Chapter 137 Strange Residents in the Swamp (2)
"Cruff!" Accompanied by the sound of the door shaft rotating, Chen Kai slowly opened the half-open window on the carriage door. After the window opened, Chen Kai saw the swamp lake water that almost spread to the lower half of the door through the door, and also saw the crocodile aquamarine swimming not far away.
What made Chen Kai the most depressed was that the rain still did not stop, and the heavy rain had been falling all night. Although the rain had obviously become smaller now, the drizzle was still falling, and the water level around the carriage was still rising. Even though the speed of this increase was extremely slow, Chen Kai was speechless when he looked at the water level that was about to rise outside.
Although Chen Kai is not worried about the water level continuing to rise, according to the current water level, it is estimated that they will be trapped here for at least two or three days. This is definitely not good news, and even worse news must be that the crocodiles practicing dog-padding in the water seem to have the idea of climbing onto the carriage and yawning. Of course, these crocodiles are definitely unable to climb onto the carriage now, because no matter what, the roof of the carriage is still a distance away from the water surface. At the same time, Chen Kai and the others cannot let these crocodiles get onto the roof and act like a mighty man on their foreheads.
Faced with the spear that suddenly pierced out of the carriage, these crocodiles that were originally swimming on the water were pierced without any reaction and began to rush on the water. Of course, the next moment, a powerful arcane lightning directly hit the body of the crocodile that was pierced by the eyes, which directly made its whole body numb and its body trembled for a while and then it stopped moving again. After Xu Fei released the spell, others also released attack spells from the carriage, but the narrow carriage door could only allow one person to attack, and coupled with the problem of blind spots in sight, Chen Kai and the others could not deal with too many crocodiles.
Fortunately, there were only two or three crocodiles swimming around, and they were completely cleaned up by Chen Kai and the others in just a few strokes. When these wandering crocodiles slowly sank into the bottom of the water, Chen Kai also found that the drizzle of rain began to become even more sparse. Although the clouds in the sky still did not disappear, Chen Kai estimated that the rain would stop quickly.
When the drizzle in the sky completely stopped, Chen Kai found that the water level outside was completely equal to the half-open door of the carriage. In other words, if the dwarves walked outside at this moment, the swamp water that had originally reached the soles of their feet could at least cover their necks. If the place they stepped on was muddy, then it only took more than ten seconds Chen Kai could see several dwarves' hair floating on the water.
So when facing the swamp lake water slapped the car door, all the dwarves' faces became quite ugly. For Chen Kai and others, as long as they did not stick their bodies out, the lake water would not be able to enter the carriage through the open car door. Because even if the car door was open, the space expansion spell attached to the car door was like a barrier that could block the entry of water. The faint magic power blocked the water waves slapped on the door frame, keeping the inside of the carriage dry.
But Chen Kai and the others could not stay in the carriage all the time, so soon a few people began to lay wooden boards around the carriage. As the wooden boards were tied up and fixed around the carriage by Chen Kai and the others, the group finally did not need to continue to nest in the carriage. The wooden boards were fixed around the carriage with ropes. Of course, if only this was the case, these wooden boards could not withstand the movement of a person on it. They had to fix the wooden boards with nails.
When the wooden boards were pieced together, Chen Kai and his team's movement space gradually increased. However, the tragic thing was that Chen Kai was still trapped in the carriage because he was too big, unless they were willing to destroy a space carriage and break the roof of the carriage. Otherwise, Chen Kai would have to stay in the carriage and wait for the water level to gradually drop before he could get out of the carriage. If he wanted to go out now, it would not be impossible, but there was no doubt that once he walked out of the carriage, he would definitely let a large amount of swamp water enter the carriage.
"Boss! Hold on, I guess the water will definitely be back in two days!" Fei Yun lowered his head and said to Chen Kai who was trapped in the carriage. In fact, Chen Kai and the others had thought of using the carriage as a boat. But the problem is that the carriage has been fixed in the water by them, and so many heavy parts are installed on the carriage, so that all the carriages will sit and sink in the water even if they are not fixed. If Chen Kai and the others want these carriages to float up, it is not impossible for them to touch the water and pull out all the things fixed in the carriage. Then, tie the carriages around the carriages. However, according to the weight of these carriages, it is definitely not possible for Chen Kai's backpack to complete the water.
"I understand! If you can, think of ways to make these carriages float up. I don't want to be trapped here for too long!" Chen Kai sighed. In fact, if he used the reduction technique, he could also go out of the carriage, but after he went out, his huge body would definitely occupy a large area of movement. Instead of running outside to cause trouble for others, it is better to stay in the carriage and meditate and pray to practice fighting spirit. As a temple knight, keeping a calm mind and enduring loneliness is an integral part of practice.
