At four o'clock in the afternoon, in the reading room, Chen Chu quietly flipped through the fifth volume of The Complete Collection of Mutated Beasts in his hand.
There have been too many mutant creatures appearing around the world in recent years, with varying strengths and weaknesses, and some can even be domesticated and reproduced, just like pigs and sheep in the past.
One of the largest types of mutated animals currently being raised is the mountain cashmere pig, which is a mutation of the former mountain black pig.
This kind of creature has mutated and is several times larger than before. It can basically grow to weigh two tons as an adult. It has a high meat production rate and only needs to eat feed and vegetation to survive.
Of course, even if a creature of this size is not so bloodthirsty and violent, it will burst out with terrifying power when it is slightly angry. It is not something that ordinary people can raise.
Therefore, those large-scale breeding groups basically take over more than ten mountains and hire practitioners with second- and third-level cultivation to manage them.
This is also one of the places where ordinary practitioners who do not have the courage to fight, have average cultivation talents, and are only at the second level of heaven when they graduate from high school go.
Of course, Chen Chu will definitely not become a breeder.
When he looked at the information on ordinary mutant beasts, he naturally looked for targets for the clone's fourth evolution to devour.
Although the Sword Armor Yan Beast already possesses the 'energy' type talent in advance, its fire ability is only average in the sea, and its explosive lethality is not very strong.
Besides, who would dislike having more abilities?
Chen Chu is very cautious about the absorption ability of the fourth evolution of the clone, because it is related to the combat power of the Sword Armor Yan Beast among the mutant beasts of the same level.
Mutated beasts that can evolve to level seven or above are each very powerful and possess at least two or more talents.
While Chen Chu was reading quietly, a stream of warmth appeared out of thin air in his body, constantly integrating into his body and strengthening his physical body.
The sword-armored Yan beast in front practiced for a long time, and went hunting after harvesting a little bit. At this time, the warm current flowing out of his body was the feedback of the growth of the mutated beast.
Chen Chu felt that this connection should be related to his 'it' soul.
As 'souls' from the same source, no matter how far apart they are, Chen Chu and his clone have synchronized consciousness and perspective, and there will be no delay.
It's like there is a turning point between the two that distorts time and space.
And the 'evolutionary' energy that appeared in his body out of thin air flowed through the 'channel, inflection point' between the two souls.
This also explains why it can be strengthened ‘synchronically’.
At the same time, it is also the reason why neither the master's cultivation method nor the clone's talent can be shared by both parties, because that channel can only pass through evolutionary energy.
Of course, these are Chen Chu's own conjectures, and there are no detailed notes on his soul talent even on the attribute page.
Suddenly, Chen Chu's eyes paused and fell on the page of the book in his hand.
[The electric thunder eel is an ordinary first- and second-level mutant beast. The maximum body length known so far is seven meters and half a meter thick. It is suspected to be a mutation of the thunder-marked electric eel from the old era.
At present, it has been discovered in some mountain streams and rivers in Changbai Mountain that it has the ability to instantly release powerful lightning, and the threat in the water is no less than that of ordinary third-level mutant beasts]
"Changbai Mountains?"
Chen Chu thoughtfully wrote down the location where the mutant beast appeared. He remembered that one of the raid mission points later in the year would be the Changbai Mountain Range.
Now with the addition of the Lightning Eel, Chen Chu currently has four tentatively determined targets.
The other three targets are the third-level mutant beast, the double-headed mutant ice python, which has the ability to master ice, and the third-level mutant beast, the phantom white fox, which has the ability to blur its tail.
In addition, there is also a third-level mutant beast, the Earth Black Bear, which has the talent to distort the surrounding gravity for several meters to form a force field.
They represent ice, virtualization, thunder and lightning, and gravity respectively.
Of course, due to their level, the abilities of these mutant beasts are not very strong, but this is not important to Chen Chu.
What he values is these abilities and characteristics.
As long as the Sword Armor Yan Beast devoured these abilities and converted them into talents, he could later enhance them to terrifying levels through attribute enhancement.
The busy time is always very fast. Although the school is already on winter vacation, Chen Chu lives a fulfilling life every day.
Every day he is either practicing or checking information. At the same time, he is distracted by controlling the sword-armored beast to hunt mutant creatures. Both his body strength and his clones are growing steadily.
In this situation, a few days go by in the blink of an eye.
At five o'clock in the afternoon, accompanied by the melodious bells, Luo Fei, who was immersed in the artistic conception of the scriptures opposite, raised her head and said with emotion: "Another day has passed."
"Yes." Chen Chu nodded.
The girl put a strand of hair in front of her eyes behind her ears and whispered: "After I feel back, my whole mental thinking has become much lazier."
"It's normal. This is not a chaotic Kolaya after all. We don't need to be tense every day."
After saying that, the two of them got up together, put the borrowed books back to their original places, and took the elevator out of the teaching building with a few classmates who were also reading.
Walking on campus, Chen Chu noticed that the tree branches and street lamps on the roadside were all hung with red lanterns and colored lights before he knew it, full of festive atmosphere.
Luo Fei looked forward to it and said, "The Chinese New Year is only seven days away. I heard that this year there will be a lantern festival along the Wujiang River from the 30th to the 15th day of the Lunar New Year."
"In addition, there will be a grand fireworks show on the night of the 28th of the Lunar New Year. Fireworks manufacturers from many surrounding cities will participate. It is very beautiful."
