Everyone's on a time-travel adventure! I'm raising city beasts in a post-apocalyptic world

The sound from the loudspeaker played again and again, and the crowd that had been sprawled on the ground suddenly sprang up as if stung by something.

"What? Only a one-hour stop? Just one hour?"

"Hurry up, go fetch water! Don't dawdle!"

People frantically rummaged through their cars for various containers, such as mineral water bottles, tin buckets, and plastic bottles, and ran towards the river with them.

"Make way, let me hit first. Don't you know how to respect the elderly and care for the young?"

"Damn it, you old geezer, are you in such a hurry to be reincarnated?"

The crowd squatted densely on the riverbank, pressing their water containers into the water and filling them with water.

"This water is quite clear, much better than that little ditch we stopped using last time." A middle-aged woman squatted by the river, scooped up a handful of water and splashed it on her face, letting out a cheerful sound.

"That's right, the drinks we had the other day contained sand..."

"Hey, I'm saying," a shirtless man took a few steps forward, stood in waist-deep water, and shouted to the shore, "Haven't showered in days. This water's pretty clean, wanna take a bath?"

As soon as he said this, the crowd echoed his sentiments.

"Yes, my hair is all tangled up, I can't even comb it out!"

"I smell terrible, even I can't stand the stench!"

Without saying a word, the men took off their shirts and jumped into the river, splashing water everywhere.

The women, on the other hand, were more reserved. They squatted by the river, rolled up their trousers, wet their towels, and washed themselves. Some people took out shampoo from their cars, poured it into their palms, and rubbed it on their hair, creating gray foam.

That shows how dirty it is!

"It feels so good..." A woman closed her eyes, ran her fingers through her hair, and slowly rubbed it, her expression one of pure enjoyment.

"Hey sis! Can I use some of your shampoo?"

"Use it! But I don't have much left, just a little bit!"

The woman next to her took the bottle and tapped it in her palm a few times, squeezing out only a little bit, but it was enough for her to wash once.

Lin Feng returned to Xiao Xuan's side and watched the scene on the riverbank from afar.

"Brother Lin Feng, don't we need to fetch water?" Xiao Rui ran out of the stone house at some point, carrying an iron bucket.

"Don't go. There's water in the warehouse, more than a dozen boxes, enough for a while."

"Besides, who knows what might be in the river, so we should just keep it with us."

Xiao Rui said "Oh" and put the iron bucket back.

At this moment,

"what……"

A scream came from the middle of the river.

Lin Feng turned his head sharply and saw a man struggling in the middle of the river suddenly sink, leaving only one hand waving frantically, which was then dragged into the water.

"What's wrong? What happened?" The people on the bank hadn't even reacted yet, and they all craned their necks to look into the river.

"There's something in the river..."

Before the words were finished, a huge black shadow leaped out of the water.

It was a fish, but not an ordinary fish.

It is over a meter long and covered in gray-black scales. The most terrifying thing is its head, which takes up nearly half of its body volume. Its skull is deformed and protrudes. When its mouth is open, it reveals a dense array of fangs, the shortest of which is at least the length of a finger.

"Click..."

The moment it leaped out of the water, it bit a man who was running towards the shore.

The fish pierced through his waist, and the man only had time to let out a short scream before being dragged into the water by the fish, leaving a large patch of red blood on the surface.

"Monster! There's a monster!"

"Help! Run! Get ashore!"

"Awakened Ones! Where are the Awakened Ones? Why didn't they check for danger...?"

The crowd erupted in chaos.

The men scrambled and tumbled out of the water and swam to shore. Some were so frightened that their legs went weak, and they struggled in the water for several moments before finally standing up. Their crotches were soaking wet, and it was impossible to tell whether it was river water or something else.

The women, ignoring the foam on their heads, screamed and ran away from the riverbank, leaving basins, buckets, and kettles scattered all over the ground. No one turned back to pick them up.

But there was more than one mutated fish.

The water surface exploded one after another like a pot boiling over, and one, two... at least five or six strange fish of the same size darted out from underwater and bit the people who were still struggling in the water.

A young man had already run to the shallow water, which was up to his knees, and was about to reach the shore when he looked back. That one glance back sealed his fate.

A strange fish leaped out of the water, its gaping mouth precisely biting his head.

Click...

The sound of bones breaking was clearly audible to everyone around.

The young man's body was still running towards the shore, his head was gone. He took two steps before collapsing forward, blood still gushing from the severed neck, staining the surrounding river water and stones a shocking red.

"Ah... Ahhh..."

Screams erupted one after another.

"Help! Why aren't the Awakened Ones here yet? Didn't they say they would protect us?"

"Help! Someone's dead..."

A woman was bitten on the calf by a strange fish and dragged into the water. She desperately pulled out the carcass from the bottom of the river with both hands, her fingernails curling up, but she was still being dragged deeper and deeper into the water. Her husband rushed back from the shore, grabbed her hand, and pulled her up with all his might...

"Ah...help me..."

Click...

The woman's lower leg was neatly bitten off, exposing the white bone at the break, and blood was gushing out. Her husband carried her to the shore, both of them covered in blood.

"Help! Is there a doctor? Is there a doctor? Please save my wife..."

Lin Feng saw the mutated fish attacking the crowd and rushed over immediately. Just then, a mutated fish leaped up, about to bite a woman holding a child.

Without a second thought, Lin Feng channeled his spiritual energy and used the earth manipulation technique he had shared with Xiao Xuan. A sharp earth spike suddenly shot out from the riverbed and precisely pierced the body of the strange fish that was still in the air.

The sharp point of the ground spike pierced through the fish's back. The fish writhed violently, but it couldn't break free. The ground spike was thick and hard; the more it struggled, the faster it died.

[Defeat a level 1 mutated sharp-toothed fish to gain +1 evolution point]

Level 1?

No wonder it's so fast and has such a terrifying bite force. For a level one mutated creature, dealing with these unsuspecting ordinary people is no different than crushing an ant.

At the same time, Wang Lie's lightning arrived.

A bolt of blue-white lightning struck the river, hitting the mutated, sharp-toothed fish that was about to leap up and attack the crowd on the bank.

It fell from mid-air, convulsing, and crashed onto the riverbank. Its body was still twitching, and its scales were charred black from the electric shock, emitting a faint aroma of roasted fish.

But many more mutated sharp-toothed fish are still in the water.

Wang Lie didn't stop. He clasped his hands together and condensed a ball of lightning in his palms. The ball of lightning grew larger and larger, from the size of a fist to the size of a basketball.

Thunderstorm!