Chapter 8 Fully Prepared

Ye Chen pondered for a moment, then said, "Within two hours, I will catch a behemoth weighing over 100 pounds."

"If I fail to do so, not only will the previous bet be null and void, but I'll also give you that carbon fiber fishing rod. What do you think?"

"Holy moly! A behemoth over 100 pounds? Are you joking?" Old Liao's eyes lit up with fervor.

He licked his lips and continued asking, "And what if you fail to catch it?"

Ye Chen scratched his head and said, "Let me think..."

"When I come to fish, I need to prepare the fishing spot, organize my gear, and make fishing bait; it's quite exhausting."

"If I don't manage to catch it, you'll let your granddaughter be my assistant for a week, helping me out with various tasks."

"This..." Old Liao hesitated from the side.

"Holy moly!" After Old Liao processed it, he became infuriated: "I saw through your little scheme a long time ago!"

"You're really pushing your luck! Wanting my granddaughter's phone number is one thing, but now you actually want her to be your assistant?"

"I don't even get such treatment, and you're dreaming!"

Ye Chen, watching Old Liao brimming with righteous indignation, didn't know what to say for a moment.

But the next second, Old Liao waved his hand grandly: "Raise the stakes, raise the stakes!"

Seeing the confused look on Ye Chen's face, Old Liao coughed awkwardly and explained, "Wait, that's not right..."

"I mean you need to raise the stakes with your fishing rods!"

"The previous carbon fiber fishing rod isn't enough; you have to include that peach wood fishing rod you've blessed too!"

Ye Chen's eyes twitched fiercely, pretending to be hesitant, then finally nodded, "Okay!"

Old Liao couldn't stop grinning, stood up and laughed heartily: "Hahaha, Ye Chen, Ye Chen, you're definitely going to crash and burn this time!"

"Did everyone hear that?"

"Teacher Ye is betting with me that he can catch a behemoth weighing over 100 pounds within three hours!"

It seemed that as long as Air Force Commander Ye Chen was fishing together, there would never be a dull moment.

The crowd of fishermen around immediately burst into laughter, completely disregarding their previous fears.

"They say you can't catch a tiger cub without entering the tiger's den. Old Liao, you're risking your granddaughter for the sake of that fishing rod!"

"Old Liao, you'd better be careful, Teacher Ye's fishing rod has just been blessed, who knows if he'll catch you a carp weighing over 100 pounds any minute now!"

"Ha ha, Old Liao, if someone takes advantage of your granddaughter, you'll be so regretful you'll turn green."

...

Hearing the crowd's teasing, Ye Chen scoffed.

Although they talked big, in reality, not a single one of them believed he could catch a behemoth over 100 pounds.

In that case, they would see the outcome in two hours!

By then, he would surely astonish everyone!

To catch a behemoth weighing over 100 pounds, Ye Chen specifically used a 7.2-meter ultra-long fishing rod, coupled with the highly pressure-resistant no. 3 fishing line, and the hook he used was the no. 12 ultra-big fish hook.

Of course, Ye Chen did not forget to use duck blood as fishing bait.

After getting everything ready, he hung the bait on the hook and, witnessed by the riverside fishermen and the streamer's audience, he cast out the line.

"Let's go!!!"

Although the system's prompt said that it would take an hour and fifty minutes to catch the behemoth.

With the system and Ye Chen's power to ward off evil and suppress malevolence.

Fishing with a blessed rod, Ye Chen believed that the next catch would surely be bountiful.

At the very least, before catching the behemoth, he should be able to catch seven or eight fish, right?

While keeping an eye on the fishing float, Ye Chen glanced at his phone and saw that almost all the barrage comments in the live stream room were teasing him.

However, Ye Chen noticed that the number of people in his live stream room had risen from around a hundred to six or seven hundred.

"Did I hear that the streamer just caught a rotten fish? And he's not running away with his bucket? That's just too reckless!"

"What are we looking at here, not a fisherman but probably a Taoist priest!"

"Teacher Ye, the video of you performing rituals by the river will definitely go viral tomorrow, haha!"

"I don't think just performing rituals by the river will get you viral, but if Teacher Ye can actually catch a monster that weighs a hundred pounds, that'll definitely do it!"

"Teacher Ye, you're getting too cocky, never having caught even a fry, and now you're going straight for a hundred-pound monster?"

"Teacher Ye, there's a local fishing competition coming up, with your kind of prowess, aren't you going to participate?"

"I think Teacher Ye definitely should go, after all, there will be quite a few famous names from the angling world at this wild fishing competition, Teacher Ye would crush them, right?"

"I can't watch this, Teacher Ye is just having an off day and not catching fish, always just an air force, right? If you can't stand it, don't swipe away, just give him a roast and be done!"

...

Looking at the barrage in the live stream room, Ye Chen wore a wry smile.

He snorted, and said in all seriousness: "Who's calling me air force commander? I'm no air force commander, alright? Didn't I just catch a fish?"

The audience in the live stream room was speechless.

"What fish? That's a rotten fish, a stinky fish, a dead fish, alright?"

"How does a rotten fish count as a fish? If you count rotten fish, you might as well hang two strips of salted fish on the rod instead!"

"How about a live fish, Teacher Ye Chen? Do you dare to catch a live one?"

Ye Chen scoffed and declared: "Fine, that rotten fish didn't count!"

"In two hours, keep your eyes peeled, I'll show you what a real monster looks like!"

"Not only will it be over a hundred pounds, but its worth will also be over..."

Having said that, Ye Chen gestured a six with his hand towards the phone's camera.

"Worth over six yuan?"

"Six yuan? Bro upstairs, you're overestimating Teacher Ye, I'll give you a figure...sixty cents!"

"Teacher Ye really is getting swollen-headed, haha!"

Ye Chen rolled his eyes at the camera, saying with disdain: "You guys are so clueless, what I meant was its value will be at least in the six figures!"

Old Liao, standing nearby, fell into deep thought upon hearing what Ye Chen said.

A monster over a hundred pounds in weight, and its value exceeding six figures.

Six figures... one, ten, hundred, thousand, ten thousand...a hundred thousand???

What kind of monster is this, that it could be worth a figure in the hundred thousands?

Looking at the urn beside Ye Chen's feet, Old Liao felt a chill in his heart.

However, soon his fishing float stirred in the distance.

Old Liao shouted in excitement.

"Got a bite!"

Then, he focused his attention on his own fishing rod.

...

I don't know if it's an illusion or if it really has to do with Ye Chen performing rituals, but tonight, the bite at Jiang City River was exceptionally good.

The old-timers, who usually could only catch a few small crucian carp, were also occasionally hooking several pound-heavy carps, enjoying the thrill of rod-pulling, line-yanking, and fish-surfing.