A certain American comic book's secondary profession master

Chapter 13 Sunscale Salmon
It was almost two o'clock when the seafood market finally opened.

Li Wei quickly drank the coffee in his cup, which had already gone cold, then started the car and joined the long queue to enter—although the gates didn't open until 2 p.m., people had already started queuing up before 1 p.m.

Moreover, everyone drives and queues up, and you have to pay a $7 parking fee to get in.

After paying and parking his car, Li Wei entered the market—today he wasn't driving his own Corvette, but a rented pickup truck.

If he really finds the fish he needs, he'll definitely buy a lot.

And he couldn't just put the fish directly into his bag in the market.

Naturally, a vehicle capable of transporting goods was needed—obviously, the Corvette couldn't handle this responsibility, and Levi didn't want his car to reek of fish.

Once inside the market, Li Wei walked around, observing everything.

Although the seafood here is not sold retail, samples are available for buyers to inspect the goods and they can handle them freely.

So when Li Wei sees a fish he doesn't recognize, he'll try it out—because he's already tried most of the fish he recognizes at the supermarket.

While pretending to look at the fish, I was actually checking in my mind whether the recipes in the skill bar would have numerical prompts—there was no way around it, just like in the game, the gathering points on the minimap wouldn't show the fish themselves.

As for the fishing spot, Li Wei couldn't find it either.

At first, Li Wei didn't realize this and ran to the beach several times.

The minimap does not display any fishing spots.

It was only later that I suddenly realized that to find fishing spots, you actually need to learn the skill.

In the game, you fish to catch chests, which have a chance to yield a skill book called "The Diary of a Weathered Man". After learning the skill, you can discover fishing spots and obtain an achievement called "Fish Without Footprints".

There are also skill level requirements.

Li Wei remembered that the skill level requirement was very low, only 100 points were needed.

In addition, there are precedents where recipes and skills will automatically appear once other secondary profession skill levels are reached.

So at the time, Li Wei thought that as long as he activated the fishing skill, he should be able to activate this skill as well. With the example of cooking in front of him, Li Wei thought that with his five years of fishing experience in his previous life, a skill level of 100 points would be easy to achieve.
So Li Wei tried his hand at fishing and spent a lot of money on equipment for it. He was poor in his previous life, so he didn't dare to buy good equipment. Now that he was rich, he wanted to buy the best.

Then something extremely saddening happened to him.

After activating his fishing skill, the pitiful 10 skill points in his skill bar made him feel intensely contemptuous, so angry that he almost threw his fishing rod into the sea.

But that wasn't all. After calming down, Li Wei thought, "Since I'm already here, and my skill level is so low, I might as well practice for a while."
What happened next made him even more annoyed.

In the game, fishing skills can only be improved by catching fish.

And this has been inherited in reality.

So, that afternoon, after casting countless baiting spots and wasting a whole bag of bait, Li Wei only caught a small, unidentified sea fish the size of his palm—this fish even managed to make one of Li Wei's cooking recipes display a number.

However, it was of no use.

Because the skill description shows the lowest-level recipe, Delicious Little Fish, which can be learned with just one point, it offers no attribute bonuses other than basic stamina recovery—and the fish listed in the materials menu is also Fresh Delicious Little Fish. Therefore, this little fish, aside from pitifully increasing the fishing skill by 1 point from 10 to 11, is utterly meaningless.

Li Wei then tossed the fish to a seagull nearby.

Releasing them back into the wild? Dream on!
From that day on, Li Wei completely gave up the idea of ​​practicing his fishing skills.

Why not just buy it?
I guess when Li Wei gets old, he might pick up his fishing rod again!

After wandering around the market for half a day, his hands covered in the fishy smell, Li Wei sighed heavily.

It's not that nothing was discovered.

In fact, he has already found several types of fish that can be used for cooking.

The problem is that these fish are basically the same as the fresh and delicious little fish he caught; they are all low-grade fish.

For example, the slippery mackerel that players are familiar with corresponds to the blue mackerel that many people are familiar with in real life.

The rainbowfin fish corresponds to the real-life mackerel/bamboo clams.

Rat-tailed fish—yes, that's what it's called in real life.

The spiny catfish—but this thing is a freshwater fish, a specialty of South America, so it was a bit of a surprise to see Levi.

Although these fish couldn't help Li Wei improve his cooking skill level, he still recorded them.

Although it's not very useful, you can make it and taste it when you have time, right?

Another half hour passed, and after wandering around for half a day, Li Wei, still having found nothing, finally prepared to give up.

Perhaps high-level cooking requires extremely rare fish.

With this regret, Li Wei prepared to leave the seafood market.

Before leaving, seeing the fresh salmon on the stall next to him, Levi thought that since he was already there, he might as well buy some to take home and eat himself.

"Want some? This is genuine Alaskan silver salmon, definitely not comparable to ordinary salmon." The shop owner casually offered, seeing Levi staring at his fish.

"Oh? Silver salmon? Is there anything different about it?" Li Wei asked, surprised.

He only knew that salmon was salmon, and he also knew that some unscrupulous vendors would use cheaper freshwater trout to impersonate salmon.

But he had absolutely no idea what kinds of salmon there were—which is quite normal; if you don’t really like eating salmon, how many ordinary people would bother to research that?
"It seems you don't buy fish often, do you? There are huge differences between them. Originally, salmon only referred to Atlantic salmon, but now there are many varieties, such as coho salmon, chum salmon, sockeye salmon, pink salmon, king salmon, etc., all of which are classified as salmon. The most expensive is king salmon, but coho salmon is also good. It is cheaper than king salmon, but the taste is in no way inferior to king salmon. Look, isn't it beautiful?" Since he wasn't busy, the fish shop owner was in the mood to chat and introduced the fish to Li Wei.

"It's really beautiful!" Levi nodded as he looked at the silver salmon, which was entirely silvery-white and shimmered under the lights.

"This isn't the most beautiful state of the coho salmon; it's when it has just migrated. At that time, the coho salmon's back and sides turn yellowish-green and shimmer in the sunlight, which is why it's also called the sun-scaled coho salmon," the fish shop owner continued.

“I see… wait, what else is it called?” Li Weigang agreed, then froze for a second before asking.

(End of this chapter)