Chapter 137 Killing Fish for Merit
In the water, the blue ball bounced out from the mud and was caught by Liang Qu.
The bitten water beast swung its body wildly, and the stirred up water flow was like a water whip, cutting off the water plants several meters away out of thin air.
This is a water beast with a long snout, as sharp as a sword, sharp teeth in its mouth, hard scales on its body, and it is strong and powerful.
When the water beast saw Liang Qu in the water, its eyes turned white and bloodshot, and it swung its tail and rushed to him.
Liang Qu stretched out his hand and an endless stream of water rolled in. Several cubic meters of space froze, imprisoning the attacking water beast in place, as if it were in slow motion. It became extremely difficult for it to swim in the water, and even breathing was extremely difficult.
Water dungeon.
This trick is extremely useful against water beasts that are similar to or weaker than one's own strength. Before Liang Qu's physical strength is exhausted, the resistance of the water beasts' swimming is no different from that of mud.
Liang Qu grabbed the rope around Yuantou's body and left quickly, freeing himself from the restraints in a few breaths. When the water beast approached again, another water prison was launched.
Alternating relaxation and tension can effectively save physical energy.
After this happened several times, the water beast became like an old CD full of scratches, and it played extremely laggyly.
Awei's venom quickly worked in the water beast's body, and the water beast gradually became weak.
Liang Qu felt this clearly. At first, the water beast could still move slowly in the water prison, but after twenty breaths it could not move anymore, and in less than thirty breaths it fell into the mud.
Liang Qu stood there and waited for a while, about sixty breaths, and then stepped forward after about three minutes.
The water beast was still alive, and the water sprayed from its breathing room stirred up the mud, but its whole body was paralyzed and it had no strength to move at all.
The water gushing out from under the gill cover became weaker and weaker, and the distance that the sand and dust could be raised was soon less than a few inches. Liang Qu came over and shot the water beast in the neck, ending its life completely.
Blood gushed out, and Awei lay on the wound, sucking the blood in big gulps, absorbing the essence of the water.
Liang Qu's own strength actually exceeds that of the water beast. He is completely capable of killing it by force. However, in many cases, just spending a little more time can still solve the problem without any injury, so there is no need to kill it by force.
Leaving a piece of fish belly meat, cutting off the head, Liang Qu took the head back to the boat.
There were already two heads of similar size on the new boat. This was the third water beast Liang Qu had killed today.
Even if He Bo is a horse-riding warrior, it is not as easy for him to kill water beasts.
Use perception to find water beasts, and use water prison to control water beasts. Its own presence in the water is very low.
After a series of combined punches, the water beast had no way to escape, and it even lost the advantage of breathing and swimming in water.
Liang Qu can breathe and swim better than water beasts, and he has a group of helpers.
The venom injected by Awei alone is enough to make them suffer. If we pull them a few times and delay the time, we can win without bloodshed.
However, because it is not so easy for others to kill water monsters, in Heboso, killing a small monster can be considered a small merit.
There are a lot of good things on the list that can be exchanged, at least I can save most of the money on medicinal materials in the future.
Liang Qu placed the fish head in place, cleared space, and went into the water again.
The starry sky is bright, and the waning moon casts a long and narrow strip of light on the river.
The Jianghuai and Huaihe Rivers are thousands of miles long. It is unrealistic to expand the fishermen's fishing range without completely killing all the aquatic animals.
You only need to clean up a batch of them regularly, and the remaining water beasts will know that this place is dangerous and they will gradually stop coming.
Just like a tiger has its territory, other wild animals will not easily approach unless they are extremely hungry.
In the vicinity of the entire Pingyang County, Heboso is like this ferocious tiger. What it needs to do is to spread its power and tell the water beasts of its existence.
Once the water beasts give up their positions, you will only need to conduct regular inspections every month, and the task will be much easier.
They worked until midnight, and five fish heads were neatly stacked on the boat, with the broken sides facing downwards and the fish mouths facing the sky, looking up at the starry sky, each in a different shape.
Liang Qu grilled the fish belly meat, and after eating, he rowed to the pier to report.
