After dealing with the prehistoric python, Zhao Rong’s group continued onward. They soon found a small boat near the Underground Dark River and boarded it.

As Zhao Rong led everyone to start paddling, he gave them a warning. "Since someone already set up a complex trap like that prehistoric super-python, there are bound to be similar dangers in this river. Everyone, stay alert and be careful."

The assistant nodded, turning his headlamp to its brightest setting as he scanned the surroundings. "If another prehistoric super-python or a super crocodile shows up, I’ll smash it to pieces with this paddle!"

Miss Lili took out a grenade she had prepared earlier and clenched it tightly. "Bring it on, you monsters and man-made traps!" she said through gritted teeth. "Just see if I don’t blow you away with this!"

Yu Lan also held a grenade high, threatening the unseen creatures in the water. "Any monster that isn’t afraid to die, just jump out now! Come and get a taste of my grenade!"

Xuelian pulled out a large bottle of pepper spray and aimed it at the water. "Pepper spray is no joke. If any of you monsters have the guts, come and get a taste!"

Just as everyone was ready for a fight, the previously calm Underground Dark River began to churn violently. The small boat carrying Zhao Rong’s group rocked dangerously back and forth, on the verge of capsizing at any moment.

Seeing the boat about to flip, the assistant cried out in fear, "Brother Zhao Rong, do something quick! We can’t let this boat capsize, or we’ll end up in the belly of some monster!"

Before the assistant could finish speaking, Zhao Rong took out his phone, opened the Paradise Shopping Cart app, and typed ’Boat-Steadying Divine Needle’ into the search bar. As soon as he purchased the item, the package appeared instantly. While opening it, Zhao Rong comforted the panicked assistant and the three women. "Don’t worry, everyone. Once I take out this Boat-Steadying Divine Needle, I guarantee our boat won’t capsize or sink, no matter what."

As he spoke, Zhao Rong took out an embroidery needle.

The assistant, who was desperately clinging to the gunwale, stared in disbelief. "Brother Zhao Rong, can’t you see this river is raging and we’re about to be swamped? And you’re just standing there holding an embroidery needle! Are you trying to look cool or just putting on a show?"

Miss Lili was just as confused. "Brother, didn’t you say you were buying a Divine Artifact from the Paradise Shopping Cart to keep the boat from capsizing? Why did you pull out an embroidery needle?"

Yu Lan was even more panicked. "Brother Zhao Rong, so your so-called Boat-Steadying Divine Needle is just an embroidery needle? I refuse to believe a simple needle can stop this boat from rocking so violently!"

Xuelian looked at the needle in his hand with surprise. "Brother Zhao Rong, that just looks like an ordinary sewing needle. There’s nothing high-tech about it. How can you guarantee it will keep us from capsizing and sinking?"

Before they could finish, Zhao Rong stuck the embroidery needle into the center of the boat and said with a smile, "Didn’t I tell you? This is a piece of black technology called the Boat-Steadying Divine Needle."

He hadn’t even finished speaking when the boat, which had been on the verge of sinking, suddenly became perfectly still. It then began to glide smoothly forward through the Underground Dark River.

When the assistant saw that the boat was no longer in danger, he stared at the needle in amazement. "Brother, that’s incredible! You stuck a needle in the boat and it just... stabilized. That’s totally mind-blowing!"

Miss Lili stepped forward with a magnifying glass to inspect it. "Brother Zhao Rong, what scientific principle is this using? How could it stabilize a boat that was about to sink?"

Xuelian even took out a microscope to examine it. "Brother Zhao Rong, you were right. This isn’t an ordinary embroidery needle; it’s a Boat-Steadying Divine Needle. As long as it’s stuck in the boat, it will keep it stable. No matter how rough the waves are, they can’t flip this boat."

Just as everyone was marveling at the needle, a gigantic scavenger fish burst out from the dark river nearby. The fish was a whopping ten meters long and weighed twenty tons. When Zhao Rong and his four companions saw the enormous creature, they froze in shock.

"Damn it," the assistant said in terror. "Logically, there shouldn’t be enough food in an underground river to support a fish this huge, right?"

Miss Lili found it equally unbelievable. "A fish this big would be a behemoth even in the ocean. Why would one be here, in this small Underground Dark River? Was it mailed here from the ocean or something?"

Yu Lan immediately pulled the pin on her grenade and threw it at the charging fish, shouting, "You don’t pull the pin ’til you see the enemy! Eat this, big fish!"

Xuelian also took out two cans of pepper spray and sprayed them vigorously at the fish. "Let’s see how you like my pepper spray! I’ll make it so spicy you can’t even open your eyes!"

At that moment, Zhao Rong suddenly suspected that this colossal fish wasn’t real, but artificial. He immediately took a Divine Artifact out of his Magic Ring that could distinguish between real and fake fish.

However, when Zhao Rong used the device, called the ’Real or Fake Fish Identifier,’ on the gigantic scavenger fish, his eyes widened in astonishment. In disbelief, he uttered, "My god, I must be seeing things..."