Chapter 59: The Air Force Never Becomes a Slave! The Unlucky Middle-Aged Man!

It is another Mekong giant catfish, and it truly weighs over a thousand pounds!
Even though it is only one thousand and eighty pounds, such a size is utterly explosive for wild fishing!
It is extremely rare to encounter this even in abandoned reservoirs or deep mountain lakes.
Why on earth are there so many Mekong giant catfish in Yuanshan Town??
They just caught one today, and another one shows up tonight...
"Cousin, wait for me to go back and get my fishing rod, let's reel it in!"
With that, Jiang Fan hurriedly turned around and headed back.
The enthusiasm of an angler for a big fish goes without saying.
Seeing a big fish and not fishing for it is like a brother being invited to a massage parlor and declining.
Upon seeing this, Jiang Qi immediately went to fetch his own fishing rod.
"Mister, keep your eyes on it. If the fish gets away, your legs are getting broken!"
"..."
A dozen minutes later, Jiang Fan walked over swaggeringly, carrying a bent reinforcing steel fishing rod in one hand and a chair in the other.
[Ding! Detected that the reinforcing steel fishing rod has a slight bend. Does the host wish to perform maintenance and reinforcement?]
"Can it still be maintained and reinforced???"
[Any rod provided by the system can be maintained and enhanced. Each maintenance costs 100 points, and reinforcement is unlimited at 100 points per time.]
"Then maintain it."
The next second, the bent piece of rebar snapped back into a straight, taut state as if it had taken sildenafil!
[Ding! Reinforcing steel fishing rod successfully maintained, emotion points -100!]
Thinking about how today's five-hundred-and-fifty-eight-pound big fish had managed to bend the rebar, Jiang Fan invested another five hundred points into reinforcement!
[Ding! Reinforcing steel fishing rod reinforced, emotion points -500!]
[Super reinforcing steel fishing rod!!! (Grade One Attribute)]
"Grade One Attribute??"
[It means the reinforcing steel fishing rod has surpassed the strength of its original material, reaching a Grade One material. Beyond this are Grade Two, Grade Three... all the way to Grade Nine!]
Just the Grade One material made him feel the domineering rigidity and toughness of the straightened rebar!
If it reached Grade Nine material, wouldn't it be directly comparable to his little brother... terrifyingly formidable!!!
"Jiang Fan, what took you so long?"
When Jiang Fan arrived at the familiar spot, his cousin had already cast eighteen sea fishing rods, arranging them densely along the bank like a inescapable celestial net.
Jiang Fan's eyes widened, "Cousin, isn't that a bit too ferocious?"
Jiang Qi patted his chest, "Nah, child's play. I once set up a hundred and eight rods by the sea, fishing for the heavenly spirits and earthly fiends. Any big fish that enters my formation will have its spine cracked open whether it opens its mouth or not!"
The middle-aged man chimed in, "Can you even manage to pull in that many rods?"
Jiang Qi replied, "Never mind whether I can manage them or not! It's guaranteed to fill the creel!"

The outcome turned out a bit differently than Jiang Qi had imagined.
After waiting for half an hour, not a single fish took any of the eighteen sea rods.
Even the middle-aged man stopped catching fish.
Jiang Qi (ΩДΩ): "No way, where are the fish?!"
Middle-aged man: "They were all scared off by your ridiculous number of rods!"
"You dark-skinned fellow are nothing but a troublemaker, causing me not to get a single bite for over an hour now!"
With that, the middle-aged man silently cursed Jiang Qi's ancestors.
"Damn it! I'm not a dark-skinned fellow, I'm just a bit tanned!" Jiang Qi cursed back.
"Besides, how can there be fish that don't bite hooks? Clearly, the fishing resource here is just terrible."
The middle-aged man rolled his eyes, "I come here to fish at night all the time, don't I know whether the resource is good or not?"
"You punk, if I weren't afraid of ruining the image of international friendship, I'd definitely punch you a couple of times!"
Jiang Qi (〝▼皿▼): "I really am not a dark-skinned fellow!"
The middle-aged man stopped talking and muttered under his breath. Airforce anglers never surrender; he refused to believe the fish had completely stopped biting!
"Oh? Finally a bite! Fish on!"
