As a Fisherman, My Fish Can Level Up-Chapter 201 - 177 Couldnt Find It Lets Go for the Fish

Chapter 201: Chapter 177: Couldn’t Find It, Let’s Go for the Fish King First Chapter 201 -177: Couldn’t Find It, Let’s Go for the Fish King First “It’s just a coffin board, what’s there to be scared of,” Chu Mingcheng casually reeled in his fishing line and grabbed the sinking coffin board.

This area was so close to where they were fishing for crucian carp, he had dived all around these waters before and hadn’t noticed anything unusual.

Moreover, if there really was a coffin, the board should have been nailed shut, not so easily pulled up.

But just slightly lifting the board, he involuntarily let out a light gasp.

The board wasn’t the sliding type that was thick and slightly curved; rather, it resembled a door, covered in a lot of mud.

However, when he fully lifted up the board, his heart skipped a beat. Could it actually be a coffin board?

A door wouldn’t be that narrow, neither in length nor width, it indeed resembled those squarely shaped coffin boards.

Seeing the board he lifted, Chen Yang hesitated and then said, “Ah Cheng, should we call the police?”

Chu Mingcheng shook his head, “Let’s not call the police just yet, let’s bring this board to the shore first, then I’ll change into my diving suit and check underwater.”

“Sss~you’re actually going underwater yourself, aren’t you scared of encountering that ‘thing’?” Zhang Wei took a deep breath when he heard he was going to dive personally.

What if there really was a coffin at the bottom, wouldn’t that be terrifying?

“Not really, I used to wander the sea at night, back then the environment was much scarier than seeing a coffin or anything of that sort,” Chu Mingcheng waved off with a laugh.

He used to hunt at thirty meters under the sea at night, that eerie environment didn’t scare him, so why would a corpse?

Afterward, he drove the boat back to shore, tossed the suspected coffin board aside, then let Chen Yang and the others roam freely.

Chu Mingcheng drove himself to the dock, boarded his own boat, and changed into a diving suit.

Since returning with Wei Jiaguo and others, he had washed the diving suit and hurriedly brought it back to his boat.

He then returned to the lakeside, where Chen Yang and Zhang Wei were chatting and smoking by the shore.

Seeing Chu Mingcheng return, they inquired with some anxiety.

“Ah Cheng, are you really going into the water?”

“If you see something, don’t be scared, I can stay over tonight to accompany you.”

“Piss off~”

Chu Mingcheng flipped off Zhang Wei, who had suggested staying over. Was he really scared that he would need Zhang Wei to mess things up for him instead of finding Jiang Luoluo?

But Zhang Wei’s joking remark did remind him.

However, first things first, he needed to go underwater to check; other matters could wait.

Chu Mingcheng steered the boat back to the area, instructing Chen Yang and the others to stay on the boat while he, having donned his equipment, jumped straight into the water.

Once in the water, he dove headfirst.

The water was only about six or seven meters deep, easy for someone experienced in free diving to handle.

In the blink of an eye, Chu Mingcheng was observing all around from a position two meters from the bottom, he saw neither big fish nor any coffin.

They could not identify the exact location where they had fished up the board, only remembered the approximate area, hence he had to slowly search the bottom.

Chu Mingcheng remembered hauling up the board from the northwest side, so he swam in that direction.

Soon, he found traces of dragging on the lakebed.

After confirming it was indeed the original location of the board, it became clear that the board had been dragged here by the water current, then sunk.

Just as he had anticipated, if there really was a coffin, the door would have been nailed shut.

In such a case, either the whole coffin would have come up, or the line would have broken, but obviously the former was nearly impossible.

Slightly shaking his head, Chu Mingcheng was about to return when he suddenly noticed something moving among the water plants not far away.

He saw a crucian carp, larger than even a washbowl, suddenly burst out of the weeds and gulp down a small river shrimp nearby.

‘Holy shit~’

The college-educated yet uncultured Chu Mingcheng exclaimed in his mind!

A crucian carp this size must have grown over many years, he figured?

He didn’t make any rash moves, instead heading back to the boat.

Upon seeing him surface, Chen Yang quickly asked, “How is it, find anything?”

Chu Mingcheng shook his head, “No coffin or anything, that board must have been carried here by the current and just happened to be fished up by me. But, I did find a big surprise.”

“Ah Wei, fetch me the thickest line, tie on a big hook, and hang some soft bait; I’ll bring you guys a big fellow in a moment.”

“Wow, what big fellow has got you so excited?” Zhang Wei was slightly surprised, but quickly prepared everything as instructed.

Chu Mingcheng took the fishing line, tying it around his hand as usual.

He always wore gloves while fishing or diving, so he wasn’t worried about the line cutting his hand.

Returning to the spot where he saw the crucian carp, Chu Mingcheng floated on the surface, dropping the bait right where the carp had swallowed the shrimp.

He gently tugged at the line with his left hand, making the soft bait mimic the lively movements of a small fish in the water.

Sure enough, he saw a large dark shadow slowly approach the bait from the surface.

The next moment, the crucian carp appeared suddenly, gulping down the bait with a fierce bite.

Chu Mingcheng’s right hand yanked hard, and the hook immediately sank deep into the fish’s mouth.

