I am a loser, a socially phobic, and a shut-in? Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes!

There are countless people living in Chongming Town, and Old Liutou is one of the more famous ones among them, but Xu Lin is not very familiar with Old Liutou privately.

After continuing to observe for a while and becoming more convinced of the truthfulness of Old Liu's words, Xu Lin temporarily let go of the last bit of his guard and left.

"We need to test the effectiveness of this bait first."

Relics have all sorts of strange effects, and some even have the potential to influence natural phenomena and change the world as a whole.

[Relic Substance. Bait] seems to only increase the success rate of fishing, but there must be some unknown dangers.

The holder of the relic that makes the bait must have some combat means. What Xu Lin needs to do is to obtain more information by testing the bait, so as to increase the chances of winning in possible battles.

Fighting with a relic holder is very dangerous. Relics cannot be measured by common sense, and you can never know what outrageous effects the relic held by the other party has. Even the strongest person may die on the spot due to encountering a relic with strange effects. Unlike those relic enthusiasts who died in the past, Xu Lin is more cautious. He will not act rashly before figuring out the approximate characteristics of the opponent's relics. He will never fight a battle without confidence, so he has been able to survive until now.

Xu Lin, holding the bait, left quietly, and Old Liu, who couldn't wait to leave here, also left hurriedly.

Sylvie, who had been following Xu Lin, did not chase after her immediately. Instead, she looked at a small head emerging from the river in the distance with a puzzled look on her face.

"Blue hair, blue eyes, and wearing a crown. Just from the half of her head exposed, you can tell that she is definitely a super beautiful girl."

"But why did the beautiful girl appear in the water? She doesn't look like she fell into the water at all. Could she be some kind of creature that has always lived in the water?"

I am a cat-eared girl and a werewolf, so it doesn’t seem so strange to see a beautiful girl who has lived in the water since she was a child.

Under Sylvie's subtle gaze, seeing Xu Lin leave, the blue-haired girl dived down, with a blue fish tail looming on the surface of the river.

'In the water, a beautiful girl, in the sewer... oh no, a mermaid in the Huai River?'

Her guess made Sylvie's red eyes light up. Mermaids have the upper body of a human and the lower body of a fish tail, which are cute and look super delicious. If it was her real body that came over, she would probably be eager to go forward and catch the blue-haired girl.

"At first, the blue-haired girl didn't show her head, but now it's revealed. Is it really related to Xu Lin? It should be because of that extraordinary bait."

I saw everything Xu Lin said and did to Old Liu when he was invisible and disguised as the river god. Xu Lin's ability to deceive people is still very strong. If I hadn't been following Xu Lin and had a God's perspective, I would probably have been fooled by Xu Lin's intimidation through the information gap in the dark environment.

"I also know Lao Liu, a famous fisherman who always wanted to catch a big fish, but for some reason he couldn't catch a single fish."

"I can catch fish now because I used this bait. As long as I use this bait, I will definitely catch fish... The effect is so strong. I'm not sure if it's related to the person or the relic... But it should be related to this mermaid. Maybe this mermaid knows the origin of this bait. I always feel like I've seen similar bait on the Internet."

Seeing the blue-haired mermaid swimming in the direction Xu Lin left, Sylvie, who was more certain of her idea, quietly followed. Neither Xu Lin nor the blue-haired mermaid, whose strength was unknown, noticed Sylvie's approach.

While following quietly, Sylvie was also wondering where she had seen the bait before.

"To be precise, I haven't seen it before, but I have seen some bait ads with similar effects."

During the day, when I was engaged in a high-intensity confrontation with Youshenyou and even in the real-life imperial city PK, I noticed some interesting barrages and comments.

Those comments all said that Youshen was followed by a UP host on Bilibili who was known as the Living King of Hell - Xinyue Baishipu. It was said that all the UP hosts on Bilibili who were followed by this UP would die due to various accidents, and several UP hosts have already died because of this.

Xiao Gao, who loves all kinds of extreme sports and likes to run between rooftops doing parkour and use all kinds of sensory stimulation to attract fans, was noticed by Xinyue Funeral Home. He said disdainfully that Xinyue Funeral Home was just trying to get attention. Then, less than a day later, he accidentally fell to his death while climbing a high-rise building barehanded during a live broadcast.

Ah Wei, who likes wilderness survival and often shoots personal survival videos, expressed disdain for his bad luck when he was noticed by a funeral shop, and loudly insulted the owner of the funeral shop. Then, less than two days later, he was torn to pieces and eaten by an adult brown bear in the mountains. Before Ah Wei's death, many people questioned the authenticity of the video. It was because of Ah Wei's death that people truly believed in the authenticity of Ah Wei's wilderness survival, and Ah Wei thus remained innocence in the world.

