The searing pain in his backside made Ye Feng cry out. At the same time, he reflexively grabbed at the spot and flung a palm-sized object far away.
Ye Feng looked at his hand and saw a lot of fresh blood. Clearly, something had attacked him and inflicted a bleeding wound.
Immediately, Ye Feng turned his head and discovered that the thing that had just attacked his backside was a... fish?
"Archer fish?"
Ye Feng immediately recalled the system's prompt.
"Big brother, there are so many fish over there, and their behavior is so strange!~"
At this moment, Xiao Xiao's confused voice rang out, and she pointed in a direction for Ye Feng.
"Strange fish?"
Ye Feng followed Xiao Xiao's direction and saw that next to where they had fallen was a crescent-shaped river, with puddles of various sizes around its banks.
There were small groups of fish in the puddles. Now, these fish had jumped onto the ground and were moving towards the crescent river, finally jumping into it.
Then, under Ye Feng and Xiao Xiao's astonished gaze, the fish in the crescent river jumped out again.
After landing on the ground, the fish propped themselves up on their tail fins, tilted their heads upwards, and looked at Ye Feng.
"What's going on?"
Ye Feng was puzzled. What kind of strange fish was this?
"Archer fish: Possesses precise biological characteristics, gregarious, omnivorous, primarily carnivorous, can survive with minimal water, exhibits a degree of organization."
"Can use water as a weapon; water jets shot after charging have great lethality and can easily penetrate the belly of an alligator!"
At this moment, the system's mechanical voice sounded.
"Damn it!"
Ye Feng yelped, scooped up Xiao Xiao, and quickly ran to the side.
He had previously thought his backside injury was a bite from an archer fish, but now it seemed he had been hit by a water jet shot by an archer fish.
No wonder it had hurt so much!
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh!~"
At this moment, a dense sound erupted.
Ye Feng turned his head and gained a deeper understanding of the "archer" in archer fish.
He saw that the archer fish were standing on their tail fins, their bodies curved, their heads tilted back to charge. At first glance, they resembled bows and arrows.
Then, they suddenly thrust their heads forward, spitting out a straight water jet from their mouths, which shot directly towards a leopard bleeding from multiple wounds on the bank of the lake.
After a few miserable cries, the leopard went limp and fell into the lake...
Subsequently, the group of archer fish all turned to look at Ye Feng.
"Whoosh!"
Suddenly, a water jet shot straight out from the water.
Ye Feng's expression changed. Almost instinctively, he raised his hand to block his eyes.
"Sss!~Urgh......"
Ye Feng let out a muffled groan of pain. His arm had just been pierced by a water jet.
And because it wasn't a projectile made of wood or metal, it couldn't plug the wound. After the water column shot dissipated into flowing water, Ye Feng's blood immediately began to seep out.
"Such powerful lethality!"
Ye Feng was very surprised. His current physical condition was far beyond that of an ordinary person, yet he still bled.
If it were an ordinary person, wouldn't their arm be directly impaled by such a water jet?!
What shocked Ye Feng even more was that the opponent seemed to have deliberately aimed for his eyes just now.
And it was shot from the water surface of the lake, from a distance of seven or eight meters.
"This accuracy!"
Ye Feng's expression was very grim. He then quickly retreated with Xiao Xiao in his arms.
He felt it was better to avoid this group of archer fish for the time being!
After chasing for a while, the group of archer fish stopped. Ye Feng and Xiao Xiao were already quite far from the crescent river.
Then, the archer fish changed direction, seemingly heading to enjoy the leopard they had just killed...
...
Several hours later,
It was nearing dusk.
The torrential rain finally stopped, leaving only negligible drizzle.
Ye Feng had disinfected and bandaged his backside and hand, but he couldn't feel happy at all.
Because he still couldn't figure out how to leave here without encountering the archer fish.
He had observed carefully and found that the group of archer fish lived in a crescent-shaped river that perfectly surrounded their current location.
Except for the direction behind them, all forward paths would lead to the archer fish, but behind them lay the cliff edge of the grand canyon...
"Hoo!~"
Ye Feng glanced at the bottom of the cliff. The KTM 450 EXC off-road motorcycle, which had almost smashed them, was now a pile of broken pieces with only a wheel visible. Ye Feng sighed.
"What a pity, such a good off-road motorcycle~"
Ye Feng was quite dejected. This meant he had to walk again, and he had lost a tool for exercise.
"Big... Big brother, there seem to be terrifying monsters at night. Maybe... maybe we should swim away?"
"That location isn't far from the shore~ We'll swim fast, and it won't take long~"
As the sky grew darker, Xiao Xiao couldn't help but suggest.
"No!"
Ye Feng denied it immediately without even thinking.
No matter how fast they swam, they couldn't outpace the fish in the water. Moreover, the archer fish's water jets were accurate and lethal, and there were many of them.
If they went into the water, they would be shot through like sieves before they could reach the shore.
Especially since archer fish prioritized attacking their prey's eyes and limbs.
Ye Feng had observed that the leopard had the most wounds on its eyes and four limbs...
Xiao Xiao followed Ye Feng's gaze and seemed to realize this as well, no longer mentioning it.
For a moment, the atmosphere became somewhat heavy.
"Hmm? What is that..."
Suddenly, Ye Feng's attention was drawn to a large pile of dirt. It was the pile of dirt and rocks that had almost crushed them.
"Is that the marker I made?"
Seeing the specially shaped wooden frame and plastic bag on top of the large pile of dirt, Ye Feng was quite surprised.
That specially shaped wooden frame and plastic bag were the markers he had made when he buried the five cans of black powder.
Due to the impact, even one can of black powder had been exposed!
"I didn't expect to see it again in this way~"
Ye Feng was quite surprised.
After the mountain collapsed, he had already stopped considering taking the black powder with him.
"Wait, black powder!"
Ye Feng's eyes suddenly lit up. Then, he looked at the crescent river, and a thought popped into his mind.
"Xiao Xiao, how good is your swimming?"
Ye Feng turned and asked Xiao Xiao.
"I swim very fast. When I was young, where I lived, I had to swim across very cold pools before eating."
"To avoid freezing, I always swam very fast~~"
Xiao Xiao nodded, "Big brother, are we planning to swim across?"
"Yes! We'll swim across from the spot you mentioned~"
Ye Feng nodded. "But before we swim across, I need to do something important~"
After saying that, Ye Feng took out a condom...
Well, of course, and stockings.
"I never thought these two items, which I didn't know what to do with before, would be useful in this situation~"
Ye Feng felt a bit emotional.
The condom was insulating and could effectively prevent static electricity, allowing him to wrap the cans containing black powder.
The stockings, on the other hand, were flammable and could be used as fuses!
Then, Ye Feng took out a condom, stretched it open, poured some black powder from the can into it, and then put the entire black powder can inside.
Immediately, Ye Feng wrapped stockings around the end where the black powder was poured out.
This way, a black powder bomb was made!