Reborn in the end of the world, I scavenged in the empty city and bought for free
Chapter 608: Courting Death Part 1
At this moment, everyone saw such a horrifying scene. The usually quiet lake surface now had a hole nearly three or four meters wide broken from the ground, and a several-meter-long black mutant black fish suddenly jumped up to a height of at least four, five or six floors.
The residents of the camp had never seen such a monster. Even during the annual hunting season, the largest mutant creatures they had seen were mutant wild boars in the nearby mountains. The size of mutant wild boars was between three hundred and four hundred kilograms at most. This mutant black fish was not only as big as a small car, but its densely packed teeth made everyone feel cold all over.
"Hubby, the legendary lake god of Fairy Lake couldn't be this thing, right? Then, could those children who disappeared by the river before be this..."
A woman by the lake was pulling at the clothes of the man next to her, her tone filled with fear. Thinking about the people who had disappeared by the lake in the past two years, they finally understood why even the bodies had not floated up. They were probably swallowed alive by the huge black fish in front of them.
The man nodded vigorously. Although he did not want to show his timid side in front of his wife, his voice still trembled: "Well... I'm afraid, I'm afraid."
"Old Chen, you guys also heard the noise and came out? Did you see that monster just now? Was it really a black carp? How can a black carp grow so big?" Another villager who lived nearby put his hands in his pockets, shrunk his neck and looked at the lake curiously. He was just taking a walk nearby, and when he heard the noise and rushed over, he saw the black fish jumping out of the lake for the second time.
Although many people rushed over after hearing the warning bell, none of them saw the mutated black fish with their own eyes. Those who did not understand what had happened just stared in amazement at the black hole that had opened on the lake surface.
"What on earth is going on?"
"I heard something came out of the lake just now, it seems to be a mutant creature."
"There's something in the lake. It's such a scary thing. Has our security team arrived?"
"Didn't you hear the bell? The security team will be here soon. But did anyone see anything running out of the lake?"
People on the shore were talking about it, and in just seven or eight minutes the place was crowded with people.
Gu Tongwan frowned, especially when he saw some curious young people approaching the lake and trying to get into the lake while laughing.
"Hey guys over there, do you want to die? Don't you know it's dangerous here?" Cai Min, who was standing on the other side of the lake, immediately shouted at them after seeing a few young people seeking death.
The man among the people smiled and said disapprovingly: "It's just a matter of going in to take a look. Sister, you are meddling too much." After saying that, the man even started walking on the lake and even took out a cell phone in his hand to take a photo of himself and the hole on the lake.
No matter what era, as long as there is Internet, selfies and live broadcasts are always indispensable. Even if the network signal in the camp is not as good as the base, it cannot stop young people from going online. These young people who are seeking death are the "self-media people" who still insist on self-media shooting in this era, using the Internet to upload some life and interesting things in the camp, and use the network currency earned to earn universal points.
The man obviously didn't care at all about what had just happened. After all, nothing was more important than making money at the moment. So the closer they got to the center of the lake, even his companions began to get worried.
"Chen Yi, you'd better come back soon. I don't think it's safe in the lake." One of the girls waved her hands and shouted.
The man still smiled and said, "What's unsafe about it? I think they are just making a fuss. It's obvious that the ice in this lake has collapsed. There's nothing there at all. If there was anything, how could we not have discovered it in the past few years?"
Just as the man finished speaking, he saw on the shore more than ten meters away, his companions' faces began to become distorted with fear, and they kept pointing in a certain direction behind them.
There was a slight tremor under his feet followed by a loud noise, and the man suddenly found a black shadow passing through the air, right above his head.
The man glanced at the mobile phone stand in his hand. The screen of the phone on the stand reflected the huge black monster that suddenly appeared behind him.
"It's a snakehead, and a mutated one at that. Oh my God, there really is a monster in the lake!" Someone on the shore shouted in fear, and even the sounds of various mobile phone cameras could be heard.
The mutant black fish kept crashing into the ice, creating several holes. The man on the lake originally wanted to run back, but after the ice cracked, lake water continued to gush out, and the huge monster crashed into the lake, causing the entire lake surface to tremble violently.
