Yang Yi reeled in fish at a frantic pace, only stopping after catching twenty-two Bristle-Flagellum Pipefish in a row. The whole process took barely forty minutes.
For the first ten casts in particular, a fish bit almost as soon as his hook hit the water. Each catch took no more than thirty seconds.
I must have run into a school of fish!
Yang Yi speculated to himself, somewhat curious about what was happening underwater.
He picked up the Light Container beside him and shone it down, dispersing the Black Fog over the sea as much as possible.
But the seawater was a pale black, with very poor visibility. He still had to switch to Three Eyes.
He discovered a fast-moving school of fish more than twenty meters underwater. Their numbers were impossible to count, and they were heading in almost the same direction as the Nightmare Star.
He had been getting consecutive bites because he was fishing right above the school.
Suddenly, one Bristle-Flagellum Pipefish seemed to notice Yang Yi. It broke away from the school and swam upward like an arrow loosed from a bow.
Whoosh!
The pipefish burst out of the water, thrusting its slender snout at Yang Yi, then slammed squarely into the Crystal Great Shield with a dreadful, sharp crack.
Its snout broke, and it fell back down, only to be caught and lifted up by a skeletal arm extending from the hull.
"These fish can see what's happening out of the water and launch attacks?"
Yang Yi sounded surprised. He picked up the Crystal Great Shield to inspect it and discovered a new white mark on its surface.
This meant the pipefish's impact packed considerable force. Ordinary leather armor would have been pierced easily.
He looked at the wooden barrel beside him. It also held