Evolution from Carp to Divine Dragon - Chapter 70

Chapter 70: The Little Dragon Shrimp

TL: Etude

The two men in suits didn’t look back and quickly disappeared from the area.

“Brother Du, twenty thousand!”

One of the men couldn’t help but speak up. He hadn’t expected such a crazy situation. The five of them each received twenty thousand!

“Biological research? Could it be they’re trying to trick us into doing something bad?” Du Zitong couldn’t help but voice his thoughts.

“It’s possible. This whole thing feels too strange. There’s no such thing as a free lunch!” Another person spoke up.

Everything was too odd. They weren’t the brightest, but they weren’t complete idiots either.

“Damn it, then why did you take their money?” One of them laughed and cursed.

“Let’s just go and have some fun?”

“Maybe we’ll get lucky this time. If we win, we’ll just give the money back, and we won’t have to do anything, hehe.”

Du Zitong picked up the two bundles of money the men had left behind and chuckled.

The others’ eyes lit up slightly.

“Brother Du is right. Kids don’t cry every day; it’s our turn to get lucky!”

They exchanged glances, then left together, arms around each other’s shoulders.

An hour later, the five of them emerged from a dilapidated area, looking like they’d fought fiercely.

“Damn it! We were supposed to stop after winning a little, but who knew we’d lose!” Du Zitong kicked a trash can, sending it flying.

“Damn, why is our luck so bad!”

“If we had more money, we could’ve turned it around!”

The others were equally frustrated.

“Five hundred thousand. We need to get our hands on that five hundred thousand!” Du Zitong took a deep breath, looking at them with a serious expression.

“Exactly. We have to get that five hundred thousand. It’s just biological research, throwing some knife fish into the river.” The others nodded eagerly.

Five hundred thousand split among them meant a hundred thousand each! With that hundred thousand, all their previous losses wouldn’t matter. Maybe they could even turn it into a big win!

With these thoughts, they left and headed towards the coastal area.

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Devoured adult river shrimp, gained 30 evolution points.

Devoured juvenile river shrimp, gained 10 evolution points.

Devoured…

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By this time, Lin Hao had already transported himself to the Hanshui River, continuously devouring river shrimp in the downstream area. There were plenty of river shrimp here, and with Lin Hao’s rapid devouring speed, achievements for devouring river shrimp kept popping up in no time.

“It seems like I’ve finished devouring everything here. I don’t see any more river shrimp.”

After devouring for a short while, Lin Hao realized that there were no more river shrimp in this area. It seemed he had consumed them all.

“Right, the task should be completed by now.”

Thinking of this, Lin Hao focused his mind, and the system’s task prompt appeared before him.

Normal Task: Devour 100 River Shrimp (100/100)

“Hehe, it’s completed, awesome!”

Seeing the completed task prompt, Lin Hao’s eyes lit up slightly.

“I’ll claim the task reward when I get back.”

“Let’s see if there’s anything else to devour first.”

Lin Hao continued to swim forward. Although his body had grown rapidly, his swimming speed was also fast. In no time, he had almost covered the entire Hanshui River but found nothing else to devour.

“I’ll teleport to the Longyin Chemical Plant area next.”

Without hesitation, Lin Hao focused his mind again, bringing up the system map and teleporting to the Longyin Chemical Plant area.

“Those two won’t show up here again, will they?”

As soon as he teleported to the river near the Longyin Chemical Plant, Lin Hao looked towards the shore. There was no one in sight. If he encountered those two again, he would definitely attack them. After all, last time, they had tried to kill him!

“Haha, there are more tilapia here!”

After swimming a bit further, Lin Hao noticed many tilapia around him. The eutrophication of the polluted river water made it easy for these fish to thrive. However, people couldn’t eat these fish because they were likely full of harmful elements, making them carcinogenic.

Lin Hao charged forward, opening his mouth wide to devour the tilapia one by one.

Devoured adult tilapia, gained 50 evolution points.

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As he continued his frenzied devouring, system prompts kept popping up. His teeth had become incredibly sharp, allowing him to bite the tilapia in half with a single snap and swallow them whole without chewing.

Seeing the continuous system prompts, he felt exhilarated. He needed a large number of evolution points, and although tilapia didn’t provide many evolution points compared to other fish, their sheer numbers made up for it.

“Already out of tilapia so soon?”

After devouring for a while longer, Lin Hao found that he had consumed all the tilapia. With his current size, his mouth had grown larger, and his stomach seemed like a bottomless pit. No matter how many fish he ate, it never seemed enough.

“I haven’t checked the upstream area yet; there should be more up there.”

Lin Hao swam towards the upstream area. This was where he had encountered those two people before. This time, he saw no one in the area.

“Oh wow, there are a lot of crawfish here.”

Soon, he came across a large number of crawfish. Despite the polluted environment, these crawfish were thriving and reproducing normally.

“Why do farmed crawfish die so easily, yet these wild ones thrive in such an environment?”

Lin Hao couldn’t help but complain. He remembered a classmate who struggled to keep farmed crawfish alive, yet these wild ones were thriving in such harsh conditions.

Without further thought, he started devouring the crawfish.

Devoured adult crawfish, gained 15 evolution points.

Devoured juvenile crawfish, gained 5 evolution points.

Devoured…

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Though the evolution points from these crawfish weren’t much, their numbers made up for it!

As Lin Hao was enjoying his feast, a large number of bubbles suddenly started rising from a nearby spot. In the distance, two faint blood-red glows began to emerge!

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