Flood Apocalypse: Starting with a God-Tier Fishing Rod

Zhao Meng froze on the spot, then his legs thudded to his knees.

He shuffled over on his knees, grabbed Lu Fan's trouser leg, and said with a look of terror on his face.

"Brother! Please spare me! I beg you, please spare me this time!"

Lu Fan lowered his head, his gaze sweeping over the distorted face without any change in expression.

"Spare you?"

Lu Fan flicked his toe, kicking the diving suit at him. "Why didn't you spare the refugees when you were about to throw them in? You were screaming the loudest, and now you're scared?"

Zhao Meng's shoulders slumped, his whole body shrank into a ball, and his face showed despair.

"I'm a lazy person, I only say things once!"

Lu Fan's voice was extremely cold and filled with killing intent.

Zhao Meng's entire body was spasming.

He glanced back at the bottomless pool, then at Lu Fan's emotionless eyes.

Go down there, and perhaps there's still a glimmer of hope.

But if I don't go down, I'll probably get beaten to death...

"I...I'll go!"

Zhao Meng trembled as he grabbed his diving suit and struggled to his feet.

He slowly put on his gear, injected the medicine, tied the rope, and walked cautiously to the pool.

"If you spot it, pull the rope three times!" Lei Hu instructed.

Zhao Meng took a deep breath, touched his wildly beating heart, closed his eyes, and jumped into the dark pool.

puff.

Zhao Meng disappeared underwater.

Lu Fan rubbed his slightly sore shoulders and turned around.

His gaze swept over the crowd, finally settling on Ling Xiao, who was walking.

"You knew my strength from the very beginning?"

Ling Xiao turned his head, adjusted the frame of his glasses, and smiled faintly.

"Just a guess!"

He walked over to the corpse whose abdomen had been pierced, squatted down, reached into the bloody hole, and touched it.

"Your micro-expressions don't lie, and you appear far too composed!"

Ling Xiao withdrew his hand, rubbing the dried blood between his fingertips. "Besides, I bet you're not a naturally occurring mutant!"

"Oh?" Lu Fan's interest was piqued. "So sure?"

"certainly!"

Ling Xiao pointed to his head and explained, "Modern humans have an insurmountable threshold in their genes!"

"Just like an ant, no matter how naturally it mutates, it can't lift an elephant. Unless... its genetic sequence is forcibly recombined using special methods!"

He stared at Lu Fan, his eyes sharp: "Your muscle density and nerve reaction speed have both surpassed the theoretical limits of ordinary humans! This is a product of technology, not natural evolution."

Lu Fan narrowed his eyes and re-examined the frail-looking man with glasses.

To be able to deduce these things simply through observation is quite impressive.

"Looks like you know quite a lot?"

"It's alright..."

Ling Xiao's tone was indifferent.

"I am a PhD in genetics. I was invited to Xihuanshan a few months ago to assist Academician Wang Mingyuan and Dr. Song Changchun in a special research project..."

"So you're saying that?"

Lu Fan stepped forward and lowered his voice, "You probably know something about this world-destroying flood, don't you?"

Ling Xiao was silent for two seconds, then suddenly laughed.

There was a sense of absurdity hidden in the laughter.

"I know, and I don't know... I'm just a modern human; I can't understand the information left behind by that ancient civilization!"

"But I can tell you one thing: this apocalyptic flood... is not a natural disaster at all!"

As soon as this word comes out

Everyone felt as if a thunderclap had exploded in their ears.

It wasn't a natural disaster?!

No matter how powerful humanity becomes, it's impossible to create a weapon that could engulf the entire globe!

Lu Fan's lips trembled, and a chill ran straight to the top of his head.

He subconsciously recalled what Ao Feng had mentioned before: "the remains of an ancient sea dragon from Xihuan Mountain".

Could the secret of the world-destroying flood lie there?!

Thinking of this, Lu Fan's heart suddenly clenched.

He looked down and saw that the toxins hidden in his blood vessels had resurfaced.

"Damn it! I attacked too aggressively just now; did the seal break again?"

Lu Fan really wanted to curse at that moment.

This woman was so capable before, why is she so unreliable even when it comes to detoxification?

He quickly turned to the side, pulled down his sleeve, and pressed hard on the poison on his wrist.

He had to remain calm; if he revealed any weakness at this moment, Ling Xiao and his two companions might take advantage of the situation.

Hold your breath and concentrate.

Only after the excruciating burning sensation subsided did Lu Fan breathe a sigh of relief without making a sound.

