Volume III: Turbulent Beginnings (Remastered) Chapter 31: The Adventures of Lake Salicane (3)
In the deepest part of the cave, gently dig a few small pits, and then put the tender flesh of these snowfoot rabbits into it, and cover it with a shallow layer of soil, and a bait used to lure the ice and fire dragon cubs is ready.
Then, Yu Bin hurriedly walked out of the cave, crawled back to the previous cave along the rope that came over, and lay quietly on the edge of the platform, waiting for the prey to take the bait.
This kind of trap doesn't necessarily work, if the ice and fire dragon cub is too small to move, or has already eaten enough and doesn't want to eat any more snacks, then Yu Bin's trap is useless.
The shelf life of these pieces of meat is not long, although Yu Bin was frozen immediately after hunting, but it will not be long before the meat quality of these pieces of meat will age rapidly, and finally become difficult to swallow, and naturally it will not be able to be used to lure ice and fire dragon cubs.
However, in Yu Bin's opinion, the chance of success in the trap is still very high, because the target that Yu Bin is deliberately looking for cannot be a cub who has just been born for a long time, otherwise, it is impossible to swallow those pieces of meat that are the size of Yu Bin's head.
As for whether this little guy is full, Yu Bin has no choice but to gamble.
As time slowly passed, Yu Bin's confidence began to slowly extinguish, and it seemed that this was another night of nothing.
Seeing that it was getting closer and closer to the time for those adult Ice and Fire Dragons to get up and eat, Yu Bin had to get up and prepare to return the same way he came, returning to the cave where he had been hiding before, and continuing to wait there for a day.
The snow-footed rabbit meat in the backpack can also support Yu Bin to try twice, if it still doesn't work, then Yu Bin can really only take advantage of the cover of the night to dive directly to the bottom, and then bet that he will not be blocked in the lake by those ice and fire dragons.
Just when Yu Bin retrieved the rope used to connect the two platforms, a small figure walked out of the huge cavern.
With the moonlight reflected off Lake Salikene, Yu Bin finally saw his prey: a pup of an ice and fire dragon that looked to be only a few months in size.
Quickly stopping what he was doing, Yu Bin immediately returned to the edge of the platform, and then watched the Xiaoice Fire Dragon walk step by step along the stone path into the cave where the trap was laid.
Yu Bin estimated the time, then took out a piece of meat of the snowfoot rabbit from his backpack, tied it firmly with a rope, and then flicked his hand, and the meat piece was accurately thrown by Yu Bin onto the platform of the cave where the trap was located.
Compared to the meat pieces that were buried in the depths of the cave and had been placed for a long time, the bait that was thrown by Yu Bin was obviously more loved by the Xiaoice Fire Dragon.
A low but sharp chirp almost made Yu Bin's hand tremble, worried that the little one's parents would be woken up.
However, it may be because it is still some distance from the lair of the Ice and Fire Dragon couple, and it does not attract the attention of the two careless Ice and Fire Dragons.
The Xiaoice Fire Dragon, which ran out of the cave with two small short legs, saw the fresh piece of snow-footed rabbit meat on the platform, and his eyes straightened.
Without thinking about it, as if instinctively, the Xiaoice Fire Dragon pounced, the red dragon head located on the right side of the body accurately bit the meat block, and the white dragon head on the left was not to be outdone, just a step late, but still successfully bit the remaining part into the mouth.
Yu Bin was amused by this snack goods, he had seen the greedy one, but he had never seen the greedy one with both heads, for the Ice and Fire Dragon, when eating, the two heads generally took turns to eat, one was eating Haisai, and the other head was responsible for vigilance.
But the parents of the cub had apparently not taught the little one this.
Seeing that the piece of meat used as bait was bitten by the ice and fire dragon cub, Yu Bin used all his strength to pull it.
The bait with a big fish named Ice and Fire Dragon Cub was successfully collected by Yu Bin.
The harvest is a little guy who looks at the strange creature in front of him with two pairs of cute little eyes.
The Ice and Fire Dragon Cub, who had never seen any other creature other than his parents, had no idea what suddenly appeared in front of him.
Yu Bin was also happy, this thing is good to use as a pet, but for his own task, Yu Bin still resisted the urge to directly bind this little guy to his soul and turn it into a pet.
Take out another piece of Snowfoot Rabbit from your backpack and stuff it into one of the little guy's mouths.
