As a Fisherman, My Fish Can Level Up

Chapter 55: Chapter 55: Experiencing Features Ahead of Time in Times of Crisis [Seeking Monthly Votes and Followers]

The next morning, Chu Mingcheng changed into a clean and casual outfit after going for a run and taking a shower.

Today, he was planning to look at boats and then go to sign up for a driving test.

After finishing his tasks in the afternoon, he was supposed to pick up Jiang Luoluo and arrange a meeting.

However, just as he had just left Yanmen Island, Jiang Luoluo’s call came through.

“Ah Cheng, I’ve just landed. Can you come and pick me up?”

Chu Mingcheng was a bit puzzled. Wasn’t he supposed to pick her up after her commercial performance was over? What was going on now?

Nevertheless, he’d find out the details once he picked her up, so he agreed and headed to the national highway towards the airport.

More than forty minutes later, he arrived at the airport and saw Jiang Luoluo, who looked somewhat bored standing by the exit.

A pretty girl standing by the roadside definitely attracted attention, but people around only gave her a few extra glances, as those who liked to hit on young girls were in the minority.

“Why are you alone? Where’s your photographer?” Chu Mingcheng pulled up beside her, got out of the car to help her with her luggage, and asked.

“There were some issues with the commercial performance, so I pushed it back, but I had promised to hang out with you, and I can’t just stand you up!”

Jiang Luoluo had her excuses ready. She had always been busy with work, and along with daily dance practices, she also felt the desire to go out and have some fun.

Her previous experience of sea fishing with Chu Mingcheng left a deep impression on her, and there was a particular cat that particularly attracted her, as well as a little bit of attraction to a certain someone, which had made her decide to come to Wen City for fun again.

“Then, thank you!”

“No need to be polite!”

Seeing Jiang Luoluo smiling sweetly, she familiarly took the passenger seat, while Chu Mingcheng, somewhat speechlessly, placed her luggage in the trunk.

Actually, he wouldn’t have minded if she had stood him up.

But now that she was really here, he felt a responsibility to take good care of her.

“This morning, you’ll accompany me to the shipyard to look at boats, and then to sign up for the driving license test. In the afternoon, I’ll take you to a nice place for camping, how about that?”

“You are buying a boat?” Jiang Luoluo immediately sat up straight, her big eyes twinkling brightly, clearly very interested.

“Yes! There isn’t much resource by the shore, if I want to make money by fishing, I need to go out to sea.”

“Then let’s hurry!”

Wen City used to have quite a few shipyards. Chu Mingcheng had heard that his middle school language teacher had made a fortune by investing in shipbuilding.

Whether that was true or not, he wasn’t sure, but that language teacher had indeed bought several apartments in the city center and even changed cars.

However, these last two years, the outlook has not been good, and many shipyards had closed down, with quite a few owners having gone bankrupt.

All these shipyards are located in a place called Huang Town. From the airport to Huang Town, you can take the national road, then switch to the highway; it only takes half an hour to get there.

Before the national highway was built, going there was quite troublesome because of the Ou River blocking the way, and it required a detour, which took at least an hour.

As Chu Mingcheng was driving on the national road, he noticed a large crowd gathered on the pedestrian lane of the bridge ahead, with many cars parked on the side of the road, and there was even a fire truck and two police cars.

“What happened?” Jiang Luoluo curiously rolled down the window to look.

A fire truck and police cars had shown up, which definitely indicated an incident.

When they got closer, the two saw that there was a girl sitting outside the railing, crying.

Below was the rushing Ou River. If she fell, it would definitely be the end! No wonder both the fire truck and police cars were there; someone was seriously distressed!

The two of them listened for a while and only then realized that the girl had been deceived by a scumbag and was now threatening to kill herself to force the scumbag to appear.

Jiang Luoluo had been in a good mood, smiling all along the way.

But now, after hearing about this, her face turned expressionless. She rolled up the car window and said, “Ah Cheng, let’s go. This person is pitiful but even more hateful, there is nothing to sympathize with here.”

Chu Mingcheng looked at Jiang Luoluo in surprise, “I thought you would curse the scumbag and sympathize with her!”

“The scumbag is certainly despicable; if he were here, I would kick him into the river to feed the fish. But this woman isn’t worth sympathizing with either. Hasn’t she thought that by jumping, she is no different from the scumbag?”

“Her parents struggled to raise her, and this is how she repays them? This kind of self-hatred is even worse than the scumbag!”

“Love brains, brain-dead!”

Jiang Luoluo’s angry words seemed quite reasonable to Chu Mingcheng.

However, the police and the fire brigade were already there, naturally, they would handle it, so Chu Mingcheng drove the car and continued toward Huang Town.

But just after crossing the bridge, a series of exclamations and shouts from behind caught their attention again. It turned out the girl, overwhelmed by her emotions, had actually jumped.

And the lifeboat prepared by the fire brigade had not yet arrived. Two team members who were good swimmers had to strip off their jackets, wear life jackets, and jump into the water to rescue her.

When Chu Mingcheng parked the car and he and Jiang Luoluo looked down from the bridge, they saw the drowning girl being grabbed just in time by a firefighter who had quickly swum over to her.

The girl, who had the courage to jump into the river just now, clung to the firefighter like a quail, exacerbating his physical exertion in the water.

A rescue boat nearby swiftly moved in. But the first rescuer who had grabbed the girl struggled to swim, and after another firefighter came over, he hurriedly handed the girl over to him.

People on the shore all heaved a sigh of relief as the girl was rescued.

But Chu Mingcheng’s expression suddenly froze because he saw the firefighter who had grabbed the girl start to choke on water, clearly exhausted.

The rapid currents of Ou River made it impossible for him to continue to balance himself. At this rate, he could really be carried downstream, and even a life jacket would be useless.

The people on the bridge and in the rescue boat also noticed this situation. The firefighters on the boat pulled up the girl along with another team member and hurried to rescue him.

But before they could reach him, the firefighter was already overwhelmed and carried away by the current.

Seeing this, Chu Mingcheng felt anxious in his heart. That hero, too, had his own family; sacrificing his life for a girl who had attempted suicide was not worth it.

Just then, perhaps sensing his anxious state of mind, the Marine Encyclopedia suddenly popped up an information interface.

[Marine Encyclopedia activates Level 1 feature early experience opportunity, does the host want to experience it?]

[Level 1 special ability: Swim Freely (limited time)]

[Swim Freely: The host’s overall abilities improve by 10%, allowing the host to swim through water freely like a fish, and to breathe underwater.] @@novelbin@@

Chu Mingcheng was startled, and immediately chose yes. Then, while Jiang Luoluo was still fixated on the water surface, he secretly slipped down from the other end of the bridge.

If she discovered what he was doing, he believed she would definitely try to stop him at all costs, as the current was likely to sweep anyone away.

Normally, Chu Mingcheng wouldn’t be so foolish, but he hadn’t expected the Marine Encyclopedia to respond to his emotions, the ability came just in time.

But after choosing yes, he immediately felt a warm flow spread throughout his body.

Chu Mingcheng could clearly feel his strength growing, his body filled with power.

Since his overall abilities had improved, then breathing underwater must also be real, so he decided to secretly go and rescue the person.

Everyone’s attention was on the rescue boat and the drowning firefighter; no one noticed that someone had quietly gone to the riverbank and stealthily entered the water.

Of course, Chu Mingcheng had taken off his jacket and shoes, and left his mobile phone on the shore. He hadn’t been foolish enough to jump into the water fully clothed.