"There are fish."
This wasn't just a pool of Purified Water — Su Mu even saw fish swimming in the river.
Moreover, the number of these red fish wasn't small, and each fish was about the same size as those he remembered from his previous life.
Su Mu even scanned them with the system.
No monster status panel appeared.
That meant these fish weren't monsters of the post-apocalyptic world, but simply living creatures.
So, Su Mu didn't hold back.
He loaded his Demonbreaker Crossbow and shot at the fish in the water.
If fish could talk, they would probably complain about Su Mu's behavior.
Was it really necessary to use a Demonbreaker Crossbow — a weapon capable of instantly killing undead — just to shoot fish?
Su Mu insisted it was totally fine.
After all, the bolts hitting the fish could be recovered.
Before the fish shoal was alarmed, Su Mu quickly stood on the riverbank and shot some fish.
By the time the fish scattered in alarm, Su Mu had already killed five red fish.
[Complete Fish Meat]x4
[No special effects.]
Because these weren't drops from monsters, no experience points were gained.
But having good food was already a big deal in this post-apocalyptic world.
After eating pork yesterday, today he could take it slow with the flavor.
However, just as Su Mu reached out by the water's edge to grab the last fish, the situation suddenly changed.
A fish reduced to just a skeleton suddenly leapt out of the water and bit the last fish.
Then it disappeared back into the river.
But Su Mu felt it hadn't gone far.
After all, the Corrupted Wasteland map constantly alerted him to monster locations.
[Warning: Level 8 monster lurking nearby, please be cautious.]
[Monster location has been marked on the map for the owner.]
Su Mu chased toward the indicated position and soon spotted the monster.
It was a large fish, its entire body just a skeleton.
It was biting the fish that Su Mu had shot earlier with its broken teeth.
It seemed to be sucking the blood out bit by bit.
That fish gradually started turning into a dried corpse.
"Is this the feeding habit of undead creatures?"
"To actually suck a living thing dry until it becomes a dried corpse…"
Curious, Su Mu didn't attack immediately but observed the Skeleton Fish feeding.
He scanned it with the system.
[Bighead Skeleton Fish]
[Level: 8]
[Trait: Aquatic Monster]
[Description: A skeleton swimming in water with great advantage underwater. If you encounter it, try to deal with it from the shore.]
After checking the data, Su Mu confirmed he could kill it. Moreover, it was an undead creature.
So, without hesitation, Su Mu fired a Demonbreaker Crossbow bolt at the Bighead Skeleton Fish.
Instantly, the fish's body was obliterated by the crossbow bolt, leaving a pile of bones floating on the river.
But Su Mu immediately felt something was strange.
Hadn't he already killed the Bighead Skeleton Fish? Why didn't the system mark its death?
No loot dropped either.
Then, in the next moment, Su Mu saw something eerie.
Black smoke began to rise from the skeleton fish's bones.
The smoke almost covered the entire body of the Bighead Skeleton Fish.
Then, right before Su Mu's eyes, the Skeleton Fish started to reassemble itself!
"What? Resurrection?"
"No, undead creatures are basically dead things; this should be a form of self-repair."
"But resurrection wasn't listed in the Bighead Skeleton Fish's traits."
"This can't be something the Bighead Skeleton Fish does on its own."
Seeing the reassembling Skeleton Fish, Su Mu decisively fired another arrow.
As the saying goes, "Don't hesitate to finish off a fake corpse."
Any situation involving a fake death means the finishing blow was incomplete.
Sure enough, after the Demonbreaker Crossbow bolt hit, the black smoke vanished instantly.
The Bighead Skeleton Fish's loot dropped as well.
[Purified Bones]x20
Being an undead creature covered in bones, dropping these was normal.
However, the experience points were quite generous — a single Bighead Skeleton Fish granted 300 experience points.
If Su Mu found some nearby monsters to fight, he could break through to level three.
But compared to the loot, Su Mu was more concerned about the resurrection issue.
"The Bighead Skeleton Fish can't resurrect on its own."
"Unless something is helping it — perhaps the environment here, or other monsters nearby that can revive undead creatures."
Thinking that, Su Mu looked down at the river.
The Corrupted Wasteland map didn't show any dangerous monsters near him, meaning if anything was interfering, it was at least 500 meters away.
Or maybe it wasn't a monster, but some treasure or artifact here that could revive undead creatures.
Who knows, there might be something hidden beneath the clear lake water.
But water is ultimately an environment humans aren't good at.
So, Su Mu planned to level up here first before investigating further.
"Luckily, there are plenty of monsters near the water."
"Then I won't hold back."
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