It was too scary. It had finally escaped from that monster's hands.
The water snake swam quickly under the surface of the lake.
When it grabbed its own body, it couldn't move at all. After its head was flicked, it lost consciousness. Fortunately, it had somehow returned to the water.
It had to run as far away as possible. That terrifying creature might still be on the shore.
The water flow was receding rapidly. The sunlight that penetrated the lake was refracted several times. Fish and shrimps floated and sank.
Swimming in the water, the green water snake suddenly stopped.
It suddenly felt different. Everything was different.
"Gulp."
The water snake turned its head and looked around. It had seen the scenery of the lake countless times and was already familiar with this world where the strong preyed on the weak.
But at this moment, the world changed. For the first time, it consciously understood that it was in the water. For the first time, it thought about how different it was from the fish and shrimps around it. It even looked at the fish in its group and understood the existence of "numbers."
Other fish had oval bodies, but only it was long and had no fins. So I'm the only fish that's different.
Basic intelligence clearly appeared in the water snake's mind. It also keenly felt a pair of eyes staring at it.
The water snake shook its head, trying to find where the gaze came from. The boundless water world, the muddy bottom of the lake, and the existence that made it panic was staring at it. It tried several times to find traces of this indescribable existence, but in the end, it could only return empty-handed.
The hunger in its stomach replaced this panic. It was as if something was whispering in its ear, urging it to eat and kill.
Hungry.
The hungry water snake looked fiercely at the fish around it.
With its previous habits, it hunted frogs and small fish near the shore.
The water snake didn't have limbs, and it didn't have dense and sharp teeth. It could only push its prey to the shore and rely on the soil as a support to swallow. It was too difficult to swallow something in the water where there was no leverage.
But now, it was different. The water snake believed that it could deliver the swimming fish into its mouth.
It didn't know where its confidence came from. It simply believed that it could do it.
The thinking of animals was very simple. If I can eat you, then I will eat you.
The wisdom of enlightenment was still slowly growing. The water snake now relied more on instinct.
"Hula."
He saw a silver carp moving quickly above the water. Its body wasn't big, and it didn't seem to be mature yet.
But just as it was swimming normally, the water flow suddenly changed.
A whirlpool.
A whirlpool suddenly appeared under the silver carp, and a powerful suction force pulled the silver carp downwards.
Even without intelligence, the silver carp's instincts told it that the current situation wasn't good.
"Huala, huala."
It wagged its tail and tried its best to break free from the suction of the whirlpool. It swam out frantically, but it was useless. How could a small silver carp fight against supernatural powers?
The water snake simply opened its mouth and aimed at the unlucky silver carp.
"Gu!"
Even with snakes' extraordinary eating ability, the water snake was still choked by the silver carp.
Before the poor little silver carp could understand what was happening, the water snake had further controlled the water flow and pushed the carp into its stomach like a push pole.
The water snake's linear body bulged visibly. Its intestines were going to further crush the silver carp's body.
However, this was not enough. The water snake still did not feel full.
Looking at the ignorant fishes and shrimps swimming in the lake, the water snake swam its body.
With the ability to control water flow, it didn't need to rely on its own body to hunt for food. With a push from the water flow, the food would be delivered to its mouth.
It wasn't until it ate more than ten fish that the water snake realized that the situation wasn't good.
"Why does this pig look so much like a snake?"
Mizuno also noticed the problem. From time to time, he observed that the water snake's body had expanded after continuously eating.
It had successfully evolved from a rope into a horizontal water pipe. If the head and tail were cut off, what would be left would be a bucket.
A man who is never content is like a snake trying to swallow an elephant. In the animal world, there were many cases of snakes bursting to death because they ate too much.
The water snake with such an uncoordinated body moved clumsily. It couldn't swim by twisting its body at all. Instead, the more it twisted, the more it seemed to sink to the bottom.
The water snake had to float to the lake surface regularly to change water. Compared to bursting its body, the most likely way for the water snake to die was to suffocate to death.
Mizuno, who was watching from the back, didn't know what to say. Stupid, this snake died because of its own stupidity.
He thought that the water snake was a ruthless character when it was hunting for food. He didn't expect that it wasn't ruthless, but simply stupid.
Mizuno wondered if he should give the snake a commemorative name after it died.
"Hua la, hua la."
The water snake struggled, its strong desire to survive driving it to swim upstream.
It couldn't die. It had worked so hard to obtain such a powerful hunting ability. How could it die now?
Feeling the murderous intent of the water snake, the surrounding fishes and shrimps were instantly scared away.
This was a species that had never been seen before. When did such an uncoordinated 'fish' appear in the lake? Just by looking at its size, one could tell that it wasn't easy to mess with.
Its body, which was three times its size, continued to twist. Flesh and blood could almost be seen through the expanded scales.
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"Bang!"
The water snake expanded!
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Lake Biwa.
A big catfish was swimming in the water. It was 70 to 80 centimeters long and had a wide body.
This was a big guy.
The huge catfish swam freely in the water. In the animal world, size was everything. Size was everything. When it was huge, no one dared to provoke it.
Take the blue whale for example. Other than humans, no other marine creatures would attack it for no reason.
This catfish was the blue whale of the lake. Except for humans and a few catfish, it didn't fear anything. In fact, it had eaten human children when it was extremely hungry.
As a water snake, although it didn't have intelligence, it still had instincts. Big catfish like this were never in the water snake's eating range. In other words, the water snake itself was in the catfish's food list.
But looking at this guy today, the water snake felt that it could give it a try.
Its current body length wasn't shorter than this guy's!
Wisdom occupied the high ground of intelligence, not instinct.
Aquatic animals wouldn't waste energy on activities other than filling their stomachs, and they wouldn't kill just for fun like humans.
But the water snake was different … It wanted to kill the catfish.
It didn't want to fill its stomach. It was a fighting instinct born in its body. Like a cat playing with a mouse, or the natural cruelty of a human child, the water snake wanted to kill this big eyesore and devour it!
It first floated to the surface for a round of oxygen. A pair of cruel eyes stared at the catfish's body.
"Splash."
When the surrounding fishes saw the catfish, they all avoided it. They stood in front of the catfish, careful not to be eaten in one bite.
Gods and ghosts avoided it. It was tyrannical.
In this lake, the catfish didn't need to be afraid of anything!
In front of it, another slender little guy swam toward it. This guy didn't want to live. As long as it opened its mouth, the giant catfish would swallow it whole.
Die!