ID No. 019

Chapter 71: Have you eaten fish?

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“It’s a waterfall!”

“Those people are looking at the waterfall!”

There was a lot of noise on the hillside, and the scene before them frightened many people.

"Is there anything in the waterfall?"

“Maybe they are holding a sacrifice to welcome the water ghost.”

"What water ghost? Are there still ghosts? So scary. Why did I come into a place like this? I just want to go out and buy some fruit. I want to go home..."

"Shut the fuck up!"

Xiangdong roared ferociously, and the girl with big eyes tried hard to hold back her tears.

A suppressed panic hung over the hillside.

Chen Yang looked from this angle and saw that the town was located next to the water. Flocks of birds flew over the mountains and rivers, and a waterfall was embedded in the mountains, rushing down like a white chain.

The water flows into a winding river, and after turning a few bends, the water flow gradually slows down.

The mayor's man stood in the river, looking at the waterfall.

“Wow—”

Countless sand, rocks, fish and shrimps from the mountain were washed down and rushed into the river along with the rapid water flow.

"It moved..."

The lively and cute young man exclaimed: "They moved."

All the people in the river bent down, put their hands in the water, and groped for something.

Xiangdong puffed on the cigarette and squinted his eyes: "Are they..."

The big-eyed girl whimpered and continued: "Catching fish?"

"How is that possible?" said the girl with short blue hair. "This is a quest world. We have to complete quests and fight monsters. Those people in the water are behaving so strangely. How could they be catching..."

Before the last word was uttered, a townsman touched something and threw it onto the shore.

It was a big crucian carp that was jumping around.

The girl with short blue hair: "..."

Others: “…”

"They really are catching fish. I was so scared." The big-eyed girl patted her chest and said, "Fortunately, they are just catching fish."

"Aren't you afraid of catching fish?"

The young man looked down the mountain and said to himself, "I feel like this is exactly why it's so creepy."

There was dead silence all around.

Everyone's mood went from nervous to relaxed, and then back to nervous again.

They all held their breath and craned their necks to look down.

The entire river was filled with people fishing, and probably all the townspeople were there.

The river is not very deep, the deepest part is almost up to the waist, and the shallowest part is just below the ankles.

Children were carrying bamboo baskets of varying sizes, chasing and playing in the flowers in the distance; the adults rolled up their sleeves, some were pulling fishing nets, and some were fishing with their bare hands.

The rippling water reflects the busy people and the misty mountains behind them.

This should have been a noisy harvest scene.

However, there was an awkward solemnity in the air.

The solemnity was carried by wisps of mountain breeze and brought to the crowd on the hillside.

Xiangdong pulled aside the thatch that kept rubbing his thighs and crushed it with his foot: "This mission may be related to catching fish."

Chen Yang sighed: "It's not possible, it's obvious."

"It's over. I don't know how to catch fish." Xiangdong glanced at Chen Yang's hand that was grabbing his head. "You're lucky that you didn't come in when your hand was rotten. Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to catch anything."

Then he spat out two words in disgust: "So ugly."

Chen Yang scratched his slightly long hair. He had been cheated at the bathhouse. He would never forget that feeling. It was worse than death.

He didn't care about the last two words of Xiangdong, and suddenly the other party's curse rang in his ears.

"Fuck, what are you looking at!"

Xiangdong spat fiercely: "It's just that the fingernails haven't grown well, is it so disgusting? If I saw the brain exploding, the skinned body shredded, and the rotting flesh and corpse worms, wouldn't I be..."

"Wow"

The girl with big eyes vomited after hearing this.

Xiangdong met several glances coming towards him, paying special attention to the hottest one, which was a well-known cheongsam girl. He glanced up and down at her, curled his lips, and revealed a bewitching smile on his handsome face.

"Sister, don't be flirty with me, I'm gay, I don't fuck with women."

The charm in the cheongsam woman's eyes suddenly froze.

She changed her stance, with her long white legs under her slit cheongsam facing Chen Yang and Chao Jian...

