Chapter 18: The Cave and the Sea
Lu Yang rushed to the small river with an arrow step, picked up the water and drank it directly.
A cool and comfortable sensation spills from the throat to the heart.
Like a wheat sprout that has been in a long drought and has nectar for a long time, the curly leaves stretched, the drooping head was raised, and the bent waist straightened.
Knock, knock......
Lu Yang couldn't get enough of it, so he directly stretched his mouth to the surface of the river and drank it in one go.
"Ha, cool!"
After replenishing the water, he was refreshed, and he picked up the water and washed his face before he had the heart to pay attention to other things.
"...... here" Lu Yang briefly looked around, and found a lot of artificial traces.
There are many lampstands carved into the walls of the cave, and there are paths that have been built......
"Hey, what is this? Doors? ”
As he looked around the wall, he spotted a strange place where a clear rectangular pattern was carved into what seemed to be a door.
Lu Yang tried to push, but there was no movement.
"Guess wrong?" He tried a few more times, but there was still no result, and he was about to try a few slashes with his sword when he suddenly noticed the lampstand next to him.
A familiar bridge appeared in his mind, and with the thought of "what if", he grabbed the lampstand and twisted it hard.
"Rolling ......"
The stone wall, bounded by the four sides of the rectangle, rises slowly.
Is it so advanced? Lu Yang looked blankly.
What's inside? Treasures, or the legacy of those who came before them?
The scene in front of him reminded him of another plot that was also very cliché. With some kind of expectation, Lu Yang quickly searched inside.
It is a completely artificially excavated room with a flat roof and smooth floors. There are various areas such as bedrooms, living rooms, kitchens, dining rooms, and study rooms.
The adventures he fantasized about didn't happen, but they weren't without the slightest gain.
In the past, it was supposed to be inhabited for a long time, and all kinds of daily necessities were complete, and most of them were kept intact because the wind and rain could not blow in the wind.
Lu Yang has decided to make this place his base, and these things can greatly improve his quality of life.
In the study, he also found a few books, but unfortunately they had been left for too long, and they shattered into powder at the slightest touch. Still, the text on the cover of one of the books gave him a lot of information.
Those words, translated into Chinese, probably mean "some suggestions on the protection of stalactites in the Daogu Grottoes".
Knife Valley should be the canyon outside, and it is not surprising that this place is a place for stalactites to rest and live.
No matter what it used to do, it is now cheap Luyang. As a base, it was almost perfect. Not only is it safe, but the conditions are perfect, even fresh water is available. The only trouble is that the problem of food still needs to be solved.
In short, much better than the temple in Yorik.
With a house, Lu Yang's heart suddenly became much more down-to-earth, and he felt a little less lonely.
He carefully inspected the room and found that the design was really high.
There is also a lampstand in the corresponding position inside the gate, which controls the opening and closing of the gate. In the corners of the roof, there are clever vents that allow air to circulate smoothly even when the doors are closed. There is also a specially designed sewer where the waste water can be discharged directly. The level of comfort and convenience is simply not inferior to that of an apartment on earth.
The more Lu Yang looked at it, the more satisfied he became.
In the bedroom, the stone bed is covered with a fine futon, and the dust on the surface is dusted off and it is ready to use. He also found a few clothes to wear, and although the style was strange, there was nothing to be fuscinated about in this kind of place, and no one could see it anyway.
There is even a place to take a bath in the toilet, which is similar to a sprinkler head, but unfortunately it has been damaged.
Now that he had decided to settle here, Lu Yang was ready to raise the fire. There was some furniture made of wood, all of which were rotten, just enough to be used as materials for fire.
But he thought about it again, and there was no hurry now. The grotto is huge, and there are many places outside that he has not yet explored, but, after completing this thing first.
Otherwise, if there are a few undead hidden in any corner, it will be bad to give him a visit while he is not paying attention.
In the process of Lu Yang's inspection, new discoveries were made.
Not the undead, but another channel. The passage is secluded, on the opposite side of the creek.
It is said to be a passage, but in fact it is just a small crack, and a person can barely pass through it sideways.
