"Of course I didn't forget, but you put the cookies in a bag... were you planning to feed the fish with butter cookies?"
But looking at Carol's actions, Gu Xinghe's words carried a hint of hesitation.
"Yes, what's wrong?"
"No, nothing."
Although in the world before Gu Xinghe transmigrated.
He has indeed seen quite a few unruly children and even adults.
People were feeding the fish in the park's pond with all sorts of food, causing the fish to get sick or even die.
However, based on their interactions since entering the school, Carol does not seem to be a reckless and unruly child.
No, it should be said that sometimes she actually fits this standard quite well.
But seemingly noticing the confusion on Gu Xinghe's face, Carol spoke up at that moment.
"It's okay, don't worry. The fish kept at school aren't that precious; they eat everything."
However, Gu Xinghe had never really been worried about these things.
Even if it's not specialized feed, fish are unlikely to experience severe discomfort if they eat a suitable amount of biscuits or bread.
But what if these are homemade cookies that neither Carol nor Rekaya themselves would want to eat?
Gu Xinghe could only hope in his heart that the group of fish that were about to eat these biscuits would be alright.
The distance from the kitchen to the small pond outside the teaching building is not far.
On one side of the small pond is the long corridor that the ten of them passed through when they entered the academy and walked to the teaching building.
Standing on the vermilion bridge spanning the emerald green pond, Gu Xinghe looked at the few aquatic plants that were growing sparsely in the pond.
The calm, still water surface remained undisturbed, as if no living creatures existed beneath it.
But in this overly lifeless pond, it evokes an even stronger sense of contradiction.
Looking at the pond from one side, the water in the pond is clearly not very deep.
It gives the impression that a giant, man-eating beast is lurking beneath the water, waiting for someone to enter its territory.
Then a giant wave rose on the calm water, swallowing up all those who had disturbed its slumber.
At this moment, Gu Xinghe saw Carol slowly opening the paper bag full of cookies in her hand.
In his view, what Carol needed to do at this moment was undoubtedly to awaken and lure out the monster that might be hiding in the water.
"Carol, are there fish in this pond?"
But looking at the still calm water, Gu Xinghe couldn't help but ask.
"Of course, but they are quite greedy and only appear when someone feeds them."
As she said this, Carol took a cookie from the paper bag she had brought and crushed it with one hand.
Judging from its completely black bottom, this must be the cookie that Carol made herself.
She then scattered the crushed pieces of biscuit into the pond, and then brushed the crumbs off her hands.
Then, with both hands resting on the bridge railing, I waited with a cheerful heart for what would happen next.
"Gurgle gurgle—gurgle gurgle—"
The once calm water now seemed to boil, as if some unknown danger was brewing beneath it.
The "gurgling" sound of bubbles is probably the sound of fish exhaling bubbles as they dive to the surface.
Yet it also gives one the feeling that some terrifying entity is rapidly breaking through the water's surface.
They are not the brightly colored fish, such as red, orange, or yellow, that you would see in a park.
Although they fiercely compete for food when fed by passersby, they still provide a delightful spectacle of fish leaping and splashing in the water.
But right before his eyes, at the moment the fish broke the surface of the water, Gu Xinghe saw nearly a hundred fish leaping out of the pond.
These fish all have a dull green color, as if they have been decaying and rotting for a long time, and they have dorsal fins with high spines growing on their bodies.
The two fish eyes bulged out as if they were congested with blood, turning into two huge, unclosed, protruding eyeballs.
On either side of the fish's head, gills that tremble constantly grow out, as well as two long, grayish-green filaments resembling those of a catfish.
At this moment, every fish in the school frantically thrashed its tail and swam toward the biscuits that had been thrown into the pond.
Compared to the typical spectacle of ornamental fish fighting for food, this group of fish is clearly much more aggressive.
They were more like a pack of wild beasts without any sense of community, frantically fighting over the food in front of them that would allow them to survive.
The fish, lured out by Carol, frantically scrambled for all the cookies that had been crushed into pieces.
Just as Carol said, the fish, which were not picky eaters, were even fighting over the cookies that neither she nor Lekaya could accept.
They huddled together densely, creating splashes on the otherwise calm water.
But a single cookie isn't much, and soon all that was left were the fish that had devoured all the cookie crumbs.
"Aren't you going to continue feeding the fish?"
Seeing that the fish seemed to be waiting to be fed, Gu Xinghe asked Carol.
But Carol just shook her head.
"I think this current situation is quite fun."
Seeing that the fish still hadn't dispersed, Carol decided not to throw any more food into the water.
Schools of fish churned and splashed in the emerald green pool.
Awakened from their hunger underwater, they are becoming increasingly impatient, as they are still far from being satisfied.
I don't know when it started.
This group of awakened, extremely hungry beasts began to point their sharp teeth at their "companions".
The way they were frantically biting at the food was even more ferocious than when they were fighting over the cookies earlier.
True wild animals do not come from captive animals that are fed.
To snatch, tear, and devour.
Green blood flowed from a fish that was no longer moving and was floating on the surface of the water.
In this emerald green pond, the green blood seemed to disappear without a trace after flowing out, perfectly blending into the water.
Completely irrational beasts surged forward in that instant, their sharp teeth tearing apart the corpses of their dead companions.
More and more, faster and faster, tireless beasts surged toward the central area.
The victors who were originally sharing the initial fish meat are now completely submerged.
The struggle at this point had nothing to do with the cookie Carol had thrown down at the beginning.
But the fuse she lit was still burning relentlessly.
Until the burning inferno spread to the entire water surface.
At this moment, the pond resembled a chaotic millstone, a battleground between life and death.
The winner eliminates the loser, and then becomes the new loser to be devoured.
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