Whole School Transmigrated: I Have 3 Daily Intel

If anyone knew the Unihorn Catfish best, it had to be the Fishing Club, which it harassed daily!

After all, they saw it in the great river every day and knew its appearance like the back of their hands.

Lowering the binoculars, Zhong Fang was stunned by the sight of the Unihorn Catfish. He turned to Chen Chong and blurted out, "What the hell happened?"

"How would I know?"

Chen Chong was at a loss for words.

Compared to Zhong Fang, he was even less familiar with the Giant Catfish. He’d only seen it eat a person once, from a distance, on his first day after crossing over.

If it weren’t for Zhong Fang’s reaction, Chen Chong would have assumed the Unihorn Catfish had looked like this for days.

He took the binoculars again and looked at the Unihorn Catfish in the water.

Its once-black exterior was now mottled with bloodstains.

Its round, smooth body was covered in wounds, revealing the waterlogged, pale flesh beneath.

It looked as if it had gone through a bloody battle; its entire body was covered in a dense network of wounds.

Its head was particularly gruesome, with a massive crater so deep you could almost see the bone inside.

Chen Chong recalled the intelligence report from this morning... It had said the Unihorn Catfish’s condition was off.

Now it was clear something was very wrong!

But the report hadn’t mentioned why it was in this state, and Chen Chong had no idea either.

’Could it be... the Unihorn Catfish fought another Extraordinary Creature?’

’That shouldn’t be possible!’

’The Blood-tooth Python and the Stone Claw Eagle went into hiding after their battle, and the fourth, a plant-based Extraordinary Creature, was in the same cave as the Stone Claw Eagle.’

’With all the other Extraordinary Creatures out of commission, what else could have done this to a behemoth like the Unihorn Catfish?’

"I saw it two days ago and it was perfectly fine. How did it..."

"It looks horrifying right now. But in this state, wouldn’t it be easier for us to hunt it?"

Zhong Fang’s words pulled Chen Chong from his thoughts.

True, while he didn’t know how the Unihorn Catfish ended up this way, it was clearly suffering from serious injuries.

Its strength and speed would surely be diminished, giving them a better chance of a successful hunt.

"Forget it. The Giant Catfish is too fast. It’s already swum 1,500 meters in just a few minutes and is about to reach the furthest point in the tributary that it can fit into."

"If it realizes it can’t go any further and can’t get to the people, it’ll probably turn back and leave. Quick, tell the others to get back in the water to buy more time! Keep it occupied in here until the Vermilion Fruit takes effect!"

At these words, Zhong Fang immediately shouted, ordering the club members below to lure the Unihorn Catfish.

His voice carried a great distance. Though terrified, the men began entering the water one by one so as not to jeopardize the rest of the plan.

Meanwhile, Wang Biao, Zhang Meng, Huang Mao, and the other half of the Fishing Club members hurried over to their position.

This had all been decided in advance.

No one knew how long it would take for the Vermilion Fruit’s weakening effect to kick in, or how long that weakened state would last.

As a precaution, after attracting the Giant Catfish and leading it into the deepest part of the tributary, they had to keep sending people into the water before the fruit’s effect took hold. This was to create the illusion that it could catch a meal, convincing it to remain in the tributary.

They had to lure it as deep as possible into this section of the tributary to prevent it from sensing something was wrong and escaping back into the great river once the effect kicked in.

Using people as bait was a last resort. Unlike land beasts, it couldn’t be caught in a trap.

In the water, they had no way to restrain the Giant Catfish. Their only chance was to let it swim around in the tributary on its own and wait for the weakening effect to begin.

It was dangerous, but it had to be done.

Otherwise, if the Giant Catfish saw all the humans on the shore and realized it had no opportunity, it would almost certainly turn back and leave...

As for the other half who weren’t acting as bait... their task was even more daunting.

Wang Biao, Zhang Meng, Jia Wen, Huang Mao, and the remaining thirty-odd members of the Fishing Club would, at the moment the Vermilion Fruit took effect and the creature was weakened, use tug-of-war ropes to entangle the Unihorn Catfish, control it, and drag it ashore. At the same time, they would try to smash its horn.

Even in a weakened state, the Unihorn Catfish was still an Extraordinary Creature. It could crush a whole group of people just by rolling over. The danger was self-evident.

It was even riskier than being bait...

SPLASH—

In the water, the Unihorn Catfish laboriously turned around in the tributary, sending up a massive splash as it swam toward the humans on the other side.

Its eyes were already blood-red. Its enormous mouth opened and closed, swallowing everything in its path, including the bag of Vermilion Fruit floating on the surface.

But what it really wanted to eat was people...

It was just that these humans were too cunning. No matter how it gave chase, they were always too fast.

Fortunately, more people kept entering the water, and it could sense the position of every single one of them.

The Unihorn Catfish’s intelligence was low; it couldn’t comprehend why these humans were acting this way.

But it knew its condition was very poor. Perhaps it was sick...

In the past, whenever it felt unwell, eating something would make it better. But this time, it was too sick. It had eaten many of the large fish in the water, but its condition hadn’t improved.

Perhaps only by eating its favorite food... humans... could it recover.

It had worked before, so it would surely work now. It had to eat these people...

"AHHHH, DAMN IT, IT’S COMING! CLIMB! CLIMB!"

Seeing the Unihorn Catfish parting the water’s surface like a submarine, three members of the Fishing Club screamed and scrambled for the shore.

BOOM—

The Unihorn Catfish propelled itself forward and lunged, its cavernous maw snapping shut. It took a huge bite out of the riverbank, swallowing mud and water in one gulp.