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Monsters like wolves, leopards, and dogs will gradually increase. If you go further down, all kinds of fantasy creatures will appear. But the main thing in front of you is the big lake... Yakumo thinks that maybe he should find a way to go into the water and look for fish.

"Eriri, help me cast a magic that doesn't require breathing, meow." Yakumo said to Eriri.

The magic of breathing is very useful when swimming.

"Okay." Eriri tapped Yakumo with her magic wand and said, "But my power is not enough. It can only last for one day."

"It's not like I live underwater..." Yakumo was speechless, and then he jumped directly into the lake: "I'll go down and see if there's any prey, meow. If there's any edible seaweed, I'll bring some up too."

"I'll come too." Shu asked Yinglili to cast a spell on him. No hunter would let Felyne go on an adventure alone. Hunters always act with Felyne.

“That’s fine, but it’s still not easy to perform underwater. Once we find the prey, we just need to attract its attention and get ashore as soon as possible.” Yakumo said as he dived into the water.

Shu also held his breath and entered the water. This should be the first time that Shu experienced not needing to breathe. It was very magical. Although he was indeed not breathing, he did not feel suffocated.

Yakumo pointed to the other side and sent a message to Shu through the group chat: "Sister Shu, go this way. I just saw a shadow passing by. There is no way there is only one water element in such a big lake. It would be too empty."

The world of Labyrinth Rice is very particular about ecological cycle. A large lake with only water element is not suitable for the ecological environment. Water element also needs to absorb the existence of magic power, so there must be other monsters in the lake.

To build a complete ecosystem, the components of each stage are very necessary. Those black shadows are not fish, but other aquatic creatures, most of which are edible.

Shu didn't feel awkward in the water, but was quite comfortable swimming, at least much more relaxed than Yakumo. Yakumo used a dog paddle at first, but he swam very smoothly with Shu leading him.

"They look like herbivorous fish. Follow them and maybe we can find some edible aquatic plants." Yakumo quietly followed the school of fish. Large, ferocious carnivorous fish probably wouldn't gather in such large numbers.

"Over there, that's it!" Yakumo saw a lot of water plants along the way, all of which were edible. He pulled Shu to collect some: "Then we can catch two or three fish and go back to make lunch, meow."

Shu has a hook, and if the distance is close enough, using the hook to catch the fish is also an option. Shu did not fail and quickly caught four fish.

A fish weighs at least two kilograms, and if five people eat three, there will probably be some left over.

"Let's go back... It's dangerous, meow!" Yakumo's hair stood up all at once. The senses of the Fey cat kept warning him. He grabbed the millet and swam to the other side by paddling.

Shu didn't know what happened, but she believed in Yakumo's judgment. After grabbing Yakumo with her backhand, she swam towards the shore at a faster speed. The closer to the shore, the shallower the water. Even if there were large creatures, they would not come over.

Sure enough, not long after Yakumo and Shu arrived at the shore, a huge fish that was estimated to be six or seven meters long jumped out of the water, holding several fish in its mouth, and then fell onto the lake.

The huge body created violent waves on the lake surface, and Shu and Yakumo, who had not yet had time to go ashore, were directly hit by the waves and thrown ashore.

"Are there such big creatures in this lake?!" said Funina in disbelief.

"It's not a ferocious fish, meow." Yakumo wiped the water off his face. "It's probably just because the lake is too big, so it's the only one born, and it's not very aggressive at all, meow."

Chapter 30 Grilled Fish on Paper

"Such a big fish, how much meat is there?" Ying Lili opened her mouth wide: "Can I eat for a long time if I catch one?"

"Forget it, it's a thankless task." Yakumo shook his head: "Besides, fish this big is not easy to cook. A fish this size is perfect. Meow, we'll have grilled fish for lunch today."

A little further from the lake, everyone set up camp. Spanish mackerel could start processing the fish they had caught. First, they cleaned the fish again, removed the internal organs, and then cut a few diagonal cuts on both sides of the fish.

Chop the onion, ginger and garlic you can buy, add salt, cooking wine and light soy sauce and mix them to make the sauce. In this environment with a mainly Western background, it is difficult for Yakumo to buy light soy sauce and dark soy sauce, and he does not know how to make soy sauce himself.

Spread the seasoning evenly on both sides and the inner cavity of the fish, and set it aside to marinate for a while until the flavor is absorbed. During this time, Yakumo cleaned and cut the water plants he had picked, and then added some Piranha fruit.