While Chen Kai was praying and practicing fighting spirit, Fei Yun and the others were constantly busy floating the carriage out of the water. There was no doubt that this was definitely a blessing, and what was even more miserable was that they had to do it. As Chen Kai said, staying in the wasteland swamp for too long was definitely not a good thing, especially in the case of such a Wangyang Ze Kingdom. After all, there is no high-level magical creature in the wasteland swamp. Once such creatures appear, Chen Kai and the others will definitely not be able to take it.
During a busy period, Chen Kai felt the shaking of the carriage, and he felt the whole carriage floating slowly. However, his huge size and weight seriously reduced the buoyancy of the carriage, but this was enough to completely escape the wheels of the carriage from the soil under the waterline.
When Chen Kai poked his head out of the car door, all the carriages had already begun to move slowly under the traction of the rope. Of course, if you rely solely on manpower, then these carriages would probably not be able to move for a long time. Therefore, all carriages were pulled by Su Wan's flying dragon Xiaojin, and of course, the number of flying dragons that were drawn soon increased one more time.
It was definitely very difficult for two flying dragons to pull several carriages and a large number of wooden boards used to keep the carriage floating on the water, because the carriage is not a boat, and the resistance in the water is quite large. Even if Chen Kai had already come out of the carriage and reduced the weight of the carriage's carrying, the two flying dragons still consume a lot of effort.
While the slowly moving carriage was floating on the water, Chen Kai and the others were constantly using poles to help Feilong reduce their physical energy consumption. The carriage fixed and pulled with ropes slowly moved forward on the water. The waves around it kept beating the carriage and the surrounding wooden boards making a rustling sound. Of course, there is no doubt that in order to make up the boards, the wood stored in Chen Kai and the others' backpacks has been completely used, so there is no extra firewood to make fire and cook. The only hot thing that Chen Kai and the others can drink is the hot water burned with magic crystal stove and the brewed hot cocoa, biting the dry and hard bread with hot water. This is the only food that Chen Kai and the others can survive on the water.
Of course, the two flying dragons lead the carriage to move on the water surface much faster than Chen Kai and his team's own speed in the swamp mud. Although the two flying dragons continued to fly for about an hour and basically couldn't fly, they needed to rest for three or four hours before they could get into the sky again. However, in just one hour, the distance of the carriage moved more than ten kilometers. It was just that the water flooded the swamp that Chen Kai and his team could not find a specific reference. So when the huge camp appeared in front of everyone, Chen Kai and the others realized that they were going in the wrong direction.
"Oh! It seems that our direction is wrong!" Fei Yun looked at the increasingly larger camp not far away and said to Chen Kai. In fact, if he didn't have to say anything, Chen Kai understood that they were going in the wrong direction, but this cannot be blamed on the two flying dragons. In the case of a vast ocean around, this situation will inevitably occur.
"I know! Everyone took the weapons and warned us. We don't know if there are anyone here. Or are they friendly or not!" Chen Kai carefully pulled out his giant sword from his backpack, but the heavy weight of the giant sword was completely taken out of the backpack and pressed directly on the carriage, causing the carriage to slowly sink into the water.
"Damn it!" Seeing this situation, Chen Kai directly canceled the idea of putting his armor on his body. Even the giant sword had to be stuffed back into his backpack again and replaced it with a relatively lightweight long sword. In this case, everyone could only choose lightweight weapons because the wooden boards under their feet could not withstand the tossing of heavy weapons.
While Chen Kai and his friends were holding weapons to watch, the residents in the camp obviously found Chen Kai and the others who were pulled by the flying dragon. In fact, even if there was a terrain around, it would be difficult for Chen Kai and his friends to avoid being discovered with such a large target.
When several residents rowing canoe appeared in front of Chen Kai and the others with weapons in their hands, there was no doubt that Chen Kai and his group were stunned because these residents were several fishmen. They looked very chilling fishmen.
When a huge carp was holding a weapon in his hand and facing Chen Kai, the only idea in Chen Kai was to directly chop the other party with a knife. But seeing the fishman holding the weapon did not greet him directly with the weapon, Chen Kai knew that the situation was not particularly bad.
"External! Tell me your origin, the great swamp fishman kingdom does not welcome strangers!" When the vocal verb was passed into Chen Kai's mind, Chen Kai slowly put away his weapons. After all, communicating with the other party with a weapon will undoubtedly make the other party more nervous and more likely to cause conflict.
"We are just lost businessmen in the swamp!" Chen Kai slowly stroked his chest and gave a knight salute. Of course, although he put away the weapon, he did not completely release his hand from the weapon. If these fishmen had any attacks, he would definitely make the fishmen instantly turn them into dead fishes with the eyes of dead fish.
