Chapter 173: Life Dice Fully Charged

Liu Mu felt the pain, her body sank, and her speed slowed. She had not expected that an eel of this size would have such astonishing bite force.

Although it was not enough to break her skin, it bit two rows of finger-sized holes into her wetsuit.

This meant the wetsuit would likely lose its insulating effect; although her body had undergone several upgrades, it was still conductive.

Liu Mu reacted extremely quickly, using all her strength to turn back and plunge the knife in her hand into the head of the eel that would not let go.

The blade was as flexible in her hand as a part of her own body; she rotated it once, then cut and pulled, and the pungent, dark green blood spread out once again. The eel, as thick as an adult's waist, was cleanly decapitated.

The large eel died on the spot and naturally loosened its jaw. Liu Mu took the opportunity to kick the rear half of the eel's body with her other sturdy, powerful leg, accelerating her diving speed, and finally fell into the mutated water plants.

She quickly pressed the eel head in her hand into the dense water plants, awakening the feeding memory of these plants. The interconnected grass—just because the ones on the shore were full did not mean the ones in the water were not "hungry"; by comparison, they would only be more eager to "feed."

Just then, a strange thing happened: the water plants seemed to have a life consciousness, beginning to rapidly entwine the school of eels that had followed her, and the protruding branches and leaves sprouted fine, nearly transparent spikes that drilled directly into the eels' skin.

The spikes carried toxins, and these eels, feeling the pain, went mad one after another, changing their attack target to the water plants.

Seeing this, Liu Mu finally breathed half a sigh of relief, wove through the rapidly growing water plants, and very quickly changed into a new wetsuit underwater.

In just a few minutes, the water plants that had originally lain flat on the lake bottom, as harmless as a long-pile carpet, had grown into an underwater "Shirou Senlin."

Averaging over five meters in height, they pulled up a wall between Liu Mu and the school of eels, and the surrounding water plants, as if hunters mobilized by the same consciousness, were also extending their branches and vines toward this side.

Now was not the time to rest; Liu Mu swung her legs like a swimming fish and swam toward the shallow water. She wanted to attract more and larger schools of eels, preferably using the water plants to eat most of them.

Here, the water was no more than ten meters deep, and from her position, she could see the Mutated Animal and plants entangled and fighting below, the dark green blood expanding wider and wider like a thick fog at the bottom of the water, forming a bloody and eerie underwater battlefield.

Liu Mu did not pay too much attention to the situation that had already formed; with Heitao A, she obtained a clear 3D image of the surrounding fifty meters in her brain, and she could clearly find the next target without using her naked eyes.

She followed the same pattern and led another school of eels into a patch of new mutated water plants.

But this time, it was obvious that these eels were not as impulsive; many of them even knew to avoid the water plants.

How could that do? Then she would just have to continue helping.

After killing dozens in a row, the fresh blood, as if it were the best stimulant, finally incited their ferocity.

By the time she swam out from the gaps in the water plants again, another half hour had passed.

She did not immediately leave the water plants completely, but observed the situation above; strangely, those two huge eels that looked like swimming dragons were slow to appear.

This was already the second batch; if the other party wanted to protect its own tribe, it should have attacked her long ago.

Heitao A scanned again, but the scanning distance was limited; besides the ordinary school of mutated eels and the water plants, there were actually no other living creatures.

This forced the life-cherishing Liu Mu to think it over carefully.

Was the other party's intelligence too low, or were they lying in ambush in some nook or cranny waiting for an opportunity?

Of course, the latter was more likely.

Liu Mu reviewed the situation and felt that she had been a bit impatient; she should have waited for them to swim under the big rock before jumping... forget it, that would be called courting death.

The bottom of the water was their territory; she had thought that killing more of their offspring would provoke the other party, but what should she do now?

Liu Mu treaded water in a standing position, and for a moment, she really could not think of any good way.

Just as she was watching the two "battlefields" intensify, her train of thought was interrupted by a prompt from Heitao A.

【Black Mamba Miao Hentian has jumped into the water and is being attacked by a school of eels; she is already injured.】

【What is she doing coming into the water? Courting death?】 Liu Mu was secretly annoyed, but she had to search toward the shore; the person was only twenty or thirty meters away from her.

Miao Hentian had not wanted to come down either, but Liu Mu had been submerged by the school of fish for nearly an hour without surfacing.

Dark green waves kept churning in the lake water, and one could smell the intense bloody scent even on the shore.

She... still wanted to see if Liu Mu was dead.

Miao Hentian prided herself on her Black Mamba biomimetic ability, but who knew she would be too hasty when jumping down; one leg hit a Shisun underwater, and in the sharp pain, her body could not tread water, so she choked on water and sank.

