Cthulhu Gonfalon - Chapter 2

Chapter 2: Chase and Kill

Translator: Sigma  Editor: - -

To a predator, what was the most embarrassing thing that could possibly happen?

Sui Xiong had been clearly invincible, but again, and again, he couldn’t catch up with the prey with his short legs.

Well, that was his current situation.

At this moment, he put all his might into running in the sea to chase after the big fish ahead. However, no matter how hard he ran, the distance between him and that fish was getting bigger and bigger. And very quickly, everything was hopeless.

Therefore, he could only give up, constantly sighing.

During the time that he went hunting, he had successfully eaten dozens of small fish’s spirits. Still, he couldn’t catch any big fish.

He didn’t recognize any fish types among those. It was really obvious that the bigger they were, the quicker they got. Those small fish were sort of half-unconscious. They didn’t feel anything even when he pressed them by his hands. He could then easily take their spirits and finish all of them. The difference between these small fish with the big ones was that the big ones could easily discover his existence and feel the danger. Therefore, whenever he tried to approach a big fish, it would dodge and quickly run far away from him.

Of course, he had secretly tried to approach them, but he still failed. He was like a firefly in a dark night. He basically couldn’t hide his existing energy. He also made an attempt to chase after the prey, but it was all in vain. He then discovered that he was indeed too slow.

“It is impossible!” After the failure of his last hunt, he thought to himself, “This is impossible, they basically can’t be caught!”

Thereby, he had to put his eyes once again on these dumb baby fish.

Even though the amount of spirit in a baby fish was very little, it was still alright if he ate schools of them...

Acting in the way that the big bullied the small was not a proud thing. But if it was for survival, then it would be different. In the natural world, it did not matter what the species of the carnivores were, when they hunted, they would choose the old, weak, and disabled ones to attack first.

Sui Xiong wanted to use this kind of thought to ease the suffocating feeling in his heart. But the result had proved it didn’t really work that much,

In the natural world of these carnivores, there were generally no players with such a high IQ like him. This alsomade this young man become sadder and heartbroken.

In other words, they didn’t have such an invincible and formidable striking force like he did. Hunting and resting were the cycles of their ‘life’. They had no time to ‘grieve over the passing of spring or feel sad with the advent of autumn’.

Standing in the middle of dead fish flowing along the sea current, Sui Xiong sighed sadly.

“If I keep on killing small fish like this, I will destroy the ecological balance!”

Few hours later, when Sui Xiong saw a huge group of fish, he then figured out that he had made a mistake.

A small predator like him could never be able to destroy the ecological balance just simply by hunting and eating.

Don’t you see that single horn giant whale which is growling? One meal of that fellow is enough for me to eat for a half of a year. If that fellow doesn’t destroy the ecological balance, why do I need to feel sorry.

Sui Xiong thought to himself. He then suddenly felt extremely dangerous.

That is a kind of ‘a thorn in a back’ feeling, no, this expression ‘a thorn in a back’ is not correct. Basically, the needle has already plunged into my pupil, with just a little bit more force, it will poke through my pupil then I will become blind. That is the kind of this danger.

Where exactly does this danger come from?

Sui Xiong looked around to find the source of the danger.

He then didn’t have to look for it anymore because the answer was right in front of his eye.

The giant single-horn whale was swimming toward Sui Xiong. Sui Xiong was a huge chunk of savory food, which the giant single-horn whale, for some unknown reason, didn’t pay attention to him and just went hunting for those small fish.

“F**k!”

He cursed then turned around to run away.

This is the 12th month in Lunar Calendar, I’ve got to run quickly. (It means the unlucky month in Chinese tradition). Before, I was the one who chased after the others. Now it’s my turn to be chased and killed.

Needless to think, I certainly can’t beat that giant-size whale. If I can’t beat it, then running is the only choice.

However, after running just a few steps, he suddenly stopped and thought.

The giant whale’s moving speed is so fast like this. How can I escape from it with these short legs?

It’s definitely immpossible! Only a ghost can do this!

So, what should I do?

Facing a life and death situation, Sui Xiong was deep in his thoughts.

The question is: When you are alone in the wild and don’t have any transportations, or any weapons, a terrifying beast is rushing toward you and wants you to be its dinner, then what will you do?

Online, etc., it is somewhat urgent.

But it was of no damn use because he didn’t have internet right now. No matter how long he waited, nothing would come except for that giant single-horn whale.

But it was also not that long.

All the feelings of trust and non-trust were surging inside him. Sui Xiong crazily swept his eyesfrom east to west to find an opportunity to escape.

However, he couldn’t find it.

If he went deeper into the sea, maybe he could find a crack between the sea rocks to hide. That giant single-horn whale couldn’t also flip the bottom of the sea to find him.

But, he couldn’t dive that much deeper into the sea. The currentdepth was about two meters.

If he could fly to the sky, he would avoid the hunt of that sea creature, he would then float in the air, grimace at it, and sneer at its impotence.

Yet, Sui Xiong himself wasn’t able to fly.

He actually had already tried to fly. However, he just could temporarily jump off the surface of the sea. Even though the weightless spirit didn’t prevent him from flying up, he could only just jump two meters up high at the most.

If he was still on earth, jumping two meters high would be a shocking record already, which was enough for him to swipe across the Olympics, leaving a legend behind. However right now, with his current difficult situation, this was useless.

