DesertCraft: Fishing Pocket Heaven

Oblivious to the malice aimed at him in the dark, Yu Zhiye sipped some water, wiped the nonexistent sweat off his forehead, and stared out at the noon-sun-baked desert.

“Ah… so hot. When can I boost my efficiency without increasing water cost...”

Even with the lure enchantment, saving up 50 points to upgrade his core just seemed so far away! Especially since he has to print money almost 24/7 every day!

“Whatever… let’s just leave it to author-san and the readers to decide. If my life is a wish-fulfillment novel, I’m sure none of them will want me to stall here for too long. That’ll make a boring story...”

Yu Zhiye didn’t know if the existences beyond the fourth wall heard his wish, but right on cue, something got hooked on his fishing rod!

“Come on, let it be a treasure!”

But when he reeled it in, all he saw was a soggy old boot. All his excitement got doused by a cold bucket of water.

“Damn! Another boot?! What bad luck! What’s up with the fishing loot today? Why do I keep catching junk?! Did all the fish disappear or something? Ugh!”

From rotten flesh to soggy boots to icky leather skins and rotten bones… he almost went through the entire fishing loot chart today and there had only been two fish mixed within thus far!

Was there something wrong with the luck buff on his fishing rod? Or was there something wrong with this fishing spot?

“Could it be the fish available at a certain fishing spot is limited? Maybe I shouldn’t have fished in the same hole for multiple days in a row? Try another zone?”

It’s just that... searching for another fishing spot in this hot sun sounded very, very unappetizing…

Water is already limited and moving around in this heat will burn even more!

Besides, that’s like wasting water yet earning nothing in return!

“Bleh. I’ll move to another spot tomorrow morning. Just stick with this spot for now. I don’t believe my luck will continue to be this bad all day long!”

If it is, then… he’ll just skip fishing for a day. Save some water. No harm done.

Ploom~ The sound effect cued the fishing minigame once more.

Yu Zhiye still didn’t understand how there is a water effect sound when the surface of that quicksand was so perfectly dry like everywhere else.

Magic maybe? Or was there really water underneath? Who knows. He wasn’t about to jump in there to find out.

A straw hat tipped down to shade his face from the sun and he started arranging his agenda in his mind.

“I’m more than halfway there to a core upgrade. I should keep saving for that to unlock another resource generator.”

“What’s after? Soul Hall or Observatory? I’ve still got an unused contract… maybe I should go for another ward?”

“Wonder if Jack and that little lucky angel got anything good today? Um… maybe the village might return tomorrow? Should I save more emeralds?”

“But I’ve basically limited my investment budget to half of what I generated and saved the other half… I should be able to buy a few more water buckets with that? Will that be enough for two mouths though?”

“It would be great if I had a few more money printers! I wouldn’t have to be so frugal in all my budgeting...”

“It’ll be even better if I can craft another fishing rod. I just need one more god damn stick...”

“Hey, Lord Notch, RNG God, the toilet god that does not belong to this era, author-san above, please bless little me and make me the main character!”

Yu Zhiye didn’t know if his prayers were heard, but right on cue, something got hooked on his line once more!

He sighed. “This better not be another rotten flesh…”

The line got reeled in… but to his surprise, it felt like his line got entangled by something and was stuck!

Yu Zhiye shot to his feet in dread. “Holy crap… no way… it can’t be I’ll lose even my only fishing rod, right?!”

The grip on his rod tightened. Yu Zhiye dug his feet deep into the sand and tugged even harder until his rod bent almost all the way!

Even if his line snapped, he must get his rod out today!

Just when Yu Zhiye thought his wooden rod would snap on him—puff!

Bobber, hook, and all finally got pulled out from the sand like a radish!

But inches out and everything was stuck in place again.

Gasping for breath, Yu Zhiye stared at the culprit tying his line to the spot. It was almost a mirror of his own line!

“Naniii?! My line got entangled with another line? Is there another fellow fisherman nearby?”

Yu Zhiye didn’t know, but he certainly wasn’t about to give up here!

He wrestled even harder with his rod and pulled that line out inch by inch!

“Cooomeee out for meeee!!!”

Whoosh~ Sand dramatically splashed out as something finally got tugged out from the quicksand!

When Yu Zhiye saw the soggy, old wooden rod, he almost... got a heart attack from excitement!

“T-This is… a fishing rod?! No way! For real?!”

He thought today was all bad luck, but it was actually a big, plot-armor-tier windfall!!!

“Sweet Stars above, I thought I’ll have to wait to craft another, but I directly fished one up! How lucky! Thank author-san, thank RNG God, thank Notch!”

Yu Zhiye hugged his new rod and almost wanted to shower it with kisses! But its icky, soggy state deterred him.

Yet that didn’t stop him from rushing into his base.

Here, he took a breather then carefully disentangled the mess tying the two ends together.

Once that was done, he hustled over to his shack to access his pocket world core’s analysis function to check out the new rod.

[Fishing Rod]

An old wooden rod for catching normal fish.

[Durability] 48/384

[Effect]

Fishing Zone Detection

Fish Attraction

Entity Reeler

[Bind to Core]

[Yes] [No]

Yu Zhiye instantly noticed the strange differences between this new rod and the mysterious fishing rod that came with the pocket dimension.

A lack of enchantment effects and most notably, there was no core energy gained for fishing!

Instead, there was a “Bind to Core” option. What needs to be done next is obvious!

“Bind!”

Selecting [Yes] made the item analysis screen fade away and a point of core energy got deducted…

An orb of light then shot out from his core and flew over to merge into the new rod leaning against the altar!

Everything was over in less than a second and the fishing rod’s description transformed.

[Mysterious Fishing Rod]

An old wooden rod bound to a mysterious core.

[Durability] 48/384

[Effect]

Fishing Zone Detection

Fish Magnet

Entity Reeler

Self-Repair

Soulbound Curse

Equipped: +1 LCK

+1 CE/fish

Yep, it became almost exactly the same as the other rod in his inventory!

“Wait… will it really be the same? Will binding a new rod not unbind the old one?”

With anxiety besieging his heart, Yu Zhiye quickly pulled his consciousness back to reality and quickly took out the rod stored in his inventory for comparison.

A look settled his heart!

“Nothing changed! Both are now mysterious fishing rods with the same exact enchantments!”

What does that mean? The implications made Yu Zhiye’s soul ascend to cloud nine!

“It’s real!!! Double the rods, double the income! What am I waiting for?! Find a new spot! Time to get this snowball rolling!”

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