Chapter 471: Fire and Ice Island 12
"This is a bit of a cheat!" After hesitating, the scavenger tried to use the python swallowing bracelet once, but was unlucky and failed. Although the attribute is also reduced by 50% after failure, it seems that there is no change, but it is a bit of a trick. Because this descent is based on the current attribute.
For example, the original attribute base attribute is 100, and the lucky success attribute becomes 150, an increase of 50%. And on the 150 attribute luck failure, the reduction of 50% is not the original increase of 50 attributes, but 75 attributes, that is, the original success and failure should be a draw, but now it has lost 25 points of basic attributes, such a provision is indeed a bit of a cheat. Of course, if you are lucky, you will add 50% to the attribute of 150, so this setting makes people love and hate.
Holding the last lucky charm left, the scavenger hesitated for a moment and decided to find the right equipment later, because he had a feeling that the first luck of the equipment seemed to be easy to succeed, and the second and third times would require luck against the sky. Although one piece of equipment can't be used to the extreme, equipment like the Thunderbolt Tomahawk is enough to go against the sky, even if it is only lucky once. So it's not bad to keep one for later, after all, this thing doesn't mean that there is one.
"Now is the key." After recovering, he came out of hiding and looked at the snow in front of him, and the scavenger's eyes flashed. The towering snow-capped mountain in front of you is the central area of Ice and Fire Island, and whether it is Adventurers, Hope City, or Jiangnan City, the members of this competition will be far away from each other. Therefore, it is not only monsters that want to live in this place, but sometimes people are more terrible than monsters.
"If you don't come, it's enough. Kill them all if you dare to do it to me. The scavenger licked his frozen, chapped lips and smiled evilly. Since the first time he was confused by the glowing star, the scavenger's heart knot has been opened little by little, and his true nature has been released little by little as he has set things right.
Especially the dusty memory is loosened, and the return of the main soul makes the scavenger more and more of a young and frivolous feeling, although the past experience makes him more stable than other young people, but the bones are like angry youth, and sometimes the blood that ignores the hot head is constantly stirring. At this time, the worldly confinement is constantly loosening, and the rational calmness is from time to time overshadowed by nonsensical impulses, but the scavenger feels surprisingly good, because in this way he feels what it is really like to be alive.
So if it was before, the scavenger was rational in completing the task. In such a place where the strong gather, they will definitely hide and walk. Collect treasures in the dark to complete quests. This is the calmness that a soldier must have, the loneliness that he must endure in order to complete the task, which is almost cold-blooded rationality.
But now this feeling is still there, but the scavenger thinks it's not bad to meet it. In this way, you can snatch what you want from the other person. In the past, he was a soldier and had to be decent in order to complete his tasks. And now he is a young man, stirring up the enthusiasm and impulse that he deserves. and the inexplicable vanity of overcoming all the strong men of his generation.
The cold wind bites the snowflakes and keeps flying, and I don't know if it is snowing in the sky, or if the wind blows the snowflakes into the air and keeps flying. The scavenger wrapped himself in white fur. It is difficult to spot from a distance that blends in with the surrounding snow, but when you get closer, you look more like a stupid bear than a human.
"Grandma D is so cold, why is it so cold." The scavenger shivered incessantly, and the biting cold wind seemed to penetrate the thick fur and penetrate deep into the bone marrow, making the scavenger feel like his blood was about to be coagulated. Tilting his head and pouring a mouthful of alcohol, the scavenger's face suddenly turned red, and then a tongue of fire flowed down the esophagus into the stomach, making the scavenger's stiff limbs can't help but flow through a warm current, and the originally stiff body warmed up.
That's right, the scavenger drinks not any spirits but alcohol, as for the exact coming and out, it is naturally the alcohol lamps of different sizes used when he Ao Zhao used medicine, because alcohol has a disinfecting effect, so the scavenger dry alcohol lamp is not filled with industrial alcohol, but medical alcohol. In this way, it can also be used to disinfect and use wine when cleaning the wound.
However, the scavenger never thought that this alcohol would have a triple purpose for drinking, and that was when the liquor was drunk at this time to keep warm. It's so cold in this place, at least minus 30 degrees Celsius, and if there is nothing in the igloo that has been dug up, the white bear skin that the scavenger has made is not very warm.
But when you go out and walk in such a temperature, it is a bit offensive, especially when it is cold and windy. It's the scavenger's wrists, ankles and other places that are tightly tied with animal tendons, but the biting cold wind is still pervasive, and I don't know where the road comes from, constantly drilling into the clothes, making the scavenger feel that the bones are frozen off.
