Chapter 61: The Bottom of the Sea
When sleeping outside, you must be vigilant when sleeping, Gray Liu'er can't count on it, but Xiaowei is still very vigilant outside.
However, Fengyun still left a little careful, and laid a simple cover around him before going to bed, not hoping to hurt people, as long as he could report in advance when danger was approaching.
When she got up early in the morning, Fengyun woke up Gray Liu'er, and ran to the beach with sleepy eyes.
When the tide is not high before sunrise, the seafood left on the beach after the tide receded last night is full of seafood, and you don't need to go into the water, just pick it up. Flocks of seabirds are also pecking on the beach, the small crabs are desperately crawling into the sea, but they can't escape the claws of the gray Liu'er, and the little ones hiding in the cracks of the beach rocks waiting for the next high tide can hide longer, but there are also unfortunate people who are pecked out by the seabirds and swallowed.
After washing her face with the cold seawater, Gray Liu'er was very energetic. Yesterday she tasted the taste of seafood, and now she can't help but be excited when she sees the food all over the ground. Running back and forth picking up small shells, chasing seagulls to take off frequently, even if there are predators from the sky and the ground, but there are still too many seafood on the beach to pick up, Gray Liu'er hugged it with full arms, and transported it to the fire with great interest.
The waves are constantly surging towards the shore, each time closer to the shore than the last, which is a harbinger of high tide and the sun is about to rise.
Not~!
With the sunrise, a long roar turned into a rolling sound rushing in, and Fengyun pointed to the sky and shouted to Gray Liu'er: "Look! look! Dragon!"
Gray Liu'er looked back and lowered her head absently, as if the colorful shells in front of her were more attractive than the majestic dragon.
Fengyun shook his head and smiled: "I almost forgot, the little guy should have seen it a long time ago!"
Looking at Ying Long's strong figure in the distance, even if he has seen it many times, he is still amazed every time. However, today Ying Long seems to be a little different, and did not fly into the sky, but flew westward.
The sun rises from the sea in the distance, completely dispelling the night, and the wet and cold sea breeze seems to be scalded warm, no longer taking away the temperature from the body.
The tide was rising little by little, and the beach was about to be half submerged by the waves, so Fengyun called Gray Liu'er back and lit a fire to cook seafood to eat.
After eating, Fengyun sent Gray Liu'er and Mandrill out in search of fresh water, while he himself carried a copper shovel to find a suitable place to dig a well in the surrounding area.
It takes a bit of skill to find groundwater in the wild, but Fengyun's fishing and hunting skills include methods of finding fresh water in different areas such as mountains, coasts, and forests, so he quickly found a suitable place.
If you are looking for fresh water along the coast, you should dig a pit above the highest water line, the soil is a natural filter that will filter out the salt, but not too close to the shoreline, generally speaking, about two kilometers is a good range.
After finding a suitable depression, Fengyun began to dig with a spade, and soon, when he dug to a depth of more than one meter, the water under his feet had already begun to seep, and when he dug down, his feet had become mud pits. Fengyun waited for the water to settle down, and then drank it to his heart's content, and then climbed up again.
After marking it, Fengyun took his things and walked back, and met Gray Liu'er who was also walking back on the way, she found a small river not far away, and she didn't have to worry about fresh water.
Back at the campfire, Fengyun sorted out the tools he used to boil the salt, ready to start boiling the salt.
Once the method was mastered, boiling salt became a repetitive task, especially with better tools, and the process became much easier. And this time he also added a helper, when boiling seawater to make salt brine, Fengyun can completely let Gray Liu'er watch the fire, and he goes to the sea to look for kelp, which will undoubtedly save more time.
After setting up the clay jar and boiling a full pot of seawater, Fengyun told Gray Liu'er to take care of the fire, and then walked towards the sea.
Looking at the endless sea, Fengyun hesitated. There is even Ying Long in the sea here, he doesn't know if there will be other dangerous big guys, and it is not a rational choice to rush into the sea.
However, risk is proportional to output, and if you want to satisfy your appetite, you have to take some risks. Didn't Shennong risk being poisoned when he tasted a hundred herbs? Fengyun was very proud of his ability to quote scriptures.
Having made up his mind, Fengyun swam in the shallows first. The water near the shore is always rough and slightly muddy, and the swimming level of Fengyun is only level 1, and it can only flutter in the shallows for the time being.
The first-level skill is only equivalent to the level of an ordinary swimming pool, there are waves in the sea, the environment is much more complex than the pool, and the underwater visibility is not high, and the wind and clouds do not dare to swim too deep, so it is the right to practice skills.
The sea water was mixed with mud and sand, and the underwater visibility was less than ten meters, Fengyun wanted to open his eyes to search, but there were no goggles, and his eyes were stung by the sea water a little painfully, so he had to float up every once in a while to slow down and continue the search.
It's too inefficient, and you have to find a way to improve your eyesight underwater. Fengyun looked at the list of skills, during this time, he activated a lot of skills, but basically they couldn't help. Throwing and other aggressive skills naturally don't need to be considered, psychological suggestion?hypnotize yourself I'm a fish?
Pull it down! Fengyun shook his head, it's too unreliable, if hypnosis can work, then hypnosis itself is a bird, won't it still fly?
Continuing to look down, suddenly, Fengyun saw a skill that had only been activated recently.
Possession of Magical Power III. LV1 (5/100) attaches magical power to objects, enhancing their own properties. The amplitude of the boost varies according to the strength of the mana.
Huh? I haven't used this skill much yet, what does it mean to enhance the properties of the object itself?