With the delicacy in his mouth, this ice and fire dragon cub did not struggle at all, and was successfully stuffed into the space bag by Yu Bin. As an independent space, the space bag is not an object that cannot be preserved, but because the space is so large, the life form will quickly consume the air in it, and eventually die of suffocation, so few people will put the life form into the space bag.
Well, now that everything is ready, all that's left is to go get water from the lake.
Yu Bin glanced at his remaining soul energy, which was comparable to the number of soul energy exceeding 200 points, because since the activity started at 8 o'clock last night, nearly 50 points have been consumed, that is to say, before Yu Bin's soul energy is exhausted, he still has nearly 12 hours of activity time.
Combine the crossbow from the backpack again. The bow was taken out, the crossbow bolt was loaded, the rope was tied to the tail end of the crossbow, and then Yu Bin jumped directly from the edge of the platform.
Because the inner wall of the volcano was small and large, Yu Bin, who jumped off the platform, quickly fell towards the lake.
Calmly turning over in the air, facing the sky, Yu Bin took out the crossbow bolt from his backpack again, aimed at a cave that could lead directly to the outer wall of the volcano, and then, pulled the trigger, and fired.
The bowstring, which was extremely tight, pushed the crossbow arrows in the arrow trough fiercely, and with the rope, it crossed a distance of dozens of meters and plunged deep into the bottom of the platform outside the cave.
At the same time, a huge dragon roar came from the previous lair.
Awakened by the dragon's roar, a large number of dragon moans came from various lairs, and after a while, I saw an ice and fire dragon rushing out of the lair impatiently, flapping its wings and flying away, and began to search for the enemy.
At this time, Yu Bin had successfully fallen into the lake, except for the surging waves and circles of ripples on the lake, he could no longer see any movement.
As for the sound of entering the water, it is also covered by the sound of dragon moans one after another, which is inaudible.
After successfully entering the water, Yu Bin didn't have time to rejoice.
Those Sallykene Ice and Fire Dragons would not give up so easily, let alone the loss of a precious cub, and after they thoroughly searched the attachments, they would naturally judge the result of the poachers hiding in Lake Sallykene.
When the time comes, as soon as Bin shows his head, what awaits him will be a large group of furious Salikaine Ice and Fire Dragons.
But now Yu Bin didn't bother to think about it so much, the rope he used to make with crossbow arrows and climb was just a fluke he wanted to get away with, if those ice and fire dragons burned the rope with a fire, Yu Bin would not be surprised at all.
One of the benefits of the undead is that they don't have to think about breathing, which is also one of the reasons why Yu Bin dares to come to Lake Salikene.
As he swam deeper and deeper, Yu Bin got closer and closer to the bottom of the lake, and at the same time, Yu Bin could also feel that the temperature of the lake was dropping sharply.
Originally, it was already considered icy Lake, but when Yu Bin swam close to the bottom of the lake, he almost thought that he had reached an ice element area.
What appeared in front of Yu Bin's eyes, in addition to the almost condensed lake, there were also large and small ice cubes.
Yu Bin was curious why these ice cubes did not float to the surface of the lake, but here, everywhere like jellyfish.
But soon, Yu Bin didn't have that mind.
Because Yu Bin found that these ice cubes were not ordinary ice, but very pure ice elements.
And the condensed lake around him is not ordinary water, but pure water composed of a large number of water elements.
Yu Bin smiled bitterly, looking at the [sluggish] state on his body, he had to take out a bottle of slight cold resistance potion from his backpack and pour it down. At the same time, the rune sword is drawn from the scabbard, activating the frost rune on it, as a way to resist the freezing caused by the surrounding ice elementals.
This potion is also the alchemical product of Keldilla, and in addition to being slightly resistant to cold, it also has a slight resistance to fire, a slight resistance to toxins, and other elixirs.
These things were all distributed to everyone by Yu Bin as supplies.
Relying on the potion and rune sword, Yu Bin could feel that his stiffness had been significantly relieved, but as Yu Bin got closer and closer to the spring at the bottom of the lake, there were more and more ice elements around his body, and the influence of more than Yu Bin was also increasing, and even Yu Bin's health began to decline slowly. He could only keep pouring negative energy potions into his mouth, so as not to die due to the loss of health.
The lake, located in the heart of the extinct volcanic mountain of Salikaigne, is more than 500 meters deep. When Yu Bin finally reached the bottom of the lake, the scenery here had completely turned into darkness, and the depth of more than 500 meters made it impossible for any light to penetrate here, and pitch black became the only color here.
