Chapter 313 Skills to Win Girlss Liking (1/2)

In actual fact, the Fishing Festival was not organized by Poseidon, but his daughter, the Mermaid Princess Herya. The young mermaid liked to play, but—just take a look, the figures who lived at the Poseidon Shrine, were they the kind to play around? They were either Sea Gods or relatives of Sea Gods. Even the guards, who worked at the Shrine, would be at least Bosses of Level 100 or above.

When NPCs reached levels of a certain height, the passing of time for them would be somewhat negligible. While the older generation stood firm by the notion 'the passing time is naught compared to that single moment of achieving great wisdom,' the energetic young Mermaid Princess was, of course, bored to death. She craved for companion, and thus secretly made use of her father's name to organize the Fishing Festival, so as to invite more players to play with her.

In the final round, the most important thing was not to fish, but to find the things which the Mermaid Princess was fond of, and please her with them! As long as one found items that the Mermaid Princess liked and kept them in their backpack, it would mean that they were trying to please her. The Mermaid Princess would then award them with a lot of points.

Wasn't this a way better shortcut method than fishing diligently?

However, this girl's likings varied a lot, and it would often change suddenly. In Lin Jie's previous life, there had been an unlucky player who had miraculously gotten an almost Level 100 Superb Pearl when he had just entered the final round! Yet, the reason why was considered unlucky was that he had been rewarded with only 100 points for it. Yet someone else, who had managed to catch a useless, only-for-viewing ”Luminous Crab”, had been awarded thousands of points!

Lin Jie vaguely remembered that some players had posted a popular post in the forum to diss the Mermaid Princess for her disgusting habits. The post had been returned with loads of ”Haha -.-” replies. Lin Jie had contributed to it too.

'For the first 10 minutes, she liked green corals. That player who got the Superb Pearl was really unlucky, if only he had gotten it a few minutes later, I guess his points would have reached thousands in no time…' mused Lin Jie as he recalled what had happened.

”Bu Yi, you take this.” Lin Jie took out a few Air Pouches and passed them to Bu Yi. Meanwhile, he instructed her, ”These will allow you to breathe underwater, but just for 15 minutes. Now we need to go underwater and look around for green corals.”

”Alright!” Bu Yi did not question Lin Jie's words at all. She turned and dived into the sea, swimming towards the seabed. Her absolute trust in him made Lin Jie feel snug.

”Oh yeah, no matter what we find later, you just take it as your own,” said Lin Jie after much pondering. ”This time, it's better for you to be the champion.”

Bu Yi said in a hesitant manner, ”Aye, but the final reward is an Epic Gift Bag…”

”No worries about that, I have my own considerations. In any case, I don't really care for that gift bag.” Lin Jie shrugged, and both of them dived deeper towards the seabed.

The underwater world of The New Age was very scenic, and even more spectacular than that of the real world! After all, one could never swim as freely as one did in the game. The colorful fish, swaying algae, and beautiful corals were all that contributed to the sea's attractiveness.

However, there were very little green corals around. Both of them had dived down for a full 10 minutes and still found nothing.

During this time, Great Precision and Baili Mei Niang were at battle with each other. Both of them were like crickets at war, refusing to lose to the other party. The speeds at which they accumulate their points were amazing, even as observed by an expert like Lin Jie.

Meanwhile, both Lin Jie's and Bu Yi's points were still big fat '0's.

While diving, Lin Jie opened the other nine gift bags, which he had gathered previously.

—'You received 20,000 EXP.'

—'You received 30 silver coins.'

—'You received two bottles of [Slow Restoring Potion].'

…

—'You received one bottle of [Ocean Essence Oil].'

'Hmm?' Lin Jie brightened up at this. Those gift bags would give ordinary items, but there was a small chance of getting those 'Greatest Fishing Tools'…

Of course, the term 'Greatest Fishing Tool' was not a real item, but a term coined jokingly by players of The New Age for any tools which could increase one's fishing efficiency.

[Ocean Essence Oil]: Effects will continue for three minutes. During the fishing process, there is a 5% chance of you fishing an additional three to five fish of the same species.

”Bu Yi, take this.” Lin Jie passed this 'Greatest Fishing Tool' to Bu Yi. It was not that he favored Bu Yi more than his other teammates, but he needed to let Bu Yi become the champion of this final round!

To be honest, it wasn't difficult if Lin Jie wanted to win this round himself, using his privileges as a reborn person. Yet that would defeat his whole purpose of participating in the event.

In the ocean, other than all sorts of Rare fish, there were also numerous treasures like treasure chests, pearls, marine products, and even undersea coal mines… Almost all who came here would harbor the thoughts of keeping this whole stretch of sea to themselves, so as to get hold of all the treasures within it.

”Found it!”

Within a large group of luminous corals, Lin Jie finally found one jade-like, shiny green coral. He beckoned Bu Yi to take it quickly.

Now nine minutes and forty seconds had passed. If they dawdled any longer, the Mermaid Princess' likings would change to another item.

Bu Yi hurriedly plucked the coral and kept it in her backpack.

Ding~

—'System notification: You found a Luminous Jade Coral, you gained 1,000 points.'

”Omg, 1,000 points!” Bu Yi gasped in amazement. She was obviously shocked by this huge amount of points rewarded. The normal Rare fish would just reward players with 20 or at most 30 points. Unless one could keep on fishing up fish the likes of Red Phosphorus Yellow Croakers, it would take players a great amount of time to accumulate 1,000 points.

In any case, Bu Yi's points shot up, and she became the fifth highest-ranking player!

In Aquatic World.