Trying to activate the skill, the faint warm breath in the blood surged towards the head, converging on the eyes, Fengyun suddenly felt that his eyesight was much stronger, and he could even see the patterns of the shells picked up by Gray Liu'er on the shore in the sea.
Fengyun dived into the water again, opened his eyes, and sure enough, the stinging sensation in his eyes had decreased a lot, and he was able to see normally, which was already very good.
He looked around, and there were small fish swimming around him, and the bottom of the sea was covered with rocks and fine sand, but there was no trace of kelp.
The morning's search didn't yield, but the experience points of swimming skills increased a lot. I went ashore and ate something, collected the lower salt brine crystals, replaced a tank of seawater, and the wind and clouds plunged back into the sea.
I don't know how long I swam back and forth in the shallows, but finally, my swimming skills were successfully upgraded to LV2.
Looking at the list of skills, Fengyun stepped on the water and didn't feel any change. He took a deep breath and re-entered the water, only to suddenly feel something different. As if he had passed some trick, his limbs became more coordinated, his breath seemed to be more relaxed, and he didn't feel uncomfortable after diving for more than two minutes. Swimming a little, the speed is much faster than just now, and it is more labor-saving, which makes him feel more confident.
Judging from the situation in the morning, Fengyun did not notice any dangerous big guys nearby, and he decided to look further away.
Swimming to the surface of the water to change his breath, Fengyun plunged into the water and swam into the distance.
The rising waves kept pushing the wind and clouds towards the shore, and he swam desperately, but every time he surfaced, he found that he had not swam far.
After thinking about it, Fengyun changed his strategy and swam to the bottom of the sea instead.
The water three or four meters below the surface of the water was much calmer than the surface of the sea, and a fierce man plunged down, and the wind and clouds quickly touched the reef at the bottom of the sea. Perhaps it was too close to the shore for no life underwater, except for the black-and-gray reef lying on the soft sand, with the occasional hermit crab crawling over it.
Fengyun felt his breath and found that he still had some strength left, so he stepped on the reef and swam towards the inland sea.
By the next time he surfaced, Fengyun looked back and saw that he had swam a hundred or ten meters away from the shore.
The waves here are not as frequent as they are on the shore, but the amplitude of the waves is much greater. Before the next wave, Fengyun dived again, this time more handy, swimming along the shore like a fish.
The farther away from the shore becomes, the clearer the water becomes, the visibility becomes, and several colours of corals can be seen swaying on the reef underwater.
The dive finally paid off, and he saw a brown kelp growing on the reef at the foot of the coral next to the pink coral in the front right, and countless flying leaves were stirred by the sea, like a sea monster with countless tentacles.
It's not tropical, so naturally there aren't so many beautiful tropical fish, but the silver-glowing schools of fish still bring infinite vitality to the underwater world.
The tiny bubbles that overflowed from Fengyun's mouth and nose attracted some unknown fish to swim around him, and he wanted to reach out and touch it, but he was miserably teased, and the speed of a man underwater was not comparable to that of a fish after all.
Swimming to the reef, Fengyun reached out to pull the kelp, but its root system was firmly rooted on the reef, and the blades were a little slippery under the water.
With his hand in the sea, Fengyun adjusted his posture and pulled the kelp towards the reef, he was ready to step on the reef and try it hard.
Before his toes touched the reef, a stone at the base of the kelp suddenly moved.
An octopus waved its tentacles, spewed out a puff of ink, and fled into the distance.
The sudden appearance of the living creature startled Fengyun for a moment, and he couldn't help but leak his breath, choked on the sea, and had to use his hands and feet to swim towards the sea.
Emerging from the water, Fengyun took a deep breath and couldn't help coughing.
"Brother, where are you!" Gray Liu'er on the distant shore couldn't see him, shouting at the top of his voice.
"Hey, I'm here!" Fengyun waved his arms and stepped on the water to rise and fall on the sea, he shouted, "You wait for me there! I'll be back in a moment!"
"Got it!" Seeing that he was fine, Gray Liu'er also relieved himself and sat on the shore and continued to wait for him.
After the octopus was so frightened, Fengyun relaxed a little, and even thought ill-intentionedly: Maybe for the underwater creatures, suddenly seeing a four-legged fish may be more terrifying, right?
After diving again, Fengyun carefully inspected the kelp bushes, and found no living creatures such as octopuses. But the kelp roots are quite strong, and Fengyun still can't get them off after pulling them hard a few times.
Looking around, Fengyun tried to find a sharp stone to cut the kelp root, but he couldn't find a suitable one.
The kelp grew so much that it obscured most of the reef, and the wind and clouds swam forward with bare breathlessness, trying to find an open space that outcrops the surface.
The further you go to the inland sea, the lower the terrain of the coast, and after swimming more than 30 meters, Fengyun suddenly finds that a cliff has appeared in front of you, and the coast stops abruptly here, and further on, it is the unfathomable inland sea.
Slowly falling down, stepping on the soft ground at the bottom of the sea, the wind and cloud probe looked down. There is no bottom at the bottom of the cliff, and there seems to be a huge black shadow swimming in the dark depths, and I don't know what kind of giant beast patrols. Fengyun's heart was faintly numb, and he wanted to retreat, but as soon as he turned his head, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a bright color rushing up from the bottom of the cliff.
Before the wind and clouds could turn around, they were swept away by the sudden waves and rolled up with the current. I finally adjusted my posture, and when I looked back, I found a half-human, half-fish monster coming out from the bottom of the cliff!