For the load-bearing capacity of the ice surface, the giants living near here have a little understanding.
They often cross frozen lakes in winter and have never had any problems. They have stepped on the ice in groups before migrating, and no abnormalities have occurred. The lake is dangerous, this is a fact they know, but the ice is relatively safe, this concept has also been deeply rooted.
Therefore, after falling into the water, many giants didn't know what happened for a while, and they started to panic after being stunned for a while. When a person is drowning, they will also struggle desperately, and the splashed water is quite large, and the giants, which are about ten times the size of a human, hit the water with their powerful arms full of muscles, causing a huge splash. The huge waves are several meters high. Coupled with the huge number of giants who fell into the water, the whole lake seemed to be boiling, and waves of waves swept towards the shore like a tsunami.
They can only struggle freely for such a short time.
When a lantern fish from the bottom of the lake bit off a giant's ankle, blood began to spread silently in the lake water. This bloody smell turned a simple "overboard" into a disaster.
Without the arrival of these overlords in the water, at least two-thirds of the giants would eventually be able to climb back to the shore. There are still large chunks of floating ice on the surface of the water. Even if you can't swim, you can float back with them ashore. But unfortunately, the danger of Fried Egg Lake is far more than the simple cold water of the lake. There are man-eating beasts wandering in the bottom of the lake.
After the ice surface was broken, the underwater monster finally revealed the tip of the iceberg. It was a creature that was more ferocious and terrifying than the giants in appearance. A black fish with two rows of red eyes on both sides of its body tore off a right leg of the giants in one gulp. Dozens of eyes on both sides inspected everything around, and the eyeballs of each eye were moving rapidly, looking in different directions, forming a strange picture.
The strange-faced lanternfish that had a relationship with Lide before was also very active. After surfacing, the face looked even more ferocious, and its sharp teeth gleamed dimly. Cut off piece after piece of meat. The giants are invincible creatures on land, but all the struggles in the water are so pale and powerless. Even if the fists full of power beat some strange fish into meat paste several times, it can't stop the reality that the casualties of both sides are not directly proportional.
Here, they are just food.
Lid told Alaya and Hilo not to participate in the terrifying battle in the center of the lake. Even if a large number of giants were torn into pieces and dropped a lot of lacquered moon armor, Lid would sit back and watch With those precious materials sank to the bottom of the lake.
He only asked Alaya and Hilo to guard the shore, and there would always be two or three hundred giants who could swim to the shore. It's hard to see the giants who are still hoping to make up the knife. Move quickly, quickly cut off the finger with the lacquered moon armor, and hand over the rest to the fish monster in the water.
And Lid was sitting on a high rock in the distance, overlooking the battle in the lake.
To be precise, it is to observe these guys who live in the water.
At first Lid didn't feel anything unusual, but as the number of active strange fishes increased and their size became larger and larger, Lid began to have to think about a problem—how to live in the wild without going to other territories to plunder food? The fish and shrimp in the extreme north are one of the food sources of the giants, so what can such a huge aquatic creature feed on
Feed on giants? This is not in line with scientific logic, and their main food source must not be giants.
Feed on small fish? This is possible, but as time goes on, Lid doesn't think there will be enough algae growing in this icy lake to feed the small fish and shrimp at the end of the food chain. There is no sunshine here all year round, the ice and snow are thick, and most plants cannot survive here.
After all, although this lake is quite large from a human perspective, it is not wide enough to accommodate so many large creatures by the standards of giants and giant fish. There is not enough food source, and the natural environment such as temperature and pressure is not suitable for their growth.
Lid squinted his eyes, and paused for a moment with his fingers tapping his knees habitually.
The hunting in the lake is also coming to an end.
This was a brutal fight, a war that almost turned the entire lake upside down. The waves created by the lake overflowed the surrounding ground, melting the snow and freezing it back into ice. Finally, what floated there was a mirror-like ice surface, which was a full circle larger than the original lake, reflecting dazzling light.
The giants had completely disappeared, only some severed limbs and blood remained floating on the water, and the aquatic monsters who had had a full meal also dived back into the bottom of the lake.
Only a few small fish were left nibbling at the remains of the giant.
Lid walked to the lake, scooped up a handful of lake water from the unstained part of the lake under the eyes of Alayah and Shiloh, brought it to his mouth to taste, and then poured the rest of the water back into the lake .
slightly salty.
Although it is not as bitter as sea water, if you taste it carefully, you will find that the salt content is significantly higher than that of ordinary water.
"Little Slime, have you seen these fishes before?"
Lid asked a question, and the little slime got out from under Lid's collar, stared at the lake and thought for a long time, tilted his head, and said:
"I haven't seen it. I have recalled some things about the giants, but I still don't have any impression of these things."
Lied nodded, and Little Slime asked back:
"Serge... have you found anything?"
Lied walked in the direction where Alayah and Hilo were, and said:
"That's right. In fact, I was very curious about where these creatures came from from the very beginning. Just now, I suddenly thought that they might not be creatures that lived in this water area in the first place."
Little Slime tilted his head, just as Lid walked up to Alaya and Hilo, pointed his finger at the center of the lake, and said to them:
"In this lake, the bottom of the lake is connected to the sea. Those monsters just now were not creatures in the lake, but came up from the bottom of the sea. The giants are the northernmost race on this continent, and further north is the sea. Mostly this lake There is a channel at the bottom of the lake connected to the sea, and the things in the sea have come here."
The little slime spit out a bubble and said doubtfully:
"Hmm... it does make sense, Serge. But I remember that there are no such strange-looking fish in the sea to the north. It's scary to look at them. If I can, I definitely don't want to see them again! Serge... It feels like It's like a whole new race, or call them the Ugly Fish Race!"
The little slime lay on Lid's chest lazily creating a slot.
But in fact, Lide didn't complain about what he said, but glanced to the north, lost in thought.
Little Slime is right. These strange fish are numerous and powerful, and their extremely distorted appearance is obviously different from the normal sea race. If they had existed in the world long ago, they should be regarded as an independent race. , but even the little slime has never heard of their deeds.
Is it a new creature that has appeared in recent years? But how were they born
Or... In the depths of the dark, deep and empty sea, did something unknown happen