parentshiftbook Chapter 77 The Mutant Fish King and the Return of the Blood Moon
Chapter 77 The Mutant Fish King and the Return of the Blood Moon
The great river flows swiftly, its roar deafening.
The river, nearly a hundred meters wide, shimmered in the sunlight. Beneath the seemingly calm surface lay the unique dangers of this other world.
Under Wang Hao's direction, the group began to painstakingly build a dam in a river bend where the riverbank was narrower and the current was relatively gentle, using the giant logs brought by Li Hao and Zhang Xiaonan as foundation piles.
Under Li Hao's command, the native slaves worked very hard, driving smaller pieces of wood into the riverbed and binding them with ropes made of a mixture of vines and ironwood fibers.
However, just as the project was halfway through, an unexpected change occurred.
"what!"
A native slave who was fixing wooden stakes in the shallow water suddenly screamed and was dragged into the water by a tremendous force, leaving only a string of bubbles and rapidly spreading blood.
"There's something in the water!" people on the shore exclaimed.
Immediately afterwards, more people working along the river were attacked!
Dark shadows darted swiftly underwater, occasionally revealing backs covered in fine scales and bone spikes, or gaping maws filled with sharp teeth.
It's a mutated fish!
Moreover, there are quite a few of them, and they are surprisingly large!
"Zhao Meng!" Wang Hao shouted, "It's up to you now!"
He had anticipated that the mutated fish in the water would launch a sneak attack.
This is also why the indigenous people were asked to drive piles.
Zhao Meng was already on high alert.
He rushed to the riverbank, his eyes flashing as he looked at the raging black shadows in the murky water.
"Perfect, I'll use you guys to test my skills!" he shouted, and leaped into the river!
"thump."
Several mutated fish, nearly two meters long and resembling giant arapaima but covered in bony spines, sensed the presence of a living creature entering the water.
It immediately charged fiercely at him, its mouth wide open, and blue sparks of electricity crackling between its sharp teeth!
"An electric fish." Zhao Meng was more pleased than surprised. "Want me a tickle?"
Sure enough, the blue lightning bolts that struck Zhao Meng were like mud oxen entering the sea; instead, they were absorbed by his body and strengthened him.
Zhao Meng's counterattack was even more ferocious!
"Water area, thunderstorm!"
He pressed his hands into the water and unleashed the full power of lightning!
"Crackling and popping—BOOM!!!"
Centered on Zhao Meng, the blazing white electric current, like countless raging silver snakes, instantly spread and ravaged the surrounding waters!
The river water seemed to boil and ionize at that moment!
The blinding electric light illuminated a section of the river as if it were daytime!
"Aww!" "Hiss!"
Crackle, crackle.
Those electric fish were the first to be affected, suffering a backlash from the even stronger electric current. They instantly stiffened, turned white, and floated to the surface.
Centered on Zhao Meng, within a 50-meter radius, many more ordinary mutated fish, regardless of size, were also electrocuted and paralyzed in this indiscriminate lightning storm.
It lost the ability to move and floated upside down.
In the blink of an eye, a large number of fish carcasses of varying sizes floated on the river surface, creating a rather spectacular scene.
"That's great! Zhao Meng is awesome!"
The crowd on the shore erupted in cheers.
Zhao Meng single-handedly wiped out a large number of the mutated fish!
"Quick! Now's the time to scoop up the fish! They're all food! Very nutritious!" Wang Hao reacted quickly and immediately organized his team.
Li Hao, Li Wen, Wang Yi, Niu Dazhuang, Zhang Jinfeng, and other evolved individuals who were good swimmers or had great strength jumped into the river to begin salvaging their spoils.
Most of these mutated fish are enormous, with the smallest being as long as an adult's arm and the largest being as big as a small boat.
The group worked in pairs or teams of three, excitedly dragging the heavy, slippery fish ashore.
Li Hao was even more daring. He spotted a giant fish that had been stunned by electric shock and was over ten meters long, and swam straight towards it.
He gripped its gills with both hands, exerted force with his waist, and with a roar, actually lifted the enormous creature out of the water, tracing an exaggerated arc before slamming it onto the riverbank with a "boom."
The splashing of mud and water left everyone speechless.
