Versatile Mage

r>Take me instead!”

“Please don’t misunderstand.
We are from the military, not the Environment Protection Department.”

“What are you yelling for? Sit down, they are soldiers.
Why are you holding a knife? Do you want to pick a fight with the government?” the old man shouted at his son.

The old man’s son finally calmed down, and crouched down beside the table with a regretful look.
He did not even get himself a stool.

He knew what he was doing was not right.
He would be in trouble one day, but the day had come earlier than he had thought.

“Old man, do you know about the creatures the factories are catching?” Zhang Xiaohou asked directly.

“Are they related to the recent incident?” the old man asked slowly.

“Mm, they destroyed Luning County.
Their numbers are many times greater than what you are catching.
Based on our investigations, the Bohai Sea has several thousand times the number of Dragon King Krill found here.
Once they gather together and charge at our coasts, they will destroy hundreds of our cities in just a few hours,” Zhang Xiaohou said.

The old man’s wrinkled face filled with astonishment.

The old man definitely did not expect the Dragon King Krill to be such a huge threat!

“I told the people of the factories years ago that those things were dangerous.
I was hoping they would report them to the authorities, but everyone was too poor back then.
They could finally escape poverty by catching the creatures, yet it still became such a huge problem!” the old man said regretfully.

“It’s not entirely your fault.
After all, even the Research Union couldn’t fully examine these creatures, which are so invisible in the sea.
We just have to find their nests as soon as possible, and annihilate them before they invade our coasts!” Zhang Xiaohou said.

“How are you going to eliminate them?” the old man asked.

Zhang Xiaohou did not answer the question.
The Forbidden Curse was confidential.
The military had no plans to disclose it to the public.

The old man understood silently.
As Zhang Xiaohou had deduced, he was a Mage.
He knew it would be a confidential operation if they had sent a general on the mission!

“It’s indeed difficult to detect these creatures.
It was a coincidence when we caught them at first.
We didn’t believe there was something in the water at first since they don’t bite wood, living creatures, or the fruits we had planted.
We eventually discovered they could eat steel and rocks, and then we thought of making nets with Scorched Silver to deal with them,” the old man explained.

They had only started to fish for the Dragon King Krill five years ago.

They had discovered the Dragon King Krill when all the coincidences came together.
Otherwise, they would never have known there were tens of thousands of Dragon King Krill roaming around the peninsula.

“These Dragon King Krill are probably coming from a marine trench nearby.
The deepest part of the marine trench has lots of Scorched Silver that we humans would struggle to mine.
The strange thing is, even though the Dragon King Krill can’t digest the Scorched Silver, they will still eat it,” the old man went on.

Zhang Xiaohou took out a detailed map of the Bohai Sea and put it on the table.
“Old man, can you help us mark the location of the trench?” Zhang Xiaohou asked him.

“I’m afraid it’s difficult to find it on the map.” The old man rolled up the map and gave it back to Zhang Xiaohou.

As Zhang Xiaohou was feeling a little dismayed, the old man stood up and declared, “I’ll bring you there.
If I’m not too old to recognize the way, we should be able to find the trench!”

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