130: Chapter 130 Bloodworms as a Lure, A Phantom in the Fish's Belly!

"Eating it can increase your Constitution attribute!"

Fan Sinian rushed forward, his eyes nearly popping out of their sockets.

The crowd of onlookers instantly erupted, with gasps of astonishment rising one after another.

Photos and descriptions of the fish quickly circulated in the chat channel.

A few seconds later, cursing could be heard from the roofs of distant carriages, but no one dared to come over.

Lin Xiao merely glanced at the fish indifferently and continued to take out blood worms.

The second, the third...

Hooks baited with blood worms entered the water one after another.

Violet Grouper, Deep-sea Dragon Grouper, Fluorescent Squid King...

Lin Xiao cast his line four more times, and every fish he reeled in was of purple quality, each with special effects.

The gasps from the onlookers came in waves.

The number of people gathering grew, and at a glance, the roof of Carriage 7 was packed with people.

At this point, Fan Sinian's jaw was hanging open: "Brother Lin is too awesome, could it be that he's poked into a giant fish nest?"

Fang Yuan and the others joined in, cheering and chiming in.

Looking across the entire train, only their big brother had such strength; other carriages were still fighting tooth and nail over a few small fish!

However, there wasn't much joy on Lin Xiao's face.

He had used five blood worms, and everything caught was of purple quality.

While purple-quality fish were indeed precious, compared to what he had invested, it clearly wasn't good enough.

He wanted far more than this!

Lin Xiao took out a blood worm and baited the hook again.

After observing the movement on the sea surface, he cast his line for the sixth time.

This time, he aimed at a giant whirlpool in the distance, with an estimated diameter of over twenty meters.

The golden light was even more intense.

However, as the train slowly moved forward hundreds of meters, the whirlpool was gradually left behind, yet the fishing line remained completely still.

Lin Xiao frowned and reeled in the rod.

But he suddenly discovered that the blood worm was gone.

It had been eaten!

He was silent for a moment, then took out the seventh blood worm.

He cast the line.

This time, in less than ten seconds, the fishing rod suddenly sank.

The force was heavier than any time before, so heavy that even Lin Xiao felt some strain.

"Brother Lin, tire it out! Don't just pull!" Shangguan Yunli hurriedly reminded him.

But it was too late.

That force gave a violent tug.

Lin Xiao's expression darkened; he took a heavy step forward and then exerted force with both arms.

"Splash!"

A black shadow broke through the water from beneath the sea.

It didn't leap out, but was forcefully dragged out and slammed onto the iron plate of the carriage roof.

It was a lump of black object covered in silt, less than two meters long, thick at one end and thin at the other.

Fan Sinian was gnawing on a fragrant grilled fish; seeing that Lin Xiao had caught another fish, he hurried over to watch the excitement.

But after seeing the thing on the ground clearly, his movements instantly stopped.

He forgot to swallow the fish meat in his mouth, just holding it there, his whole body frozen as if pinned in place.

"Damn..."

The sound squeezed out from his throat, "How the hell is it..."

Because everyone had seen clearly what it was.

A military body bag covered in silt.

The silt on the surface of the bag slid off, revealing the tarpaulin underneath, the zipper, and the faintly visible outline of a human body.

There were a few lines of blurred text on the bag:

[... Frigate]

[Private...]

[April 4, 1912 ... Shipwreck...]

The carriage roof was deathly silent.

Only the sea breeze wailed as it swept past, carrying a bone-chilling cold.

Lin Xiao clutched the fishing rod, standing in place, his gaze landing on that body bag.

He suddenly remembered that sentence in the description of the [Basic Fishing Rod].

"Please choose the appropriate bait according to the fishing environment; there will be unexpected surprises~"

Translate, translate, what is called a surprise?

What the hell is a hell of a surprise?

Feeling depressed, Lin Xiao stepped forward, waved his left hand, and three sharp steel blades sliced open the body bag.

A skeleton rolled out.

The bones had turned black, and there were fine bite marks on some of them.

The remaining fragments of clothing could vaguely be identified as the style of a military uniform.

Double-breasted buttons, with rusted metal fragments remaining at the epaulette position.

Fan Sinian took two steps back, his face deathly pale.

Fang Yuan leaned in to check the writing on the bag: "1912? A corpse from over a hundred years ago?"

Lin Xiao also noticed this date, immediately frowning, and turned to look at Jiang Wanwan, who was standing to the side observing.

Jiang Wanwan nodded slightly, seemingly having the same thought as him.

The newspaper found earlier in Harbor Town was dated 1915.

Could there be any connection between the two?

Fang Yuan and Xu Shan had always been bold, so they squatted down directly to examine the mysterious corpse.

Zhou Jun was patting Fan Sinian's back from the side: "I told you not to eat so much, are you choking?"

Fan Sinian tried hard not to vomit, but his face was frighteningly green.

Lin Xiao glanced at the skeleton and took out another blood worm.

The eighth one.

Bait the hook, cast the rod!

Don't know what kind of curse he was under, but what he caught this time was still a corpse.

A corpse without a body bag.

Everything below the waist was gone, and the ribs were covered in tooth marks, as if chewed on by something.

Again!

Lin Xiao cast the ninth rod.

And this time it was equally heavy; after a struggle, a lump of flesh quickly broke through the water.

The onlookers saw this scene and immediately took a big step back.

