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#166 - Chapter 166 Fishing for Dolphins

Stepping into the portal with his right foot, Qi Jing felt a hard shell beneath him, neither metal nor soil.

Could it be another shell of a deep-sea giant turtle?

Once fully across, he looked around and found himself in a large room, a large room on the top deck of a giant ship.

The entire room had only one large door and two windows, besides the portal.

Qi Jing walked to the window and looked outside.

Outside the window was an endless sea, filled with nothing but sky blue and sea blue.

The other window was the same.

"Let's go, stop looking.

This is our ship for researching the Sea of Time, over thirteen hundred meters long, all made from the shells of the Great Turtle's grandchildren."

Qi Jing asked, "Does 'Great Turtle's grandchildren' refer to the deep-sea giant turtle?"

"That one's called Turtle Grandfather. The deep-sea giant turtle is so huge, if we used its shell, this ship would become another Azure Vault City.

The Turtle Grandchildren I'm talking about are other, smaller turtles, like the old soft-shelled turtles beneath the Sea of Time, over a thousand meters long, always sleeping. You can go down and take a look."

After hearing Gou Dehao's words, Qi Jing became interested in these giant turtles:

"Good Grandpa, take me to see them."

"No way."

Gou Dehao was only here to fish, not to take risks.

"Let's go, let's go fishing."

Gou Dehao pulled Qi Jing towards the edge of the ship.

They took an elevator from the highest room of the ship down to the first floor, then walked to the railing at the edge of the ship.

Qi Jing found many people fishing with fishing rods, with almost every spot taken.

Some were fishing in small boats on the water, but no one was catching fish by hand in the water.

Was the water poisonous?

"That's not right, shouldn't we ability users catch fish with our abilities? Like using a laser to kill a Time Dolphin, then using telekinesis to pull it up. Why are they all just fishing with rods?"

Hearing Qi Jing's question, Gou Dehao stroked his small mustache and said:

"Do you know how we obtain the main materials for making Retrograde Rings?"

Qi Jing asked:

"Isn't it by killing those creatures, then stripping their shells and removing their bones?"

Gou Dehao shook the scruffy wine gourd in his hand:

"No, no, no, our main source is their corpses and fossils left on the seabed."

"Why?"

Gou Dehao explained:

"Because living Time Dolphins, Time Shrimp, and such can all use the power of time. The ones we see might be a few seconds in the past or a few seconds in the future.

For example, if their life is a point on the timeline, then they are constantly vibrating forward, unlike us humans who can only move forward at a constant speed.

That is to say, they might appear at any random location near that point in time in the next second, maybe a few seconds, maybe a few minutes, depending on their control over the power of time.

So direct attacks against them almost never hit, making them difficult to catch.

Otherwise, why do you think the word 'Time' is added before their names? Is it just because they live in the Sea of Time?"

Thinking about it, that was indeed the case. The fact that they could be used as materials for Retrograde Rings meant that they themselves possessed the power of time.

Qi Jing asked:

"Then why can fishing catch them?"

Gou Dehao took out the colorful bag of treasures from his arms, took out a fishing rod, and pointed to the fishhook, saying:

"See this? This fishhook is made from Time Whale bones and other materials, which can stabilize their position on the timeline, allowing us to reel them in."

Qi Jing looked at the palm-sized white fishhook in Gou Dehao's hand, then looked at the black fishhook in his own hand.

Damn it, bought it for nothing.

"Yours is just a harder hook, it won't work."

Gou Dehao took out two white fishhooks from the bag of treasures and threw them to Qi Jing:

"Here, take two. Be sure to tie them tight, these little things are as expensive as your fishing rod."

"Thank you, Good Grandpa."

Qi Jing wrapped the large fishhook around thirty times inside and thirty times outside, tying dozens of knots.

If he lost it, he wouldn't be able to fish today.

While he was tying the knot, Gou Dehao took out his broken little car, kicked it, and threw it onto the sea.

It suddenly enlarged with a bang and floated on the sea.

"Let's go, let's go down to fish, there are too many people here."

Gou Dehao jumped onto the roof of the car.

As expected of a veteran, he jumped from a height of dozens of meters without hesitation.

Qi Jing also followed in his footsteps, using his light body technique to jump down.

Standing on the roof of the car, he looked back at the giant ship and only saw a tall city wall. The suffocating feeling of being oppressed by a giant object also came over him.

It didn't seem like much when looking at it from above, but when he looked up from below, he truly felt the enormity of the giant ship.

If someone with a fear of giant objects saw this, they would definitely faint.

"Big, isn't it? Look at it more, it can build courage."

Gou Dehao hung meat on the fishhook while stepping on a button on the roof of the car.

"What kind of meat are you using for the bait?" Qi Jing asked.

"Anything will do, they're not picky about this."

Soon, Gou Dehao had already hung the meat and placed it on the roof of the car.

Qi Jing also followed suit and hung the meat of the Armored Crab on it, fearing it would fall off, and even took out thread from his space to sew a few stitches.

The "car-boat" gradually sailed away from the giant ship until Qi Jing's eyes could see the head and tail of the giant ship at a glance.

"Let's just stay here, there are few people and it's easy to fish, and we can be rescued in time."

Gou Dehao picked up the fishing rod and threw it towards the water.

Qi Jing threw it in the opposite direction from him to prevent the two fishing lines from getting tangled, and also to prevent the fish that were about to take his hook from being attracted by his bait.

After a while, Qi Jing saw that there was no movement at all with the bait, and asked:

"Good Grandpa, why haven't any fish bitten yet? How long will it take to catch one?"

Gou Dehao said:

"Don't rush, don't rush, fishing is a slow activity, the more anxious you are, the more it won't work.

And fishing also depends on luck. Sometimes you can fish for a whole day and not necessarily get a fish, sometimes you get one every minute.

If you really can't help it, you can watch your phone while fishing. Young people just can't stand the wait, it's normal."

Gou Dehao took out a stand from the bag of treasures and handed it to Qi Jing:

"Use it to support the fishing rod, so you don't have to hold it all the time, it's convenient."

"Thank you, Good Grandpa."

Qi Jing took it and found that there were indeed a few places on the roof of the car where the stand could be inserted. As expected of a divine car that has everything except good looks.

Gou Dehao sat on the raised part of the roof of the car, holding a fishing rod in one hand and a wine gourd in the other:

"It's still good to have you, kid, unlike Yi Gou, who's never serious.

This 'Good Grandpa' sounds so comfortable, that kid just won't call me that, no manners at all."

Qi Jing put down the phone he had just taken out:

"Yi Gou is pretty good, there will always be a little gap between everyone and their relatives. Yi Gou is still very close to you in his heart, he just doesn't show it."

Gou Dehao took a sip of wine and said:

"Him? It's good enough if he's not thinking about my car, close? Close to a fish egg.

Hey? A bite!

Yi Gou, this kid, is really liked by fish, they bite as soon as I mention him."

Gou Dehao pulled the reel in his hand with force. After a while, a dolphin that looked slightly larger than the ones on Earth was pulled up.

"This Time Dolphin has to be killed when it bites the hook, otherwise it will run away, it's very difficult to deal with."