Chapter 138: The Fierce Attack of the Swamp Fishman (Part I)
For player spellcasters, the storage of mana pearls can effectively fill their lack of mana, although the number of times a mana pearl can be recharged is not unlimited. Although a good quality mana pearl can be recharged more than ten times, the problem is that even if the quality mana pearl can hold, the amount of magic that can be held is limited, and it will not exceed 10,000 points.
Of course, it is also excluded that some top-level mana pearls have the ability to store more than 10,000 points of mana, but it is basically impossible for this kind of mana pearl to be produced in fresh water, and only this kind of top-level mana pearl can appear in the vast ocean. So Chen Kai and the others don't even think about getting that kind of pearl, because the danger of the sea in the game is much higher than that of the land.
In fact, it is a very lucky thing for Chen Kai and them to be able to obtain these mana pearls, you must know that although the market price of mana pearls is only that little, in fact, many times this kind of thing belongs to the priceless store. The group was lucky enough to get their hands on these mana pearls, and most importantly, they had bought them for rotten spears, shields, and moldy food that they couldn't sell.
Looking at the swamp fishmen who were grateful to Dade with their rags, Chen Kai and the others suddenly realized that sometimes being a profiteer is not a bad thing. Looking at the fish people who warmly welcomed them, Chen Kai and the others really wanted to transport some more garbage here to trade with the fish people.
Looking at the swamp fishman kingdom that slowly disappeared behind them, Chen Kai felt very lucky this time, but they didn't know that not long after they left the swamp fishman kingdom, the fishman kingdom that looked very honest before changed its face. The surface of his smooth body quickly grew sharp thorns, and his whole body looked like a monster covered in thorns.
After the transformation of the fish-man king, all the inhabitants of the entire swamp fish-man kingdom gradually changed into another look, and the small fish-man who originally looked cute instantly swelled into a giant fish-man monster nearly two meters high, and those female fish-men who were relatively white and smooth in some parts of the body in addition to their ugly bodies also instantly became extremely hideous and ugly.
"His Majesty the King!" A giant fishman with a height of more than two meters holding a trident that emits cold light and half-kneeling in front of this fish-man king, compared to the height of the fish-man that Chen Kai and they saw was less than one meter three, there was no doubt that the height of the fish-people in the entire swamp fish-man kingdom at this moment was extremely terrifying.
"Go to a team! Get those guys in the water! The Fish-Man King's face was extremely gloomy. Apparently he was very unhappy with the idiot he had played not long ago. However, it is no wonder that because the entire swamp fish-man kingdom has not known how long no merchants have arrived, in order to cover up their actions, all the merchants have been killed by them, and this time, if it is not for the swamp flood, it is estimated that Chen Kai and the others have not yet arrived in the swamp fish-man kingdom, they will feed the crocodile or feed the piranha on the way.
"Nope! Let's go to a few teams! Your Majesty, I found out that there were a few guys in those carriages who were not weak! If there are fewer people, maybe you won't be able to get them into the water! The prime minister, who was standing behind the fish-man king, shook his body and whispered softly with a wooden staff. Although the fish-man king felt a little depressed, he still obeyed the fish-man's words and waved his hand at the fish-man guard who was half-kneeling on the ground.
When Chen Kai and their carriage floating on the water left the swamp fish-man camp for thousands of meters, hundreds of fish-man warriors in the swamp fish-man kingdom slowly jumped into the rippling swamp lake. As they completely dived into the lake, the rippling water of the lake was hidden under the waves of water lapping against the wooden wall, and Chen Kai had no idea that there were hundreds of fishmen with weapons in their hands behind them.
The fish-men paddled gently with their webbed feet, and hundreds of fish-men moved underwater without making a sound. There wasn't even a single splash on the water. It can be said that in this environment, these fish-men are natural assassins and killers, and they can easily approach any target they want underwater, until they are close enough to launch a surprise attack.
There is no doubt that the speed of the fish-people swimming in the water is definitely much faster than that of Chen Kai and them, although they rely on the traction of two flying dragons, and the speed is far faster than that they pull with horses, but in fact, the increase in speed is still extremely limited. Several carriages carrying the supporting floating plates that had been renovated in the Fish-Man Kingdom slowly moved towards the periphery of the swamp area, standing on the carriage, Chen Kai was still thinking about trading in the Fish-Man Kingdom. But as he gradually recalled, he gradually noticed some problems.
"Fourth! Come over here and I'll ask you a few questions! Chen Kai waved his hand at Fei Yun and motioned for him to come to his place, and the latter immediately dropped the fishing rod in his hand after hearing Chen Kai's greeting, and jumped in front of Chen Kai with a slight tap on a wooden plank. His light movements barely made the carriage shake, not even the sound of the planks lapping on the water.
"What's the matter?" Fei Yun now slowly sat down cross-legged in front of Chen Kai. He didn't like to stand, because there were no guardrails on the edge of the carriage, and although some buoyancy guards had been added around by those fish-man craftsmen, Chen Kai felt that these guards were not particularly strong.
