"Coco, wait for me by the lake. I'll go down and take a look."
"Hmm!" Coco responded, jumped off his shoulder and lay on a rock by the lake.
The lake was very calm at this time, and a breeze blew across the surface of the lake, causing ripples.
There are no longer any swimming fish in the lake. Even the lotus, lotus roots, reeds and other plants that originally grew by the lake have all withered. The entire lake presents an extremely bleak scene.
I don’t know if this lake will be frozen tomorrow.
The lake water was very clear. Xu Xin looked towards the center of the lake. The bottomless center of the lake was still pitch black, like a dead lake. It was frightening just to look at.
Xu Xin took out a waterweed (blue), ate it and gained the ability to breathe underwater. He also ate the big red berry (blue) that allowed him to see things clearly in the dark. He took a deep breath and dived into the lake.
The cold lake water instantly soaked his whole body, making him shiver.
The lake water is so cold! It must be close to zero degrees!
The scale armor suit was not a sealed suit, and water seeped in through the gaps in the scale armor suit, making his whole body feel cold.
So cold!
The scale armor suit can't block the coldness in the water!
This needs to be quickened! Otherwise, at this temperature, it won't be long before his hands and feet become frozen and numb.
Xu Xin opened his eyes and looked at the scene in the shallow water.
There really was not a single fish in the lake. Even the ordinary aquatic plants at the bottom of the lake had disappeared, leaving only gravel and sand covering the lake bottom.
Compared with the previous lake, the lake at this time really makes people feel extremely desolate.
Without stopping, Xu Xin continued to swim towards the center of the lake.
Soon, within seconds, he reached the edge of the giant hole in the center of the lake.
Huh
Xu Xin sensed something was wrong.
Why does that bottomless hole in the center of the lake feel... bigger
The last time he went into the lake, the edge of the deep pit at the bottom of the lake dropped sharply to a position about thirty meters away from the lakeside, which means that the shallow water area was about thirty meters.
But now…
Looking at the huge pit in the middle of the lake that suddenly appeared in front of him, Xu Xin turned around and looked behind him.
This place is only twenty meters away from the shore... No, less than twenty meters!
… This huge hole in the center of the lake will expand on its own?!
Xu Xin's heart suddenly tightened.
What is going on
After experiencing the Giant's Skull Salt Mine Cave incident, he became very sensitive to this kind of terrain that could change by itself.
Could this giant hole also be alive
The mouth of a behemoth
Oh my god... I don't dare to download...
No no no... It shouldn't be possible...
This is just a hole. From the appearance, it has nothing to do with a mouth or anything like that. It is completely different from the giant's head.
but…
Xu Xin pursed her lips. This lake is really full of dangers.
Although choosing to plant the tree house here brought him a lot of convenience, the dangers also came one after another.
If this giant hole can really continue to expand...
His tree house is less than two hundred meters away from the lake, which is very close. If there is a problem with the lake, his tree house will probably be unable to escape.
Could it be that he remembered it wrongly
No, the distance has definitely become shorter and the giant hole has indeed expanded!
Forget it, let’s not worry about it for now and finish what we need to do first. Coco said there is no danger in the cave, and Xu Xin still believes it.
He stared intently at the huge abyss.
At a depth of about twenty meters from the water surface, blue-level water plants grew again, floating on the cave wall with the water flow.
From the direction of the blowing grass, it can be seen that the water in the huge cave in the center of the lake is slowly rotating in a clockwise direction, like a huge whirlpool.
However, due to the slow speed, if there is no movement of aquatic plants, it is impossible to see the water flowing with the naked eye.
At a depth of about 40 meters, the dark green ores are still on the cave wall.
However, unlike the last time, those strange, aggressive-looking big fish that had been wandering at a depth of fifty or sixty meters were now nowhere to be seen and had completely disappeared.
The blue-level fish maw he ate was obtained from this kind of fish, which also gave him stronger ability to resist water pressure, so he can now have the strength to dig those green metal ores.
Xu Xin carefully observed the rock wall below. He was afraid that these fish, which looked very similar to the surrounding rock walls, were clinging to the cave wall and had merged with it, so he did not notice them.
After observing for a long time, he finally confirmed that there was indeed not even a single big fish of that size left in the cave.
After making sure there was no danger in the cave, Xu Xin continued to sink slowly, reaching a depth of about twenty meters, and harvested the blue-level aquatic plants again. This time he obtained fourteen plants, enriching his inventory.
Continuing to sink, Xu Xin soon approached the green-surfaced minerals.
Most of these ores are green-grade, with only a few sporadically flashing blue light.
Xu Xin already felt something wrong with his body. Both his body and ears could not withstand the water pressure here.
Forty meters
This is probably his limit.
Compared to Qin Yunlong's brothers who were able to dive to a depth of more than 100 meters to explore long ago, his diving ability is really worrying.
But it is enough, at least these ores can be collected.
After it was connected to the other side, this bottomless underwater cave was left to the two of them to explore.
Xu Xin glanced down and saw the pitch-black abyss. The bottomless water made him shudder and he quickly looked away.
Scary!
This is really a fear of the deep sea.
He swam to the edge of the rock wall, reached out his hand toward the green minerals and touched them.
Copper Ore (Green): A metallic ore that can be smelted in a furnace into copper blocks. It is a highly conductive material and is a basic material for making electrical appliances.
really!
Here we come!
Copper ore!
His guess was correct! It was copper ore!
Copper ore that can be used to make electrical appliances!
It turns out that the copper ore is hidden in such a deep place. No wonder Li Wenxi found the gold mine but couldn’t find the copper mine.
