The Game with Fairies-Chapter 282 - Hardcore Gaming
Chapter 282: Hardcore Gaming
“True Dragon Bloodline? Control the flow of water?”
Seeing this skill description, Li Muyang’s heart stirred slightly.
This was the only skill he currently possessed.
As Li Muyang used the skill, he seemed to enter a mysterious state in an instant, faintly sensing the water in the barrel pulsating.
The water in the barrel seemed to become part of his body.
With a thought from Li Muyang, a column of water shot out violently from the barrel.
Amidst the sound of splashing water, the three fishermen surrounding the barrel were startled.
“What fell in there?”
“Why did water suddenly shoot up?”
The fishermen hurriedly looked down, thinking something had fallen into the barrel.
But after the water in the barrel calmed down, they saw no foreign objects, only the half-dead Flood Dragon.
The three fishermen looked surprised.
“What’s going on?”
“Could it be that water snake did it?”
“Shh... what water snake? This is the legendary Flood Dragon!”
“Right, right, right, it’s the Flood Dragon. We can make a fortune selling it in town.”
“But will this Flood Dragon last until we get back? It looks like it’s about to die.”
Amidst the fishermen’s discussion, the Flood Dragon in the barrel suddenly flipped over, belly up, and floated motionless on the water’s surface, completely still.
“...”
“...”
Seeing this, the fishermen were all stunned.
The other two glared at the last one who spoke: “Wy do you jinx it!”
“How come it dies just as you say it will?”
“We could have sold it for more if it was alive!”
The reproached fisherman looked aggrieved: “It wanted to die on its own, what does that have to do with me?”
The fishermen circled the barrel for a while longer and, seeing that the pure white Flood Dragon indeed showed no signs of life, not even moving its eyes.
One of them who was braver poked it with a stick.
“Let’s see if it’s really dead.”
“Shh... be careful, it might bite you if it’s not completely dead.”
“This thing might be highly poisonous...”
All three stepped back cautiously until the brave fisherman lifted the Flood Dragon out of the water with the stick.
The Flood Dragon hung limply on the stick, clearly lifeless.
The other fishermen poked at the Flood Dragon’s body with their sticks, but it showed no reaction.
After a long period of testing, all three were disappointed.
“It’s really dead...”
“Ah... it would have been better if I poked it off-center, that looks like its vital spot.”
“Flood Dragons have a vital spot?”
“I heard Flood Dragons evolved from snakes, they must have a vital spot.”
The three men tossed the dead Flood Dragon back into the barrel, disheartened, and dispersed.
“Let’s pack up and head back. We need to sell this thing quickly. We might all make a good sum of money.”
The fishermen began to collect their nets, preparing to return to shore.
The unexpectedly captured Flood Dragon was dead, and they needed to sell it quickly in town before it started to stink and lost its value.
While the fishermen were busy with their gear, the dead Flood Dragon was carelessly thrown into the barrel, no longer of concern to them.
On the fishing boat, the three men got busy. But shortly after they all turned their backs, the water in the not-so-large barrel began to silently climb up one side of the barrel wall.
Eventually, all the water in the barrel and the Flood Dragon inside defied all logic and clung to one side of the barrel.
The imbalance of weight caused the barrel to topple over with a crash, and the water surged out with great force.
And the Flood Dragon, which was supposed to be dead, now rushed towards the deck side with the surging water.
The nearest fisherman saw this and was shocked.
“That beast isn’t dead!”
The fisherman hastily reached for the harpoon.
But the current from the barrel was too swift.
Just as the fisherman picked up the harpoon nearby, the Flood Dragon had already been swept into the river below by the force of the water.
The splash as it hit the water was piercingly loud, and all three fishermen on the boat panicked.
“This damn beast is playing dead!”
“Cast the net! Hurry, cast the net and haul it back in!”
“Second brother, I’ll jump in and catch it!”
The boldest of the fishermen, fuming with anger, stripped off his shirt.
But the one called second brother quickly stopped him: “Don’t be rash! If that thing bites you, you won’t be able to handle it!”
The three kept casting their nets, trying to fish the Flood Dragon out of the river.
Unfortunately, the river was too turbulent, and the Flood Dragon disappeared without a trace, never to be caught by the fishermen again.
Meanwhile, in the chilly rushing river water, Li Muyang was swimming through the riverbed non-stop.
The fishing nets scattered in the water above him, but he swam vigorously, leaving the nets far behind.
After swimming a good distance away, and not until the system prompt 【Task Complete】 popped up in his field of vision, did Li Muyang finally breathe a sigh of relief.
He hid among the riverbed’s aquatic plants, feeling his weak and exhausted body, and shook his head.
“This start is just too miserable.”
The realism in this game was cranked to the max.
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Not only was there a sensation of pain but there was also a stamina bar.
After opening the character interface, in addition to the usual game parameters like strength and agility, there were many other complex parameters.
Hunger level, endurance, hydration, injuries...
The complex parameters dazzled Li Muyang.
This game is too hardcore.
With such intricate game values, there was much more to consider.
Even within the hunting option, there were many categories of food, with different foods providing different nutrients.
Li Muyang lay among the aquatic plants and rested for a while before he saw the stamina bar, which had been depleted during his escape, slowly refill.
However, the blood bar of the Moon-Biting Dragon had a small segment missing, and there was a 【Wound】 DEBUFF continuously draining blood.
Opening the character card, he could see that the neck area of the Moon-Biting Dragon on the character interface was red, indicating a wound.
But there was also a BUFF 【Digesting...】 on the character interface.
This BUFF was slowly healing Li Muyang.
Although the healing was slow, it barely balanced out the blood loss from the 【Wound】 DEBUFF, slowing down the rate at which the blood bar decreased.
“Looks like I need to eat and digest more?”
Li Muyang opened the character interface and began to look through the various prey cards in the hunting options.
Among these prey cards, there were fish from the river as well as small animals from the mountains, with different prey even divided into different grades.
The lowest grade was the white card, which included common animals.
Next were the blue cards, which were rarer.
Only a few animals were blue cards, all rare creatures from the mountains and waters.
It seemed that rarity was valued in this hunting menu?
Moreover, the nutrition and system values provided by mountain animals were higher than those of aquatic animals of the same level.
However, considering his current weakened state and the special divine power of the True Dragon bloodline to control water, Li Muyang gave up on hunting on land.
He started swimming along the aquatic plants, silently searching for schools of fish in the river.
He had a big advantage in water combat, so there was no need to go ashore specifically.
