In the pitch-black depths of the sea, a giant fishing tail sways back and forth as it remains stationary, while a dozen mutated killer whales swim rapidly toward it.

This deep-sea fishing rod is actually Lin Ruo in disguise.

Nearly two years have passed since the extreme heat, and the sea level has dropped another 50 meters compared to six months ago. In the waters tens of meters deep, the temperature is extremely hot, and there are basically no mutated sea creatures left there. They mostly live in waters more than 100 meters deep.

Even so, there are far fewer low-level mutated beasts in the sea at this depth now. This is because the water pressure is greater at deeper depths, which the weaker mutated sea beasts cannot withstand. Secondly, there are countless powerful mutated sea beasts down here, and even if they swim down, they will become food for these high-level mutated sea beasts.

Only when they can no longer withstand the high temperatures above will these lower-level mutated animals swim downstream to relieve the heat before swimming back up.

The deep-sea fishing fish that Lin Ruo transformed into appeared to be a level 3 mutated beast. Because of its considerable size, it attracted the attention of these high-level mutated sea beasts. Since arriving in this sea area, they had encountered several groups of such mutated sea beasts, all of whom had treated her as food.

These mutated killer whales swam towards Lin Ruo at an extremely fast speed. With a thought, Lin Ruo unleashed the energy from his water-based crystal core, causing the water molecules within a radius of several kilometers to become exceptionally active, forming dark currents that surged forward continuously.

The orcas, thinking they had found a meal, didn't stop when they reached Lin Ruo and charged at him. But they didn't go far before they noticed something was wrong with the water flow. Before they could even react, they felt as if something was tightly constricting their bodies, and at the same time, their heads began to throb with intense pain, as if they were about to explode. The next moment, blood spheres emerged from their brains, and in the center of each sphere was their crystal core. The dozen or so mutated orcas froze, and the dark currents that swirled around their bodies carried their massive corpses to Lin Ruo.

One by one, the blood orbs flew to Lin Ruo's front. Lin Ruo put the crystal cores in these blood orbs into his space, and the dozen or so blood orbs immediately spread out like paint dropped into water.

Lin Ruo flicked his tail fin, and his huge body swam around the mutated orcas before collecting all their carcasses into his spatial storage.

With the addition of these dozen or so mutated orcas, she has now amassed dozens of level 4 mutated sea beasts in the still space during her dive into the sea.

It has to be said that the mutated beasts in the sea level up faster. Although a lot of seawater evaporates, they can continue to hide in the deep sea. There is also so much food in the sea, so their living conditions are many times better than those of the mutated beasts on the shore.

It's a bit of a pity that Lin Ruo hasn't found any trace of level 5 sea beasts this time. She used her mental power to probe the sea area further down through the mimicry, wondering if there might be any down there. She'll have to go down and look for them later.

She manipulated the water system to circle the nearby sea again, searching for a suitable location. The extremely hot weather was about to pass, and acid rain would soon arrive. In order to prevent the acid rain from completely destroying the water quality, she needed to collect some seawater before the acid rain started.

Her spiritual power rapidly spread across the seawater, and the surrounding seawater began to flow towards her at high speed. The flowing water was absorbed by Lin Ruo into her life space and flowed into another seawater pool that had been dug earlier.

She used her mental power to filter out all the creatures in the seawater, leaving only pure seawater.

This new seawater pool is more than twice the size of the previous one. Whether the stored seawater is suitable for marine life to survive before the apocalypse is still unknown to her, and further experiments are needed to determine this.

As seawater kept disappearing around her, a huge whirlpool formed beside her. The whirlpool grew larger and larger, and the current became stronger and stronger. The mutated sea beasts around her were also constantly being brought to Lin Ruo's side by the surging seawater. Even some level 4 mutated sea beasts could not escape it.

At this moment, Lin Ruo naturally accepted all comers. He used his mental power to eliminate all the small creatures in the ocean while picking out the sea beasts that were being swept over, killing them directly, and storing them in the still space.

The seawater pool in the life space filled up very quickly. In just over ten minutes, the seawater in the pool had reached its maximum level, and Lin Ruo withdrew his water-based abilities. The surrounding water surface began to return to calm.

Having achieved his goal, Lin Ruo flicked his tail fin and began to dive rapidly, disappearing into the dark depths of the sea in no time.

As they descended deeper and deeper, all light disappeared. Lin Ruo fully unleashed his mental power. The deeper he went, the fewer mutated animals he encountered. All the mutated animals he encountered were already at level 4. Lin Ruo even sensed that the energy in the crystal cores of many mutated animals' brains was already more than half full, and they would be upgrading to level 5 in a while.

The level 4 mutated sea beasts she encountered naturally couldn't escape her clutches. With just one mask, the mutated sea beasts on the other side didn't even have time to do anything before Lin Ruo used her water-based powers to shred their brains and put them into a static space.

"Hoo~"

Just as Lin Ruo put another mutated blue whale into his spatial storage, he suddenly heard a loud roar coming from the sea below. Lin Ruo's eyes lit up. This should be a level 5 mutated beast!

She quickly maneuvered her mimicry to descend, swimming swiftly towards the area where the cry had just been made; she was now nearly a thousand meters above the surface.

In the deep sea, Lin Ruo could only see by relying on her mental power. She moved quickly, and the water behind her was stirred up by her, creating a series of bubbles.

She quickly found the mutated sea beast that had made the sound. It turned out to be a gigantic megalodon. How big was it? Even with Lin Ruo's current simulated body, which was 20 meters long, it looked like an infant in front of this mutated megalodon, which was over 80 meters long!

Lin Ruo's mental power naturally "saw" the bright Level 5 crystal core in the other party's brain. She was overjoyed. She had finally found a Level 5 mutated sea beast. This Megalodon was huge, weighing over 100 tons, enough to feed the fish at home for a while.

The mutated megalodon's roar was filled with anger, and Lin Ruo naturally understood the reason for its anger through his mental perception.

It turned out that they were surrounded by a group of giant squid, hundreds and thousands of mutated giant squid, all of which were level 4 sea beasts. Although the mutated megalodon was powerful, it was still no match for the many.