"It's a pity there's no thousand sheets of rice, meow. I still like to add thousand sheets of rice to grilled fish." Yakumo felt very sorry. Whether he was eating hot pot, maocai or grilled fish, Yakumo had a special liking for thousand sheets of rice.

But in this world, even tofu is not necessarily available everywhere, let alone thousand sheets? Yakumo could only pick and choose the vegetables on hand, selected a few green vegetables to put in, then added some seasonings, brushed the fish skin with oil, and wrapped it in paper.

Finally, put the paper bag directly into the pot, turn on the fire, cover the lid, and wait for the fish to be cooked. Before that, Shu had already steamed the rice. The rice made by Shu is more fragrant than the rice made by Yakumo. Yakumo doesn't know if Shu has some strange bonus.

As the aroma slowly drifted out, Hiiragi Tina sniffed intoxicatedly: "It feels... better than the food I ate in the store outside. Suddenly I feel that there is nothing delicious in the stores around my home."

"That's not the case. There are still some delicious foods in Nihongo... maybe meow." Yakumo said without any confidence. To be honest, Yakumo didn't know much about Nihongo's food. He couldn't even study the food here.

After waiting for twenty minutes, Yakumo opened the lid of the pot and a puff of steam came out.

The aroma hits you in the face.

“It’s so hot, so hot, so hot!” Ying Lili rolled on the ground, covering her face. “I forgot that the steam from the pot is very hot! Ahhhh! It smells so good, but it’s so hot!”

"Eri is still so noisy." Funina smiled bitterly and used water to cool down Eriri: "Fortunately, it came off quickly, otherwise it might have burned your skin."

"It's done, meow. Let's eat." Yakumo unwrapped the paper package. The oil on the paper was still sizzling. The fish meat had been cooked through, and the vegetables wrapped in it were also soaked with the aroma of fish and seasonings.

The fish actually didn't have many small bones, and the chopsticks were able to pick up the fish meat with a light pinch on the fish belly. The outer skin was slightly browned, and the fish meat inside was extremely white and tender. The delicious seasoning and sauce made it hard to stop eating.

"I thought fish of this size would be difficult to cook and difficult to marinate, but I didn't expect it to be just right." After Yakumo started eating, the others did not hesitate and started eating too.

The fish on the other side was more crispy, and after Funina picked up her chopsticks, she could hear a slight crackling sound. With a slight tear of the skin, a small piece was torn off, revealing the plump fish fat underneath.

"Wow, wow, it's so hot and smells so good." Ying Lili has eaten a lot of fish, but none of them tasted as good as this one.

"Really? When I was making the sauce, I added a little magic water of the water element into it, and it seems to have a good effect." Yakumo said proudly: "And because it is wrapped in paper, the magic power evaporates but does not dissipate so easily."

"No wonder..." Eriri swallowed the fish and exhaled a few times. Because it was wrapped tightly and baked, the magic in the water mixed with the fish meat, which also added a lot of color to the fish meat.

"I didn't expect that such a crude method could taste so good." Funina covered her mouth and chewed slowly: "If we camp here, will we not have to worry about lack of food?"

"But we also have to face that huge monster just now, meow." Yakumo blew a few breaths on the fish meat: "Besides, it's not always possible to go into the water to catch fish without any danger, meow."

Perhaps because he guessed that everyone would focus on the fish, he did not steam much rice this time. Everyone only ate one bowl, and the rest were almost full just by eating the fish and the vegetables in the fish.

"Wow~ It turns out that the happiest time of the day is after dinner." Furniture habitually lay down on the grass: "But every time after dinner, I easily feel sleepy..."

"Then don't lie down right away, meow, come and help wash the dishes." Yakumo pushed the bowl over and went to wash the pot himself.

"Well, do we still need to explore the center of the lake later?" Hiiragi Mutina had already untransformed and asked Yakumo weakly.

"We still have to go. Generally speaking, water elements don't live in groups, so it's relatively safe to go down. Besides, such a big lake really makes people curious, meow."

"Okay, okay... I'll fly over and take a look this afternoon." Hiiragi Mutina, without her transformation, is still very cute.

"We can fly a little higher this time. Most monsters in the water, unless they are special types, can't attack from such a high position... If there are no flying monsters, it's basically safe."

"What if there are flying monsters?" Hiiragi Tina almost cried.

"Then fly back and we can continue to deal with it. That way we can have dinner." Yakumo spread his hands. What else can he do? It's nothing more than fighting back.

“Eh?” Hiiragi Mutina thought Yakumo had some good ideas for her, but why did it turn out like this?