Young man at the back.

The young man quickly covered his eyes with his hands to avoid looking at the inappropriate things.

The cheongsam girl hit a wall again and again, but she didn't give up. Instead, she quickly adjusted her expression and waved her hand coquettishly: "My last name is Qiao, you can call me Miss Qiao."

Everyone started introducing themselves.

The young man being flirted with by Miss Qiao is called Ge Fei, the girl with short blue hair is Zhu Zhu, and the woman with a melon-seed face next to her is named Xiang.

When Chen Yang heard this, his eyes moved over. It was the second time he heard this surname. The first time was in the rehabilitation center.

"Xiang Zimu, Zi means descendants, Mu means admiration." said the woman with an oval face.

Chen Yang observed that her features were rather dull, and her temperament was intellectual and gentle. She did not look like Xiangyue, the male nurse at the rehabilitation center, so she should not be someone he knew.

While thinking this in his heart, Chen Yang asked aloud: "Ms. Xiang, do you know someone named Xiangyue?"

Xiang Zimu shook his head.

Chen Yang wanted to take a few more looks when his vision suddenly darkened. His iron-gray baseball cap was thrown towards Jian and put on his head. The brim of the cap was pulled down low, blocking his vision.

The episode was thus interrupted.

Chen Yang pushed his hat upwards and asked no more questions.

The boy has a feminine name and the girl has a masculine name, it's just the opposite, what a coincidence.

Chen Yang pinched the brim of his hat and pulled it left and right, blocking the inquiry in his eyes with his hands.

The remaining few people are the repairman Old Wu, the Chinese teacher Teacher Xie, and the students Big Eyes Girl and Curly Hair Qian Han.

When Chen Yang heard the last person's introduction, he blurted out, "Who is Qian Qin to you?"

Qian Han was stunned: "My brother."

Chen Yang thought that since his younger brother still remembered him, it meant that the other party did not die in the next mission world.

Wen Qing treats the task as a game, while Qian Qin treats it as solving an arithmetic problem. He is smart, cold-blooded and rational. He not only wants to get the answer right, but also finds the simplest formula.

He is a tough guy and I might meet him again in the future.

Chen Yang met Qian Han's eyes that seemed to want to ask something but didn't know how to ask, and moved his eyebrows. The older brother had the face of a top student, while the younger brother had the face of a poor student.

"Your brother and I have done the same task." Chen Yang said concisely.

Qian Han blinked: "Ah... Oh, oh oh."

Chen Yang introduced himself and Chao Jian, followed by the painter and Xiang Dong. After this process was completed, the initial information exchanged was that this was Miss Qiao's fourth time doing the task and Teacher Xie's second time.

The others are newcomers.

This time, the twelve people will be divided equally between the experienced and inexperienced.

Chen Yang asked about the task instructions, but no one answered.

"What's going on?"

Xiangdong pointed at everyone with his cigarette between his fingers: "Who the hell is lying? Stand up for me!"

Everyone looked at each other in confusion.

Chen Yang secretly watched their expressions. None of them looked abnormal. It didn't seem like anyone was trying to take advantage of the situation. Could it be that there was no hint this time

He glanced at the townspeople in the river below the mountain, stretched out his hand to pull Chao Jian and turned away from the hillside: "Go into the town first."

Xiangdong's voice came from behind: "Are you still carrying the shopping bags? Just throw them away!"

Chen Yang didn't give up. He put on his backpack, picked up the bags on the left and right, and followed Chao Jian.

"The buildings in the town are very old, but the townspeople dress similarly to us, just in jackets and pants, not long gowns."

Chao Jian walked into the narrow path with crutches and said abruptly, "We bought some underwear."

Chen Yang was stunned for a moment: "Yeah, I bought it."

"The new ones need to be dehydrated. I'll rub them once we're settled in." Chen Yang said as he walked, "There are no outer clothes. I'll see if I can get two sets by then."

