Chapter 136: Killing Fish for Merit

In the water, the blue ball ejected from the silt and was grabbed by Liang Qu.

The bitten water beast shook its body frantically, and the stirred water flow was like a water whip, cutting off the water grass several meters away out of thin air.

This is a water beast with a long snout, sharp as a sword, with sharp teeth in its mouth, hard scales on its body, and strong and powerful.

The water beast saw Liang Qu in the water, its pale eyes bloodshot, and it rushed to the front with a tail flick.

Liang Qu reached out and grasped, endless water flow rolled in, and the space of several cubic meters stagnated, imprisoning the attacking water beast in place, like opening slow motion. Its swimming in the water became extremely difficult, and even breathing was abnormally difficult.

Water Prison.

This move is extremely useful for dealing with water beasts whose strength is close to or inferior to his own. Before Liang Qu's physical strength is exhausted, the resistance of the water beast's swimming is no different from mud.

Liang Qu grabbed the rope on Round Head and left quickly. In a few breaths, he released the imprisonment. When the water beast approached again, it was another Water Prison.

One relaxation and one tightening effectively save physical strength.

Several times like this, the water beast was like an old disc full of scratches, playing abnormally stutteringly.

A-Wei's poison worked rapidly within the water beast's body, and the water beast gradually became powerless.

Liang Qu felt this clearly. Initially, the water beast could still move slowly in the Water Prison, but after twenty breaths, it couldn't move at all, and in less than thirty breaths, it fell into the silt.

Liang Qu waited in place for a while, and after about sixty breaths, almost three minutes, he went up.

The water beast was still alive, but the water flow sprayed from the gill cover stirred up the silt, but it was paralyzed all over, and it had no strength to move at all.

The water flow sprayed from under the gill cover became lighter and lighter, and the distance the sand could be raised was soon less than a few inches. Liang Qu came over and inserted a spear into the water beast's neck, completely ending its life.

Fresh blood gushed out, and A-Wei lay on the wound, sucking the fresh blood in large gulps, ingesting the Marsh Essence.

Liang Qu's own strength actually exceeded this water beast. He could completely kill it strongly, but many times spending a little more time could also solve it without injury, so strong killing was completely unnecessary.

Leaving a piece of fish belly meat, he cut off the head and brought the head back to the boat.

Two heads of about the same size were already placed on the new boat. This was the third water beast Liang Qu killed today.

Ordinary River Patrol Officers, even if they are martial artists, don't kill water beasts as easily as he does.

Sensory power to find water beasts, Water Prison to control water beasts, and his own existence in the water is extremely low.

After a set of combination punches, the water beast has nowhere to escape, and even the advantages of breathing and swimming in the water do not exist.

Liang Qu is better at breathing and swimming than the water beast, and he has a group of helpers.

Just A-Wei injecting poison is enough for them to suffer. A little pulling and delaying time, and it is bloodless.

However, because others are not so easy to kill underwater spirit monsters, in the River Patrol Office, a small spirit monster can count as a small achievement.

There are quite a few good things that can be exchanged on the list, at least most of the medicine money in the future can be saved.

Liang Qu arranged the fish heads, cleared out the empty space, and entered the water again.

The galaxy is brilliant, and the waning moon shines a long light on the river.

The Huaijiang River wild area is ten thousand li wide. If you want to push the fishermen's fishing range in, you don't need to kill all the water beasts; that is not realistic.

You only need to clean up a batch regularly, and the remaining water beasts will know that this place cannot be approached, that there is danger, and slowly they will not come again.

Just like a tiger will have its territory, other wild beasts will not easily approach unless they are starving.

In the entire Pingyang County area, the River Patrol Office is this tiger. What it needs to do is to spread the tiger's prestige and tell the water beasts of its existence.

Once the water beasts give up their positions, you only need to check them regularly every month, and the task will be much easier.

Working until midnight, five fish heads were neatly arranged on the boat, with the cross-section facing down and the fish mouths facing the sky, looking up at the starry sky, with different shapes.

Liang Qu roasted the fish belly meat, finished eating, and rowed to the pier to report.

