Above the mage!

Chapter 391 Making a Nest
Tuanzi is very intelligent. If it can handle it by itself, it won't come to me first.

Goddard knows this.

He did not hesitate, walked to an empty corner, took off his clothes and put them aside, leaving only his underwear, and then jumped.

With a splash, Gao De slid into the water like a fish without causing much waves. It could be called an extremely graceful dive.

As soon as he saw Gaode enter the water, Tuanzi also lowered his head back into the water, swaying his body left and right towards Gaode, while fiddling with his short fins.

Gaode patted Tuanzi's head gently, which not only expressed encouragement and praise, but also cast [Beast Connection +] to establish a deeper connection with Tuanzi, making it easier to communicate and understand the specific situation.

As the link was established, Tuanzi's extremely excited and joyful thoughts came clearly.

The situation is not complicated.

Tuanzi is a lively and active person. Although Biboting is not small, it has been hanging out in that area of ​​water since it was born and has long lost its sense of novelty. Now that it has arrived in a new water system, it naturally swims freely and explores here and there.

As a result, it drilled and explored and found an unexpected reward.

Tuanzi couldn't express clearly how to harvest it.

Gaode was not in a hurry. He let Tuanzi lead the way in front, then cast an Ocean Touch on himself and followed.

Pirated products can never compare to genuine products.

Even though he had grown flippers through magic, his movement speed in the water was still far slower than that of Tuanzi.

Tuanzi was obviously very excited. He swam ahead, pumping water with his tail and creating a string of bubbles.

After swimming forward for more than two hundred meters, Gaode was almost reaching the destination. He surfaced, took another deep breath of oxygen, and then sank down in one breath following Tuanzi.

After sinking more than ten meters, an extremely huge and strangely shaped stone appeared before our eyes.

Looking out, you can't see the bottom at a glance, as if it is a small building built from the bottom of the water.

Tuanzi's discovery was located in the middle of this huge stone.

Here, the stone suddenly cracked, forming a crack more than two meters wide, through which a faint light shone.

In the water, or enclosed by large rocks, the light naturally does not come from sunlight outside.

There is no doubt that there must be something that can glow inside.

In the game, things that glow are generally treasures, such as night pearls, etc. This is a very classic setting.

Although reality is different from games, it is almost the same and is by no means ordinary.

Tuanzi swayed his body in front, "inviting" Gaode to come in.

Full of curiosity, it had already gone in to take a look and confirmed that there was no danger.

Gao De did not hesitate. He gently kicked his legs in a whip-like posture and swam towards the crack.

The crack was a downward sloping channel. The surrounding water flow became turbulent due to the narrow gap, constantly impacting Gaode's body.

However, after swimming only a short distance, it bent upwards at an obtuse angle.

The surging river water also came to an abrupt stop at this obtuse angle.

It was like a cave hidden in the center of the stone. There was no water flowing above it, but only locked air.

Gao De stuck his head out of the water and looked around, no longer having to hold his breath.

No wonder Tuanzi can’t handle it.

This guy is like a dragon in the water, but once out of water, he is completely in the dark.

It can't climb up by relying on its two front fins that look like hands, right?

"You wait here." Gao De raised his head and could vaguely see fluorescent lights flashing above him, so he told Tuanzi.

Then, he quickly released [Touch of the Ocean +] and used [Cat Claw] instead.

The webbed fingers disappeared, and the nails began to lengthen at a speed visible to the naked eye, becoming pointed and sharp, like blades.

Gao De's fingers were like chisels, inserted into the stone wall, and then pulled out, alternating between his hands in this way, climbing up little by little.

The space inside the entire stone is not particularly large. After climbing up about six or seven meters, you are close to the top, where there is an inverted semicircular platform.

Gao De grabbed the protruding stone wall, pushed himself up, and jumped onto the platform.

The space on the platform was extremely small, so with just a glance he found the light source.

It was an egg the size of a fist, and the eggshell emitted a faint fluorescence in the dark, which was very strange.

The eggs of some kind of earth vein creature.

Gao De made a judgment instantly.

The next moment, he took a step forward, picked up the egg and held it in his arms. The eggshell felt warm to the touch and seemed to still have a faint rhythm of life.

But at this moment, Gao De didn't have time to think about it, he just quickly slid back into the water from the platform.

"Hurry up!" Gaode whispered to Tuanzi.