"Ask you a question! If you are poor, you can't even afford a metal weapon, and then your subjects are starving. How do you feel when a merchant brings a lot of weapons and food in front of you? Chen Kai asked in a low voice, and then recalled the expression of the fish-man king in his memory.
"I'll be delighted! Of course, if I'm a cunning person, then I won't show my face. So that we can hope to lower the price! But it was difficult to estimate, because the merchant must have already understood my situation when he brought the goods over. Fei Yun frowned and gradually figured out the reason why Chen Kai asked these questions, and he quickly recalled the expression of the Fishman King, which was an expression of indifference with a hint of falsehood. Although the Fish-Man King looks enthusiastic. He even wanted to exchange the fish-man slave at first, but now that he recalled it, he could still feel the faint perfunctory tone in the fish-man king's tone.
It's just that at that time, Chen Kai and the others were all attracted by the mana pearl, so they didn't feel the situation behind them. At the same time, the fish-man inhabitants who looked like they were suffering from hunger had a lot of suspicious things in mind at the moment. How can a place where you can take out piranha dried fish as a trade item still have the problem of food shortage.
"That's not right! It's not right! Boss, don't you think there's a problem! Fei Yun looked at Chen Kai who was frowning and felt a trembling heart, there is no doubt that there is definitely a problem with those fish people, and it is a big problem. A scam that can involve the entire Swamp Fishman Kingdom, so Fei Yun can't think of any other problems besides covering up the very important thing that he can't see people. At the same time, he felt that if his guess came true, then there was no doubt that they were definitely in danger at this moment.
"! Fooled! Stay vigilant, everyone! Armand is ready to take out the planks and put them back on! The second child informed the elven mages. We're in trouble! Chen Kai slapped his thigh and quickly stood up from the roof of the carriage, and Fei Yun in front of him had already rushed out when Chen Kai stood up, ready to replace those floating boards with Armand. Almost as soon as the first float was removed, they discovered the problem, and the fish-man craftsmen insidiously used very inferior materials to glue the floats and carriages. Although the carriage can be supported by the floating plate for a short time, the adhesive material will lose its stickiness and fall off due to soaking in water over time.
If it weren't for Chen Kai's quick inspection, all the carriages would have crashed in a few minutes, and they would have sunk into the water directly because of the disintegration of the floating board. At that time, if there was another sneak attack, it was estimated that everyone would not be able to eat and walk around. After discovering that there was something wrong with the board, they didn't think that the fishmen would be kind enough to let them out of the swamp safely.
"Heighten your vigilance! Don't let those swamp fish get under our butts! Damn, I hate it when people lie to me! Chen Kai grabbed a dismantled floating board, although the fish-man's floating board looked good, but after Chen Kai gently pinched it, it quickly broke into several pieces. There is no doubt that these sturdy-looking floats are actually defective. It's just that Chen Kai didn't find it before.
"! If they come, I'll let these guys know why the flowers are so red! Without hesitation, he put his heavy crossbow on the last carriage, and Fei Yun began to slowly pull the machine to load the crossbow arrows. At the same time, Chen Kai and Su Wan had already collected the flying dragon that led the way in the sky, and began to let several carriages slowly stop and move. The stones tied to the ropes were used as anchors to hold the carriages floating on the water.
"It's too much to say, if you can't shoot the other party, it will be too big!" Guan Yu held the big knife in his hand and smiled softly, of course, although he talked and laughed, the knife in his hand did not relax. There is no doubt that he and the dwarves are the worst in the water of all people, the dwarves don't know water at all, and he can only splash in the water a few times. Of course, there are also Su Xinghe and Chen Kai, although Su Xinghe learned to swim in the game. But the technique is not necessarily clever, Chen Kai is too big, the water here is too shallow, and there is no need to swim at all. For others, it will not be above the water level above their heads, and for Chen Kai, it is only slightly higher than his waist at most.
However, Chen Kai is not a fool, he knows very well that if he jumps into the water, even if the water level around him is only lower than his waist, if he accidentally steps into the swamp, then the swamp that is still soaked in mud by the lake water will swallow him up in an instant. When the time comes, even if he is more than three meters tall, he will still grunt a few times and disappear into the water. Some swamps and mud ponds can be swallowed up in an instant, even if Chen Kai is more than ten meters tall.
There was no doubt that when Chen Kai and the others stopped moving, the fishmen who were following had already discovered it. These fishmen didn't think that Chen Kai and they stopped to boo, they naturally knew that their actions might have been detected, so in order to ensure that nothing was wrong, these fishmen did not attack immediately but lurked.
Everyone quietly looked at the rippling swampy lake. The originally expected attack did not appear, but Chen Kai and the others did not relax. Everyone's eyes were staring at the murky water like brass bells, trying to see through the surface of the water to see what was beneath the surface. It's a pity that even Chen Kai's eye of the stars can't see what is underwater through the water, and the swampy lake with rolling turbidity hinders the ability to detect the divine vision. Actually faced with this kind of water situation. Unless it's an archmage blessed with the True Eye, don't want to see what's beneath the water's surface.
