Chapter 13: What? You Can Actually Die from Catching Fish? Yet Another Bizarre Way to Die!

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In the game, fatigue and drowsiness were nonexistent; after a whole afternoon of activity, the players remained vibrant and spirited. However, after battling for quite some time, they all wanted a break and gathered around Su Qingyue in small groups. Only Xiao Mo and Su Qingyue still hummed cheerfully, leisurely wandering nearby.

“Honestly, this game feels incredibly real—the textures and scents of these flowers and plants are just like the real thing!”
“And the birdsong! There are so many different species!”
“Even the trees in the forest come in various kinds. You can tell the game developers put a lot of effort into this!”

Nearby flowed a crystal-clear stream, its surface glittering magnificently under the sunset’s lingering glow—a truly breathtaking sight. The two girls rested their chins on their hands, crouching by the riverbank to take in the view.

“Wow, there are fish too. Let’s catch some and store them in the inventory ring!” Xiao Mo exclaimed excitedly. After a brief moment of thought, she pulled out a branch, ready to spear the fish.

It seemed like the classic scenes from historical dramas—they must have their reasons! She poked and jabbed fiercely, her actions swift and fierce, but ended up panting from the effort.

Xiao Mo was brimming with confidence: after so many attempts, surely she’d catch several fish! Definitely!

But when she looked down, the branch was bare, and the clear water still revealed those fish leisurely swimming about.

Xiao Mo: “...” Damn it, I refuse to believe I can’t catch any!

Blue Ling, trying to hold back laughter, watched her best friend’s foolish antics. After what felt like ages, Xiao Mo finally managed to spear a fish.

Excited, she ran over to Blue Ling, branch raised triumphantly. “See? I told you I could catch one! Look how beautiful this fish is!”

Before Blue Ling could respond, the branch holding the fish slipped and fell to the ground.

Xiao Mo froze, then suddenly collapsed heavily to the ground with a faint thud, voice weak and trembling:
“Blue Ling, everything’s going black... I can’t see, and my health keeps dropping! What’s going on?”

Blue Ling was baffled. Other players nearby were equally confused: “Is the fish poisonous? Does touching it cause health loss?”
“That can’t be right. Maybe she was hurt during the monster spawn earlier and has a bleeding debuff? Didn’t notice her HP drained?”
“No idea. There’s no visible wound on her.”

Blue Ling was deeply puzzled. “Impossible. She has the Wind, Thunder, and Light Spirit roots. Light Spirit has healing properties!”

“Then what could it be?”

As the saying goes, three ordinary minds can be as wise as one Zhuge Liang. The players gathered and puzzled over the mystery for quite a while, but to no avail. Apparently, that saying wasn’t always true.

In the end, Xiao Mo’s health dropped to zero, and she transformed into a white light, respawning at the revival point.

The players buzzed with speculation: “Is it a game bug?”

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One player timidly raised a hand: “Uh, I don’t think so.”
“Because I’m losing health too!” He then collapsed with a thud, following the same fate.

??? Two players dead for no apparent reason. The players exchanged glances in bewilderment.

The ever-cheerful Doubi couldn’t help but exclaim in amazement: “Caught fish and ended up killing yourself, chatted yourself to death too, damn, that’s impressive!”
“We’re definitely unlocking more bizarre ways to die! Proud of this!”

[World Channel / Xiao Mo: Case solved—it’s starvation!]

Oh, the game has starvation mechanics? That’s quite realistic and reasonable! Everyone suddenly understood.

No wonder! Xiao Mo was lively and active, one of the more physically engaged players. More activity meant faster hunger.

That’s when someone noticed the personal character panel had a hunger meter. Case closed, everyone dispersed.

Then... wait, hold on, my hunger meter!

No matter what they were doing, all players stopped and lay still to slow down their hunger decrease, trying to avoid dying of starvation.

They had died many times already. The more respawns used, the longer the wait time.

Another death might mean a seven or eight-hour wait to revive. Who would want to miss the holographic game’s storyline?

“Hungry, hungry, hungry, I want to eat, wuwu!”
Cries of misery filled the air, everyone wishing food would just fall from the sky.

Isn’t there an idiom about pies falling from the sky? If only that were true!

Su Qingyue stifled a laugh. “I remember everyone prepared quite a bit of food?”

She definitely wouldn’t assign random tasks recklessly; she’d guessed that the hardcore players might starve themselves to death.

The players brightened. Right! They had completed food-gathering quests before! They hurriedly stuffed various wild fruits into their mouths.

Many players with hunger dangerously low barely escaped death by starvation and breathed a sigh of relief.

“But there aren’t many wild fruits. Even so, we can’t last long!” Feilong Zaitian frowned.

They had wasted too much hunger running around recklessly.

Many players, like the few professional ones, scratched their heads in confusion.

Blue Ling sighed helplessly, “There are also wild vegetables, wild game meat, mushrooms, and the bird eggs we collected.”

Right, those too!

“Wait a moment!”

Before she could finish, a player immediately cracked open a bird egg and poured its contents into his mouth.

“It’s a bit fishy, but the taste is fresh. Most importantly, it replenished a big chunk of my hunger!” The player licked his lips, clearly wanting another.

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“I’m losing health!”
Then he vanished in a flash of white light.

Blue Ling sighed, “Raw wild bird eggs, especially without heating or cleaning, can breed bacteria!”
Why didn’t anyone wait for me to finish? What’s the rush, trying to kill yourself?

Is there anything left to say? Cook the food!

[System: The sun is about to set. Please prepare your dinner. All players receive a random daily supply box (containing 3-5 random items)! Wishing everyone a happy game!]

“Wow, perfect timing! A free reward without a quest?”
“Damn the game planners, finally giving us something useful!”
“What else? Should we make wooden bowls and pots ourselves? We don’t even have tools!”

And they only knew how to carve wood into round blocks—that was already the limit!

Xiao Mo raised her hand: “Is it possible some of you don’t even know how to use a carving knife? Using a weapon might just sever your own hand.”

Round wooden blocks? That’s overly optimistic!

“...” Why do you have to speak such harsh truths?

The players opened the boxes appearing before them, silently praying:
“Please let us get some usable cooking and dining utensils. At least enough for a hundred players to pool together a kitchen set!”

Otherwise, they’d have cooking tools but no way to eat the food.

What? You say eating with your hands?
Ha! Given this game’s realism, they’d definitely get burned and lose health! They hugged their fragile health bars, trembling.

Xiao Mo held high hopes, then...

“Toothpaste—five tubes, toilet paper—a pack, fifty glass bottles.”

She looked at Blue Ling, who shook her head: “Seventy bottles of high-purity alcohol, a sack of saltpeter, twenty glass plates, fifty packs of Green Arrow gum.”

“...” The two girls nearly roared. What use could these things have in an ancient cultivation world?

Throwing glass bottles and gum to kill bosses?
Except for the glass plates, which could hold dishes, the rest were useless! They knew the game planners weren’t so kind—free stuff was just a trap!