Published: February 9, 2025
"Thank you for yesterday's support! Thanks to the master of eating oranges for the 500. Thanks to Cold Autumn, Mo Beihan, Yiren, Chen Shaowen, and all the brothers!"
The waters of the Dark River gradually calmed after rolling violently, while the people gathered by the shore, stunned, carefully remained on guard.
Although everything seemed to have returned to normal, neither Mina's group nor Garan's group believed that it was truly over because the blood that surged from the Dark River not only hadn't decreased but had increased!
Many shared the same thought: how many mutated lives had to be killed to turn the river such a deep red?!
Mina and Garan exchanged glances, both realizing each other's shock.
This place could be said to be one of the main sources of magic crystals and materials for the entire Linhai, second only to the "free-range zone" of mutated rats. Other scattered sources combined might barely compare to the magic crystals contributed to survivors by the star sunfish in the Dark River.
If something happened here, it would undoubtedly be a massive blow to the humans barely surviving in all of Linhai.
The two had already begun to imagine the impact on all of Linhai if something went wrong here, with Mina even starting to connect it to her escape plan!
Sudden appearance of monsters? Abrupt changes in water quality? Sudden evolution of mutated algae?
Many reasonable and unreasonable speculations crossed their minds, and fear was evident on their faces.
“Look, look, something is coming up!”
A survivor who was intensely focused on the water suddenly shouted, and following his pointed direction, everyone saw a strange fish corpse floating on the river's surface—it was exactly what they had come for, the star sunfish.
The fish's head had a terrifying penetrating wound that had directly shattered its brain, and beside the wound lay a green magic crystal, indicating its evolution level when it was alive.
It was a four-star star sunfish!
Many people's eyes glinted with greed upon seeing it.
A four-star magic crystal represented the possibility of exchanging for a bottle of two-star Evolution Potion, or comfortably living in the underground city for two months without worry, or trading for a set of gray-level equipment. Of course, if you wanted, you could even buy at least five beautiful women... or men.
For Mina and Garan, the four-star magic crystal wasn't as attractive, but given their strength, if they encountered a school of four-star star sunfish in the Dark River, they would have to retreat. With their status as four-star evolvers, they could only choose small groups made up of two or three-star star sunfish that numbered no more than fifty.
Although the two had mocked each other about going down to hunt earlier, in reality, after each had gone into the water once, Mina came up empty-handed, and Garan only managed to obtain less than ten magic crystals, all of which were one or two-star. Securing a four-star magic crystal would indeed count as a harvest for them.
As they were pondering whether to send someone down to retrieve the star sunfish's corpse, a second fish corpse appeared.
Before everyone could even see the evolution level of the second fish, a third, fourth, and more appeared... In mere moments, the surface of the Dark River was covered with star sunfish corpses, roughly counting, there were thousands!
This...
Every survivor on the shore was stunned, unable to comprehend what was unfolding before them. They simply couldn't imagine what could have caused such a situation.
Many instinctively swallowed, their eyes growing ever more filled with desire.
This was not just the corpses of thousands of star sunfish; it was also thousands of magic crystals, with so many three and four-star magic crystals that it made their hearts tremble.
This was a fortune large enough to make the survivors of Linhai fight desperately for!
Many people looked towards the two female leaders, all of them brimming with anticipation.
“You…”
Mina and Garan were about to say something when they were interrupted by another occurrence in the water.