Chapter 45: Picking Spiritual Plants
After more than two weeks of intensive training, Sammy's physical fitness has been significantly improved. And Jacques can also maintain the state of Eight Winds Refining for an hour every day, which also means that old Renault has to prepare a large number of ingredients for his big stomach king son every day.
Finally, Fat Orange thinks that Sammy's body can withstand the impact of the breakthrough elixir. The two teenagers were ready to collect the treasure they had coveted for a long time, more than four miles from the coast, at the bottom of the sea, an algae spirit plant lying at a depth of more than thirty meters, ghost algae. Its innate ability to conceal allows it to remain undetected even in the offshore waters so close to the harbor.
The two plan to get a small boat first, and after training in rowing, row a small boat to the location of the ghost algae, and Jacques will dive down to pick it up. Even though Jacques claimed that even big fish were rare in the safe area of the offshore, and that picking a spiritual plant was a matter of scooping, Sammy prepared a long rope from a fishing boat, a harpoon, a set of diving skins, and diving goggles.
On the same day, Jacques saw a small fishing boat, more than three meters long, with two oars, with fishing nets, baskets, harpoons and a pile of miscellaneous items on the 27th berth.
"Yo, what are you two going to do with a boat?" said the red-haired Harrison, who appeared behind Jacques.
"Let's go catch a few fish and eat them in the evening. I also made some small fish for fat oranges to improve the diet. Jacques said perfunctorily.
"Seeing that you can't eat enough every day, you have to add more food and grow taller. Harrison laughed.
"That's taller than you. Jacques replied with a smile.
After the rowing training, the two teenagers and a fat cat set off in a small boat again. The two-week rowing training was not in vain, and it took less than half an hour to reach the target sea.
Fat Orange confirmed his position, and Jacques began to undress and change into a diving skin, a wetsuit made of seal skin to help maintain body temperature. Jacques tied a safety rope around his waist, hung a small leather pocket on his waist, tied the Mithril dagger given by Fabian to his left forearm, and finally put on his diving goggles, took the harpoon, opened the Eight Winds Refinery, and jumped into the water as soon as he turned over.
Fat Orange remotely directs Jacques to search for Ghost Algae on the ship.
Holding his breath, Jacques dived straight to the bottom of the ocean. After more than ten meters, the light is already very weak, and through the diving goggles, Jacques can only see two or three meters in front of him, and can only rely on the direction information transmitted by Fat Tangerine through telepathy to grope forward at the bottom of the sea.
After walking some distance, there is a large rock full of holes in front of you, and the ghost algae sensed by Fat Tangerine is in this location. This stumped Jacques, searching hole by hole, his time to hold his breath was not enough at all, if he couldn't find it after a few more dives, he would not be able to maintain the state of the Eight Winds Refining Body, in this case, it would be even more difficult to move an inch at the bottom of the sea.
The fat orange in his heart said: "You try to sense the source energy fluctuations of the ghost algae, as long as the spirit plant communicates the source energy, it will produce source energy fluctuations, and this is how the emperor perceives it." ”
Jacques sneered in his heart, you are a beastmaster and I am a little awakened person, and the grandmaster is not as keenly perceived as you.
However, if you slander your belly, let's try it.
The safety rope on his waist was tightened, this was the code agreed between Sammy and Jacques, Jacques doubled the safety rope to report safety, and then closed his eyes, approached the rock, and covered the rock with the source energy mobilized around him, trying to find unusual source energy fluctuations, which was a stupid method he came up with temporarily.
Jacques, who has the strength of the Awakened, feels the flow of source energy like the wind, exhaling, a stream of source energy blows, and he can sense the size of this source energy and the direction of flow. Now he is using the source energy he controls to get close to feel the disturbance of the ghost algae to the wind of source energy.
Two minutes passed, and Jacques searched the five-meter-square rock face, when suddenly Jacques felt a tiny stream of source energy sucked in from a hole.
He was overjoyed, so he approached the hole, which was two fingers wide and half a foot deep, and looked through the glass of the diving goggles into the hole, and a finger-long seaweed was actually rooted at the bottom of the hole.
Jacques was carefully observing the seaweed, and suddenly a blue light flickered around the seaweed, and the light was not strong enough to penetrate the hole.
It's you, you didn't run away, Ghost Algae.
I'm really grateful for the move of Ghost Algae to reveal his identity, and now the question is how to get it out.
Feeling that his breath was almost at the limit, Jacques had to float up for air. After surfacing, Jacques took a big breath of fresh air, looked around, and saw that the boat was more than twenty meters away, and Sammy was paddling closer.
Jacques held the edge of the boat to regain his strength, handed the harpoon to Sammy, and said, "Found it, Ghost Algae, wait until I go down and dig it out again." ”
Hearing this, Sammy was also very excited, took the harpoon, cheered for Jacques and said: "Great, Jacques, you are too powerful, hey, you are training me again, and helping me find the materials for the secret medicine, look at my stupid mouth, I don't know what to say except thank you." ”
Jacques laughed, "We're still not friends, can I help you with these little things?" Okay, I'll go down and dig it up." ”
With that, Jacques dived headlong into the water, swam downward, resisted the buoyancy of the water with the source energy, and returned to the rock in a few moments. Pulling out the dagger tied to his left arm, Jacques carefully cut the rock at the edge of the hole. This rock was formed by the solidification of magma after the eruption of an undersea volcano, and not only has many holes, but also has low hardness, and the sharp edge of Mithril inserts itself into the soft rock with a little force.
After some cutting, the hole widened to the size of a hand deep, and Jacques reached in and grabbed the root of the ghost algae, and with a strong pull, he took the spirit plant into his hand.
When the spirit plant reached his hand, Jacques floated upwards with his feet, but there was a fat orange shout in his heart: "Jacques come up!
Jacques was already convinced of Fat Orange's sensibility, and when he heard the warning, he was shocked, and while swimming hard, he mobilized his source energy to push himself upward.
Sammy, who was holding the other end of the safety rope, felt the rope loosen, guessing that Jacques was floating up, and as soon as he looked underwater, he saw Jacques rush out of the sea with a bang, jumped two meters high, and fell on the surface of the sea with a snap.
Jacques leaped again from the surface of the sea, fell into the boat, and without saying a word, grabbed the oars and rowed with all his might.
Sammy asked eagerly, "How's it going?"
Jacques paddled with both hands, looked back at the distant sea, and said, "Picked, picked! But we're going to run for our lives now! I think we might have messed with some terrible guy." ”
Sammy wondered, "What's going on?"
Jacques didn't look back anymore, he buried his head in dancing the oars with all his might, and replied, "A strange beast, a big fellow, this ghost algae is someone's collection, maybe it hasn't reached full maturity, it's just made a mark, and now we have stolen it, so let's just run away, and pray that it doesn't come near the land." ”