The river flowed steadily, heading towards a gigantic underground lake.
It was difficult to comprehend how an underground lake of such enormous proportions came to exist so deep below the ground.
A vast vault-shaped ceiling spread out endlessly above the lake, glimmering with countless specks of light from unknown sources, causing the lake below it to glow with a faint shimmer.
A peculiar-looking fish over two meters long charged into the lake from the river, as though it was in a great hurry. The fish was scaleless, appearing as smooth as an eel.
Numerous sharp teeth lined the inside of the fish’s mouth. It looked extremely ferocious, and was not something one would willingly provoke.
On the back of this peculiar fish was a wound as big and deep as a human's fist. Blood ebbed steadily out of the wound, dyeing a small area of the gigantic lake a faint red.
This fish seemed to have gone through a terrible battle, and its senses were working at their maximum output as it scanned its new surroundings with alert.
A mammoth white shadow flashed through the water under its surface, causing the fish to turn around violently. However, no matter where it looked, the water remained calm.
Feeling uneasy, it swayed its powerful tail and dashed off in search of a hiding place.
Finally spotting a sizable crack in the wall of the lake, it hurried to burrow into it. As it neared the mini cave and a sense of relief came over its face, the head a huge creature suddenly shot out from the very same crack!
Like a sudden clap of thunder which leaves no time for response, the humongous creature had arrived before the peculiar-looking fish, its enormous mouth looming over it as it chomped down on it!
"Hua, hua!"
The top half of the over two meter long fish was firmly caught within the mouth of the powerful white creature. The lower half of its body thrashed furiously, causing the waters around it to churn violently as it attempted to free itself.
However, its struggles were in vain. Although the white beast did not have dagger-sharp teeth to bite through its prey, its teeth were hooked and thus were very effective for trapping prey. Right now, its hooked teeth were embedded deep within the peculiar fish’s flesh, making sure that it could not escape!
The biting force increased continually, and fresh blood flowed freely from the fish’s body, spreading out in all directions and causing the smell of blood to permeate through the surrounding area.
The fish’s struggles soon became weaker, its tail drooping downwards.
Attracted by the blood, a few more white beasts appeared, each one around three meters in length. When compared to the huge fellow who was currently feeding on the fish, however, they were much smaller in size.
The white beasts had the appearance of a lizard, only, they were stouter and their heads flatter.
They looked much like the salamanders from Earth, multiplied several times over in size. Their slimy bodies were smooth and scaleless, and multiple strange patterns adorned their backs. Their abdomens were pale white in color, and their limbs looked strong and powerful!
The newcomers appeared to be rather wary of their bigger cousin, not daring to get too close to it. After lingering in the area for some time, they finally left unwillingly.
Without much effort, the white beast had finished swallowing the over two meter long fish into its stomach. Done with its meal, it moved back into the hole lacklusterly.
At this time, a translucent silk line dropped down from the sky and, completely bypassing the many layers of earth, appeared above the underground lake.
"Plop!"
A small spider landed on the water with a soft, almost indistinguishable sound.
A tiny ripple spread outwards with the spider as the center, gradually growing weaker as it expanded outwards.
Within one hundred meters, three white beasts rushed towards the ripple simultaneously as they went to receive this foreign guest to their lake.
The white beasts, who had spent their entire lives in the pitch black subterranean lake, had little to no vision to speak of. However, their perception relied on other senses, and was without comparison. It was more than enough to make up for their poor vision!
The white beasts’ speed was quite shocking. Within a few seconds, they had arrived at the spot where the spider had landed.
Based on the vibrations in the water, the white beasts discovered with an annoyed look on their faces that their ‘prey’ was only an insignificant little thing. It was not even worth their effort to swim upwards to swallow it. Their interest lost, each of the white beasts went off in a different direction.
How this lake came to be infested with so many white beasts was a mystery unto itself.
The lake had practically become the nest of these white beasts. Any foreign creatures that entered had only one ending awaiting them.
Some time after the white beasts left, the poor spider also drowned in this foreign subterranean world. The spot it had landed on happened to be near the point where a river joined the lake. Thus, the dead spider was slowly carried away deeper into the lake by the current.
A strange fish around half a meter long and as flat as a curved dagger carefully crawled out from under a pile of rocks.
It lay motionless, checking its surroundings repeatedly. In order to survive in this lake, caution was the most vital trait!
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