After saying that, the girl turned to look at Chen Chu, her bright eyes twinkling slightly.
Chen Chu understood what she meant and couldn't help but chuckled: "I wonder if this year's lantern festival will be good. Can we get together then?"
With a smile in her eyes, the girl nodded gently: "Okay, I'll call the squad leader and the others by the way."
Chen Chu paused slightly: "...Well, it would be more lively if there are more people."
While talking, the two walked out of the campus.
She walked home along the familiar road until she reached the intersection where she separated every day. Luo Fei waved slightly and turned around to walk to another street.
Standing at the intersection with a red street light, Chen Chu watched the girl's back go away. He felt inexplicably like a youthful and everyday campus style, and any mutant beast clones were all illusions.
He chatted with beautiful female classmates every day, and made appointments to watch the lantern festival and fireworks together... Suddenly Chen Chu's eyes narrowed.
Under the pitch-black deep sea of more than 300 meters, the sword-armored Yan beast, which had been lying on the seabed practicing hidden mystical techniques, suddenly raised its head, with a look of shock in its cold vertical pupils.
A hundred meters in front of it, endless energy from heaven and earth suddenly spurted out, and the surrounding seawater boiled under the pure energy from heaven and earth.
Washed by the rich energy, the surrounding seawater within a few hundred meters became pure and clear, like the sweetest spring water in the world.
The sword-armored beast a hundred meters away took a breath and felt that its whole body was full of strength and full of energy.
At this time, the gap in the gushing energy of heaven and earth continued to expand, and gradually a blue light appeared on the dark bottom of the sea, and a crack like a portal slowly opened.
The crack was more than three meters long and half a meter wide. It seemed to be connected to another world, except that the opposite side was not an ocean, but a plain of ice and snow that sealed everything.
Boom! At this moment, there was a violent riot in the sea area within ten kilometers, and countless fish creatures swarmed towards this direction.
These marine creatures ranged from mutant sharks and sea pythons to ordinary fish and shrimps as small as the size of a palm. They all rushed towards the crack crazily.
It's just that not everyone can get down to the depth of more than 300 meters.
On the way, countless small fish and shrimps were crushed by the water pressure, and only those mutated creatures that were more than several meters in size could swim down.
Among them, the one rushing at the front was an eight-meter-long largemouth shark with mutated black scales all over its body. Its tail swam wildly and rushed towards the crack.
In just a few breaths, it rushed down from above, and then...
Bang! The sea water exploded, and the mutated black shark that rushed towards the crack hit its head and blood flowed. The sword-armored beast even heard the sound of bones breaking in the water.
The crack seems to be on the opposite side, but it seems to be separated from the world by some kind of barrier, and only the invisible energy of heaven and earth can pass through.
This can be seen from the sea water rolling around the crack, but not a drop can penetrate it.
Unfortunately, only the Sword Armor Yan Beast noticed this, and those mutated creatures with no intelligence rushed over like crazy.
Bang bang bang bang!!
Suddenly, the bottom of the sea was filled with the vibration of collision, and many mutated fish that were fast but not strong enough were even directly hit to death by the force of the shock.
And those mutated fish that didn't rush over didn't want to give up.
After these stunned ordinary mutated creatures calmed down, they crowded together crazily, and in the blink of an eye, a fish ball with a diameter of hundreds of meters appeared on the bottom of the sea.
In the madness, many weaker mutated fish were directly squeezed to death, and their bodies exploded. For a time, rich blood spread, mixed with many corpses and sank.
This madness lasted for more than ten minutes, and then the Sword Armor Yan Beast felt that the amount of energy from heaven and earth pouring out in front of it was getting weaker and weaker.
Finally, as if it suddenly appeared, the crack suddenly disappeared.
This scene made the Sword Armor Yan Beast think deeply, and it probably understood why the deeper the ocean, the stronger the energy of heaven and earth contained.
Compared with the controllable land, the ocean occupies a wider area. In this case, there will naturally be more cracks in the mythical world.
There might even be a stable passage to the mythical world under the 10,000-meter-deep sea.
The Sword Armor Yan Beast subconsciously thought of the deep sea restricted area, those giant beasts that were as big as mountains and whose terrifying strength made humans feel helpless.
With their size and strength, the normal ocean world cannot feed them at all, unless...
At this time, as the cracks in the world disappeared ahead, those crazy mutant fish gradually calmed down.
Then some ferocious creatures such as mutated sharks and squid, which were eight to ten meters long and stood higher in the food chain, looked at the crowded food around them, with a ferocious light in their eyes.
But they didn't see it. In the distance, a black-red mutant beast that looked like a deep-sea dragon slowly stood up, and in an instant, a ferocious aura erupted.
Roar! The seawater exploded with a violent roar. In an instant, the sword-armored Yan beast exploded into the seawater, like a black light rushing into the mutant fish school.
Every time the two claws fall, the head of a mutant beast that is over five meters tall will be exploded, and every time the dark and slender tail is waved, a mutant fish will be penetrated.
In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen huge mutant fish were killed.
The sudden crack was of no use to the Sword Armored Flame Beast, but the mutated fish that gathered because of the crack were like food.
Faced with this gift of nature, it will naturally not be polite.
In just a few minutes, the sea water was dyed red with scarlet blood, and dozens of mutated fish corpses over five meters long were floating on the seabed.
Among the mutated fish carcasses, a ferocious black and red mutant beast held a mutated fish in its claws, devouring it happily.