Chapter XXVI Underground Waterways
This time it rained for a whole day. After the sky cleared, Lin Ye pushed away the thick plank and poked his head out of the hollow log.
The sky was lifeless, and there was no clear cloud or breeze.
The ground beneath his feet became muddy. The deep pit dug in front of it was washed away by the torrential rain, and the soft soil around it sank into a funnel-shaped pool.
His hideout was hit by torrential rains, and structural problems began to occur.
The two sticks of wood against the log had been soaked by the rain, and the original upturned log had also tilted down, and it was planted headlong into the ground, and the bark on it was torn off by the torrential rain.
Lin Ye flapped his wings, took a thicker wooden stick in his mouth, and lifted the log again. He found a few more turquoise leaves to cover the broken part of the log, and then took a few pieces of mud and applied them as a binder.
If a few more rainstorms poured, his hiding place might only last a few times, not for long.
Please note the time limit for the random mission, there are 61 hours and 17 minutes left until the mission deadline. "A reminder sound came from the growth system.
Lin Ye didn't care. Because time is still relatively rich, the danger of this random mission is not the time limit, but the hidden danger.
He shook the fluff off his body, he had to keep his body dry at all times because of the Flame Feather Cloak's skills.
Jumping up to the edge of the pool, taking a sip of water, and cleaning the dust off his body a little. The accumulated rainwater is very clear. The pool reflected the shadow of Lin Ye, a thin and capable chick who was tilting its head to look at the bottom of the pool.
The water is very clear, not muddy like a swamp. Through the crystal clear pool, you can see the bottom at a depth of 10 meters.
The bottom of the funnel-shaped pool is exactly the rock layer dug through by Lin Ye, which is more than ten meters deep.
Although the sunlight was gray and almost invisible to the naked eye, the roots of the trees at the bottom of the pool could be faintly recognized as soaked in water.
The roots seem to have grown a little longer than they used to. There is a groove in the center around the roots of the tree, which is left by Lin Ye taking away the natural stone.
After losing the natural stones, the roots of the trees all wilted and drooped at the bottom of the pool.
Huh, there's a slender root that seems to be moving?
Lin Ye blinked, wanting to look more closely. He vaguely saw a slender hair writhing in the water at the bottom of the pool, like the flagella of some single-celled organism, swimming in the water.
Just when he wanted to see more clearly, the root of the tree that Lin Ye was watching suddenly twisted violently, like a long tongue, stretching out to rush over like Lin Ye!
Lin Ye's eyes widened, what is this!
At the same time, a drop of water dropped from a leaf overhead, breaking the silence of the pool.
The surface of the water suddenly fluttered, and there was a ripple.
Lin Ye screamed, took a small step back, pushed the dirt under his feet, and took several steps back in a row before he came to his senses. His breathing became scrambled. Just as he was looking at it, this drop of water fluttered and scared him.
The surface of the water fluctuated, like a shattered mirror, and it took dozens of seconds for the "mirror" to return to its original state.
Squinting his eyes at the bottom of the pool, he found that the roots of the trees under the pool were still motionless, and what he saw just now seemed to be an illusion.
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Looking back, I looked at the crevice in the rock that sucked in rainwater like a sewer mouth. The torrential rain has divided the ground into ravines, and two shallow ditches several centimeters wide lead to the rock crevices, and although the rainstorms have stopped, the shallow water gullies still carry the rainwater from the ground to the rock crevices that have not yet penetrated into the ground.
For the time being, you will not be able to enter until all this stagnant water is drained into the rock crevices.
Lin Ye took out the small kettle from the log, and the seeds brought out of the cordyceps field had now grown simple roots after fifteen days.
Sweet millet seedlings are ready to be planted!
Lin Ye dug a small pit on the edge of the pool, then gently took the stem of the seedling in his mouth, and carefully inserted the seedling vertically into the mud pit. Since it is a type of ancient rice, it should be suitable to be planted near the water. And this pool, which falls from the sky, naturally becomes the best place to plant.
