Cultivating through increasing my stats in America Chapter 424 - 253: Hunting the Giant Carnivorous Sunfish

What was shocking was that the rifle bullets that hit the sunfish’s head, although causing quite visible wounds, seed not to be fatal.

The injured sunfish imdiately changed direction, swiftly swimming toward the small fishing boat.

Such an unforeseen event left the people on the ship both alard and relieved.

They were relieved because their yacht was no longer the target of the terrifying big fish, significantly increasing their chances of survival.

But they were alard to find that the fish seed impervious to bullets.

In their past understanding, there were no creatures on Earth that weren’t afraid of firearms, not even the largest land animal, the elephant, could withstand a shotgun’s blast.

At the sa ti, they couldn’t help but feel so pity for the young man’s imminent tragic fate.

Just monts ago, they were discussing not to warn him, letting him attract the big fish’s attention.

What they hadn’t expected was that he would take the initiative, pick up a gun, and start shooting to protect them.

This caused nearly everyone present to be filled with guilt.

But this did not an that those who had just advocated sacrificing the small fishing boat had a change of heart; their bit of kindness was nothing more than hypocrisy.

Kindness often only erges when a person feels safe and is not in danger.

If, after the young man had fired his gun, he had not attracted the sunfish’s aggression, they probably would have cursed him for firing too few bullets, unwilling to sacrifice himself, and would not have felt any of this "kindness."

Indeed, when Li Ang arrived near this sea area, he felt that sothing was off.

Compared to last ti, when he reached the sa location, the psychic disturbance was much weaker, and it was fluctuating.

Therefore, he had reason to suspect that the Psychic Crystal’s location had changed or was in the process of changing.

Using his sensing abilities, he headed toward the source of the disturbance, and the closer he got, the more certain he beca that the Psychic Crystal was indeed moving.

Li Ang had speculated whether this Psychic Crystal might have been obtained by the [unknown] organization or a similar group, but it all seed too coincidental. Could it be that the mont he set out to find it, they had just happened to find it as well?

Also, according to the information he had received, the [unknown] organization possessed devices that could shield against the Psychic Crystal’s disturbance. Yet the current strength of the disturbance, though much weaker than before, still did not achieve the "shielding" effect they had described.

It wasn’t until just now that he finally noticed that the source of the disturbance was moving in sync with the giant fish, perhaps the Psychic Crystal had already been eaten by it.

Once within range, Li Ang imdiately pulled out his semi-automatic rifle and fired several shots at the head of the monstrous fish.

It was not unexpected that he couldn’t dispatch it imdiately; these large creatures are tough to seriously injure unless struck directly in a vital spot.

Moreover, this fish had mutated under the influence of the [Psychic Crystal], who knows if it even had a brain anymore.

Facing the massive creature surging towards him, Li Ang felt no panic but donned the helt of his Protective Suit, entering a fully-ard state, then picked up the prepared stun grenades and a weapon that fired harpoons, waiting for its approach.

Calculating the fish’s swimming speed and the ti for the stun grenades to explode, Li Ang tid it perfectly, accurately tossing two explosive charges into the water ahead.

In such circumstances, stun grenades are more effective than hand grenades against these massive creatures.

Hand grenades mainly rely on shrapnel for damage, but for huge creatures, this shrapnel can at most scratch the surface, rely enraging them without causing substantial harm, not to ntion the fact that the water’s resistance greatly diminishes the shrapnel’s potency.

However, stun grenades rely on the shock wave and bright light for damage; anyone who enjoyed setting off fireworks as a child knows that underwater explosions can exert even greater impact than those on land.

Especially against large marine fish that generally have poor eyesight and rely mainly on hearing, the effect is significantly more pronounced.

"Oh my goodness! Is he not planning to escape?"

"It looks like he’s even put on a diving mask or sothing, has he prepared to dive into the water?"

"That’s really a bad decision, he must not know that this fish eats people."

Watching the gigantic man-eating sunfish close in on Li Ang, the reactions among the ship’s crew varied; perhaps because they had temporarily escaped danger, there were even those who made light-hearted comnts.

Alia also noticed this, indeed, before this mont, she had been furiously waving her hands and shouting, hoping he would hurry and escape with his boat. Although the outco was not guaranteed, it was still better than waiting to die where he was.

But whether it was because he was too far away to hear or because he had no intention of running at all, the small fishing boat had remained silent and motionless on the water’s surface since the giant sunfish had set its sights on it.

"Boom!"

When the vast dark shape was about ten ters from the small boat, two massive explosions suddenly erupted from underwater, causing even those hundreds of ters away on the yacht to feel their chests tremble.