Evolution from Carp to Divine Dragon - Chapter 44

Chapter 44: Reservoir

TL: Etude

“It was wearing armor.” Luo Xue spoke calmly.

The armor was of a unique design, far advanced beyond Earth’s current technology, and even had an oxygen supply system integrated.

“That wasn’t the case.” The middle-aged man shook his head.

During the intense battle to capture the creature, it was clear that the monster wasn’t wearing any armor.

“Captain, let me go down and take a look.” At that moment, a man in combat uniform volunteered.

“Zhang San, are you sure?” The middle-aged man looked at him and spoke immediately.

It was still unclear if the ET was hiding in the pond. Logically, it seemed impossible, but many things in life defied logic.

Often, the more impossible something seemed, the more likely it was.

“Yes.” The man called Zhang San nodded slightly.

He placed his combat knife on the bank, prepared himself briefly, and then started to enter the water.

“First, surround the Hualong Pond.” The middle-aged man directed the others.

“Okay.”

Soon, the vast Hualong Pond was surrounded by government personnel, police officers, and members of the HXLZ.

“Damn! They’re really going into the water.”

The moment he heard that they were preparing to go underwater, Lin Hao initiated a teleportation!

This time, he set the teleportation duration to two hours!

After two hours, these people would definitely have left!

He reappeared in the Longyin Reservoir!

“The water here is quite chilly!”

As soon as he arrived, Lin Hao felt the icy coldness of the reservoir water.

Scanning the area with his eyes, he noticed many large fish not far away.

“Silver carp!?”

Seeing these fish, Lin Hao’s eyes lit up. He surged forward, opened his mouth, and bit a large silver carp in half!

After a few chews, he swallowed it.

Devouring an adult silver carp, gained 100 Evolution Points.

“Awesome!”

Hearing the system’s prompt, Lin Hao felt delighted.

Getting 100 Evolution Points from a single fish was quite decent!

Moreover, he could see many large silver carps in the water.

Not only silver carps, but there were also plenty of bighead carps!

Evolution Points!

So many Evolution Points!

Without any hesitation, Lin Hao began to open his mouth wide and devour the fish around him.

Devoured an adult silver carp, gained 100 Evolution Points.

Devoured a bighead carp, gained 100 Evolution Points.

Devoured…

Meanwhile, over at Hualong Pond, Zhang San resurfaced after diving and searching for a while, splashing water as he emerged.

“I didn’t see anything!” Zhang San shouted to the people on the shore.

“Captain, let’s go down and take a look too!” The other HXLZ members were getting impatient.

“Alright, let’s go down together and take a look.” After a brief moment of thought, the middle-aged man nodded.

There were no other places left to search now.

“I’ll go in and check,” Luo Xue said, carrying her long knife as she walked towards the Dragon King Temple.

“I’ll go with you,” the middle-aged man instinctively moved to follow her when he saw her actions.

“I can handle it myself. You keep watch outside,” Luo Xue said calmly.

Without looking back, she continued walking inside.

The middle-aged man smiled wryly at this. His gaze swept across the Hualong Pond, his expression becoming serious.

In a short time, the men in combat uniforms had already entered the water.

Though their swimming skills weren’t as good as Zhang San’s, they could still hold their breath and dive in the pond.

Soon, they completed their search of the entire Hualong Pond.

There was no sign of the creature!

“It seems it’s not here.”

Luo Xue had already exited the Dragon King Temple.

She hadn’t found any trace of a creature inside, and the search of the Hualong Pond turned up nothing either.

“Unless it burrowed into the mud, we couldn’t have missed it,” Zhang San, soaking wet, said from the shore.

The others nodded in agreement.

Indeed, they had just searched the entire pond thoroughly and found nothing.

“That’s impossible,” the middle-aged man shook his head.

Hiding in the mud at the bottom of the pond was too far-fetched.

“It was probably taken away by their people,” he thought of the person wearing the ‘Type 3 Suit,’ and his expression became grave.

“We can only check the Sky Eye system to see if it detected their movements. Let’s head back.” He sighed.

This mission had failed.

Luo Xue glanced around and noticed the lush flowers, grass, and trees, as well as numerous birds.

Standing there, she felt a vague sense of comfort.

…

Devoured an adult scavenger fish, gained 30 Evolution Points.

Devoured a juvenile scavenger fish, gained 10 Evolution Points.

…

“There are scavenger fish here too!?”

“Did someone release them?”

While constantly devouring fish in the reservoir, Lin Hao also discovered the presence of scavenger fish!

There were quite a few of them too!

“I haven’t eaten these in a while, they taste awful.”

After devouring many scavenger fish, Lin Hao felt a bit nauseous.

The scavenger fish was by far the most disgusting meat he had ever eaten.

Not just the scavenger fish, but also the apple snails were terribly disgusting.

Tilapia, apart from having a strong metallic taste, wasn’t too bad.

Whatever!

He decided to devour everything!

Lin Hao opened his mouth and continued devouring madly, even swallowing all the scavenger fish eggs.

“Gone?”

After searching a bit more, he found no more scavenger fish.

At this moment, the system displayed a metallic icon prompt.

Lin Hao clicked it with his mind, and a system popup appeared before him.

Normal task: Devour 100 scavenger fish 100/100 (Reward: Enhanced Tooth Sharpness)

“Finally completed!”

Seeing the task, Lin Hao’s eyes brightened.

This task had been around for a while, but he hadn’t encountered enough scavenger fish to complete it until now.

Great!

He immediately claimed the reward.

As the reward was granted, he could clearly feel a tingling sensation in his teeth.

However, the sensation didn’t last long before disappearing.

“I have no idea how much sharper they got.” Lin Hao felt a bit frustrated.

Currently, his teeth could already bite through black iron. How much sharper could they get?

“Let’s find a mutated creature and test it out!” Lin Hao thought to himself as he continued swimming forward. He still had an hour left!

He needed to gain more Evolution Points quickly!