North of the Hawaiian Islands.
North Pacific Ocean Basin.
In the deep sea, a blue whale is feeding.
Blue whales are gentle by nature. Despite their enormous size, they feed on small fish and shrimp.
There's no choice!
Don't underestimate it, it's the largest animal in the world.
Its esophagus is very narrow.
It cannot swallow large prey.
Its innate body structure dictates that it cannot be an apex predator.
Even after mutation, with a surge of savage factors in its bloodline, it developed some aggression, but its combat power is not impressive.
Mutated blue whales start at level 9.
But let alone a level 9 two-headed crocodile.
Even an 8-level orca could easily defeat it.
Qin Feng came to the Pacific to hunt, and his primary target was the blue whale.
High level.
But very weak combat power.
However...
The total number of blue whales globally is only a little over ten thousand.
According to memories from his previous life, the mutation rate of blue whales is less than ten percent, meaning there are at most a thousand mutated blue whales on the entire Apocalypse Star.
Blue whales are distributed very widely, existing in all deep-sea areas globally.
A thousand scattered across the globe is truly very few!
The key is that most of them are in a deep-diving state.
It's hard to spot them from high altitude.
This is where Sea King's value lies.
At this moment.
Qin Feng is standing on the back of a tiger-headed sea eagle.
An Ling is beside him.
There are many experts at the base, yet he only brought An Ling.
Firstly, the core members of Team One are almost all extremely powerful experts, each capable of acting independently.
Both the main base and branch bases need to be garrisoned.
An Ling is the only one in Team One without direct combat capability.
Secondly.
Although An Ling's combat power is not great, her ability is incredibly heaven-defying.
With her present, Qin Feng's combat power is greatly enhanced, and he can fight even against large numbers of powerful mutated creatures.
"Why hasn't Sea King surfaced yet?" An Ling asked in a low voice.
"No news is good news," Qin Feng chuckled.
In the ocean.
Most large creatures live in deeper waters, and their chances of surfacing are very low.
If he were alone, finding large mutated creatures in the vast ocean would be like searching for a needle in a haystack.
But!
It's different with Sea King.
Except for one that remained in the Japanese safe zone.
The other six orcas are spaced out, forming a vast search net.
Ultrasonic positioning!
With their strength, their ultrasonic detection reaches several kilometers. With six orcas spread out, they can scan an area thirty to forty kilometers wide, encompassing all creatures.
Once they detect a large living creature, they can determine if it's a mutated one.
"We've got one!"
Sea King suddenly became excited.
A big one!
A super big one!
It was the blue whale feeding in the deep sea.
Soon.
The six orcas converged.
Beneath the blue whale, they formed a net-like shape and began emitting ultrasonic waves.
After mutating, the orcas' ultrasonic waves not only serve for detection but also possess immense destructive power.
Although it may not be enough to penetrate the defense of a level 9 blue whale...
But!
It's enough to drive it away.
As expected, the net formed by the six orcas released sonic waves from below and the sides. The blue whale was immediately startled.
Most mutated creatures have not awakened any special abilities.
Like this blue whale.
Besides its large size and thick hide, it possesses no other special abilities.
How could it be a match for six orcas?
With orcas attacking from below and all sides, where could it run?
Surface!
It was its only way out!
Before mutation, an adult blue whale exceeded 30 meters and weighed nearly 200 tons.
After mutation.
Its size increased significantly.
Length exceeded 150 meters.
Weight thousands of tons!
The blue whale was gradually forced to the surface.
With a deafening splash,
Its dark blue back emerged.
"Here it comes!"
High in the sky.
Qin Feng's eyes lit up.
Soon, the blue whale's head also emerged from the water.
Spatial displacement!
Qin Feng suddenly vanished from thin air.
Spatial compression!
The next moment, a section of the blue whale's enormous head disappeared, as if a scoop had dug a chunk out of custard.
Whale blood erupted.
The blue whale let out a painful roar.
Qin Feng, wielding spatial blades in both hands, burrowed into the large hole created by spatial compression.
Slash wildly!
The spatial compression range was only about three meters in diameter.
The blue whale was too large.
He had to break through the outer layer first and enter its body to find the crystal.
Three minutes later.
The blue whale floated motionlessly on the water's surface.
Qin Feng, covered in whale blood, emerged from the corpse.
"Qin Feng!" An Ling cried out in shock.
It was terrifying!
He was covered head to toe in blood.
She didn't know if it was whale blood or Qin Feng's.
"I'm fine."
With a spatial displacement, Qin Feng reappeared on the bird's back.
Indeed!
He held a massive crystal in his hand.
A level 9 crystal!
It was in his grasp!
He went back into the sea and washed off the bloodstains.
"Let's rest for a bit."
Qin Feng glanced at the sky, which had already darkened: "With one more, we can go back."
After several days.
He finally obtained one level 9 crystal.
Xiao Ruoruo needed two level 9 crystals to break through.
Once she breaks through to level 9, she will be able to fully control the Honeycomb Fungus, and the base will be impregnable!
"Qin Feng!"
At this moment, a voice appeared in his mind, sounding very excited: "You got a level 9 crystal?!"
It was Han Xiao.
Through his new ability, he had created a three-person chat group.
Everything Qin Feng said, and even sounds around him, could be heard by Han Xiao and Han Ling.
Simultaneously, the three could communicate in real-time.
"Yes."
Qin Feng smiled: "One more will be enough."
About ten minutes later.
The tiger-headed sea eagle flew to a small island.
The island was not large.
It was suitable for a temporary stop.
In the past two to three days, Sea King had been searching for large mutated creatures in this sea area.
Qin Feng would come here to rest at night.
...
Near the capital of Monkey Country.
Splash...
With a watery sound, a colossal creature appeared and crawled onto the beach.
It was a giant crocodile.
Strangely, it seemed to have two necks, and one of its necks was missing its head at the base of the root.
Leaving behind a massive scar.
As soon as it landed on the beach, countless seafood creatures emerged from the coastline that stretched as far as the eye could see.
An endless expanse.
Dense and numerous.
It was the two-headed crocodile!
"Damn humans!" It was filled with rage.
These past few days.
It had used its formidable strength to conquer countless mutated creatures.
It was very intelligent.
It developed its forces in a way similar to a pyramid scheme.
It first targeted powerful creatures to conquer.
Then, it would let the powerful mutated creatures subdue weaker ones, and so on.
Thus.
Its seafood legion expanded exponentially.
By now, it felt powerful enough to seek revenge on that human.
As a result...
When it landed on the beach it had previously occupied, it found no sign of the human.
"Search!"
It ordered its seafood army: "Find that human!"
The other seafood creatures had never seen Qin Feng, so how would they know if the one they found was the King's enemy?
In short.
The overwhelming seafood army, upon landing, acted like a swarm of locusts, killing any humans they encountered.
Hours later.
The two-headed crocodile was dumbfounded.
How powerful was its enemy?
If they could be easily killed by its subordinates, they were definitely not the person it was looking for.
Where was its enemy?