Chapter 74: Take It To Go If You Can't Finish It!

He first glanced regretfully at the remaining fish body, then helplessly patted his round, bulging belly.

Looks like these can only be wasted. He shook his head, not minding.

Then he glanced at the small fish around him, opened his large mouth wide, and suddenly took a massive gulp.

In an instant, he swallowed all the large and small fish gathered around into his mouth.

Afterward, he neither swallowed the school of small fish directly nor spat out the water in his mouth, simply feeling the light, lively bumping of the fish against the inside of his mouth.

The large school of fish, panicked, kept bumping against the inside of his oral cavity, occasionally flicking their tails; those soft, delicate tail fins gently swept across his mouth, like a young girl's tender fingers brushing past, stirring the heartstrings.

It brought him an extremely wonderful, comfortable sensation.

If Baichuan really had to describe it, the feeling was exactly like the popping candy he ate as a child, and an upgraded plus version at that.

Only then did he leisurely take his leave. Along the way, feeling the food in his stomach was mostly digested, he would occasionally chew a few bites of the after-dinner dessert in his mouth, savoring that sweet, delicious flavor.

What do you call this? This is called "if you can't eat it all, take it to go."

……

Not long after, he returned to a crevice where he had often stayed recently… Well, calling it a crevice, but it could accommodate his seven-meter-long body, so it really wasn't a crevice anymore; it should be called a cave.

Baichuan didn't mind. He slowly crawled inside, coiled his body up, and while waiting for the ability model's scan to finish, raised his dragon head, propped his chin on a sharp claw, and gazed through the cave opening at the gorgeous underwater world outside.

The pristine, flawless white seabed sand, the pink, delicate coral reefs, the countless sea grasses swaying and dancing with the water currents, and the smooth little pebbles scattered across the seabed.

From time to time, a domineering crab would scuttle横行 across, or a small octopus waving its eight tentacles would swim by, or a sea cucumber would drift past leisurely.

How beautiful!

At this moment, especially after going through a slaughter, it always brought a touch of comfort to his lonely soul.

How lucky he was to witness with his own eyes such a beautiful world!

After quietly enjoying his daily reserved program for a while, Baichuan, whose mood had relaxed, finally waited for the panel's scan to succeed.

He silently opened the panel and looked at the newly added shark ability model in the ability structure library.

【Species: Oceanic Whitetip Shark.】

【Abilities: Swimming LV3 (Banzhu), Siyao LV3 (Banzhu), Shuizhong Ganzhi LV2, Shui Xia Hu Xi LV2, Digestion and Absorption LV2, Dunlin LV2, Magnetic Field Perception LV1……】

Seeing this luxurious Ability Panel, Baichuan couldn't help but sigh: "Truly worthy of being one of the species that can dominate even in this boundless ocean—these abilities are really too luxurious."

One must know that even crocodiles only have one LV3-level ability, yet this shark species, which isn't even the strongest shark species in the ocean—the great white shark—already possesses two LV3-level abilities.

From this, one could imagine just how luxurious the great white shark's abilities would be.

But Baichuan was a bit puzzled: why was this oceanic whitetip shark's underwater breathing LV2, even after using the panel for so long?

Back then, in order to be able to swallow underwater, Baichuan had done plenty of homework on underwater breathing.

Although he wasn't sure if this experience applied to other abilities, he understood underwater breathing thoroughly.

Underwater breathing now has two levels. LV1 means one can only breathe underwater, but with various drawbacks, such as breathing through the surface skin.

Although one can survive underwater, there are still troubles—it's not permanent, and one occasionally needs to come up for air.

But LV2 means all those drawbacks are completely gone.

One can breathe freely underwater, with no various hard requirements.

Logically speaking, for a shark that needs to keep swimming to breathe, underwater breathing should be LV1, right? Could it be that this shark can breathe underwater without swimming?

For a moment, Baichuan was baffled. Having never really understood biology in his past life, he couldn't comprehend it at all. Could it be that the tiny bit of biological knowledge he knew was actually wrong?

Baichuan, a biology failure in his past life, declared: I really can't figure it out!

Shaking his head, since he couldn't figure it out, he couldn't be bothered to dig deeper. After all, for him who already possessed it, there wasn't much difference between LV1 and LV2.

Thinking that all these incredibly luxurious abilities were now his, Baichuan's mood instantly became greatly pleased.

He even wished this shark's abilities could be even more luxurious, so that he could become even stronger.

After silently examining it for a while, Baichuan kept grabbing stones from inside the cave to block up his exit, until only a tiny slit remained for the water outside and inside to exchange. Only then did he stop his actions.

Then he opened the panel again, preparing to begin his evolution.

In just a few breaths' time, he once again entered the familiar panel space.

He didn't hesitate any longer, directly selected the shark's ability panel, and began choosing abilities.

First, the most important Swimming LV3. In this boundless ocean, if your speed isn't fast enough, then you can only eat dust… oh, no, drink seawater.

So this ability was a must-select, and it was also the reason he had stayed in this sea area for as long as a month.

As Baichuan placed Swimming LV3 into his ability model.

Instantly, his ability model underwent a change.

The slightly raised area on his back began to continuously sprout pieces of things sharp as knives, shaped like small shark dorsal fins. These fin-like things extended from his neck all the way to his tail.

Then his tail also began to slowly bulge and thicken, and at the very tip, a crescent-moon-like giant tail fin began to grow out.

In just an instant, Baichuan discovered his body had undergone a great transformation.

Not only had dragon-like sharp dorsal fins grown on his back, but a giant crescent-shaped tail fin like a shark's had also grown at his tail.

At this moment, looking from afar, the entire model actually possessed a strange, streamlined beauty.

Just from looking at it, one could tell that such a big fellow must be adept at high-speed swimming in the ocean.

Baichuan nodded in satisfaction at this.

He seemed to be one step closer to becoming a flood dragon again, though this tail made him look more like a water-attribute flood dragon or a sea dragon.

But Baichuan didn't mind, because if one wanted to swim at high speed in the ocean, a giant tail fin was probably a must.

Without a giant tail fin, how could it provide him with massive thrust for high-speed swimming?

Perhaps later, when he had the余裕, he could modify this tail fin to look more like a dragon's tail. For now, let it be like this.

Then he seemed to think of something: since he had already grown sharp, knife-like dorsal fins.

Could he move the venom in his mouth out and place it onto the dorsal fins?

(End of this chapter)