18: Pacific saury
Chapter 18 Mackerel Tuna
"Help... help me..."
The effect of sound propagation: In terms of both distance and speed, iron (solid) is superior to water (liquid), which is superior to air (gas).
Therefore, it is easier to hear calls for help in water, and easier to hear calls for help from further away.
Hearing this faint call for help, Jiang Chen was slightly stunned.
Nangong Yan was also stunned, but in the next second, he immediately sprang up from the ground, his eyes glowing green, and he said excitedly and anxiously, "This voice!"
"This voice is from Zhang Mingwan, she's in danger, she's calling for help!"
Jiang Chen asked confusedly, "Who is this Zhang Mingwan?"
"She's a female classmate from our Senior High Class 3 (3), Ke Zixuan's deskmate!"
When Ke Zixuan was mentioned, Jiang Chen remembered her.
Ke Zixuan was the recognized goddess among the boys in Senior High Class 3 (3); it would be hard for Jiang Chen not to know her.
"Why do you seem a little excited?" Jiang Chen glanced at his reserved deskmate.
Nangong Yan clenched his fists and said with a determined expression, "With my current conditions, if I want to pursue the goddess Ke Zixuan, there's absolutely no way I'll succeed!"
"But Zhang Mingwan, I can still try!" Nangong Yan's eyes gleamed with hope.
Jiang Chen: You're quite self-aware... "Quick, quick, let's hurry and be heroes to save the beauty. Maybe Zhang Mingwan will fall in love with me because of it!" Nangong Yan urged Jiang Chen forward.
Jiang Chen said faintly, "Didn't you say that the Class Teacher was your lifelong goal? Xiaoyan, you've lost your dream!"
Nangong Yan retorted, "This is called being down-to-earth and gazing at the stars!"
"The Class Teacher is the ultimate dream, but before the ultimate dream arrives, we need to break down our goals!"
"First, pursue some easier girls, then challenge more difficult ones step by step, and finally climb the peak that is the Class Teacher!"
Jiang Chen rolled his eyes. Just say you're a flirt, what kind of excuses are these?
Alright, since she's a classmate, it's good to help if they can.
The direction from which Zhang Mingwan's voice came was directly in front of them. After walking for about fifteen minutes, the terrain suddenly sloped downwards, forming a depression like a large bowl-shaped basin.
Zhang Mingwan's cry for help was clearly coming from the bottom of the basin.
Due to the terrain, Jiang Chen and Nangong Yan could clearly see the situation below at a glance.
They saw two figures in the center of the basin, moving and dodging, their spiritual power erupting, constantly evading attacks that were stabbing at them from all directions!
These two were precisely Ke Zixuan and Zhang Mingwan.
As for the things attacking them, Jiang Chen was very familiar with them. At a glance, his mouth watered... They were slender, blade-like fish-type sea beasts, about a meter long, with dark blue backs, silver-white bellies, and a slight yellow tint at the snout and the rear of the tail stem.
That's right, these sea beasts were Autumn Swordfish Sea Beast!
They were the regulars Jiang Chen frequently indulged in at barbecue stalls in his previous life!
However, the Mackerel Tuna Jiang Chen encountered in his previous life were at most 20 centimeters long, but the ones appearing here were each a full meter long and as thick as a thigh!
The positions of hunter and hunted had reversed!
Name: Mackerel Tuna
Level: Mid-Awakening Stage
Bloodline: Late-Awakening Stage
Skills: Water Blade, Rapid Surge.
The Mackerel Tuna, a type of Saber Fish Sea Beast, is said to be named Mackerel Tuna because its spawning season is in autumn.
Do not underestimate this delicacy from barbecue stalls. When this creature evolves into a sea beast a meter long, its terror immediately becomes apparent!
Within the same realm, other sea beasts usually don't dare to provoke it!
The Mackerel Tuna, true to its name, has a slender body resembling a long blade.
After it evolved into a sea beast, the scales and fin blades on its body immediately became extremely sharp, like tiny sawteeth.
When it swims rapidly towards you, it's no different from a flying knife!
Once hit, the result is torn flesh!
If one accidentally gets cut on the limbs or neck, the outcome would be even more tragic!
And what is most daunting is that the Mackerel Tuna are gregarious creatures!
Imagine a swarm of flying knives cutting through the waves towards you; that scene is enough to make one's scalp tingle!
At this moment in the basin, Ke Zixuan and Zhang Mingwan were being besieged by this swarm of Autumn Swordfish Sea Beast.