It turns out that the copper mine is in deep water!
However... Brothers Qin Yunlong and Qin Yunhu did not seem to find the copper mine.
Is he the only one who has it
Forget it, let’s not think about these things for now, let’s collect these copper mines first!
Xu Xin took out the prospector's pickaxe. Li Wenxi had given him hers last time.
Xu Xin held onto the rock wall with one hand to steady it, and with his other hand swung the steel pickaxe to chisel at the underwater ore.
"Cut!" The steel pickaxe hit the ore, but the ore did not change at all.
The resistance in the water is so great that the power of the pickaxe is greatly weakened.
Xu Xin could only swing the pickaxe again and again, and finally, he knocked down a piece of ore.
"Card!"
A whole piece of ore split into five pieces of copper ore. Xu Xin immediately collected them with quick hands, but in the end one piece of copper ore fell into the bottomless abyss.
"This..." Xu Xin felt a little uncomfortable. One of them actually fell down.
There was no good way underwater, he could only collect as much as possible.
"Card!"
"Card!"
None of the copper ore fell down these times, and Xu Xin collected the copper ore on the rock wall as quickly as possible.
"Card!"
This time, the triple explosion rate of the prospector's steel pickaxe took effect. In an instant, fifteen pieces of copper ore appeared. Xu Xin could only try his best to collect them, but in the end three pieces fell down.
Shaking his head, he swam to a piece of blue-level ore.
The blue light only accounts for a very small part, so only one piece of blue-level ore should be able to be mined.
Xu Xin swung the pickaxe.
After more than a dozen times of digging, he finally obtained the first piece of blue-grade copper ore.
And the second and third pieces.
The triple explosion rate was triggered again! And this time it happened to be triggered on blue ore!
Really good!
After putting the blue-level copper ore into his backpack, Xu Xin stuffed a water plant into his mouth to prolong his underwater breathing time and continued digging.
“Cut!” “Cut!” “Cut!”
Soon, there were several hundred pieces of copper ore in his backpack.
There are eight pieces of blue-grade copper ores.
After that, he mined blue-level copper ore three more times, and the triple explosion rate appeared again.
"This prospector's steel pick is really good!" Xu Xin was very satisfied with the result. Not only blue-grade copper ore, but also a lot of green-grade copper ore was found, which saved him a lot of time.
There are still a lot of green ores on the walls of the cave that have not been mined. Because the cave is very large, there is a whole circle of such ores on the walls of the cave, which is 40 meters deep. There are a lot of them.
But Xu Xin had already decided to go up.
He had been digging for almost an hour. According to his request, Lou Feier should have returned.
Moreover, the water temperature was too low, and even though he had been moving around, he could no longer bear it.
The most important point is that he clearly noticed something was wrong around him!
The water that was originally rotating slowly around here is now flowing much faster than before!
Now, if he doesn’t hold on to the wall of the cave with his hands, he will be carried away by the water!
What made him most terrified was that he seemed to hear some kind of low sound coming from deep in the cave, like... the roar of a whale.
The sound was faint, but was still picked up by his enhanced hearing.
There is something deep under the water!
Better go up quickly!
There are now more than 500 pieces of green-grade copper ores and eight pieces of blue-grade copper ores in his backpack. According to the rules, five pieces of metal ore can be smelted into one metal block. If he gives it to Li Wenxi to smelt it, he will get more metal blocks in the end.
It should be able to meet the needs.
Go up!
Xu Xin began to float slowly.
The water flow in the cave really became much stronger, carrying him around along the wall of the cave.
From the bottomless cave, low voices kept coming upwards, which made Xu Xin's heart hang in the air. He clenched his teeth and looked down from time to time.
Could it be the giant anaconda in the center of the lake
Didn't it lead it out
No, anacondas shouldn't have vocal organs, right
However, anacondas cannot survive in deep water, and the laws of the original world cannot explain anything here. In his opinion, this giant anaconda is almost the same as a dragon.
Finally, Xu Xin managed to emerge from the water safely, breathed a long sigh of relief, and swam quickly towards the nearest lake.
Because as the water rotated, his position was already far away from where he entered the water.
Xu Xin swam to the shallow water, swam ashore, and walked around the lake to his original position. Coco was still waiting there.
From a distance, he heard Coco's anxious cries.
"Oh! Oh! Oh!" Coco ran back and forth by the lake, shouting at the water.
Finally, it jumped into the lake itself, flapping its little paws and swimming towards the center of the lake.
"Coco, I'm already here!" Xu Xin quickly ran towards Coco.
"Hmm?" Coco looked back at Xu Xin as she floated on the lake. "Hmm!"
Xu Xin quickly fished Coco out of the lake. The little guy could float on the water, but his swimming speed was really not good.
"Oh! Oh! Oh!" Coco rubbed her wet head in Xu Xin's arms, then pointed her little paws at the lake and cried twice. Then she shook her body, and the water on her body splashed all over Xu Xin's face.
Xu Xin didn't care. He had just come out of the water and was soaked too.
"There is danger in the lake..." He understood what Coco meant, looked at the bottomless center of the lake, and swallowed.
It seems that the vague low voice just now was not his illusion.
And the increasing speed of the water...
Xu Xin was a little scared. It was really a terrifying danger, otherwise Keke wouldn't have been so anxious and jumped directly into the lake to find him.
Let’s put the exploration of this lake on hold for now.
The ore he has is enough for the time being.
Let professionals do professional things. After Qin Yunlong and the others are connected here, let them come over and enter the water to explore.
He'd better not go down and cause trouble for himself.