85: The legendary scar carp

【 You devoured a Carp, gaining 10 evolution points. 】

【 evolution points: 8100 / 14000 】 (Devouring psionic energy in progress)

“Only six thousand evolution points left. Let’s see what the resources are like here?”

Su Yuan scanned his surroundings and found that this seemed to be a river, about twenty meters wide, a relatively wide river.

There were also many creatures around: crabs over forty centimeters long, Crayfish forty centimeters long, and River Prawns/Shrimp over twenty centimeters long.

Various large and small fish were also countless, especially at the river bottom, where old familiar Tilapia and Scavenger (Fish/Organism) were innumerable, and Apple Snails were densely packed.

Su Yuan also saw many Egyptian Walking Catfish active here.

Su Yuan saw groups of Crucian Carp and Black Carp at the river bottom, ravenously devouring the terrifyingly numerous Apple Snail population. Occasionally, a gigantic Apple Snail would counterattack, killing a Black Carp.

Su Yuan saw an Apple Snail as large as a person, entirely yellow, capable of emerging from its shell like an early mollusk and moving with its shell, its agility surprisingly not inferior to a Black Carp.

The Apple Snail, when out of its shell, resembled an octopus or other mollusk, but lacked distinct tentacles. It also had numerous chilling sharp spines. It opened its twisted mouth and bit a Black Carp, its entire soft body completely detached from its shell, wrapping around the frantically struggling Black Carp.

In the mid-water level, Grass Carp, Bighead Carp, Silver Carp, and others swam in schools. From time to time, Mandarin Fish, fish of the snakehead family, Reeves Shad, and Gudgeon darted past.

In the distance at the river bottom, there were astonishing numbers of Hairy Crab, and even more terrifying numbers of Crayfish. The two seemed to be engaged in a war.

The river water there was murky, with countless fallen limbs and broken claws. Every now and then, groups of two or three shrimp and crabs would fight and charge out of the battlefield.

“Shrimp-crab war?”

Su Yuan watched with interest; it was his first time witnessing such a scene.

These two species seemed to have developed a certain racial consciousness, both wanting to expel the other and claim a territory, which led to this great battle.

These shrimp and crabs were also astonishingly large, almost all over half a meter in size, and there were quite a few large individuals over a meter.

The surrounding fish almost all instinctively stayed away from that area, not daring to approach.

Even a three-meter-long Reeves Shad that Su Yuan saw didn't dare to cause trouble there.

Because Su Yuan had immediately entered a disguised state after devouring the Carp, these fish, shrimp, and crabs were not alarmed by his arrival.

“The resources are good, not much worse than Yangjiang Town.”

Su Yuan nodded, preparing to start his buffet.

Just then, he narrowed his eyes slightly, hearing some movement—human voices.

“How is it? Did you find anything?”

“Find what? It’s probably another wasted trip. There are a lot of big fish in this river though; I just saw several over a meter long.”

“Then it’s probably just a gimmick again. How could there be any monsters in this world!”

“Brother, that’s not how you say it. Didn’t you watch Brother Niu’s live stream a few days ago? Monsters really did appear! That tiger was as big as an elephant and could spit wind blades! And that Thunder Dragon Fish was even fiercer, it could shoot beams of light!”

“Tsk tsk, little brother, don’t get carried away. Wind blades and lasers—someone just showed you a movie, and you didn’t even realize it.”

Many people expressed doubt.

After all, it was a technological society, and such supernatural events had never occurred in the world, so naturally no one believed it.

“Don’t disbelieve me, just search for Brother Niu. His account is banned now, but you can still find information about it. Some netizens even saved the videos.”

“Brother Niu is a decent guy; at least he never faked scripts or plots. It was all filmed on location.”

At this moment, several other people walked over from different directions and said, “Monsters?”

Su Yuan looked at the surrounding scene. It was highly probable that many of the creatures here would shock ordinary people if seen, but to call them monsters, it probably wasn't that serious.

A three-meter-long Reeves Shad, while scary, was barely acceptable. As for the Crayfish and Hairy Crab, their mutation level was higher, but a size of one or two meters shouldn’t really qualify them as monsters.

“Forget it, I’ll wait and see. The evolution points from this monster should be quite a lot.”

Su Yuan muttered indifferently. He had fought his way out of Dayang Lake and the Underground Dark Lake, experienced so many Mutated Creatures, and battled future battle armor. He lacked neither strength nor combat experience.

Now facing the creatures in a freshwater river, he wouldn't say he disdained them, but he also didn't take them too seriously, remaining very calm. His only interest was how many evolution points the opponent could bring him.

Su Yuan’s Elementary Insight could clearly see that on the riverbank outside, there were many people, either holding mobile phones or cameras, filming or live streaming.

“Folks, the Streamer is now standing in Laoyu Village, where a river monster is rumored to have appeared. As you can see, the river water is really clear, and there are many big fish inside, but no trace of that monster has been found. Follow…”

“Families…”

“This is really traveling thousands of miles to court death!”

Su Yuan sneered. Money from traffic wasn't easy to earn, especially in an era of psionic energy resurgence, earning traffic money from so-called monsters.

“Oh, the main event is here! Let me see… Is this a Carp? Could it be the legendary Scarred Carp?”

At this moment, Su Yuan noticed a not-so-small creature appearing in the distance, moving slowly.

This was a creature that strongly resembled a Carp, only its size was much larger, nearly ten meters long. One of its eyes was missing, leaving a hideous scar nearly a meter long, and its face was incredibly fierce.

Unlike ordinary Carp, its mouth had a very large gape, filled with sharp, knife-like teeth. Overall, it resembled a river giant from a movie, clearly indicating its diet was no longer the same as before.

With the appearance of this Scarred Carp, all the surrounding creatures scattered and fled, including the Crayfish and Hairy Crab that were in the midst of battle. They quickly stopped fighting and retreated in two different directions.

“Such a large predatory fish in the river, don’t the relevant departments nearby know anything about it?”

Su Yuan was a bit speechless. If it were a three or four-meter-long fish, that would be one thing, but not knowing about a nearly ten-meter-long fish seemed a bit exaggerated.

What Su Yuan didn’t know was that, currently, across the country, cases of biological attacks on humans were exploding exponentially. Sometimes, certain cases would even mobilize forces from surrounding areas. This Laoyu Village was precisely one of those villages whose forces were continuously being mobilized to support other towns.

Other standard equipment, such as underwater cameras, were also in huge demand and short supply, requiring time to wait.

These various reasons led to this outcome.

“Brothers, look! The Streamer isn’t waiting blindly; he brought a whole pig to attract the legendary monster of Laoyu Village! Those who haven’t followed, please follow. Follow the Streamer and don’t get lost…”

Just then, a Streamer, followed by a group of burly men, brought a live pig and threw it into the river, attracting everyone’s attention.

Every mobile phone and camera was aimed at the pig.

“No way, what a coincidence.”

Su Yuan’s mouth twitched. The big fish had just arrived, and now the bait had arrived too. And he had seen this Streamer a few days ago.

Unless he secretly hunted and killed this Scarred Carp himself, this place was definitely going to become famous.

However, what did becoming famous or not have to do with him?

He could always leave here and find another place to farm evolution points.