Chapter 94: A Prototype Metal Shell?

That's right, after a whole day of wandering around today.

He had finally discovered that his current location was an isolated island.

Not long after, he descended toward the beach carrying tremendous wind pressure.

Instantly, the immense wind pressure blew the soft, fine sand on this stretch of beach flying all over the sky, and countless small crabs and shells were flipped up along with it.

Even those few giant sea turtles were blown clean over, spinning round and round on the sand.

And this flood dragon serpent falling from the sky, just like it couldn't brake in time, plowed a deep furrow across the beach, and by some uncanny chance came to a stop just an inch of sand away from the water's edge.

In the blink of an eye, the previously thriving and beautiful beach was utterly destroyed by Baichuan's rough emergency landing from the air.

He felt a bit awkward about it.

Because this was his first time choosing a landing spot on solid ground.

Previously, whenever he wanted to land, he would just dive headfirst into the sea. But this time he suddenly thought that in the future, it might not always be possible to have water around to easily dissipate the impact of his Flight landing.

So he also needed to learn how to land on land, and had specifically chosen this spot for that purpose.

While he was up in the sky at the time, he thought it over for a moment and decisively chose the soft beach.

And so the scene before him came to pass.

Baichuan looked at the mess before him and scratched his head. Though a bit embarrassed, at least no one had seen it.

After casting a couple of guilty glances around, Baichuan acted as if nothing had happened, and his eyes lit up at the sight of the few meter-long sea turtles before him.

What wonderful big turtles, appearing right before him as he returned late at night — weren't these snacks delivered right to his door?

Thinking of this, Baichuan reached out his wicked claws…

Nighttime, underwater.

His slender body lay stretched out across the seabed, as Baichuan silently scrolled through the information on his panel page by page.

This was a habit he had developed during this period.

Ever since he had obtained a large number of Biological Energy models last time, he had found that his points once again couldn't keep up with the pace, even though his accumulation rate had already reached one point every two days.

But greedy Baichuan still felt it wasn't enough.

So, in order to maximize the use of his points and at the same time understand the various abilities he had now acquired, guarding against overlooking any powerful ones.

So now, whenever he had free time, he would browse through the ability models on his panel.

At this moment, the expression of the lazily lounging Baichuan suddenly changed, his gaze fixed rigidly on a piece of information on the panel.

At that instant, he could hardly believe it, finding it somewhat incredible — could such an ability really be naturally born in nature?

Because this ability exceeded the comprehension of someone with his poor academic background!

This ability was none other than "Iron Tooth"!

'Species: Steller's Hidden Stone Turtle.'

'Abilities: Iron Tooth Lv1, Sensory Vision Lv1, Hard Shell Lv1…'

This was an extremely primitive Biological Energy model with very few abilities.

Yet it was precisely on this ability-poor model that there existed a terrifying ability that left Baichuan wide-eyed and slack-jawed.

Iron Tooth!

The appearance of this ability could be said to have dealt Baichuan, this academic underachiever, a sharp blow to the face.

Before this.

He had always assumed that the bones and teeth of all living creatures in nature were made of calcium, and that only in shells might there be some rare special cases using metal to forge a hard outer shell.

But he never expected that not all creatures' teeth were made of calcium — there actually existed iron teeth!

No, more precisely, an extremely hard layer of metal had naturally formed on the surface layer of the teeth.

This was just like how humans in his previous life developed exoskeleton armor for weapons — creatures had actually evolved external metal teeth!

What was this? True bio-technology!

Seeing this, Baichuan couldn't help but sigh in admiration at the evolution of these creatures.

Such a peculiar ability actually required no artificial manufacturing, but had evolved through environmental pressure.

After his amazement subsided, Baichuan suddenly realized that his choice during the day had to be said to be an extremely wise one!

If he hadn't been seized by a whim today, he might have missed out on this ability entirely.

But judging by today's situation, perhaps ever since coming to this world, he had unknowingly already missed out on many precious and powerful abilities!

Thinking of this, Baichuan felt a pang of heartache for a moment. For the first time, he understood so clearly and explicitly what it meant by "knowledge is power!"

He let out a long, quiet sigh. Perhaps to avoid this happening again in the future, he would need to be more careful from now on.

No matter whether it tasted bad or not, as long as he didn't recognize it, he had to acquire its ability model — otherwise such powerful abilities would slip past him time and again.

After settling his mood, Baichuan looked at this ability again. At this moment, he didn't know whether to be happy or sad — this ability was only at Lv1, and evolving it required only 1 point and one day and one night.

It could be said to be extremely quick. What was sad was that this ability was only Lv1 and could only be placed on the teeth, shattering his idea of placing it on various parts of his whole body to create a set of metal scales.

The familiar ability evolution process began once again.

And Baichuan's points once again gloriously returned to 1.

……

Three days later, on the beach.

Having wandered over the entire island, Baichuan silently took one last look at this small island he had ravaged into a rather unsightly state.

Only then did he borrow some force, leap up into the sky, and fly off toward more distant places.

The winged flood dragon departed, and this once somewhat bustling sea island returned to peace once more.

Countless seabirds, no longer threatened, descended back onto the island one after another.

Crabs also began crawling back out of the sea and sand to get some fresh air.

And beneath the nearby seawater, near the coral reef, there were now two strange creatures more than before. Those once somewhat dull fish eyes seemed to hold a peculiar gleam.

Of course, besides that, a great many shell-like fragments had also appeared nearby, bobbing up and down as the currents carried them.

Perhaps one day these fragments would be pushed toward the shore between the rising and falling tides, and once again have a chance to see the light of day.

Of course, the more likely possibility was being mistakenly swallowed by some fish.

Why, look—in the clear seawater, another curious fish had appeared, circling round and round a fragment.

Every now and then it nudged the fragment with its head, playing.

Yet it had forgotten that this was no safe place—when one was small and weak, one had to keep constant watch on the surroundings.

The very next moment, in the darkness not far behind it, a huge mouth silently appeared and swallowed it along with the fragment in a single gulp.

Then vanished once more without a trace.

In the final lingering image, a conspicuous lightbulb faintly appeared?

In this world, in these deep, dark waters, every moment plays out some scene of killing and being killed.

……

(End of this chapter)