"Eh, it's not really that big either."

Lin Ye casually tossed the big red fish into the fish bucket. Before the big red fish could even adjust to its new environment, Penguin Baby slid over, stuck its beak into the bucket, and swallowed the big red fish in one gulp.

"Your mouth is pretty big, huh."

Lin Ye was just about to cast his line again when Penguin Baby waddled over to his side, retched a few times, and spat out a bright red crystal from its belly.

"Huh? What's this..."

Lin Ye picked up the crystal. It seemed to be some kind of information carrier.

"Gah gah."

After spitting out the crystal, Penguin Baby slid back over to the fish bucket to pick out new food.

"Oh? So that's how it works."

After a brief moment of thought, Lin Ye took out another piece of high-level spiritual energy creature meat. This time, he didn't use Alienation on the meat. Instead, he placed a mental parasite inside it and infused it with a large amount of knowledge about Falling Rule Fragments.

"Let's get another one!"

Lin Ye cast the hook into the lake. This time, it took ten minutes before something bit.

A flood of questions about falling and parasitism surged into Lin Ye's mind. He quickly answered them, spending five minutes before finally reeling the fish out of the lake surface.

It was a bluish-black, large fish with four limbs, easily weighing over thirty pounds.

"Now it's up to you."

Lin Ye placed the big fish into the fish bucket and set up a spiritual energy shield around the bucket to prevent the fish from escaping.

"Gah gah!"

This time, Penguin Baby didn't swallow the big fish. Instead, it slid over to Lin Ye's side, continuously flapping its wings.

"You need some different materials to swallow that big fish?"

Lin Ye stroked Penguin Baby's soft belly and asked.

"Gah gah!"

Penguin Baby squawked twice and then slid away. It seemed it needed to slide around to digest the food in its stomach.

Lin Ye started fishing for the small fish that could serve as materials. At that moment, new messages appeared in the system chat room.

Chess: I've escaped. I found the right direction by using the positions of the people around me.

Caris: Great! I'm just on my fourth cake shop for taste testing. Are there a bit too many cake shops in this city?

Amy: Well, it is the festival. Probably everyone wants to eat cake to celebrate.

Chess: Where should we meet up?

Caris: I'm taste-testing cakes at a shop in the city center. You can come find me here.

Chess: Okay.

Amy: I can't meet up with you guys for now. I can only leave the rooftop once I get an Access Card.

Caris: Do you need us to come help?

Amy: No need. My talent ability happens to be quite suitable for staying on the rooftop. I don't really want to leave here for the time being.

Caris: Alright then.

Lin Ye: You guys could also come fishing, but it requires a certain level of knowledge reserves and mental fortitude.

Chess: Fishing is that difficult?

Lin Ye: Fishing requires brains too.

Caris: Then I'll just stay at the cake shop and continue taste-testing cakes.

Chess: Wait for me, I'm coming over to taste-test cakes too.

Amy: Enough, you guys. Give that poor cake shop a break... There's a roasted meat restaurant diagonally across the street. Maybe you can join their eating competition.

Caris: That could work too. I can finish an all-you-can-eat roasted meat buffet and then come back to taste some desserts.

Lin Ye: If you guys can't handle it, come find me to regroup. I'm going to fish a bit longer.

Amy: Boss, it looks like someone stole your fish. Is that okay?

Lin Ye: It's fine.

After communicating with his teammates, Lin Ye continued casting his line to fish. He was gradually getting used to this fishing method, and his efficiency was steadily improving.

To provide Penguin Baby with enough materials, Lin Ye started using bait mixed with knowledge about falling to attract fish to his spot. It wasn't long before he gathered all the materials Penguin Baby needed.

Penguin Baby swallowed those materials and the big fish, then spat out another crystal for Lin Ye.

'What should I synthesize the next crystal to be related to?'

Lin Ye pondered this question while casting his line. Some raincoat-clad fishing enthusiasts left the lakeside, carrying their fish buckets and disappearing through the park exit.

The number of fishing enthusiasts by the lake had decreased significantly. In contrast, the quality of the catch from the lake seemed to have improved somewhat.

Lin Ye noticed this situation. He didn't immediately grab his bucket and run. Instead, he continued sitting by the lake to fish.

After all, the greater the storm, the more valuable the fish.

This time, Lin Ye mixed a large amount of knowledge related to the four Rule Fragments into the bait. He planned to pack up and run as soon as he finished catching this fish.

Perhaps because the knowledge contained in the bait was too chaotic, this time it took half an hour before something bit.

A flood of chaotic questions surged into Lin Ye's mind. He quickly analyzed the various questions and transmitted the correct answers below the lake surface. Half an hour later, he finally lifted his fishing rod. A colorful marine creature weighing at least a hundred kilograms was reeled up by him.

The colorful creature was clearly highly aggressive, but before it could even resist, it was snatched away by Penguin Baby, which had darted out from the side.

Lin Ye put away the Dragon Fishing Rod, ready to grab his bucket and run. But Penguin Baby hugged his leg, not letting him leave.

"You need other materials to digest this colorful creature?"

Hearing Penguin Baby's response, Lin Ye had no choice but to put down the fish bucket and draw the Dragon Fishing Rod again.

Before long, all the raincoat-clad fishing enthusiasts by the lake had left. Now, Lin Ye was the only one left by the lakeside, essentially having the whole fishing spot to himself.

Lin Ye continuously cast his line, tossing the catch he reeled up into Penguin Baby's mouth. Occasionally, he also had to take the time to use his homemade bait to attract more fish to his spot. Another half hour passed before he finally fed Penguin Baby to the brim.

Penguin Baby stopped eating. It began sliding around near Lin Ye, seemingly digesting all that catch.

Now Lin Ye really had to grab his bucket and run. He couldn't see what was below the lake water, but through the Dragon Fishing Rod's hook, he could sense something massive was watching him from within the lake.

However, just as Lin Ye turned to leave, a shadow enveloped his body.

Amy: Big bro, it seems like something's emerging from the lake. I can't really see what it is either.

Lin Ye: Probably some kind of giant marine creature. Don't worry about it.

Lin Ye wanted to leave through the park exit, but before he could get close, small water pits appeared all over the park's ground. The area outside the park had transformed into a boundless, deep Sea. Some marine creatures began crawling out of the water pits.

"Why do all these damn things like crawling out of water pits?"

Lin Ye casually used spiritual energy vibrations to pulverize a few approaching Deep-Sea Creatures into minced meat, but more Deep-Sea Creatures kept crawling out of the water pits.

Penguin Baby slid through the water pits. Those Deep-Sea Creatures couldn't see it at all.

Lin Ye could feel something massive was crawling out from both the artificial lake behind him and the Sea outside the park. The other party's size was too enormous; it would take some time to fully emerge.