The scent of blood naturally attracted quite a few eels, and she struggled to kill a few before being electrocuted into numbness.

Liu Mu deliberately turned half a circle before grabbing the person by the back of the collar and swimming to the surface; Miao Hentian's leg was gushing blood, and she almost wanted to just smash the person against a rock and be done with it.

While slaughtering the surrounding eels, Liu Mu sternly questioned, "What are you doing down here? Are you sick! Damn it, you've ruined my whole layout, you woman."

Compared to the blood of the tribe, human blood was clearly more attractive to the school of fish.

Miao Hentian had choked on water and was dizzy from being yelled at; she was spitting out water and coughing, yet still had to retort, truly very busy, "I was checking if you were dead, you. *Cough, cough, cough. * What is going on?"

There was no time to explain now; smelling the scent of human blood, more and more eels that had been "fighting" with the water plants gathered around.

Liu Mu's eyes flickered, and she suddenly had a new idea.

"Why isn't your blood poisonous?"

Having fought each other, Liu Mu naturally knew Miao Hentian's ability; besides being able to soften her body like a snake, she also had a body full of deadly poison.

"Have you ever seen a venomous snake..." Miao Hentian still wanted to argue, but when she saw the churning water surface all around, her scalp felt as if it could be grabbed off in a handful, "The toxin will enter my own body through the wound."

Meaning, if she released the venom now, she would be poisoned to death herself.

"What a nuisance!"

Scolding was one thing, but Liu Mu still dragged the person to the vicinity of the stone wall, and the Dog-leg Knife in her hand was plunged into the stone wall, sinking in more than halfway, "Stand on it!"

Miao Hentian, who did not want to be buried in the fish's belly, no longer had the qualifications to be picky; she stepped on Liu Mu's shoulder and leaped out of the water, sticking to the craggy stone face like a gecko in a sorry state.

"Fill it with poison!" Liu Mu handed over two mineral water bottles after placing her, "Not too much."

Miao Hentian did not do it immediately, but instead endured the nausea and spat a mouthful of black liquid toward the water surface first.

That liquid was like viscous asphalt; the moment it hit the water, it made a sizzling sound and simultaneously emitted white smoke.

This was the Black Mamba toxin after Mutation; Liu Mu's face behind the mask was a bit conflicted—she was still in the water!

Although she herself was not afraid of Black Mamba poison, but... what if it corroded her wetsuit? She only had two sets in total, and the cost was not cheap.

Fortunately, the Black Mamba's toxin did not corrode plastic products, and her wetsuit escaped a disaster.

In just a few dozen seconds, the surrounding eels turned belly-up and died.

Even Liu Mu had to exclaim, "Woman, you are so poisonous!"

"Take it quickly, I'm going back to the shore." Miao Hentian's face flushed slightly; it was unclear if it was out of embarrassment.

Her body gradually softened under the guidance of her consciousness, and then, like a snake, she slithered up along the stone wall.

During this, she didn't forget to rotate her head 180 degrees, and in a very chilling posture, she gave a word of advice: "Don't you go dying."

"What are you saying? It's the New Year, everything should be auspicious!"

Liu Mu shook her head in strong disapproval and stored the plastic bottles, each containing about one hundred milliliters of toxin, into her space.

This wave from the Black Mamba poisoned all the eels within thirty meters, but unfortunately, the water plants also rotted.

The toxin was still spreading, and as the distance increased, some eels noticed the abnormality in the water and retreated one after another.

Just when Liu Mu thought she would need to spend some time searching for those two Eel Kings, one of them appeared abruptly at the spot where the school of fish had retreated.

So, they hadn't disappeared, but had been hiding in the dense school of fish all along, interfering with her line of sight?

If she had been patient enough to search through from different directions one by one earlier, she should have been able to discover them.

Liu Mu naturally didn't think this was because she lacked sufficient patience: "Xiao A, this is your flaw. How could you fail to lock onto the target just because there were many fish?"

However, the system didn't want to take the blame: 【Host, I must remind you, it was not hiding in the school of fish before. According to system calculations, it appeared suddenly via spatial means.】

"Spatial means..." Before she finished her sentence, the eel, which had been dozens of meters away, arrived in front of her in the blink of an eye.

"Holy crap!"

Liu Mu only had time to swing the knife she had just retrieved, but the next second, the knife failed to cut into the Eel King's body; instead, a powerful electric current surged into the blade, broke through the insulation threshold of her diving suit, and Liu Mu shuddered, dropping the sharp blade.

What was worse, her body was coiled by the Eel King's massive frame.

Calling it "coiled" might be a bit of a stretch; after all, the 'slimmest' part of the opponent's body was over a meter in diameter, and even though Liu Mu could be considered tall now, she was still too petite in front of this fish.

