Chapter 723 - Chapter 723: 230. Nail Clipper Box_3 (1/2)
Chapter 723: 230. Nail Clipper Box_3
On the walls on both sides of the tunnel, there was a dark narrow entry or a twisted crack every couple of meters.
Noland Lee activated “Life and Death Tracking” and swept a look across these dark areas.
He saw some small underwater serpents that were inhabiting those areas, but no larger sea serpents.
This was a bit strange.
Noland Lee asked Hadley Grant about it, but he also couldn’t quite figure out why, only mentioning that as long as they didn’t venture into the dark areas, they wouldn’t be attacked by the sea snakes.
Seeing Hadley only worried about young sea snakes in the dark areas, Noland set aside this peculiar phenomenon for now.
When the two reached a fork in the road, an aggressive undercurrent emerged from somewhere, brushed past Noland, and rushed towards the tunnel on the other side of the junction.
Two pillars of water jetted out from under Hadley’s feet, carrying Noland out of the undercurrent and leaving the turbulent sea water behind him.
“Good thing you also know the ‘Deep Sea Swimming’ Magic Spell. You reduced the resistance of the undercurrent to the minimum. Otherwise, I think pulling you out of the undercurrent would have cost me a lot of mana.”
Hadley looked back at Noland and muttered, then continued swimming ahead.
The further they went, the more relics from the Dragon Clan were scattered on the ground.
After enduring several more “ambushes” by undercurrents, they finally reached the giant cave rumored to hold many Draconian collectibles.
Just as Hadley had described, this place was extensive, with an estimated width of over 500 meters and a height of more than 20 meters, making it a truly large cavern.
There were several five-to-six-meter tall mounds on the ground, all made up of Draconian collectibles brought here by undercurrents.
Just as Noland arrived, a powerful undercurrent surged through the cave.
This current swept up more than half of the mounds on the ground, causing Draconian collectibles to float around like confetti.
It took a full three minutes before the floating Draconian collectibles slowly fell down, reforming into several mounds and a carpet that covered the ground.
“We’ve arrived, Jarvis.” Hadley pulled out several bowl-sized metal nails from his magic pouch:
“I’ll first drive these nails into the walls of the cave. They are our safety pins against the undercurrents. When you’re searching for collectibles, you must always ensure that the rope around your waist is connected to the metal nails, so you won’t be swept away by the undercurrents here. You saw it just now, didn’t you? The undercurrents here are far more ferocious than the ones we encountered earlier, and no one knows their patterns.”
Hadley cautioned a few words, took out a hammer, and started fixing the metal nails onto the wall, creating a crisp clanging sound.
Having nothing to do, Noland looked around.
That previous undercurrent had surged in from a deep hole in the cave.
Inside that hole, there was no moss emitting blue light, only darkness. It was rather eerie.
The light conditions in the rest of the cave were not much better, with only a few areas where bioluminescent moss existed.
The Deconstruction Technique followed Noland’s line of sight, scanning the entire cave.
[System Message:]
[You are about to use Deconstruction Technique on “rusty anchor”.]
[You are about to use Deconstruction Technique on “moldy silverware”.]
[You are about to use Deconstruction Technique on “rusty metal objects”.]
[You are about to use Deconstruction Technique on “undetermined Draconian tools”.]
…
Row after row of system characters was refreshed in his mind.
In general, about one out of every four items was directly related to the Dragon Clan.
For this trip, Noland had prepared five large-capacity underwater magic pouches.
This kind of magic pouch could be used underwater, so they don’t need to worry about seawater flooding in while storing items.
These five pouches would be used by Noland to carry small items that have high energy reserves.
If an item was quite large, Noland planned to destroy it on the spot, using passive deconstruction to get the energy reward.
For example, that object that looked like a metal cupboard.
The name given to it by Deconstruction Technique was “an uncertain Draconian object”. Deconstruction would consume 100,000 energy points.
It was quite large, about two meters high and one meter wide, with a thick metal door, and was one of the few heavy objects that weren’t carried away by the currents.
Such an old and heavy object wasn’t really convenient to put into a magic pouch.
Destroying it on the spot would be the best choice for Noland.
Noland’s gaze fell on this cupboard-like object, memorized its location, and planned to smash it later.
“Thud…”