Ling Xiao, who was standing to the side, did not notice Lu Fan's unusual behavior.

He walked over to the other two unconscious mutants, observed them for a while, and then revealed a strange expression.

"As expected, those two are dead, and they were eaten too!"

It was eaten?

Everyone was stunned.

Following the line of sight, I finally understood the meaning of that sentence.

The three men hadn't been dead for long, yet their bodies had shriveled up, and their skin had turned a deathly gray, like dried bacon.

Especially the mutant whose body was pierced through.

The ground was spotless, not a single drop of blood remained, and the internal organs had disappeared without a trace.

Ling Xiao crouched down and tapped the ground with his knuckles. "This rock has countless micron-sized pores that have absorbed the blood and nutrients from the corpse!"

He then pointed to a dark mark in the corner and explained, "This is a mark I made the day before yesterday! It has now shifted 3.2 centimeters to the left and tilted 15 degrees, which means this space is alive! We are moving!"

"Alive?" Lu Fan frowned.

Just then.

The rope in Lei Hu's hand suddenly started to shake.

He quickly pulled back with all his might, and with great effort, he finally managed to drag Zhao Meng out of the water.

Zhao Meng gasped for breath, and was about to pull off his mask when he suddenly remembered the refugee whose head had exploded earlier. He stopped, and a muffled sound came from behind his mask.

"This isn't...this isn't a cave!!"

"I just swam out of the cave... and looked back... the entrance was a transparent, curved structure! It looked like a giant, monstrous egg!!"

Strange egg?

Everyone frowned.

"besides!"

Zhao Meng took a few breaths and continued, "There's a strange streak of light in the darkness in the distance... It saw me! It's swimming towards me! It's so big... so long... so terrifying!"

hear the words

For some reason, a strong sense of unease welled up in Lu Fan's heart.

With a flick of his wrist, a folding saber appeared in his hand, which he tossed directly to Lei Hu.

"Dig in this direction! Stop immediately when you hear water!" Lu Fan pointed to the rock wall on the side of the pool.

Everyone was stunned.

Even Ling Xiao was puzzled.

Where did this guy pull out that shovel?

Lei Hu gripped the shovel, not daring to ask any further questions.

They immediately began frantically digging a tunnel in the direction of their target.

The rocks here are very fragile, resembling some kind of calcified material.

After a few minutes

Click.

A large boulder has been broken off.

Behind it was no longer rock, but a layer of transparent, thick material that emitted a faint glow and was as hard as jade, like a piece of reinforced glass!

The crowd gathered around and peered through the translucent eggshell at the deep sea outside.

It was pitch black and deathly silent.

Suddenly, the water surged violently.

A colossal, luminous object, so enormous it defied description, suddenly slid past the window.

It was incredibly fast, carrying a suffocating sense of oppression, and vanished without a trace in an instant.

Followed by.

In the darkness of the far distance, a pair of enormous, eerie blue orbs of light slowly emerged.

It stared intently at the people inside the eggshell from thousands of meters away.

"Buzz—!!"

A sharp whistling sound pierced through the seawater and exploded in everyone's minds.

"Close your eyes! Cover your ears! Get out of here!"

Ling Xiao shouted alertly.

Everyone covered their heads and retreated frantically.

One of the refugees was running too fast and accidentally fell to the ground.

Before he could even get up and cover his ears, his body swelled up rapidly like an inflated balloon.

"save……"

boom!

His entire body exploded into a cloud of blood mist.

The remaining people covered their ears, but still felt their brains trembling and blood slowly seeping from their seven orifices.

click-

The sound of stone cracking rang out.

boom!

The ground beneath their feet could not withstand the resonance of the sound waves and collapsed completely.

A feeling of weightlessness washes over you.

The group of people fell into the dark abyss below, along with the rubble.

thump! thump!

Lu Fan landed on his backside with a thud. As soon as he opened his eyes, he was so shocked by the scene before him that he was speechless.

This is a huge semi-elliptical space.

The egg-shaped walls were translucent, and outside was the pitch-black deep sea.

In the center of the space hung a huge, faintly glowing ball of flesh.

The fleshy ball was translucent, and inside it was a strangely shaped biological embryo.

Countless thick blood vessel structures extended down from the crevices in the rocks above, inserting themselves into the embryo and delivering dark red nutrients.

Those nutrients...

It was the blood that had turned into those three corpses.

In an instant, everyone understood.

This air chamber is just a digestive chamber!

And they are like insects caught in the Venus flytrap, waiting to be slowly digested and become nourishment for the embryo...