The beautiful blogger who liked to upload beautiful pictures while wearing Lolita uniform and riding a motorcycle said that she was not superstitious when she was followed by a funeral shop. Faced with the dangers mentioned by the funeral shop, she responded with the famous phrase "dangerous nm" with confidence. Then, less than a week later, this beautiful blogger closed her eyes forever in a traffic accident. Afterwards, the blogger was found to be driving without a license as a minor, and the motorcycle was also rented from other friends.

Bingbing, a food zone UP host who likes to develop various cuisines, was reminded by the funeral shop but did not take it seriously. As a result, a gas tank exploded during the video recording and she died accidentally.

Youshen, who often uploads videos of splitting bricks and has a strong physique and unfathomable strength, simply ignores the attention of the funeral shop. As a result, he unexpectedly disappears after having a real-life fight with Yi, and his life or death is unknown.

Feng Jue, a genius researcher who likes to develop all kinds of strange inventions and even invented a hovercraft, has been noticed by Bai Shi Pu. Unlike others, Feng Jue believes that the limit of science is metaphysics, and the essence of metaphysics is still a part of science. The so-called metaphysics is science that has not been thoroughly explored and understood. All human development is not invention, but invention, but the discovery of existing paths. There must be a reason why those genius scientists in history began to study mysticism in their later years...

Because the funeral shop's attention served as a warning, Feng Jue was very careful for the next week and didn't even dare to go out of the house, fearing that there would be various accidents like the Grim Reaper. Even at home, he was very vigilant. Thanks to this, when a fully insured semi-trailer truck accidentally hit his home, Feng Jue was able to react quickly and move aside. In the end, he was only crushed under the house because the house collapsed and he was accidentally disfigured, but he was still alive...

Chapter 82: The Deep Diver and the Mermaid

When faced with the warning from Xinyue Funeral Home at first, netizens scoffed at it, thinking that it was just like some other curious anchors who were just trying to trick people to attract attention. However, after Xinyue Funeral Home received repeated attention and its warnings in the comment section came true time and time again, netizens' ideas began to change subtly.

No one questioned the funeral shop anymore, and instead began to pay attention to other places. A small number of people thought that Xinyue Funeral Shop was really capable and had some kind of divination ability similar to fortune-telling, but more people believed that Xinyue Funeral Shop was predicting crimes, and those who died because of her predictions were not because the predictions were effective, but because Xinyue Funeral Shop secretly took action, so the predictions became effective...

Xinyue Funeral Shop is a murderer, and there is most likely a criminal gang behind it.

'The popularity of Xinyue Funeral Shop has also been suppressed. Not many people know about the existence of this funeral shop. Most people don't actually believe it. They just follow this UP host with the mentality of watching the fun.'

Sylvie, who continued to follow Xu Lin closely about a hundred meters away, narrowed her eyes and gradually sorted out her thoughts.

"The owner of that funeral shop account is probably not a simple person. After learning about this account through the parade of the gods, I became quite interested in it. That is why I learned that the latest target of this funeral shop is a bald and skinny guy named Fish Qiang."

The advertisement slogan of this fish seller is very outrageous. It says that as long as you buy his bait, you will always be able to catch fish when fishing. When I first saw this advertisement slogan, I didn’t believe it at all because it was too outrageous...

From now on, the bait obtained by Old Liu was most likely related to this fishmongering Qiang, because this fishmongering Qiang, like the funeral shop owner, all lived in Chongming Town, and the place where the fishmongering Qiang lived and the fish pond happened to be near the Dragon King Temple. It can be said that Chongming Town is full of talented people.

Seeing Xu Lin stop at an empty bank of the Huai River, the blue-haired mermaid underwater stopped swimming. The werewolf Sylvie in the distance also stopped and turned to her phone to learn about Maiyuqiang in advance.

'Some time ago, the fish seller Qiang was still selling fish, but now he has become a bait seller...'

"The funeral shop is paying attention to this fishmonger, Qiang, and predicts that he will be in danger. Could it be because of Xu Lin, me, and the blue-haired mermaid? We are the danger he will encounter."

'Indeed, Zhongming Town is full of talented people at night. I also want to become an invisible guardian and the mastermind behind the scenes with Xu Lin. If there is really something wrong with that fishmonger, even if Xu Lin and the mermaid are not opponents, I will not care, because I will take action! '

Xu Lin and the mermaid seemed very interested in the source of the bait, and I was very interested in Xu Lin, the mermaid and the source of the bait. Any one of these three would be enough to become an urban legend if left out, and now I am getting close to and understanding these urban legends. I feel a little excited just thinking about it.