The distance between the teeth of a giant beast’s opening mouth and him was more than five meters. Thus, the two-meter height wasn’t worth mentioning.

“Does my life perhaps end here? After being eaten up by this giant single-horn whale, can I jump space once again to return?”

The distance between him and that giant whale became closer and closer. Due to the urgency, Sui Xiong couldn’t help but speak nonsense.

Right at this moment, he saw a big jellyfish floating on the surface of the sea.

Except for its significantly huge size, this jellyfish was not different from any of the other jellyfish that he had eaten before.

But for no reason, there was an electric light appearing inside his head and suddenlylighting up.

Perhaps... I can try doing this a little bit...

A second later, Sui Xiong tried his best to shrink his body and then spurted toward that jellyfish.

The surroundings shook intensely, after a while, the shaking stopped. Everything in his eye sight was calm.

The blue sky, the blue sea, a little portion of food.

He instantly swallowed up the jellyfish without thinking. Then, based on his memory, he tried to recall the direction and swam up.

His move of swimming up was really clumsy. If there was a clown competition in the jellyfish world, he would absolutely win a golden prize with his swimming up move this time.

After a while, the surface of the sea, which was not far away from here, shook fiercely. A giant body swam around as if it was looking for something. But it once again sank into the water after having found nothing.

He bet he could win this!

Obviously, when he possessed the body of this jellyfish and was no longer a spirit without a shell, that giant single-horn whale couldn’t find him.

After the giant single-horn whale sank into the sea, Sui Xiong finally could release a sigh of relief, although he didn’t calm down yet. He tried to move the tentacles and swim toward that direction where the giant single-horn whale had left.

Even though his moving speed was not fast, he absolutely didn’t dare to stop.

Unknowingly, the sky had gradually darkened, he could somehow feel secure a little bit.

In the sunset, sea birds came home, fish also rested. Was he safe right now?

This was still unsure. Because he simply didn’t study marine biology, he just randomly guessed.

However, the night was indeed very good to him. Regardless of any myth or legend, ghost always liked the nighttime.

Lying on the sea for a while to rest, he wanted to get out of this extremely unlucky jellyfish’s body. This fellow was too feeble, its speed was too slow as well. Even if he wanted to possess, he’d better find a better fish. The bigger fish was the best choice.

But shortly, he immediately discovered a problem, a huge problem.

He had no way to get out of the jellyfish’s body.

It was not that he couldn’t completely get out. He just had no way to get out of the jellyfish’s body. That body, which previously was so weak and fragile that even a wave could shatter it, at this moment, became unimaginably sturdy. No matter how hard he tore, how hard he pulled, it was just glued tightly to him, there was no way to separate himself from it. On the other hand, if he was not careful, his spirit would unconsciously shrink into the jellyfish, even his sight would shift to a jellyfish’s form.

After wasting his efforts for a long time, the moon had already come up, Sui Xiong finally gave up.

“Done, this time I’ve become a jellyfish.”

He faced up toward the sky, sighing. He couldn’t help but admit this bitter truth.

He now remembered about the story named ‘Eight Immortals’ he had read before. There was a fairy who accidentally ate a beggar’s corpse then eventually became a beggar since then. He remembered when he had heard of this story, he had laughed at this fairy. He found that this fairy somewhat silly. If he had a chance, even he couldn’t find an emperor’s body, he would at least find a rock above Mount Huaguo.

However, in the end, he was in a jellyfish’s body, becoming the lowest existence in the sea’s food chain.

What an unlucky homie!

After lamenting for a while, Sui Xiong quickly woke up again due to his hunger.

Sighing couldn’t solve anything. The most important thing right now was to fill up his stomach.

“What should a jellyfish eat?” When he started to go looking for food, he was immediately dumbfounded.

What should a jellyfish eat? I’ve already learnt this!

Does it eat fish?

After looking at his fragile body with these slender tentacles, he couldn’t help but shake his head. Being eaten by a fish is way better!

Does that thing eat planktons?

But where can I find planktons?

Sui Xiong looked east then west, roamed everywhere, searched around for more than half a day but he still couldn’t find any traces of plankton.

The hungry feeling became more intense. He gradually became anxious.

What will happen if I can’t find any food? I’ll definitely starve to death.

How will a ghost die? Uncertainly, but this jellyfish will starve to death.

So, starving to death, then can I get out of this jellyfish’s body?

Perhaps... there is no such good thing...

Sui Xiong thought again and again, ceaselessly being distressed.

At this moment, he was suddenly startled, felt that something was watching over him.

This feeling was like the feeling he got at that very moment when the giant whale had its eyes on him, which felt somewhat uncomfortable. It was like having a small rock inside a shoe.

He looked down to check. A group of small fish were swimming toward him like an autumn breeze swiping the golden leaves. They were tearing apart the jellyfish little by little on the surface of the sea.

These fish were not big, the biggest one was about a palm size. But they were pretty aggressive. They opened their mouths wide, their white teeth reflected the moonlight, which somehow looked scary.

Obviously, they were the natural enemies of the jellyfish.

Sui Xiong was frightened inside but he became calm again really quickly.

He couldn’t beat the giant whale, how could he not knock down a group of baby fish?

Come on here, let’s see who eats whom!