This was like a young wolfdog facing an adult forest boa, separated by several orders of magnitude.

And the size difference wasn't even the fatal part; the real issue was the electric current erupting from the Eel King's entire body, forming an electric vortex directly around Liu Mu, leaving her with nowhere to hide.

The diving suit melted and Shatter at an extremely fast speed, shrinking and falling off in pieces. Liu Mu only felt a massive electric current being poured into her from head to toe, and her whole body went numb.

Her body was numb, but her consciousness was very clear, and she even felt a trace of secret joy.

Just as Miao Hentian on the shore could feel the ground becoming electrified, the current surged at Liu Mu's location, forming a very spectacular arc vortex, and the lake water swirled and pulled along with it; one dared not imagine the perilous situation within.

"It's over, I'm dead for sure this time!"

Miao Hentian had snake-like traits; once her body was covered in dense scales, she would not be electrocuted for the time being.

She couldn't bear to watch Liu Mu struggle in the electric current, but she still kept her vertical pupils open, wanting to see if the outcome between the two sides had been decided.

Then, a scene that she would never forget for the rest of her life occurred.

Within the electric vortex of over fifty meters, a figure so tiny it was almost invisible was just hovering there, motionless, looking no different from being dead.

Yet this figure became the center of everything, as if it were a battery with infinite capacity, absorbing all these electric currents into its body.

The electric current was squeezed into one place, actually forming a sphere of pure energy, while Liu Mu existed in the middle like a cell nucleus, her body almost as bright as the ball of light.

"I'm dying, I'm dying, she's not human at all!"

Let alone Miao Hentian, no matter who came, they would be unable to explain the phenomenon at this moment.

However, no one could have imagined that this bit of electricity from the Eel King was merely a drop in the ocean compared to the energy the Anti-matter Engine in her space could produce.

Liu Mu was indeed stunned at first; her initial thought was to attack back with energy and directly crush the Eel King, but she quickly abandoned this idea.

Since Heitao A could help her attack others with energy, why couldn't she do the opposite?

"Give~ it~ to~ me~ to~ store~ it~ all~ it's~ mine~!"

Trembling with the vibration of a tractor engine, Liu Mu didn't forget to instruct: "Don't~ you~ dare~ embezzle~ it~."

It was just that this fish's strength was truly not small, and even her physique was squeezed until her bones creaked, but breaking was impossible; after all, she was a Perfect New Human, not a fake.

The Eel King attacked for a long time and was also puzzled: how was this human still alive?

Its first reaction was not to pull away and run, but to increase the voltage, firmly pinning down the fish-killing culprit.

Liu Mu soon discovered that electric current was actually starting to gather on her skin, then it became brighter and brighter, and finally, she actually turned into a lightbulb!

And this lightbulb of hers was even brighter than the Eel King's current, simply a human-shaped little sun.

Looking herself over from hand to foot, Liu Mu discovered an even more astonishing thing: as her eyes moved, there were actually two beams of light.

Isn't this that what's-it-called Dindaer Xiaoying?

【Host, that is the Dindaer Xiaoying.】 Heitao A had to correct her; expectations for the illiterate could not be too high. 【Life Dice charging complete, does the host wish to perform the first throw?】

Liu Mu was still immersed in the fun of the eye-shining effect and didn't understand for a moment what newfangled thing Heitao A was talking about.

Heitao A was also patient, asking a full three times, and finally gave one sentence: 【If you miss this throw, you will need to recharge before you can activate it, and recharging requires two units of energy.】

"What kind of thing consumes so much power?" Liu Mu heard it clearly in an instant. "Throw, must throw, throw immediately!"

As soon as she finished speaking, she saw a translucent die with a side length of ten centimeters appear in her hand. Unlike the kind used on ordinary mahjong tables, this die had characters written on each side that Liu Mu should not have recognized but understood the meaning of.

"Mooncake gambling requires three dice, isn't it a bit stingy of you to only have one?"

The mocked Heitao A kindly corrected her: 【Your current charge can only activate one Life Dice, and the Eel King is about to run out of power.】

Liu Mu could be stubborn, but she absolutely could not suffer a loss because of it, so she threw it without a second of delay.

The die rotated a few times in the air and landed back in her palm. The side facing up depicted two intertwined grasses; one of them had a blooming blue flower on top, while the other only had dense leaves.

"No way, is my luck that good?"

That was what she said, but there was not a trace of joy on Liu Mu's face; the meaning of this picture was: Growth and Hope Flower.

"What is its function?"

The literal meaning was very simple, but the specific function gave Liu Mu a not-so-good premonition.