Chapter 20 ： Silas' Thoughts

Outside the ancient Giant City, the Taikoo River meandered, and a lone boat was quietly moored in the tranquil waters in the center of the river. At the bow of the boat, a weathered old fisherman was skillfully casting a fish net into the river; while at the stern of the boat, a man clad in black armor was focused on fishing.

The old fisherman retrieved the net, only to see that there were already dozens of big fish in the net, and with a shake of the hand, the fish magically jumped into the small fish basket on the boat. Some of the fish were even bigger than the fish basket, but they even all fit in, obviously, this fish basket is an extraordinary treasure.

The old fisherman and the man chatted casually, "You went through so much effort to complete the hidden quest and can learn the third life profession, why did you choose to become a fisherman?"

The man smiled and said, "It's not because of my 'Little Black', it's simply a king of appetite, and it especially likes to eat fish. Half of my possessions have been eaten by it, and the price of fish in this town has been raised by me. So I decided to catch my own fish to fill its stomach."

The old fisherman laughed softly and looked up at the huge black dragon hovering in the sky, "You had such a powerful pet at birth, I really don't know how much less fun the game is ..."

The man frowned, "Isn't the fun of the game in becoming strong and overwhelming others with strength?"

The old fisherman smiled and changed the topic, "Then again, your intellect is truly amazing, you were able to find even such a hidden quest. Not only that, you were able to know that I'm the highest leveled fisherman in this game, understanding that practicing skills with me is several times faster than practicing alone. Looking at the fact that you have practiced your other two life professions to expert level, and are the highest leveled player in the entire game, it's unbelievable, how did you do it?"

The man laughed out loud, "What do I count as, isn't the Giant City Lord already level 150? And your old man, haven't you long since reached the pinnacle of the Living Profession, the God Level?"

The old fisherman was just about to open his mouth when he suddenly realized something and closed his mouth, and the two fell into silence.

After a while, the man asked, "Why is the mesh of your fish net so big, so that those medium sized fish won't escape?"

The old fisherman laughed, "Those small fish that are still young, I intend to wait until they grow up a bit before catching them. They haven't experienced too much yet, so if I catch them, I'm afraid they'll be unwilling, I don't want to create a sin. And if I capture them now, I'm afraid there won't be any new big fish in the river for a long time, so won't it take me months to net a big fish? That would be too hard of a day."

The man shook his head in disbelief at this. At that moment, a golden light suddenly flashed in the net that the old fisherman had cast. The man said excitedly, "It must be a BOSS of fish, pull it up!"

He was about to go forward to help, but the old fisherman gently shook his hand, and the golden light disappeared to the bottom of the river. The man froze, "Why is this?"

The old fisherman smiled faintly, "I came here to teach you skills today, so I didn't bring a good fish net with me, and catching it with this net will only end in the death of the fish. I don't want it to die and I don't want the net to break, let's talk about it next time."

The man's brow furrowed, "I'm now beginning to wonder if you're really the highest-ranking fisherman on this continent."

The old fisherman was not angry and laughed, "My best fish net, every time before I use it, I need to bathe and burn incense and pray to ask it to come out, how can it be used easily."

The man glanced at the net in the old fisherman's hand and realized that the net actually had a small mechanism that could make one side of the net fall off with a single press, so naturally the net couldn't catch fish. Seeing this, the old fisherman laughed, "This is what we fishermen call 'netting off'. When we meet fish with aura that we shouldn't catch or fish that are too fierce, we will let them live."

The man snorted coldly: "I know the allusion to 'netting away', it refers to a hunter's net for catching birds, it has nothing to do with your fishing."

The old fisherman shook his head, "All things in the world are connected, there is no need to go too far in everything."

The man just wanted to argue, but suddenly felt an alert coming from his heart, "An intelligent program is attacking the host, emergency defense system is on!"

The man shuddered and whistled as the black dragon swooped down and carried him up into the air, turning his eyes to a quiet place. The man closed his eyes, his thought-sense spreading at the speed of light along unseen lines.

When he reached his destination, he saw a purple figure in the shape of a bull's head, pounding the black space he had set up in his host's mind with spells. Tiny cracks had already appeared on the outer walls of the black space.

The man snorted coldly, "But it's only this level of intelligence, and it's still incomplete."

The purple figure let out a long laugh, "This shouldn't have been a problem, but since you already know my secret, I can only destroy you!"

The purple shadow shuddered, not only was the opponent in front of him powerful, but he was also in the opponent's territory, the wisest choice would be to escape. However, Violet Shadow soon realized that the other routes to the game world had been blocked by a large amount of junk data, and the only remaining route was firmly occupied by "Silas".

Silas let out a long whistle, not allowing his opponent to think twice, and sent out a black light from his hand: "Break Evil!"

Purple Shadow roared and gathered all his strength to meet the attack with a purple ball of light: "The Final Upanishad of the Ox-Headed God - God's Will!"

With a loud rumble, the purple ball of light was shattered, and the Purple Shadow screamed miserably as it flew backwards, almost shattered by the black light. It understood that it could no longer escape today, and its gaze revealed intense hatred, "Even if I disappear, I won't let you have it easy!" After saying that, it exerted its last strength, and its entire body transformed into a ball of light, slamming into the black space.

After the huge explosion, the purple shadow completely disappeared, and the outer wall of the black space also broke a few small openings. Silas looked at those small openings and was secretly surprised, ''The intelligence of this Ox Head Great God is actually quite not weak, what is in front of us is only a very small part of it. There are indeed many highly intelligent programs in the Fantasy Journey, what kind of terrifying existence is the 'Blue Queen' who created them."

Silas raised his hand and sent out a few blasts of black light, slowly repairing the outer walls of the space while extending his thoughts and senses to the interior of the space. He saw a white figure staring around nervously.

"Huh?" Silas was surprised to find that "Chris'" mental will had become so tenacious. "What's going on, 'Chris' has actually improved so much spiritually in such a short period of time? If we let him continue to grow, sooner or later this space will not be able to trap him."

At this moment, Silas was also unable to determine how much of a backlash he would receive if he attacked Chris, after all, he had already consumed a portion of his energy just now. During his hesitation, the words of the old fisherman suddenly surfaced in his mind.

"Fish to death ... net to open up ..."

Silas froze for a while and muttered to himself, "It seems that my intelligence is still far from perfect, to the point that I don't know how to decide on a matter. Should I eliminate this human's mark forever or not ..."