The Top Fishing
Chapter 181 - 139: The Black Fish Becomes a Spirit

Chapter 181: Chapter 139: The Black Fish Becomes a Spirit

While Lin Yang grappled underwater with the giant creature, many people edited the footage Yue’er captured into videos and uploaded them to various platforms.

Many also began speculating about the identity of this marine giant.

From the surface, the constantly struggling creature underwater appeared black and possessed immense strength.

From the shore, Lin Yang noticed that this creature was about as long as the sturgeon he had caught during his last competition in Suzhou, but its strength was in a completely different league.

Keep in mind, last time he fished for sturgeon, he managed to reel it in with just an 8.1-meter rod.

But with this fish, he felt that not to mention an 8.1-meter rod, even his 9-meter giant creature rod would likely be inadequate due to the sheer power difference.

Luckily, he was using a casting rod today, otherwise he really wouldn’t have been able to manage it.

The ensuing struggle was tiring, but actually quite straightforward, especially for Lin Yang, who had battled giant creatures several times before.

All he needed to do was keep pulling on the line from the shore using his skills.

About an hour and a half later, the battle finally neared its end.

Lin Yang took a sip of water Yue’er handed him, then shook the reel in his hand a few more times, and the giant creature in the water finally ran out of energy to resist.

Strike when your enemy is sick, take their life.

He quickly started reeling in the line, which was nearly two hundred meters long. In the fierce battle that had just happened, it had been nearly emptied.

So, just reeling in the line took about ten minutes, especially since the beast in the water would still occasionally burst forward a few meters.

Seeing the shadow in the water getting closer to the shore, the heart of everyone in the live-streaming room was in their throats, nearly two hours of this tug-of-war had them utterly thrilled.

This wasn’t just fishing; it was more like playing with life.

During several previous tugs of war, every time the giant creature under the water churned it like a sea storm, charging forward with great vigor, they all worried Lin Yang might lose all his early efforts.

But every time this happened, he safely made it through with more luck than harm, this two-hour aquatic duel felt as though they were riding a roller coaster. It was more thrilling than any big American blockbuster.

Now, finally coming to the moment of the big reveal, how could the audience not be excited?

To better see the true appearance of the giant in the water, they even flooded the chat, asking Yue’er to get closer.

Seeing the viewers’ requests on the screen, Yue’er also mustered the courage to take a few steps closer. Her heart was pounding wildly—it was her first time experiencing such a scene, so you can imagine how nervous she was.

Two minutes later, the aquatic giant finally approached the shore.

When they clearly saw the true appearance of this giant, not just the live stream viewers were stunned, even Lin Yang was dumbfounded.

The giant was about two meters long, nearly as thick as Yue’er’s waist at its side, with a cylindrical front body and a laterally flattened rear. Its underside was a pale white, and its body was covered with irregular black blotches, all clad in fine scales.

It was indeed a black fish, only this black fish was far beyond anyone’s imagination.

"Has this black fish turned into a spirit?" Lin Yang murmured as he finally dragged the creature ashore.

The black fish’s scientific name is Black Carp, among its many other names like black fish, black carp, snakehead fish, Wen fish, and Xiao Fish.

It has a widespread distribution in China, found in nearly every major water system.

The black fish is a bottom-dwelling, ferociously carnivorous species. It usually lives in shallow waters with muddy bottoms and dense water plants along the shores, lurking among the plants to ambush prey, and sometimes swimming in the upper layers of water at night.

The aggressiveness of adult black fish generally matches that of other carnivorous fish of similar size.

Upon realizing that the monster in the fishpond was a gigantic black fish, Lin Yang wasted no time. Taking advantage of the black fish’s exhaustion, he slowly dragged it onto the grassy shore, preventing it from leaping back into the water and spoiling his efforts.

By this time, the live streaming room had already exploded.

"Can someone come to my house and slap me to see if this is real?"

"Dad’s busy, damn, I’ve lived for forty years, and this is the first time I’ve seen such a huge black fish—it must be close to becoming a spirit."

"I guess it has already turned into a spirit; it just encountered Master Lin."

"Such a big black fish would definitely be delicious in sour cabbage fish soup..."

During the dragging process, Lin Yang also estimated that the black fish weighed about eighty to ninety pounds. While it looked nearly two meters long, its flattened tail section made it lighter than it appeared.

Casually dropping the nearly spiritual black fish on the shore, Lin Yang wasn’t worried about it dying.

In fact, even if he left it here for three days and three nights, it wouldn’t necessarily die.

He sat down on the ground, gasping for air as he rested, and sneakily took a glance at the rewards from the guidebook.

The first three rewards were quite common; 1000 RMB, then 10 points of experience and points, but the special reward that followed caught Lin Yang’s eye.

[Automatic Inflatable Fishing Device]

It was a device that, in its normal state, resembled a car’s airbag. It would be installed above the giant hook and float on the water’s surface while fishing.

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