Chapter 220
The dark, phantom-like aircraft that zipped by seemed to be nothing more than an illusion, as it never reappeared for the rest of the day.
“Do you and the others have any clues about that thing?” At night, after a sumptuous seafood feast, Bai Ling received a reply from the captain.
However, the reply did not dispel their doubts; instead, it deepened them.
How could a novel item, unseen even by the captain, a greatly esteemed rising star among the association members, appear in a place so far from the central city?
Was it conducting some sort of test?
“No, this is quite interesting.” Leticia sat on a small chair, holding a fishing rod, enjoying the pleasure of fishing.
But she clearly lacked talent in fishing and was not a qualified angler. From noon until now, she hadn’t caught anything.
Bai Ling even suspected that Leticia had forgotten to put on bait, or that the fishhook was straight, which would explain why she couldn’t catch anything.
Even that little girl Anxin had caught a few fish. For Leticia to not catch any could only mean the fishing gods had not favored her.
“You’ve been fishing for half the day, why haven’t you caught anything?”
Leticia’s breathing hitched, and she glared fiercely at Bai Ling. Did this person enjoy bringing up her sore points so much?
Not catching fish, was that her fault? This was clearly the fish’s fault!
The bait used was identical, and the fishing rods only differed in color. Why was it that she was the only one who couldn’t catch a single fish?
This was definitely the sea fish targeting her, absolutely!
“Ahem, perhaps you’re building up to a great feat, and you’ll catch a super huge fish later?” Seeing Leticia’s embarrassed expression, Bai Ling’s lips curved slightly.
Leticia, blushing and defiantly holding her ground, was truly adorable.
“Believe it or not, I’ll catch a mermaid for you later,” the girl said stubbornly.
“If you can really catch a mermaid, I think your name will go down in history.”
“My name is already in history.” Leticia reeled in the fishing rod, and upon seeing the empty fishhook, she sighed. “Ah, it’s like this again.”
“Did you not put bait on it?”
Leticia shook her head. She reeled the hook closer and, with a flick of her finger, the bait automatically attached itself to the hook.
After casting the hook back into the sea, she replied to Bai Ling’s earlier remark, “I’m not like that Duke in your history books; he was fishing for people. What I’m fishing for are real fish.”
“So, the bait on the hook was eaten, but the fish didn’t take the bait?” Bai Ling began to understand what Leticia meant.
Leticia hadn’t failed to put on bait; rather, the fish eating the bait were too cunning. Without alerting Leticia, they had eaten her bait.
“This is the twentieth-something time. That fish should be full by now,” said the Demon Lord, grinding her teeth and making a cute sound as she held up her fishing rod. “If it dares to eat again, I’ll go down and catch it myself.”
She was done playing and about to flip the table.
Miss Bai chuckled. This stubborn Demon Lord seemed even more adorable than before.
“Let me hold it for a while, you should rest.”
“Alright, you hold it for a while.” Leticia didn’t refuse Bai Ling’s offer, perhaps she had been waiting for this sentence for a long time.
This way, she could at least end this frustrating fishing activity with less embarrassment.
Handing the fishing rod to Bai Ling, Leticia was about to make small talk when she noticed Bai Ling’s expression change.
The fishing rod instantly became taut. Undoubtedly, a fish had taken the bait.
Leticia was stunned for a moment, and then an inexplicable anger surged within her. She had been sitting there for half the day without catching anything, and as soon as the rod was in Bai Ling’s hands, the fish bit?
This was clearly mocking her!
“I’ll turn that thing into charcoal today! Bai, reel in that damn fish!” Three flames of various colors appeared around Leticia, and a dark, oppressive cloud gathered above her head, with lightning flashing within it, as if awaiting a command.
A heavy pressure descended upon the sea, turning the previously rippling surface as smooth as a mirror.
Bai Ling’s mouth twitched. Leticia was causing such a commotion over a fish?
She was clearly enraged.
Thinking this, Bai Ling didn’t hesitate and used all her strength to pull the fish that had been toying with Leticia for so long out of the water.
