Chapter 21: Searching for the Electric Eel

After testing to this point, Baichuan already understood his current defensive power and the attack power of the sharp claws. Don't underestimate that it took eighty percent of its strength just to break through his scaled snake skin.

One must understand, Baichuan's current strength has reached Strong LV2, and this is not a power that can be easily overlooked.

If his earlier guess wasn't wrong, LV3 is an ability only possessed by those at the top of the pyramid, so LV2 can already dominate a region.

This level of ability is on par with the strength of a wild boar.

So it's not bad.

At this moment, Baichuan stared intently at his own wound, watching it slowly and continuously bleed.

At first, the blood overflowed in a steady and slow manner, until five minutes later, the speed of the bleeding began to gradually decrease, and coagulation began to appear.

Until ten minutes later, the blood completely stopped overflowing, leaving only a blurry flesh wound.

Half an hour later, Baichuan began to feel an itching sensation at his wound.

Looking closely, he could faintly see flesh buds seemingly growing.

An hour later, the itching sensation grew even stronger.

But at this point, Baichuan also felt somewhat mentally exhausted, because he had been staring with full concentration for too long.

His spirit couldn't quite take it.

He glanced at the approximate Time, then curled up and slept.

The next day, when he woke up.

He found the wound had mostly healed, with only a pale white mark and scales that hadn't fully grown back showing what he had done yesterday.

Besides that, he felt that today's self was a bit hungrier than usual.

Speaking of which, as he continued to evolve, he found himself less and less like a snake.

The normal feeding cycle of snakes had nothing to do with him at all, and he didn't know if, continuing like this, he would still enter hibernation this winter like other snakes.

Baichuan looked at the somewhat cool weather and thought idly.

Then, looking at the wound whose scales hadn't fully grown back, he decided to wait a bit longer.

A workman must first sharpen his tools before doing a good job; this kind of thing can't be rushed. He had already waited this long, no need to rush now.

……

Three days later, when night began to fall.

Baichuan, whose condition had reached its peak, left the cave he had lived in for half a year after eating and drinking his fill.

He slithered northward all the way.

Soon, he once again arrived at that wide riverbank. He didn't enter the water, merely going upstream along the bank.

Along the way, his sharp and sensitive eyes kept scanning the bank and river surface, focusing on the more turbid waters.

Although due to the darkness of night, the vision of his eagle-like eyes had somewhat diminished, don't forget he also had thermal sensing vision.

With the two combined, he could indeed sense all living heat sources within a radius of twenty to thirty meters.

His focus, brazenly domineering, scared the animals secretly drinking water at night half to death.

But he paid no attention to these, merely searching for his target.

As for what he was looking for?

Undoubtedly, it must be the Electric Eel!

Currently his abilities had hit a bottleneck period, unlike the past when he was especially weak, and any ability was helpful to him.

So abilities were especially easy to obtain back then.

But now, abilities that could have a huge effect on him were basically all on some extremely powerful creatures.

If he wanted to obtain them, conflict was inevitable, but once conflict occurred, even he as he was now couldn't guarantee a hundred percent victory. There was a high chance of mutual death, or his death alone.

Of course, weak creatures weren't without powerful abilities either, but those were either too hard to find or he simply had no way to obtain them.

Only now did he realize that the creatures he could easily take down on a regular day didn't have a single ability that could help him.

It could be said that he was now in an awkward position of being not as good as those above, but better off than those below.

Strong? Indeed strong, at least he could easily take down his former self.

But compared to tigers or brown bears, it was unlikely.

So he was also a bit troubled.

At this time, it reminded him of the Electric Eel.

Although the Electric Eel was strong, after careful consideration, Baichuan found that if his preparations were sufficient, he could still take it down.

There was a time when, even upon encountering an Electric Eel, he wouldn't dare set his sights on it.

Sometimes, under rational analysis, he would even choose to avoid it.

No matter how much he coveted its ability, he didn't dare attack.

But now, he had actually begun actively and purposefully searching for it.

Had he gotten cocky?

No, it was simply that he had become stronger, and felt confident in taking down the Electric Eel.

Because in his previous life, he had been very curious about Electric Eels for a period, and had learned about this peculiar creature.

The Electric Eel is a freshwater fish capable of brief, powerful electric discharges. It has a thick, round, and long body, with a maximum length of 2.5 meters. It is nocturnal and primarily preys on small fish.

It mostly likes to stay in shallow pools or swamps, or near turbid waters along the bank. A casual strike from it can emit 650 volts of current, and at maximum can emit up to 800 volts.

Don't underestimate it just because the maximum is only 800 volts and think it's weak. This is already close to the high-voltage range defined by his previous life's country, which is 1000 volts.

In fact, in some industrial applications, this voltage is already within the high-voltage range.

And one must know that the safe voltage for the human body is only ≤36 volts; generally, 220 volts can easily electrocute a person to death.

Let alone 650 or 800 volts, such high voltage.

With this level of voltage, as long as the current isn't pitifully small, if a human is struck, death is basically inevitable.

And once he obtained this Electric Generation ability, he would truly possess a super killing weapon, a trump-card-level superpower.

At that time, presumably there would no longer be any creature that could withstand his attacks.

Once bitten by his venomous fangs, with electric current and venom working in tandem, his opponent could only watch helplessly through paralysis and convulsions as death arrived.

However, all of this was predicated on him being able to take down the Electric Eel.

As for what gave him his confidence?

Baichuan looked at his newly grown, keratin-layer-covered sharp claws and smiled without a word.

Sharp claws wrapped in a high-resistance keratin layer, the ability of Underwater Breathing, and that super-strong Regeneration ability on top of that.

He was confident he could take down an Electric Eel.

Why didn't he dare before?

It was simply because he didn't dare to bite — a snake's only means of attack was its big mouth, and the mouth was too close to the brain; Baichuan didn't dare take that risk.

At the same time, back then he didn't have the ability of Underwater Breathing either. If he were accidentally knocked out by electricity during the fight with the Electric Eel, wouldn't he just suffocate to death underwater?

Don't think this is a joke — many powerful animals that unfortunately died at the hands of Electric Eels perished in exactly this frustrating way.

(End of Chapter)