34: Giant electric eel

On the rubber dinghy, a Company of Soldiers sailed towards their assigned destination, their mission this time being to deploy underwater cameras at a specific location.

Just this morning, they received orders from their superiors to strictly control the rivers of Yangxi Town and its surrounding areas.

Dayang Lake, as the largest freshwater lake in the country connected to Linhu River, was also a potential hiding spot for the Giant Octopus, naturally making it a key monitoring area.

"We've reached the destination. I'll go down to install it. You all stay vigilant. If you spot the target, report it to the Company immediately."

The squad leader picked up his wetsuit and began to put it on.

"Squad leader, why don't you let me do it?"

A sturdy Soldier said.

"Get lost! I'm the best swimmer, and my underwater firearm score is the highest, so it's only natural that I go."

The squad leader laughed and cursed, quickly donning his equipment before jumping into the lake.

Su Yuan had already heard their conversation, and he was well-camouflaged, almost indistinguishable from the lake water.

The splash from the squad leader jumping into the water spread far and wide, immediately attracting the attention of some predators who were no longer afraid of humans.

A four-meter-long Reeves Shad approached from not far away at an astonishing speed, arriving first and revealing a mouth full of sharp, knife-like teeth.

"Look there! There's a big fish!"

"Squad leader, a big fish is approaching from the northeast! It's extremely fast!"

The Soldiers on the rubber dinghy, on alert with binoculars, spotted the huge figure swimming in the upper layer of the lake and immediately informed the squad leader via their communication devices.

Due to continuous heavy rain, the water level of Dayang Lake had long surpassed its low point, with a depth exceeding fifty meters here. The squad leader had not yet dived to the bottom of the lake.

He heard the sound from the communication device, immediately became vigilant, and continued to descend while observing the upper water body in the northeast direction.

Soon, a huge, ferocious fish was charging, moving so fast it was like a jet ski.

Its belly was silvery-white, and it had a terrifyingly large mouth, revealing numerous sharp, knife-like teeth, similar to a shark's mouth.

He took just one glance and determined that this big fish was definitely over three meters long, which was no different from encountering a shark.

No, there was one difference: the speed of the big fish in front of him surpassed that of most sharks!

The squad leader raised his underwater combat firearm, very steady, not firing in a panic. Although underwater combat firearms are developed specifically for underwater operations, their effective range is limited, only about thirty meters at this depth.

Upon seeing a human, the Reeves Shad's eyes flashed with ferocity and excitement, and its speed increased. It quickly closed in on the squad leader, its enormous mouth capable of biting off more than half of the squad leader's body!

It was at this moment that the squad leader suddenly opened fire.

The specially made underwater bullets shot out. Although their speed rapidly decreased, at the moment they met the Reeves Shad, they still maintained a speed of over a hundred meters per second, which even the Reeves Shad couldn't dodge!

The squad leader emptied a magazine in an instant, with ten bullets hitting their mark, and several bullets even hit its head!

The bullets that hit the Reeves Shad's belly, due to its scales becoming increasingly hard under the influence of spiritual energy, might not have caused much damage, but its head was different; even a tiny injury could have a huge impact.

Several bullets hitting its head, even if they didn't penetrate the skull, made the increasingly intelligent Reeves Shad wary, and the outflow of fish blood further excited the surrounding predators.

Compared to ordinary humans, the flesh and blood of this evolved Reeves Shad clearly had a greater effect on them.

Soon, a Black Carp over three meters long was the first to lose patience and attacked.

Its mouth was also not small, biting towards the Reeves Shad.

Beneath the lake, a huge figure rose, making the squad leader quickly dodge in shock. This was a Hairy Crab over two meters long, which also attacked at this moment.

In the battle above, the Black Carp had already been bitten by the Reeves Shad, and a large chunk of flesh was swallowed by the Reeves Shad's gaping maw.

The Reeves Shad attempted to scare away the surrounding fish and crabs with this fierce posture.

But suddenly, from the Reeves Shad's blind spot, a Black Carp over two meters long shot over like a cannonball, crashing into the Reeves Shad's body, biting its caudal fin, tearing it off, and swallowing it.

This attack caused immense damage to the Reeves Shad!

Because the caudal fin is the primary source of propulsion for fish, and also helps with direction control.

This is something all fish and crabs know.

In an instant, the two-meter-plus Hairy Crab, the two-meter-plus Black Carp, the four-meter-plus Water Snake, the three-meter-plus injured Black Carp, the four-meter-plus Giant Eel, the three-meter-plus Mandarin Fish, and others, swarmed in and attacked the Reeves Shad.

At this moment, this Reeves Shad, known as the "tiger of the water," had long lost its ability to escape. Even though its gaping maw was terrifying and its bite force astonishing, it only managed to kill the Water Snake and injure the Hairy Crab before being surrounded by numerous fish and crabs and killed.

The squad leader had already dived down immediately, but the camera on his head had already uploaded everything that happened to the Company.

Soon, he descended to the bottom of the lake, where the water level reached nearly seventy meters, making him very uncomfortable even with a professional wetsuit.

The squad leader took out the underwater camera, pulled out its lower mounting rod, and firmly inserted it into the lakebed mud.

This was the latest model of military-grade special underwater camera, capable of 360-degree shooting without blind spots, with clear visibility within fifty meters.

After confirming that the lakebed camera was working normally and signal transmission was normal, the squad leader began to return.

At this time, those fish and crabs were still fighting over the Reeves Shad's corpse, and a new round of chaotic fighting was about to break out.

The squad leader glanced, and after realizing they weren't paying attention to him, he breathed a sigh of relief and quickly surfaced.

"Go!"

After surfacing, the squad leader's first words were to leave quickly, and he was also pulled up by his teammates.

They only had a rubber dinghy; if attacked by those big fish underwater, it might not hold up.

"Yes!"

The Soldiers didn't ask further and immediately started the rubber dinghy, heading towards their next destination.

What the squad leader didn't know was that the moment he broke through the lake surface, a layer of mud covered the camera, and then several ferocious tentacles unfurled, instantly grabbing all the fish and crabs fighting over the Reeves Shad's body, including the Reeves Shad itself.

These fish and crabs died instantly, suffocated to death by the entanglement.

[You devoured a Reeves Shad and gained 90.3 evolution points.]

[You devoured a Chinese Mitten Crab and gained 20.6 evolution points.]

[You devoured a Black Carp and gained 61 evolution points.]

...In the blink of an eye, Su Yuan had gained over three hundred evolution points.

Su Yuan was just about to follow the rubber dinghy when he suddenly felt his whole body go numb, even experiencing a stinging pain.

He frowned slightly and looked in one direction, where a long, snake-like creature appeared. Its size was not small; Su Yuan estimated it to be about ten meters long.

It was entirely gray-black, and its two round eyes were silver-blue, like the color of lightning.

"This is an Electric Eel!"

Su Yuan's expression tightened as he recognized its identity.

Due to the Impurities in the lake water, it could conduct electricity, which made lightning abilities very powerful in the lake, a capability Su Yuan was quite wary of.