The Legend of Fangren

Chapter 156 The value of fishing is still rising.

"Fangzi, have you seen that?" On the way to dinner, Luohe suddenly asked furtively.

"Which one do you see?"

"That's it." Luo He stretched out her arms, gesturing with her chest to show her ample bosom, her face filled with amazement. "It's really big!"

Fang Shi immediately understood, "Oh, I've seen this before."

"So what do you think—" Luo He suddenly put her hands behind her back and nudged him with her shoulder.

"What? How is it?" At times like this, Fang Shi still knew he should play dumb.

Luo He was a little anxious and said, "It's this one. When you see something this big, don't you feel anything?"

Fang Shi thought for a moment and said, "To be honest, I was a little frightened, or rather, shocked."

"Shocked, ah—you really do like big ones, right? Senior Sister Qu was right, you boys just like big ones here." Luo He patted his tarmac with great disappointment, and suddenly felt even worse.

"Sigh, what kind of knowledge is Junior Aunt trying to impart to you?" Fang Shi is now 100% certain that it was Qu Mei who was gossiping in front of Luo He.

He patted Luohe's head and said, "How old are you? Fifteen or sixteen years old, you have a bright future ahead of you."

"So you still prefer the larger recipe, right?"

Oh no, Luohe has completely gone down a dead end.

"Uh, well—" To be honest, Fang Shi didn't want to lie to Luo He, "Actually, I'm the type who's into everything."

"Really?"

"Seriously, my P system has excellent compatibility."

"You're saying things I don't understand again." Although Luo He didn't understand what the XP system was, she could tell that she had been coaxed. She loosened her hands behind her back and started to hop around.

Look how cute He Bao is, it's okay even if he doesn't grow up.

After dinner, Fang Shi went back to his room.

Luo He had delayed the forging of his Xuan weapon for several days while waiting for his metal. He learned during dinner that his senior and junior sisters were nearing the end of their Xuan weapon forging. If they didn't hurry, the others might leave soon.

After locking the door, Fang Shi took off his clothes to sleep properly this time. With his blocky personality allowing him to fall asleep so quickly, he arrived at the Lingtai Space in the blink of an eye.

Witness the moment of miracle!

Different sized fish buckets cannot be stacked in the same square space, so he puts the box block in his left hand and uses the extra 27 squares to store the fish buckets. Of course, this also means that he cannot continue to use other functional blocks during the day. The box block with items cannot be moved back into the backpack and cannot be stacked. In other words, there can only be a maximum of 27 extra storage spaces in his left hand.

However, things are fine once you get to the Lingtai space. Here, the functional blocks can be taken out and function normally.

To prevent the fish from struggling in their death throes, Fang Shi built another empty pond, then took out fish buckets one by one and poured them into it, immediately draining the water, leaving the big fish no chance to fight back.

The large fish, now dry, fell to the bottom of the pool and couldn't jump over the four- or five-meter-high wall. Fang Shi stood at the top, threw down several stone swords and axes, which killed the fish. Then he climbed down the ladder to the bottom of the pool and began to dissect the large fish.

This large fish is recorded in the literature. Its formal name is: Mud, an earth-type mystical beast. It is generally ranked between the first and third tiers, but it does not have any strong attack methods. It only has the ability to devour, and it mainly survives by eating and having a strong self-healing ability.

According to the text, the strong self-healing ability of silt mainly comes from the slippery mucus secreted on its body surface and inside its body. This mucus is not easily soluble in water, and even in water, it can adhere well to the delicate body surface without scales. Whenever there is a wound on the body surface, the mucus will immediately block the wound and prevent it from getting worse.

The ability of mud to be eaten also comes from this mucus. The smooth surface formed by its adhesion greatly reduces the friction it experiences in water, and the mucus diluted in water can numb the prey's sense of smell. This is because the mucus in the mud's mouth also has the function of dissolving toxins.

The reason why mud can eat anything is because its mucus can separate and concentrate the toxins in food in its mouth. With this toxic mucus, mud doesn't have to worry about its body being depleted even if it can't find food for a long time. From this perspective, the fact that this mucus paralyzes its prey during hunting is just a coincidence.

"No wonder it smells so bad, it's all grime from between its teeth."

Fang Shi initially intended to plug his nostrils to resist, but once he actually pried open the fish's mouth, he gave up resisting the smell.

Adhering to the principle of making the most of everything, he scraped off the mucus from the fish's body, put it in some ordinary iron buckets, and stored it in a box.

However, he soon discovered that he could directly dissolve the fish meat, and even the flesh and skin of the mud were still separate. He could cut off the mud leather with scissors—it was just a piece of dry fish skin.

After being processed, the fish skin has no fishy smell or strange slimy odor. Instead, it is soft and resilient, so even if it is used to make clothing that comes into close contact with the skin, there is no need to worry about it causing skin irritation.

The amount of meat produced from the silt is also considerable. A first-tier fish that is one meter long can yield a full five pieces of fish meat. It has the power to decompose, so he doesn't have to worry that the harsh environment in the silt will make the fish meat too dirty.

However, the real focus is on what's inside the fish's belly.

Fang Shi opened the stomach of the muddy fish, and sure enough, the scrap iron inside was still there. As for the smaller fish buckets, although they were not stuffed with anything, their survival habit of eating anything made it easy for some "miscellaneous things" to accumulate in their stomachs.

These impurities mix with mucus inside the silt, and after years of decomposition and deposition, they become something similar to gallstones.

This is the extra surprise I mentioned earlier.

Some of these stones are simply putrid substances, but most are actually clumps of gravel and sand from underground rivers that have been kneaded together and dissolved by the accumulated viscous fluid. The sand and gravel that are not strong enough to hold together will be incorporated into the fluid, leaving only the fine gold fragments. These gold fragments mix together and form large stones with surprisingly high purity. Decomposing them will yield 1-2 mineral particles.

In the game, mineral blocks, mineral ingots, and mineral particles are three levels of material reserves, which are converted from large to small at a ratio of one to nine. Therefore, nine mineral particles can be combined to form one mineral ingot.

When I used to play games, I always thought that mineral particles were too small to be of any interest to blocky people. But now that it's in reality, nine mineral particles can be combined to make such a big ingot. When I held it in my hand and compared it, it was actually bigger than my fist.

These aren't mineral particles; they're clearly mineral spheres.

Based on this alone, Fang Shi felt he could stay in that underground river for several months. After all, this wasn't fishing; it was mining. Moreover, these minerals accumulated in the silt year-round and were imbued with its mysterious energy, so their quality often corresponded to the minerals.

In short, the value of fishing is still increasing!