In this season, the weather is stuffy and dry, and there are mosquitoes.

After being here for a while, Chen Yang had already received two big red bites on his neck. He raised the hand holding the bag and rubbed his neck with the back of his hand.

"You should have come in later. We were just about to buy toilet water and missed it."

Chao Jian put down his crutches.

Chen Yang asked him what was wrong, and he looked around in silence.

"There," Chao Jian's eyes stopped at a certain position, "get a bag and put some in it."

Chen looked up and gestured to Jian to see where he was. There was a large patch of small flowers, yellow and green. He asked curiously, "What is that?"

"It's for mosquito repellent." Chao Jian said, "It's better to have it than not."

He pointed to another spot and said, "And there's one over there, grab some too."

Chen Yang put down the shopping bag, rummaged through the daily necessities inside, and freed up a bag to pick the plants.

The big-eyed girl who lagged behind called out to Zhuzhu: "What are they doing? Aren't they going into town to complete a mission? Why are they picking flowers?"

Zhuzhu tucked her bright blue hair behind her ears, revealing a row of silver ear clips with five-pointed stars in them. "Maybe it's a mission item?"

"They are not props. They are things that repel mosquitoes. The yellow-green one is tuberose."

Teacher Xie at the side explained: "The orange one is the fly-chasing plum."

As he said this, he went to pull out the weeds.

Qian Han and Ge Fei were with them, as boys were also afraid of being bitten by mosquitoes.

"It's for mosquito repellent? I don't need it because I have this." The girl with big eyes shook her left hand, which had an orange bracelet on her wrist.

Zhuzhu looked at the bracelet and asked, "How long will this last?"

"It's new. I just used it. It will last for two or three days." The big-eyed girl took out a piece of oil-absorbing paper, put it on her shiny nose, and rubbed it. "We should be able to go back tomorrow."

Zhuzhu: “…” Sister, what makes you so naive

She swiped the big-eyed girl's arm with the tip of her index finger: "You have a lot of hair, you can tie a braid into it."

The girl with big eyes smiled embarrassedly.

Zhuzhu discovered a new world. She pointed at the girl with big eyes and said in shock: "You have a beard!"

The big-eyed girl didn't know what to say. Hasn't she seen a girl with high testosterone? She awkwardly changed the topic and said, "Sister Xiang, aren't you going?"

Xiang Zimu seemed to be not used to being addressed so affectionately by a stranger. Her words and actions showed resistance and defense: "I am not the type to attract mosquitoes."

"Well, hello, don't worry, unlike me, I attract mosquitoes."

Miss Qiao came over gracefully. She took out a white handkerchief from her bag and wiped her face and neck lightly: "I can't sleep well in the summer."

The big-eyed girl snorted, "You're attracting mosquitoes and you're not wearing stockings. Your legs are showing so much, and your legs are almost up to your waist." She pointed at the men picking grass and said, "They're all picking grass, you can go too."

Miss Qiao stretched out one leg, her skin was dazzlingly white, and the leather shoes on her feet were bright red. The two colors formed a visual impact that was both pure and enchanting.

"Sister, look at my legs. If I walk into the bushes, will I be able to come out in good shape?"

The big-eyed girl was dumbfounded. How did this lady complete the three tasks? Selling her body? Of course!

There were eight men in their group, one of whom was gay, and the remaining seven...

Oh my God, she's not going to sleep all the time, is she

Miss Qiao looked at the yellow-green flowers and plants and sighed melancholy. She seemed to have made up her mind to move towards that side and bent down to straighten her cheongsam.

The curves of the body are mature and voluptuous.

Old Wu rubbed his rough black hands and stepped forward: "Miss Qiao, I'll go get you some of that grass."

Miss Qiao frowned slightly, "How can I be so embarrassed?"

Old Wu waved his hand: "It's nothing."

"Then I'm sorry to bother you, big brother." Miss Qiao walked closer, clasping her arms across her chest. "This town is so scary. I don't know what to do."

"It's okay, I... we all support each other."

