Lu Yang swiftly swam toward the bubbles and narrowly swallowed three of them, restoring 3 health points.
The second wave of attacks arrived. A shark skimmed along the surface and charged straight at Lu Yang. He quickly dived downward. This was the shark he had been waiting for. Though this game looked incredibly difficult, with all kinds of fish everywhere, one thing was certain: the number of monsters on the map was fixed each time.
That number was 197. It was a figure countless top players had concluded through testing in his previous life. When there were 197 fish on the map, the total empty space in the entire map was only 2 cubic meters.
To make the most of those 2 cubic meters, all the schools of fish had to attack from the surface. That way, a huge gap would open up below.
Lu Yang glanced ahead, behind, to both sides, and below. A level 7 fish was charging at him from each direction, while countless other fish swam throughout the map.
Lu Yang quickly calculated his route. After diving at full speed to evade the shark ahead, he swam diagonally down to the left, avoiding two level 5 fish. Then he continued downward, dodging ten consecutive waves of fish before reaching the seabed.
There were two Pearl Oysters on the seabed. Pearls lay inside their shells, and eating one restored 50 health points. Two pearls could raise Lu Yang's little fish to level 2.
Many players who played this game wanted to take shortcuts by eating the pearls inside Pearl Oysters, but the oysters opened and closed extremely quickly, leaving only about 1.5 seconds. Players had to slip inside, eat the pearl, and escape within those 1.5 seconds.
It was relatively easy below Hard difficulty, where there were