Evolution from Carp to Divine Dragon - Chapter 34

Chapter 34: Civilization Ruins

TL: Etude

When Lin Hao woke up again, he continued to choose evolution.

After three consecutive evolutions, it was already noon the next day.

“Haha, evolving twice in a row, not bad.”

As he fully woke up, he could clearly feel his body becoming larger and longer!

“Let’s check the system panel first.”

Calming his excitement, Lin Hao willed the system panel to appear before his eyes.

Host: Lin Hao

Species: Fire Scale Black Carp

Level: 14

Body Length: 3.3 meters

Weight: 305 jin

Combat Power: 38

Skills: Camouflage, Fire Scales, Powerful Bite, Powerful Tail Slap, Iron Scales

Divine Abilities: Auspicious Guardian lv4

Evolution Points: 745/10,000

“Aside from the changes in body size and combat power, there doesn’t seem to be any significant changes.” Lin Hao murmured to himself after carefully examining the system panel.

“But with combat power increased to thirty-eight, my entire body feels much stronger. I wonder if I’ll encounter any mutated creatures.” Lin Hao couldn’t help but ponder.

If he encountered a mutated bullhead catfish like before, he was sure he could easily kill it now!

“Let’s see if there are any new tasks available.”

With a thought, the task list appeared before his eyes.

Normal Task: Devour 100 scavenger fish (75/100) (Reward: Enhanced Tooth Sharpness)
Normal Task: Devour 200 crayfish (0/200) (Reward: Enhanced Horn Sharpness)
Normal Task: Devour 10 eels (0/10) (Reward: raws left it out)
Difficult Task: Devour 10 mutated creatures (2/10) (Reward: Blue Treasure Chest)

“Four tasks. This difficult task is a bit troublesome. How am I supposed to find so many mutated creatures?” Lin Hao was a bit frustrated.

Moreover, completing this task only rewarded a blue treasure chest.

“Never mind, let’s continue accumulating evolution points and leveling up!”

He clicked on the map in the upper left corner of the system panel, and a map soon appeared before his eyes.

Teleportation Time: 2 hours

“Hmm!?”

“It’s now two hours!?”

Seeing the teleportation time on the map, Lin Hao was pleasantly surprised.

As his level continued to increase, the available teleportation time also gradually increased!

“In that case, it’s time for another big hunt.”

Without much thought, he chose to teleport directly!

The destination, of course, was still the river outside Longyin Chemical Plant.

As his whole body was enveloped in white light, the next moment, he arrived at the river.

“The familiar slimy feeling again, it’s really uncomfortable.” Upon teleporting to the river, Lin Hao started to complain.

The pollution in this river was quite severe; just being in the water felt uncomfortable.

“Huh, this time I teleported to the exact area where I was forcibly teleported back last time.”

Looking closely at his current surroundings, Lin Hao realized it was the same area where he had been teleported back when his time ran out previously.

“There are quite a lot of crayfish.”

Scanning the area, he spotted several crayfish.

Fire Scales!

As Lin Hao activated this skill, his entire body of scales seemed to ignite.

Bubbling!

The temperature of the surrounding river water began to rise continuously.

Many crayfish hidden among the nearby algae clearly felt the change in water temperature and began to flee towards the other side.

Gulp!

Lin Hao opened his mouth and swallowed several in one bite!

As his body had grown larger, so had his mouth.

Devoured adult crayfish, gained 15 evolution points.

Devoured…

…

One system notification after another sounded quickly.

Although each crayfish only provided fifteen evolution points, there were so many of them!

And weren’t crayfish considered an invasive species anyway?

He ate greedily, leaving none behind!

As he continued, he devoured almost every crayfish he encountered.

“HXLZ personnel are now encircling that ET, planning to act tonight. We need to take it away before them.”

As he swam upstream, he vaguely heard voices from not far away.

Hmm!?

Lin Hao, with his excellent hearing, clearly caught the conversation.

HXLZ!?

ET!?

Hearing these keywords, Lin Hao felt a bit surprised.

He now understood that this so-called HXLZ was an official organization, one that dealt with mutated creatures!

And ET referred to unidentified extraterrestrial beings!

After calming himself, he began to hide at the riverbed, slowly swimming forward.

Given the murky water of this river and his black color with camouflage abilities, ordinary people wouldn’t notice him.

Soon, Lin Hao vaguely saw two men standing by the riverbank ahead.

Both men carried black boxes on their backs and were smoking, puffing clouds.

Who are they!?

Watching this scene, Lin Hao felt curious.

These two didn’t seem like official personnel.

“Hmm.”

“It must be trying to awaken the ancient creature hidden in Longyin City.”

“And there must be relics of civilization hidden within Longyin City.”

A middle-aged man took a deep drag from his cigarette and exhaled a smoke ring.

Ancient creature!?

Civilization relics!?

Lin Hao quickly caught these keywords.

Internally, he felt a sense of shock.

Although he had previously gathered a lot of information, this time, he learned something new!

Combining this information, it wasn’t hard to conclude that Earth might have had civilizations in ancient times!

“Heh, once we find those civilization relics and obtain the advanced warrior equipment within, we can become the strongest when the global changes occur!” The other man seemed excited as he spoke.

“Don’t speak so loudly.” The middle-aged man beside him said in a low voice.

“In this godforsaken place, do you think anyone would be around?” The other man was indifferent. “If anyone’s here, we’ll just kill them.”

He said this with a sinister look on his face.

Definitely not good people.

Listening to their conversation, Lin Hao thought to himself.

What’s in those black boxes on their backs!?

Lin Hao was very curious.

Both men carried long, rectangular black boxes on their backs.

Could those boxes contain sniper rifles?