Old Wu smelled the fragrance and didn't know where to look. He rushed into the bushes with drunken steps.

Xiangdong took the last two puffs of his cigarette, broke the butt and threw it on the ground, then put his arm across the painter's shoulders and said, "This time, there's a slutty vixen who got fucked by a man's sperm in our team. You better be careful. You can't handle a round of her like this."

The painter distanced himself from Xiangdong. He tugged at his disposable gloves, took out the spray, and pointed it at the place where the other party had sprayed him, spraying it several times.

Xiangdong was about to curse, but when he looked at the painter's lifeless face, he suddenly thought of something and said something intriguing.

"Brother, I suggest that you use less disinfectant when you are with Chen Yang and his girlfriend, especially in a closed space, otherwise you will regret it."

The painter paused for a moment while collecting the spray: "Why?"

"You'll know if you try it." He walked eastward and waved his hand.

Chen Yang and his group walked through the narrow path into the town, and there was no one in sight anywhere they went.

People in the town are still fishing by the river.

Chen Yang and his friends also walked towards the waterfall. Everything in their sight was filled with the colors of the old times, with a strong flavor of the Republic of China.

This is an ancient town.

There are restaurants, inns, theaters, pawn shops, photo studios, and all kinds of shops.

Zhuzhu muttered, "I think I've been here before."

Everyone stopped.

"This is a mission world, how could you have been here before?" The big-eyed girl's eyes widened, "Aren't you a newcomer?"

Zhuzhu said, “Yes, I am.”

A questioning look fell on Zhuzhu.

Teacher Xie noticed that the atmosphere was not right, and he came out to explain again: "Even the elderly will not enter the same mission site repeatedly."

This statement not only revealed his experience and credibility, but also helped Zhuzhu dispel her doubts in everyone's minds.

Ge Fei's face was covered with colorful grass juice: "Then why does she feel familiar?"

“Maybe it’s in a past life or this life.”

At this moment, a voice as light as water sounded.

Chen Yang looked over and saw that it was Xiang Zimu. She didn't look at Zhuzhu, the person involved, nor did she look at Ge Fei. Her eyes drifted towards the depths of the town: "Sometimes when you go to a place, you feel like you've been there before."

"Oh, oh, there is such a thing. I have encountered it before, more than once." The big-eyed girl suddenly realized, "This is considered a relatively common bizarre phenomenon."

Everyone moved forward again.

Zhuzhu walked and looked along the way, taking photos non-stop with her phone. The trance in her eyes not only did not disappear, but became even stronger: "Do you think it is possible that there is such a town in reality?"

The girl with big eyes said: "It's impossible. Just think about it. If this place existed, it would definitely become a celebrity check-in spot or a TV shooting location. It would be extremely popular."

The trance in Zhuzhu's eyes finally faded: "That's right... You're right."

She took a picture of the small attic, flipped through the photos, and continued taking pictures.

There were more and more fish on the river bank, but the people in the river didn't come up and were still groping in the water.

Everyone was alert to each other. Whenever someone caught a fish, they seemed a little nervous and their eyes would glance over there intentionally or unintentionally.

The person who caught the fish turned his back cautiously, sighed, and threw the fish away.

“Wow!”

Li Erban raised his hand suddenly, and a big silver fish swung its tail and was caught out of the water by him.

At that moment, many vigilant eyes were directed at the second board. He immediately bent down and carefully looked at both sides of the fish body.

The clean and smooth fish scales sparkle in the sun.

Li Erban looked disappointed. He threw the fish onto the shore and didn't care about it anymore.

Everyone was catching fish, throwing fish, catching fish, throwing fish, catching fish... repeating this action over and over again.

They are waiting for something.

A violent wave of water came. It was Zhang Dacheng. His family had been good at casting nets for generations.

Li Erban and everyone looked over quickly and saw a medium-sized net being pulled out of the water by Zhang Dacheng, with seven or eight fish in it.

