Ye An

Chapter 128 Shipwreck

The school of fish went upstream, passed through two stalagmite forests, and came to a wider river.

The flow of the river slows down, and the powdery river sand floats in the water and flows with the waves to form a sand belt.Through the foggy sand belt, you can see large fish bones covering the bottom of the river, including fragmented colorful fish and torn catfish.

It used to be a spawning ground for colorful fish. The water temperature is suitable and the food is abundant, which is most suitable for the survival and growth of fish fry.

It's a pity that the good times didn't last long. The beetle catfish discovered this water area, and after arriving in groups, they devoured the fish eggs.The male fish protecting the eggs were slaughtered one after another, and the female fish killed a large number of beetle catfish, but they still couldn't keep up with the gathering and reproduction speed of each other. In the end, they had to abandon this water area and go downstream to find new spawning grounds.

Unexpectedly, the group of beetle catfish followed closely behind the group of colorful fish, and cunningly did not show up. They waited until the group of fish selected a place to lay eggs, and then rushed out to snatch food.

If it wasn't for Ye An's timely appearance, it would be impossible to save this batch of fish eggs by relying on the male fish guarding nearby.Missing this year's breeding season, females will have to wait another year to spawn.

At that time, the catfish will not come again?

Obviously impossible!

This group of robbers who specialize in eating fish eggs reproduces at an astonishing speed, and their growth rate is also extremely fast. As they plunder fish schools again and again, the number of colorful fish will inevitably decrease.Under this trade-off, unless the colorful fish migrate farther and completely get rid of the beetle catfish group, it is likely to go extinct, just like other fish groups that have never appeared again.

During the journey, Ye An deeply assimilated the female fish, learned about the habits and range of activities of the colorful fish school, and also grasped the impact and damage of the beetle catfish school on the waters of the underground river.

The catfish does not belong to the underground river, but belongs to the foreign invaders.In these waters, apart from a few species, they have few rivals.This means that they are doomed to reproduce in large numbers, occupying and squeezing the living space of other fish schools, devouring their eggs, and causing the number of fish schools here to drop sharply or even become extinct.

Once they can't find enough food, they will migrate again, looking for another hunting ground, and wreaking havoc again.

Ye An was not very clear about the mutation direction of the catfish, especially the huge individual differences between the dark river catfish and the ice lake catfish, which made his mind full of doubts.But he can say with certainty that if this group of catfish is allowed to continue to occupy, the waters of the underground river will be greatly damaged, and it will not be able to recover for a long time.

"There must be a way."

The school of fish passed a gentle river section, and the female fish dived underwater to prey on shellfish to replenish their strength. Ye An climbed onto a bluestone inserted in the center of the river, but didn't pay attention to the mutated moss on the stone surface, slipped his hand, and almost slipped into the water.

Pulling out the dagger and stabbing it into the stone, Ye An stabilized his body and wiped off the water droplets on his face.

The moss has been cut open, revealing a bit of dirt underneath.

Ye An picked up a pinch, but found nothing special. He patted off the residue in his hand, sat on the stone surface with his legs bent, and set off after the female fish had eaten enough.

There are a lot of shellfish and mutant snails living under the river.

Females like to prey on river shells that are as large as washbasins. The hook-shaped upper jaw can easily crush the shells, pull out the meat inside, and swallow them quickly.

Large shoals of female fish hunted together, river shells and mutated snails fled in panic, mixed with a small amount of river shrimp, causing more fine sand to roll up underwater, and the water surface seemed to be boiling, making it extremely lively.

A river shell came up to the surface to avoid the fish, and it happened to be near the bluestone. Ye An picked it up, pried open the shell with a dagger, cut off a piece of meat and put it in his mouth. Seashells are a little more tough and chewy more crisply.

After eating the whole river shell, Ye An still couldn't get enough of it. He found that there were river shells floating on the surface of the water, but some distance from the bluestone, so he simply jumped into the water and caught three river shells and a mutant snail one after another.

The taste of the mutant snail is also good, but it is slightly inferior to that of the river shell.

After eating these, Ye An didn't do anything else, swam back to the bluestone, and began to polish the shell fragments he had cut.These shells are very beautiful, and the luster and color are as good as pearls. Both lily of the valley and small bamboo should like it.

The shoal of fish came to the surface after eating enough, cruising in the river for a while, and continued upstream with Ye An.

The color fish is no bigger than a bone fish, so it cannot carry Ye An on its back.Ye An could only grab the tail of the fish and swim forward with the school of fish.

Passing through a gentle section of the river, the current is suddenly turbulent.

In front is a towering stone forest, inserted like a sharp sword in the middle of the river, forming a natural dam.The river water rushed out from the gaps in the stone forest, splashing like silver chains, hitting the river surface, making a loud bang.

The sound broke the silence of the underground river and brought more vitality to the dark underground.

Facing the roaring current, the female fish did not slow down, but the group speeded up and jumped up against the current.

The moment he jumped out of the water, the bony wings that had always been docile on both sides of his body opened, and between the sharp bony spurs was a scale-like film, which fanned out like two silver-gray wings.The powerful fish tails swung, driving them out of the water and leaping to high places.

