Chapter 645 - 418: Is That the Sea King? (Part 2)
It also gradually became more restrained.
At the same time, the body of the anglerfish grew increasingly massive.
Originally a size that could be grasped with one hand.
In half a minute, it had already grown to over a meter long.
Coupled with its increasingly menacing fangs, one can’t help but believe it could bite off a human head in one go.
As time went by, Wang Ye noticed that the anglerfish gradually grew to about ten meters.
Perhaps because the potential size of deep-sea creatures is greater.
The growth of this anglerfish far exceeded Wang Ye’s expectations.
His initial guess was that this anglerfish could at most grow to around five meters.
Because the size of the anglerfish is not large.
Smaller than the birds of prey Wang Ye cultivated on land.
Those birds of prey mostly increased their size to about ten times their original size after evolution.
So, by common reasoning, this fifty-centimeter anglerfish could grow to a maximum of about five meters. But now that the anglerfish had grown to over ten meters, it seemed to have the potential to grow up to twenty meters.
Wang Ye continued to infuse more Primordial Qi, attempting to make it grow even larger, and tried to inscribe the gene code of fermentation metabolism into the anglerfish’s genes. After obtaining the fermentation metabolism ability, any creature would have its size potential forcibly elevated.
But most creatures have low genetic limits, which allowed Wang Ye to become a thirty-meter behemoth.
While these wild creatures find it almost impossible to reach that level.
But for some reason, deep-sea creatures can easily break through this limit. Wang Ye pondered that it might be because the food in the seabed is plentiful, and according to Bergmann’s rule, low-temperature environments are more conducive to the evolution of gigantic creatures. These reasons led to the appearance of various large creatures in the seabed, such that the world’s largest creature, the blue whale, was born in the depths of the ocean.
Gradually, the size of the anglerfish became terrifyingly immense. Next to the anglerfish, Wang Ye seemed too small, and its trivial tusks were even longer than Wang Ye.
Before evolution, the anglerfish’s bite force was already outstanding among deep-sea carnivores.
It could directly crush hard shells.
The bite force was more than ten times its body weight.
After evolution, Wang Ye estimated the anglerfish’s bite force could directly evolve to dozens of tons.
Comparable to a hydraulic press.
But further increasing its bite force became complicated.
Because the hardness of the teeth has an upper limit.
If the bite force was too formidable, it would easily shatter the teeth.
After the anglerfish’s evolution was complete, Wang Ye tried to reach his hand into the anglerfish’s mouth.
And ordered it to clamp down.
Crunch!!!
In an instant, the rows of fangs of the anglerfish snapped closed.
An astonishing bite force came from both sides.
Wang Ye only felt severe pain in his right arm; when the anglerfish let go, he discovered his arm was marked with two rows of bloody tooth marks.
"This creature...actually injured me?" he exclaimed in surprise.
His creation could actually harm him, something he hadn’t anticipated.
Though it wasn’t a fatal injury, it was enough to demonstrate the outrageous aggressiveness of the anglerfish now. Even an armor-piercing bullet might not inflict this degree of damage on him.
Yet, the anglerfish’s fangs could.
This creature was more terrifying than armor-piercing bullets...
If it targeted his head, he estimated it could bite it off.
But in an actual combat, Wang Ye certainly wouldn’t just stand still to let it bite.
With this anglerfish’s speed, approaching him would be a challenge.
Wang Ye tested it and found that the twenty-meter anglerfish’s speed in the sea was about 100 kilometers per hour, with a limit burst speed of around 200 kilometers per hour, which was quite slow.
Therefore, he didn’t plan to take it to explore the Mariana Trench,
as bringing this creature would slow down the speed significantly.
After leaving the mutant anglerfish there, Wang Ye continued swimming towards the direction of the Mariana Trench.
He could predict that, sooner or later, this anglerfish would likely be discovered by scientists who came to explore, then release papers shaking the academic world, leading people to question if prehistoric creatures were resurrecting.
As he swam, Wang Ye also searched for creatures at the ocean bottom to use Assimilation on them,
Estimating that he had assimilated at least eighty to a hundred creatures along the way.
He didn’t worry about disrupting the marine ecosystem as his assimilated creatures no longer needed to eat, not disrupting the food chain, but possibly causing a human commotion.
Finally, after twenty-eight hours,
Wang Ye cultivated a creature that could swim even faster than himself.
It was the marlin.
After evolution, this marlin reached a staggering length of fifteen meters,
And Wang Ye instilled it with the Black Dragon Form, its body elongated, more akin to an arrow than its original form, slender and sharp, covered in black scales.
Its speed in the ocean exceeded the speed of sound, Wang Ye measured it to be around Mach 1.3.
This level of speed was attainable because the marlin itself was a swimming champion of the sea.
The average marlin’s maximum speed was about 190 kilometers per hour.
Higher than the top speed of most civilian cars.
Now, after Wang Ye’s driven evolution and obtaining the Black Dragon Form, its speed increased by fifty percent. Surpassing the speed of sound wasn’t surprising, after all, the birds of prey he cultivated on land all had supersonic flying capabilities.
Subsequently, Wang Ye no longer continued swimming by himself but instead rode on this marlin at supersonic speeds in the ocean.
Riding the marlin, Wang Ye’s speed improved by roughly two times, distances that previously took a day to cross could now be traversed in half a day.
But the issue was, marlins liked swimming near the surface, leading to Wang Ye and the marlin’s supersonic movement causing terrifying tsunamis in surrounding waters, which was fine in the open ocean, but they would inevitably encounter small islands or cruise ships.
Sensing human presence, Wang Ye could only reduce the speed a bit to avoid affecting humans. But given the marlin’s massive size after evolution, even slow movement caused significant disturbances in nearby waters.
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Afternoon.
In the Pacific Ocean.
The weather was clear, and the sea was calm.
The golden sunlight on the sea surface was particularly dazzling.
A cargo ship laden with goods was moving slowly over the ocean.
One or two sailors were normally handling cargo on the ship’s deck.
But suddenly,
The sea surface began to surge with waves.
The cargo ship they were on began to shake violently.
A slightly frail sailor stumbled and fell.
Several other sailors helped him up.
"Strange, why did the waves suddenly rise?"
"I remember there wasn’t any wind today?"
He rubbed his sore back, mumbling.
Just as they were about to get back to work,
A sailor suddenly shouted in panic:
"Quickly, look over there, there’s a giant marlin!"
"Marlin? What’s the big deal with a marlin? Aren’t they common?"
The other two sailors scratched their heads.
"No, that marlin is really big!" The sailor explained anxiously.
Just as the other two sailors, thinking "How big could it be?" turned their heads, they froze.
Because that marlin...was really big!
A common marlin might be just over a meter long at most.
But that marlin was larger than any blue whale they had seen, reaching a terrifying ten plus meters!
And as that marlin moved,
The nearby sea surface was stirred into towering waves several meters high.
Which also explained why the cargo ship shook violently just now.
But what shocked them most was not the size of the marlin.
Rather, it seemed a man was sitting atop it!
"Could it be the Sea King..."