Lühé offered no further explanation. Instead, he glanced down at the time. Seeing how much time had already passed, he frowned. "All right, we don't have time to waste here. Everything will be clear once you reach our destination. For now, let's hurry."
With that, he turned and quickened his pace toward the summit.
Through their brief encounter, Xia You and the others had gained some understanding of the old man. They knew he was not really a bad person, just a little oblivious to social niceties, like those eccentric scientists.
Although they still had many questions, Lühé had already gone some distance, so they could only keep following him.
The Magikarp beside them were still swimming tirelessly upstream.
Soon, however, the Magikarp reached a small cluster of three waterfalls.
They began trying to scale the waterfalls, but even with all their strength, many could not withstand the pounding water in that vertical current and fell back down halfway.
Only a handful thrashed desperately against the immense pressure and managed to make it upstream of the falls.
Xia You had to stop again.
For these Magikarp, this was clearly an enormous obstacle, and he could hardly believe he was witnessing such a miraculous sight!
Honestly, with all the effort they were putting in, they did not seem to have come here to spawn. It was more like the fable of the carp leaping over the Dragon Gate.
In this world, however, these Magikarp were destined not to become dragons that rode the clouds after leaping over the Dragon Gate, but savage, terrifying Gyarados!
He took out his phone again to capture the scene. In that brief span, hundreds of Magikarp had already failed to scale the falls, finally running out of strength and being washed downstream. Yet the remaining Magikarp