"Don't worry, God will give a man a great responsibility, and he must first make him suffer." Yakumo patted Hiiragi Tina's... calf, and said very naturally: "Under the current circumstances, only if you can fly freely for a long time, it is time to realize your value!"

"The way Yakumo talks to Weiner-chan right now seems..." Hiiragi Mutina is about to cry: "Every time Weiner-chan says this, something bad always happens!"

"How could that be? Look, we got a lunch because of this." Yakumo laughed, "General, you ate a lot too. I think you ate half of the fish, right?"

This is not a small fish like the saury that often appears in the Nihongo animation, but a real big fish.

"Because, because I consumed a little too much magic energy this morning..." Hiiragi Wutina defended herself embarrassedly.

"I know, I know. You can replenish your magic power by eating." Yakumo waved his hand: "But you have to be careful to burn more magic power, otherwise it will turn into fat and accumulate."

"Ugh!"

Chapter 31 Arrival on the Island

“Sometimes it’s not a good thing to be the only one who can fly…” Hiiragi Mutina sighed and flew in the air resignedly. She thought she had already flown to the halfway point to the center of the lake, but now she realized that it seemed that she wasn’t there yet?

"I haven't seen the center of the lake yet... How about Eriri's map?" It seems that because of the map sharing, when Hiiragi Mutina explores the map, Eriri's map will reveal the fog of war.

This is a term that often appears in RTS games and MOBA games. The area on the map that is covered in black and nothing can be seen is generally called fog of war.

In some games, after exploring the map, the fog of war in that place is completely lifted, such as Red Alert.

The black area can be unlocked, but the specific situation inside cannot be explored, such as StarCraft.

Eriri's map is somewhere in between. Once unlocked, you can view the terrain, but the map itself does not show enemies. Eriri is also constantly checking the situation displayed on the map.

"Not yet. I can't see the boundary on my map. Could it be that the terrain on this level is just a lake?" Ying Lili pulled the zoom map. The area of ​​the third level is very large, and the area explored now is less than 1/3 of the entire maze.

"Left front! Tina-chan, there may be a piece of land in front of your left!" Eriri suddenly shouted.

"I, I saw it..." Hiiragi Wutina was flying in the air, how could she not see such an obvious place as land? And she could see that this was not a small piece of land, it was estimated to be at least as big as a football field.

"Really?" Yakumo was surprised. But such a long distance is indeed not something that ordinary people can go through. Most adventurers would probably give up before they reach half the distance. After all, the benefits are not proportional to the effort.

"Did you see anything up there, meow?" Yakumo asked, "Like special buildings, strange creatures, or something like that?"

"No, I haven't seen anything yet." Hiiragi Wutina flew around the island. This island was neither big nor small, and there were no particularly obvious landmarks on it. After a little thought, Hiiragi Wutina landed on the island.

There are still many plants on the island, and if anything unexpected happens, Hiiragi Matina will have a lot of control materials. But the island is too quiet, there is no sound, it sounds like there are no animals on the island.

"Let's have Eriri cast the magic of walking on water and rush over right away." Yakumo thought that maybe there was something buried on the island. It wasn't that he had any intelligence, but the island was indeed a good place to hide something.

Of course, generally speaking, it is impossible for someone to hide things there and take them later. It is not worth it for adventurers. However, this is a maze, and many things in the maze are generated by people's imagination and desire.

There is a vast lake. Is there a sunken treasure in the lake? If there is an island in the center of the lake, is there someone else's hidden treasure? This is a thought that many adventurers would have.

Once these thoughts gather, the demon of desire will create corresponding things based on them. Most treasures and monsters in the maze are created by the demon in this way.

Once the devil creates something, it will never be erased. So if the devil really created wealth on the island and it has not been taken away by anyone, then there must be treasure on that island.

"That's why I thought of going to the island to have a look. Maybe there's some mechanism that hasn't been triggered, so we can't see anything yet." Yakumo explained: "Combining the way people think with the abilities of demons, I came up with this inference, meow."

"The possibility is indeed very high." Shu nodded: "According to what Xiao Yakumo said, the probability of success is still very high. If there really is a treasure, we will have a great harvest this time."

"So we have to act fast, meow!" Because the water element was eliminated, the journey was relatively safe. The big fish did not appear again. It was probably because it had eaten its fill before, so it was floating lazily in the lake.

It took almost two hours for the group to finally reach the island safely. There were indeed many plants growing on the island, and Yakumo even found some edible ones: "Is this a green onion? Why is there a carrot?! What the hell is this cabbage?!"

"Is there anyone farming here?" Yakumo was confused. This situation reminded him of the scene in the Twilight Forest mod in Minecraft, when he landed on the sky island and faced the giant.