"Hot springs." With his hands in his cuffs, the scavenger was like an old farmer and still had a runny nose, but the snot was frozen into ice as soon as it came down, and he needed to be carefully cleaned up from time to time so as not to block his breathing.
Along the way, the scavenger met two, harvested a few unique curiosities next to the hot spring, and also resisted the cold in the hot spring. And I searched all the miles around the hot springs, and it was much more comfortable to run in the hot springs than in the igloos.
In addition to quickly relieving fatigue, it also has a great effect on wound recovery and physical enhancement. It's a bit slow, but it's a really side-effect increase, and it doesn't require much effort, just a good night's sleep in the hot springs.
However, although he found that the hot spring scavenger wanted to jump in and soak in immediately, he resisted the temptation. Hot springs can be said to be a gift from God in this cold environment, and God has blessed not only travelers, but also monsters living in this cold environment.
In fact, the scavengers encountered not just two, but five hot springs along the way. He had only soaked in two hot springs, and the other three were either too hot for the scavengers to go in, or too hot to use. Rather, one of the three hot springs is surrounded by a group of monkeys. The lowest level of monkey monsters is B-level 1-star, and the innermost surrounded monkey king is a B-level 11-star boss.
If the scavengers have a team, they can also beat the attention of this monkey group, kill the boss and take the hot springs. But he is the only one, and the intelligence of the monkey monsters is also very high, and when a monkey is attacked, it will scream and call for friends to besiege it, and after a few attempts, he really can't do it, and the scavenger has to bypass it from afar.
There is a three-headed python beast living in another hot spring, and although the level of this beast is not high, it is only B-level 6 stars, which is within the range of the scavenger's tolerance, but its intelligence is not low. No matter how much the scavenger lures him, he just doesn't come out of the hot springs. In the snow, the scavenger has the strength to take out the three-headed python. But going down to the hot springs to fight, the scavenger thought about it and counted it.
And the third hot spring is even more bizarre, where there are no monsters, only one plant grows. A plant that resembles a banyan tree. The roots are deeply rooted in the hot springs. The scavengers speculated that it might have taken root in the volcano beneath the hot springs. Looking at the hierarchy of the system, there is no information, which means that it is not among ordinary monsters.
The trees have green leaves and flowers. In the cold environment of heavy snow, I think it is a rare sight, and the scavenger sees that he meets nature and goes up to take a look, and he originally wanted to get two fruits, but he got a mess in the end. As long as you are within ten meters of the tree, then the tree does not know what kind of tree it is, and it seems to come to life. Every branch is not as hard as iron or as sharp as an arrow, but it is soft and tenacious, tying people up and unable to break free.
The scavenger worked hard all day, and then he cut off a few branches, not to mention the fruit, and not even a single leaf, so he had to retreat in embarrassment. So when encountering this hot spring in front of me, the scavenger can't say be careful.
First, I pulled the snow and found a few stones from under the thick layer of snow and threw them in, and waited for a long time to no avail. The scavenger took out a long rope from the Boundless Ring, the rope was made of many pale red fibers, which was not only extremely tough, but also very resistant to high temperatures.
One end of the rope was tied with a sturdy hook made of alloy, and after rummaging through the vast ring, the scavenger pulled out a bloody corbel, which is the product of the yak's high cold and main food for the scavenger. Hook all the hooks into the corbel, and then drop a few stones on the corbel, and then throw it far into the hot spring, not counting the rope to make the corbel fall. It felt like the depth was about the same, and at the other end was a hard rock to tie to it.
This is the way that the scavenger came up with to detect whether the hot spring is dangerous after entering the snow, the temperature is very cold and the food is scarce when the snow mountain is up, and the monsters here can be said to see what they eat, so it is the best way to use food to test whether there is danger in the hot spring.
And even if there is no danger in the hot springs, the current depth of the corbel falls, the high temperature below is at least 100 degrees, and after waiting at this temperature for an hour, the corbel will be thoroughly cooked. Sprinkle a little salt after a meeting and it's a rare cooked food in the snow, and it's hot.
After all this, the scavenger squatted next to the rock, rubbed a few times to make a snow nest and hid in it, and then put one hand on the rope to feel the movement of the rope, although this seems to be fishing, but the scavenger's tools are not complete after all, so there is no swim bladder to see if the 'fish' is biting, can only be judged by the vibration of the rope.