As if it hadn’t expected the force from the fishhook to be so immense, the fish’s expression was dumbfounded as it was pulled out of the water by Bai Ling.
Yes, an expression.
Who knew how Leticia could see an expression on the face of this ridiculously beautiful fish.
“This the hell is a fish?!” Leticia exclaimed, staring blankly at the dazzling, rainbow-colored giant fish.
This fish was probably several dozen meters long. Its scales were an extremely beautiful seven-colored hue. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that this was the most beautiful creature Leticia had ever seen.
Was this the fish that had been playing tricks on her underwater?
“Wait, don’t kill it yet!” Bai Ling quickly said, “This boat probably can’t hold such a big fish!”
Leticia glanced at the fishing boat she was standing on and felt that Bai Ling’s words were not unreasonable.
To avoid this trip from turning into a fantasy drift for the young Leticia, she decided to make this fish into sashimi on the surface of the sea.
As if sensing the great threat from above, the large fish, inexplicably caught, jerked its head violently, snapping the fishing rod.
After breaking the fishing rod, it quickly adjusted its posture, wanting to escape back into the water.
But where would Leticia give it such an opportunity? As the big fish whipped its head, Leticia had already leaped into the air, heading straight for the escaping fish.
She casually summoned her magic sword and then frowned at her black stick, feeling that it wasn’t suitable for making sashimi from a large fish.
“Bai, lend me Star Sword!”
When cutting things, a sword with a blade is much more effective.
However, she didn’t discard her magic sword this time. While asking Bai Ling for the Star Sword, she cast an ice magic spell to freeze the sea surface beneath the large fish.
She had finally caught this thing, and she wouldn’t let it escape so easily!
A few seconds later, a beam of starlight flew from the fishing boat to Leticia’s hand.
Reaching out and grasping the Star Sword, filled with a strong sense of displeasure, Leticia walked towards the large fish, which was still a bit dazed on the ice, with a smile.
“Ready to face righteous judgment, you damn fish!”
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“A fish, such a big fish!” Anxin, who was standing on the other side of the fishing boat with her sister, enjoying the sea breeze, heard the commotion from Leticia’s side. She walked over with her sister to take a look and immediately exclaimed.
On the ice surface created by humans not far away, the black-haired girl was chasing the seven-colored big fish with a wooden stick and a long sword.
Surprisingly, even though it was trapped on the ice, the big fish’s movements were still agile, and it could even twist its massive body to dodge Leticia’s attacks.
“You stop right there! If you run around again, I won’t be polite!” Leticia swung a blue fire blade, shouting loudly.
Although she felt that this fish probably couldn’t understand human language, shouting made her sound more imposing.
The big fish narrowly dodged the fire blade and watched the large amount of white steam generated as the fire blade plunged into the sea. A hint of regret flashed in the fish’s eyes.
It shouldn’t have provoked this shallow-chested and narrow-minded fellow!
“What is Miss Qianqian doing?” Anxin ran to Bai Ling’s side, her curious big eyes looking at Leticia and the seven-colored big fish chasing each other not far away.
Bai Ling had a smile on her face, seemingly in a good mood. Hearing Anxin’s question, she chuckled and told Anxin what had just happened.
After hearing the whole story, Anxin’s face showed an expression of “as expected.” This black-haired girl was indeed quite petty, actually getting angry with a fish.
Although this fish was agile, it seemed to be just an ordinary beast, at most just pretty and a bit bigger.
For this, this black-haired girl was still chasing that fish. Wasn’t her strength quite formidable? Couldn’t she just kill the fish instantly?
It couldn’t be that her combat power was inferior to this fish, right?
“Huh, that fish seems to be talking?” Anxin said with a frown as she was thinking to herself.
Bai Ling immediately turned her head. “Talking?”
“Mm, but it’s too far away, I can’t hear clearly.” Anxin nodded.
This is simple. Bai Ling put her arm around Anxin’s waist and said to Anxin, “Let me borrow your sister.”
“Huh?!”
