Reincarnated as a bamboo rat, it begins its extreme survival struggle.

He walked up to the sign and, while his body and mind adapted to the surge in experience intensity, began to study the wooden fishing rod that the sign had spewed out.

Don't be fooled by the fact that this fishing rod looks worthless. In Bell's perception, this fishing rod is indeed the level reward for him after reaching level ten.

Bell previously received three level rewards: the [Inventory] upon the first level up, the [Fire-Loving Wisdom] upon the second level up, and the [Living Shadow] upon the third level up.

This fishing rod, being listed alongside these three extremely absurd skills as a level reward, must possess something unimaginably extraordinary.

[Ordinary wooden fishing rod]

Type: Tool

Description: The Huanhe River flows ceaselessly through a dreamlike landscape, endlessly cycling. In this surging river, there are all sorts of strange objects, and if you have a fishing rod, you have the right to touch them.

Fishing rod upgrade progress: 0%

In addition to these descriptions, there is a line of small print below the wooden fishing rod.

'A fisherman never goes home empty-handed!' — A bald, middle-aged man carrying a calf home.

After examining it with [Information Insight], Bell discovered that this [Ordinary Wooden Fishing Rod] did not provide the most direct improvement as the previous three levels of rewards.

On the contrary, it is of no use at all if you don't insist on using this fishing rod to fish in the surrounding river.

There are treasures in the river. Theoretically speaking, whether it is an inanimate object or a unique life form belonging to the dream world, a wooden fishing rod can catch it.

Furthermore, as Bell continues to fish, the wooden fishing rod will draw power from the act of fishing after each catch, thereby enhancing the rod itself and granting it other abilities.

"While I'm still adjusting to the changes in experience points, I can try fishing once."

Scratching his head, Bell carried his wooden fishing rod to the riverbank.

The river flowing around his floating island has become much wider than when Bell first saw it, after several upgrades.

But compared to the surging river that allowed the Lantern Clan merchants to pass through, this ring river on Bell Island still seemed like a small ditch.

"Speaking of which, it's been almost half a month since the Lamp Clan merchants left last time. I wonder when they will pass through here again."

With a flick of his wrist, Bell cast the fishing hook into the river, his mind drifting back to Lamp Thirteen, who had given him the tulip seeds.

If we were to encounter the Lantern Clan merchant again now, there would be items available for trade on Bell Island.

Chapter 99 Catching a Beautiful Girl in the Middle of the Night

"..."

Sitting on the edge of the floating island, Bell had a long face as he looked at the wooden fishing rod in his hand.

His body has now adapted to absorbing large amounts of experience points, and the floating island has begun to expand again with tremendous speed.

But despite trying various methods to fish, Bell couldn't catch anything.

Before his reincarnation, Bell was a gamer who was a complete nerd, and he didn't know how to fish. Now, when he was fiddling with this fishing rod, he felt completely lost.

But as Bell's headache grew, a shadow emerged from his body, shrugging its shoulders as if to say that this little thing was no problem for it.

︿(￣︶￣)︿

It pushed Bell's body all the way to the edge of its floating island, pointing at the river and gesturing to Bell to cast the fishing hook into the main channel of the river.

Then, Shadow Bell quickly ran to the mental cabin and brought back the [Passionate Red Tulip].

"You mean, I should use these tulips as bait for fishing?"

ヽ(￣▽￣

Shadow was very confident and waved his hand vigorously, signaling Bell to cast his rod quickly.

Although Bell had a long face, he chose to accept Shadow's suggestion in its entirety.

Once the fishing hook sank below the surface of the river, all the angler could do was wait. Shadow sat beside Bell, calm and composed.

Bell seemed a little dazed, staring at the river, his eyes gradually becoming wiser.

(。＿。)

Time passed steadily with the bobbing of the fishing float until the expansion of the floating island stopped. After Bell had digested the experience, his eyes regained their liveliness.

"Huh...still no movement?"

Looking at the fishing float still bobbing up and down in the distance, Bell glanced back at the mountain of building materials and wondered if he should pack up and go build his own little hut.

But at that moment, as the bobbing float suddenly plunged, the cast line instantly bent the wooden fishing rod and tightened it to its limit.

A powerful force tugged at the fishing rod, nearly causing Bell to lose his grip and be dragged into the water along with the rod.