The man couldn't stand up because the lake was shaking, so he couldn't even run. He could only sit on the ground and try to crawl back to the shore.
The few people who were originally with the man were so anxious that they hugged each other. One of the girls squatted on the ground and cried with her mouth covered. It was obvious that she was so scared that she didn't know what to do.
"It's not easy to take action in this situation. Is there any other way to pull that man up?" Gu Tongwan felt that now was not the time for them to use their supernatural powers. After all, they had entered the wanderer base as outsiders and were still "outsiders" to the residents of the camp. If they acted rashly, they would get themselves into trouble.
Chen Yanxi's eyes stayed on the lake, looking at the mutant black fish that occasionally showed a little black shadow but shuttled very quickly under the lake, and suddenly said this: "There should be other holes under the lake that can lead directly to other places. The black fish has not appeared in recent years, so it is not in the lake. It is very likely to be hunting in another place."
[Fairy Lake] is not very big. The area as far as the eye can see is about the size of a football field. It is not normal that there are still so many black fish in it after the extreme cold. Although fish can survive in low temperatures, if it is a dead lake, where do these fish get nutrients?
"You mean this black fish didn't grow like this by accident, and it's very likely that it came into contact with something else?"
"Two years ago, I was sent to carry out a mission. The maximum length of the mutant fish at the bottom of the lake was no more than two meters. Moreover, it was a mutant fish that evolved from silver carp. This fish was at least five meters long. As far as I know, the mutation of the fish school took a very long time. Before the mutation, the black fish was less than one meter long. It seemed that it had been exposed to energy bodies to grow to this size in just a few years."
"I remember Cai Min said that this place is not far from the back mountain. Could this passage lead to the back mountain?"
However, it is said that there are no large mutant beasts in the back mountain. If the energy body is in the back mountain, then there should be high-level mutant beasts there. However, since the extreme cold, no one has gone up the mountain, so Cai Min was a little uncertain when he went there in advance.
"You can go and take a look later. If there really is an energy body, it will be an unexpected gain." Chen Yanxi knew that she was interested in this, so he suggested this.
"Help, help!" The man cried miserably for help when the mutant black fish sank into the bottom of the lake again.
His companion on the shore immediately responded: "Chen Yi, run over here, over here!" The companion ran to the shore closest to Chen Yi and kept waving his hands, trying to give Chen Yi some motivation.
Another companion also shouted: "Hold on a little longer, the security team is about to arrive, don't give up hope, get moving!"
The man named Chen Yi could only hear the "buzzing" echo in his ears, so he could not hear his companions' shouts clearly.
At this time, no one knew which resident found a hemp rope from home, tied a stone at one end, and threw it directly towards Chen Yi's position.
The hemp rope was only about twenty meters long, and because the person throwing it was just an ordinary person, the force was limited, so the hemp rope was still more than ten meters away from Chen Yi.
After Chen Yi came to his senses, he found the hemp rope not far away, but at the same time, the black fish jumped out again from the original crack, and this time its purpose was very clear, it was coming towards Chen Yi. Chen Yi, who had already stood up, was knocked to the ground again, his palms were tightly pressed against the lake surface. The sound of ice cracking continued to be heard around him, and the entire lake surface had turned into criss-crossing gullies from a distance.
If the mutant black fish fails to succeed the first time, it will never give up the second time, especially after it is no longer satisfied with other mutant black fish as bait, it becomes more and more ferocious.
Perhaps it was the instinct of survival that made Chen Yi mobilize all his physical strength. He threw the phone away and stumbled towards one end of the rope.
Everyone on the shore was worried about Chen Yi, but no one was willing to really go down to help Chen Yi. After all, most of the people watching the excitement were ordinary people. Even if there were some people with special abilities, they were just low-level people like Xu Xuesong, so everyone could only worry in their hearts.
Cai Min saw that the man who threw the rope was having some difficulty pulling the rope, so she took the initiative to run over and pull the rope behind the man.
