The Legend of Fangren

Chapter 124 Causal Fishing Rod

It's no exaggeration to say that the fisherman is inevitably one of the intermediate forms in the evolution of every blocky character.

In the game, fishing can not only catch fish, but also many other things. These things are often miscellaneous and can be divided into [treasure] and [junk] according to their rarity and usefulness.

As a rare item in the game with a lottery-like element, it has always been extremely popular among players and is very addictive.

However, when Fang Shi first obtained the fishing rod, he didn't have high expectations, simply because most objects' actual power follows the laws of matter, and the idea of ​​something coming from nothing is impossible.

In the game, you can catch fish even in a block of water with no source. Isn't that just creating something out of nothing? He had squatted by the river before, but if there was no bait on the float, he could squat for an hour without getting a bite.

This amount of time is nothing for a real-life fishing pro, but unfortunately he has only fished in games, and each time it never exceeds thirty seconds.

But this time was different. The various experiments last night gave him a deeper understanding of the real nature of various items and blocks, and at the same time, he gained a clearer understanding of the concepts of the power of disintegration and creation from nothing.

Admittedly, the game's characteristics of lava endlessly creating stone upon contact with water, and even the infinite flow of water and lava, are undoubtedly creations out of nothing, because in the process of creating new substances, nothing old is transformed or consumed, which is not allowed by the laws of reality.

But! Is fishing with a fishing rod like this?

Upon analysis, it becomes clear that the powers of all items and blocks are actually interpretations of the word "deconstruction." The essence of these powers is deconstruction and transformation, an extension of the deconstruction power in his hands, representing separation and combination, dispersion and gathering, corresponding to the principles of Yin and Yang.

So why can't fishing rods be used to catch things from the water in the same way? Isn't the essence of this behavior the same as other tools—the disintegration and collection of matter?

As for the claim that you shouldn't be able to fish anything out of water that is clearly empty—who said that? Who said that the water is empty? In the Five Elements, water governs transformation and transportation. Rivers flow for thousands of miles, and how much matter dissipates into the water? It's just that it dissipates into the water and loses its form.

Are the wooden blocks that come from chopping down a tree with an axe exactly the same as real objects? Aren't they just real matter broken down and then transformed into block shapes?

Therefore, Fang Shi has a conjecture: in the past, the substances that could be decomposed by tools were mostly stable objects belonging to the three elements of earth, metal, and wood, which were obviously easier to decompose. However, fishing rods need to obtain objects from the water, and the substances in the water can be dispersed with the current and have nowhere to be decomposed. Since they are scattered and rootless, they cannot be caught. Either this process used to be very long, making the cost-effectiveness too low.

Fang Shi sees through the phenomena to the essence. Now that he has broken through and his abilities have increased, the essence is that his own power of deconstruction has been enhanced, which allows items and blocks to achieve more powerful abilities with this power of deconstruction.

"Now, the moment to witness a miracle!"

Fang Shi arrived outside the city, found a small stream that was three or four meters wide, sat down on the ground, and took out his fishing rod.

For this experiment, he specially made a new fishing rod, and this fishing rod is of Tier 1 quality. This is also thanks to the experiment last night, which allowed him to discover a way to obtain Tier 1 wood.

As we all know, some blocks in the game are designed to make it easier for builders to construct structures, such as smooth stones and various types of wood.

It should be noted that the wood mentioned here is not a log block, but a wood block made by combining four log blocks.

Taking Sky Log as an example, the result is Sky Wood, which is synthesized at a ratio of four to three. The wood and the log are completely identical in properties. The only difference is that the wood has bark on all six sides, unlike the log which has a trunk and cross-section.

In the game, this is purely for visual appeal, but in reality, under the law of conservation of matter, where did the missing log in the recipe go? Even if each of the three wood blocks has an extra layer of bark, it shouldn't consume a log the size of an entire block. In terms of total matter, this can be considered a kind of compression.

Fang Shi discovered that this compression change, where the space remained unchanged but the amount of matter increased, successfully caused a qualitative change from a quantitative one. The smelting of stone into smooth stone was also a kind of qualitative change, which improved the quality of the matter by adding one grade to the original grade.

Is this powerful? Absolutely! It will make collecting materials much easier, and it'll be even more valuable at higher levels.

But fishing is the priority right now.

He swung the fishing rod, casting the float into the water, where it drifted downstream. Because the fishing rod was short, Fang Shi had to sit closer to the water and stretch out his arms, otherwise the float would have been washed ashore.

I thought I would have to wait a while, but to my surprise, the float showed a ray of light as soon as it hit the water.

Fang Shi was naturally very familiar with this; it was the power of dissolving that would manifest when dissolving a cube, and only he could see it.

This means the fishing rod has started working, and now he just needs to wait for the power of dissolution to take shape.

Although the process is extremely slow, much longer than in the game, the wait with a visible finish line is not agonizing at all; on the contrary, it is full of anticipation.

This is the joy of a fisherman!

And so, half an incense stick's time passed—

The phantom square finally took full shape, then suddenly contracted, causing a string of bubbles to rise from the water's surface, and the float to suddenly sink.

"Here you are!"

Fang Shi immediately flicked his wrist, activating the wrestling power of the fishing rod. The object in the water was instantly pulled out, flew directly over his head, and landed on the ground in the forest behind him.

Plop, plop—a lively, powerful, round, short-whiskered fish with dark yellow scales was thrashing about on the ground. It could leap up to waist height on dry land, clearly no ordinary fish. Based on the grade of the fishing rod, it was very likely a first-grade Xuan fish.

Wow! The power of dissolving can actually create living things! That's incredibly amazing!

Seeing that the fish was about to jump back into the river, Fang Shi quickly took out an iron bucket filled with water and caught the fish.

This is the power of the bucket [item]: it can collect live fish, put them in your backpack, and then release them back out, still as live fish.

This is one of the few ways that the Block People can collect living creatures.

I just happened to have made more than twenty buckets while scooping lava. The lava was poured into my spiritual space. I filled the empty space with fish and took them back to the city. I reckon it would be enough to set up a fish stall.

Fang Shi didn't bother to check what kind of fish he had caught; he just wanted to fill all the buckets on his body first.

If he's lucky, he might even catch some treasure. Even if it's just trash, it doesn't matter. He just wants to know how wide a range of things he can catch with his fishing rod.

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