hsntnovel Chapter 38 Skill: Golden Dash
Chapter 38 Skill: Golden Dash
"Uncle, Mom, look! A golden fish!"
Upon hearing Shen Qiaoqiao's shout, Su Jin immediately stopped what he was doing.
A golden fish?
Could it be...
He hurriedly moved to the side of the boat, ignoring the rain outside, and leaned half his body out to observe. Sure enough, he found the golden sturgeon floating belly-up.
At this moment, the Tier 2 rare marine creature seemed to still be struggling. Even though it was belly up, it was still swaying its tail, trying to get back to the ship.
Su Jin was immediately startled. He knew that the range of the static electricity field was only 3 meters. At this moment, the golden sturgeon had already swum to a position of 2 meters. In a few more seconds, even if it did not move, it would be pushed out by the wave.
By then, the big fish had escaped!
In a moment of desperation, he grabbed the wooden oar at the stern, quickly turned the boat around, and headed towards the golden sturgeon, instantly closing the distance between them.
"Trying to leave? No way! Ruying, give me the net!"
Shen Ruying was on the other side of the boat, unaware of the situation, and extremely anxious.
Upon hearing Su Jin call her name, she quickly handed him the net and then silently prayed.
It has to be a success...
This is a rare Tier 2 marine creature, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!
Her prayers seemed to have worked. After getting the net, Su Jin quickly caught the golden sturgeon that was trying to escape and threw it onto the boat.
"Please come on up!"
The golden sturgeon traced a golden arc through the air before landing on the deck.
Without the suppression of the static electricity field, it quickly regained its vitality, jumping around on the deck, wanting to jump back into the water.
"Still trying to run?"
Su Jin raised the landing net and slammed it down, sending the golden sturgeon crashing into the deck.
The golden sturgeon was immediately thrown around in a daze, thrashing about for a couple of moments before going still, presumably stunned.
"Now you'll behave yourself!"
Su Jin stepped forward and just as he grabbed the creature, the golden sturgeon suddenly began to struggle again. It turned out that it had been faking its stillness earlier.
What a cunning fellow!
But now that he has it in his grasp, and with the net in place, there's absolutely no way this guy can escape.
Su Jin took out a short-handled axe from his waist and swung it twice at the guy.
This time he went all out, holding nothing back, and directly removed the head of the golden sturgeon.
The reason he was so decisive and didn't intend to spare the guy's life was because he received a system notification the moment he caught the golden sturgeon.
[Materials for skill slots have been detected in this marine creature]
[Golden Tail Fin: The source of the Golden Sturgeon's ultimate speed; embedding it grants the Golden Dash skill.]
nice one!
No wonder it's a rare marine creature!
He caught so many fish before, including the spicy snacks he caught, but he didn't get any notifications. Now he finally got one.
This led Su Jin to a conjecture: perhaps only rare-level marine creatures have materials that are qualified to be inlaid into skill slots.
It seems I can't let rare marine life slip by in the future, otherwise I'll miss this opportunity.
He suppressed his excitement and cut off the golden tail fin, then embedded it into the skill slot provided by the Tier 3 ship.
The next second he roughly got the information about the Golden Dash skill.
The Golden Sprint doesn't actually make the ship sprint a certain distance, but rather it significantly increases the ship's speed for a short period of time.
Of course, this skill has a cooldown period; it can only be used once every 10 minutes.
The cooldown time isn't too long, but it's not too short either. It's pretty good for escaping in crucial moments.
Remembering the speed at which the golden sturgeon disappeared in a flash of golden light, Su Jin couldn't resist trying it himself.
Anyway, they are in a relatively safe area of the sea, and the cooldown of the Golden Dash skill is not very long, so there's no harm in giving it a try.
He sat back in the driver's seat and rubbed his hands together excitedly.
"Ruying, Qiaoqiao, hold on tight. I just got something new, and I want to try it out."
Upon hearing this, Shen Qiaoqiao didn't hesitate and quickly found something to hold, while also hugging the little lamb in front of her tightly.
She had just noticed that the golden tail fin on Su Jin's hand had disappeared, and she had a bad feeling about it then, which has now come true.
Shen Ruying was still cleaning up Su Jin's mess and feeling sorry for the blood of the golden sturgeon that had spilled all over the place, so she hadn't reacted yet.
"Huh? What... do you want to try?"
She never expected that Su Jin would suddenly start the boat, and that the boat would be so fast!
The powerful recoil almost threw her off balance, and she instinctively grabbed the nearest object, or rather, the person, Su Jin.
In her desperation, she even wrapped her arms around the man's neck, pressed her whole body against him, and buried her head in his neck.
But Su Jin didn't care about any of that. He simply put his arm around the young woman's waist and continued to kick hard.
He wanted to see where his boat's current speed limit was!
Just now, he activated the Golden Dash skill to see how much it increased the ship's speed.
At first, he thought that this skill would simply increase the speed of his ship many times over, but after activating it, he found that the skill was even more powerful than he had imagined.
The so-called "golden sprint" is to give the boat a streamlined body like a golden sturgeon, with almost no friction with the water.
Simply put, it's about making the boat move forward more efficiently, which also includes Su Jin's skill in pedaling.
After the skill was activated, he felt that pedaling became much easier, like going from a shared bike to a professional bicycle.
The effort required to pedal was incredibly easy; even Shen Ruying could probably match his previous full-force pedaling speed.
Su Jin pedaled with even greater ease, reaching more than three times his previous speed with all his might, giving him a feeling of flying.
However, this feeling of flying only lasted for a mere 10 seconds before the ship slowed down, and at the same time, Su Jin felt that the pedals under his feet were becoming harder to push.
He stopped the boat, panting heavily to regain his strength.
It seems the golden sprint lasts only 10 seconds. It's like charging for 10 minutes, but the thrill only lasts for 10 seconds.
But to be fair, this skill is really awesome!
He initially thought that the speed of conquest would be at most 1.5 times, or even 2 times, but he didn't expect the increase to be almost 3 times or more, which was beyond his expectations.
Being able to instantly unleash 3 times the speed for 10 seconds is simply a god-level skill.
Without the blessing of Thunderfish Oil, the field of static electricity is nothing compared to it, not even close.
The key point is... this skill is given away for free!
To be honest, I don't know if he was just incredibly lucky or if this golden sturgeon was just incredibly unlucky, because it happened to be in Tranquil Shallow Bend twice.
It's still in the same quiet, shallow bend. Could it be that this is the place it chose to lay its eggs? That would be really unlucky.
At this moment, Su Jin was in a great mood and couldn't help but want to pat his own thigh.
Snapped!
wrong!
Why doesn't he feel pain himself, but he can feel the sensation of black silk on his hand?