Lu Ye's eyes tightened.
Fish Dragon Transformation?
Lifespan 10 breaths?
Belly-Up Grey Carp?
His brain operated at high speed, multitasking, as he subconsciously began to count.
"10, 9..."
Fish Dragon Transformation is a casual mobile game, based on the traditional story of a carp leaping over the Dragon Gate.
To put it simply, the game involves numerous players controlling a blank-slate carp account, continuously undergoing metamorphosis to change their fish body through accumulated points, improving the carp breed, and even crossing species to become snakes or dragons to pass many levels, finally turning into a Red Dragon to clear the game.
Unexpectedly, this game followed him when he transmigrated, but its function was actually just to remind him that he only had 10 breaths of Lifespan left.
10 breaths is just 10 instances of breathing.
And one breath is only two or three seconds, so doesn't that mean he won't live for half a minute?
Also, what the hell is a Belly-Up Grey Carp?
The account he owned before transmigrating was clearly a Golden-Tail Carp!
Wasting one breath, Lu Ye's mind was filled with nothing but a pile of question marks.
Damn it!
His Lifespan only had 9 breaths left!
Thinking of this, Lu Ye was so nervous he was almost suffocating; he didn't want to die yet!
But his body was already numb, his eyelids were becoming increasingly heavy, his chest felt like a large stone was pressing on it, his breathing was faint, and even the stomach that had felt burning pain before no longer hurt.
His heart was filled with extreme unwillingness, but he was helpless and could only lie straight, waiting to turn cold.
Just then, the two lines of text on the golden Scroll Painting before Lu Ye's eyes slowly faded away.
The static image on the scroll suddenly "came to life," with Myriad Carp Crossing the River, impacting the Dragon Gate!
Among the school of carp, that Golden-Tail Carp was struggling to flick its tail, sprinting forward.
Its body suddenly stiffened in mid-air, and in an instant, the golden fish tail rapidly dimmed, turning dark red, and even the beautiful red scales on its body faded along with it.
In the blink of an eye, it turned into a dark grey carp that didn't look appealing at all, and its originally streamlined, smooth body suddenly shrank by more than half, becoming a shriveled, thin fish.
The next moment, it fell straight into the river flow, then flipped its belly, reluctantly floating on the water surface.
Among the many carp, this speck of dark grey was particularly eye-catching.
Lu Ye understood in an instant.
His physical condition could be manifested onto the carp he controlled in the game.
This body was about to become a starved corpse on the ground, so the Golden-Tail Carp had regressed into a Belly-Up Grey Carp, about to sink to the bottom of the river.
This scene took 3 breaths of time.
So he only had 6 breaths of Lifespan left!
Lu Ye opened his eyes wide in unwillingness.
He saw the eldest brother and Pockmarked had already walked to the corner of the wall.
The eldest brother stood by to guard, while Pockmarked squatted down and sat on the Prey Person, repeating the old trick, extending both palms to choke the other's neck and beginning to apply force.
Pockmarked's body covered more than half of that person, and Lu Ye could only see the two feet of that unlucky ghost of a Prey Person suddenly start to tremble.
The Prey Person on the ground couldn't breathe and was jolted awake by the pain!
"Ah..."
With a roar, he suddenly opened his eyes, actually sat up, hugged Pockmarked around the waist, and followed the trend with a turn, unexpectedly pinning Pockmarked underneath him.
The eldest brother, who was guarding for Pockmarked, reacted quickly, cursed a few times, and immediately pounced on them.
The three people let out beast-like roars from their throats, tumbling on the ground and fighting amongst themselves.
However, the movements of the three were like falling into a Mud Pit, each one extremely slow; they didn't have much strength left to fight desperately.
Lu Ye watched it all, but was powerless to do anything.
3 breaths!
He only had 3 breaths of Lifespan left!
Just at this moment, the golden Scroll Painting in his mind changed again; the scroll trembled, capturing the posture of the three people currently fighting on the floor of the ruined temple in reality into the scroll.
On the scroll, the image of the fish crossing the river faded away, becoming a blurry background, but three picture-in-picture images suddenly popped up.
On the three small pictures, three sickly carp that were almost as thin as dried fish appeared vividly.
One Black Iron Tail Carp, and the other two carp were almost pure white, only stained with some faint red.
There were also text notes below.
"Black Iron Tail Carp （ Extremely Weak ）"
"Common Red Carp （ Severely Weak ）"
"Common Red Carp （ Moderately Weak ）"
The three small pictures flickered a few times, two of them turned grey and disappeared, leaving only the picture of the Severely Weak Common Red Carp in front of Lu Ye.
Lu Ye's heart skipped a beat; wasn't this the talent possessed by the Golden-Tail Carp account he controlled—Cicada Molting Dragon Transformation?
A piece of Information appeared in his mind simultaneously, and he understood everything in an instant.
In the game settings of Fish Dragon Transformation, players can only control a single carp account.
After creating an account, the game developer gives a treasure chest, granting all players one chance to draw a prize, and the carp controlled by the player will randomly awaken an Innate Divine Ability.
In the game, all carp have one and only one Innate Divine Ability.
Common ones include acceleration, Great Strength, and endurance; rare ones include time simulator, Substitute for death, and luck.
The legendary top-tier talent is reviving after death without losing levels or points, known as the immortality talent.
And the talent possessed by the carp Lu Ye controlled was Cicada Molting Dragon Transformation; provided there was enough vitality points, it could metamorphose into any breed of carp within his Line of Sight.
In actual game operation, Cicada Molting Dragon Transformation is considered a mid-tier talent because accumulating points is not easy, and one also needs luck to encounter suitable Exotic Species of carp to copy.
If understood in a simple and crude way, this is roughly a cheat that allows one to change skins at full health.
In the real world, the three picture-in-picture images appearing before Lu Ye's eyes were actually the manifestation of the three people currently tumbling and fighting on the ground in the game.
It could be seen that the physical condition of these three people was very poor.
In Fish Dragon Transformation, a white carp is equivalent to a young fish, an adult is a common red carp, and when a red carp evolves, the tail changes color first; the Black Iron Tail Carp is clearly stronger than a common red carp.
The weakest among them is that Black Iron Tail Carp, which should correspond to that Prey Person.
If he weren't extremely weak, he wouldn't have been treated as a Prey Person.
However, if it weren't for the lack of food, his physical fitness should be the best.
The other two villains who wanted to eat people were just red carp, one severely weak and one moderately weak; it seems they were also at the end of their strength.
Now that two pictures have turned grey and disappeared, it means they are not targets Lu Ye can choose to metamorphose into.
So his only remaining choice is that Severely Weak red carp.
Moreover, his Lifespan only had—1 breath left!
Lu Ye couldn't care about thinking too much, and roared in his heart, "Metamorphose!"
The image of the Severely Weak red carp stopped in front of his eyes shattered with a bang, turning into thousands of golden points and disappearing.
0 breaths!
Lu Ye had already counted to 10 in his heart!
His 10 breaths had been exhausted.
If based on the Lifespan prediction given by Fish Dragon Transformation at the beginning, now was his time of death!
Some text appeared on the golden Scroll Painting in Lu Ye's mind.
But he was too nervous; although they were just ordinary Chinese characters, he didn't recognize a single one.
He didn't know if he was deceased or alive now, or if that so-called golden finger had played a role.
Some say that the moment before death, a person's perception becomes infinitely slow, and everything that happened in their life will flash through their mind like a revolving lantern.
It seems, perhaps, there was no movie playing in his mind?
The next moment.
Lu Ye's body, which had become somewhat stiff, suddenly twitched!
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