He didn't know the origin of this egg, but he knew that since the egg was here, in most cases, its mother would not be too far away, and might be on her way back.

From the peculiarity of this egg, we can see that its origin is not simple, so it is likely that its mother is very powerful.

If you hit it, or if you are in the water, you will inevitably suffer serious consequences.

Of course, the safest way is to pretend that you saw nothing and leave empty-handed.

But the problem is that since we are here, how can we go back empty-handed?
His luck was still good. Holding the glowing egg, Gaode sped up and left the waters safely.

The passenger ship did not stop to wait for him because of his launching.

Gaode doesn't have such a big face.

But it doesn’t matter, he had already considered this when he went into the water.

God first floated to the surface to take a breath, then opened the Mandor Magic Eye to look for the passenger ship.

There were no obstacles on the water surface, and his movements were very agile, so the passenger ship did not go far.

With the farsightedness of Mandola's Magic Eye, God instantly confirmed the location of the passenger ship.

puff!
Tuanzi also popped up beside Gaode at this time.

Gao De patted Tuanzi's head and said softly, "I'm sorry to trouble you for a while."

Tuanzi said nothing, but just retracted its two front fins inward, imitating the human fist-holding action. Unfortunately, its "little short hands" did not allow it to touch its two fins together.

"Let's go."

Tuanzi dived into the water, came under Gaode's body, and then pushed up slightly.

Goder swiftly spread his legs, straddled Tuanzi, then clamped his legs together, then bent down holding the egg, pressing tightly against Tuanzi's back, with his body almost folded in half.

After confirming that Gaode was seated firmly, Tuanzi spit out a string of bubbles, swung his body, and started instantly, carrying Gaode through the waves and chasing after the departing passenger ship at an extremely fast speed.

The white water flows apart to both sides.

At the top speed and with the strong wind blowing, Gao De actually felt a bit like riding a speedboat in his previous life, which was extremely comfortable.

In just a moment, Gaode had caught up with the passenger ship.

Using Tuanzi's back as a fulcrum and a [jumping technique], he safely returned to the deck of the ship.

Afterwards, he performed the magic [Dancing Wind] to summon a small whirlwind that wrapped around his entire body, acting as a "hair dryer" to remove water droplets from his body and hair. Then he put on the clothes he had just taken off, as if nothing had happened.

The only thing that proved what had just happened was the egg that he had put into his coat pocket. There were no more unexpected events.

After sailing for five hours and a quarter of an hour, the passenger ship docked at the pier in Monte Town.

Gao De was the first person to get off the boat.

It’s not that he was impatient, but mainly because he didn’t like to do the things that are often seen in TV dramas, such as “wearing white dragon and fish clothes, and walking at night in brocade clothes”. Since he was performing official duties, he decisively wore the Shanghai sentry uniform.

This can not only avoid many possible troubles, but also provide some convenience.

It's like when a policeman goes out to perform his duties, the difference in work efficiency is huge between wearing a police uniform and not wearing one.

Unless in situations where "plain clothes" are required, Gao De always wears the sea sentry uniform when performing tasks.

For example, now, other passengers on the boat, because of his uniform, consciously let him go first.

It's not a big deal, but it does make things more convenient.

Entering Monte Town from the pier, Goder went straight to the sheriff's office in the center of the town.

He didn't even need to show his ID card. Just by relying on the uniform on his body, he easily obtained the information on the activities of shell-stealing crabs that had been collected and sorted out in Monte Town during this period.

The sheriff and guards of Monte Town are no pushovers. With this information, they have preliminarily delineated several activity ranges of the shell-stealing crabs.

However, this range is indeed a bit wide, and we cannot use it to launch a clear-out operation when the shell-stealing crabs are moving cautiously.

"Master Mage, I'll leave it to you." The sheriff who received Gao De said in a deep voice after transferring the information to Gao De.

Gao De smiled slightly and said soothingly: "I will solve it as soon as possible, you don't have to worry too much."

In theory, the upper sea area is the area under the charge of the high-ring sea sentinel mages.

But theory is just theory.

As an organization continues to grow, the division of responsibilities begins to become blurred, and it is actually normal to change to facilitate work.

Low-level missions like the crab plague hazard, which have a mission area located near the coast and do not require sailing, are mostly assigned to low-level mages like Gaode.

How can you kill a chicken with a bull's knife?

You can't ask the "main hall" to go to the countryside to dismantle the pig farm, right?
This kind of thing is naturally done by the grassroots.

