The Most Random System

Chapter 1264: Chapter 557: The Merit Balance Handbook_2

"Just like you, I’m only interested in the joy of fishing, not the catch!"

Lin Li spoke sincerely.

Because he had just discovered that after catching a fish, the progress bar of his task didn’t speed up, but instead seemed to slow down.

Sad! He almost forgot that his existence was to "consume his resources to protect the Spirit Beast in the water."

If that step of protection reaches the stomach, it indeed doesn’t make much sense.

Man: "..."

Where’s the fun if you don’t catch anything!

But since we’re in agreement—

"Great, that mindset’s pretty good. Anyway, if you plan to take it home, you can keep it with me for now— but you must take it back, don’t leave it with me and then neglect it. If you don’t plan to take it, then you can release it."

The man nodded.

"Then let it go, increase the merit." Lin Li, having made up his mind, reached out to remove the hook from the carp’s mouth, tossed it, and watched as the carp drew an arc in the air, fell back into the river, and disappeared. Lin Li nodded in satisfaction: "Woohoo, Merit +1."

"...Not bad." The man spoke.

Bai Bufan also spoke:

"When I was in middle school, I saw a patient probably having seizures while eating noodles in a noodle shop. His hands holding the utensils were trembling, and he couldn’t help but keep moaning.

Because the characteristics were so strong, I started imitating that patient eating noodles—I trembled my hands and moaned while eating.

Then suddenly, a righteous uncle at the table behind appeared!

’Hey, kid! Stop mocking and imitating patients with seizures! That’s secondary harm to the patients!’

He shouted, immediately taking a swing at the patient having seizures!!

He then gave me a caring and encouraging look.

What a good person he was."

"My story is over," Bai Bufan said with a smile after narrating calmly, "And Lin Li, don’t keep a straight face, I saw you, you already laughed."

"So... Merit—minus one!!!"

"Damn!!!"

Exposed, Lin Li clenched his fist unwillingly, gazing at Bai Bufan as if looking at a lifelong enemy.

This guy... made my ’hard work’ just now go to waste!

"Never think about going to Heaven," Bai Bufan said sinisterly, "Merit is something you... don’t... need..."

"Darn it!"

The man beside them, who actually also laughed just now: "..."

He looked at the two teenagers next to him with a chilly gaze.

Your mother.

What about me?

I’m innocent! I also laughed! What about my merit?

This kid Lin Li at least released a fish and added merit, while I didn’t release anything tonight. How are you going to compensate for the merit I’m losing!!!

No, it’s fine, just catch a fish, right?

With that thought, the man adjusted his fishing rod, subtly moving his spot closer to where Lin Li had dropped his line.

Surely, there are more fish over there.

And while Lin Li and Bai Bufan finished their antics, Lin Li had re-baited his hook and tossed it lightly, watching the hook enter the water.

The man appeared indifferent but was in fact watching the water where Lin Li just cast his line with a sideways glance, heart pounding.

The water was calm, with only small ripples from the gentle breeze.

A minute passed, still the same.

"Lin Li, your protection period seems over," Bai Bufan beside him remarked.

Lin Li naturally didn’t care, as long as the task progress was increasing normally. He shrugged casually: "Maybe."

Meanwhile, a certain thirty-year-old man thought: No, hold it in, don’t laugh.

Hehehehe, yeah, yeah, no need for a counselor, I’m feeling great!!

Fishing in this nook should be like this!

See, just now must have been beginner’s protection luck, a stroke of luck, can’t happen every time... The fish here aren’t raised by the Lin Family!

However, before he could fully let out that thought—

"Splash!"

Another clear sound of water splashing.

Man: "?"

Only to see, Lin Li’s ridiculously simple tree branch fishing rod suddenly dipped down again, the line immediately tightening and carving a chaotic path through the water, with force even greater than the previous crucian carp.

"Splash!"

Lin Li sighed, flicked his wrist, and lifted the rod.

In the moonlight, another fish was pulled from the water, its tail thrashing wildly, splattering droplets everywhere, and landed heavily on the muddy ground with a thud.

This time it was a carp, but not very large, smaller than the last one. It seemed the commotion was just because this fish was particularly lively and strong.