Fortunately, Yu Bin, as an undead, has the specialty of soul vision, and he can barely find a way forward here. It's just that under the interaction of the huge water pressure and the thick water element, Yu Bin needs to consume great energy every time he moves.
It took nearly four hours in total before Yu Bin finally found his goal with difficulty.
In the image of the soul vision, it is a void, which is clearly distinguished from the dark gray soil layer of the surrounding lake.
When Yu Bin switched his vision back to the ordinary way, what caught his eye was a wide light blue sky.
Located at the bottom of Lake Salikene, with a space the size of a basketball court, this area is the source of Lake Salikene.
Yu Bin almost wanted to pull out the bastard who said in his previous life that this volcanic lake was formed by the convergence of underground water veins, and then beat him up, and then stuffed it into the toilet and flushed it into the sewer.
Where is this underground water vein? This is simply a stable spatial rift that connects to the water elemental plane.
Yu Bin could feel that a huge amount of water elements were constantly gushing out from the water element plane at the other end through this spatial rift.
Under the influence of a large amount of water element, even though there was no light here, a kind of sky-blue light still filled the place.
Yu Bin narrowed his eyes and took a closer look, only to find that it was the light emitted from the water element cores.
As Yu Bin observed, the water elemental core began to vibrate, and then formed a small whirlpool, absorbing the surrounding water elemental until it grew into a half-human-tall water elemental creature.
Then, this newborn water elemental creature will automatically pass through this spatial rift and return to the water elemental plane on the other side.
At this moment, Yu Bin completely understood.
The special geographical location of Lake Salikene provides the greatest contribution to the existence of this wonder.
The fire elemental that fills the entire earth firmly binds the water element to the place of Lake Salikene, and the spatial rift provides a steady stream of water elemental replenishment for Lake Salikene.
In this case, the water element, which cannot spread to the surrounding area, has to be passively polymerized, thus forming a core of water element.
After these water elemental cores grow to a certain extent, they can absorb the surrounding water elements that have not yet coalesced, and eventually become a complete water elemental organism.
However, the water elemental beings formed in this way do not have the intelligence of the water elemental beings formed in the natural environment, so under the attraction of the water elemental plane that is as close as a stone's throw, these nascent water elements will instinctively get close to it and return to the water elemental plane through the spatial rift.
The water elemental that was the foundation gushed out from the crack in space, and the water elemental beings, who were intelligent beings, were instinctively driven back there, thus forming a special balance. This may be the reason why Lake Salikene has never disappeared.
The peculiar natural beauty of the extinct volcano of Salicaigne now seems to be nothing more than a collateral effect of the water element here.
Although he understood all this, Yu Bin was even more shocked. Because this is not something that can be formed automatically in the natural environment.
It is clear that both the extinct volcano of Salikene and the spatial rift that connects the water elemental plane (or a stable spatial passage can already be said to be) are the result of man-made.
Yu Bin, who was shocked by this, decisively chose to complete the task, and then left immediately.
He took out three reagent bottles from his backpack, and then carefully took three bottles of lake water composed of pure water elements from the edge of this azure spatial rift.
By the way, Yu Bin also fished a few water element cores within reach into his pocket.
After successfully obtaining the water of Lake Salikene, Yu Bin immediately began to swim towards the lake. Because he sensed that the air in the space bag was about to run out, and if he hadn't replenished enough air before then, there was a high chance that the Ice and Fire Dragon cub would suffocate to death.
Swimming to the bottom of the lake is difficult, but swimming to the surface of the lake is easy. It took less than 20 minutes for Yu Bin to see the morning light shining through the surface of the lake. And, of course, the dozens of Sallykene Ice and Fire Dragons hovering over the lake.
To be honest, if it weren't for the safety of the Ice and Fire Dragon cub's life, Yu Bin would never have taken just a few water element cores. You know, this pure water elemental core is not the kind of water elemental essence that is dropped by killing water elemental creatures.
This water elemental core, as a material, can be said to be a purple legendary-level material to say the least.
If you have a specialization. Archmages of water spells, they can directly create controlled water elements by using this water elemental core, and their strength is amazing. Or by adding other materials, this water elemental core can be processed into various equipment and items, at least it can greatly increase the water elemental resistance or water spell damage.
In the previous life, not to mention the high-end goods such as the water element core, even those elemental essences, all of them were grabbed by people.