Evolution from Carp to Divine Dragon - Chapter 93

Chapter 93: Burned to Death

TL: Etude

He looked extremely anxious, his whole demeanor frantic.

“What happened!?”

Zhao Chengkong and the others turned their gaze towards the man.

Their expressions became exceedingly grave. The current situation was already causing a massive headache—could something else have gone wrong!?

“The police found the bodies of those two people in the river near the Longyin Chemical Plant.”

The man took a deep breath and spoke earnestly.

“Are they the two people mentioned by Du Zitong?”

Upon hearing his words, Zhao Chengkong immediately responded.

According to Du Zitong and the others’ statements, two men in suits had intentionally instructed them to capture the mutated sea loaches and release them into various rivers within Longyin City.

“Yes! But these two…” The man nodded, then seemed to recall something that made his scalp tingle. “They were burned to death!”

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone present displayed expressions of shock.

“Burned to death!?” Zhao Chengkong’s eyes were filled with astonishment.

“Yes, I don’t know the exact reason, but the bodies have now been sent to the research institute.” The man nodded slightly and continued speaking.

These two didn’t look like ordinary people; they seemed to be infected by a virus. Their muscle tissues were different from those of normal people, having evolved to be tougher and more resilient.

“Let’s go back and take a look.” An elderly man in a lab coat stepped forward, addressing Zhao Chengkong.

“Alright, I’ll go take a look too.” Zhao Chengkong responded, his expression becoming extremely severe.

The situation was indeed peculiar. Who could have imagined that things would escalate to this extent? They had found the two men, only to discover they were dead.

“By the way, did they find any mutated sea loaches there?” Zhao Chengkong suddenly thought of something and asked instinctively.

“No. That river seemed to be devoid of any living creatures.” The man shook his head and replied subconsciously.

“Alright, that’s good. Let’s head back. For now, these creatures won’t awaken.” Zhao Chengkong addressed the government personnel.

“Understood.” They nodded as well.

Although the situation was dangerous, there was currently no particularly good solution. Worrying wouldn’t help; they could only wait.

Wait for the people from the headquarters of the HXLZ to arrive.

…

“Phew, I’m back.”

“It seems using this method eliminates the cooldown time for the teleportation; I can return immediately.”

Lin Hao’s figure had returned to the Hualong Pond.

He had swum from the river near the Longyin Chemical Plant to another location. He didn’t know how long he had swum, but once he had swum past the system’s lit-up map area, he was instantly teleported back.

Lin Hao now knew that using the teleportation method to reach a location outside the map’s teleportation range would automatically send him back to the initial teleportation point, which was the Hualong Pond.

He grabbed the short sword and the long sword, then hid both weapons under the mud below. Including the two weapons he had obtained previously, there were now four of these special weapons hidden here.

“Unfortunately, in my current state, I can’t use weapons,” Lin Hao lamented inwardly.

He decided to collect them for now. Maybe in the future, if he could talk again, he could give them to Luo Xue?

“I wonder how she’s been doing all this time…” Lin Hao’s thoughts drifted.

Unknowingly, so much time had passed, and he had gradually adapted to his current body.

“Sigh, today is Mother’s Day. I wonder how Mom and Dad are doing.” Lin Hao learned today’s date from people who came to worship at the Dragon King Temple and felt a bit sentimental.

“Forget it, let’s check out other places first.”

After a brief consideration, he focused his thoughts, and the system map reappeared before him.

Staring at the system map, Lin Hao hesitated.

Where should he teleport to now? He had already visited these places, and he had devoured all the mutated sea loaches there. Ordinary creatures didn’t seem to be worth devouring anymore.

“I should head to the area near the estuary.” Lin Hao made up his mind.

Although there was a terrifying giant mutated crab in that area, there were also plenty of fish and other aquatic creatures.

Fortune favors the bold!

Moreover, if he couldn’t win, he could still run away!

Exiting the teleportation range would send him back instantly, so the risk wasn’t too great.

He felt his current strength was still insufficient. His claw had been pierced by that short sword, which must have been an extraterrestrial weapon like the long war knife.

He needed to keep leveling up to make his body tougher!

Without any hesitation, his body transformed into a white light and disappeared from the spot.

The next moment, he appeared in the estuary area, where freshwater and saltwater met.

As soon as he teleported there, Lin Hao’s eyes scanned the surroundings, fully alert!

“Nothing.”

After a careful look, he clearly didn’t find any trace of the giant mutated crab.

However, in this brackish water zone, mullets were abundant as always.

“There are still a lot of these fish.”

“If the ocean has even more, the quantity of marine life must be staggering.”

With this thought, Lin Hao felt a surge of excitement.

Without further ado, he rushed forward, opened his mouth, and began to devour wildly!

Devoured an adult mullet, gained 100 evolution points.

Devoured…

…

The system’s notifications of gaining evolution points kept coming.

Lin Hao continued to open his mouth and devour frantically. The process was incredibly fast since these fish were not much in comparison to his current size.

However, compared to the explosive evolution points from devouring the mutated sea loaches, this growth felt insignificant to him now.

“Let’s check that area.” After a brief thought, Lin Hao headed towards the ocean.

Although he couldn’t fully enter the ocean yet, he should still find many creatures in the area near it!

As he swam, Lin Hao remained highly alert and focused.

After all, he was still not strong enough to kill that mutated giant crab!

…

Meanwhile, Zhao Chengkong and the others had arrived at the Longyin Chemical Plant area!

…