"It was a good decision to follow Xu Lin out quietly today. It turns out that Xu Lin usually encounters so many events and so many interesting things. I feel like I can see a lot of fun in the early hours of this morning."

The corners of her mouth unconsciously raised a happy arc. Under Sylvie's happy gaze, Xu Lin suddenly jumped into the water, and then caught a red carp and came ashore in less than a minute. Although she jumped into the river once, Xu Lin's body was still not touched by a drop of water.

Even though she knew that Xu Lin was amazed and knew that Xu Lin had become invisible through some unknown means, Sylvie was still amazed when she saw this scene.

"I'm sorry, you may gain some benefits from this, but there is a high probability that you will be hurt. This is a necessary sacrifice."

With an expressionless face, Xu Lin spoke incomprehensible words to the fish in his hand, and then he took out the bait he got from Old Liu, a small blue pill.

If the fish had its own ideas, it would definitely say that it is unwilling to sacrifice for humans, but Xu Lin doesn't care. Xu Lin only cares about humans and animals related to herself, or those cute animals. Fish are not in the category of Xu Lin's preferences, and Xu Lin often eats fish, so it doesn't matter.

Just as she was about to stuff it into the fish's mouth, Xu Lin found that as the blue pill was taken out, the fish suddenly became extremely excited. It looked like it was very eager for the pill in Xu Lin's hand, as if as long as it swallowed the pill, the fish would be able to complete itself, evolve, and become stronger.

Xu Lin didn't even need to do anything herself, the red carp jumped up and swallowed the blue pill in Xu Lin's hand...

"In a certain country, people there cannot hold knives or kill animals because of their caste, so when they kill fish, they hit the fish with a stick, letting the fish hit the knife and die."

"It's not me who's going to put this little blue pill in your mouth, it's your choice, and that's fine."

Xu Lin calmly looked at the fish in his hand, carefully observing the changes in the red carp. He could feel that the red carp that had eaten the blue pill had become stronger, and a faint blue color began to appear in its body.

'....'

'Identification!'

Xu Lin has an attribute panel similar to a system. He can add attribute points by absorbing the power of relics. He cannot use the relic's sub-body to add points, but he can pay a huge price to identify the items. Identification is a test.

When it comes to identification, Xu Lin can use a bug to allow other lives to use the relic offspring, and then conduct identification. In this way, the cost will be relatively much less... An identification only requires a lot of mental energy, which will at most cause a headache, but it will not directly reduce vitality and lifespan like identifying relics and relic offspring.

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Item: Deep One's Bait

Quality: white

Type: Non-relic

description:

The bait made by the Deep Diver's own flesh and blood can attract the surrounding aquatic creatures to come and devour it. The aquatic creatures that devour the Deep Diver's bait will become stronger and more delicious. Humans who use this type of aquatic creatures will gradually transform into Deep Divers.

】

"..."

"It's not what I thought at first. This time it's not a relic, but a supernatural being."

Xu Lin blinked in surprise. Although she didn't quite understand what the Deep Diver was, there was one thing Xu Lin was sure of: this blue pill was definitely not a good thing.

"They sell bait to fishermen, and then sell the fish that have eaten the Deep Diver's bait to the market, so that the residents of Chongming Town who don't know the truth will gradually turn to the Deep Diver... I smell a conspiracy."

Chapter 83: The Reborn Fishmonger

"This sneaky practice is more terrifying than the open forced transformation. If it hadn't been discovered early, I'm afraid the entire Chongming Town's residents would have been transformed into this strange creature, the Deep Divers, and all turned into non-humans."

'Someone is planning to do something big!'

Could it be that in places unknown to me, there are some unknown towns that have been transformed into deep divers?

If the Deep Ones are humanoid beings like the vampires that can blend into human society, then that would be troublesome... In a small town, seemingly everyone is human, but in fact they have been secretly transformed into Deep Ones, and have been lurking in human society for some unknown purpose.

'What is their purpose, what do they want to do, what do they want...what? How many of them are there now?!'

This ability to start with food and secretly transform other races into deep divers is really too abnormal. For a moment, Xu Lin was full of vigilance towards this unknown race. Even if this matter has nothing to do with the relics, he had to go and see what was going on.

"Over at the Dragon King Temple, selling fish bait... I know the approximate location, it's about the same as what Old Liu said. The fish pond owner over at the Dragon King Temple, selling strong fish, can only be him."

Thinking about the information given to him by Old Liu, Xu Lin thought of a B station UP named Mai Yuqiang.

The account holder of Xinyue Baishipu, an UP on Bilibili, seems to have the ability to predict the future. For every UP he follows, another UP will die.

