I Fished the Evil God Ashore

Three years ago, the Abyss descended, and all of humanity was forcibly registered as "players."

On the fifteenth of every month, the day of the Great Tide, everyone had to go out to sea and meet their quota: hunt godspawn, salvage divine remains, and pick up Abyssal objects. Anyone who failed was dragged off by the System to "feed the tide." In three years, no one had ever come back.

For other people, venturing into the Abyss was risking their lives. For Lu Chen, it was a fishing trip.

[Ding! The only hidden class on the server, Abyss Angler, has been activated.]

[Angling vision enabled: white markers for Abyssal objects, gray markers for divine remains, gold markers for taboos.]

[Tip: The more taboo the bait, the more outrageous the thing that bites.]

He used Abyssal objects to fish for divine remains, and divine remains to fish for godspawn.

Until one night, a gold marker surfaced on the old shipping channel by the abandoned city:

An empty cradle, and something with a fishhook in its mouth, which he hauled ashore from the water...