There can't be any prehistoric giants or strange races here, right? It's just that this kind of terrain can't have such tall people. The environment doesn't support it.

"I haven't found any underground entrance yet." Hiiragi Wutina is still in her transformed state, so her personality is slowly affected by the transformed state and she starts to become a little strong.

"It might be a mechanism-nyan. Felynx has a slight advantage in this regard." Yakumo looked up and looked around. Interestingly, the mechanisms are also highlighted in Monster Hunter, so it's not that difficult to find them.

"Sister Shu, here." Yakumo quickly found the location. It was a turntable covered by a bunch of vines, and it looked a bit rusty.

"Here I come." Shu came over, holding the turntable with both hands, holding his breath, and both hands started to move at the same time. The rusty turntable was difficult to turn at first, but Shu was actually very strong.

Therefore, Yakumo has always felt that if Shu used a sledgehammer, the power might be much greater than the current rifle.

"Boom, boom, boom..." As Shu turned the turntable, the ground began to shake, and a piece of ground not far away slowly opened up, revealing a stone brick staircase leading downwards.

"Stairs?! It's totally unscientific to build such stairs on an island like this!" Eriri complained loudly: "If there's still air underneath, it can't withstand the pressure from the water and would have been flooded long ago, right?!"

"Well, this is a world with magical powers. There are many places that Newton can't control." Yakumo took out a torch and probed at the entrance of the cave. It was okay. The torch was still burning brightly.

"I guess there are all kinds of adventures and monsters in it, meow.

I have no idea whether I can find the treasure or not." Even though Yakumo made a very clear analysis on the way here, this thing really can't be guaranteed.

"How did you say that?" Shu smiled and touched Yakumo's head: "Since we are here, wouldn't it be a pity if we don't go in and take a look?"

"That's right, we're not here for tourism anyway." Funina also supported going in to take a look.

Chapter 32: Taking Advantage of a Loophole

"Then let's go in, meow." Since everyone agreed, there was nothing more to say. Halfway down the stairs, Yakumo suddenly stopped.

“Meow?” Yakumo took another step back, experienced it, and then took two steps forward: “So that’s how it is, meow. It’s a very pleasing way.”

"What's wrong?" Shu looked at Yakumo strangely.

"There are obvious signs of spatial connection at that location just now, so it is estimated that the bottom is no longer the bottom of the lake. No wonder the air inside is still rich in oxygen even though it is covered and blocked."

This situation is a bit similar to changing maps in games. For example, in Genshin Impact, the Umijima Island goes to the Abyss Palace; the Abyss goes to the underground, which are similar situations.

"Also, after getting down there, the air not only didn't become more humid, but it became drier and drier, meow." Yakumo's fur is still not wet and is in good condition.

"Really? I can't even feel the water down there." Furniture had already summoned three Normal Summoned Beasts. The three summoned beasts surrounded Furniture, monitoring the surrounding situation.

"This should be another dimension." Yakumo said, "In the maze, there is a kind of painting that can accommodate people and experience the story before and after recorded in the painting."

"Eh? What if I draw the plot of the book on it..." Eriri suddenly had an idea: "If I use this kind of drawings on every page of the book in the future, wouldn't it be more economical than making an animation?!"

"Then you're probably not far from being caught, meow." Yakumo rolled his eyes at Eriri: "Although you can interact with people in this kind of painting, some things won't come true, such as the feeling of fullness after eating..."

"Wait, if Eriri draws a book, there will definitely be detailed descriptions... This way I might be able to experience the experience as if I were there. You're really worthy of being here, Mr. Kashiwagi." Yakumo gave Eriri a thumbs up.

“Tsk, you’re talking as if you don’t want to see it.” Eriri stuck out her tongue at Yakumo: “If I really draw it, you have no interest at all? I’m going to start drawing when I get home.”

"No, unless you want some new plot, I'll know how it's going to develop after just one look at the first page." Yakumo looked quite disdainful: "Come on, little dog~ Can't you come up with some new ideas, meow?"

"KUSO!" Eriri was furious. Her creation had indeed reached a bottleneck. Her previous comics were drawn based on the adventure stories of Frillian, which were more serious.

If she were asked to create something original without that story, her level would quickly fall back to the same level. This is also why she had to ask Kasumigaoka to be the copywriter for the game. If she were asked to write the copy herself, it would definitely be irrelevant.

There was no way. She also wanted to improve herself, but after thinking about it, she still couldn't jump out of her own circle. Sayuri Sawamura had told her before that the more she saw, the more she would think.