The other members of the Zhang family quickly surrounded him from different directions and protected Zhang Dacheng to the shore like bodyguards.

There was a commotion in the crowd. Some people wanted to squeeze over to see, but were stopped by the Zhang family.

"one two three… "

After looking at each fish, Zhang Dacheng shook his head in anger and frustration, dragging the net and walking back into the water.

Li Erban looked at the fish that Zhang Dacheng had thrown down, and he breathed a sigh of relief. Just as he was about to bend down to catch some fish...

"Crunch, crunch..." A pungent fishy smell accompanied by chewing sounds came from behind.

“Old man Zhao, you…” Li Erban was stunned.

Old man Zhao's wrinkled face was filled with smiles.

This was a poor old man suffering from a terminal illness. The doctor determined that his life span would not exceed half a year. From then on, he never smiled again. He just silently prepared his coffin in despair.

But now, he was laughing, laughing heartily, like a newborn baby.

"Hahahahahaha—" Old man Zhao's laughter was dry and hoarse. He grinned widely, revealing his few yellow teeth.

Li Erban looked at the situation and his hair stood on end with fear.

Blood was oozing out of Old Man Zhao's mouth. The blood was not from him, but from the half fish in his hand.

He took the fish, put it in his mouth, and chewed it hard, crunching. Several fish bones stuck in his lips, trembling as he chewed.

But he was still laughing: "Erban, look, I don't have to die after all."

He looked at Li Erban with a very happy expression.

"No, no... Wait a minute, whose fish is this?"

Li Erban couldn't control the panic in his heart. His weak legs were shaking and he shouted at the top of his lungs.

"Stop him! Quick! Quick!"

The people around were panicking and wanted to rush over to stop him, but it was too late. They saw Old Man Zhao stuffing the remaining half of the fish into his mouth.

Then he blushed and swallowed it with all his strength.

Everyone froze there, looking at Old Man Zhao with fear in their eyes.

After a long silence, someone couldn't help but shout.

"Did anyone see what was written on that fish?!"

Those with a bad mentality followed suit and shouted: "Did anyone see it?"

After several seconds, a big man sitting in the river made a sound: "He ate the upper body, and I saw a word on the lower body."

"What word?"

"plate!"

The crowd fell silent again, and they all looked at Li Erban.

Li Erban's face was pale and he stared at Old Man Zhao, his eyes bloodshot and full of hatred.

But Old Man Zhao looked at him with a smile, opened his mouth, and said, "Eat it! No more!"

"ah!"

Li Erban cried and yelled, picked up a stone from the water, and staggered towards Old Man Zhao.

When he got in front of him, he raised his arms and smashed the stone at Old Man Zhao madly.

"Bang!"

Blood splattered everywhere, but Old Man Zhao was safe and sound because it was himself that Li Erban hit.

Li Erban looked dazed and his eyes were dull. He seemed not to feel the pain and didn't know that it was himself who was hit. He clenched the stone tightly and kept hitting his head hard.

"Bang, bang, bang"

It just kept hammering away, like it was hammering a stake.

Li Erban smashed his head to pieces again and again.

His body really stood upright in the water like a wooden stake, motionless, except for the blood and white liquid that kept oozing out.

The crowd was terrified. They no longer cared about Old Man Zhao or Li Erban's body.

"Oh my God, it's started again." someone exclaimed.

"I'm still young, I don't want to die!"

"… "

"Stop talking! Catch the fish!"

Everyone stumbled into the river, searching frantically with their hands stuck to the mud.

According to past experience, these named fish appear in groups. As long as one appears, it means they have arrived and there will be more to come.

Zhang Dacheng anxiously threw out the fishing net, feeling extremely nervous.

"Except for Li Erban, everyone else's fish must have arrived..."

"Maybe there will be one for me."

The townspeople all had the same idea, and some even dived into the water to try to see the fish in the water.

However, since the river was not very wide, all the men, women, and children in the town went into the river, and even the children were dragged down by their parents. Now there was a crowd of people, and the scene was in chaos.

