Chapter 54: The True Function of Gong Sheng LV2

Besides these, scales, tough tail, Immunity and the like are also very good.

It can be said that the crocodile is a treasure from head to tail, every ability stronger and more useful than the last.

Unfortunately, Baichuan looked at his current points — 6 points.

Nowhere near enough.

Once evolution begins, regardless of whether it's used or not, after the evolution ends that ability model will be completely damaged and disappear.

For a moment, Baichuan was a bit headache-stricken.

If only he could make these ability models just like his own — copy whenever he wants, cut whenever he wants, no need to worry about the model disappearing at all.

Who knew that the moment this thought crossed Baichuan's mind, a message immediately popped up on the panel:

"Do you choose to save the model?"

"Huh?!!"

Baichuan froze, then came back to his senses and widened his eyes, exclaiming in shock: "It actually works?!"

After the shock, his second reaction was:

"Doesn't that mean I lost a whole bunch of useful models before?"

Thinking of this, Baichuan felt a pang of heartache — what a waste!

"Why doesn't this panel come with a manual?"

After a pause, finally pulling himself out of the regret, even he felt a wave of speechlessness.

If this panel had even the slightest bit of user-friendly explanation, he probably wouldn't have taken so many detours.

Sighing, Baichuan silently chose "Save."

The panel changed again: "Confirm the payment of 5 points to save?"

……

Fine, he was too naive — after all this time he still hadn't seen through this panel.

Basically anything that needs to be used can't be done without points.

Baichuan silently let out a long sigh toward the sky, and ultimately still chose "Yes."

Either way he had to save it; he'd already gotten through so many days, a few more days of waiting was nothing.

Along with his confirmation, in that pitch-black space within the panel, a vivid fierce crocodile transformed into a single Light Point and appeared behind his massive model.

He looked at his current points:

"Points: 1 (10%)."

He casually calculated the Time — if food was sufficient, he should still need about 5 more days, which was still acceptable.

……

Time began to flow once more, and Baichuan once again started drifting aimlessly along the river's direction.

However, unlike before, this time his daily forward speed began to slow down.

This was because he no longer stayed in the water swimming nearly the entire day, but instead returned most of his time to the land again.

Because he had discovered a problem — not only was his hunting efficiency in the water slower than on land, he also couldn't eat underwater.

The underwater eating issue had already been mentioned — because he was originally a land snake. As for why his hunting efficiency in water was low, it was because in the water, his stealth ability was mostly useless most of the time.

That's right, he could indeed turn invisible underwater, but his stealth was merely a visual obstruction — the body changed by mimicking the surrounding environment, so although he was hidden,

his body was still there. And what was most abundant underwater? Without a doubt —

Water!

That's right, the water surrounding him every moment without pause — no matter how well he hid, as long as he was still wrapped in water, the moment he swam, his body would more or less cause huge disturbances in the current.

The faster he swam, the more obvious the disturbance.

Because his body was simply too massive — a full 6.8 meters of enormous body, and solid at that.

Such a massive body, even with just a slight movement, would cause huge waves in the water.

And those fish were far too sensitive to changes in the current — most of them would flick their tails and escape before he even got close.

Of course, he could also use his electric discharge, or hide and wait like a trap.

But the former was a losing proposition — times were different now. In the past he didn't have many powers that required massive energy supply, so he could use his electric discharge freely.

But now, his frenzied hunting was precisely for energy — how could he possibly waste it so extravagantly in large amounts?

And as for hiding and waiting like a trap, that efficiency was far too low!

He also wasn't suited to leaving everything to the unknown, waiting for prey to come to him on its own.

Under these circumstances, he could ultimately only return to hunting on land.

Because on land, most animals relied on vision to detect danger, and his stealth could perfectly deceive their eyes.

Although because his body was too massive, he would more or less make various noises.

But it was nothing as absurdly obvious as in the water. Plus, don't forget the forest had no shortage of trees — he could fully use his extremely flexible body to approach from the trees.

Added to that, his speed was no pushover either. As long as he could sneak within a certain distance, then with a sudden Burst, most animals would be scared stiff on the spot; the few that weren't scared stiff couldn't run at all — too late!

Besides this, of course there was another most important point.

That was, his Frost Ability had fully recovered, and with the complete restoration of this power, he discovered that the previous evolution's 【Symbiosis LV2 (Shihan)】 was not merely letting him coexist with this Frost power in mutual benefit.

It had actually simultaneously birthed a new organ within his body — this organ was located just below his neck, shaped like a pouch.

Its function was simple, with only one storage capability.

Just like his venom gland, it was used to store the derivative of the Frost power within his body.

Yes, with the recovery of the Frost power, during his normal feeding, this power would slowly generate a peculiar substance — let's tentatively call it "Ice Origin" here.

Why call it that? Let him explain slowly.

First, this power called Ice Origin was born from those Frost Light Points.

Secondly, this Ice Yuan — Baichuan discovered its form of expression was similar to a kind of liquid, stored within his new organ. He could, like spitting venom, as long as his will stirred, engage that muscle to squeeze the pouch.

And then the liquid-like substance within his pouch could be sprayed out from his mouth under high pressure, sending it hurtling toward his target.

And this liquid behaved perfectly normally inside his pouch, just like ordinary water.

But once it left his body, transformed into a high-pressure water jet and shot forth,

then at the very instant of leaving, it would Burst forth with violent cold air, like the liquid nitrogen he had known in his previous life, becoming a terrifying cold current.

If during this process he further risked depleting the origin of his Ice Frost power — that is, the Light Points on his body —

then this spewed Ice Yuan would be mixed with white Light Points, transforming into a ghastly white stream of light, exactly like that final Burst strike he had seen the Ice Silkworm unleash.

Truly terrifying beyond compare!

But under such a Burst, the Light Points representing the Ice Frost power would be massively depleted and collapse away.

It could be called a killing move that harms the enemy a thousand while wounding oneself eight hundred — best not used unless absolutely necessary.

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(End of Chapter)