After squatting, the scavenger wiped it off his chest as if he were idle, but instead of smoke, he felt some sun-dried and rare pulp. There are also some processed ginseng slices or something, and smoking in this highland climate is undoubtedly a cumbersome enjoyment. Therefore, snacks have become the first choice of scavengers, and the rare flesh rhizomes are very easy to handle, and they can increase the ability of the body after eating, so the scavengers chew a few pieces when there is nothing to do.
"It's coming!" An hour later, when the scavenger felt that the beef leg should be almost cooked, and was ready to pull it up and enjoy it himself, and then use other methods to find out if it was safe in the hot spring, the rope shook violently.
The scavenger jumped out of the snow and released the mech. The mecha stared at the rock with one leg, and the other leg landed on the ground, and the huge mecha leaned back, pulling the rope with both hands and pulling it back alternately, quickly pulling the rope out of the hot spring.
As the scavenger pulled back at a rapid pace, he could clearly feel the vibration and struggle at the other end of the rope, like a big fish caught. I want to get rid of the hook's shackles, but it seems that I can't break free after a few struggles because of the pain, and I cautiously follow the hook to rise.
"Oh my god!" After pulling all the ropes up, the scavenger couldn't help but scream, and the toad that had been the size of a grinding disc was pulled out of the hot spring by the scavenger, and the toad's whole body was snow-white and crystal clear, as if it was carved with beautiful jade, but at this time the toad looked a little miserable, and the hook of the alloy was swallowed by it along with the corbel to that part of the stomach, and at this time, blood continued to spurt out of its mouth and stained the ground red.
Ice Toad: Legend has it that a monster with the blood of ancient beasts, cold and refined by nature, lives in the cold ice, likes to live in hot springs when molting, and the scavenger instantly flashed the record on the map of beasts given to him by Li Lao. It's not a monster, it's a monster with treasures all over it.
"Good stuff. Good things ......" The scavenger began to drool after being surprised by the size of the ice toad. The appearance of such a strange beast is higher than all the scavengers' harvest these days combined. Especially the ice toad, which is extremely rare among foreign beasts, its flesh and blood and body are even more rare among the treasures, and the value of such a large one is immeasurable.
"Don't bleed, that's all good." The scavenger quickly looped the rope around the rocks a few times, then put away the mech and rushed towards the ice toad. If the other beast scavengers might be careful. But Ice Toad doesn't have to. Because 99% of the ice toad's offensive means are pulled by its mouth. Spit out the cold air and freeze the opponent, or the perverted tongue of the universal glue in the depths of the opponent and swallow it.
And now because the alloy hook and the corbel were swallowed into the stomach by the ice toad, the mouth of the ice toad, which was constantly bleeding, was hooked. There is simply no way to attack. It's like a tiger without teeth, and although it has a little more strength, it's much easier to deal with.
In less than ten minutes, the scavenger dealt with the ice toad, carefully taking advantage of the fact that the ice toad's body was still hot, and the scavenger collected the last bit of blood from the ice toad, and then the mucus on the tongue, the eyes, the skin, ...... He didn't even let go of the ice toad's feces, and stuffed all the materials into the Boundless Ring.
After dealing with the ice toad, the scavenger pushed off his clothes and put them in the ring, jumped into the hot springs naked, and sank with a rope and another corbel. The scavenger fixed the rope two meters under the water with iron, so that even if anyone passed overhead, they would not notice that there was such a thing underneath the hot spring, and with the scavenger's cleaning of the battlefield around the hot spring, the place quickly returned to peace, and there was no difference from other hot springs where monsters were hidden.
After fixing the rope, the scavenger came out of the water to take a breath, and then shook his body, and the ice toad skin that was originally placed in the Boundless Ring was taken out by the scavenger and draped over himself. Then the scavenger swam like a toad towards the bottom of the hot spring.
Ice toads are generally said to live in extremely cold ice, and only when they molt their skin does they use the temperature of the hot spring to help them molt. And the ice toad's hungry fart is indescribably comfortable to wear on his body, although it is an excellent ice attribute material, but it is extremely resistant to high temperatures.
The scavenger went all the way down to the crater at the bottom of the hot spring, and the boiling heat was able to cook the raw self that reached this place, and then shook the whole body and the meat fell off and only the bones were fully cooked. But for the scavenger in ice toad skin, there is no harm in the slightest.
When the ice toad molts its skin, it is the most irritable time, coupled with the natural vigilance of the alien beast, at this time, even if the two ice toads of a male and a female stay together, they will fight. So there is no need to continue exploring, after fishing for the ice toad in the hot spring, the scavenger knows that this hot spring has no other monsters except the ice toad, and it is very safe.