As a result, before he reached the storied ship, he saw a figure sitting on a narrow wooden boat, holding a fishing rod and fishing.

Too far away, and the moon at the beginning of the month was too small. In the darkness, it was just a blurry back, but Liang Qu had a very familiar feeling.

It's midnight now.

He rowed closer quietly, and it was exactly as he thought.

"Magistrate Xu is still fishing so late?" Liang Qu said in a low voice.

"Shh!" Xu Yuelong raised a finger.

Liang Qu stopped making noise and watched Xu Yuelong's operation quietly.

In his perception, there were indeed a few fish surrounding the bait, but none of them took the hook, just sucking the bait and leaving, making the float tremble constantly, bringing up slight ripples.

Xu Yuelong was fully focused, his muscles tense. Just as the float sank halfway, he jerked his wrist.

The air was drawn by the fishing rod with a sharp whistling sound. Liang Qu ducked his head violently, and the fish hook made of refined steel flew past his eyes, hooking the fish head on his boat, scratching out a long, narrow cut, even cracking the fish bone inside.

Liang Qu's pupils shrank violently.

Killer fish hook!

He dared to bet that if this hit a person, it could cut the person in two.

Let alone not taking the hook just now, even if it took the hook, the fish mouth would have been torn, and it couldn't be caught at all!

"Oops!"

The fish hook was empty, and Xu Yuelong slapped the water surface angrily. The force penetrated the water layer, and the water flow turned into a giant pillar and inserted down, slapping the black fish ten meters below into a faint, floating up with a white belly slowly.

"Hey! Fish!"

Xu Yuelong lowered his head, very pleasantly surprised by the sudden appearance of the fish, picked it up, and shook it.

"Six liang! Not bad, not bad."

Xu Yuelong happily threw the fish into the fish basket and turned to look at Liang Qu, a bit surprised: "A-Shui? When did you come?"

Liang Qu, who witnessed the whole process, was speechless.

Xu Yuelong slapped his forehead, only then thinking of it: "Look at me, too focused, didn't notice. Sorry, sorry, you don't know, fishing, it's a thing that requires full concentration..."

Muttering to himself for a while, Xu Yuelong asked: "By the way, what are you doing so late?"

"I am a River Patrol Officer now, of course, I am cleaning up water beasts." Liang Qu pointed to the five big heads on his boat.

"Five, so many? Did you catch them? One night?"

Xu Yuelong looked Liang Qu up and down.

Didn't feel wrong, it was the strength of a third-pass martial artist.

Even if Liang Qu was born with strong blood and qi, and studied under Yang Dongxiong, his techniques and martial arts wouldn't be too bad, but that was about the same as the initial stage of Galloping Horse.

How could he kill five water beasts in one night?

Let alone killing, just finding them is a problem.

Liang Qu cupped his hands: "Magistrate Xu doesn't know, I grew up on the water since I was a child. Although I am not a boat dweller, I can be called half a one. Fighting with fish in the water can be said to be what I am best at."

Boat dwellers are water residents. In the Great Shun, they are usually criminals, forbidden to go ashore for life, forbidden to take imperial examinations, and completely rely on water to live.

Compared with this, the status of fishermen is higher.

Despite this explanation, Xu Yuelong was still incredulous.

Normally speaking, a martial artist at the initial stage of Galloping Horse killing two water beasts in one night would be considered lucky; water beasts are too slippery.

Thinking and thinking, he could only attribute it to Liang Qu's water-affinity fate.

"You are going to exchange for military achievements, right? Take this." Xu Yuelong took off his waist token and threw it to Liang Qu. "Showing my waist token to the registrar doesn't need the extra witness of three colleagues. You just give the fish heads to him. Alright, go quickly, I'll fish for a while longer, remember to return it to me later."

"Thank you, Magistrate Xu."

Liang Qu cupped his hands. He rowed to the bottom of the storied ship, carried the five fish heads onto the storied ship, and found the registrar on duty in the file room.

After the registrar looked at the fish heads and the waist token, although he felt it was incredible, he still picked up the brush to record the military achievements and took out a small booklet from the bottom drawer.

"Small Merit Exchange Book, take a look, Lord Liang, to see what you need."