One is a coincidence, two are accidents, and three are definitely problematic. Unlike those netizens who absolutely believe that Yue Baishipu is a premeditated murderer, Xu Lin believes that this B station UP host is most likely in possession of some high-level relic related to precognition.

Even if he is not a high-level relic, he must be a transcendent with predictive abilities and is worth winning over.

The extraordinary people and relic holders also need to live, and we can always find clues of their existence from some seemingly insignificant things, because they are always around us.

Today, in addition to investigating why Old Liu was able to catch fish, Xu Lin also came out to investigate the Xinyue Funeral Shop, which was also one of Xu Lin's mission targets.

Just like getting the bait from Old Liu and testing and identifying the bait to understand its characteristics, Xu Lin also got to know Xinyue Funeral Shop to a certain extent. That's why Xu Lin knew that Xinyue Funeral Shop's latest target was this fish seller Qiang.

'The two mission objectives are related.'

The effects of relics are extremely powerful and more absolute than supernatural powers. They exist like rules, and their core logic is absolute and cannot be changed.

'Xinyue Funeral Shop followed Youshen and thought Youshen would die. Even if Youshen was not going to die originally, he would die for various reasons because of the blessing of the relic of Xinyue Funeral Shop. I cannot be sure whether the core logic of the relic of the Xinyue Funeral Shop account holder is future prediction or future determination... Maybe Xinyue Funeral Shop's prediction is not "will definitely die" but "will definitely encounter an event with a high probability of causing death", so Feng Jue can survive'

"Xinyue Funeral Shop predicted that the fishmonger Qiang's death was related to me, and I am also part of the force that made this future come true."

On the way to the Dragon King Temple, Xu Lin narrowed his eyes. Before, he didn't quite understand why he wanted to kill the fishmonger. Now that he knew the function of the bait, he understood.

The bait sold by the fishmonger Qiang is made of the flesh and blood of the deep divers. I don't believe at all that the fishmonger Qiang has no relationship with the deep divers.

A person who, for unknown reasons, wants to catch all the fishermen who love fishing in Chongming Town by selling a large amount of bait, and then use the fish caught by these fishermen that have swallowed the bait to force the eaters to transform into deep divers. He can no longer be called a human being, but a traitor!

A person who sells out the interests of the human race and begs for mercy from alien races! Damn it!

Xu Lin is not a human supremacist, nor is he a person who believes in collective interests above all else. He simply cannot tolerate the fact that other innocent humans are forcibly transformed into something unknown, deep divers, for personal reasons!

The strong resentment prompted Xu Lin to speed up again...

Using the attribute panel to absorb the power of relics to increase points for oneself will not destroy the relics. Xu Lin usually completes tasks and always deliberately takes advantage of the relics in the process of recycling them. After countless times of increasing points, Xu Lin can easily burst out at a speed far beyond the limit of a car.

The blue-haired mermaid rode the water's waves and caught up quietly and easily.

'The speed of these two people is outrageous'

Even the werewolf ancestor Sylvie was surprised by Xu Lin's burst of speed, and then easily caught up with him.

...

Dragon King Temple, near a dilapidated earthen house.

Mai Yuqiang’s big fish pond exists here. Unlike usual times, the fish pond seems dead silent in the early morning, and there is no sign of even the slightest life.

From the blue tin house next to the fish pond, bursts of crazy laughter could be faintly heard.

"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha"

"What Xinyue Funeral Shop? They said I was going to die... I'm not going to die, I'm going to be reborn!"

"It seems that all the predictions made by Xinyue Funeral Shop were just coincidences. I am fine now!"

In front of the mirror, the fishmonger Qiang looked at his new image of a fish head and a human body with satisfaction. He had gray-green skin like fish scales, a white belly, bulging fish eyes that could not be closed, gills on his neck, and a strong fishy smell on his body.

I might have felt that I was ugly in the past, but now I don’t think so at all. The only feeling I have at this moment is that I am so handsome.

Apart from this, it was like I had gained some kind of inheritance and gained some interesting knowledge.

"Praise the Father God, praise my good brother Aman, strength, I feel the power flowing out of my body!"

A'man is my good brother who I have played with since childhood. Even now, I still keep in touch with A'man.

A Man knew that his good brother A Man was in love with a beautiful woman named Master Tang. Unfortunately, he was cheated in less than two months. Master Tang's betrayal made A Man heartbroken. He kept calling himself the Nightmare of Gotham and could not recover from the breakup for a long time.

It was not until Aman came back from a month-long trip out to sea that he recovered a little. However, Aman felt like a different person after returning from the trip. He exuded a cold feeling and became mysterious. He even brought a kind of fishing bait and wanted me to help sell it.

Chapter 84 Humans have limits...so