Chen Kai and his team did have archmages and even legendary spellcasters, but the problem was that the archmages had not yet fully recovered, and now they were as weak as a weak chicken. Not to mention the legendary spellcasters, they originally thought that they had obtained a shortcut to recovery, but seeing the terrifying scene created by the demigods, the courage of several legendary mages quickly became smaller than ants, and they did not dare to use the demigod realm world fragments to recover. Therefore, their combat effectiveness is still very poor, and when dealing with the corpses of the demigods, the families of several elven mages are almost hollowed out, and now the spell means in their hands have become even less.
Therefore, in the face of the swampy lake with turbid waves, the only thing that a few elven mages could do was to tell Chen Kai that it was safe within ten meters of the carriage, and they would not know about it ten meters away, because they really couldn't see the situation ten meters away without the detection technique supported by magic now.
"Wenzi! Does the Wizard's Eye work underwater? Chen Kai asked He Liwen who was not far away. The latter shook his head at first, but nodded quickly. Previously, he shook his head because ordinary materials that release the Wizard's Eye would definitely not be able to enter the water, as the eyeball-soaking potion would be ineffective when it touched the water. But He Liwen can use other methods, such as using a sealed glass bottle to put the eyeball in, so that it can be completely waterproof.
Of course, in order to sink the glass bottle filled with air into the water, He Liwen also needs to tie ropes and stones to it. When the glass bottles containing eyeballs were thrown into the water, although the pictures they saw were still muddy, it really made Chen Kai and them find some black shadows staying under the water.
"Shoot me! Shoot these garbage fishmen! Damn, dare to sneak underwater and prepare for a sneak attack, see who sneaks up on whom this time! There is no doubt that with the help of He Liwen's spell, Chen Kai found the fishmen hiding under the water, although the shadows in the murky swampy lake are very blurry, and these fishmen are lying underwater, and the target is even more difficult to determine. But in line with the idea of preferring to kill mistakes and not let go. Chen Kai still patted Fei Yun on the shoulder and motioned for him to pull the trigger and kill the fishman who was exposed to the sight of the wizard's eye under the water.
"Don't worry! I promise to shoot that guy! Fei Yun patted his chest, of course, the movement in his hand did not stop, although he was very confident in his heavy crossbow, but he had not tried to shoot the object under the surface of the water with the heavy crossbow before. But in the end, Fei Yun still bit and pulled the trigger hard, because He Liwen told him that if he didn't do anything again, the underwater fish man was going to change places. After all, those fish-people are not stupid, their eyesight is much better than ordinary people underwater, and they can naturally see the glass bottles suspended in the water and the constantly rotating eyeballs inside.
"Poof!" When the very crisp sound of entering the water sounded, Chen Kai and the others quickly saw a few faint drops of blood floating on the water, and at the same time, He Liwen also found that the body of the fishman who had just moved was nailed underwater. When the struggling blisters slowly rise on the surface of the water. Fei Yun had already pulled the trigger a second time, and more crossbow arrows flew into the water, hitting the fishman underwater.
"This fish-man is very strong!" Looking at the 10,000 experience points in his pocket, Fei Yun didn't have many happy thoughts, on the contrary, he was very worried because the higher the experience points obtained, the stronger the opponent's strength, and he knew that the experience points he gained would be directly deducted by killing the target with a heavy crossbow.
"Be careful, everyone! Those guys should be ready to come up now! When Fei Yun stopped pulling the trigger. Chen Kai already knew that those fishmen might jump directly out of the water in the next moment, but he only guessed part of it. Something did leap out of the water, but it wasn't the fish-people but the trident they held in their hands.
When hundreds of heavy tridents rushed out of the water with a whistling sound, Chen Kai's eyes instantly straightened. There is no doubt that these tridents are definitely heavy weapons. Just looking at the volume, it is not the kind of small fishman that Chen Kai and the others encountered before can wield. At the same time, he also saw the hideous fish-people under the water's surface, and these fish-people did not look like the ones seen in the swamp fish-man kingdom at all, because there was a big difference in appearance between the two.
"Shield!" There is almost no need for Chen Kai to shout. Chen Yi directly unfolded the sacred wall and began to protect everyone, but when the first wave of tridents bombarded the shield, Chen Yi found that he couldn't hold it. Because the power of these fish-men is too great, the power of throwing tridents is very high.
In just a few clicks, Chen Yi's sacred protective wall was blasted open, and at this time, Chen Kai and the others had already seen the tridents behind them cross the broken shield and pierce towards the people in the carriage. Although several dwarves immediately raised their muskets and fired at this time, few of the dwarves fired bullets that hit the fishmen, and the action of their shooting left the dwarves exposed to the attacks of the tridents.
Thankfully, the caster on the carriage quickly launched a second round of defense, and Elion's daughter, Evelyn, a ruined natural mage, summoned a rattan with a spell that entangled the trident that fell towards the dwarves in mid-air. When Chen Kai and the others blocked all the tridents, at least a third of the planks that were originally used to maintain the buoyancy of the carriage were destroyed. (To be continued......)