As a result, before he reached the ship, he saw a figure sitting on a narrow wooden boat, fishing with a fishing rod in his hand.
It was too far away, and the moon was too small at the beginning of the month. It was just a blurry silhouette in the darkness, but Liang Qu had a very familiar feeling about it.
It's already midnight.
He rowed closer quietly, and it was exactly as he thought. "Master Xu, are you still fishing so late?" Liang Qu whispered.
"Shh!" Xu Yuelong raised a finger.
Liang Qu said nothing more and watched Xu Yuelong operate quietly.
In his perception, there were indeed a few fish surrounding the bait, but none of them took the bait. They just sucked the bait and left, causing the float to vibrate continuously and create slight ripples.
Xu Yuelong was fully focused, all his muscles tensed, and just when the float was halfway sunk, he suddenly raised his wrist.
The air was sucked out with a sharp whistle by the fishing rod. Liang Qu lowered his head suddenly. The steel fishhook flew past his eyes and hooked the fish head on his boat, leaving a long and narrow gap and even cracking the fish bones inside.
Liang Qu's pupils shrank sharply.
Killer fish hook!
He bet that if this blow hit someone, it would break the person in half.
Don’t even mention that the fish didn’t bite the hook just now. Even if it did bite, the force would have torn the fish’s mouth open, making it impossible to catch it!
"oops!"
The fishhook was empty, and Xu Yuelong was so angry that he slapped the water surface. The force was so great that it penetrated the water layer. The water flow turned into a giant pillar and stabbed down, knocking out the black fish dozens of meters below. The black fish slowly floated to the surface with its white belly showing.
"Hey! Fish!"
Xu Yuelong lowered his head, very surprised by the sudden appearance of the fish, he picked it up and swung it.
"Six taels! Not bad, not bad."
Xu Yuelong happily threw the fish into the basket, then turned to look at Liang Qu, a little surprised: "A Shui? When did you come?"
Liang Qu, who witnessed the whole process, was speechless.
Xu Yuelong slapped his forehead and then remembered: "Look at me, I was too focused and didn't notice it. Sorry, sorry, you don't know, fishing is something that requires full concentration."
After chatting for a while, Xu Yuelong asked, "By the way, what are you doing so late?"
"I am the River God now, so of course my job is to clean up the water beasts." Liang Qu pointed at the five big heads on his boat.
"Five. That's a lot? You caught them all? In one night?"
Xu Yuelong looked Liang Qu up and down.
You are not mistaken, this is the aura strength of a warrior at the third level.
Even though Liang Qu was born with strong martial arts and was taught by Yang Dongxiong, his martial arts skills would not be too bad, but they were only about the initial stage of a galloping horse.
How can you kill five water beasts in one night?
Not to mention killing, just finding him is a problem.
Liang Qu bowed and said, "Lord Xu, you may not know that I grew up on the water. Although I am not a boatman, I can be considered half a boatman. Going into the water and fighting with fish is what I am best at."
Tanka people are the inhabitants of the water. In Dashun, they are usually criminals. They are not allowed to go ashore or take imperial examinations for their entire lives and have to rely entirely on the water for their living.
In comparison, the status of fishermen is higher.
Despite this explanation, Xu Yuelong was still puzzled.
Normally speaking, if a warrior at the initial stage of the Galloping Horse Realm could kill two water beasts in one night, it could be considered as good luck, as water beasts are too slippery.
After much thought, he could only attribute it to Liang Qu's affinity for water.
"You are going to exchange it for military merit, take this." Xu Yuelong took off his badge and threw it to Liang Qu. "Show my badge to the chief clerk, and you won't need three extra colleagues to witness it. Just give him the fish head. Okay, go ahead. I'll fish for a while. Remember to return it to me later."
"Thank you, Master Xu."
Liang Qu bowed, rowed to the bottom of the boat, carried the five fish heads onto the boat, and found the chief clerk on duty in the filing room.
After looking at the fish head and the badge, the chief clerk felt a little surprised, but he still picked up a brush to record the military achievements and took out a booklet from the bottom drawer.
"Small merit exchange book, Sir Liang, please see if there is anything you want."
(End of this chapter)
