Ice Age: I can control plant growth

Chapter 62 Ice Fishing
December 2024, 12, five o'clock in the morning.

"Prepare to land!"

After a round of rotation, they finally arrived at the big river they passed by that time. Li Mu woke up Yu Shuaikang who was still sleeping, and controlled the shuttle to slowly fall to the ground.

The shuttle landed extremely gently. When it touched the ground, it just shook slightly, without waking up the people who were still sleeping on the lower floor.

The two jumped off the shuttle, came to the surface of the river, stepped on the thick ice, and walked towards the center.

“How do you catch fish?”

"How about I go in the water and gurgle."

Yu Shuaikang started joking on the side.

"Okay, okay, then you come and make a nest for me!"

Li Mu couldn't help laughing when he heard Yu Shuaikang's words, and then said,

“It’s impossible to get in the water, but we can make a hole and ice fish.”

“Ice fishing?”

"We don't have any fishing rods or bait."

"Why would I need these? Watch me!"

As soon as he finished speaking, several vines as thick as arms appeared in front of Li Mu and began to entangle with each other. In an instant, a huge drill appeared in the air.

Then he pressed down with one hand, and the drill head rushed straight towards the ice!

In an instant, countless ice chips began to fly.

Three minutes later, a one-meter-wide hole was dug out on the ice surface. Li Mu looked through the hole and found that the ice layer was more than two meters thick!

"And then, how do you fish?"

Yu Shuaikang looked at Li Mu and asked.

Li Mu did not answer Yu Shuaikang's question, but took out a red branch from his body. As his mind moved, a vine as thick as a thumb wrapped around it tightly.

Then he explored into the pit until he felt the vines had touched the river bottom. Li Mu slowly injected source energy into it.

The flickering green light continued to light up on the vines, and in the blink of an eye it was transmitted to the red branches in the front.

The red branches began to glow, and a pink liquid oozed out from them, gradually spreading in the water...

Li Mu controlled the vines to sway in the water like a living thing, and turned to Yu Shuaikang and said,
"The fish you'll catch might be a bit big. Once it comes up, you can kill it with a knife."

What Li Mu used as bait was naturally a branch of the dragon blood tree that he had broken off before leaving. The dragon blood tree's ability to lure and kill mutant beasts made it perfect for use as bait to lure fish.

Yu Shuaikang didn't say much, but stood ready with his sword in hand.

As time passed slowly, the originally calm riverbed began to show some ripples.

"coming!"

Li Mu whispered.

After hearing this, Yu Shuaikang fixed his eyes on the hole, waiting for Li Mu to pull the fish up so that he could kill it with one blow.

However, things did not go as they planned.

The fish did not take the bait immediately, but began to swim at the bottom of the river. Li Mu and Yu Shuaikang both looked at the riverbed nervously, waiting for the fish to move.

After a while, the fish finally swam near the red branch. It seemed to be attracted by the red branch and began to swim around it.

When Li Mu saw this scene, he did not tighten the vines immediately. Instead, he increased the injection of source energy, making the branches of the dragon blood tree more shining and the pink liquid seeping out more.

After swimming a few more circles, the fish finally accelerated suddenly, swallowed the dragon blood tree branch in one gulp, and fled into the distance.

"A beast is a beast. No matter how cunning it is, it will eventually take the bait." Upon seeing this scene, Li Mu immediately increased the injection of source energy. The vine instantly became tougher, forming a curved hook shape, which directly pierced into the upper jaw of the fish, and then the vine began to shrink continuously.

Then, he gestured to Yu Shuaikang, who immediately understood what he meant and held his sword in his hand, ready to kill the fish with one blow.

As the vines became shorter and shorter, Li Mu pulled it up suddenly, and a big fish more than three meters long was pulled out of the pit.

Yu Shuaikang swung his sword decisively, aimed at the back of the fish's neck, and chopped it down hard.

With a "snap", the fish head and the fish body were instantly cut in half, and the blood dyed the ice surface red.

The fish struggled for a few times, and finally stopped moving weakly, becoming a completely dead fish.

Seeing this, Li Mu and Yu Shuaikang both breathed a sigh of relief, they knew that the fish banquet had been arranged.

Li Mu took the vine back from the fish's mouth and carefully put away the branches of the dragon blood tree again.

He used the vines to grab the basin-sized fish head and the several-meter-long fish body, and said to Yu Shuaikang,
"Let's go back and cook."

Under the cover of night, two figures walked towards the sky shuttle.

On the upper level of the Sky Shuttle, Li Mu was preparing various seasonings such as onions, ginger, and garlic, while Yu Shuaikang was busy scraping fish scales. He asked Li Mu,

"What kind of fish is this? I can't tell what species it is."

Upon hearing this, Li Mu couldn't help but look at the shape and characteristics of the whole fish. After thinking for a moment, he said uncertainly,
"From the head, it looks like a mandarin fish, but the scales on its body are too thick, like an arapaima."

"Ordinary freshwater mandarin fish are only half a meter long at most. This one must have mutated. I don't know what level it is."

Yu Shuaikang could tell from its huge size that it was a mutant beast, so he simply put down the fish body he was processing and walked towards the fish head.

After splitting the fish head with a knife, Yu Shuaikang began to grope inside the fish head. After a while, he actually took out a thumb-sized, white crystal core.

"Why is this crystal core so small?"

Yu Shuaikang looked at the mutant beast crystal core in his hand and couldn't help but wonder.

"The crystal core of a third-level mutant beast is as big as an egg, but this crystal core is so small. It is probably a second-level mutant beast."

Li Mu touched his chin and said.

"Don't they say that only third-level mutant beasts have crystal cores?"

Yu Shuaikang was even more puzzled. Why didn't he know before that second-level mutant beasts would also have crystal cores?

"There may also be a second-level mutant beast, but the probability is one in ten thousand."

"We have killed so many second-level mutant beasts near Wanling City before, but we didn't find a second-level crystal core. Today, we just caught a fish to satisfy our hunger, but we actually found one. We are really lucky."

Li Mu couldn't help but feel happy. Although the crystal core of the second-level mutant beast was of no use to them, this kind of thing was like buying a lottery ticket.

You just spent two dollars and asked the boss to randomly select a set of numbers for your machine, but you found out that you won five hundred dollars.

The gains are not much, but good luck always makes people feel refreshed.

"Hurry up and make it. Uncle and aunt will be awake soon. Make soup with the fish head and grill the fish body directly."

It was already six o'clock in the morning. According to the lifestyle of our parents' generation, some people might have already woken up.

"Don't just talk, come and help me. It will take me a long time to catch such a big fish by myself!"

Yu Shuaikang was speechless for a moment, thinking that Li Mu was just talking without any concern, just giving orders without coming to help.

"I'm here, but I'm just helping to deal with it. You have to cook it. My cooking skills are not as good as yours..."

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(End of this chapter)