Zhang Xiaonan waved her hands, and fish that had sunk into the river flew out of the river like a chain, piling up on the bank.
Everyone watched with envy.
Telekinesis is so useful.
The joy of a good harvest was evident on everyone's face.
There's enough fish meat for the neighborhood to eat for several days, and the mutated fish meat is rich in energy, which is very beneficial for evolution.
However, just when everyone thought the crisis was over and the salvage and construction were continuing in full swing, another unexpected event occurred!
In the middle of the river, near the deeper parts, the water suddenly began to boil violently!
A massive, chilling black shadow slowly emerged from the deep water.
It was a giant, monstrous fish that was over twenty meters long, covered in dark blue metallic scales, with a single horn on its head and several long, fleshy whiskers hanging from its mouth!
Its lantern-sized eyes were cold and merciless, sweeping over the floating corpses of its kind and the busy humans on the river, a flash of fury crossing its face.
Even more terrifying, deep blue arcs of electricity occasionally burst from its body, crackling in the water and radiating energy fluctuations far more terrifying than those of the electric fish from before!
Mutant Electric Fish King!
"Oh no! There's an even bigger one!" Wang Hao's expression changed.
The Electric Fish King seemed enraged by the plight of its kind and the desecration by humans. It suddenly opened its huge mouth without making a sound, but an extremely powerful beam of deep blue electricity, like a high-pressure water gun, sprayed out in a fan shape towards the most densely populated area of the river!
"Get ashore quickly!" Li Hao shouted.
The electric current travels too fast in water!
That's too broad a scope!
"Ah!" "Ugh!"
Screams echoed throughout the room.
Although everyone had some resistance from evolution, the electric current intensity of this Electric Fish King was far beyond ordinary.
A dozen or so evolved humans and even more native slaves were instantly struck by a powerful electric current. Their bodies convulsed violently, foamed at the mouth, lost consciousness, and their bodies sank involuntarily into the water!
Even Zhao Meng let out a muffled groan. The electric current on his body surged violently. Although he barely managed to withstand it, he was still forced to retreat repeatedly, and his movements became sluggish.
"Help!"
Zhang Xiaonan shouted anxiously from the shore and immediately activated her mental power. An invisible force field probed into the water and quickly wrapped around several of her sinking companions like tentacles, desperately dragging them towards the shore.
"Li Hao! That fish king is too powerful! My electricity isn't very effective against it!"
Zhao Meng shouted with difficulty in the water. He tried to fight back with lightning, but the electric arcs he shot out hit the dark blue scales on the surface of the Electric Fish King and were mostly neutralized or deflected.
Li Hao's eyes sharpened.
This king of fish must be dealt with as soon as possible!
He took a deep breath, plunged into the water, and swam rapidly toward the electric fish king!
It's called swimming, but it's actually flying in the water.
They're getting close very quickly.
Force field deployment.
Deterrence!
The electric fish king's huge body trembled violently, and it lost consciousness, but regained consciousness the next second.
Sensing the threat, it turned its giant head without hesitation and unleashed an even thicker beam of deep blue electricity at Li Hao!
Li Hao moved nimbly in the water like a fish, his bio-force field forming a dense buffer layer in front of him, while his internal solar energy rapidly circulated to resist the intrusion of electric current.
The powerful electric current struck the force field, producing a loud "sizzling" sound as energy was continuously annihilated.
Although it slowed down Li Hao's forward momentum, it did not harm him in the slightest.
With a swish of its massive body, the electric fish king turned and fled into the deep water.
In water, it is much faster than land animals.
"Trying to run away."
How could Li Hao let it go?
He pushed off with all his might, the water bursting behind him and propelling him to catch up at an astonishing speed!
Although it was slightly inferior to the electric fish king in terms of natural swimming ability, it managed to close the gap little by little thanks to its strong explosive power.
A man and a fish engage in a chase in the murky river.
The electric fish king continuously released electric currents to interfere, and occasionally swept with its huge tail, but Li Hao skillfully dodged or withstood them.
Finally, after chasing for several hundred meters, Li Hao seized the opportunity.
The electric fish slowed down slightly during a sharp turn.
Li Hao burst forth instantly, like a golden arrow underwater, breaking through the water flow and rushing to the side of the Electric Fish King. He then slammed his right fist, which contained all his strength, into its head!
boom! ! !
