Chapter 4: Soft Muddy Rotten Eggs
Ade's family has a different water source, using water from the river next to the town.
It looks very clean, but when it rains heavily, the water will be a little muddy when the water swells.
In the silt at the bottom of the river, there are many mysterious creatures hidden, which makes people unguardable.
There hasn't been any heavy rain recently, and blocking the canal is obviously not your ordinary river bottom silt.
Adam was prepared, took off his shoes, rolled up his trouser legs, supported the stones by the ditch, stretched his legs and stepped into the canal.
"So shallow?"
The depth of the water was less than the ankle, and when he opened the water gate according to the depth he had designed, the water should have reached the depth of his calf to the height of his knees.
"Are these guys again?"
Probably guessing the reason, Arthur sighed in his heart, this is more troublesome than ordinary silt.
Reluctantly, he grabbed a handful of silt at the bottom of the ditch, slowly approached his nose and just took a light breath, and a foul smell rushed up his head along the nasal cavity, like an egg, disgusting.
"Uh...... It stinks, damn ooze monsters. ”
Endured the nausea and shook the mud off his hand, scooped up some water and scrubbed it clean, and wiped it on his body to remove the smell.
The stench on these special sludges doesn't go away so easily, and you can smell the pungent stench from the upturned dirt from time to time as you walk.
Without time to say, Arthur continued slowly along the canal.
As the depth of the water increases, the feet become more and more cautious, and every step is tested before daring to really step hard.
Seeing Arthur's movements, the two fathers and sons on the side also prepared their 'weapons' with understanding, and grabbed the polished pitchfork in their hands, waiting for Arthur to give the signal to make a move.
One step at a time, he slowly moved forward, and the deeper he went, the deeper the water became, which also indicated that the ooze monster should be around here.
"Be careful!" Uncle Viñok reminded softly on the canal, his eyes revealing a look of concern.
Arthur just nodded, and did not look back, at this time the water in the canal had already overflowed half of his calf, and the mud became softer and smoother to step on, and each step became more difficult to walk.
Arthur struggled to move forward, shaking three times in a step, always feeling like he was going to fall at any moment.
"Huh......?" Ade noticed that Arthur had suddenly stopped, holding a pitchfork in his hand, hoping to give the guy a fork as soon as possible.
Arthur, who was walking in the mud, had stopped, raised one hand, and gently took two steps back, poking his fingers forward.
"Right here!"
Seeing this, Ade comprehended this, and hurriedly handed over the pitchfork that was placed aside, and Uncle Vinnock also leaned over with him.
The sturdy Ade took a big stride and jumped to the other side of the canal.
After standing firmly, the three of them had already formed a semicircle around their target, their six eyes fixed on this small area of water, their weapons clenched in both hands, ready to attack at any time.
Arthur no longer hesitated, lifted the pitchfork, and began to count down in his mouth.
“1… 2…… Fork! ”
The three pitchforks quickly entered the water, forking towards the seemingly empty silt, and when the pitchforks slammed into the silt, before the three of them could continue to press down, the water surface had already shook suddenly.
The water splashed with foul-smelling mud, and the air seemed to rain mud, and in an instant, three people were already drenched in stinky mud.
The shaking didn't last long, Arthur could clearly feel something rubbing his skin under his feet, he didn't move, his feet were like two stakes stuck in a canal, standing firmly in place.
I was relieved to look back at a ripple that stretched all the way to the mouth of the river, and that there was no longer a single splash in the entire canal.
"Are you gone?" Ade raised his fork and thrust a few more times into the water.
Except for the splash from the impact of the pitchfork, the water was calm, and all that was left under the canal was ordinary silt, and there were no troublesome ooze monsters lurking in it.
Arthur put down the pitchfork and squeezed his palm, he was shaken by the pitchfork that had just swayed back and forth.
That ooze monster wasn't small, and he was the only one with a lot of strength, but he couldn't deal with it.
"Of course you're leaving, and if you don't close the water gate, how many stinky guys do you want to attract?" Arthur crawled out of the canal, and driving away the ooze was only the first step, and the next thing was the most tiring work.
Ooze (Silt Type)
Talent: Free Body
Intelligence: F-.Stamina: A. Speed: C. Bloodline: 0%.Potential: B.
Evaluation: Active and mud-filled rivers and swamps, like dirty and narrow environments, a mixture of earth and water elements, and gradually grow in size as dirt accumulates, and has the talent to change its body freely after being attacked by physics.
The Ooze Monster is one of the few creatures that still maintains its pure bloodline after the Abyss invasion, and of course, it is also one of the few special creatures that is weaker than the original after being polluted by the Abyss.
The appearance of slimes can only be said to be a tragedy, except for inheriting the excellent reproductive ability of the demon, in addition to the soft mud monster, it has never inherited other advantages.
You can't just chase away the ooze monsters and don't surprise them, these elemental creatures that survive by instinct have the instinct to return to their nests.
A few pitchforks didn't hurt the guy, but they were enough to tell him that it wasn't safe and that it should find a nest again.
"I don't know how long it will last after this cleanup, it seems that the wooden fence can't stop these guys."
Arthur saw that the drained canal had been filled with meters of silt, and was very dissatisfied with his design.
Other farming families in the town also have irrigation canals, but not as large as Ade's family.
At most, it can only be dug to the thickness of the thigh, and the depth is less than 20 centimeters, and if you want to bring in more water, you have to dig more small canals to increase the flow.
Once the rain does not come in time when spring comes, it is often necessary to rely on carrying water to irrigate the farmland, which is time-consuming and laborious, and affects the yield.
For Arthur, a time-traveler who inspired the scientific world of semi-automatic agriculture, it was definitely a place worth improving.
However, Arthur apparently underestimated the complexity of the wizarding world, and after successfully building a three-dimensional canal irrigation system in his farmland, his first steps to the outside world encountered a setback.
"Don't be sad, Arthur, if it weren't for Ade's stinky boy who always forgot to check the canal after irrigation, the ooze monsters wouldn't be so easy to get in." Uncle Vinnock apparently didn't think it was Arthur's fault, and after the canal was dug, he saved a lot of time in irrigating and watering.
In particular, the branch canals, which are controlled by the water gate, allow him to control how much water needs to be filled into which fields.
In the past few years alone, thanks to Arthur's suggestions and improvements, he has gained more and more from his land.