Apocalypse: I Can See the HP Bar, Killing Monsters Drops Loot-Chapter 1543 - 646 Information on the Transparent Fish

"These transparent fish are idiots!"

Three hours later, Qu Shilin said to Wang Tao.

"..."

After a brief exchange with Qu Shilin, Wang Tao came to realize that the term "idiots" wasn’t just an adjective but the literal truth.

After her ascension to Level 6, Qu Shilin’s Spirit Insight ability had gotten much stronger. In the last couple of days, she had developed a new ability—she could use her spiritual power to probe the minds of creatures to retrieve some vague information! It was somewhat like the legendary Mind Reading Technique, but not as perverse... She named this new ability Memory Search.

She could only perform Memory Search on creatures with weak spiritual power, low intelligence, or those that had not been dead for long, and the memories she obtained were intermittent and very vague.

In the past few days, Qu Shilin had used Memory Search on those Disaster Class big fish and sea beasts. She could sense that these creatures were very irascible in nature and preferred to act alone.

The reason they acted together that day was because they had found food—their genes seem to have an instinct, which is to call on their kind to group together and hunt when they find food. During the hunt, they maintain harmony and do not attack their companions.

Before killing the prey, they are partners, but after the prey is killed, it is every creature for itself.

When Jiang Shixue suddenly controlled the big fish and sea beasts to attack their companions, she disrupted their balance. These simple-minded creatures had no idea what was happening—they only knew they were being attacked, and so they had to fight back! This led to a huge internal conflict...

As for the transparent fish, they had only died recently, and Qu Shilin had discovered certain things from their minds. For instance, the fact that they are idiots.

If the previously encountered gigantic Disaster Class sea monsters were somewhat unintelligent, these transparent fish genuinely lacked intelligence, and they also had very short memories... Their actions were completely instinctual!

Their instincts were to eat and reproduce, with reproduction being predicated on having eaten their fill... So in sum, one word filled their minds—eat!

As soon as they detect food, they will swarm. They do not care whether they live or die, or to put it another way, they have no concept of death in their minds. They only know "food spotted, eat it."

This is actually a bit like zombies; the vast majority of zombies are also brainless, knowing only to eat.

However, zombies will hide somewhere when food is scarce and the environment is hostile, appearing as if dead. When food comes to them, they will slowly awaken, ready to dine. Of course, this is about leaderless zombies; zombies under the command of a Lord are an exception.

But these transparent fish won’t stop like zombies. They keep moving, actively searching for food. And among their kind, there is no existence of a Lord Rank, at least in the memories of the few transparent fish Qu Shilin searched, there were none above Lord Rank.

Their actions are almost all instinctual—joining their kind when encountered, and consuming food when found. When their bodies have abundant energy, they start to reproduce...

"No wonder..." Wang Tao nodded at first and then asked, "By the way, do you know how they detect their prey?"

When Wang Tao was flying earlier, those big fish and sea beasts had detected him. And those transparent fish were attracted by mutant pork thrown into the water. The perception abilities of the two creatures clearly weren’t the same.

If one could understand through which senses they identify prey, then it might be much easier to target them in the future.

"I happen to know this!"

There was a slightly proud look on Qu Shilin’s face.

"First, about those big fish and sea beasts, they hunt using their vision! However, their vision isn’t strong, what they are good at is dynamic vision. To them, the surface above the water might be a blur, but if something moves rapidly on the surface, they can spot it instantly! Although the moving object may not be food, they’ll know with a bite, so that’s why you were ambushed... Later, you used mutant pork to bait them, also because the pork had some movement, which caught their attention..."

"Superior dynamic vision..."

Wang Tao suddenly realized.

If that’s the case, then if he encountered similar sea beasts in the future, there would be a method to counter them. Regardless of whether it’s static or dynamic vision, if you blind them, they won’t be able to see!

There are many methods and abilities that can affect sight. For instance, you could target the eyes first, directly causing blindness. Or create something that can stick to their eyes. Another method would be using psychic abilities or awakenings that can temporarily induce Blindness, like the Curse Effect associated with Wang Tao’s Dark Attribute Attack, one of the curses called [Blindness]...

"As for those transparent fish, they’re different. Their eyes are basically like decoration, pretty much as good as a blind man’s. They mainly rely on smell to hunt! Especially in the water, they can smell things that many creatures can’t detect. But if exposed to the air, their sense of smell is greatly reduced. That’s why, when you hung the pork in the air, they didn’t appear. But as soon as the pork touched the water, they were attracted... As long as the transparent fish smell the scent of other creatures, they will instinctively swarm without considering the strength of the target, whether they can overpower it or not."