Fishing Spot Notice: No Mecha Baiting, I Can't Reel Them In

[Entirely fictional. Don't try this yourselves! The hilarious everyday life of a fishing fanatic! One heroine!] Born in Blue Star, Bai Ye finds that the Dragon Kingdom's tech tree has gone off course: the Nantianmen Project is complete, with ten Luanniao aerospace carriers guarding the skies. Yet just as technology reaches its peak, the human body becomes the final bottleneck. Supersonic maneuvering, space operations, and neural reaction speeds are all held back by fragile flesh and blood. Ordinary jobs no longer require humans. People only have to work a few hours a week! Everyone who doesn't want to work lies flat, collecting a thousand yuan in benefits each month. Their only problem is that life is just too boring. Bai Ye, a former biology prodigy whose doctoral spot was stolen by someone with connections, only wants to return to his village and live like a salted fish. The large lake his parents left behind when they went traveling becomes his last refuge. “It's just raising fish, right? That's right up my alley.” System activated: [The more visitors, the faster the fish grow. There's a chance they'll mutate and boost your physical abilities.] From then on, a strange crowd of fishing fanatics gathers by his lake: Some arrive in mechs and use them to chum the water! Some get dragged through the mud by fish while wearing exoskeleton gear! Some are so bored mushrooms are about to sprout on their heads, and they livestream with their equipment! Some directors shout that they're filming a live production called Humanity Gets Completely Wiped Out, coming soon! And some treat the fishing grounds like a therapy clinic... Bai Ye lounges in a bamboo chair, sipping an ice-cold soda as he watches fish roil across the lake, silently wondering: How many desperate fishing fanatics who want the fish but not their lives will I have to haul ashore today?