Apparently, Lady Luck’s not always smiling.
The fishing harvest returned to being one fish at a time, with an occasional junk mixed in.
Not bad, not good. Just steady accumulation.
Once the lucky hands hype died out, Yu Zhiye went back to salted fish mode and took the chance to test out his new dark-mode reading glasses.
Blinding sun makes reading difficult? Not anymore!
“Hmm… let’s see what’s going on out there since I last checked…”
Today, the excessive morning exercises made him miss his usual morning reading routine.
So when Yu Zhiye hopped onto the system world chat, there were a bunch of messages to scroll through.
Most of this past day’s history was... nothing new or interesting. A new name here or there... alongside copy-pasted recruitment ads and idle chatter.
[Greatest Swordsman Zoro] Heard there’s a new pirate crew making the rounds on the Ballin Colony’s bounty list. The Black Pearl commanded by the Undead Captain Jack. Just wondering, is that you, Sir Greatest Pirate?
[The Greatest Pirate to Have Ever Lived] Fellow players, this is your chance to become a part of the greatest pirate crew to have ever lived! Come live freely on this sea! Booze, treasures, hoes, we got everything! Boys and gents of all ages and occupation are welcome! Join now!
[One-Eyed Troll] Tsk, tsk, tsk. Would ya lookie at that. Big man disdains to even directly answer us anymore.
[Dudepool] Well, at least man’s alive to tell the tale. Who knows how many side characters the author has killed off by now.
[Heavenly Sage] Hey, hey, Daoist Friend Dudepool has a point. Speaking of this, we haven’t heard back from several friends for many days. Fellow Villager Bluebeard, Hero Liang, Fellow Daoist Marshall, if you’re still alive, give us a shoutout.
Nobody replied to that. Such conversations that goes unanswered for days were commonly seen.
Sounds meaningless, but this checkup behavior gives others a sense of belonging, which is usually how friendships and communities were eventually born.
Didn’t mean much to lurkers though. Yu Zhiye only hopped on to catch up on current events and see if any helpful tips get shared.
And today, his hopes didn’t get dashed because there’s actually some conscientious fellas introducing more backstory!
[Professor X] I came across something interesting in the Bumberg archives. Apparently, the mysterious power of this world prospers and declines every era. Accordingly, our world should be in the twilight era or perhaps undergoing the revival phase.
[Heavenly Sage] Hmm. The tide of times. Spiritual energy rejuvenation. This sage has similarly seen such in the sect records. It is during such chaotic eras that heavenly chosens rise and immortals are born. We’re lucky to arrive in this world at such an opportune time.
[One-Eyed Troll] Lucky? Please correct that misunderstanding. I say you should all be worrying about whether those ancient immortals or gods start awakening all over. We’ll be feeling real lucky when they start squishing us like ants.
[Night Goddess Simp] I second that! According to the church, the prophesied day when the goddess shall return will arrive soon. At that time, you faithless heathens will be judged!
[Piss Off] Pooh! Just religious BS and you want us all to believe it? I rather believe the world is flat and pigs can fly!
[Dragon King] What a coincidence. Just yesterday, this king happened to see a flying pig. That ugly pig dared lay hands on the goddess from my class. So this king helped that beast fly off the building and watched the pig turn into flat patty.
[Piss Off] Oh piss off! Which hole did this damn chunnibyou brat pop out from? You simping creeps always like making stuff up these days just for attention! If you really got the balls to do that, I’ll write my name backwards!
[Dragon King] You have successfully provoked this king. Only your life shall quell this king’s anger.
[Piss Off] Nani? Is that a threat? What bull! Your grandpa here is the gang leader dominating Pussy Town in Inpis Republic! Don’t pussy out! Come let grandpa see what you’re capable of!
[Little Dragon Maiden] Ano, ano… what’s wrong with you all? It’s not good to fight amongst ourselves…
[Heavenly Sage] Indeed. Listen to Little Dragon Fairy. Peace and harmony, my fellow villagers. Capitalize on this newbie development time before the natives catch on.
After this point, the chat switched back to idle chatter, until…
[Piss Off] FFO SSIP! Grandpa Dragon King, please let your grandson off! I know I was wrong! Fellow villagers, please help me persuade this killing god to let me go!
[Please Suck Me] Yo, I just hopped on and see you pisspot begging. Holy sheet, how lucky. Anyways, what happened? Mind sparing some details?
[Heavenly Sage] Hey, hey, this isn’t the time to be joking around! Lord Dragon King, we’re all fellow villagers! Please calm down and let’s discuss things slowly!
[Dragon King] Those who dare offend this king, let this pathetic loser be your example!
[Please Suck Me] Holy sheet, so arrogant? Come to Paysuc Empire and I’ll see if you still dare be so arrogant!
[One-Eyed Troll] Oi, did all your brains turn into mush? Why do you keep provoking such a dangerous character? Haven’t lived enough?
[Dudepool] Betcha this Sir Dragon King has the Long Aotian template’s intelligence reduction halo and a global taunt effect. The author’s probably adding some shitty new character to do world building shit again.
[Heavenly Sage] Heavens! Many thanks to Daoist Dudepool for the reminder. This sage almost lost himself to his inner demons! Daoist Friend Dragon King indeed has a terrifying power! Can’t be provoked, ah, can’t be provoked! Fellow Daoists seeing this message, do not scroll and read above!
Reading up till here, Yu Zhiye sweated a little because even he almost couldn’t resist the urge to give up lurker status and type something in response!
In fact, there’s even a system warning alerting him that his SAN has been reduced by 0.1 points! Twice!
Yu Zhiye quickly closed the chat tab and stared at his status screen showing SAN (0.6/0.8).
“Damn. What a weird and terrifying ability! Even reading a chat message affected me! If it weren’t for this hidden SAN stat...”
Who knows what he would’ve done!
Imagine if he gets provoked into stupidly telling everybody about his pocket dimension! Isn’t that painting a target on his back? It’ll be too late to cry then!
The more Yu Zhiye thought about it, the more terrified he got!
Like dayam! Even reading words through the system isn’t safe! Seriously, there really were some terrifying anomalies in this world!
First, there’s that Anomaly A in their base. Now there’s this Anomaly B that can affect others through words on a screen!
Damn, that’s insane! What’s wrong with this world?!
Could this be a battle royale world for all sorts of protagonists?!
Eek! Too scary! Too terrifying!
All the more reason to work harder to upgrade his little secret hideout into a self-sustainable safehouse that he can hide in forever!
And there’s good news!
Combining the daily 8-points passive income that cashed in and what he earned from this short noon fishing spree so far, his points reached 101! He now has enough for an upgrade!
Core Level 5, here comes papa!
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