After that, he tried to reel the fish back in but found that the fish was incredibly strong, and he simply couldn’t pull it back for quite some time.

Seeing this, Chu Mingcheng held the line with his left hand and turned his right hand.

The fishing line was reeled in loop by loop, and he himself slowly began to swim towards the bottom of the water.

He couldn’t pull it back, and the fish couldn’t escape either. Although the Crucian carp was large, it weighed at most thirty pounds, by its looks.

Such a size is very rare among wild Crucian carps. Once caught, people generally boast with the fish, unable to find their way on the main road, and then they make a little news story.

But it couldn’t be compared to those large fish species that could pull a person along.

As Chu Mingcheng kept shortening the line, he gradually got closer to the Crucian carp.

It had a slender body, yet its belly appeared a bit bulgy.

The fish ate well in winter to survive the cold.

Chu Mingcheng approached, pulled the fishing line with his right hand and reached for its tail with his left.

The shorter the line, the better he could control the fish. Despite the fish’s struggles, after several attempts, he successfully grabbed its tail.

With both ends under control, the Crucian carp lost much of its ability to resist.

But the Crucian carp was not willing to give up; its strength had not been fully depleted. It twisted its body and flicked its tail, instantly slipping away from Chu Mingcheng’s hand.

He also feared that the fish might suddenly burst free, ignoring its own injuries to forcefully escape the hook, so he did not use brute force to combat it but instead swam along with the fish, continuing to tire it out.

Following along, the Crucian carp spotted several large rocks not far ahead, so it swam over and hid beside the rocks.

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Chu Mingcheng didn’t want it to rest and was about to tug on the line to keep it moving, but he suddenly noticed a hint of red beneath the rocks.

Looking carefully, it was a very blurry dark red mixed with white.

In the lake water, it’s tough to see red, but this rock bizarrely showed other colors.

Chu Mingcheng had common knowledge and did not recognize the origin of this rock, but he suspected these rocks might be something significant.

However, he was still fishing at the moment, so he focused on the fish for the time being.

Having been in the water for two minutes now, Chen Yang and Zhang Wei also understood fishing, so he didn’t stay underwater any longer but surfaced to pretend to catch his breath, then continued to exhaust the fish’s energy.

After about fifteen minutes, when the fish’s energy had dwindled, Chu Mingcheng caught the fish again and swam back with it.

A Crucian carp that couldn’t fit in a basin, naturally, the two on the boat burst out in amazement.

Zhang Wei used a fish controller to weigh the fish and found it weighed twenty-seven pounds and seven ounces. The controller could weigh up to thirty pounds, just enough to display it.

“Impressive, I’ve never seen such a big Crucian carp. Ah Cheng, keep looking. This big lake definitely has more than one.”

“That’s for sure, but whether we can find another is a question. Anyway, it’s still early, I’ll keep looking!”

Chu Mingcheng checked the time, it was just getting towards 9:30 AM, so there was still an hour to play.

Since he was already in the water, he continued to search for big fish.

But Chu Mingcheng still remembered those rocks he had encountered earlier and went back to that spot to dive down and dig them up.

One as big as a duck egg, another as big as a chicken egg, and another as large as a football, which was quite heavy, so he didn’t take it.

Back at the water surface, he first looked at the chicken egg-sized stone in his right hand.

To his surprise, the stone that was just slightly red underwater had blood-red patches like blood on it when it appeared above water.

The rest of the stone was a soft jade-like milky white, with a surface as smooth as pebbles, not like ordinary stones.

The stone in his left hand, the size of a duck egg, was entirely red, but its surface was very rough, with many areas still muddy yellow in color, not very appealing.

So he returned to the boat and handed the stones to the two on board: “What kind of stone is this, do you recognize it?”

Zhang Wei curiously picked up the stone and looked at it, unable to identify it.

Chen Yang saw the color of the stone and the gloss on its surface and immediately exclaimed, “Damn!”

“Could this be cinnabar?”

“Cinnabar?”

Chu Mingcheng felt he might have heard of it, but didn’t remember much.

“Well, cinnabar is one of the four great precious stones of our country, it can sell for anything from a few dollars to tens of thousands per gram, depending on quality,” said Chen Yang, who knew a little more about cinnabar than the other two, who were clueless.

He picked up the mingling red and white cinnabar and said, “Not only is this piece attractive in color, it’s also very transparent, indicating high quality.”

Then he pointed to the other piece and said, “You can tell right away this one is of poor quality, it’s even questionable if it’s cinnabar at all.”

“Tens of thousands per gram?” Chu Mingcheng was astounded, not to mention the poor one, but the red and white mingling cinnabar surely wouldn’t be cheap.

But thinking of the large piece under the water, he quickly said, “Wait a moment, there’s an even bigger piece under the water.”

“A bigger piece?” Chen Yang and Zhang Wei looked at each other, wondering if their friend might become a multimillionaire just from picking up stones while fishing.

After a little while, they saw Chu Mingcheng coming over with a big red stone in his arms.

Chen Yang pondered for a moment and then said, “This piece, maybe it’s granite?”

“Uh…” Chu Mingcheng was speechless!

But ultimately whether it was or not, they would only know after getting it appraised, so they took all the stones back when they returned.