But... at least it was there.

The man’s eyeballs almost popped out, his mouth gaping unconsciously.

He looked at his own expensive and motionless fishing rod, then at the dead tree branch in Lin Li’s hand that seemed to have been just pulled from a stove.

"I... I... damn..."

After holding it in for a long time, he finally squeezed out a series of trembling sounds from deep in his throat, filled with a life-questioning tone:

"Kid... Lin Li... bro! I’m calling you bro, just tell me honestly..." With three consecutive titles, he suddenly turned his head:

"Is there someone under the river specifically hooking fish for you?"

There was another sentence the man didn’t say.

——Bro, there were too many people just now, now I’m begging you on my knees, let your people hook a fish for me too TAT.

"It should still be the protection period." Lin Li chuckled.

This fish was caught without Lin Li using any ability.

But for this kind of rod to have such a catch rate, it really wasn’t normal.

Lin Li could only think his spirit beast affinity ability was at work?

Casually removing the fishhook, Lin Li immediately tossed this small carp back into the river, perhaps the merit of releasing this one wasn’t just adding one.

After all, maybe the sly snake needed this fish and a seahorse to win a battle together.

My heart is like iron, indestructible, wise and brave, my heart soars!

Bai Bufan: "When people die, they become stars, Shang Yang becomes MacArthur, Boyikao becomes the asteroid belt, what do vegetative people become when they die, Lin Li, come on! Answer loudly!!"

"Starfruit!!"

Lin Li answered with a snap of his fingers before even thinking, a smile on his face.

The merit from earlier might indeed not just add one.

Fortunately, now the merit penalty certainly doesn’t just subtract one either.

...

Time slowly passed.

Lin Li gradually became certain that the reason he kept catching fish was because of the spirit beast affinity buff ’working’ on him.

Because, even if he intentionally tried not to catch fish, like hanging the bait very loosely or even empty, placing the hook in remote spots, he still caught fish, just with slightly longer intervals.

Even with empty hooks, they were biting, Jiang Taigong would have said "No one is allowed to scold Lin Li, Lin Li is my butterfly."

Not only that, the most exaggerated was, during the period, a fish even leaped straight into Lin Li’s arms from the water.

If Lin Li hadn’t reacted quickly, his new year clothes would have been dirtied.

What a close call.

The man, on the other hand, became more and more silent.

Haha, of course not because he’s troubled by not catching fish, reiterating once again, he’s there to enjoy the process of fishing, the peaceful mindset, the harmonious coexistence with nature.

Mostly, it’s because Bai Bufan keeps telling Hell jokes every time Lin Li releases a fish, and after the three girls gathered, their exclamations and chatter were too noisy at times.

He hated the lack of merit and their noise

People wouldn’t get jealous of Lin Li catching fish often~

Sh*t, sh*t, sh*t, sh*t, sh*t, sh*t, sh*t, sh*t, sh*t, sh*t, sh*t, sh*t, sh*t, sh*t, sh*t, sh*t, sh*t, sh*t, sh*t, sh*t, sh*t, sh*t, sh*t, sh*t, sh*t, little river your mom’s dead, little river your dad’s dead too, stinking ditch raised by a river, not born by it, these fish your mom’s dead, these fish your dad’s dead, psychological director, I’m really upset, I’m really upset TAT!!!

Lin Li, with his perceptive abilities, naturally sensed the man’s current state.

Seeing his increasingly gloomy expression, Lin Li tentatively asked, "Uncle, are you... okay?"

"Huh? What? Is something wrong? I’m great." The man turned his head with a smile, his eyes half-squinting, but his gaze was extremely hollow, not even making eye contact with Lin Li anymore.

"Then... in the future, we... will there be more chances to hang out together?"

The man maintained his peculiar smile, "Play what?"

"Fishing, fishing, we go fishing together."

"Sure, sure, you’re good at fishing, I’m good at burbling, next time we’ll go together, you’ll fish on the shore, I’ll go underwater to burble for you."

"Just right, I’ve wanted to hold my breath against a fish for a long time~"

Lin Li: "?"

Using one’s body to burble, this TM is Qu Yuan.

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