At dawn, Colonel Tuode reorganized his troops; the heavy rain had stopped, but the nearby river had overflowed, submerging the previously low-lying areas.
And the only way forward was through those submerged low-lying areas.
This was the Amazon, with Piranha, crocodiles, Electric Eel… Colonel Tuode felt his head spin.
However, after consuming the Titan Boa, the Marine Corps' physical quality had significantly improved compared to yesterday, which offered them some comfort.
After leaving the abandoned Cannibal Tribe, they were about to enter a depression, which was originally a swamp, making it easy to get trapped and sink very quickly, almost without time for rescue.
Gwen volunteered to lead, using her spider-sense to scout ahead; the water level ranged from ankle-deep to waist-high, making walking very strenuous.
However, the absence of casualties in the swamp area made Colonel Tuode breathe a sigh of relief.
The water in the next area was deeper, almost up to their necks, and it contained a richer variety of aquatic creatures, though what exactly was in there was still unknown.
Due to their height, Gwen and Jessica couldn't walk in this area, so Lin Fan, who was over 1.8 meters tall, placed them on his shoulders, one on each side, and walked directly ahead.
However, Lin Fan was finally about to face his first opponent.
A thirteen-meter-long Solomon crocodile, as wide as a regular speedboat, swam over. This place should have been its territory, so no other aquatic creatures approached.
Colonel Tuode was terrified. It would have been better on land, but they were in the Water, and without ammunition, how could they fight something like this?!
The Solomon crocodile twisted its tail, moving faster than a speedboat, pushing waves that caused the Marine Corps to lose their balance.
Lin Fan put Jessica and Gwen down, then confronted the Solomon crocodile.
Colonel Tuode was about to risk a fracture to use his Gauss Rifle, but seeing Lin Fan charge forward, he abandoned the idea. But charging alone against a thirteen-meter-long giant crocodile, wasn't that seeking Death?
Gwen used her spider-sense to grasp Lin Fan's life signal, hoping he was alright.
Lin Fan grabbed the Solomon crocodile's dorsal scutes, causing it pain.
Crocodiles are incredibly cruel creatures; they drag their prey into the Water, then bite down and spin, tearing the flesh off.
This is also a common method crocodiles use to shake off enemies that have grabbed them.
The Solomon crocodile submerged and spun continuously, attempting to dislodge Lin Fan from its back.
Lin Fan's hands transformed into Claws, and he climbed onto the Solomon crocodile's back, then dug his Claws into its eye sockets, pulling out both eyeballs.
The previously turbulent Water surface became calm again.
Jessica grabbed Gwen's arm.
Gwen comforted her, saying, "It's okay, he's very strong, and he's alive."
Colonel Tuode and the others also held their breath.
Suddenly, a massive creature surfaced; it was the corpse of the Solomon crocodile.
Then Lin Fan emerged, climbed onto the crocodile's corpse, and smiled, "We have dinner tonight."
"You're incredible, to be able to kill something like this." Colonel Tuode suddenly wondered if this mission from Osborn would have been completely wiped out long ago if his old friend George hadn't recommended this Chinese-American.
But one wave had not settled when another rose!
The Solomon crocodile's blood diffused in the Water, and a large number of aquatic creatures were rapidly approaching from a distance.
Lin Fan scanned with his God's Eye.
Piranha: A terrifying small fish species living in the lower Amazon, often competing with dominant aquatic creatures for prey. Their violent feeding methods often lead to mass slaughter by the prey's Master, but for the sake of feeding and reproduction, Piranha will fearlessly seize prey. They can detect blood from waters over ten kilometers away.
Puff… Puff…
These Piranha suddenly leaped out of the Water, striking the soldiers' faces like hammers, biting with a crunch; their sharp fangs could even crush skulls.
At the same time, the Piranha beneath the Water would frantically gnaw at the soldiers' bodies, tearing off flesh with each bite. The intense pain left them no time to fight back, or even scream, before they became White bones covered in flesh scraps.
Lin Fan thought, previously, with the Solomon crocodile guarding this Water area, the Piranha tribe couldn't come over, at least not without the presence of blood.
But now, the Solomon crocodile's Death and the release of its blood had attracted the Piranha tribe, causing heavy casualties among the remaining Marine Corps.
However, the more tragic part was that it wasn't over yet.
A wave of dozens of giant Electric Eel attacked, discharging electricity into the Water. Even though Piranha are extremely ferocious, they could hardly withstand the power generated by this combination of Water and electricity.
At the same time, soldiers who got too close were paralyzed.
The Electric Eel's bodies were semi-cartilaginous; they had little interest in Piranha, but fresh Human Race was another matter.
Slurp.
The soldiers who couldn't escape and were left in the Water were entered by Electric Eel through their mouths, then kept alive and conscious by electric currents to experience the pain of having their internal organs eaten by the Electric Eel.
Colonel Tuode and the others climbed onto land, with 21 soldiers remaining, most of them wounded, looking extremely disheveled, and fear filled everyone's eyes.
However, Jessica's gasp gave Colonel Tuode hope again.
A field of blood orchid was not far ahead, and it seemed to be free of dangerous creatures.