Little rice seedlings grow up quickly, my growth value depends on you. Lin Ye thought in his heart, and generally pulled his paws to draw a waterway between the small pit where the rice seedlings were located and the small pool. In this way, the sweet millet rice seedlings will not be worried about running out of water.
An hour passed.
Lin Ye built a fence made of wooden strips around the seedling to prevent ancient cockroaches or other insects from destroying it. He still remembered the huge moth he had seen when he first entered the forest, sticking its stinging breath into the trunk of the tree and sucking the sap, and the small rice seedling Coco could not withstand the toss.
Now, if he saw that moth, Lin Ye was confident that he would be able to repel it.
The murmuring water became trickling, and the two shallow ditches leading to the rock crevices finally dried up.
The lizard emerged from the hole, as if the rainstorm had not affected it at all. It turned, opened its mouth wide and yawned. Immediately afterwards, its body was picked up by Lin Ye.
The eyeless lizard, which was still in a daze, had just come out of the hole, and then it was picked up by Lin Ye and drilled back.
Lead the way, lizard!
This eyeless lizard has lived in underground waterways for a long time and is familiar with the dark underground waterways. If there is danger, it will definitely know.
The entrance to the lizard's nest is in the same direction as the current, and it is on top of a rock crevice, so it will not be flooded by rainwater.
In front of me is the entrance to the underground waterway, damp and muddy under the rain, and a few leaves blocking it.
Clicked the lizard on the ground. Lin Ye pulled out the leaves and began to squeeze his body into the entrance of the underground waterway.
After breaking through to the middle level, Lin Ye did not come here to get water, but because of the reason of exercising his physique, he went to the clear spring in the swamp area to get water.
He forgot that after the mid-level of the Hatching Stage, he was also a third larger in size. Originally, the entrance to the waterway was very narrow, and now it is not suitable for Lin Ye to enter.
First he reached into his left wing, then his legs kept kicking the ground, and he squirmed forward little by little with the help of the recoil force. After trying hard for a while, Lin Ye was embarrassed to find that he was stuck in the middle.
It won't be so unlucky. Lin Ye was depressed in his heart, his legs were floating in the air, and he couldn't find a point to borrow. The two wings of his upper body are propped up on the stone wall, and he wants to bring his body out with the strength of feeding, but he is just a little bit weaker.
At this moment, a thrust came from behind Lin Ye. The lizard saw that Lin Ye had not moved, it tilted its head and bumped into Lin Ye curiously.
With this thrust, Lin Ye immediately squeezed out of the underground waterway.
Lin Ye slammed into the underground waterway, shook his head, and the lizard followed Lin Ye in.
The water under his feet was turbulent, and the water level was several centimeters higher than the first time, and the deepest part even almost submerged to the base of Lin Ye's legs. The sound of the noisy water echoes in the underground waterways, like the sound of waves crashing against rocks, and it does not stop for a moment.
The lizard erected, spitting out letters, and crawled onto the walls of the waterway to avoid the currents that could flood its head.
Lin Ye walked against the edge of the waterway, and it was extremely dark inside. Suddenly, something went up against the current and hit Lin Ye's feet, and he pecked at once, who had been vigilant.
Raising his head, Lin Ye had a small fish in his mouth.
The scales of the small fish were shining silver, and under the observation of the forensic eye, I saw that the scales were still refracting a faint yellow light.
"Successful species identification, silver-scaled fish, about three centimeters long, cold-water lake fish, good at reverse swimming, devouring algae. ”
Lin Ye listened to the results of the system's appraisal while swallowing the small fish.
"The growth value has increased a bit, and it has reached 163 points. ”
Although the growth value is not much, it is better than nothing. What's more, this fish brought more information to Lin Ye.
According to the system, this silver-scaled fish should live in the lake.
Looking at the direction of the underground waterway, thinking of the terrain explored, the end of the current should lead to his birthplace, the Blood Moon Lake, which is a B+ danger.