"Merchant? Impossible! No merchants have come to the Wasteland Swamp for several years. Are you lying? Where are your goods?" Obviously, this fishman had seen merchants passing by in the Wasteland Swamp, and as he said, it has indeed been a long time since the caravans traveled through the Great Wastelands in the West, or it should be said that it has been a long time since the caravans traveled through the Great Wastelands in the West, or it has been a long time since no one has walked. Although adventurers will still come here, they will basically not go deep into the swamp. Just like Chen Kai and others, they can be said to be very lucky to have a caravan with hundreds of people accidentally entering the center of the swamp because of the flood. It is impossible for them to come here without paying half of their lives.
If Yasu Town had not been destroyed, it would probably be impossible for anyone to walk the trade route through the wasteland swamp in the south. Even if there are few places to go by, it will not be of life. The most important thing is to go through the wasteland swamp to the other side of the western Great Wasteland through the wasteland swamp to save time, but it requires coordination and luck. Chen Kai and his friends are undoubtedly a sign of extremely bad luck, and they chose the most inappropriate route at the most inappropriate time.
If they had been in the evening for a month, they would never have hit the rainy season of the wilderness swamp and were trapped in a vast ocean. Of course, they would not have come to this fishman village near the center of the wilderness swamp. Although in the mouths of several fishman, this place where residents could not survive ten thousand people would have been killed, it would be a slightly larger village, even if it was better, it would be a small town.
However, after confirming the identity of Chen Kai and his “merchant”, several fishmen happily brought Chen Kai and his friends to their kingdom, preparing to use their own items to buy the “merchandise” carried by Chen Kai and his friends. Looking at the spare spatula they carried, which could not be sold, and the feeling that the amount of moldy flour that was sought after by the fish people, Chen Kai and his friends felt that it might not be a bad thing to get lost this time.
However, when fish people want to exchange specialties in the swamp instead of buying them with gold coins, their faces are not so good-looking. Because many of the so-called specialties are dried piranha jerky, slightly spoiled crocodile skin, unexplained aquamarine tendons, etc. This kind of thing is not very useful to Chen Kai and others, or they cannot be sold even if they are in hand.
As for the Black Skin of the Fishman King? Yujiao said that he used criminal fishman as slaves to trade. Chen Kai and the others chose to shake their heads. "Just kidding, these guys were taken out and probably slaughtered by the chef as big fish. Who would ask the fishman to be a slave? The mermaid is almost the same!" Fei Yun murmured in the team, and his words were undoubtedly true.
Although the residents of the swamp fishman kingdom have much higher civility than those who act as robbers in other swamps, the problem is that no matter how high the civilization is, it cannot change the fact that they are just fishmans rather than mermaids. Even if they are also humanoid creatures, the appearance of fishman is much worse than the other words they call them.
So Chen Kai and the others refused without hesitation the transaction method that seemed extremely sincere in the Fishman King, so the transaction seemed to be about to fail. But in the end, Chen Kai and the others found the currency for exchanging materials, a pearl and a pearl produced in the wilderness swamp. Of course, if it is an ordinary pearl, it is not very valuable, as long as it is not Haizhu, all freshwater pearls are basically the same as ordinary gems. But this pearl is different because the word mana is mentioned in front of its name.
"Mana Pearl!" When Chen Kai heard the identification results, he looked disbelief in his eyes. This was not that Chen Kai had never heard of this kind of thing, but because he had heard of it and wanted to buy it very much, but the problem was that he could not buy it. It goes without saying how precious the pearls are naturally produced. Although there are also pearls and mana pearls in the game, those pearls and mana pearls are not comparable at all. Only shellfish with magic attributes can produce mana pearls, which has undoubtedly been recognized by the spellcasters on the entire continent. But the problem is that even if the magic attribute shellfish is weak, it is a magic creature with a very disgusting feature, that is, living in the big lake where monsters are rampant, and even in the deep ocean.
Such places are basically areas that some powerful people in the Holy Realm are unwilling to set foot on. Because it is too dangerous, and for such an existence, mana pearls are not particularly important. Unless they are extremely short of money, they will not do such thankless things. After all, a pearl may not be able to be produced in a hundred shellfish. Even magic shellfish is the case. Therefore, although mana pearls are expensive, they contain people to collect them specifically.
However, there were more than twenty pieces in front of Chen Kai and the others. The value of these magical pearls was at least 20 to 30 million yuan, and all they had to pay was to clear the excess supplies in their backpacks. Therefore, when the Fishman King came to ask again, Chen Kai chose to make a deal without hesitation, and then quickly signed a transaction agreement with the Fishman King. The price of this magical binding transaction agreement drafted by Nero Elu was quite high, and four largest magical pearls were directly deducted.
Chapter completed!