novelhk Chapter 210: First Visit to the South China Sea
Chapter 210: First Visit to the South China Sea
[Ding! Triggering the task: The world is a big fish pond. ]
[Mission description: Starting from Upside Down Mountain, connect the whole world, treat the whole world as a big fish pond, contract it all, and become the king of fishing kings. PS: As the saying goes, there is no fish pond in the world, but when there are more fishermen, there will be a fish pond. ]
[Task Reward: After completing a single task, the attribute rewards obtained from daily tasks within a week will be doubled, and a surprise treasure chest will be given. ]
[Task penalty: If you fail to complete this task within five years, the system will self-destruct. PS: Just pretend that I have never met a useless fisherman like you.]
After reading the mission description, Jerry fell into deep thought: "The reward is basically the same as the previous random missions, and the penalty for failure... is it such a big deal?"
Then, he discovered that there was an additional task tree in the system task bar.
The main trunk is the Grand Route, and the branches are the four seas in the southeast, northwest, and northeast. The specific content requirements for each location are expressed in the form of task cards.
Click to enter the branch of the Grand Line, and there are bright cards showing some random tasks that have been completed.
In addition, there are some dull unfinished tasks, which only provide general information about the island. I guess Jerry has to go there to trigger it.
It is worth mentioning that Jerry has completed a large part of the tasks marking the Paradise stage, and has also completed some of those in the New World stage. Except for the East China Sea, the rest of the Four Seas area have not been lit up.
Seeing this, Jerry thought to himself: "So... this isn't the proper way to open this crappy system, right?"
The more he thought about it, the more he felt that it was very possible. Otherwise, if it wasn't impossible to complete it, he would just blow himself up and die together...
But, for some reason, it had not been activated by Jerry before.
According to Jerry's own guess, one of the conditions for activating this big task should be fishing on the top of Upside-Down Mountain.
"It's really a crappy system. You still want to stab me in the back? Fortunately..."
Jerry subconsciously patted his chest and slowly breathed a sigh of relief. If this mission was triggered right when he first went out to sea, he might not be able to complete it within the five-year time limit.
Then, Jerry paused with his hand that was patting his chest, because he found that a row of task timers as tiny as ants were quietly counting down.
The time shown above is not 5 years.
"Fuck..." Jerry cursed inwardly after carefully calculating. This time should have started counting from the time they first entered the Grand Line and passed through the Upside-Down Mountain. There are still more than three years left.
Jerry's eyes narrowed, and he activated his ability of mental arithmetic again, counting on his fingers.
After a brief contemplation, he felt that the overall situation was optimistic. The key to success lay in whether he could reach and complete tasks at certain specific locations.
"Random tasks are also related to big tasks, but they have not been triggered before, so they will be released in the form of random tasks when the conditions are met."
"Does this mean that the locations where random tasks were triggered were actually regular, and the truly random things were the task content, rewards, and penalties?"
"And now it seems that there are no random tasks in some places. As long as you arrive at the corresponding location and catch something, you will complete the task that was lit up."
With this in mind, Jerry turned his attention to the Upside Down Mountain mission card.
"Like here at Upside Down Mountain, probably because the location is rather odd, as long as you can catch something on the top of the mountain..."
Jerry turned around and, with everyone's consent, used the excuse of fishing addiction as an excuse. He then skillfully maneuvered the boat so that it floated almost motionlessly at the intersection of the surging channel and began to focus on the situation under the water.
"Eh? What's wrong with him again?" Kalina poked Deus.
"I don't know. We're not in a hurry anyway. Let him do his own thing first." Deus took out his notebook.
It must be said that not many people could watch the scenery on the top of Upside Down Mountain as leisurely as they did, so Zeus responded with a few words and began his daily writing and drawing.
Looking at everyone working on something or relaxing or exercising, Kalina shrugged her shoulders and turned to walk towards the cabin.
At noon, there was a brief cheer that lasted for half a second and then stopped abruptly.
Jerry's hands moved with great skill and fluidity. He grabbed a guard uniform of some unknown country hanging on the fishing line, took a step forward, and threw it down the mountain.
"Pah! I don't know if all the big fish from all over the world gather here, but I can definitely catch all the losers from all over the world here!"
After Jerry's angry roar, he turned around as if nothing had happened, and said calmly to his companions who were looking at him strangely behind him: "Okay, let's quit fishing and set off."
"Hahaha, Jerry, have you ever counted how many things that are not fish you have caught in total?" Ace was the first to laugh and asked a soul-searching question.
"Why bother with those things? Just tell me whether I caught anything or not." Jerry straightened his back and put his hands on his hips.
Deuce clapped his hands to attract everyone's attention, "Now that it's ready, let's go."
Jerry raised his clenched fist to the sky and announced loudly: "Okay, next, we will start our new journey!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the boat turned around and sped down the Upside-Down Mountain.
South China Sea, Kingdom of Saint Dorea.
"We have been in Nanhai for several days now. I feel that the atmosphere and utilization rate of metal technology here seem to be generally higher."
Looking at the people walking on the street, combined with what he had seen and heard on the two islands before, Zeus spoke in a low voice.
The surface of the four seas is not as treacherous and dangerous as the Grand Line.
With their familiarity with nautical charts and some knowledge of navigation, many navigators, and even ordinary people, dare to try to travel between different islands in their respective waters.
Communications between islands within the four seas of southeast, northwest, and northeast are naturally much easier and more frequent than those on the Grand Line.
Whether it is legitimate businessmen doing business or visits between countries, or the activities of pirates, pirate hunters and other personnel, sailing in the four seas is safer and faster than the Grand Line.
Because the four seas are separated by the Red Continent and the Great Route, these four seas have gradually formed some unique differences in science and technology, culture, customs, etc.
What Deus thought was that compared to the East China Sea, the pedestrians he saw at this time seemed to have a higher proportion of guns and metal objects.
"Ahem! Deus, are you sure it's that simple?" Jerry asked meaningfully.
"Isn't it? This is the third island we've landed on, and they're all like that." Deus was stunned for a moment and shook his head slightly.
He motioned for everyone to look to the left, where there was a passerby wearing shiny metal armor, with a few sharp muskets faintly visible on his waist.
"Well, when you noticed these people, didn't you notice that most of them looked cautious yet pretending to be relaxed?"
"They basically moved in pairs of two or three, like they were queuing up in a group to use the toilet. They looked calm on the surface, but they were anxious on the inside."
Jerry looked straight ahead and lowered his voice so that the sound waves could just reach the ears of his group.