Shallow offshore waters.

It was evening and the sea was sparkling.

The sea water gently hits the rocks on the shore, making a rhythmic sound.

On the shore, many strange-shaped reefs stand.

Most of the coastline in Monte Town is like this, rugged and rocky, and there is no place suitable for building a port.

They cannot enjoy the benefits of the ocean, which is one of the reasons why their economies are relatively poor near the coast.

The bottoms of these reefs are full of deep crevices and pits, providing an excellent shelter for many marine creatures.

At this moment, a dark brown crab with moss-like patterns on its hard shell was quietly curled up in the darkest corner at the bottom of one of the huge reefs.

Its slender legs are tightly attached to both sides of its body, motionless, like part of the reef.

Suddenly, the red eyes of the motionless crab beast popped out from under its shell.

Its eyes move very flexibly, quickly scanning the surrounding environment, not missing any slight movement.

Then it began to move its legs.

Although it walks with its eight legs sideways like an ordinary crab, its speed is extremely fast. It stretches and retracts its legs quickly, creating strings of fine bubbles in the water.

In the blink of an eye, it left the edge of the reef like an arrow and swam rapidly towards a specific direction in the sea.

There, there were several brightly colored, round, full emerald green round objects floating.

But just as it was about to get closer, a swift shadow suddenly rushed out from the side and headed straight for the crab beast.

As the water rushed forward, the crab beast was instantly dizzy from the impact.

The shadow would not miss the opportunity. While the crab beast was in chaos, it immediately opened its huge mouth like a "bloody mouth" and bit down. With a quick and decisive movement, it bit through the crab beast along with its shell.

Then, it broke through the water with the crab in its mouth and turned to look at the beach not far away.

Take credit!
"Good job, Tuanzi." Gao De, who witnessed this scene on the beach, was not stingy with his praise.

That shadow was Tuanzi.

As for the dead crab in its mouth, it was exactly the target of Gaode's trip: the shell-stealing crab.

Tuanzi swam to the shore holding the shell-stealing crab that he had bitten to death, and shook his head hard, throwing the shell-stealing crab's body onto the shore.

Gao De looked at the corpse of the shell-stealing crab in front of him.

It is not very big, and a fully grown adult is only the size of a fist.

But it is quite dangerous, as its claws and legs are covered with densely packed sharp spines.

It contains a highly poisonous substance, and just the slightest touch can cut through the skin of its prey and inject the toxin into its skin.

This is their main means of attack.

It actually sounds a bit weak, at least in a world with extraordinary powers, this method is a bit weak.

The fact is, they are indeed very weak, and can be regarded as the younger brothers among the first-level earth vein creatures.

Tuanzi, who was also at the first level, easily took down the shell-stealing crab without even using any of his three moves.

But it is precisely because they are weak that they have developed an extremely vigilant character, so that they can save their lives as much as possible.

At the same time, they have amazing reproductive ability, which is an important reason why they have not become extinct.

The shell-stealing crab's eyes shine like two small rubies, and they remain so even when it is dead.

And they are the evidence of settlement tasks.

Gaode took off its two eyes and put them into the cloth bag in his hand.

Inside, there were already forty or fifty ruby-like eyes.

This means that Gaode has killed twenty or thirty shell-stealing crabs, which are known for being cautious and hard to find.

In fact, only a few hours had passed since he arrived in Monte Town.

Even a second-ring or even third-ring mage may not have this kind of efficiency.

With this efficiency, it would only take two or three days at most, not half a month, for Gaode to wipe out all the shell-stealing crabs on the beach near Monte Town.

The biggest credit for all this, of course, comes from the emerald green round object or should it be called jewel berry that attracts the shell-stealing crabs to leave their nests.

[Divine Berry+]:
Bonus: Berries created by this spell have a powerful attraction to animals.

Shell-stealing crabs are also animals, so they will also be deeply attracted to the gem berries created by [Divine Berry Technique+].

This is the reason why Gaode dared to take on this "difficult task" without hesitation.

For an ordinary sea sentinel mage to do this task, he can only stay there and wait for the shell-stealing crab to appear.

But God can use the Gem Sweetberries to actively make nests and lure the Shell Thief Crabs out of their hidden hiding places.

This solved the most difficult part of the [Crab Disaster Hidden Danger] mission, increasing the hunting efficiency tenfold or a hundredfold, allowing him to complete the mission easily and quickly.

(End of this chapter)