Shouts, yells, screams... all mixed together.

Chen Yang and his group came to the river bank several meters high. They looked at everything below with different expressions.

"ah!"

The girl with big eyes pointed at the body in the water and screamed, "Dead, dead, someone is dead!"

Zhuzhu clutched her phone: "We all saw it."

The water was flowing, and the blood was washed downstream and quickly dispersed, leaving only the corpse still standing there.

"The way down is over there." Xiangdong pointed to Chen Yang, "I'll go first."

After he finished speaking, he strode away.

Next came the painter, Ge Fei, Teacher Xie, and Qian Han.

The rest of the people were on shore.

Old Wu and Miss Qiao stood together, and they have been like this since they entered the town.

Zhuzhu hesitated and wanted to go down. She picked up her phone and said, "If I don't go down, I don't know what's in the water."

The girl with big eyes bit her lip: "But there is a body in the river."

Zhuzhu said: "If we can't find any clues, we may all become one of the corpses."

The big-eyed girl panicked, and her eyes, which had been crying before, became red again: "Well, let's go."

Zhuzhu did not act immediately. She looked at the others who had remained silent.

Chen Yang helped Chao Jian sit down slowly: "My brother and I will not go down."

Xiang Zimu said: "I'm afraid of water."

Zhuzhu: “…”

The girl with big eyes pulled her sun protection jacket and mouthed, "I'm pretending."

Zhuzhu didn't say anything. She and the girl with big eyes walked down the stone steps, glancing at Old Wu on the way.

Old Wu felt very uncomfortable with that glance, and he said to the woman beside him, "Miss Qiao, I'll go take a look too."

Miss Qiao pushed her big wavy hair aside, stroked her hair and smiled: "Be careful."

After sending the middle-aged man with a big belly away, Miss Qiao walked over to Xiang Zimu on her red leather shoes, saying, "Ms. Xiang, this mission will require you to go into the water if nothing goes wrong. If you are afraid of water, you will suffer."

"If an enemy comes, we will stop him; if a flood comes, we will block it with earth."

Xiang Zimu's hair is very black and about shoulder length. When the wind blows, her hair flies towards her fair face, like a black and white scroll.

Miss Qiao was much taller than her. She lowered her head slightly and leaned closer to her and said, "Your eyes are very light in color, and your eyebrows are also light. I have seen countless people, but this is the first time I have seen you like this."

Xiang Zimu took a step back: "It's natural."

Miss Qiao smiled, clicked open her small purse, took out a cigarette and a lighter, and casually asked the young man on the ground: "Mr. Chen, were you shopping before you came in?"

Chen Yang glanced at the woman who looked very worldly. She was already on her fourth mission and should not be underestimated.

"Yeah." Chen Yang replied.

Miss Qiao lazily pulled out a cigarette and pursed her red lips: "Your brother doesn't like to talk."

Chen Yang's eyelids twitched.

Chao Jian's eyebrows and eyes were all hidden in the shadow of the brim of his hat, but the hostility in his body could not be concealed.

Chen Yang quickly changed the subject: "I don't know what's going on in the river."

Miss Qiao's words just now seemed to be casually mentioned. When Chen Yang changed the subject, she followed suit and didn't care about his fingers with few nails.

"Can Mr. Chen catch fish?"

Chen Yang said: "It's OK."

It’s fake. He’s not very good. He can always catch a dead fish, but for a live fish... he can only watch the fish slip through his fingers.

Although Chao Jian can now stand on his two legs, he can't stand for long. One minute is already an extraordinary performance. Moreover, his lower body is not stable, so he can't catch any fish. Both of them are doomed this time.

Chen Yang sighed: "Ah."

Chao Jian pulled him closer and whispered impatiently, "Why are you sighing?"

Chen Yang said: "I remember when I was a kid, the river behind my house dried up. The water level was only slightly higher than the shallow water area of the river below. I went fishing with everyone else, but we didn't catch any."

