area51novel Chapter 97 Incinerator
Chapter 97 Incinerator
Chapter 97 Incinerator
"Has this... stirred up a hornet's nest?"
Su Jin's hand, which was holding up the binoculars, trembled violently, and his expression immediately turned rather grim.
Standing beside him, Shen Ruying immediately noticed that Su Jin's expression was off. Her heart jumped into her throat, and she hurriedly asked, "Brother Su, what's wrong? What did you see?"
Su Jin didn't say anything, but handed the binoculars to her, and then snatched a few spare binoculars from Shen Qiaoqiao's hand and distributed them to the bewildered Lin Xuan and Li Yuanyuan.
Everyone raised their binoculars and looked towards the beach.
"What the hell is that!" Li Yuanyuan screamed, nearly dropping the binoculars in her hand.
Her face contorted in disgust, as if she'd seen something repulsive: "Why is the beach all red? Are those moving—worms? Ugh—how disgusting!"
The once golden sand was now stained red by countless red creatures, which were still wriggling.
If someone with trypophobia saw this, they would definitely faint on the spot. Even the people present couldn't help but feel their scalps tingle when they saw it.
Lin Xuan was relatively calmer, after all, she studied chemistry and had some exposure to biological anatomy, so she had some resistance to these disgusting things.
She immediately showed a look of disgust, but then she got into the zone and began to roughly calculate the number of these creatures.
"Judging from the appearance, there should be more than a hundred of these creatures on this beach, of varying sizes, but we cannot estimate their size at the moment."
"Is it too far?" Su Jin murmured, explaining the reason. His eyes sharpened, and he decided to move a little closer.
As the sailboat slowly approached, the specific appearance of these red creatures gradually became clearer to everyone.
Actually, Su Jin and the others were mistaken. These creatures were not fleshy worms, but shelled ones.
However, their shells are also red, just like their flesh, and they don't have any patterns. The only difference is that the shell color is lighter than the flesh color, which can be described as light red.
They actually look more like enlarged versions of razor clams, except that razor clams are white while they are red, making them look extremely strange.
Seeing the appearance of these creatures, Su Jin's expression became even more grim. If he wasn't mistaken, these should all be sea monsters.
After Shen Ruying saw what those things looked like, her expression was even more unpleasant than Su Jin's.
As an omniscient encyclopedia of marine life, she had a guess in her mind the moment she saw this creature, and became even more certain after seeing it more clearly.
"The Shell-Burning Jet Beast." Shen Ruying's voice trembled slightly. "That's a Tier 3 sea beast, one of the most formidable among sea beasts of its tier."
"A Shell-Burning Jet Beast? A Tier 3 sea beast?" Su Jin narrowed his eyes, his tone tinged with doubt. "Those little things that look only as thick as a baby's arm, are they really that strong?"
"Those are cubs." Shen Ruying took a deep breath and pointed to several deep red figures, as thick as an adult's body, mixed in with the red tide in the distance. "Brother Su, look at those. Those are individuals that are already close to being young."
She then explained to Su Jin, "The ones that are as thick as an arm are just juveniles, while the young ones are already as big as adults. The adult forms of these sea monsters are even as thick as tree trunks."
"They are social creatures that usually live near geothermal fissures on the seabed, surviving by absorbing heat energy. The larger they grow, the redder their body color becomes, and the color of adult bodies will be ————"
She paused for a moment, then finally used four words to describe it: "Extremely red."
As soon as she said that, images immediately flashed into Su Jin's mind.
The tree trunks were so thick, and the razor clams were a deep, almost purplish red. They appeared in such large numbers, one after another, that it did look rather terrifying.
A thought struck him, and he asked, "Then why did you say they are among the most dangerous sea creatures?"
Shen Ruying immediately replied, "It's mainly because their attacks are so terrifying that ordinary sea beasts can't withstand them."
"Although their attack method is very simple, which is to instantly spray out a high-temperature heat stream through their back shell, that heat stream carries an extremely strong cartilage septicemia toxin."
"Once hit by the spray, even a fourth-tier sea beast will suffer severe damage, if not die, but—"
She paused, her tone becoming serious: "Don't forget they are social sea creatures; they always come in droves, and their attack is like a volley of arrows—"
Hearing her say this, not only Su Jin, but everyone else also felt their scalps tingle.
With so much high-temperature heat, and it's even poisonous, what fourth-tier sea beast would dare to provoke these living devils!
No wonder they are said to be among the most dangerous sea beasts of the same level. Even a weaker fourth-level sea beast could become the dinner of these clams if it is not careful.
Only a fifth-generation sea monster would be interested in these weird things, and would probably just eat them as snacks.
But for a fourth-tier sea beast, it's really not worth it for such a small amount of meat.
At this level, they can easily bully other ordinary marine creatures, and at least the creatures won't have much of a chance to fight back.
Suddenly, Su Jin realized another, even more terrifying problem.
Why are there so many baby sea monsters on the island?
When he brought up this question, everyone gasped.
Soon, Su Jin began to think and analyze: "First of all, let's take these Burning Shell Jet Beasts as an example. They shouldn't be viviparous, they should be oviparous. Theoretically speaking, they should hatch in water."
"But then they came ashore, which is very strange —"
He stroked his chin, recalling the alligator snapping turtle eggs from last night, his brow furrowing even more as he voiced a conjecture: "And I suspect they also incubate the eggs themselves. Remember the alligator snapping turtle eggs we ate last night? I guess these shell-spraying beasts hatched from eggs one by one."
Then a new question arose in his mind: "But why do they come ashore? Aren't they said to prefer living in geothermal fissures on the seabed?"
He looked at Shen Ruying, but the young woman shook her head and said, "I don't know either. The encyclopedia doesn't go into that much detail."
Okay, the Omniscient Book is obsolete, let's rename it the Half-Knowledge Book from now on.
It's normal not to know, though. If he really knew everything, he'd be way too overpowered. If he got the keys, he'd probably speedrun through it.
But Su Jin quickly figured out the reason based on his own thinking, and said, "I understand why these sea monster cubs don't hatch in the water. It's very likely that they can't hunt for themselves in their juvenile stage."
Everyone immediately perked up their ears, eager to hear what Su Jin had to say.
"Simply put, they probably can't even catch any marine life. Those adult marine creatures are very clever, and their parents don't hunt or feed them."
"But it's different on land. The land is only so big, and animals run much slower than those cunning fish in the ocean."
"At least a group of sea monster cubs could still catch prey if they attacked, and this island that the animals couldn't escape from was actually a—"
Su Jin looked at everyone and uttered four words that filled everyone with despair.
"Sea Beast Hunting Grounds!"
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