138: A contradictory system?

The viewers in the livestream room watched Gao Xiaofan fiddle with the fishing rod and started sending bullet chats.

"What did you just say? How embarrassing~"

"LMAO, the face-slapping came so fast~"

"Little Yu, see that? Stay away from him~"

Zhao Yuling held the Gimbal, looking at the bullet chats, and asked curiously, "Huh? What's wrong?"

"A man's mouth is a lying ghost~"

"hahahaha~"

The bullet chats were filled with laughter and joy.

Gao Xiaofan ignored the comments and focused on baiting the hook. He thought this wouldn't interest him, but sitting next to Zhao Yuling and seeing her catch nothing made his heart itch.

If it were easy to catch, he might not want to play, but if it's hard, he had to experience it.

Zhao Yuling leaned toward Gao Xiaofan's ear and whispered.

"Brother Xiaofan, the fish here are so hard to catch~"

Gao Xiaofan nodded without speaking.

Since they were running a business, it naturally wouldn't be easy; if it were easy, they wouldn't make much money.

Gao Xiaofan slowly pinched out a thread of dough with his fingers and gently rubbed it onto the hook. Then he slowly lowered the hook into the water, choosing not to let it suspend but to let it lie on the bottom.

These small goldfish had very light bites. If suspended, the hook would fly around as soon as they opened their mouths. Since the water was crystal clear, it was better to let the hook sit on the bottom so the fish would hook themselves properly.

Gao Xiaofan stared intently at the bottom. Another reason he suddenly wanted to play was that he just thought of the Sheathed title.

Hehe, he wondered if this little pond counted. If it did, couldn't he farm some more yun jian value?

That would be one step closer to his left arm getting better.

Otherwise, if he really dated Zhao Yuling, holding her and kissing with one hand while the other couldn't 'climb mountains' would feel weird.

Thinking of this, Gao Xiaofan couldn't help but chuckle.

Beside him, Zhao Yuling held the Gimbal and saw Gao Xiaofan's wretched expression on the phone screen, making her shiver.

"Brother Xiaofan... watch your image, hey!"

"Huh?"

Gao Xiaofan looked at the camera with a serious face, a hint of confusion in his eyes, before staring at the water again.

The livestream room's bullet chats kept coming one after another.

"He's such a poser, so damn pretentious, just like that car brand!"

"Looking at Brother Wo Zi's expression just now, he must have been thinking about something indecent!"

"If only I could be as thick-skinned as Brother Wo Zi~"

Fish wandered near the hook. Gao Xiaofan gently flicked the rods, the pull of the line making the bit of bait jump slightly in the water.

A small goldfish wandering nearby sensed the movement, swam over quickly, and swallowed the thread-like bait in one gulp.

Gao Xiaofan, who had been watching closely, jerked his right hand, driving the hook firmly into the fish's mouth, and then quickly lifted it out of the water.

"Wow! Brother Xiaofan, you're amazing!" Zhao Yuling jumped up in surprise. If not for the Gimbal's stabilization, the viewers would have been dizzy from the shaking.

Gao Xiaofan grinned widely, lifting the struggling goldfish to Zhao Yuling.

Zhao Yuling understood immediately, took the fish off the hook, dropped it into the small bucket nearby, and then looked at Gao Xiaofan expectantly.

"Come, you try. I'll teach you."

Gao Xiaofan handed over the fishing rods, took the Gimbal, and said to Zhao Yuling with a smile.

"First, take a little bit of dough and roll it into a fine thread. Because the fish's mouth is very small, it's hard to swallow if it's too big—what anglers call 'blocking the mouth'."

"Then we wrap the thread around the hook. Yes, just like that."

"Lower it slowly into the water. These goldfish are smart, so you must be very gentle."

"As for the bait, let it sink. It's like eating an apple in those variety shows you like; if the apple is hanging in the air, it's hard to eat because as soon as you apply force, it slides away. Fishing is the same."

Gao Xiaofan tried his best to use examples to teach Zhao Yuling, and she understood immediately.

"If the nearby fish don't come, you can give it a very slight twitch to send out a vibration. It'll naturally attract them to investigate, but don't make too much noise!"

"In the world of fishing, this is called 'tease fishing'."

While speaking, Gao Xiaofan felt a pang of regret. If his left arm were healed, he could have done hands-on teaching.

But he was one step closer to recovery, because just now, a notification sounded in his mind again.

yun jian value +1 again, reaching four points. It seemed his left arm would definitely be healed within a year. Not only would it return to normal, but it would also become even stronger.

He thought it was just an experiment, but he didn't expect that even such a small swimming pool could farm yun jian value.

He felt something was off again. The system seemed very contradictory.

The task the system initially provided was to travel and fish for a year. After choosing the task, he obtained the initial Sheathed title. During the process, his left arm would be continuously nurtured, and after the year ended, his left arm would be Sheathed like a sword.

But after wearing another top-tier fishing title, Never Resting, the two titles merged into yun jian value. On the surface, it seemed strict, requiring 100 different bodies of water, but today's small swimming pool made him realize the system's conditions for farming yun jian value were actually quite loose.

It felt like the system was impatient to heal his left arm.

Gao Xiaofan had a feeling that even if he stopped traveling and fishing now, the system probably wouldn't take away the Sheathed title, because the initial Sheathed title had become Sheathed (Enhanced Version).

But how could Gao Xiaofan give up so easily? He loved traveling and fishing.

Going to different places, seeing different scenery, tasting different food, and fishing in different waters.

"Ah! I caught one! I caught one! I caught one!!!"

Zhao Yuling's exclamation interrupted Gao Xiaofan's thoughts.

Before him, Zhao Yuling was jumping for joy like a child, her ponytail swaying under her hat. Pity the goldfish on the rods; it was like it had gone bungee jumping.

Gao Xiaofan smiled and didn't interrupt, just watching quietly from the side.

Zhao Yuling was happy for a while before calming down. She took the fish off the rods, put it in the small bucket, and then looked at Gao Xiaofan with an embarrassed smile.

Gao Xiaofan, holding the Gimbal with his right hand, gave a crooked thumbs-up, making Zhao Yuling giggle. Then she enthusiastically started rolling the bait threads again.

Gao Xiaofan also turned his gaze to the phone screen, intending to interact a bit, but looking at the constantly appearing bullet chats, the content made him frown.