The thing that landed right at Lin Xiao's feet was grayish-white all over, with tentacles resembling human fingers growing on its surface.

As the tentacles slowly opened, a swollen, pale human face was revealed.

That face opened a mouth without teeth or a tongue, letting out a shrill scream.

This is a Calamity Creatures!

Lin Xiao reacted extremely quickly and slashed down with his axe.

The corpse of the Calamity Creatures was slowly swallowed by the carriage floor, and two fat sea fish that had been gnawing on the tentacles fell out from the folds of the meatball.

Fan Sinian looked at those two fish, then at the golden grilled fish in his hand, his stomach churning.

"The fish in this sea area..." Xu Shan's voice came eerily, "They wouldn't all have grown up eating corpses, would they?"

Hearing this, Fan Sinian could no longer hold it in; he leaned directly over the edge of the carriage roof and started chumming.

Zhou Jun patted his back while covering his mouth and nose: "Oh, just say less, Brother Fan just ate quite a bit..."

Lin Xiao ignored the chaos behind him.

His gaze landed on the sea surface.

Because at some unknown time, a small whirlpool glowing with red light had appeared in front of the train on the right.

The red light was so intense that it looked like someone had spilled a basin of blood.

As it happened, there was one last blood worm left in the glass jar.

Lin Xiao poured out the last blood worm and baited the hook.

He cast the rod.

The fishing line fell into the red whirlpool.

This time, no more than three or five seconds after the blood worm sank into the seawater, he felt his wrist sink, and the fishing rod instantly bent into an exaggerated arc.

The carbon rod body creaked, likely having reached its limit.

Beneath the sea, a huge shadow gradually emerged.

That thing was bigger than any previous fish, at least three meters long, with a bloated outline.

Lin Xiao exerted force with both arms, intending to rely on the powerful strength brought by his 38 points of Constitution attribute to drag it up by force.

But just as everyone was eagerly watching, the fishing rod snapped with a "pop."

The rod split from the middle, the fishing line instantly went slack, and that huge shadow, flicking its tail, was about to sink into the deep sea.

Lin Xiao quickly put away the rod wreckage, his left hand lunged out, and shadow energy burst out.

"You ate two of my blood worms and still want to run?"

He gave a violent tug with his left hand.

[Death Grip] was much more fierce than the fishing rod.

That huge shadow broke through the water, bringing up monstrous waves, and slammed down onto the carriage roof with a crash.

It was an incredibly ugly fish.

Its grayish-brown skin was covered in wart-like protrusions.

Its head was huge, and inside its open mouth were dense rows of barb-like teeth.

What was most bizarre was that it had several pairs of limbs growing on both sides of its body.

They were like human palms, with distinct fingers, but with webbing between them.

"What, what is this thing?" Fang Yuan immediately took out his horse-slaying saber and struck an attacking pose.

Those onlookers took another big step back.

"An anglerfish?" Xu Shan walked up and took a look, saying uncertainly, "But how would an anglerfish have hands..."

"It's not a Calamity Creatures either!" Lin Xiao examined it carefully, his gaze finally landing on its bloated fish belly.

Inside it, there was a clear handprint shape, pushing from the inside out.

Once, twice, three times...

That handprint became clearer and clearer, the skin of the belly was stretched until it was transparent, and a curled human outline could faintly be seen.

Wen Yiran, standing behind, let out a scream, and Jiang Wanwan immediately took hold of her grimoire, quickly shielding both women behind her.

It wasn't just the female onlookers; quite a few grown men were also scared enough to wet their pants.

Especially Fan Sinian; this guy had just finished vomiting, and turning his head to see this scene, his body trembled directly, and he began to babble incoherently: "Holy crap, holy crap, holy crap, holy crap..."

But fear was fear, he still forced himself to crawl up from the ground, raised his shield, and tremblingly protected Lin Xiao's side.

The others also gathered around.

As long as their big brother gave the order, the fish in front of them could be minced into meat paste by everyone in less than a minute.

And Lin Xiao, standing at the very front, merely frowned.

He did not hesitate, swung the calamity bane, and slashed down with an axe.

The axe blade easily sliced open the fish belly, and foul-smelling organs spilled all over the ground.

A grayish-white stomach sac rolled out from inside.

The stomach sac was swollen like a balloon, and the clear outlines of limbs could be seen on the surface, and it was still moving.

Lin Xiao walked forward, flicked his left hand, and the steel blade sliced open the tough stomach wall.

A beautiful figure covered in foul-smelling mucus was exposed to the air.

It was a woman.

No, not an ordinary woman.

She had long, wet silver-blue hair, skin so pale it was almost transparent, and one could faintly see tiny scales emitting a golden halo.

Her features were so exquisite they didn't seem human, with a high bridge of the nose, full lips, and a pair of tightly closed eyes.

Most bizarre of all were her ears; they weren't human ears, but two thin, cicada-wing-like fin structures, which were currently trembling slightly.

She was wearing a tattered gauze dress, which had been mostly corroded by stomach acid, revealing large patches of snow-white skin.

Her figure was extremely graceful, especially below the waistline, those slender legs curled together...

The carriage roof was in an uproar.

The chat channel also exploded the instant they saw the photo.

Lin Xiao suppressed the shock in his heart, his gaze slightly focused.

An information panel appeared above the woman's head:

[Merfolk Kingdom · Mermaid Princess: Princess Xiyao]

[Rating: Unknown]

[Number: Unknown]

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