Chapter 2: The Extreme Cold (1)
Following the trail of the fish, the white fish man jumped into the lake.
Just touching the lake water, the white fish-man bulb-sized eyes are suddenly covered with a layer of light gray keratin, this layer of corneal membrane in addition to waterproof and anti-damage for the eyeball, but also can improve the fishman's vision in the water.
The world in the water was thus revealed to the eyes of the White Fish Man, who had a feeling of familiarity and strangeness at the same time.
The lake under the gray sky is very clear and transparent, and it is unusually calm.
However, under the calm surface of the lake, there is a different world, and it is very lively.
Strange aquatic plants, lively fish and shrimp, the temperature of the lake is moderate, the depth is not shallow, the closest to the shore of the lake is also four or five meters deep, and gradually deepens outward.
Entering the water, the Whitefish Man's half-bent body on land instinctively stretched into a streamlined shape, and the slender and powerful legs, arms, and webbing on the hands and feet were natural boosters when the body swung.
This makes the Whitefish Man move freely in the water, and it seems to be a little more comfortable than walking on land.
The white fishman dived to the bottom of the water, slowed down, and found that the special oral swallow lake allowed him to breathe freely in the water, but his body temperature would begin to drop slowly due to immersion in cold water.
With the protection of the stratum corneum on the skin, the body temperature of the white fish people decreases very slowly, and according to this reduction rate, the temperature on the body can at least allow the white fish people to survive underwater for most of the day, and the white fish people can relax and start hunting by themselves.
The white fishman maintained a motionless posture, and his bulb-sized brown eyes turned dead gray because they covered the cuticular membrane, and his breath was close to nothing, which was the natural hunting skill of the white fishman.
The fish, which had been scared away by the sound he made when he entered the water, gradually moved closer to the lake, because of the abundant aquatic plants growing on the edge of the lake, and they came to feed.
There are a lot of fish under the lake, and driven by hunger, the white fish man quickly sets his sights on a big black fish that is not much smaller than himself.
The big black fish's fish bubble eyes were staring around vigilantly, and the fish's lips kept opening and closing up and down, swallowing a piece of fresh aquatic grass that had just been bitten.
The white fish man estimated the distance, relying on his superior underwater vision, the white fish man could clearly see the big black fish more than ten meters away under the dim lake, in addition, the dozens of slender whiskers under the white fish mermaid's mouth have the ability to perceive the smell.
Relying on his whiskers, he could "smell" the big black fish more clearly than his eyes and lock on to it.
"My first prey ......," the Whitefish man muttered as his body began to tense and prepare for an explosion.
In good condition, the white fish man stared at this fat big black fish, his feet slowly contracted and swung into a curved shape, and then he stepped on the water violently, and shot out like a cannonball!
The dense bubbles around the white fish man emerged with the friction of his movements, and the explosive power of the white fish man was vividly displayed at this moment!
Under the full burst of the white fish man, the distance of more than ten meters was reached in the blink of an eye, and it was not until the white fish man catapulted close that the big black fish sensed his existence, and quickly swung his tail in a panic and turned his head to run.
However, how could the white fish man give it a chance to run away, the smooth and powerful muscles on his arms exploded, and the palm and claws of his hand swung quickly towards the big black fish, easily piercing the big black fish's body from the side!
The vitality of the big black fish is extremely strong, even if it is pierced by the white fish man and hung on the white fish man's arm, its body still twists and turns, trying to break free from the white fish man's control.
As the big black fish struggled, its red blood kept spreading under the lake, but it was soon neutralized by the sea water, and only the pungent smell of blood continued to drift far away.
The surrounding fish ran away almost in the blink of an eye, and the shrimp and crabs also hurriedly shrank into the cracks of the rocks, between the dirt, and for a while only the white fish man and the big black fish in his hand were left in this area.
The white fish man hit with a blow, and there was also a wave of excitement in his heart, and he glanced at the big black fish that was still hanging on his right arm, and swam quickly with his hands and feet.
Sinking out of the water, the white fish-man's dead-gray cuticle opens, revealing large brown bulb eyes.
The white fish man found that the sky was much darker after a while, and even the temperature on the lake had dropped a lot, indicating that night was coming.
Even newborn fish-people have an instinctive fear of the dark.
An inexplicable feeling of panic swelled in the heart of the white fish man, and he quickly climbed to the shore, and the huge black fish hung on the white fish man's hand, but the white fish man didn't seem to feel much weight and easily climbed ashore.
"Tear it up!" the Whitefishman stretched out his left hand and removed the big black fish from his right arm, and the sharp bones of the big black fish's abdominal cavity did not hurt the white fishman's arm covered with hard cuticles.
Blood dripped down the corpse of the big black fish, which was only half the height of the white fish man, and the white fish man's Adam's apple surged, and he couldn't suppress his desire anymore, and when he grabbed the black fish, he cracked open his bloody mouth!
The white fish-man took a large bite of raw fish meat with a large mouth almost the width of his head, accompanied by bright red blood and hard fish bones, all of which were sent into his mouth and chewed quickly.
The dense teeth in the mouth chewed the raw fish meat and bones together into a mashed meat and swallowed it in the stomach.
"Haas~" The feeling of hunger was slightly suppressed, and the white fish man let out a satisfied moan of satisfaction.
was bitten off a large piece of meat, and the body of this big black fish was still able to twitch unconsciously and forcefully.
However, this aroused the appetite of the white fish people even more, and after a few nibbling and devouring, the white fish people ate most of the black fish meat into their stomachs.
"I'm eating it raw, and the fish should be better when cooked. It wasn't until the White Fish Man was almost full of food and the hunger desire had completely subsided that the consciousness in his mind welled up with this thought.
"What is eaten raw, cooked ......" had a headache, and the white fish man shook his huge head and didn't think much about it, because the night had come.
With the last glimmer of light and darkness, this moonless and starless night fell into complete darkness.
Fortunately, the big fish eyes of the white fish people have the ability of night vision, and the dead gray corneal membrane covers the fish eyes again, which greatly enhances the night vision ability.
In the eyes of the Whitefish Man, the vision at night is only slightly worse than during the day.
But the panic in the hearts of the Whitefishmen was still there, the swamp was silent in the night, and the Whitefishmen did not know whether they should rest in place or walk in the dark to find a better place to stay.
But soon, the Whitefish Man found himself overthinking.
The temperature in the dark of night drops so fast, from the moment the light disappears completely, and it goes down again.
The Whitefishman's body area is covered with a thick cuticle all over his body, which strengthens his resistance and reduces the Whitefishman's perception of temperature changes, so that he doesn't have time to notice the rapid drop in temperature.
By this time, the Whitefish Man had sensed that something was wrong, and the temperature around him had even exceeded freezing, and it was falling at a faster rate.