owlsbooks Chapter 36: They are all lambs to the slaughter!
Chapter 36: They are all lambs to the slaughter!
Seeing this, Su Jin remembered that his ship had a static electricity field, and these rock snakes must have been electrocuted.
However, this effect cannot be achieved in ordinary electrostatic fields, so there must be other reasons.
Then he remembered the effect of the Thunderfish Oil, which could paralyze sea monsters, making them unwilling to approach it.
If we have an electrostatic field, wouldn't it be even more powerful, perhaps even greater than the sum of its parts, resulting in a huge increase in the electrostatic field?
It's probably going to be comparable to the output of the Lightning Eel at its peak!
That must be it, otherwise how could these sea monsters not be tempted by those three big strips of meat!
Just then, he felt the boat rocking a bit, and Shen Ruying rushed over.
The young woman immediately hugged her daughter, nervously watching the rock snakes around them, and then said to Su Jin:
"Brother Su, there are so many snakes! We're surrounded! What do we do?"
At this moment, Su Jin already had a clear idea in his mind. He smiled and said:
"Don't be nervous, watch me."
To test his theory, he picked up a harpoon, went to the side of the boat, and speared a rock snake directly at it.
The rock serpent faced the harpoon without dodging or avoiding it, allowing Su Jin to attack it at will.
Despite its rock-like surface, the harpoon still pierced through its body thanks to Su Jin's immense power.
Spicy strips obtained!
When Su Jin threw the 2-meter-long rock snake onto the deck, it remained stiff in its previous shape until it lost its life force and its body went limp.
Su Jin reached out and grabbed the snake's tail, lifted it up, and lashed it like a whip.
"Hmm, easy to handle, looks like it's completely dead."
Since only completely dead creatures are immune to the paralyzing effect of the lightning fish oil, it seems his idea was correct.
The static electricity field, enhanced by the Thunderfish Oil, has turned the area around Su Jin's ship into a restricted zone.
These rock snakes probably had just woken up and wanted to sneak onto the boat to eat three big strips of meat, but they were electrocuted and couldn't escape.
The rock snake, which was outside the static electricity field, must have escaped unscathed, quickly sinking to the seabed after the paralysis ended.
He turned to the mother and daughter and comforted them:
"It's alright now. Those rock snakes are all paralyzed by the electric shock; they can't cause any trouble. They're practically lambs to the slaughter!"
As he spoke, he waved the dead rock snake in front of the two women, causing their faces to turn pale and they to take a step back at the same time.
Under normal circumstances, humans have a natural fear of these reptiles, let alone girls.
Su Jin had seen and even eaten a lot of things, but just because he wasn't afraid didn't mean that Shen Ruying and Shen Qiaoqiao weren't afraid.
Seeing their fear, Su Jin stopped teasing them and simply threw the rock snake's corpse on the ground, saying:
"Dispose of this guy's body properly, keep its gallbladder, collect its blood; both should be useful, and the snake meat can be eaten later..."
Hearing that they still had to eat this, the mother and daughter's faces turned even paler.
But they dared not disobey Su Jin's orders. They could be picky about food later, but that was a matter for later. Right now, they had to do what Su Jin had instructed them to do.
In the end, Shen Qiaoqiao hesitated, and Shen Ruying, as her mother, had no choice but to take on this great responsibility, suppressing her fear and discomfort to deal with the corpse of the rock snake.
She was never spoiled growing up, but she certainly never killed a chicken.
Even after becoming a mother, she rarely cooks; the family's nanny buys groceries and cooks for her.
Now, faced with this thing, she doesn't even know where to begin.
In the end, she had no choice but to follow Su Jin's instructions, cut open the snake's belly, find the gallbladder, and leave the snake blood, making her hands covered in blood.
The stench made Shen Qiaoqiao, who was standing next to her, look a little pale, and she even subconsciously took a step back.
Although she wanted to help her mother, there was really nothing she could do to help right now.
It's fine to ask her to peel the skin, but to ask her to handle this thing is a no-go.
Just as Shen Ruying finished processing the body of the rock snake, covered in sweat, Su Jin speared up a few more.
Looking at the few rock snakes that had just died and were still wriggling slightly, she almost cried, but she could only continue to deal with them.
Su Jin continued, not wanting to let this opportunity slip by.
Although these rock serpents are said to be ordinary Tier 1 sea beasts, commonplace and nothing special, they are still genuine sea beasts. Kill as many as you can.
Just as he was about to grab a few more spicy strips, a familiar sizzling sound came from afar.
He looked up and saw that the distant sea was shrouded in a purple arc of electricity, and the surrounding area was brightly lit by the electric light.
It's that guy again!
He recognized the scene; it was the famous hunting scene of the lightning eel.
Under the tyranny of this reef area overlord, a large number of rock snakes surfaced and fled in all directions.
Most of them fled to the islands, while a small number fled towards Su Jin's side.
However, when they first ran to Su Jin's side, they didn't touch the area covered by the Thunderfish Oil. As if they smelled it, they turned around and ran away cleverly.
At this moment, a large number of rock snakes were rushing towards the island, and they all avoided Su Jin, with not one daring to get close.
Oh, yes, those were the ones who were by Su Jin's ship at the beginning. They've all been electrocuted and are foaming at the mouth.
However, Su Jin didn't plan to stay here any longer, because he discovered that it wasn't just the lightning eels driving the rock snakes towards the island; there were other movements in the depths of the darkness.
If nothing unexpected happens, that should be a second-tier sea beast, another father of the Rock Serpent, or even a third-tier sea beast.
Watching these rock snakes swarm towards Shen Ruying's island, Su Jin felt another chill run down his spine.
If he didn't have the talent of being the Pirate King, didn't have a ship, and had an island next to Shen Ruying, would he be using a homemade stone axe to deal with these things right now?
Based on the feeling Su Jin had just experienced, with the strength he had used before, he could break through the defense with an axe, but he definitely couldn't cut through it!
Moreover, faced with such a large number, he could only try to run away, or even find a tree to hide in.
Fortunately, he had a ship and a guiding star torch, which he easily resolved.
Besides him, Shen Ruying and Shen Qiaoqiao were also relieved.
Shen Ruying, in particular, instinctively hugged her daughter tightly, feeling a wave of fear wash over her.
If the mother and daughter hadn't met Su Jin, they probably would have died without a burial place tonight.
Running deep into the islands would mean being eaten by wolves, staying on the beach would make them dinner for rock snakes; nowhere was safe for them, and they simply couldn't survive.
The young woman was incredibly grateful that she had made the right choice, allowing her and her daughter to survive. If she had stayed on the island…
At this moment, she thought of the island far away, and another sister, Li Yuanyuan, whom Su Jin had mentioned.
It seems this younger sister is all alone on the island right now... right?