Zheng He dare not loosen up, stepping on the fish head, and tried to return to the beam again when other golden big carp surrounded her. Although she had done her best to avoid them, a fiery pain still came from her back.
If she hadn't dodged in time, those sharp thorns would have pierced her lung.
Zheng He rolled back into the corner, her clothes long since torn apart, her face smeared with sticky fluid, and the sharp spikes had pierced her back and arm, carrying away a large piece of flesh.
Killed two fish, but there are still five fish.
The cockpit is filled with unpleasant fishy smell.
Seemingly startled by her, the remaining five fish faced her in silence.
A drop of blood flowed from the forehead of Zheng He, and she shook off the dust on her body, wiping away that drop of blood.
These fish can jump and call like humans, and can also have eye contact with humans.
The fish are going to kill a person.
What kind of world is this?
The five fish crowded together, and the fattest fish among them moved its fins, as if taking something out of a place unknown to her. It threw the thing towards Zheng He.
Zheng He frowned and dodged, and the thing landed softly in front of her. She reached out and grabbed it, looking closely.
Speechless.
It is a clean yellow seaweed.
What do these fish mean?
Judging by their appearance, are they going to use this seaweed to bribe themselves to stop the war?
So can edible seaweed be eaten?
Zheng He's stomach made a growling sound. She stared at the fish, expressionless, and chewed the raw seaweed in her mouth.
Look, the seaweed you gave me, I ate it.
Can we stop now?
Killing fish is a physically demanding task.
However, it seems to have touched the nerve of these golden big carp. As Zheng He swallows the seaweed without changing her expression, the fish become more and more frenzied, waving their fins and sharp spikes again piercing towards Zheng He.
What does that mean? Is this seaweed their family heirloom that they can't eat?
Oh well, it's too late to say that now; I've already eaten it.
Zheng He swallows the seaweed without changing her expression.
Dry and tasteless, it's not much different from eating paper, absolutely terrible.
It's not a good thing, anyway. What are they going crazy for?
The attack methods of these big carp are really too monotonous.
It's understandable, after all, they are fish.
Zheng He shrugged, the muscles in her shoulders aching slightly, and she took a few strides forward, crouching down to dodge the spikes with her palm thrusting directly into the gills of the golden big carp.
She flipped her wrist and caught the fish gills, lifting the smallest golden carp while ignoring the attacks from the other big fish. With one hand holding an axe, she struck the fish belly three times in a row.
The stinky hot air wafted out of the golden carp's body, and the snow-white fish intestines poured out like giant maggots. The golden carp struggled wildly and twisted in Zheng He's hand, its top spikes nearly piercing her scalp.
The short fins helplessly swayed, as if trying to pull those intestines back into its own body.
Blood-red and swollen, it covered Zheng He's shoes.
The big fish's body trembled slightly, as if it had died.
Zheng He held up its much lighter body, glanced at the remaining fish, and suddenly laughed.
Seven two-meter-long big carp fish, placed back in the era of crossing, would undoubtedly break many fishermen's hearts. They would rush up to her asking where these fish came from and how they were caught in their nests.
Tick——
A thick pool of blood dropped from Zheng He's palm to the ground.
Just then, as Zheng He was killing the fish, a golden carp suddenly lunged at her from the side. She had no choice but to drop her axe and use her palm to block the blow, and the fish spine directly pierced through her palm.
The pain is in her heart, but perhaps the adrenaline has taken effect, for now Zheng He feels no pain.
She sneered and kicked the fish with her foot. The fish groaned and was directly kicked away by Zheng He. At the same time, the fish spine was also pulled out from her palm, taking a large piece of flesh along with it.
Zheng He swung her blood-soaked hand and let go of the carp whose belly was empty of innards, "Is this never going to end?"
The body of the fish slumped to the ground, and all the big carp looked frightened.
She seemed to have become very strange, and she could feel their emotions from the eyes of the fish.
How could that be?
Just fish.
The axe in her hand had been knocked aside by the fish tail, and Zheng He now had no weapon and was cornered again. She looked around at the fish, her sturdy muscles occasionally visible through her tattered clothing. She was covered in wounds but her eyes glowed with an unusual light.
"Are you monsters? Or are you aliens? Can you understand me, can you?"
She crouched down, leaning against the boat wall, and pretending to be relaxed, "What did I do to anger you?"
"Is it because I like to eat sour cabbage fish?"
"I swear, from now on I will never eat sour cabbage fish again, okay?"
The fish didn't respond, waving their fins and jumping their bodies, heading towards her with their sharp spikes pointed towards her head.
But Zheng He didn't expect to be able to communicate with the fish.
She spat out a mouthful of blood, braced herself on the ground with her left hand, and with her right foot swept under the table, she kicked out a wooden bucket. Zheng He struck a switch with a punch, picked up the bucket, and without regard for defense, poured its contents over the fish.
A sharp spike pierced Zheng He's shoulder, another pierced her thigh, and two more accurately targeted her heart.
These golden carp seem to know the human body's structure and know where the human's weak points are.
Four sharp spikes deeply penetrated Zheng He's body, the intense pain like a viper with sharp teeth biting into Zheng He's brain.
She raised her lips into a smile in the midst of excruciating pain, showing teeth dripping with blood.
These fish are pretty clever; they're aiming for the human body's weak points.
If she still had a heart, she would really be dead at this point.
Unfortunately, she doesn't have a heart.
She has no weak points!
Zheng He flashed a fierce look in her eyes, picking up the bucket and throwing it towards the direction of the table.
On the table, the candle flames had been burning all night. No matter how they fought, regardless of how wind and blood ravaged them, the candle flames remained unextinguished.
The wine bucket flipped in the air, and the remaining wine splashed out from the broken opening, covering the entire room.
A drop of wine fell on the candle pedestal, and the candle flickered slightly before it suddenly ignited that drop of wine.
More wine was ignited, and soon the entire room was ablaze where the wine had been splashed.
Including the greasy lungs and intestines on the ground, and the golden big carp as well.
Including Zheng He herself.
In the blazing cabin, Zheng He's body twisted like a snake. She lifted her eyes full of blood, and smiled in a bloodthirsty way, "I swear, I'll never eat sour cabbage fish again. I want to eat······"
"Braised!"
"All of them to be braised!"
The fish were drenched in wine, and the closer they were to Zheng He, the bigger the fire on their bodies.
Zheng He herself was on fire, but she endured the pain. Seizing the moment when the golden carp were in agony and screaming, she grabbed the spike stuck in her body and kicked them away, pulling out the spike.
Fortunately, it was not a barb, or else this hand would be useless.
Zheng He's entire body was on fire, her hair burning in the flames, emitting an unpleasant odor.
Zheng He climbed onto the control platform, took off her clothes, and rolled a few times on the platform, but the flames continued to scorch her skin and flesh. A screaming big fish, fully ablaze, collided into her face.
The fire didn't spare her, nor did the fish.
As the big fish seemed to want to escape, she bit her teeth and kicked out, landing the kick squarely on the fish's head.
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The fish crashed to the ground, and Zheng He also felt a searing pain in her foot.
In the midst of the raging fire, it seemed through the blurriness that a fish engulfed in flames opened the cabin door and leaped out of the cockpit.
Wait, fish······can they open doors?
