'Is there something under the water?'
Ethan hurriedly put his clothes back on, "That was close!"
He almost went fishing with his little chick out. Damn it, if something under the water ate him, he probably would not even know.
Wouldn't that mean that from then on, he could only practice the Eunuch Manual?
"Damn it!"
"How come this so-called paradise is full of these old, sinister traps!"
[Water Ghost: The legendary kappa, water monster, drowned vengeful spirit. Anyway, it has many names, but in reality it is just a kind of fierce aquatic predator. Long hair, pale face, long arms and legs, gills, and tremendous strength.]
[PS: Its long hair is often mistaken for aquatic plants. Once it wraps around your ankle, you will never escape. Its pale face can scare you, its long arms and legs can drag you into the water faster to drown you, and its strength is enormous. Unless you are the Hulk, do not even think about competing with it in strength.]
"Pretty nasty stuff."
Ethan stared at the group of water ghosts in the water, feeling a bit irritated.
Underwater really was not his main battlefield. Besides, the equipment in his hands was limited to a blade and a bow. Using a bow to deal with underwater creatures was probably not easy either.
First of all, water causes refraction, which makes aiming very difficult.
And Ethan looked at the dozen or twenty exclamation marks in the water. One look told him there were quite a few of them. If he used arrows to shoot them one by one slowly, who knew how long it would take.
By the time he finished killing the monsters, he would probably have to rush back.
Then what was the point of opening the treasure chest.
"No! I have to think of another way."
(..•˘_˘•..)
"Emmm!"
While thinking, Ethan looked around at the surroundings to see if there was anything he could make use of.
[Premium Hot Spring Water: Rich in sulfur. If poured into a heated swimming pool, you can enjoy warmth every day. PS: Mages in the city love soaking in this kind of hot spring bath, because it can increase affinity with the fire element.]
[Collect?]
"Huh?"
"This hot spring water can actually be collected?"
Ethan was a little surprised, because before, when he fought the poison dart frogs, he had to shoot all the frogs to pieces before he could collect the acidic water.
And yet the hot spring water here could be collected directly, ignoring the water ghosts inside?
But very quickly, Ethan understood why.
"Collect!"
[Premium Hot Spring Water +1888]
Ethan collected all the hot spring water.
Only then did he realize, actually, he had only collected part of the hot spring water.
Because the hot spring pool was large enough, most of the water was not occupied by water ghosts, so it was in an unclaimed state, which meant Ethan could naturally collect it.
As for the remaining small portion, where water ghosts were staying, Ethan could not forcibly collect it.
At this moment, the lake that was originally the size of a soccer field, after Ethan collected 1888 portions of hot spring water, was left with only the area of a small swimming pool.
Probably less than one fifth of its original size.
The golden treasure chest and more than a dozen water ghosts in the lake also became faintly visible. Especially those water ghosts.
Ethan did not even know what kind of words to use to describe these creepy things.
Each of them had a head as big as a basket, with long hair flowing. That hair was at least over two meters long, even covering their hands and feet. The dark hair with a hint of green looked like clumps of seaweed in the water.
People who did not know better might think they were just bunches of drifting seaweed.
Who would have thought, that beneath the dense seaweed was actually a pale head.
And their eyes were huge, with no whites, like aliens. But the underbiting mouths full of tightly packed fangs gave off a feeling that they were not to be messed with.
Especially their long arms and legs, nothing but skin and bones, with only wrinkled skin clinging to them.
Yet when they rolled and drifted through the water, you could see that on their skin-and-bone bodies, there was a huge swollen belly, making them look extremely strange, like they were pregnant with a fetus inside.
Gurgle~
The water ghosts would occasionally open their mouths and spit out a large bubble.
When the bubble floated to the surface and burst, Ethan smelled a whiff of swamp gas.
'Could it be…'
'That their bellies were full of swamp gas?'
This thought suddenly gave Ethan some inspiration.
Maybe he could play a new game with them and force them up.
He took out ten portions of acidic water from his backpack. These were leftover acid rain water he had previously recovered from the poison dart frog pond and failed to sell.
According to buyer feedback, this highly concentrated acidic rainwater was something you really had to try to know. It absolutely earned a hundred percent positive reviews.
Just a little bit was enough to make aquatic creatures scream in pain.
One player even took the acid water Ethan sold him and poured a portion into a pond full of piranhas. Not long after, all the fish floated belly-up.
Although the fish meat was wasted, he earned quite a lot of water-type beast cores.
He even opened a treasure chest.
Because of that, Ethan decided to copy the method.
He opened one portion of acidic water and poured it into the lake that was almost drained.
Stare!
> (ФwФ)<
Dozens of eyes turned to look at Ethan at the same time.
The water ghosts clearly did not like the stuff Ethan poured in. One after another, they bared their fangs and claws and swam toward the surface, while Ethan silently stood up, and silently pulled out his Dragon-Slaying Great Blade.
"Heh! Heh!"
Ethan grinned wickedly.
๑乛v乛๑
"Come up!"
"Don't tell me you didn't see it. My 49-meter great blade is already unbearably hungry!"
> (ФДФ)<
The water monsters looked stunned.
This guy in front of them was the real monster, right?
A 49-meter-long blade. Even if they ran 50 meters, they still could not afford to mess with that.
Forget it, forget it.
The water ghosts silently backed off again and sank into the lake.
"You're running already? How boring!"
Ethan had originally thought he could anger one or two water ghosts. Who knew they were this useless.
"Tch!"
There is no problem in this world that acidic water cannot solve. If there is, then just add two more bottles.
Ethan poured two more portions into the lake.
This time, the lake water started boiling directly.
Some kind of chemical reaction seemed to be happening at the bottom of the lake, causing bubbles to surge up like crazy.
And the water ghosts also seemed unable to endure the corrosion of the acidic water.
One by one, they began spinning, tumbling around, then they started swimming toward the surface.
Ethan swept his gaze over it. There were at least thirty or forty water ghosts swimming upward in the entire lake.
"Damn!"
"When was there so many?"
"Weren't there only ten or twenty earlier?"
"Did I raid their lair, or did I force all those homebody guys and girls out of their houses?"
But with this number, no matter how Ethan looked at it, there was no way he could handle it alone.
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