This swarm of Autumn Swordfish Sea Beast numbered nearly 30, each at the Mid-Awakening Stage. They were like shimmering, sharp flying swords, swinging fiercely at the two, creating constant clanging sounds!
The surrounding sea grass and seaweed were as fragile as paper before these Autumn Swordfish Sea Beast, turning into various grass and algae fragments flying everywhere in the seawater.
Various patches of turf and ground were also overturned by the attacks of these Autumn Swordfish Sea Beast, exposing the red soil beneath and stirring the surrounding seawater into a turbid mess.
Facing the attacks of numerous Autumn Swordfish Sea Beast, Ke Zixuan's pet beast, the Gem Starfish, was fighting desperately.
Name: Gem Starfish
Level: Mid-Awakening Stage
Bloodline: Late-Elite Level
Skills: Water Gun, High-Speed Rotation, Metal Hardening
The Gem Starfish, about a meter tall, looked like two five-pointed stars overlapping, with an octagonal red gem in the center of its body.
The Gem Starfish spun rapidly around Ke Zixuan, using its Metal Hardening skill to block all the close-range Autumn Swordfish Sea Beast attacks.
However, the number of Autumn Swordfish Sea Beast was simply too great. The Gem Starfish, only at the Mid-Awakening Stage, frantically tried to save its master, but still found itself overwhelmed and struggling.
Meanwhile, Zhang Mingwan's situation was even worse. Her pet beast was a green Thorn Vine.
In yesterday's battle, Zhang Mingwan's Thorn Vine performed well. She used the Thorn Vine to bind sea beasts, and then the Gem Starfish seized the opportunity to attack. This combination was almost invincible.
However, today, facing this swarm of Autumn Swordfish Sea Beast, the weakness of Zhang Mingwan's pet beast was immediately exposed!
The Thorn Vine is a plant-type, while the Autumn Swordfish Sea Beast are metal-type. The resilient body of the Thorn Vine was like solid ice meeting a blazing sun under the Autumn Swordfish Sea Beast' attacks, unable to resist and rapidly dissolving!
This was why Zhang Mingwan was frantically calling for help!
Today was only the second day of practical training, and she really didn't want to be eliminated like this!
But seeing her pet beast's vines being dismembered and shattered one after another under the attacks of the Autumn Swordfish Sea Beast, Zhang Mingwan's face was filled with pain, and she had to take out the protective shell given by the school.
She only needed to input a trace of spiritual power into the shell, and this protective shell would transform into a shield to protect her, but activating the protective shell also meant she would be eliminated!
Due to the intense battle commotion in the basin and Zhang Mingwan's cries for help, several student figures were also attracted to the edge of the basin.
However, these few people were clearly not from Senior High Class 3 (3), and the 30 Mid-Awakening Stage Autumn Swordfish Sea Beast in front of them were also a bit beyond their capabilities.
Seeing that these people seemed unwilling to help, Zhang Mingwan shouted, "As long as someone is willing to save me, I'll do anything."
Her will to survive was evident.
Nangong Yan, who had rushed over, also changed his expression when he saw the 30 Autumn Swordfish Sea Beast in the field!
His Tentacle Shrimp could at most only deal with four or five Autumn Swordfish Sea Beast at a time. Adding Jiang Chen's One-Tailed Fishing Cat, that would be ten.
The number in the basin was simply too great. If the two of them rashly intervened, not only would they fail to save Zhang Mingwan, but they would easily get themselves into trouble.
"What... what should we do now?" Nangong Yan looked at Zhang Mingwan, who was desperately holding on and screaming in terror below, scratching his head and asking anxiously.
Jiang Chen also frowned. The situation at the bottom of the basin was becoming increasingly grim.
Zhang Mingwan was struggling to hold on, and so was Ke Zixuan.
Ke Zixuan's pet beast, the Gem Starfish, had a strong sea beast bloodline, being Elite Level, which was one level higher than Xiao Jiu's awakening level.
Its strength could also be seen from the battle in the field. Ke Zixuan's pet beast had no problem dealing with the attacks of seven or eight Autumn Swordfish Sea Beast at once.
However, at this moment, it was not seven or eight attacking her, but a full dozen or so.
But it was conceivable that once Zhang Mingwan used her protective shell, the Autumn Swordfish Sea Beast attacking her would lose their target and immediately turn to besiege Ke Zixuan!
This was a chain reaction!
Both of them were very likely to perish here!