Fortunately, the shadow sitting next to Bell reacted quickly, pounced on Bell, helped him control the fishing rod, and pulled it back with all its might.

"Holy crap, what did I catch?!"

Under immense pressure, Bell controlled his body to suspend in mid-air, his hind legs landing on a marshmallow cloud, pulling with all his might.

In order to reel in the fishing line, Bell's mental energy was exhausted to an extremely high level within just a dozen seconds. Even the shadow who was helping him pull the rod was covered in sweat that looked like oil.

"The description of this fishing rod doesn't say that fishing requires so much mental energy!"

Bell's expression contorted as he frantically reeled in the line. Fortunately, the thing caught on the wooden fishing rod didn't resist Bell's pull; it was simply heavy.

As Bell and Shadow continued to pull and reel in the line, a bulge appeared on the water's surface, indicating that something sizable was about to be pulled ashore.

"Three, two, one! Pull hard—"

Shouting slogans and working together with his shadow, when Bell was exhausted, the large, dark shape that had been caught on the fishing rod was finally pulled ashore.

Bear Grylls, standing on cotton candy clouds, also

He suddenly felt his body relax and fell onto his own floating island, panting heavily.

The shadow, the hero of the fishing expedition, turned into a black rat after exhausting itself, wriggling back into Bell's body.

"Thank you for your hard work."

After speaking to the shadow that had sunk into his body, Bell caught his breath and ran to the edge of the floating island to examine the magical 'catch' he had caught.

"Why did you catch a person?"

The one who took the bait in the river was a woman with fiery red hair and long, pointed ears.

She was completely naked, with only tangled seaweed clinging to her body, and in her mouth were the fishhook Bell had thrown down and some remnants of the passionate red tulip.

It seems that using the "Passionate Red Tulip" as bait can indeed catch a "big fish," but this "big fish" doesn't sleep very well. After chewing the tulip, it changed its position and lay down on the riverbank to sleep soundly, and its movements were not very elegant.

"Um... Big sister? Can you hear me?"

Bell jumped in front of the woman who had been fished out of the water and called out twice, but she didn't react at all. He poked the woman's stomach, but she still didn't react.

With a headache, Bell could only struggle to lift the woman's body and drag her up from the riverbank, at least preventing her from having half her body submerged in the water.

"Big sister, you can sleep, but can you let me put the fishing hook away first?"

Standing next to this woman's face, Bell had to admit that she was truly beautiful; even her extremely unseemly sleeping posture did not diminish her stunning good looks.

However, the woman who took the bait was also genuinely uncooperative with Bell's actions.

Bell tried to remove the fishhook from her mouth, but as Bell attempted to put his hand in her mouth, she bit him and swallowed his upper body whole.

It took Bell quite a while to escape from the jaws of death.

After a few such commotions, the woman seemed annoyed. She swallowed the fishhook in her mouth, turned her back to Bell, and gave him a look that said, "Don't disturb my sleep."

After a series of actions, Bell was immediately petrified.

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"You just swallowed the fishing hook that I received as a level reward?!"

The headache, which left him feeling powerless and exhausted, made Bell extremely uncomfortable.

Logically speaking, as the island's owner, Bell should be able to handle various matters on the island at any time.

But the woman in front of him, although she showed no conscious reaction, had a terrifyingly solid mental strength. Compared to her, Bell's mental body was too light and ethereal, so Bell's various actions had little effect on her.

He had used [Information Insight] as soon as Bell dragged her ashore, trying to obtain information about the red-haired woman.

But the usually invincible "Information Insight" has now suffered a setback with this woman.

[The Unknown Red-Haired Woman]

Race:? ? ?

grade:? ? ?

Health:

Mental strength: ? ? ?

Skill:? ? ?

Status: [Split]

In the [Information Insight] section, apart from her zero health points, all other attributes of this woman are displayed as a string of question marks.

Bell knew that when the gap in strength between himself and his opponent was too large, the effectiveness of [Information Insight] would gradually decrease.

But Bale doesn't know how large the gap between the two sides would have to be for this to happen.

"Is her life force only zero because she doesn't have a physical body? Is she a purely dreamlike being, or does she have a physical body like me? What is this [split] state?"