NABC Chapter 306 School of Water-Eating Fish
Chapter 306 School of Water-Eating Fish
"Slow down the convoy, maintain distance, and prepare to cross the water. Chen Pei, go into the water and check."
Fu Xiaojian's voice came through the walkie-talkie, calm yet with his usual caution.
"Understood!" This environment is Chen Pei's comfort zone, so if there is anything strange, Chen Pei can definitely take precautions.
Chen Pei's figure slowly coalesced on the water's surface to the side and in front of the convoy.
He reached out and pressed his hand against the water's surface, and an invisible sequence of fluctuations spread out, attempting to sense and manipulate this body of water.
However, the moment his sequence power touched the water...
"Buzz!"
A strange, trembling sensation, like countless tiny mouths sucking at the same time, returned to him through his sequence connection!
Chen Pei's expression suddenly changed. He felt the sequence energy he had released was rapidly "disappearing"!
It wasn't resisted, nor was it neutralized; it was... swallowed up!
Those tiny energy clusters underwater resembled piranhas that had smelled blood.
They surged wildly toward the direction where his sequence power extended!
"wrong!"
Chen Pei let out a low shout and abruptly severed the connection with the water in front of him, his figure retreating rapidly, leaving several chaotic ripples on the water's surface.
His face was a little pale, and his eyes were filled with surprise and doubt.
"What is this thing?"
Xu Si also rushed to Chen Pei's aid as soon as he realized something was wrong.
Almost simultaneously, the system notification sounded.
[Level 0 Anomaly detected: Water-Eating Fish (Group)]
【Characteristics: Unlimited water consumption, reproductive instinct, assimilation of water】
The convoy, which was about to enter the waters, came to an abrupt stop.
Because at the very moment Xu Si and Chen Pei withdrew, the seemingly calm water suddenly "boiled"!
Instead of splashing water, the water in front of us suddenly transformed into countless tiny, translucent, dark blue specks of light, each the size of a fingertip, densely packed and instantly covering the surface of the water for nearly a hundred meters ahead!
They huddled close together, wriggling slightly, making a chilling "rustling" sound, like millions of grains of sand rubbing together.
Like fish struggling to survive after a river has dried up.
And the water body also turned eerie in an instant!
[Water-eating fish]
Level 0 anomaly, individual units are as insignificant as dust, but this area before us...
More than ten million!
Everyone, including Xu Si, felt a chill run down their spines; the scene before them was far too unfriendly to those with trypophobia.
Is this the assimilation of water?
"Back up! All vehicles back up!" Fu Xiaojian's stern shout rang out through the walkie-talkie.
Because that 'water area' is visibly flowing this way.
Could it be that these guys drained the river dry?
Xu Si suddenly had this idea.
The convoy suddenly reversed sharply at Fu Xiaojian's stern shout, except for Xu Si's Nirvana.
Hinata Aoi looked at Xu Si, who was slowly flying up in mid-air and blocking the convoy, and felt no worry or fear whatsoever.
"You step back first!" Chen Pei was originally a sequence that depended on water for its existence.
These guys now have a 'water-devouring' trait, which perfectly counters Chen Pei. If Chen Pei joins the battle, it might have the opposite effect.
"Be careful!" Chen Pei didn't struggle with Xu Si, but retreated back into the convoy.
Xu Si smiled, his expression unsettling and uncertain.
Perhaps this time I can feast to my heart's content, just like the blood mosquito.
Starburst Bubble
A continuous stream of red orbs emerged from Xu Si's hand, their color much paler than a typical starburst.
They don't seek power, only lethality.
Puff puff puff puff—!
The scarlet bubbles exploded violently like hand grenades the moment they entered the school of fish.
One explosion after another rang out as Xu Si unleashed a saturation bombardment on the water in front of him.
Each starburst can clear a small area, annihilating thousands of water-eating fish.
To Xu Si's astonishment, he didn't earn a single purification point.
This doesn't make sense!
The next moment, the 'water-devouring fish' that had turned into water droplets reformed.
More and more points of light surged in to fill the gap, seemingly endless.
The effects of starbursts have almost no effect on them.
This is a creature that can freely transform between water and solid objects.
When it encounters danger, it turns into a body of water; when the danger has passed, it reforms.
What's more troublesome is that Xu Si can sense that the water-eating fish affected by the starburst energy wave are slowly "absorbing" the dissipated energy.
Are they adapting? Are they absorbing energy to grow?
Xu Si felt a chill run down his spine.
These little guys are amazing!
Xu Si thought for a moment and realized that he currently had two ways to deal with these guys.
The first method is naturally the Star Sacrifice, which has always worked, but with such a large body of water, his Star Attraction can't cover that many people!
As for the other one, it is his lifelong nemesis, [Heart of the Ice Abyss].
The [Ice Abyss] characteristic suddenly erupted, and a chill emanated from Xu Si's body.
In an instant, it swept towards the [Swarm of Water-Eating Fish] opposite.
There was no earth-shattering noise, only a thin, almost imperceptible, pale, cold current.
Like an ice serpent spitting its tongue, it plunged into the eerie school of fish that was violently churning.
In an instant, the fish at the forefront were frozen in place, a sudden and indescribable solidification!
Those water-eating fish that were originally wriggling wildly, trying to devour everything.
It was as if all its vitality and moisture had been drained away, turning into pieces of ice crystals.
Then, these "ice crystals" began to stick together and pile up, under the continuous blowing of the cold air.
It actually condensed into a small, densely packed "sculpture".
On the exterior of the sculpture, you can also see countless fish-shaped outlines that maintain a swimming posture, lifelike.
wrong!
Xu Si was shocked; he still hadn't received a single purification point.
So these guys haven't been purified yet.
Xu Si felt somewhat overwhelmed for the first time, forced into this situation by a group of level 0 monsters.
We can't really use the Star Festival, can we?
Even if he offered sacrifices in batches over such a large area.
Even if he were drained dry, he still wouldn't be able to offer enough as a sacrifice!
Just as Xu Si was at his wit's end, the scattered energy within his starry eyes was beginning to recover.
Moreover, it is absorbing his icy energy to strengthen itself.
It might not be long before a Level 1 anomaly is born!
Xu Si suddenly seemed to have become a blood bag.
Just when Xu Si was almost at his wit's end and was even considering forcibly using "Star Sacrifice" to divide the battlefield.
A subtle yet clear voice echoed in his mind.
"Brother Dao, Master Wei said... he wants to give it a try."
Xu Si turned around abruptly. It was Master Wei again?
This little guy showed up once before.
Beside the bus, Master Wei had already gotten off at some point.
The thousand-skinned beetle and the mantis lay quietly on his shoulder, while his palm...
He was holding a brand-new amber "insect crystal," which was the "sandworm" he had just subdued.
Master Wei nodded at Xu Si, but his eyes were unusually firm.
Xu Sixing's eyes flickered slightly.
Could this little guy be able to counter the Zerg and then these aquatic creatures?
"Let him get closer, but be careful."
Xu Si immediately responded through spiritual perception sharing, while his body slightly lowered to protect Master Wei behind him.
Master Wei took a deep breath, and insect crystals kept emerging from his hand, transforming into sand worms about the length of chopsticks.
They climbed towards the melting ice surface.
Xu Si misunderstood; this wasn't a single line, but an entire ethnic group.
Ethnicity versus ethnicity?
Reasonable!