After diving for a few tens of meters, the scavenger reached a depth of 200 meters below the hot spring, and the temperature at the bottom of the hot spring was extremely high a few hundred meters, almost the same as lying in the magma. Although the scavenger wearing ice toad skin did not feel any heat, the temperature of the water at this time, and the hot bubbles that kept bubbling up underneath made the scavenger feel stressed and unable to dive.
The surrounding area is turbid, there is red water everywhere, there is no other thing to be seen, the scavenger is deep in the stone walls around him, constantly groping, everything that can be detained, everything that can be detained, everything that dances like aquatic plants, all pulled out and thrown into the boundless ring.
Anything that can exist at this temperature, whether it is an ore or a curiose, is an unobtainable treasure. This is also one of the reasons why the scavenger is so excited to see the ice toad, without the protection of the ice toad's skin, the scavenger simply cannot withstand the high temperature of such a deep hot spring, and these things naturally have nothing to do with him.
An hour later, the scavenger, who had completed the sixth step of evolution in time and had been holding his breath for a long time, also felt tightness in his chest, and then began to swim quickly towards the scavenger. When his head came out of the water, the scavenger gasped for air.
Withdrawing the ice toad skin from his body and carefully putting it away, the scavenger looked around and found that there was no danger, and then pulled up the beef leg that he threw down to cook, shook off the person on the beef leg, and sprinkled a layer of fine salt on it, and then reached out and rubbed it a few times to let the fine salt melt in, the scavenger took out a knife and began to eat beef, although the taste was a bit monotonous, but in the cold snow to have such a food scavenger is already very satisfied.
While eating meat, I poured wine over and over again, but this time it was monkey wine, not alcohol. The scavenger ate for half an hour, and finally threw away the cow's head bone in his hand, which did not have a trace of minced meat left, and then leaned comfortably against the shore wall of the hot spring.
After resting for another half an hour, the scavenger went in with fatigue all over, and digested a lot of food to replenish his body. The leather scavenger wearing the ice toad was like a toad shallow towards the bottom of the hot spring, and it seemed that he had been holding his breath for a long time, but most of the time was spent diving and searching, in fact, the harvest was not small. And the hot spring is like an upside-down bowl, the top seems not to be big, but the area below is not small, so the scavenger searched an area, with the convenience of the ice toad skin, if he didn't carefully scavenge all the clean, the scavenger felt sorry for himself.
"It's almost the same time again, I didn't expect there to be a fire drill here, and now the thing made by the trigger is a fork." I don't know how many times the scavenger came up, panting and resting on the hot spring stone wall, holding a fist-sized gem in his hand, the color of the gem crimson like chicken blood.
However, this is not the ruby on it but a fire diamond, and the crystal clear body contains a terrifying fire element. If such a fire diamond were to be seen by a fire mage in the West, it would definitely go crazy. Even if the rare professional warlocks in the East see it, they will fight with the scavengers.
The hot springs are 200 meters deep, not something that players can reach at the moment. Naturally, the Fire Diamond is not currently available to players, and even if there are players who can reach a depth of 200 meters in the hot springs, there may not be a Fire Diamond at this depth. Fire diamonds are only bred in the core of volcanoes and are known as the heart of volcanoes. Being able to find this thing at a depth of 200 meters in the hot springs can be said to be scavenger's shit luck.
"Almost, one more search below will be done, and then the hot spring will be centered on the surrounding area for ten miles, and then continue to move forward. There are so many treasures in this place, and I'm sorry for myself if I don't get a little more. "After resting, the scavenger ate once, and a lot of physical labor made him hungry quickly, but the rope hooked the beef and cooked it underneath, and the scavenger was not afraid of starvation.
After diving down again, the scavenger began to feel the rock wall to search for the most difficult area, realistically found the mark he had left, and then continued to search to the right of the mark until he found another mark. The pressure of the surrounding water allows the sensitive scavenger to leave the mark at the same height, thus avoiding repeated searches. Except for a few mistakes before, and after a few meters of groping, I came across another mark, everything else went well.
After half an hour of searching, the scavenger came across another mark, and knowing that he had completely searched the area, he began to float, and stopped and began to touch the stone wall to see if there was anything else. However, it is difficult to breed creatures in the depths of the hot springs, and although a few pieces of suspected ore were dug up during this period, the harvest was not large. It also broke the scavenger's mind to explore all the places in the two-hundred-meter area. (To be continued......)