Chapter 2 (1/2)

Translator: Nyoi_Bo_Studio  Editor: Nyoi_Bo_Studio

As a predator, what would dumbfound him the most?

Sui Xiong believed that the answer to this question was that he could have defeated anyone in the world, but his legs were too short to catch up with his prey, which was exactly the problem he was now facing.

He was trying his best to run in the water, hoping to catch up with the big fish in front of him, but no matter how hard he tried, the distance between him and the fish kept increasing, which soon made him desperate. Therefore, he had no choice but to give up. He stopped running with a sigh.

Not too long before, while hunting for food, he’d successfully caught and eaten the souls of over ten small fish, but hadn’t managed to catch a single big fish. He couldn’t name these fish, but it was clear that the bigger they were, the more agile they became. As for the small, dumb ones, they didn’t even notice when he was right next to them, so he was able to catch them without much effort, extracting and then eating their soul. But the big ones were a different story; they could instantly sense his existence, as well as how dangerous he was, so every time he tried to approach one, it would quickly swim away, leaving him far behind.

Of course, he tried to approach his target quietly, but it was no use. It seemed he was a firefly in the night, too obvious to hide himself sufficiently. He also tried to chase his prey, but he was too slow.

“It’s such a waste of time!” he said to himself when he failed to catch his prey again. “This doesn’t work, it doesn’t work at all!” Therefore, he had no choice but to redouble his efforts on the small, dumb fish.

Although the soul of a single small fish wasn’t much, eating enough of them would probably be fine… He wasn’t proud of being the big guy bullying the small guy, but he would need to if he was going to survive. In nature, didn’t every creature, no matter what kind of carnivore it was, always attack the old, fragile, sick or disabled every time? Sui Xiong wanted to reassure himself with this idea, but it brought him little consolation.

Carnivores in nature probably weren’t as intelligent or sentimental as he was. They didn’t have the same combat effectiveness (CE) to defeat everything else in their path; their life was a simple cycle of hunting and resting, and they had no time to feel sorry when they saw flowers falling from the trees in spring or the trees withering in autumn.

Standing among the dead fish, which were floating around him in disarray, Sui Xiong let out a melancholy sigh. “The balance of the ecosystem will be destroyed if I always hunt the small fish!”

A few hours later, he realized he was wrong when he saw a school of fish so big that he couldn’t see its end. Though he was a small body-type predator, when compared to the giant school, he could never destroy the balance of the whole ecosystem despite how many fish he ate.

In the distance, there was a giant whale with an unicorn horn roaring. The amount of food it ate for a meal would be enough to last him at least half a year. If it had not destroyed the ecosystem yet, he certainly would not.

Sui Xiong suddenly felt he was in awful danger, as if he’d been stung by a thorn, or more specifically, as if the point of a needle was touching his eyeball, and one small move would render him blind. Where was this danger coming from?

Sui Xiong looked around, trying to find the answer, until he saw that the danger was right in front of him. Despite all the delicious fish right under the whale’s eyes, it somehow ignored this potential feast, pushed them aside with its huge body, and swam straight toward him.

“Sh*t!” he cursed, turning around and immediately fleeing.

Just as the saying goes “one could never escape the retribution for his misdeeds”. Earlier, he was the predator; now he’d become the prey.

Looking at the giant whale, he knew it was impossible for him to fight. There was only one option, and that was to run. However, he soon stopped running.

With his short legs, how could he run away from this incredibly fast whale?

Of course not! It was absolutely impossible! Then what should he do? Facing this life and death situation, Sui Xiong thought very hard.

Question: if you were alone in the wilderness and you had no vehicles or weapons, and a ferocious beast was running toward you and planning to make you its dinner, what would you do?

I was waiting for your answer online, kind of hurry, be quick.

Well, this was bullsh*t anyways, because he obviously couldn’t connect to the internet, so no matter how long he waited, he’d never get the answer to that question. The whale, however, was the only thing he could possibly wait for, and it wouldn’t take long for it to catch up.

All sorts of practical and impractical ideas crossed his mind. Sui Xiong looked around as if he were crazy, trying to find a way to survive. But unfortunately, his mind drew a blank. If only he could go deeper, then he could try to hide in the crack of a stone at the bottom of the sea, where he would be safe. No matter how strong it was, the whale could never turn the whole seafloor upside down. But Sui Xiong could still only dive to two meters and no further.

Or if he could fly high into the sky, then he could escape the onrushing whale. He could even make a funny face at it, laughing at its incompetence. But he couldn’t fly either.

In fact, earlier he had tried to fly but could only jump and temporarily float above the sea. Even if his soul was weightless, he could only reach a maximum height of two meters. If he were on Earth, a standing vertical jump of two meters would definitely set the world record. No one could defeat him in Olympic competitions, and he would become a legend.

However, in his current predicament, the two meter height of his jump basically meant nothing. Frankly speaking, it wasn’t even worth mentioning, because when the whale opened its mouth, the gap between its upper and lower jaws would be over five meters.

“Is this the end? If I am devoured by the whale, will I be transported back to my home?” As the whale got closer and closer, Sui Xiong became too nervous to stop talking nonsense.