Without waiting for Anxin’s reply, Bai Ling leaped lightly, taking Anxin with her onto the ice surface created by Leticia.
Staring blankly as her sister was taken away by Bai Ling, Anxin didn’t hesitate. She immediately climbed over the ship’s railing and, in a blink of an eye, flew to Bai Ling’s side.
At this moment, Bai Ling had already grabbed Leticia, and Anxin had also made eye contact with the big fish.
“Huh? You’re saying this fish has intelligence?” Leticia said softly, pointing at the large fish that was exhausted and unable to move on the ice. She couldn’t quite believe Bai Ling.
“It should have.” Bai Ling had one hand on the big fish’s back, preventing it from easily slapping the frail Anxin into Anxin-chan with a flick of its tail. “Be careful, have you asked anything?”
After staring at the big fish for a long time, Anxin finally nodded. “I can understand her words now!”
“This mind-reading ability can also communicate with animals, that’s quite impressive.” Leticia walked over to the big fish and kicked its head with her foot. “What are your thoughts on becoming sashimi soon?”
Leticia’s words made the big fish agitated, but it couldn’t move at all, being held down by Bai Ling. It could only twitch its body slightly.
“Oh, you know fear now?” Leticia grinned and reached out, making a cut on the big fish. “The meat from this part should be good. I think you have quite a lot of meat, enough to make a whole fish feast.”
“Sister Qianqian, Miss Fish says she was wrong, please don’t make her into a whole fish feast.” Anxin whispered to Leticia.
Miss Fish? Leticia’s eyes widened as she looked the big fish up and down. She couldn’t tell if it was male or female.
Speaking of which, how do you determine the gender of a fish?
“Um, Miss Fish’s voice is a girl’s voice, and she also said she’s a girl herself.” Anxin explained. “But she can’t speak for herself, and she can’t explain to Sister Qianqian.”
Explain? What’s there to explain? Leticia said angrily, “I don’t care if she’s a girl or not. In my eyes, this is just a fish, a fish that I caught. You can’t tell me that this thing is a protected animal and can’t be eaten, can you?”
Hearing this, the big fish trembled again, and anxiety showed in its large eyes.
It seemed that the big fish had too many thoughts in its mind. After waiting for a while, Anxin rubbed her forehead and organized what the big fish said and relayed it to Leticia.
“Miss Fish says her meat doesn’t taste good, and it’s poisonous. She also said that if you let her go, she’ll immediately help Sister Qianqian catch lots and lots of fish.”
Is this about catching fish? This is about face!
Leticia sighed. “I just want to ask, we had so many people fishing in the afternoon, why did you target my fishing rod? Could it be that my bait was tastier?”
Leticia’s casual remark made the big fish nod frantically. It seemed that was indeed the reason.
“Miss Fish says that Sister Qianqian’s bait is especially delicious, much more delicious than everyone else’s bait, so…”
This… Leticia raised her hand and pinched her brow. This explanation was passable.
Perhaps her magic had a special attraction to these animals?
When putting on bait, Leticia used magic. It was likely that some magical aura remained on the bait, making them extraordinarily delicious in the fish’s eyes.
And the big fish’s intelligence and combat ability were clearly much higher than ordinary fish. It wasn’t difficult for her to eat the bait on the hook without taking the bait.
So, now the question is, “Then why did you take the bait just now?”
It couldn’t be that this fellow ate too much and accidentally bit the hook, right?
This question made the big fish fall silent, but its thoughts had already been read by Anxin.
The little girl’s expression became strange. She was trying to organize her words to prevent Sister Qianqian from going berserk upon learning the big fish’s true thoughts.
“Miss Fish says that she actually wanted to greet Sister Qianqian, but she bit the hook and was pulled out of the water.”
In fact, the big fish had not taken the bait at that time. She just wanted to tease Leticia. As soon as she felt Leticia pull hard, she would release the hook and escape.
But she never expected that it was Miss Bai, who possessed immense strength by nature, who was holding the fishing rod at that time. With a flick of the rod, Miss Fish was pulled out of the water before she could react, and it was game over.
