[Modern setting + System + fishing + mountain-pond management + giant fish + feel-good power fantasy + no saintly heroine]
A graduate of a top university, earning just 3,000 yuan a month and treated like a dog by his boss.
In a fit of anger, Lin Yuan quits and returns to his village to lease a mountain pond that has been abandoned for ten years.
The whole village thinks he’s lost his mind.
Then the System activates
For every additional angler, time in the pond speeds up a hundredfold.
The first fishing fanatic shows up, and a giant underwater creature snaps his carbon-fiber rod with one bite, nearly dragging him into the water.
The second arrives, and a sixty-jin grass carp snaps his PE line in two.
Then the third, the fourth, the fifth…
A month later, the pond’s banks are strewn with broken rods, yet anglers flock there like madmen.
“That pond is cursed. Once you go, you never come back.”
“I caught a seventy-jin grass carp there. It was taller than my daughter.”
“Don’t go! Your soul will be left behind.”
The fishing world goes into an uproar. Whatever’s in that water can’t be called a fish anymore.
Lin Yuan looks at the System panel in silence
Time acceleration: 100,000-fold.
Largest catch: Unknown.
Mutated species: Under detection…
Late at night, more than a dozen headlamps sweep across the water.
When that shadow glides past, everyone stops breathing.
That isn’t a fish.
It’s something that shouldn’t exist, raised by 100,000-fold time acceleration.
When Qian Haitao caught the 38-jin fish last week, the largest individual in the pond was 68-jin. After Zhao Dayong caught 42 kilograms and released it, the fish grew longer for a while. Now the largest fish displayed on the system has been changed to another fish, weighing 52 kilograms and still growing.