Gu Tongwan glanced at the crowd watching the excitement. She knew the reason why Chen Yanxi couldn't take action. Once the mental pressure was used on a large scale, it would most likely affect the people around him. There was no big problem when it was used on a small scale in the lake before, but if it was used on a large scale, it would most likely attract the attention of other high-level psychics in the camp.
Gu Tongwan looked at Yan Fan opposite him, and Yan Fan happened to look over here, so Gu Tongwan nodded, and Yan Fan seemed to understand and quickly ran over.
"Yan Fan, go to a farther place, preferably a higher place, and aim your ice pick at the big black fish."
Yan Fan nodded and then saw a dead tree not far away. So he climbed up the tree nimbly while the crowd's attention was on the lake, and directly fired eight ice cones the moment the mutant black fish jumped out of the lake again.
Eight ice cones shot out from the tree at an extremely fast speed. However, the scales on the mutant black fish were extremely hard, and the ice cones shattered into pieces the instant they hit them. The black fish let out a strange scream and jumped into the lake, but did not completely sink. Instead, it swam rapidly back and forth in the lake.
It was obvious that the mutant black fish was enraged, and it jumped out of the lake again in less than a minute.
Although Chen Yi was pulling the rope and trying to run to the shore, the ice had completely broken and the lake surface was immediately rippled by waves due to the disturbance caused by the black fish. In such a situation, Chen Yi could not run at all and could only move his steps little by little. After all, if he was not careful, he would probably fall into the lake. In such weather, even if he did not die in the belly of the black fish, he would go into shock due to falling into the icy lake and causing his body temperature to drop too quickly.
Every time Chen Yi jumped over an ice bank, he would let out a cry of surprise, fearing that he would accidentally fall into the lake.
"Huh? The scales on this black fish can actually resist Yan Fan's ice cone." Gu Tongwan felt that the mutant black fish was not simple. You know, Yan Fan's ice cone can easily penetrate a tree trunk with a diameter of half a meter, and even leave some dents on stainless steel. But just now she saw with her own eyes that the ice cone turned into powder the moment it touched the black fish.
"This mutated black fish should not be an ordinary black fish. Judging from the hardness of its scales, it should be second only to the mutated golden pangolin. Perhaps the scales of the black fish can be used for other purposes in the market and have a certain value." Chen Yanxi subconsciously touched the Leng Shuang that had been hanging on his waist.
After being successfully enraged, the mutant black fish began to continuously hit the ice that had not yet cracked. This made it increasingly difficult for Chen Yi to walk on the ice. He almost fell into the lake several times, causing the people on the shore to scream in fear.
"The security team is here!" I don't know who shouted this, and then I saw a path made clear in the crowd, and seven or eight people came over with weapons in their hands.
These people were dressed similarly to the ones Gu Tongwan had seen at the sentry box when he entered the Wanderer Base Camp before. They were probably all part of the hunter army under the jurisdiction of the camp.
All of these people had guns in their hands, but half of them did not carry any weapons.
"A person with superpowers?" Gu Tongwan looked at Chen Yanxi with an inquiring look.
"The three on the left are a B-level psychic, a C-level psychic, and a D-level psychic respectively. The four people on the right, except for the tall one in the middle who is a C-level psychic, the rest are ordinary people." Chen Yanxi patiently explained the situation on the opposite side. His voice was slightly low and seemed to have a magical power that could bewitch people.
These people are the "security team" composed of the supernatural people in the camp. Cai Min mentioned that the hunter army directly under the jurisdiction of the camp is composed of the "security team" and the "guild". The "security team" can be regarded as the "self-defense force" in the base, and the "guild" is a common hunter organization.
The security team quickly pointed their guns at the mutant black fish that jumped out again, while another team member who was not holding a weapon quickly condensed a long vine in his hand and thrust it directly towards Chen Yi.
Amid the exclamations of the crowd, they saw the long vine quickly wrapped around Chen Yi's waist and rapidly pulled towards the shore.
Just when everyone thought that Chen Yi was saved, a black fish suddenly jumped out of the lake and bit off the vine connected to Chen Yi's waist.
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