Chapter 139: Goldfish’s Cognition

Yoshiyuki inserted the wooden sword into his waist, walked out of the teaching building, and returned to Erina and Hime-chan.

Feeding the fish is over.

Now, both mother and daughter are looking at the goldfish fighting for food in the pool, showing happy expressions.

Especially Xiaoji.

There was a hint of relief in her smile.

It can be seen that Demon Sword Girl likes these fish very much. I probably don't care much about them at all.

Thinking about it from this perspective, Yoshiyuki suddenly felt that there was another reason why Arisa didn't go here to fish and eat.

That was because he was afraid of angering Xiao Ji and being hacked to death.

Although he didn't know what the black and white cat was, Yoshiyuki felt that she probably couldn't beat Xiaoji.

Will be sent away quickly by Huangquan swordsmanship.

"Oh, you are back, servant!" Erina turned to look at Yoshiyuki, and her attention quickly returned to the goldfish. She pointed at them and shouted excitedly: "Look! These goldfish look so good when they eat. Cute! So cute! So cute!"

"Indeed." Yoshiyuki looked at the fat goldfish opening their mouths to inhale the fish food, and couldn't help complaining again: "But it feels like they will suck in the one-yen coins at the bottom of the pond accidentally... Is that okay? ?”

"It shouldn't matter." Erina said enthusiastically: "I'm thinking, it would be nice if the pond was a little bigger! In that case, a fish king might appear."

"If the Fish King appears, this will no longer be a wishing pond, but will become a lake!"

The so-called king of fish is the largest and strongest fish in a body of water.

Basically every big lake has one.

Generally speaking, the king fish are carp.

Some of these Magikarps have spiritual powers. They are not useless creatures who can only splash and jump, and they do not need to evolve into Gyarados to have powerful power.

Some giant fish kings with particularly strong magical power even have the ability to control wind and rain in certain areas, so they will be sacrificed.

There is a fish king in the lake in Yitian Village. It looks like a golden-red giant carp, with long tentacle-like whiskers and gorgeous scales, and it can speak human language.

Its voice is inexplicably close to Grandpa Erina's, but it has its own echo and is extremely low-pitched, making it very high-pitched.

The tribute requested by the Fish King is a dumpling made of a giant earthworm as the main ingredient and a large amount of sugar. It smells earthy, bloody and sweet. Erina secretly ate one and almost vomited her stomach out.

These fish dumplings are specially offered to the King of Fish. When paying tribute, they are directly pulled to the lake on a cart and poured in.

In exchange, it protects Yitian Village from drought and floods. It has always been effective.

The three of them watched the goldfish fight for food for a while.

As Yoshiyuki looked at it, he suddenly felt the emotion of life in his heart.

These fish seem to be very leisurely every day, just swimming here, eating and waiting to die.

But in fact, their lives are also full of undercurrents.

The strongest goldfish eats the sprinkled fish food first. The weaker goldfish couldn't squeeze through at all and had to wait beside and below. They could only share the fallen debris before the stronger goldfish were full.

Therefore, the fish that seize the most food by force will become stronger and continue to have the advantage the next time they eat. An infinite loop is achieved.

Fortunately, the fish food given by Xiaoji was enough for them to eat.

Otherwise, the pond would not be a big pile of goldfish, but a few fat fish and a lot of lean fish.

Erina looked at the goldfish pond and also fell into thinking.

Of course, it was always difficult for her to bear the feeling of thinking alone, so she mentioned it like this.

"Hey, Yoshiyuki. What do these goldfish think of these coins?"

"I think they will only classify the things put into the pool into edible and inedible categories." Yi Xing pondered for a moment and said: "So they probably find these coins annoying and not food, so it's best Don’t surrender.”

"That's true, but that's not what I'm asking." Erina asked seriously: "I want to say, how do they understand the coin falling?"

"Miss, what do you mean?"

"That is to say, when Xiao Ji throws the bait, the goldfish will know that food is coming. And realize that occasionally food will fall to the water for them to eat. Right? But when the coin falls, these people don't know that humans are making wishes. How would a goldfish understand this phenomenon?"

"I understand." Yoshiyuki understood what Erina was thinking and was a little surprised: "Miss, you can actually think about philosophical issues."

"What do you mean? You look down on people, don't you?" Erina rubbed Xiao Ji and complained: "I also think about such and such things every day! It's no less than you think!"

"Yes, yes." Yoshiyuki said with a wry smile: "I feel that the fish do not necessarily understand the reason why the coin fell. They may not actively think about this issue at all. They just regard this as a natural phenomenon that occasionally occurs. Just treat it. It’s no different from rain or something.”

"After all, this kind of ordinary goldfish can't think like a human being. So from our point of view, we will indeed come to this conclusion." Erina thought for a moment and said again: "But I think goldfish can still be aware of coins. It was thrown down by someone."

"The coins may hit them and they won't be able to eat them. Thinking about it this way, do the goldfish think that the person who throws the coins is some kind of evil existence? And the little Ji who gives them food is a kind existence?"

"It's possible. Fish can also recognize people." Yi Xing thought for a while and said: "Don't we have a fish tank at home? When the person who always feeds it approaches the fish tank, the fish will swim over and lean on the fish tank. He sticks to it.”

"Yes! This is the key!"

Erina said enthusiastically.

"So what if goldfish also regard evil beings and good beings as evil gods and good gods? Then will they respect Xiaoji as their gods and pray? If there are enough goldfish, then believers Wouldn’t it be possible for Xiaoji to gain divine power with his thoughts! Then Xiaoji will not only be Demon Sword Girl, but also Goldfish Girl!”

"No, no, Miss, it's impossible! The faith of a low-level intelligent creature like a goldfish is completely useless!"

Although his first reaction was to correct his mistake, Yoshiyuki was momentarily shocked by Erina's brain circuitry.

What shocked him was that Erina reminded him of a fact that he had rarely realized before.

That is - human beings' fear of many evil gods and strange phenomena is actually based on the same logic as goldfish.

These gods and the sources of strange phenomena may not have any malicious intent at all. They just inadvertently do something similar to "tossing a coin", which makes people fear them and even presuppose that they are evil.

But it is this unintentional act that is the most terrifying.