Ye An didn't have much preparation, and was taken off by the female fish. He almost failed to catch the female fish's tail and fell into the water from mid-air.

Fortunately, his reaction was fast enough. When the current washed over, he subconsciously tightened his fingers, and at the same time stepped on the boulder standing in the water, and crossed this natural dam with the female fish.

Before Ye An could breathe a sigh of relief, danger followed.

The top of the strange rock is not flat, and the sharp stone edges are stacked like steel knives.On the top of the stone edge, there is a group of monitor lizards over three meters in size.

The monitor lizard has blue-black scales all over its body, with only a few patches of gray dotted around the base of its tail.They occupy the top of the strange rock in groups, grasping it firmly with their sharp claws, opening their huge mouths with sharp fangs, waiting for the schools of fish upstream.

Colorful fish are not their main target.

A large group of monitor lizards entrenched here, specially waiting for the mutated salmon that comes every year.Fatty salmon tastes better and is easier to catch than the bony winged females and the males, whose tails take up half their body.

At the same time, they are also the biggest natural enemies of catfish in dark rivers.

The reason is that the catfish dared to kill the monitor lizard's eggs by the river.

The taste of monitor lizard eggs is not good, it is not as good as fish eggs, and the catfish tried it once and never tried it again.The angry monitor lizard firmly remembered this group of robbers and spread the news.As a result, all monitor lizards living in the dark river basin will definitely kill them when they see the catfish, and they will not let any one go.

If it wasn't for the monitor lizard's vengeance, the catfish in this water area would have been flooded.

This is not the first time for a female fish to face a monitor lizard. Knowing that the opponent's target is not her, they borrowed strength from each other when they leaped to the top of the strange rock, swung their tail vigorously, and flapped their bone wings at the same time. Except for a few that were unlucky, most of them passed safely. The top of the monitor lizard fell into the water behind the strange rock.

Schools of fish entered the water one after another, splashing large white splashes.

After entering the water, Ye An quickly floated up, absorbing oxygen and at the same time wiped away the water droplets in front of his eyes.Looking back, I found that the quiet group of monitor lizards suddenly became agitated, and then, a large group of salmon with colorful stripes on both sides of their bodies jumped up to a high place and joined together in mid-air.

When the monitor lizard waits for its prey, it no longer slows down like facing a shoal of colorful fish, but stretches its neck, and many of them straighten their bodies, standing on their hind legs, intercepting the shoal of salmon, and start their annual feast.

The group of colorful fish continued to move forward, and Ye An also looked away, no longer paying attention to what was happening on the strange rock.

In the process of moving forward, he sensed the emotions of the female fish, and to his surprise, it turned out to be aimed at the salmon preyed by monitor lizards.

"Envy?" Ye An was stunned, thinking that he had made a mistake in his perception, and further assimilated the other party, and found that what the fish school conveyed was indeed envy, not any other emotion.

After further in-depth research, Ye An finally knew the reason. Monitor lizards will prey on salmon, but they will not kill them all. They will stop when they catch a certain amount and let the fish go to lay eggs.

The spawning ground of the salmon school is near the strange rock, and it is also in the territory of the monitor lizard.It sounds incredible, but monitor lizards prey on adult salmon, but they will protect salmon eggs and fry from the most destructive turtle catfish.

Monitor lizards are the natural enemies of salmon, but they can ensure the continued reproduction of salmon schools, and the number once increased, leaving other fish schools in the dust.

Knowing the relationship between monitor lizards and salmon, Ye An didn't know what to say.Who would have thought that since the catastrophe happened, human beings are still hunting for a living, and these monitor lizards living underground have started to raise fish?

Perhaps it was unintentional, but this relationship really amazed Ye An.Sensing the emotions conveyed by Caiyu, Ye An began to think seriously, maybe he should give it a try?

The fish school got farther and farther away from the strange rock, passing through three stone forests one after another. The water flow changed from gentle to turbulent, and then from turbulent to gentle.There was a light falling from above his head, and Ye An looked up, and found a crack on the rock wall, twisting and turning, and soon sank into the stones, and the light disappeared.

The water flow became more and more gentle, and the water temperature gradually increased, not as cold as before.

The speed of the fish school slowed down, Ye An knew that the destination was not far ahead through the connection with each other, so he quickly cheered up.

Passing through a long and narrow waterway, fish schools pass through the arched mountain wall, surrounded by darkness, and you can't see your fingers.The sound of water flow became clearer, and the roar was endless, like a waterfall falling down.

A white light came faintly from the end of the mountain wall, and the school of fish accelerated, leading Ye An to speed up.

The moment the white light passed through, Ye An's eyes hurt, and he subconsciously raised his arms to cover his eyes.

Behind the light is another river section, the river channel is relatively narrow, and the rock walls on both sides are covered with reflective stones, but they are not the spar that Ye An is familiar with, but natural minerals like crystals and gems.

There are eddies all over the surface of the water, and there are a lot of unidentifiable debris in the eddies.

Ye An took a deep breath, and slowly opened his eyes as the fish sank into the water.

The discovery in front of him shocked him. Right below the vortex was a large piece of wreckage. Judging from the shape and remaining parts, it turned out to be a huge wooden shipwreck!