Chapter 47

47 46, fishing and caught a corpse?_i

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What’s going on?

Lin Mo tried letting out the fishing line, but there was no movement underwater, which didn’t seem like he had caught a fish.

After all, whether it was a big fish or a small one, there should be some struggle, unlike now, where the fishing line wouldn’t budge, and there was no response when releasing the line.

Not far away, Chen Shanhe, after seeing this, called out a reminder, “Hey, young man, you must have hooked something on the riverbed. If you can’t pull it up, just cut the line.”

Cut the line?

What a joke!

Do you have any idea how much this line cost?

The genuine Mermaid brand, nearly too yuan a roll, plus the Xiaofengxian nano float, almost two hundred yuan in total.

What does that mean?

Before the system was activated, Lin Mo had to work 12 hours at a courier distribution center to afford this set of gear.

How could he bear to cut it?

“I’ll try again, maybe it’s a big fish that doesn’t like to move?”

Lin Mo replied offhand and then continued to grapple with whatever was in the water.

Seeing that he wouldn’t take advice, Chen Shanhe didn’t say much more and concentrated on watching his own float.

The fish were biting well for him at the moment; there was action every time he set the hook.

That meant a school of fish had been attracted over, a chance that might not come several times in a day, so he couldn’t be bothered with someone else’s business.

He had kindly offered a word of advice just now, seeing that Lin Mo seemed like a decent person.

Since he didn’t listen, so be it.

Meanwhile, Lin Mo ignored Chen Shanhe, trying various methods to reel the fishing line back in bit by bit.

It must be said,

other than being expensive, quality goods have only advantages.

Using almost all his strength, the nearly hundred-yuan fishing line did not break.

The fishing rod, although bent into a half-moon shape, showed no signs of snapping.

“Damn it, I don’t believe this!”

The more it refused to come up, the more Lin Mo’s competitive spirit was aroused.

He tightened his grip on the fishing rod and tried pulling from side to side. He found out that if he pulled from the left, the hooked object would move, albeit not by much.

He gave up on brute force and began to shift from side to side, trying to leverage the object underwater gradually.

After trying for a while, it actually seemed to help.

Because his movements were so large, many of the surrounding fishermen thought he had caught a monster and rushed over to watch.

When they realized the object in the water wasn’t struggling, they could guess the rough situation.

It wasn’t a fish, but something caught on the riverbed.

Some people left after a glance or two, while others, with the idea that they had nothing better to do, stayed to watch and discuss what Lin Mo might pull up.

“Bro, keep it up! I once fished up a car tire, but I guess what you’ve got is heavier than that!”

“Haha, 1 even fished up rotten wood before!”

“What’s that compared to mine? Damn it, buddy, I used all my might last time, only to find out I pulled up a freaking shared bicycle, almost killed me!”

“Haven’t you seen the world? Last time at the pond, my line got tangled with a guy across from me, each of us thought we had a big fish, luckily, I had more people on my side, haha, that guy got yanked right into the river!”

“Good lord, you all can fish up anything but the fish!”

The more people discussed, the more onlookers there became.

Some quick-witted vendors simply wheeled over their food stalls to sell things while watching Lin Mo.

“These people, really love a spectacle and don’t think it’s too much trouble, not even offering to help.”

Gradually, Lin Mo could feel that whatever was in the water was quite heavy, but not completely fixed in place; he could move it a little if he used all his strength.

But the moment he let go, it would sink back to the bottom.

“What on earth is this thing, so heavy, could it really be a shared bicycle? A shared donkey?”

Lin Mo was increasingly curious about the kind of “newbie gift pack” he would get from his first attempt at fishing with professional equipment.

His actions, however, were already affecting Chen Shanhe nearby.

Everyone was in the same body of water, and the disturbance here could scare the fish away, causing them to scatter in all directions.

The man in the windbreaker with a buzz cut standing next to Chen Shanhe asked, “Elder Chen, should we do something about it?”

“No need, this is the people’s Mingyuan Lake, not the Chen Family’s Mingyuan Lake,” Chen Shanhe shook his head and waved his hand, “Go help him out, don’t let the kid exhaust himself.”

Despite his words, one could still sense Chen Shanhe’s displeasure.

As a fishing enthusiast, he had been eagerly waiting for the fish, but someone nearby disrupted it, which would upset any angler.

“Yes, I’ll go now.”

The buzz cut man nodded and walked directly towards Lin Mo, taking hold of the fishing rod once he stood beside him.

“Friend, let me help you.”

Lin Mo’s first reaction was to note the man’s great strength.

He worked in construction, and despite being injured, his strength was much greater than that of the average person.

Yet this guy, with ease, had taken up something that even Lin Mo, with all his might, couldn’t budge.

Furthermore, Lin Mo specifically noticed the calluses on the man’s palms, at the base of his fingers.

Based on what he’d seen in movies, such calluses typically formed from years of farming or from practicing with firearms.

“Great, great, thanks for the help, brother.”

Having someone to assist him, Lin Mo was naturally pleased.

Together, they slowly pulled whatever was in the river closer to the surface.

The water rippled, and as the fishing line gradually neared the shore, the onlooking crowd began to grow excited.

They had been waiting for over ten minutes, just for this moment.

Soon,

the object in the river neared the shore, revealing more and more of itself.

From a distance, it looked like a large stone tied with a rope.

“Hey, it’s just a rock!”

“All that excitement for nothing!”

“No kidding, someone did this on purpose, right? Tying a rope around a rock so it would snag the hook?”

“Damn it…”

“Let’s disperse, no more spectacle to see!”

The crowd gradually dispersed, leaving only Lin Mo and the buzz cut man still wrestling with the stone in the water.

However,

when the stone had been dragged ashore and Lin Mo was about to move it aside after removing the hook, his eyes opened as wide as copper bells, and his mouth involuntarily formed an ‘O’ shape.

“Holy… holy shit… ho… holy shit…”

“Is that… is that human hair?”

Lin Mo rarely swore, but no one could stay calm when what they’d been fishing for turned out to be a corpse tied to a stone!

Whoosh—

The buzz cut man, who had already walked a distance away, dashed back in a flash, his gaze fixated on a dark mass in the shallow water.

From his years of experience, that mass was most likely hair.

And those people who had moved away also regathered, their eyes filled with surprise, staring intently at the churning water.

The next second,

the buzz cut man grabbed the rope tied to the stone and yanked with all his might, pulling a bloated, pallid, and swollen male corpse from the water, one that had swollen to giant proportions.

In an instant,

the entire place fell so silent not a sound could be heard…