The fairies I flirted with in the game became real?!

“True dragon bloodline? Control over water currents?”

Seeing the Skill description, Li Muyang felt a slight stir in his heart.

This was the only Skill he currently possessed.

As Li Muyang used the Skill, in an instant, he seemed to enter some profound and mysterious state, faintly sensing the water in the bucket pulsating.

The water in the bucket appeared to become a part of his body, and with a thought from Li Muyang, a column of water forcefully shot out from the bucket.

Amidst the exploding sound of water droplets, the three fishermen surrounding the bucket all jumped in shock.

“What fell in there?”

“How did the water suddenly fly up?”

The fishermen hurriedly looked down, thinking something had fallen into the bucket.

But after the water in the bucket calmed down, the fishermen saw no foreign object, only the half-dead Flood Dragon within.

The expressions on the fishermen were ones of surprise.

“What’s going on?”

“Could it be this snake caused it?”

“Shh… What snake? This is the legendary Flood Dragon!”

“Right, right, right, it’s the Flood Dragon. We’ll definitely make a fortune if we sell it in town.”

“But can this Flood Dragon survive the trip back? It seems like it’s about to die.”

In the midst of the fishermen’s discussion, the Flood Dragon in the bucket suddenly flipped over, stomach up, and floated motionlessly on the water’s surface, completely still.

“…”

“…”

Seeing this, the fishermen were all dumbfounded.

The other two glared at the last fisherman who spoke: “What kind of jinx are you!”

“How come it dies just as you say it would?”

“We could have made more money if it was still alive!”

The reproached fisherman looked aggrieved: “It’s dying on its own accord, what does it have to do with me?”

The fishermen circled the bucket for a while longer and, upon finding the completely white Flood Dragon motionless, even its eyeballs dull and still, one of them daringly poked it with a stick.

“Let’s see if it’s really dead.”

“Shh… Be careful, it might bite you if it’s not completely dead.”

“This thing could be very poisonous…”

The three cautiously stepped back a few paces until the daring fisherman lifted the Flood Dragon out of the water with the stick.

It dangled limply from the stick, truly void of any life, utterly dead.

The other fishermen poked the Flood Dragon’s body with sticks, yet it showed no reaction.

After testing for quite a while, the three were utterly disappointed.

“It’s really dead…”

“Sigh… Would’ve been better if I poked it off center, this spot looks like its vital point.”

“Flood Dragons have vital points?”

“Heard Flood Dragons are transformed from snakes, they must have a vital point.”

The three tossed the dead Flood Dragon back into the bucket and dispersed, disheartened.

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“Let’s pack up and head back, quickly sell this thing. Maybe we can all make a good amount of money.”

The fishermen began to gather their nets, preparing to head back to shore.

The accidentally captured Flood Dragon was dead, and they needed to sell it quickly in the city, or it wouldn’t fetch a good price if it started to rot.

Meanwhile, as the fishermen were packing up their gear, they carelessly tossed the dead Flood Dragon back into the bucket and gave it no further thought.

On the fishing boat, the three began to busy themselves.

But shortly after they all turned away, in the small bucket, the water inside began to creep silently up one side of the bucket’s wall.

In the end, all of the water in the bucket, along with the Flood Dragon within, defying all logic, clung to one side of the wooden bucket.

The imbalance of weight caused the wooden barrel to topple over with a bang, and the water inside gushed out rapidly.

At that moment, the Flood Dragon, which was thought to be dead, took advantage of the surging water and rushed towards the side of the deck.

The fisherman closest to the scene was startled.

“That beast isn’t dead!”

The fisherman hurried to reach for his fishing spear.

However, the water flowing out of the barrel was too swift. Just as the fisherman picked up the spear beside him, the Flood Dragon had already been swept by the water into the river below.

The sound of it hitting the water was piercingly loud, and all three fishermen on the boat panicked.

“The damn creature was feigning death!”

“Cast the nets! Hurry, cast the nets to haul it back!”

“Brother, I’ll jump down and catch it!”

The boldest of the fishermen angrily stripped off his shirt.

But the one called Brother quickly stopped him, “Don’t be rash! If that thing bites you, you won’t survive it!”

The three kept casting their nets, trying to fish the Flood Dragon that had leaped into the river back out.

But alas, with the swift river currents, the Flood Dragon disappeared without a trace, and they never managed to catch it again.

Meanwhile, in the rapidly flowing and ice-cold waters of the river, Li Muyang was swimming continuously along the riverbed.

Above him, the nets spread out in the water, but he vigorously swam away, leaving them far behind.

Only after traveling a great distance and seeing the system prompt [Task Completed] pop up in his field of view did Li Muyang finally let out a sigh of relief.

He hid among the aquatic plants at the bottom of the river, feeling his body weak and exhausted, shaking his head.

“This is such a brutal start.”

The realism in this game was turned up to the max.

There was not only the sensation of pain but even stamina bars.

Upon opening the character interface, alongside conventional game parameters like strength and agility, there were also numerous complex parameters that filled the screen.

Hunger level, stamina, hydration, injuries…

The complex parameters left Li Muyang’s head spinning.

This game was hardcore indeed.

With such complex game values, there was much more to consider.

Even within the hunting option, there were many categories of food, each of which provided different nutrients.

Li Muyang lay among the aquatic plants and rested for quite a while before he saw the stamina bar that had been depleted during his escape start to regenerate.

But the Flood Dragon’s health bar was missing a small section and had acquired a [Bleeding] debuff that was continuously draining health.

Opening the character card, one could see a red area on the Flood Dragon’s character interface around the neck, indicating an injury.

However, there was also a BUFF [Digesting…] present on the character interface.

This BUFF was continuously restoring health to Li Muyang.

Though the rate of health regeneration was somewhat slow, it was just enough to balance out the [Bleeding] effect, slowing down the decrease of the health bar.

“So I need to eat more to digest more?”

Li Muyang opened the character interface, starting to flip through the various prey cards in the hunting options.

These cards featured both fish in the river and small animals in the mountains, with different prey divided into different grades.

The lowest level was the white card, which included common animals.

Then came the blue cards, which were scarce, with only a few animals being classified as blue cards, and they were the more elusive prey from the mountains and waters.

It seemed that the rarity added value to the hunting menu, didn’t it?

Moreover, the nutrients and system values provided by mountain animals were higher than those from aquatic creatures of the same level.

However, considering his current weakened state and the special Divine Skills of the true dragon bloodline for controlling water, Li Muyang decided against hunting on land.

He started swimming along the aquatic plants, silently searching for schools of fish in the river.

With his great advantage in the water, there was no need for him to go ashore specifically.