"What the heck! Whose racy thong is this?!"
"Hahaha! And it's purple, what a vibe." Jiang Qi pointed at the item the middle-aged man had reeled up and laughed heartily.
"Laugh, laugh away, laugh all you want, I refuse to give up!"
Extremely depressed, the middle-aged man tossed the purple racy thong aside, rebaited his hook, and cast again.
"Holy crap! Whose husband is this now?!!"
Before long, the middle-aged man hooked something even larger than himself.
"Haha, and it's a dark-skinned husband, I'm dying of laughter." Jiang Qi stood on the sidelines, holding his stomach in laughter once more.
The middle-aged man was furious, feeling a strong urge to kick him into the water.
Yet a moment later, things got even more outrageous when he reeled up a pink little oval device attached to a remote control!
"What the hell! Who on earth uses adult novelties to bait the swim?!'
"No wonder there were no fish, I've been set up!"
Jiang Qi was laughing so hard he was going crazy, "Hahaha, I can't take it, I'm going to die laughing, help me,哈哈哈..."
Middle-aged man: ヽ(#`Д´)ノ！！！Damn it!
Turns out the three-pound carp he caught when he first arrived was just a fluke!
With that thought, the middle-aged man had no choice but to change his fishing spot.
However, the riverbank was practically occupied by Jiang Qi's sea rods, leaving him no choice but to move to the opposite side, right next to Jiang Fan's spot.
He wouldn't have known if he hadn't come over, but the moment he arrived, he saw Jiang Fan continuously pulling up fish.
One pound, three pounds, five pounds, eight pounds, fifteen pounds!!!
"Wait a minute, is this even the right way to play?!"
I've been fishing for over an hour and only caught one, and Jiang Fan has caught this many in just a short while?! The most infuriating part is that each fish is bigger than the last!
What's even more exasperating is that Jiang Fan glanced at him and casually asked, "Hey, mister, do you want some fish?"
"..." The middle-aged man was utterly depressed.
"Yes, yes, but Master, I have a tiny question, and I'm not sure if I should ask it."
"Ask away."
"How come every time you cast you get a bite, while I wait forever and get nothing?"
Jiang Fan eloquently replied, "That's why they call me the Master!"
The middle-aged man grinned, "Suddenly enlightened, completely clear, a master is indeed a master, waking me up with a single word!"
"Cut the crap, I'll give you some of my bait to try, so you can experience how exhilarating it feels to reel in a big fish."
Jiang Fan shared a portion of his Wild Battle Blue Crucian Carp Crooked-Mouth Dragon King God-Edition bait with the middle-aged man.
The middle-aged man sniffed it, "Oh, it smells so good, and it smells different from the bait already in the water?"
Jiang Fan explained, "The bait in the water is pre-baiting groundbait—made of cow dung, horse urine, pig feed, corn, and grilled fish bait. Would you like some of that instead?"
With that, Jiang Fan opened a bottle, and instantly an overpowering stench billowed out from inside.
When the odor drifted to the middle-aged man's nose, it almost made him vomit on the spot!
"Blech!"
"Master, Master, cover it up quickly! Blech! It smells so foul! Blech!"
Jiang Fan put the cap back on and shrugged, "You don't understand this, no wonder you haven't been catching any fish."
"You are the Master after all, how could a humble angler like me understand these things?" The middle-aged man smiled ingratiatingly.
Afterward, he hooked Jiang Fan's bait, cast the line, and shortly after hauled in a tilapia weighing over five pounds!
"Holy crap! This tilapia is huge! Master, is your bait really that magical?!"
The middle-aged man was overjoyed. Inviting Jiang Fan and his cousin here today was definitely the right choice. A big tilapia weighing over five pounds was something he had never caught before!
With high spirits, he rebaited his hook and cast out once more.
Instantly... the float plunged straight down (a submerged bite)!!!
"Such a heavy feel! This pulling force... Hahaha, it's a huge fish, at least over a hundred pounds!!!"
Jiang Fan glanced over, "Looking at how taut that fishing line is, didn't you hook the earth instead?"
The middle-aged man replied, "No, it's movable, I'm reeling it in!"
Then, the middle-aged man reeled up a corpse.
"!!!"
"I'll throw you into a nutcracker!!!"