I became the King of Ryukyu

Having lost interest in watching the fish vying for food at different water levels, Zheng Yi returned to the feed room.

He found a large net in the corner and went to the freshwater tank.

The tank was teeming with fish: goldfish, loach, bitterling, carp...

They all share the characteristic of being cheap.

Even with sufficient oxygenation, the fish are not in good condition due to such high-density rearing.

Zheng Yi used a net to scoop them out. The process went smoothly, and very few fish still had the strength to struggle and jump.

Throw them into the bucket and feed them to the sharks and turtles, and the mission is complete.

wow-

A white "loach" swung its tail forcefully and leaped out of the net, landing on the ground and thrashing about.

Rebel against fate?

Zheng Yi smiled and said, "It's a pity that even after ascension, you still can't escape the fate of raising foreign races!"

He recited a cringeworthy line and reached out to pick it up.

"Eh!"

The moment Zheng Yi's fingers touched the "albino loach," he instantly felt a strong tingling sensation shooting from his fingertips straight to his heart.

[Item discovered: A strong albino Amazonian Ford eel juvenile; its fat and bone meal can be used to make elixirs]

[Uses: Rheumatic joint pain, muscle strain, sprains and bruises, asthma, bronchitis, colds and coughs, earaches, skin inflammation]

It took Zheng Yi a while to recover from the numbness.

Unexpectedly, this "albino loach" was actually a juvenile electric eel, and I don't know how it got mixed into the feed fish.

Zheng Yi had only seen electric eels in books; they are the animals with the strongest electric discharge ability in the world.

Adult individuals can reach over two meters in size, with tens of thousands of micro-electric cells connected in series. The instantaneous maximum voltage can reach 860 volts, far exceeding household mains electricity. It can instantly electrocute large aquatic animals such as fish, shrimp, and crocodiles, and is also enough to injure or even kill an adult male.

It can also switch between high and low voltage currents. The low voltage electric field is used for seeing and communication, while the high voltage electric shock is used for hunting and self-defense. The insulating fat in its body can also prevent itself from being injured by high voltage.

Just now, the white electric eel was obviously using a high-voltage current mode, but fortunately it was only a dozen centimeters long and far from being an adult, so Zheng Yi was not injured.

Moreover, it seems that because it was too young, or because the environment of the feeder fish tank was too harsh, the white electric eel became listless after being electrocuted once and was no longer able to generate high-voltage current.

Zheng Yi picked it up; it felt smooth to the touch, like picking up a bar of soap.

Although electric eels are not loaches, they are catfish in a broad sense, just like loaches. They can breathe through their skin, and the mucus on their body surface can help keep them moist.

Zheng Yi was only curious when he held it in his palm and examined it. Suddenly, a pale blue game prompt appeared before his eyes:

[Spend 40 Action Points to Recruit the Albino Electric Eel]

[Success rate approximately 1%]

Is this also possible?

Zheng Yi was taken aback; this game master was really acting recklessly.

Not only did they use the spindle-shaped sash on Zulong, they even recognized the electric eel as a talent.

Zheng Yi originally had no plans to recruit talented individuals, mainly due to insufficient financial resources.

Last night I promoted Tetsuya, and now I have to pay him a monthly salary of 150000 yen.

This was a special preferential treatment given his special circumstances as an eight-year-old elementary school student. Zheng Yi estimated that if he were to recruit an adult talent, the monthly salary he would have to pay would certainly not be lower than the average wage in Ryukyu.

But this electric eel is different.

Let alone a poor place like Okinawa, even in Tokyo or New York, how much would it cost to keep an electric eel each month?

Unfortunately, the success rate is just too low.

1%, which is only slightly better than the students in the main campus.

At this moment, Zheng Yi suddenly felt a slight warmth in his chest. Looking down, he saw that the Heart-Protecting Amulet given to him by Ji was emitting a pale blue light.

That's the same blue light as the game screen, visible only to gamers.

When the amulet was removed, an antique copper coin rolled out.

[Mountain Spirit Coin: A copper coin engraved with a 27-character Taoist thunder magic incantation, capable of emitting a slight electric current. Thunder Resistance +1]

It turns out that the numbness I felt earlier wasn't entirely due to the white electric eel's lack of power, but rather because wearing the [Mountain Spirit Coin] increased my resistance to lightning.

While feeling fortunate, Zheng Yi wondered if torture could be used to increase the success rate of recruiting electric eels.

In Japanese Taiga dramas or TV series like "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Legend of Chu and Han" that I watched in my previous life, it is certainly admirable to persuade captured enemy generals to surrender by being sincere and courteous, but torture and using honey traps are also more mainstream strategies.

Since Zheng Yi didn't have a female electric eel, he had no choice but to resort to torture.

Zheng Yi stuck the "Mountain Spirit Coin" on the electric eel's head, and with a thought, a slight current pierced the eel's head.

With its head far from its power-generating organs and very little insulating fat, even a slight electric current can cause an electric eel to twitch in pain.

[Spend 40 Action Points to Recruit the Albino Electric Eel]

[Success rate approximately 2%]

It really works!

Zheng Yi immediately sent out another electric shock.

After about five minutes, the success rate is approximately 73%.

Looking at the dying electric eel in his hand, Zheng Yi knew he couldn't continue and decisively chose to recruit it.

[Congratulations, player! You have successfully recruited the talent, Albino Electric Eel.]

You have acquired his hidden talent: High Voltage Electricity

High-voltage electricity: It consumes glycogen and fat to release an electric current; the intensity depends on attributes such as strength and endurance.

【Name: Albino Electric Eel lv1】

【Intelligence: 0】

[Strength: 5]

[Politics: 0]

Commander-in-Chief: 1

【Charm: 1】

Loyalty: 70

[Position: Inspector of the Warehouse]

[Monthly salary: 0 yen]

……

After leaving the Marine Biology Research Society, Zheng Yi rode his bicycle back to the teaching building.

He was halfway through his elective course, "Introduction to Western Painting." He bent down and went in through the back door, managing to sit in the last row, a rare occurrence for him.

On stage, the Dutch teacher, Gerrit, was explaining techniques for handling light and shadow. He noticed that someone was late for most of the class and his face showed displeasure.

During the Edo period, the Japanese referred to Western painting, perspective, and sketching techniques introduced from the Netherlands as "Rangaku painting."

After the Meiji Restoration, it was renamed Western painting, and the university major was called "Western Painting Major" or "Oil Painting Major".

Students in the School of Environment and Life Sciences are naturally not that specialized, but many of them take an elective course called "Introduction to Western Painting" to learn some simple sketching techniques so that they can better record flowers, birds, fish and insects when they go out to collect materials, or better complete their atlas drawing assignments after anatomy and cytology classes.

Therefore, many of the students in the class were from the nine majors, and Zheng Yi's arrival caused them to whisper among themselves.

This made Gretel even more displeased.

He planned to call on the kid and have him answer a question about a point he had just covered, to give him a hard time.

Gretel looked at Zheng Yi, about to speak, when he saw that the young man had actually closed his eyes.

This is an insult to his classroom authority.