Chapter 131: You Can Actually Eat This… Bro, You’re A Legend!
He saw something move on the fish’s back, breaking through the skin and flesh, splashing a piece of blood and meat, and pouncing toward them, causing the fish to lunge toward them a great distance as well!
Lin Yan was turning to observe the mine above and behind him and didn’t notice. Lao Yang happened to be right beside him and saw this scene, his pupils contracting sharply. He hurriedly shouted: “Xiao Xiao, watch out! You, there’s—there’s something behind you!”
Lin Yan heard Lao Yang’s voice and immediately turned around. Before Lao Yang could finish the second word, that thing was already almost right in front of Lin Yan! He couldn’t help but curse Lao Yang inwardly—stuttering really wasn’t reliable; even the warning time was several times longer than others’! Luckily, after these adventures, his nerves were quite sensitive. He looked behind him the moment he heard “watch out,” otherwise by the time Lao Yang finished speaking, his ashes would probably be cold!
Huh, this thing… feels a bit familiar?
Before Lin Yan could even make a defensive move, the small thing lunging at him suddenly braked hard in front of him, shook its body, leaving a string of bloodstains around: “Ying ying ying!”
“Damn! It’s you, you scared me!”
Xiao Bai Jiang, who had been offline for a long time, appeared in this way—no one could have expected it. Wu Xie looked at Xiao Bai Jiang, then at the big bloody opening it had burst out from, leaned over to look at the fish body: “Holy shit, did your Xiao Bai Bai… eat all the bones of this thing?”
He looked strangely at the two palm-sized huge gashes on the fish’s back, incredulous how Xiao Bai Jiang’s small body without even a mouth had gnawed them out! But now he knew how this fish had lunged onto the shore—what dying flash, it was clearly Xiao Bai Jiang seeing Lin Yan walking this way and following along! Although it might have been in the fish’s stomach at the time?
Wu Xie looked into the big hole again and discovered there seemed to be an opening under the fish’s body too. Curious, he used the dagger to flip the fish over… sure enough, not far from under the huchen, there was a corresponding hole! Xiao Bai Jiang must have entered from here! Hmm? There seemed to be something in the fish’s stomach…
From one corner of the hole, he seemed to see half a strange arc-shaped thing… Could it be its eggs? So Wu Xie curiously used the dagger to enlarge the hole a bit, cutting about a dozen centimeters, and this thing rolled out with a gurgle.
It was actually a bloody, mangled human head!
This human head appeared so suddenly that Wu Xie jumped two or three meters away, frantically wiping the blood from the dagger on the ground, afraid to get any of the blood or stomach acid on him: “Holy shit, this is too disgusting! Where the hell did this human head come from! When the fuck did this person die here? Did this damn fish eat a person and not digest it for centuries?!”
Wu Xie’s language system was on the verge of losing control. Lin Yan and the others only heard a rapid string of sounds from his mouth that would turn into “beep—” online, then saw Wu Xie, face pale as death, striding quickly toward them: “Let’s go, quick! I don’t think this place is safe either!”
“What happened?” The space in this place was small to begin with, and the echo of Wu Xie’s long string of curses was still lingering. Neither of them heard clearly what he said. Lin Yan curiously poked his head to look and only saw, under the dim firelight, a round object there.
He teased: “You weren’t scared by this big fish’s child, were you?”
Wu Xie glared at him irritably, hesitated, but still endured the disgust and reinserted the dagger into its sheath: “Child my ass! I originally thought it was a fish egg too, but it turned out to be a human head!”
As soon as he said “human head,” Lao Yang and Lin Yan automatically imagined the round object as bloody and mangled, both turning pale from their own imaginations’ disgust… Lin Yan suddenly remembered where Xiao Bai Jiang had come from, his hand shook, almost flinging Xiao Bai Jiang from his arms. Luckily it jumped to Lin Yan’s shoulder first when it sensed something wrong: “Ying ying ying?”
Lin Yan gave it a complicated look but still let it stay on his shoulder. Since this human head was still there, it meant Xiao Bai Jiang at least didn’t eat people—this was at least some good news? So what did it drill into the fish’s body for, just to crack open the fish’s skull?
Whatever, at least it contributed to this fish’s death—where it contributed doesn’t matter…
Putting away his complicated emotions, Lin Yan continued looking for a way out. But he knew nothing about this; after searching for just a few minutes, he felt dizzy, every cave entrance looking the same, no difference. He envied the Wu Xie seriously observing every mine, had to admit studying architecture was great—even mine structures were crystal clear!
Wait, does architecture teach this? Could Wu Xie really understand the mine structure just from that bit mentioned in his grandfather’s notebook? Probably author-given cheat, right? Lin Yan gradually fell into thought, unaware that Wu Xie was panicking hard inside too—he really didn’t want to go back into the water and get rammed by that fish again! Last time was luck that the huchen didn’t open its mouth—what if it did this time, wouldn’t he be done for? With Lin Yan that crow’s mouth around, hard to say it wouldn’t open its mouth this time.
Lao Yang and Lin Yan, the two noobs in this area, pretended to look around and then, with tacit understanding, met up in front of the bonfire and sat down together… The two exchanged a glance, both feeling a bit awkward.
Lao Yang glanced at the distant fish and quietly asked Lin Yan: “That thing, you think since Wu Xie still needs, needs a while, wanna… eat some grilled fish? I, I haven’t eaten one this big yet!”
Lin Yan gave a strange look at the distant bloody mangled human head on the ground and thumbs-upped Lao Yang: “Bro, badass! You’re the man! I’ll pass on eating—just watching you eat is fine!”
Lao Yang chuckled and went over to flip the fish around, finding a spot that looked relatively clean to cut into.
Wu Xie inadvertently turned his head and saw Lao Yang squatting mysteriously in front of the fish doing something, while Lin Yan watched admiringly, so he came over and asked Lin Yan: “What’s he doing?”
Lin Yan replied without looking back, in a tone of admiration: “He wants to eat some fish!”
Now Wu Xie looked at Lao Yang with admiring eyes too. He glanced at the human head not far on the ground, then at Lao Yang taking fish meat, as if seeing him for the first time: “He can eat this? Does prison life train people this much? It’s not like we don’t have dry rations—we gotta eat that thing? This water doesn’t look like good water either—can fish raised in it even be eaten? Not to mention this fish also—”
Lin Yan turned to look at him, eyes meaningful, tone eerie as he asked: “Don’t you know… cannibal fish meat is even more delicious?”
Wu Xie was instantly choked, couldn’t think of a retort, tossed out: “Don’t expect me to eat!” and turned away to continue figuring out which way they should go next.