A dull thud echoed through the water, creating a violent shockwave.
It's like dropping a bomb into a river; the water explodes on the surface.
The Electric Fish King's tough scales were dented and shattered by this punch, and blood instantly stained a patch of water red.
It let out a silent, painful screech, its massive body twisting and struggling wildly.
One punch wasn't enough to kill him.
This is due to the mutated fish king's own defense and its smooth scales that absorb force.
It has a lot to do with being in water.
In deep water, his strength was severely hampered.
"Bang!"
Li Hao pressed his advantage, punching the mutated fish king on the head once more.
Click.
His head was shattered.
The deep blue arcs of electricity that were leaping around the Electric Fish King quickly dimmed.
The enormous fish carcass slowly rose to the surface.
"Huh, I didn't feel suffocated at all while I was underwater." Li Hao exhaled a string of bubbles. He was surprised to find that he had been diving for several minutes, but he was still in his element and did not feel suffocated at all.
It seems that his cardiopulmonary function is also becoming stronger.
They could probably hold their breath underwater for a very long time.
He grabbed the fish king's single horn and flew out of the river as if dragging a small mountain.
Li Hao dragged the over twenty-meter-long corpse of the electric fish king down from the sky.
When the figure of an ancient dragon-slaying warrior appeared before everyone, the shore was first deathly silent, and then erupted into a deafening, ecstatic cheer of survivors!
"Long live the captain!"
"The King of Fish is dead! He was too strong!"
"Captain Li Hao is invincible!"
Wang Hao and others hurriedly organized a rescue for those who had fallen into the water. Fortunately, Zhang Xiaonan and Li Hao rescued them in time, and the evolved beings were physically strong. Apart from a few unlucky native slaves who drowned, most of them were rescued, but they needed to rest.
Li Hao threw the giant corpse of the Electric Fish King onto the shore, making a dull, loud noise.
He pointed his fingers like a sword, his golden battle aura surging forth, easily slicing open the hard skull of the Electric Fish King and taking out a deep blue evolution stone, about the size of a thumb, crystal clear throughout.
The evolution stone seems to have deep blue lightning flowing inside!
The energy fluctuations were far stronger than any evolution stone obtained before, and even more pure and powerful than the Silver Magic Core!
Wang Hao's face showed surprise when he saw Li Hao use golden battle qi.
He turned to look at Yingyue, knowing that Li Hao had learned sword energy from this female native.
It seems I need to discuss with Li Hao sometime and ask him to teach this sword energy cultivation method to other evolved beings.
He could see that the sword energy was very powerful; even the tough scales of the mutated fish king were easily cut through by Li Hao's golden sword energy.
If all the evolved beings in the community learned this sword energy, their strength would definitely increase by a large margin!
Zhao Meng, standing beside him, stared at the deep blue evolution stone in Li Hao's hand, a look of longing in his eyes.
He could feel his body desperately wanting to absorb the evolution stone.
If he takes this evolution stone, his power will definitely become even greater.
He glanced at Li Hao, then hesitated, as if he wanted to say something but didn't.
Li Hao had already tossed the dark blue evolution stone into his mouth and swallowed it with a "crunch".
"boom!"
It felt as if a surge of deep blue lightning energy exploded within my body.
Unlike the ferocity it displayed when devouring the demon core, this energy, while domineering, possessed a peculiar activity related to water and lightning.
It was quickly absorbed and integrated into his body.
He felt a joyful tremor emanating from every cell in his body, and the efficiency of solar energy absorption and conversion was once again significantly improved.
Physical strength and energy reserves have also increased accordingly.
A faint blue electric light even flashed briefly on the surface of the skin before disappearing.
"nice one."
Li Hao stretched his muscles with satisfaction.
Then, he did the same thing, using his battle aura to cut open the heads of several other larger mutated fish that were over ten meters long, and took out a few smaller, light blue evolution stones from them.
"Li Wen, here you go." Li Hao tossed a light blue evolution stone to his younger brother.
"Wang Hao, this is for you."
"Zhao Meng, this one is for you."
"Wang Yi, Zhang Jinfeng, Niu Dazhuang, Zhang Xiaonan, Liu Xueqin..."
