Chapter 232: You Damn Look at the Fish Fry! Damn it!

"Gurgle gurgle..."

In the Changle River section outside Changping Village, a black shadow gradually surfaced, its body covered in black scales, with some gradient red edges on the edges of the scales. The monster fish floated up from the bottom of the water, looking very unwilling, and greeted Lord Fuli on land with a "gurgle gurgle."

"This is... an Arapaima?"

As the monster fish gradually surfaced, Chen Zhiyu, who had quite a bit of research on animals, saw the flat head and the iconic characteristic of having no lower jawbone, and recognized at a glance which family of organisms the monster fish in front of her belonged to.

The Arapaima is an invasive species, with adult body sizes ranging from two meters to six meters. The scales are thick and heavy, with the highest record even reaching six millimeters in thickness, making it one of the largest freshwater fish in the world.

"Ying?"

An Sheng looked at Chen Zhiyu: "Do you know it?"

Although Chen Zhiyu couldn't understand fox language, she could analyze some meanings through a part of Lord Fuli's body language and demeanor.

"It should belong to the Arapaima, which is what we in the Xia Kingdom commonly call the Arowana." Chen Zhiyu looked at Lord Fuli and pondered: "The one in the river, although the color is not the best for viewing, if it could be put up for auction at a fish exhibition, its quality and physique would easily exceed ten million."

Although the Arowana market has already collapsed, excellent quality and auspiciously colored Arowanas—commonly known as Fish Kings—can sell for millions.

The monster fish in the river has excellent quality, no common Arowana eye-dropping problems, and the color is festive. Its body length has broken the world record. Putting it up for auction for over ten million is a normal thing.

If you count the monster fish's spirit beast identity, the selling price would steadily exceed the hundred-million level.

"Bo?"

The monster fish looked at Chen Zhiyu, and a look of doubt mixed with horror clearly appeared on its fish face.

No, Fuli, what do you mean?

Bullying me on weekdays is fine, but now you're bringing humans over to look at my appearance? Are you all crazy from poverty?

"What? This thing can sell for over ten million?" An Sheng was startled when he heard Chen Zhiyu's words, completely not expecting the monster fish to have such a high value.

Three million was the limit for a yellow croaker, not the limit value for all fish species.

"Lord Fuli..."

Chen Zhiyu looked back and forth between Lord Fuli and the monster fish for a while before silently asking:

"The fish you said you would give me last month, the hegemon-level spirit beast fish you mentioned—it wouldn't be this one, would it?"

"!?"

The monster fish instinctively dived a bit deeper into the water, looking at Lord Fuli with a vigilant expression.

That's going too far!

No wonder you drove a "big fly" to crash into me before; it turns out you were already planning to pack me up and sell me whole.

"You surface first!"

An Sheng rolled his eyes and scolded: "An Mou doesn't have a bank card for receiving payments; I can't sell you, you cheap fish!"

"I asked you to come out today for serious business. The person beside me is the village chief of Changping Mountain, and you are the king of this river section. I plan to matchmake you two. By then, we will do business here together, and I will introduce a big brother from the ocean to you."

"Bo bo..." The monster fish looked skeptical; its trust in Lord Fuli was not high.

"Don't say I'm that bad. I promise you, I'll sell the fish-scraping tool second-hand when I go back tonight, okay?"

"You saw the grand occasion by the river yesterday. Those people are all rich. Any fishing rod in their hands is enough to buy two hundred jin of fish feed, understand?"

"We can completely cooperate. I'll act as a guarantor, Zhiyu sister will handle operations, and you will drive the fish in the river. We'll build a fishing attraction. We can make money, and the fish in the river can also harvest a lot of fish feed."

"After making money, whatever you want, you can buy through Zhiyu sister, like food, river-bottom villas, ROG computers, and even foot-washing services."

"Of course, don't reward the anglers too much. Let big fish float on the water surface to spit at them, and every once in a while, catch a big fish and pull them into the water for high-intensity PVP."

"Then give them some protected animals, like finless porpoises or sturgeons. The fish can't be taken away, but they can go to the Forestry Bureau to collect rewards. You understand gambling, right?"

Lord Fuli stood up, standing on the stone railing to popularize the "marking pond" for the monster fish.

Black pits are leisurely fishing, which is a bit interesting, but it's just a little interesting.

And a marked pond is an upgraded version of a black pit. The big fish in the pond have marks. If you catch those fish, you can exchange them for items at the pond owner's place, or cash them out.

With our connections, we can completely trick anglers into feeding the fish.

Then, arrange for big fish to humiliate them, and after they are completely red-faced and furious, give them a reward.

Like a big fish as big as the sky, but the big fish can't be taken away by them so easily.

But that's the feeling we want—having clearly caught a big fish of over a hundred jin, but always falling just short, or not having won the fight in the water.

Only regret can lead to reflection, making them slap themselves twice when they sleep.

Hating themselves for why they didn't use a thicker fishing line.

Lord Fuli described a bright future to the monster fish: every fish would have food to eat, no longer needing to rush around, and just by flicking their tails, they could entice anglers to run over happily.

Anglers aren't here to fish.

They are here to pay tribute, okay!

And the monster fish can make money from it, buy whatever it wants, and can even consume at Hai Linglong, ask a professional veterinarian to relax its whole body of scales, or directly buy a few Arapaima foreign girls from abroad.

"Bo bo..."

The monster fish shouted toward the bottom of the water, letting a few big carp jump onto its head, and scratched its head, which was a bit itchy from overload, by bumping.

Is it true... can you really buy a wife?

"Don't say Lord Fuli can trick you; bring your fish head over!"

An Sheng opened the online shopping platform, aimed at the monster fish, took a photo, and performed a "search for similar products" option.

"Look, 30 centimeters is only 780, two meters is only over twenty thousand."

"Bo bo bo..."

The monster fish stood up, its fish tail swimming vigorously, its two fins clinging to the stone railing, leaning over to watch the fish display pictures on the shopping platform.

The monster fish watched with relish, looking like it had seen an alien, with a face full of enjoyment.

"Bo bo..."

An Sheng swiped the picture to the big fish category, but the monster fish self-taught how to control its tentacles and swiped the picture back to the small fish fry.

That is, those thirty or forty-centimeter Arapaimas.

"Huh?"

An Sheng was stunned, looking at the monster fish with a face full of question marks.

"Can you damn well follow the local customs? Stop bringing those foreign habits of yours into our country!"

"Bo..."

The monster fish had no waves, continuing to watch.

"So... what is it now?" Chen Zhiyu looked at the fox and the fish, huddled together watching short videos, and a trace of black lines appeared on her cheeks.

An animal expert is not a god.

Being able to understand animal body language is based on having an understanding of the animal's habits.

How would she know what a fish could express?

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 233 =====