A crocodile's health-conscious dietary habits are a little like a turtle's — ordinarily it can reduce its energy expenditure by staying motionless, sustaining a longer stretch without eating or drinking.

Africa's largest, the Nile crocodile, preys only once a year during the wildebeest migration; a single feeding can carry it through a year of not eating or drinking.

Because it doesn't hunt for long stretches, its hunting technique goes rusty, and it may fumble during the wildebeest migration. Fumble once, and it faces two years without food. Even so, the Nile crocodile has propagated and thrived to this day — a master of inedia, you might say, able to fast whenever it pleases, with an ultra-long lifespan besides, living decades or even a century.

This mutated saltwater croc seemed to have a bit of this habit too.

Full up, it couldn't be bothered to move; not moving meant little expenditure — and there was no telling how it had grown to such an enormous size.

"Let's see whether the saltwater croc's uninterested in food." Shen Cong decided to test the saltwater croc's attitude toward White Silver Fruit. If it had no interest, then the follow-up plan would have to change.

Shen Cong loaded roughly a vat's worth of White Silver Fruit into a net bag, carried it to within about two hundred meters, then abruptly hurled it at the saltwater croc, which had its back to him.

Having thrown it, he decisively retreated beyond the three-hundred-fifty-meter range, opened the Third Eye, and observed the saltwater croc's movements himself.

Originally the saltwater croc had lain stiff as a corpse on the harbor's mudflat, not stirring for hours. But when the net bag of White Silver Fruit came flying over, the saltwater croc, like an assassin, suddenly reared up off the mud, its upper body standing erect, its great mouth opening to swallow all the White Silver Fruit in one go.

No chewing — swallowed straight down.

Having gulped it down, it turned its body a little, seeming to want to know where the delicacy had come from. Finding no situation around…