Based on everyone's contributions and evolutionary direction, Li Hao distributed the remaining light blue evolution stones one by one.
Everyone who received the evolution stone was extremely excited, as Wang Hao had already told them about the level of the evolution stone.
I know this is a rare item that only level 2 mutated beasts can produce!
They took it without hesitation.
Instantly, energy vapors of various colors and in varying strengths rose from the bodies of the people on the riverbank.
Their breathing is steadily increasing, indicating they have benefited greatly.
With the biggest threat eliminated and a bountiful harvest achieved, everyone's enthusiasm soared even higher.
The construction of the dam continued smoothly.
As the sun sets, a rudimentary dam built from giant logs and stones is taking shape. Although crude, it is sufficient to intercept part of the water flow and create a drop, laying the foundation for the subsequent construction of a simple water turbine generator.
Exhausted but satisfied, the large group returned to Dawn City.
The natives carried the carcass of the mutated fish.
sunset.
The fire broke out again in the community square.
This time it's grilled fish.
A sumptuous fish and meat feast was held in a lively atmosphere, organized by Wang Hao and Li Hao.
The residents of the community all had smiles on their faces.
Chen Shih-han stayed next to Li Hao, and the two seemed quite intimate.
Li Hao even specially brought fish for Chen Sihan.
Upon seeing this, Wang Hao, Niu Dazhuang, and the others smiled slightly, their understanding unspoken.
Huang Mengting, Su Xiao, Zhao Xiaoyu, and the others would occasionally glance over, their eyes filled with envy.
Su Tiantian, accompanied by Zhang Xiaonan, stayed next to Li Wen. Su Tiantian and Li Wen exchanged glances and laughed continuously.
Back home, Li Wen casually put his arm around Su Tiantian's shoulder and announced to Li Hao:
"Brother, from now on, Tian Tian is my girlfriend. She'll be staying in my room tonight."
Su Tiantian's face was flushed, but her eyes were firm as she nestled close to Li Wen.
Li Hao glanced at them and nodded: "Yes, treat them well."
He knew that their feelings for each other had deepened during their shared hardships, and that it was a natural progression.
It was late at night, in Li Hao's room.
Chen Sihan washed away the day's fatigue and nestled in Li Hao's arms.
Li Hao flipped his hand and magically produced a crystal-clear, light blue evolution stone.
This is one he deliberately kept.
"Sihan, this is for you."
Chen Sihan looked up in surprise: "Brother Li Hao, this...this is too precious, I...I didn't do anything..."
"Take it."
Without saying a word, Li Hao placed the evolution stone in her palm, saying, "Now you are my woman, you can't be too weak."
"Thank you, Brother Li Hao." Chen Sihan's eyes were slightly red, her heart filled with gratitude and sweetness.
She was glad she had been brave last night.
She no longer refused and tilted her head back to swallow the evolution stone.
Soon, a gentle energy spread through her body, improving her constitution. Fine beads of sweat appeared on her skin, and her breathing became stronger.
"Brother Li Hao...you're so good to me," she murmured softly, hugging Li Hao even tighter.
However, in this warm and peaceful moment, Li Hao suddenly felt something, got out of bed, drew back the curtains, and looked out the window.
In the night sky, the bright moon, which had been shining brightly, had its edges stained with an ominous blood-red hue once again.
Blood Moon, reappears!
Moreover, this time, the blood color seemed to be deeper and more intense than before.
It almost swallowed up most of the moon!
An eerie red light shone down on the earth, shrouding everything in a blood-red veil.
The surrounding force field became chaotic.
This made Li Hao feel uneasy.
He frowned, activated his super vision, and carefully looked at the blood moon.
He could sense that the force field change brought about by this blood moon phenomenon was even stronger than the last one.
It even made him feel a strange restlessness within his body.
"Here we go again... and this time it's even more complicated."
"What does this strange celestial phenomenon signify?" Li Hao pondered.
"Brother Li Hao, what's wrong?"
Chen Sihan also got out of bed and gently hugged Li Hao from behind while wearing a nightgown without a bra.
"Huh, a red moon." She looked up and saw a half-red moon in the sky.
"It's okay, go to sleep."
Li Hao drew the curtains, put his arm around Chen Sihan, and lay down again.
The two fell asleep in each other's arms.