Evolution from the crocodile

For Lu Chen, being chased by a black bear was just an unexpected incident and he didn't take it to heart at all. After all, this guy is similar to that group of gray wolves. His hunting range is basically in the jungle on land, so he does not pose much threat to the crocodile.

After the typhoon, the weather became hot again.

Lu Chen spent a whole morning running back and forth in the river for several miles, but found no delicious food.

After evolving to level 2, his food intake has increased significantly again.

You can easily swallow more than four kilograms of food in one meal, which is equivalent to almost one-ninth of your body weight.

In addition, after experiencing the benefits brought by the flesh and blood of Burmese pythons, he became more picky about food choices.

Ordinary small fish are not noticeable at all... Unfortunately, after recent hunting, the large fish in the nearby waters have been basically eaten clean.

There were originally a lot of waterbirds in the reeds on both sides of the bank, but as their kind continued to disappear inexplicably around them, they now gradually realized that there was a terrible killer hidden in the water, and they also migrated to other places.

Even if there are still many waterfowl staying nearby, they have become extremely wary and difficult to catch.

Even the herbivores on land rarely come to the river to drink water recently.

After two consecutive hunting failures, Lu Chen decided to go to the downstream estuary to have a look.

There are large mangroves there, with more animals inhabiting them, and they have not been severely beaten, so there should be good harvests.

As expected, not long after arriving in the mangrove forest at the estuary, Lu Chen swallowed a plump skua, filling his stomach more than half.

Looking at the vast blue waves in the distance, he suddenly had the idea of ​​taking a dip.

Lu Chen worked somewhere along the coast in his previous life, and also went to sea many times with fishing boats.

Even in previous lives, humans had only explored five percent of the ocean, and most of the rest were unknown.

So he always had a sense of awe towards the sea.

When he led several young crocodiles to migrate a few days ago, Lu Chen did not dare to enter the shallow sea and just moved along the zigzag coastline.

Now that there are not many little guys following him, he is much bolder.

After all, he is now over one meter long, so he has a certain ability to protect himself.

After making up his mind, Lu Chen waved his crocodile tail and swam farther away.

Soon, the tidal flat along the coast turned into a gray line.

The sea and sky are the same color, with vast blue waves.

Lu Chen couldn't help feeling a little proud in his heart.

He originally wanted to swim a certain distance and then return, but he lost track of time unknowingly.

When he came back to his senses, he realized that the coast was no longer visible.

After evolving and upgrading, his endurance has also increased significantly. I swam more than ten miles in one breath without feeling tired at all.

Since I'm not tired, let's go down to the bottom of the sea and have a look... and test the depth of diving that our body can withstand now.

Whether in his previous life or this world, Lu Chen had never seen the real underwater world.

However, after absorbing the previous lessons from the bottom of Liuhu Lake, he did not deliberately pursue the depth of diving. Plan to float up immediately if you feel slightly uncomfortable.

After being prepared for everything, Lu Chen opened his mouth and took a deep breath. The crocodile's tail swung, its limbs folded, and it slowly sank toward the bottom of the sea.

The sun is very good today, the visibility is good, and the light can penetrate directly to the bottom of the sea.

And after several days of continuous exposure to the sun, the seabed is not too cold, and the water temperature is probably maintained above 20 degrees.

With his current adaptability, there are no abnormal reactions for the time being.

Lu Chen had read relevant information in his previous life. When sunlight shines into seawater, the light weakens quickly due to absorption and scattering by water molecules and suspended substances.

After reaching a certain depth, it disappears completely.

Moreover, different colors of light have different penetrating powers when immersed in seawater, and the light intensity decreases with a certain negative exponential law with depth.

Among them, red light disappears first on the surface, followed by orange, yellow, and green light.

At a depth of about 20m, the green light completely disappears.

After Lu Chen sank to the bottom of the sea, he could no longer see the green light, only seeing a light blue. In other words, he has dived to a depth of more than twenty meters.

However, his super vision was not greatly affected, and he could see the seabed within a radius of more than ten meters.

This area is rugged and covered with reefs, and from time to time you can see schools of fish swimming nearby.

Flower crabs, cone snails, shrimps, aconite, scallops, sardines...we even saw groupers.

There are many kinds of seabed creatures nearby, but their size and quantity are a little small.

More importantly, there wasn't much meat, so Lu Chen naturally didn't hesitate to eat it.

Soon, he saw a long creature in the crevices of the reef not far away. Its body was smooth and scaleless, and it was covered with spots the size of brown and black broad beans. It suddenly looked like a sea snake.

Money eel!

Lu Chen recognized it immediately.

This thing had many names along the coast in previous lives, and even different fishermen in the same place had different names, such as stone eel, money eel, oil cone, etc.

Lu Chen didn't know the specific scientific name.

I only know that its price is not low. When the dock seafood market is expensive, it can sell for 70, 80, or even hundreds per pound.

The larger the individual, the higher the price.

The average money eel weighs about two kilograms, but the larger ones are said to weigh more than ten kilograms.

The one in front of me is estimated to weigh more than three kilograms. If sold to a vendor, it would probably be worth three hundred.

But to Lu Chen, this guy was just delicious food. The skua flesh and blood I had eaten not long ago was almost completely digested, and now I was hungry again.

Money eels move quickly in the water, so it may be difficult to catch them directly.

Lu Chen finally chose to ambush and buried most of his body in the sand on the seabed, leaving only his two eyes exposed.

When the thing swam past him, he jumped up, bit it in half and swallowed it.

Not bad, provides 3 points of energy.

After filling his stomach, Lu Chen resurfaced and was in no hurry to return.

It’s still early and it’s hard to get out, so of course I want to relax on the sea for a while.

When he was tired of swimming, he simply stopped using his tail to control the direction. Instead, he relaxed his limbs and floated slowly along with the waves. This is also one of the unique skills of the crocodile, which allows it to migrate long distances with the help of ocean currents.

In previous records, the furthest crocodile can drift from Australia to the Bay of Bengal in the South Ocean, spanning more than a thousand kilometers, which lasted more than a month.

I don't know how far away, Lu Chen heard the buzzing sound of propellers coming from the sea water.

There are fishing boats nearby!

He immediately concentrated and used the sensory organs scattered in his scales to explore carefully, and soon discovered that there were waves of strange vibration frequencies coming from the waves.

After finding the direction, Lu Chen speeded up and swam over.

There is no purpose, just curiosity.

According to common sense, there is no way for crocodiles to catch up with fishing boats on the water. However, fishing boats often have to carry out fishing operations, and the speed is generally not fast.

About twenty minutes later, Lu Chen appeared near the fishing boat. The body is close to the cabin, with half of the head slightly exposed.

Unless someone goes into the sea to observe closely, it would be difficult to spot the crocodile.

Only then did Lu Chen realize that the boat in front of him was not a fishing boat, but a sea fishing boat.

The so-called sea fishing means renting a boat and going fishing in the ocean.

Lu Chen had played it several times in his previous life, and the price was not too expensive. Generally, a three-day trip by boat costs about 4,000 yuan.

No matter how many fish you catch, it’s your own, and if you’re lucky, you can make money. Large groupers weighing several dozen kilograms, or even tuna weighing hundreds of kilograms are also possible.