Chapter 301 - The Unpredictable yet Thrilling Tests of the Tower of Babel (2/2)

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Sand on the beach is soft. The sea breeze blows with a fishy smell. Waves. .h.i.t the reefs while seagulls are hovering low in the sky. The blue sea and the blue sky meet with each other at a distance from the horizon.

Mr. Lin rubs his eyes, “Yuan Ye, are we at Hainan?”

Cultivation is so amazing. They enter a door and suddenly travel from Iraq to Hainan. Mr. Lin lies comfortably on the beach and regrets that he didn’t bring a camera. Otherwise, it would be nice to take some pictures and show them to Mrs. Lin after they get back. Never mind, he can take Mrs. Lin to Hainan on holidays after he gets back anyway.

Yuan Ye is not as relieved as Mr. Lin. He goes to the highest place to look into the distance. The island is just a mile in circ.u.mference. In the middle, there is a shallow puddle surrounded by stones. It might only have a bucket of water in it. Yuan Ye tastes the water and realizes that it is freshwater. He is relieved.

Although they both put clean drinking water in the storage utensils, having a puddle of clean water on this reef island still makes them feel safer.

The highest place above the water on the island is about five meters. Looking at the rough sea, Yuan Ye becomes nervous. If huge waves come, how many times can they resist?

Looking into the distance from the top, there is only the vast sea without any boats or lands on it. Yuan Ye’s abilities don’t allow him to use the Sword-riding Spell to fly out. If he couldn’t find places to rest along the way, he would run out of Reiki.

“Great grandmaster, I’m afraid we are not in Hainan.”

Mr. Lin nods, “I agree.”

Yuan Ye almost faints. Do people of the Lins have a gene called “calmness”? Nothing can make his grandmaster get out of control emotionally. At least, he has never seen it happened. Now, his great grandmaster is exactly like his grandmaster. Is their test getting out of the island?

There are no trees on this reef island, so it’s impossible to build a boat and leave.

What they need to do now is settling down first and find a way out afterwards. Yuan Ye silently makes a decision. He takes out a bag of ham and some yogurt, and gives them to Mr. Lin.

“What taste is this?” Mr. Lin doesn’t like yogurt. He thinks it is for children like Lucy. Besides, the yogurt that Yuan Ye gives him has a strange smell. Mr. Lin frowns and spits it out.

Yuan Ye tears open the ham’s package. A foul odor comes out. After being exposed to the air, the ham turns black and rotten. Yuan Ye thinks it is his illusion, so he opens a few more packets of compressed biscuits, but they all go bad. Yuan Ye and Mr. Lin finally realize that the challenges they are facing are not only getting out of the island.

All the food and drinking water they brought have gone bad!

Yuan Ye looks gloomy while Mr. Lin is optimistic. He pats Yuan Ye on the shoulder, “Hey, we are by the sea. We won’t starve to death, right? You can go and build a camp. Leave the rest to your great grandmaster!”

Both of them are in the early stage of Training Qi, and neither of them has a water-based Taoist root. It is reasonable for Yuan Ye to worry about how they can survive and get out.

However, Mr. Lin, Yuan Ye’s great grandmaster with similar abilities to him, eases all his worries in no time. Mr. Lin pulls out a folding tent from his Storage Belt. Yes, what Yuan Ye sees is true. It is an outdoor folding tent.

Mr. Lin hands the tent to Yuan Ye and smiles mysteriously. He then takes a fis.h.i.+ng rod out of his Storage Belt.

Yuan Ye is totally convinced and goes to build a camp as Mr. Lin asked.

Although Mr. Lin practices cultivation, he is still an ordinary people, or in other words, he still thinks like a farmer. He has a mid-range Storage Belt and doesn’t have much cultivation materials to put in. It wouldn’t hurt to bring some tents and fis.h.i.+ng rods.

All of the food is useless, so Mr. Lin walks to the edge of the reef and finds two sh.e.l.lfish there. He makes a bait by smas.h.i.+ng the sh.e.l.lfish and hanging its meat on the fishhook.

