Treasure residential area."

"Just now, Xiao Wang called me to say the city has dispatched five fishing boats, with nearly twenty professional workers to catch the giant python in the artificial lake."

"Unfortunately, there’s been no progress. It’s all because the property manager won’t allow the water to be drained. If they did, it probably wouldn’t be so troublesome."

No sooner had he finished speaking than Zhou Tao stood there, agape, suddenly exclaiming.

"The fishing float moved, this kid is going to catch a fish!"

Before, Zhou Tao was also an angler, and although he was into lure fishing, he still knew a bit about float fishing.

Generally speaking, there are two kinds of movements of the fishing float.

One is called a ’nibble’; it’s when the float gently moves on the surface and then sinks a little, before quickly rising back up.

Such a sign indicates that a fish is nibbling at the bait on your hook.

After all, the movement of fish eating bait underwater is sucking and spitting.

Compared to the subtle movement of a nibble, there’s another kind of movement—a ’full bite’.

What’s a full bite?

A full bite is when the fish sucks the hook into its mouth and swims while eating the bait.

A full bite indicates that the fish underwater is big and ferocious.

This was why Zhou Tao couldn’t help exclaiming excitedly.

If everything went as expected, this would really allow the "Air Commander" who had never caught a fish, to land a huge catch!

But the fish biting the hook is just the beginning.

It also depends on the skill level of the angler to lift the rod, play the fish, and finally be able to bring the fish up.

For a moment, Zhou Tao focused all his attention on the live stream.

He really wanted to see what sort of big fish this "Air Commander" could pull up now!

If he could land it, did he have the techniques and the strength to pull the big fish out of the water?

This is what Zhou Tao was thinking at the moment, but the fans in the live stream room, especially Ye Chen’s old fans, didn’t see it that way.

When they saw Ye Chen’s float start a full bite, the live stream room’s chat exploded again.

"Salute, get ready to take screenshots, the streamer is finally going to catch a fish!"

"Salute my ass, do you think the streamer will catch a fish? I bet it’s going to be some outlandish thing again!"

"Indeed, I remember the streamer has had several full bites today, and none of the things he pulled up before were real fish!"

"Haven’t you said before that the streamer is the number one in Mystical Fishing? Just now he also said that he could catch a fish!"

"But actually, I also think the streamer doesn’t know what he will pull up. If he could really catch whatever he says, wouldn’t he have caught a fish a long time ago?"

...

The content on the chat woke Zhou Tao up from his thoughts.

Indeed...

The sudden sinking of the float could mean the hook got snagged on something at the bottom of the lake.

After all, it’s not the first time Ye Chen has caught all sorts of messy things.

Just when Zhou Tao was astonished in the car.

A clear sound of the line being stripped suddenly came from the phone.

This type of sound is generally produced when an angler quickly lifts the rod, causing the fishing line to tense up and emit a distinctive noise.

Ye Chen... he’s reeling in!

But whatever was underneath the water wasn’t brought to the surface by Ye Chen’s forceful lift.

The hook seemed to have caught on some heavy object in the water, causing not only the fishing line to tense up but also the rod to bend into an arc.

The over five-meter-long fishing rod, whether in terms of flexibility or load-bearing, is considered excellent.

In Zhou Tao’s eyes, the force Ye Chen applied just now to lift the rod was definitely not small.

Yet even so, the thing in the water still wasn’t pulled up by Ye Chen.

Could it be that the hook got tangled in the weeds on the lakebed, or perhaps rocks?

Not only Zhou Tao, but also the group of anglers fishing together with Ye Chen at Seyves Reservoir, including the viewers in the live stream room, were all fishing enthusiasts.

The issue that Zhou Tao could detect, they too could naturally observe.

Judging by the performance of Ye Chen’s rod after he lifted it.

Either Ye Chen has really caught a huge creature.

Or it’s that he...

The hook scraped something like water weeds or rocks underwater.

Based on Ye Chen’s habit of never catching live fish, it seems there’s a high possibility it’s the weeds or rocks.

However, the next moment, something that no one expected happened.

With a loud shout from Ye Chen, he once again pulled the fishing rod backward with a startling arc.

Simultaneously, near the fishing float on the water surface.

A part that looked like a fish suddenly broke the water surface.

Thrashing, it splashed a huge spray of water.

As the spray dispersed, it seemed as if scales shone under the sunlight.

Zhou Tao in the police car, Liao Xuexue on the shore, Old Liao and other angling friends of Ye Chen, as well as the hundreds of thousands of viewers in the live stream room, all saw this scene.

This time...

It seems that Ye Chen hasn’t just snagged the bottom.

He seems to have really caught a big fish!

After all, just now everyone witnessed the wave that rose on the surface of the water.

No matter how shocked everyone was, they could only accept one fact.

That is, Ye Chen is finally about to break the curse of never catching a live fish!

On the shore.

Even before Ye Chen had a clear view of the catch, someone had already picked up a landing net, intently staring at the distant fishing line.

After all, it’s different from last night.

When Ye Chen caught the corpse last night, although the fishing rod was extremely bent.

But there were no splashes on the water’s surface.

Of course, if a corpse could cause splashes on the water’s surface, that would truly be a terrifying thing.