Chapter 365: Water and Fire Counteract Each Other
The ice arrows spit out from the river clams shot towards Rong Xianxian densely, covering a wide area, and all three roads were covered. The ice shield in Rong Xianxian's hand seemed to have eyes, spinning around, protecting her whole body tightly, and actually blocked all the ice arrows.
The crystal clear ice arrows hit the ice shield, shattered into pieces and scattered ice chips all over the ground.
Feng Xingjia rubbed his eyes in disbelief. He seemed to have seen a lot of ice shields just now, but when he looked carefully, he found that Rong Xianxian only had an ice shield the size of a car steering wheel in her hand. There were many tiny cracks on the surface of the ice shield. Rong Xianxian gently brushed it with her other hand, and the ice shield returned to its original state.
After spitting out those ice arrows, the clam shell closed tightly again. Rong Xianxian knocked on the outside of the clam shell "bang bang bang" with a narrow-bladed scimitar, but the clam shell remained tightly closed and did not move at all.
Rong Xianxian tried another one. Just like this one, after spitting out a round of ice arrows, the big river clams closed their shells tightly and did not move no matter how hard they were hit from the outside.
Feng Xingjia came over to help and fiddled with the two big clams for a long time, but the two things seemed to be dead and had no reaction at all.
"Why isn't it moving now? It was so ferocious when we first fished it out of the water, spitting non-stop, just like a chain of artillery shells, injuring many of our brothers." said a team member at the back.
"Could it be that this thing is also bullying the weak and afraid of the strong?" A team member next to him said a little depressed. There was a hole in his arm caused by the ice arrow sprayed by the big river clam. Although it had been bandaged and applied medicine, it still hurt.
"Sister Rong, this thing lives under the ice. Is it afraid of the cold when it comes to land? So it shrinks back." Xia Kai guessed.
"I think the water in the clam shell has been sprayed out, and it has no way to replenish water on land. Now it has no weapons, so naturally it dares not to be arrogant." Feng Xingjia said.
"What should we do now? The shell is very strong and cannot be broken at all. We have to think of how to pry open the clam shell?" Xia Kai said.
"What is the exchange price of this thing at the official exchange?" Rong Xianxian asked.
This kind of very rare and precious thing should be worth a lot.
"A total of 1,000 points are given for two of them. They said that this thing is a big river clam. There is golden light inside, and there might be pearls. For such a big river clam, the pearls inside should be of better quality, so they are given such high points." Feng Xingjia said.
"What do you think of this price?" Rong Xianxian looked around.
"Most of the team members think the price is fair, but Doctor Rong, you have explained before that anything unusual or unfamiliar found during the exploration process will only be estimated and not sold, so we rushed it to you." Feng Xingjia said respectfully.
Rong Xianxian had previously instructed that any large items collected by the team during training outside, such as monster corpses and relatively rare and valuable items, would be appraised at the official exchange and then brought back to her for review before she would decide how to deal with them.
"When you sent this thing for appraisal, did you mention that it could shoot ice arrows?" Rong Xianxian asked.
"Yes, some brothers thought that the thing that could spit out ice arrows was not an ordinary river clam." Feng Xingjia thought for a moment and replied.
"So what did they say?" Rong Xianxian asked.
"They didn't quite believe it at first, but after learning about the situation, they said that the water jets could form ice arrows because of the cold climate outside, and it was nothing strange." Most of the members of the trial team felt that this answer made sense.
Rong Xianxian, who had just witnessed the power of the ice arrow, knew that this statement was pure nonsense. Not to mention whether the water jet could freeze into ice the moment it was sprayed out, just looking at the speed and impact force of the ice arrow, this statement was untenable.
"Is the injured brother okay?" Rong Xianxian looked at the team members around her.
"Although this ice arrow is powerful, we all have the protective amulets given by Doctor Rong. The dozen or so brothers who were closest to us at the time were injured, and we wasted a dozen protective amulets, but the others are fine." Feng Xingjia was somewhat happy when he said this. They also had some other gains. In addition, if these two large river clams could be sold for one thousand points, their trip would no longer be a losing business.
"That's good. It's my daughter's birthday tomorrow, and I'm planning to hold a banquet to celebrate her birthday. These two clams can be added as a dish. Kaikai, you give 2,000 points to Captain Feng, and I'll keep these two clams." Rong Xianxian said with a smile.
Although the elixirs, talismans, weapons and the like sold at Rong Xianxian's stall were intended to be exchanged for some unknown items dropped by monsters, she inevitably received a lot of points currency commonly used in safe zones.
"No, no, Doctor Rong. What we have harvested is not even enough to cover the cost you paid. Besides, these clams should have been yours to deal with." Feng Xingjia waved his hand quickly. They were dependent on her and handed over all their labor income according to the rules. It was up to Rong Xianxian to decide how to distribute the materials they obtained.
"Captain Feng, you don't have to say anything. This is my decision. All the brothers who participated in the salvage will equally share the 1,000 points. Those who were injured will get more. Captain Feng will prepare some gifts for everyone with the remaining 1,000 points. The New Year is coming soon, so let's have some fun together." Xia Kai had already taken out 2,000 points and handed them to Feng Xingjia.
"This..." Feng Xingjia looked at so much money and felt it was hot but also very tempted. He could buy a lot of good things with so much money.
"Captain Feng, please go back and distribute the rewards to everyone so that everyone can buy some New Year's goods." Rong Xianxian signaled Feng Xingjia not to refuse.
Feng Xingjia and his group left. Jiang Jie happened to come back. He heard that Rong Xianxian wanted to make this big river clam into a dish. He excitedly fiddled with the two big clam shells with Xia Kai for a long time, prying, knocking, hitting, and smashing with heavy objects. The clam shells remained tightly closed. "Sister Rong, how do we eat this? Should we cook it directly in the pot? But we have such a big pot?"
"I have a way, watch me." Xia Kai seemed to have thought of something. He dug a hole in the yard, lit a fire in the hole, and went outside to find some broken stones. The two of them put the big river clams on the fire to roast them.
This kind of thing was fished out of the water, so it must be afraid of fire. Now, he didn't believe that the river clam would remain motionless!
Xia Kai added firewood four times, and the fire burned for more than half an hour, but the clams still did not react.
"Sister Rong, why isn't this thing afraid of fire? This is unscientific, water and fire are incompatible!" Xia Kai said unconvinced.
"The body inside may be afraid of fire, but you are burning the shell." Rong Xianxian said, touching the hard clam shell.
(End of this chapter)
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