Chapter 45: The Poor Dagger (2)
Anyone who grew up in the countryside may know such a method of fishing.
Dig a pit near the river to connect it with the water in the river. Then cover with aquatic weeds, cover up, and sprinkle broken rice or other bait to attract fish to swim here.
After a while, as long as these pits are cut off from the passage of the creek with earth, they can catch turtles in the urn once. As soon as the aquatic plants on the top are removed, you can catch the fish directly. It takes a lot of effort to use an abandoned ditch with a large area and a lot of water depth. You need to use the sun for a few hours to wait until the water level drops and the fish, shrimp, crabs and mussels have nowhere to hide.
This method is simple to operate, and the labor is not large, but the waiting time is long. When Richard was young, when he lived at his grandmother's house in the countryside, he often played like this with his friends.
Now, he's using it for the Demon Shark hunt.
Since the object to be dealt with is a giant beast that is forty meters long and weighs hundreds of tons, it also knows magic. So, the pit he prepared was a little bigger.
The small lake can be hundreds of acres in size, and the average water depth is about thirty meters, which is not an insult to this giant monster polluted by elemental power.
Using the earthen wall technique in advance to cut off the stream behind him was the first step for him to prepare for the net.
Thinking about it with your ass, you also know that if this small river doesn't dry up, then the picture will be exhausted, and the demon shark will still come from wherever it comes, and it will go back from whichever side.
But as soon as the stream used as a channel was broken, it wanted to go back to the Campas River behind it, but it could only bounce a kilometer or two.
Richard laughed at this.
If it wants to have this ability, then what else to fight, just kowtow to it and admit defeat.
And emptying such a lake sounds like a fantasy.
The reason why the people watching the battle behind him did not know about his actions was because they did not understand his intentions. After all, compared to setting up an ambush in a creek, it is inconceivable to drain a lake or something.
But such an incredible, unexpected event, is itself possible to be implemented.
The land beneath Richard's feet had been a quarry before. The towering walls of the city of Campas, which are tens of kilometers long, can be taken from the stone produced here. Hundreds of years of mining have already made this area full of potholes. Coupled with the flash floods that flood in late spring every year, many places have collapsed into depressions.
The creek that drained was in the subsidence zone, which is why it was so easy to deal with.
As for the lake, its shore is connected to the hilly terrain behind it, and it is still the original foundation. If you look at it from a distance, you may be able to see that it forms a faulty structure with the plain in front of it.
The small lake is like a big bowl hanging high in the air.
Richard's goal was to hollow out the bottom of it, revealing a few large holes.
Several more locations were moved, and at each point, Richard repeated the work of throwing scrolls and blasting stones.
Closely following Richard, Diana couldn't help but think of yesterday's events. When she heard Richard's bold "pit to pit" plan, even she was a little surprised that she had always seen big scenes.
The interior of the small lake has actually moved some hands and feet.
At Richard's suggestion, she used spell magic to dig deep holes from the bottom of the lake. Now the place where Richard bombed was precisely the "plug" of these potholes.
Richard's plan was really not complicated.
Although Diana has never been to the countryside of the earth, she still knows about setting up pits for fishing. But when you think about it, Diana doesn't think she can have this brain, and thinks of using this set to deal with the demon shark.
I'm afraid that even if there is such an idea by chance, she will immediately reject it.
There are so many things to think about.
What if the demon shark can survive in dry water?
Isn't there a torrent of rain in its magic?
Where can I find such a big pit?
How to lure the demon shark into the pit and quietly cut off its back path?
Diana was sure that if she had thought of the trick at the time, she would have definitely popped up these questions at the first moment. And because of the existence of these problems, the plan was immediately vetoed.
Richard is different from hers in this regard.
He could be sure that the Demon Shark was powerless in the face of dryness, and that the mirror magic it knew couldn't summon a rainstorm, among many other things.
Because, he had done a full thirty-seven sets of experiments before.
Some are directed at the olfactory preference of the demon shark.
Some mirror magic against demon sharks.
Some of them react to being in a waterless place.
There are also some cases where they can't breathe, how long can the demon shark last.
......
Pile by pile, piece by piece, all dealt with, Richard finally made up the plan.
And by this time, the foundation of the demon shark had already been clear. Anyone who has mastered these can come up with all kinds of reliable plans.
Knowing people and knowing oneself, invincible.
Touch the enemy's bottom to the bottom, no matter how strong it is, it will not seem invincible. In contrast, the unknown is the greatest enemy.
Diana couldn't help but think of Richard's words.
He could indeed be an amazing person.
On the other side, Heloise, who followed Richard closely, also had special ideas.
What amazed her the most were the experiments designed by Richard.
None of these experiments were carried out directly with the Demon Shark, all of them were done with a good stand-in. For example, during the olfactory experiment, I found a normal river shark. During the breathing experiment, several large pairs were designed, all of which were demonic beasts that were contaminated by the elements on one side and possessed magic, and on the other side were corresponding ordinary individuals. Judging from these experimental designs, they are undoubtedly delicate and ingenious, and there is no trace of hasty launch at all.
This shocked Heloise.
Because it means that Richard did it on purpose, not on a whim.
Thinking of the black box before her, she thought that it was very likely that Richard had mastered a whole set of research methods, so that he could prescribe the right medicine.
As for Audrey, who was with them, the moment was as white as paper.
Thinking back on what had happened, she hated her own rashness. actually took it for granted that the three people in front of her were brainwashed and did that kind of child's play all day long.
He shouldn't be underestimated. Her Royal Highness pondered silently, full of regret.
She and Richard have a pact......
When the "plug" of the last pit was blown off, the demon shark in the small lake had already reacted.
Aware of the fact that the water around it was declining, it was freed from the urge to forage for food for the first time, and began to wander around, looking for a clue.
Unfortunately, the contamination of elemental power can only make it bigger and bigger, and it has some magic, but it can't significantly increase its IQ, so that it can only witness everything around it in a daze.
Suddenly, it had an amazing move.
That is to find the original creek and go up the stream!
Unfortunately, the Demon Shark ran into an obstacle.
The earthen wall that Richard had set up for it stood in front of it.
This earthen wall, however, is a particularly thickened version, it is 40 meters thick, and its hardness has also been strengthened, just to target it to jump over the wall.
Richard hadn't forgotten that he had to deal with a behemoth weighing nearly 100 tons.
With a rumbling sound, the instinctive demon shark began to hit the wall, and immediately another splash of water was spreading.
The whole plan has finally reached its most dangerous time.