Lu Yang only briefly explored the periphery and did not go deeper. Because it was already evening.
Unlike the artificially excavated passage, this one is supposed to be a natural formation, with wide and narrow inside, and very tortuous. During the exploration, Lu Yang felt a slight movement of air, and he could be sure that this passage should be through, as for what the other end was, he could only explore it tomorrow.
Speaking of which, the night vision ability attached to mana is really powerful. In the tortuous slit, it was almost impossible for the light to shine in, but Lu Yang's vision was not affected in the slightest, and he didn't know what the principle was.
At night, Lu Yang lit a fire.
Since there was a small river next to it, he didn't have to worry about storing water, so he boiled water in the kitchen pot and took his first bath in the Land of Runeterra.
Although he was hungry, Lu Yang felt that this was the most comfortable night he had since he crossed.
……
The next morning.
Lu Yang opened his eyes, looked at the clean and tidy room, felt the soft bedding, and didn't react for a while.
"Comfortable." He stretched and began to get up.
The fire was in the living room, next to which there was a simple wooden shelf on which several pieces of clothing were placed. Last night, Lu Yang washed the newly found ones he was wearing.
He walked over naked, reached out and touched it, yes, it was done.
Changed it slipperily, and solved personal hygiene again, and Lu Yang's whole person became refreshed.
Dressed in exotic clothes, long hair, tall figure, and weird gray eyes, he comes to life as a character from a movie.
Without nostalgia for a comfortable room, Lu Yang packed up and took action, and the bursts of emptiness in his stomach urged him all the time.
The first thing is to explore where the slit found yesterday leads.
Crossing the river and standing at the mouth of the dark slit, Lu Yang carried his sword and got in.
The inside was even more difficult to walk than he had imagined, one foot deep and one foot shallow, uneven, and occasionally too narrow to pass through and requiring him to re-excavate.
The gray sword slashed into the rock, each sword cutting off a layer of stone chips.
Lu Yang was more and more glad that he had mastered mana, otherwise he would have to be blind if he encountered all of them. Thinking about it now, he was still too reckless, and he planned to go to the Shadow Island alone with a little simple preparation, and if he hadn't unexpectedly mastered the mana, he might have died halfway through the road by now.
This slit was shorter than Lu Yang expected. Although there were many bends in the middle, he still had to keep digging the road, so it took a lot of time, and it only took him half an hour to see the light at the entrance of the cave.
At the same time, Lu Yang heard the sound of rushing water again, and a familiar fishy salty smell appeared in the air.
He was slightly stunned: "This is ...... The smell of seawater? ”
His eyes lit up at the thought of this, and he wanted to go out immediately. It's a pity that I can only think about it for the time being. Although the entrance of the cave is already close in sight, the space in front of it is getting narrower and narrower, and it is not enough to pass through people, and the entrance of the cave is even only ten centimeters wide.
Lu Yang had to widen the road one by one, and with such a large amount of work, he was very skeptical that it would be broken without waiting for the success of Bai Feng's sword.
The first ninety-nine percent took half an hour, and the remaining one percent took Lu Yang nearly two hours.
I didn't eat for three days, and my body was weak and weak, and now I was directly tired and paralyzed. Lu Yang leaned against the entrance of the cave and rested for a while before relieving.
However, looking at the scene in front of him, Lu Yang was full of surprises in his heart.
It was close to noon, and the sea was sparkling in the sun. The waves roll, the sea breeze howls, and the sea moves from time to time, like a naughty child.
Lu Yang rested and followed the reef to the beach. He crouched down and stirred the sea with his hands, but his heart was in trouble.
How do you catch fish? I don't have Yorick's skills.
After thinking about it, Lu Yang came up with a way that was not a solution.
Go into the water and catch.
Lu Yang can swim and has good technique.
It sounds very unreliable, no matter how good a person is at swimming, can he compare to a fish?
Under normal circumstances, of course not. But don't forget, this is the Isle of Shadows.
Any living creature that comes in will be gradually stripped of its vitality (except for Lu Yang). Normal fish can't be caught in the sea, but it's not impossible to fall into weakness due to the loss of vitality.