He sneered into Jane's nose: "Normal, you are stupid."

Chen Yang was speechless for a while, and his eyes followed Xiangdong and the others as they reached the river: "If I can't catch him, you can't catch him either. The situation is not optimistic."

He frowned under Jian's hat brim: "Just be honest, everything will be fine."

Chen Yang: “…”

He really didn't understand what he had done to cause the other party to firmly believe that he was dishonest.

Chao Jian rummaged through the shopping bag.

He didn't find what he was looking for, but he poked the contents of the bag out and looked like he was going to smash everything to pieces at any moment.

Chen Yang comforted her softly: "Calm down, tell me what you want and I will find it for you."

Chao Jian held Chen Yang's arm: "Li Ziyuan."

"Well, I put it in my bag. I'll give it to you..."

Just as Chen Yang was about to put the bag on his back onto his legs, Chao Jian grabbed his head, unzipped his bag angrily, took out a drink from it, and drank it.

Chen Yang was stunned. So thirsty

He leaned over to look through his backpack: "There's still a bottle that hasn't been opened. Do you want it?"

Chao Jian suppressed his emotions a little, and knocked the ground with his cane: "Drink tomorrow."

Chen Yang: “…Okay.”

The two women nearby, who had completely opposite styles, witnessed this scene and did not show any strange looks.

Xiang Zimu was the second person in the group to wear long sleeves. The blue striped sleeves wrapped around her slender wrists. She didn't tidy up her messy hair, but just looked at the river below through the gaps between her tangled hair.

Miss Qiao did not utter a word. She crossed her left arm in front of her body with her right elbow resting on it. She held the cigarette between two fingers painted with red nail polish and slowly began to smoke.

Chen Yang smelled the smoke and felt his throat dry and itchy. He picked up a piece of milk and put it in his mouth: "It seems that there are some strange fish among the ordinary fish."

"We need to wait for Xiangdong and his team to find out what kind of anomaly it is. By then, we will also know how the man in the river died."

Chen Yang saw Xiang □□ran take off his flip-flops and jump into the river, and others also jumped into the river like dumplings.

Except for painters with severe mysophobia.

Chen Yang stood up and paid close attention to the movements of the people in the water.

Even from such a distance, Chen Yang could tell that Xiangdong was cursing. He couldn't catch any fish, so he looked for something. He snatched a townsman's small net and threw it into the water with awkward movements.

If I put them away randomly, there would not be a single one left.

The corners of Chen Yang's mouth kept twitching. Xiangdong was actually even weaker than him. Then who among their group could fight against the townspeople

You can’t always…

"Got it, got it, got it!"

Chen Yang heard the big-eyed girl's vague cry of surprise, and he followed the sound to search. Old Wu and Ge Fei held on steadily, and Teacher Xie also caught one.

Fortunately, there is someone powerful, Chen Yang breathed a sigh of relief.

The river bank was filled with the smell of perfume and cigarettes, and the atmosphere was nice.

Here's another picture.

The townspeople had no time to look at the outsiders; they seemed to be racing against time with the King of Hell.

Although fish were being caught and brought ashore all the time, and the piles were getting bigger and bigger, none of the fish had names on them.

How to find the name of the fish

Obviously, Old Man Zhao got one, but where are the others? Did someone catch them and hide them away without saying anything

Everyone slowed down their fishing movements, looking around with suspicious eyes, as if something was about to explode.

"Folks—"

A middle-aged man in a blue cloth jacket with a pen on his chest ran over from a distance in a panic. He stood on the river bank, looking at the chaotic crowd with an extremely anxious expression.

The middle-aged man is called Gao Degui, and he is the mayor of Lanshi Town.

"My fellow villagers, listen to me! Stop robbing!" Gao Degui shouted loudly.

"Snatching the life of an elder is disloyalty..."

"It is unjust to rob one's peers of their lives...!"

"If a person is unfaithful and unrighteous, no matter how long his life is, he will be struck by lightning!"