The Most Random System

Chapter 1262: Chapter 556: Still a Wild Recruit_3

"What are you buying? I’ll just give it to you,"

The man waved his hand generously, although a bit puzzled: "Kid, are you planning to make your own fishing rod?"

"Yes, uncle."

Lin Li took the hook and fishing line, turned around, and broke off a branch with just the right thickness and a small fork at the end from a dead tree by the riverbank.

He tied one end of the fishing line to the fork of the branch and the other end to the small hook.

Actually, Lin Li had a fishing rod in his gourd. Although not expensive, it definitely worked and was better than a branch.

But it would be hard to explain taking it out now, so he had to make do with this for the moment.

"What the heck? Lin Li, are you betraying the group?" Bai Bufan watched with amusement from the side.

The fishing enthusiast also watched Lin Li with interest, a tolerant smile on his face as if watching a child play house:

"Kid, a fishing rod isn’t that simple. With this, even getting the hook to the bottom is a struggle, let alone feeling if a fish bites."

Lin Li smiled, and with an earnest expression, almost reverent, he tossed the primitive branch fishing rod into the river in front of him, the branch angled in the soft mud of the riverbank.

He dusted off his hands, laid down some tissues on the ground, then sat cross-legged by the riverbank, focusing his gaze on the branch lying across the river’s surface.

"It’s fine."

"Uncle, that feeling you mentioned, of being away from the noise and communing with nature, I think I’m starting to get it."

Lin Li spoke with a deep tone, closing his eyes:

"It doesn’t matter if the equipment is primitive; what’s important is the mindset, right? Raising and lowering the rod tests your patience, nurtures your spirit. Catching fish? That’s just icing on the cake."

The fishing enthusiast: "?"

Wait a minute.

Is this kid actually trying to fish... or is he subtly mocking me?

He’s smiling too!

Isn’t that just mocking!

This is actually a misunderstanding of Lin Li.

Lin Li was indeed smiling, but it was because the progress bar had started to move slowly, confirming the right direction.

Although he felt Lin Li was "provoking," the man wasn’t angry; there was a sense of missionary beauty. He spoke warmly:

"You kid... alright, alright, as long as you’re happy. But if you really catch a fish with that rod, it must be the Dragon King’s blessing. Tell you what, if you really want to experience fishing, next time I go out, I can take you with me and let you try a proper rod. I have quite a few at home."

Lin Li’s eyes lit up.

This was one of his goals, and he was still considering how to word it, but the fishing enthusiast suggested it himself.

"Really, uncle?! I’m really interested! Can we add each other as friends? You can invite me when you’re free!"

"Sure." The uncle, infected by Lin Li’s enthusiasm, smiled and took out his phone to scan the code, teasing while operating it, "You’re quite interesting, with a good attitude, taking a branch so seriously..."

"Splash!"

A light but clear sound of water splashing arose.

Immediately, the dry branch casually stuck in the mud on the bank by Lin Li bent slightly downward!

The makeshift fishing line tied to the top of the branch instantly went taut, pulled by a considerable force, darting back and forth in the water, making the surface splash.

Time seemed to freeze.

Lin Li and the fishing uncle, who were huddled together preparing to scan the code and add each other as friends, froze at the same time.

Instinctively, Lin Li grabbed the fishing rod, pulled it up forcefully.

Splish-splash.

Under the moonlight, a fish was lifted by Lin Li, dangling in the air, water droplets flying off.

Splish-splash.

Bai Bufan: "What the heck, Lin Li, you seem to have caught a fish!"

Lin Li: "What the heck, uncle, I seem to have caught a fish!"

The man: "What the heck, dude, how the heck did you catch a fish?!"

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