Ye An

The small fish walking among the hyphae are colorful and beautiful, and they don't seem to be very aggressive.

The reality is nothing like that.

Sensing the arrival of Ye An and his party and sensing the danger, the school of fish swimming among the mounds immediately became vigilant. Small fish of different types quickly gathered together, swung their tails, and their swimming speed continued to increase, rolling up in the forest. Large water vortex.

A large number of leaves and broken branches were brought up and smashed on the trunk, leaving clear marks.

These small fish are not big in size, most of them are no bigger than Ye An's palm.The belly is bulging, and the head and tail add up to more than three-quarters of the entire body.

The top of the fish head protrudes upwards, and the eyes are like two round grapes.The mouth of the fish is open, and the inside is densely covered with sharp teeth, and the upper jaw is covered with hardened bones. If you are accidentally bitten, the skin will be ripped apart and the blood will not stop.

After the fish gather, they swim quickly underwater, and the scales rub against each other to form long colorful bands.

When the water vortex is the densest, the school of fish suddenly divides into multiple strands, meanders upwards, and patrols around the vortex, not letting go of any suspicious existence.

During the period, some river shrimps, crabs, and mutant snails were accidentally injured, and the damaged shrimp and crab shells were floating in the water, and were chewed and crushed by the fish's mouth, leaving no pieces of meat left.

Relying on his previous experience, the black python led Ye An around two giant trees and hid his body in the canopy of the trees, perfectly concealing himself.

"Hide?"

Ye An squatted on the branch, pressed the trunk with one hand, asked the black python, and beckoned to Bauhinia and Gardenia, telling them to hide themselves so as not to be discovered by the fish.

The tiger sharks and finless porpoises that followed did not come near either. After Ye An hid in the canopy of the tree, they swam along the current and hid behind the thick tree trunk to avoid detection by small fish.

The black python coiled its body on a branch, put its head on Ye An's shoulder, and shared the accumulated experience with Ye An.

It turns out that these small fish are not residents of the river, but live in the darkest place under the water all year round, and only appear in the rainy season.

Their eyesight is zero, even though their eyes are not small, they can't actually see anything.

During the rainy season, they lay their eggs under the canopy of mushrooms.

When an animal devours the mushroom, the fish eggs that float away will take the opportunity to hang on the animal, and hatch with the animal's body temperature and flesh and blood.

The newly hatched small fish have a sharp cone-shaped mouth with degenerable spikes, which can easily penetrate into the animal body and survive on the flesh and blood of the host.When the next rainy season comes, they will occupy the brains of the animals, forcing the animals to bring them back to the river, then break out, enter the water, and dive into the bottom of the river like their ancestors did for generations, wait until they are fully mature after three years, and then go to the water to lay eggs .

The reproduction methods of these fish have been separated from most of the aquatic populations, and they are out-and-out parasitic, very similar to the fish lice Ye An encountered before.

The hatching of fish eggs and the growth of small fish all depend on absorbing the flesh and nutrients of the host, and they don't directly kill the other party, but keep the other party alive for a long time.

Such a painful and long process, just thinking about it, Ye An shuddered.

However, this method of reproduction also has disadvantages. Not all fish eggs can hatch successfully. Most of them will be swallowed together with the mushrooms and fall into the belly of the mutant beast, becoming the latter's food and nutrition.

The reason why some small beasts risk being parasitized to eat here is not only to obtain mushrooms, but another important reason is for these fish eggs.

Fish eggs are packed with nutrients and have considerable benefits for them.

Thanks to this relationship, the two sides can maintain a relatively balanced state, otherwise, in the place where this kind of fish gathers, the smaller mutant beasts cannot survive at all, and they may become extinct within a few years.

"How to deal with them?"

Ye An learned from the black python that these fish are small and contain a lot of energy in their bodies.Coupled with a large area of ​​mushroom umbrellas overflowing with energy, the harvest in this line of work will definitely not be small.

The key is how to obtain it so that you and your companions are not in danger.

The black python spat out the letter and told Ye An about his experience.

Ye An pressed the breathing device, quickly looked around, and soon found the plant that the black python was pointing at.

"That's it?" Ye An confirmed to Hei Mang.

Three steps away from him was a low bush.

Unlike tall trees, these shrubs are of average height and are all soaked in water.Branches with upright spines covered with berry-bearing brambles.

The thorns mutate, producing a mass of dark red and purple-red berries.

Each fruit is the size of a thumb, with sharp hairs all over the surface. No matter how attractive the color is, few mutant beasts will eat it.

Once these burrs are stuck into the mouth, it is uncomfortable and cannot be removed at all.When the wound deteriorated and pus flowed, he could only wait to die without treatment.

Knowing that the mutated fish hate this kind of fruit the most, and that once they get contaminated with the berry juice, they will lose consciousness for a short time. Ye An made a quick decision and gestured to Bauhinia and Gardenia to signal them to stay where they are. Cong approached.

The river rushed through the forest, and the eddies were washed away one after another.

The school of fish couldn't find the intruder, and it returned to its previous state, swimming and shuttling among the hyphae in groups, as if nothing had happened.

The river prawns, crabs and mutated snails seem to sense danger, and hide in batches in the mounds, never refusing to show up again.

Not long after they entered the mound, a large piece of fine sand gushed out from the cracks all over the mound. Immediately afterwards, eels emerged from the hole, opened their mouths to bite the small fish that had no time to escape, and then quickly retracted into the hole.

good stuff!

Seeing these eels, Ye An couldn't help but his eyes lit up.Thinking of the smell of grilled eel and shredded eel, he licked his lips through the mask.

But to catch eels, you must first get rid of those small fish.

Holding the trunk with both hands, Ye An smoothly slid under the tree.His movements were quite neat, even with the water flow blocking him, he didn't make too much movement, let alone attract the attention of fish schools and eels.

After falling to the ground, Ye An walked along the bottom of the water, stopped in front of the bushes, carefully observed the thorns and berries, wrapped his palms with animal skins, drew out a short knife, cut off several thorns, quickly twisted them together, and turned towards the direction of the mound drag and drop.

The small fish found the eel hiding and realized that their companions were being preyed. They were furious and surrounded the mound in large groups, trying to drag the predators out.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Ye An no longer hid his body, approached as quickly as possible, and threw the thorn in his hand with all his strength.

The water flow had great resistance, and the thorns seemed to be in slow motion when they waved. Ye An was a little worried that the fish would escape.

It turned out that his luck was good. A protruding undercurrent drove the thorns, winding up the mound in circles.

At the same time, he led the crabs hidden in the mound to emerge one by one. They held the thorns with their claws to prevent the thorns from loosening. They entangled more and more tightly around the mound, killing all the fish and eels circle in it.

The thorns are constantly squeezed, and the berries flow out thick juice.

The juice did not disperse, but condensed into beads in the water, and the large pieces were suspended in the river water, exuding a gem-like color, which was beautiful.

Encased in the beads, the small fish rolled over their bellies one by one. Even if a few escaped, they could not escape the siege of tiger sharks and finless porpoises.

The whole process went more smoothly than expected.

Sensing the emotions of the black python at the moment, Ye An hooked the corners of his mouth, brushed the scales around the black python's mouth with the back of his hand, and immediately left under the tree, swimming towards the small fish floating near the mound.