Sea fis.h.i.+ng is new for Mr. Lin, so he does not find it toilsome to fish in the strong sunlight. The only thing that bothers him is the huge waves and his fis.h.i.+ng rod that is not good enough for sea fis.h.i.+ng. Long after Yuan Ye sets the tent next to the highest source of water, Mr. Lin finally catches two three-inch fish using the bait made from fresh sh.e.l.lfish.

The fish is really small for marine fishes.

“This is our lunch.” Mr. Lin tosses the two small fish and a few oysters he caught by the reef to Yuan Ye. Then, he takes out an aluminum pot from his Storage Belt.

They don’t need to worry about firewood. Cultivators can make a fire as long as they can use spells.

Since they are surrounded by seawater, they don’t lack salt as well. Yuan Ye cooks a full pot of fish soup. The two men have a big appet.i.te. The fish is not enough, so they have to drink more water. Speaking of it, there is little water in that puddle. Maybe they should make grilled fish next time?

When the fish soup is ready to be served, Mr. Lin gets lucky and catches a big fish that weighs about two kilograms. The fish almost snaps the thin fis.h.i.+ng rod.

“It seems that we don’t need to worry much about food while we are here.” Mr. Lin is proud of the big fish he catches. He digs a shallow hole on the beach and puts seawater in it to raise the fish.

Yuan Ye smiles too. They need to find enough food before they get time to find a way out. It is too shameful to be the first group that fails the Tower of Babel’s test because of hunger.

The two eat the fish soup and start to count everything they have.

A tent, two fis.h.i.+ng rods, a bundle of twine, a few pots and pans, a few sets of clothing, some rotten food, a bottle of rotten spirit wine, some elixirs, and a big sword which is a third-tier magic weapon……These are all the things Mr. Lin has in his Storage Belt.

In Yuan Ye’s small Storage Bag, there is only enough room for a flying sword, some medicine powders for various symptoms, a few bottles of elixirs, some rotten food and a dozen of decayed yogurt.

These things are enough for them to live on this isolated island, but only the tent can be used to make a sail. How about other parts of the boat?

The day pa.s.ses quickly, and the two men still can’t get a clue of what they should do.

The turning point comes on the third day. It is a day with little wind and waves. Mr. Lin doesn’t catch any fish at the beginning. It makes him and Yuan Ye depressed. They should have been discussing whether they should use the Sword-riding Spell to get out, but now they can only grab the big fish raised in the hole and grill it to eat.

Freshwater in the puddle is running out too. Water is slowly seeping out of the mud, but it is clearly not enough for Yuan Ye and Mr. Lin’s daily use. These are the trivial things that make them feel anxious.

Both Mr. Lin and Yuan Ye don’t sleep well that night. They are awakened by the sound of the waves in the middle of the night.

They don’t know when the huge waves rise on the sea, but the waves are hitting the reef island harder and harder now.

Mr. Lin sees something that looks like a small hill moving fast towards them. It goes up and down in the wind and waves. Is it a big s.h.i.+p?

“Look, there are lanterns on that s.h.i.+p.”

The “s.h.i.+p” moves fast and comes close to the island in a moment. It is in a similar size of the island and has two lantern-like eyes. Is it a huge sea snake?

“Yuan Ye……I’ll stall. You use the Sword-riding Spell and go first!”

Yuan Ye looks at the fish bones thrown on the ground and suddenly knows what to do. “Great grandmaster, here comes the material to build our boat!”

The “material” looks at the two little creatures coldly and thinks they are delicious snacks.

Mr. Lin clenches his sword while Yuan Ye makes the gesture of the spell of swords. This is the first time they fight against a sea monster that seems to be powerful. If they want to build a boat with its bones, they need to survive the fight first.

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There are also some people who get extremely easy tests. They only need to enter an empty room with a girly shadow in it. The shadow tells Hokkien legends to the test-takers.

Ye Xiaobei was left alone when cultivators in the team paired up with each other. He didn’t know how lucky he was at that time.

Isn’t it good to just endure a chatty shadow while you can eat and drink in a completely safe environment? The shadow comes close to Ye Xiaobei’s ears. He s.h.i.+vers and thinks that he would rather fight with monsters. Somebody please drives this sissy shadow away!