Apocalypse Gachapon - Chapter 1839: Tilted Light Fish

“This, this is also possible?”

Shi Kangbu saw the marine lives ahead turning belly up one after another and felt that all the understanding he had gained over so many years of living had been completely shattered.

He, Ye Zhongming, and Jie Kui had chosen a special sea area as their hunting ground. Small islands on all sides surrounded it. If the seawater were drained, one would find that the four small islands were actually the four corners of a dead volcano, connected to each other, with only a few rock caves, about one meter in diameter, connecting to the outside sea area, located about ten meters below the sea surface.

This place seemed like a place detached from the world, becoming a refuge and habitat for many small marine lives.

Gradually, a type of mutated life with high-level but no outstanding attack power had emerged here. Their food was mutated plants in the sea. Although they couldn’t be as powerful as those beings that specialised in killing large, high-level marine lives, they excelled in their small size and consequently lower energy requirements, so their evolutionary speed hadn’t fallen behind much.

Of course, as top-level lives, without formidable attack power, they naturally had their advantages. For example, this type of life had speed as its strength—not just generally fast, but very, very fast.

Their name was named because of this characteristic.

Tilted Light Fish.

Tilted light.

Ye Zhongming’s discovery of this place was a pure accident. Last time, while healing, Hawkins and the others were blocked by the seawater and found it difficult to locate him; however, he still prudently sought a safe place. He unknowingly came here and discovered this type of high-level life that lived in groups and was as fast as lightning.

Sometimes Ye Zhongming found it strange: how could this planet, which didn’t have much lifespan left, bear so many top-level lives? The situation in the Blue Secret Realm was fresh in his mind. The energy fluctuations produced by so many top-level lives would seriously affect the planet’s origin, right?

Perhaps this was originally a place to be abandoned, so they didn’t care about these things.

For Earth, perhaps because it was in its ‘prime,’ as long as not all top-level lives erupted together, it wouldn’t significantly affect the planet itself.

Returning to the Tilted Light Fish, Ye Zhongming had observed this type of life while healing last cycle. Perhaps because their lives were too comfortable, in this sea area between the four islands, they were very lazy, just gathering together and suspended, no one knew if they were sleeping or contemplating fish life.

When they detected life approaching, they would swim away quickly. Only when there was no way to avoid would they launch an attack—relying on their speed to ram the target.

Anyway, possessing a top-level life’s body plus such freakish speed, being rammed would be very painful. For example, Ye Zhongming, Jie Kui, and Shi Kangbu—if they tried to catch these fish head-on, they would first need to trap them in an enclosed space; otherwise, they could only watch their shadows and sigh. Secondly, if these lives went all out, they could ram the three of them to death.

There was no help for it; there were too many, a full fifty-plus. In less than half a minute, they could ram the three into minced meat.

This was another reason these high-level lives were still living well up to now.

However, things targeted by Ye Zhongming basically couldn’t escape. He went back, found some materials, and this time, on the first day, he set his hunting target on these lives.

The method was actually straightforward: poison.

The poison was what Ye Zhongming practiced for Double Poison Shadow. This stuff wasn’t fatal to top-level lives, but it had good fusion and propagation properties and acted very rapidly.

Of course, this toxin couldn’t be used directly. Even if affected, these top-level lives would only be dizzy for a moment. Mental energy attacks weren’t very effective in water either. Even if Ye Zhongming’s trio could use that instant to kill a few, the other Tilted Light Fish would ram them to pieces.

The method he used was the same one he had used on Earth to ‘frame’ the Cloud Hoof.

Only this time, it was more advanced and more complex.

Ye Zhongming first collected a type of food these lives loved. He discovered that the Gardener job could catalyze it, so he infiltrated the toxin into the interior of these foods, then replanted them to make them quickly grow into a large patch. After that, he removed all the original ones without the toxin.

Just preparing these took Ye Zhongming a lot of time. He also had to worry about the Tilted Light Fish suddenly appearing to forage. Although those guys were vegetarians, if they saw their favorite food being ‘defiled,’ they would definitely fight desperately.

Fortunately, Ye Zhongming’s luck was good. By the time he finished preparations, the Tilted Light Fish school was still at home sleeping lazily.

After that, it was waiting.

Their luck was really good. The fish school set out to forage a little over an hour later.

Jie Kui and Shi Kangbu were seeing this type of life for the first time with their own eyes and were amazed by their speed. That wasn’t swimming at all; it was just teleporting completely.

Top-level lives naturally wouldn’t be so easily fooled. Although Ye Zhongming had tried his best to make that patch of their food as perfect as possible, even making the appearance as similar as possible, the fish still noticed something unusual.

Perhaps they didn’t know what was wrong either; they just had that feeling. They didn’t start gnawing immediately, but circled a few times. After finding nothing abnormal around, they slowly started eating. But obviously, wariness remained; they didn’t eat too much. After eating a little, they returned.

When Ye Zhongming’s trio tailed them back to the sea area between the four islands, they saw the scene from before over ten minutes later: these Tilted Light Fish turned belly up one by one. Not dead, but in a poisoned state.

They knew this state probably wouldn’t last long, so they quickly rushed over. The three of them raised their hands and dropped their blades, starting to kill these level-nine lives. Only the number allocated to each was different: Ye Zhongming had the most, Jie Kui next, and Shi Kangbu the least, only five.

But he wasn’t dissatisfied. Without exerting any effort, he could get over twenty points; it was just like picking them up for free.

Jie Kui’s number was ten, over fifty points. The rest, nearly forty, were Ye Zhongming’s spoils of war. His points一下 suddenly increased by nearly two hundred.

This was almost catching up to Ye Zhongming’s points from the last cycle.

Although the entire operation from start to finish took a full seven or eight hours, the harvest was really good. Besides the points, all these level-nine demon crystals went to Ye Zhongming, as did the materials. Everyone used the fish meat to make stew or dried fish, enough for at least six or seven days of rations.

“What do we do next?” Jie Kui wanted more and was already addicted to hunting. At this efficiency, he could get over three hundred points in three days and could make a run for the top thousand.

“Rest?”

Not only Jie Kui but also Shi Kangbu were stunned. They looked up at the sky together; it was still broad daylight.

“Rest for an hour. We need to adjust our condition. Tonight, our hunting target requires a strong assault!”