Chapter 3 (1/2)

Translator: Nyoi_Bo_Studio  Editor: Nyoi_Bo_Studio

The moonlight was pouring down onto the surface of the sea, with a breeze blowing across the water, making countless silver ripples.

Maybe it was just an illusion, but in this world the moon seemed to look much bigger and so much brighter than on Earth. Even if it was nighttime, Sui Xiong could clearly see the teeth of the fish approaching him from below. They were swimming and eating very fast. Before long, most of the jellyfish in the sea had been torn apart and eaten up. Now, they were gradually getting closer and closer to Sui Xiong.

He didn’t run away. Instead, he calmly floated on the sea and prepared to fight. In no time, the three fish that were closest to him had come near enough for him to initiate his attack.

As the jellyfish’s natural predator, the small fish were overwhelmingly superior to the jellyfish. But inside this jellyfish hid the soul of a human being. Most importantly, this jellyfish was very different from the weak ones who were basically defenseless when faced with their natural enemy. Looking at these small fish as they opened their frightening white teeth, anxious to tear apart their prey, Sui Xiong laughed. His soul reached out its hand, seized two of them, easily pulled out their souls, and put them in his mouth. Before long, the third one was eaten too.

Nonetheless, a small price was paid. Sui Xiong (or, actually, the jellyfish he had possessed) had suffered a little bite, which was still big enough to alarm him. Although he was much stronger than the small fish and could kill two of them at once, his soul only had two hands, while there were hundreds of fish. Three of them could simply make him focus on one fish, losing sight of the others and becoming susceptible to their attacks. What if hundreds of them attacked him all together?

Sui Xiong suddenly felt very frightened. When he calmed down and observed his surroundings, he found that he’d already been surrounded.

“Sh*t! Hundreds of you versus me. Even if you win, you will never be considered a hero! If you consider yourselves strong, why not only one of you come up and fight me!” he shouted.

Clearly, these small fish were no heroes, or they couldn’t hear his curse. Even if they did hear, they had no idea what his words meant.

Now, they were coming at him from all directions. Sui Xiong was too shocked to think about eating. He began to punch aimlessly in every direction, trying to kill each and every one of them. For a while, the light reflected off the scales and sharp teeth of the fish, creating a dazzling spectacle in the sea. All the while, the curses of this new water spirit never stopped.

It took a long time until the sea finally settled back to its natural calm. Surrounded by the floating fish bodies and looking at his disfigured jellyfish’s body, Sui Xiong wanted to cry. But no tears came to his eyes.

“It’s only been one day, and I’ve almost been dismembered. What a dangerous world!” he sighed. Soon he began to think about what to do next.

Clearly, the jellyfish’s body was too fragile. There was a common joke on the internet, which said that if the CE of an otaku was 0.5, then the CE of a jellyfish would probably be less than 0.1. The water spirit version of Sui Xiong had an extremely high CE, and so far he’d killed his enemies with only one move (except for that whale). But he only had two hands, so it was impossible for him to counterattack when surrounded by enemies coming from all directions. Even if Sui Xiong had eaten that flock of fish all at once, he would still become too full. The fish had already put him in a very ugly situation; what would happen if a more powerful enemy appeared?

If possible, he needed to exchange his useless jellyfish body for a stronger one. But now he couldn’t leave this body, so he had to formulate a new plan.

“No matter what, I need to repair this body,” Sui Xiong muttered, holding up the shredded remnants of a tentacle. “I know that the weaker a creature is, the stronger its ability to self-heal—but only with abundant energy.”

But where could he find the nutrients to give him energy? Unless memory betrayed him, jellyfish ate plankton. But what if there wasn’t any plankton? Did it mean he could do nothing but sit there and wait to die? Maybe he’d died during the battle. This useless jellyfish’s body may have already been injured too severely to recover. Once this body died, could it be possible that his soul would die too? Maybe…it could happen…

No, I absolutely will not allow it! I am a man! If a man wanted to die, he would not die in such a funny way!

Helplessly, Sui Xiong turned to look at the dead fish. He’d eaten their souls, but their bodies were still intact. Theoretically speaking, the fish meat was nutritious, which could provide sustenance for the jellyfish’s body. But the question was how to eat?

Question: how does a jellyfish eat? I’m waiting online, please hurry. But there was no internet…

Sui Xiong thought for a while, then tried to poke the closest dead fish with one of his tentacles. A jellyfish’s tentacles were also its weapon, and logically speaking, a creature’s weapon was often connected to the organ that consumed food—i.e. the teeth and mouth. However, he soon found out that the tentacles were useless for harming the fish. No matter how hard Sui Xiong tried, the tentacles couldn’t penetrate the hard fish scales.

“There is a pile of food right in front of you, but you can’t even take a bite. How pathetic!” Sui Xiong lamented. But he didn’t give up. Using his tentacles to poke almost every part of the fish, he probed for a place that had no scales.