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Chapter 51 - Chapter 169 The cold lake water hits the face of the Canghuolong

Chapter 169: Icy Lake Water Splashes on Amphibious Cinderfire Dragon's Face

Cheng Tian's thought process was very simple and direct.

There was a dragon's nest on a two-meter-high base, and the reward was a dragon egg. This dragon egg was actually a live dragon egg that could hatch a Pterodactyl—

So he started digging, and he actually dug one out.

The Purple Dragon Elder kept rubbing his eyes in a very human-like manner, still not quite daring to believe what he had just seen.

Cheng Tian himself, who had successfully dug out a cloned Spades Tyrannosaurus Rex egg not long ago, was much calmer.

With a normal expression, Cheng Tian caressed the two Pterodactyl eggs for a while before contentedly putting them into his inventory.

The existence of these two eggs was somewhere between the Crimson Tyrannosaurus Rex reins and the Mammoth. They were also living creatures that could be placed in the inventory, but to Cheng Tian, they were more like Pokémon eggs. Walking to hatch them felt very much like Pokémon.

However, as soon as the dragon eggs entered the inventory, a prompt simultaneously popped up on both eggs: "Temperature suitable, incubation accelerated."

Cheng Tian was only slightly stunned before realizing what was happening, and he habitually scratched his forehead.

From now on, please call him the Human-Shaped Rapidash!

"Hey!"

Cheng Tian's voice startled the Purple Dragon Elder, who was brainstorming but couldn't come up with anything. Hearing Cheng Tian's call, he looked over with a dazed gaze, showing that Cheng Tian's stimulation was indeed significant.

"What's in the other fork in the road? Is it a Mosasaur? Or a Pterodactyl Elder similar to you?"

The reason he asked this was because Cheng Tian knew that there were actually three types of hidden caves on Adventure Island.

The "Dragon Egg Wonder Room" which offered a choice of three dragon eggs, the "Treasure Feast Room" which had no guardians but contained various mounts, fruits, and gems, and the "Flight Skip Room" which was overseen by a Red Pterodactyl Elder and allowed players to skip certain bosses.

In terms of rewards, the Treasure Feast Room in the middle was obviously the most satisfying for players, but after being instanced, the trigger conditions would undoubtedly become much stricter.

Heaven's Chosen Space allowed players to find hidden secrets, but it had to be done reasonably.

Although Cheng Tian found something in the three-choice room, the conditions to find this hidden cave were actually much more stringent than imagined.

If Cheng Tian hadn't had a single-person submarine capable of descending to a depth of over 200 meters, he would never have been able to find this place.

And even players who possessed diving abilities themselves would probably find it difficult to withstand 200 meters of water pressure to reach this location.

Of course, drilling was also a method, but the prerequisite was knowing that there was a hidden cave here.

The Dragon Elder, upon hearing Cheng Tian's question, first shook his head and then nodded.

"Fortunately, you didn't go that way first... At the end of the other fork in the road resides a mutated Mosasaur, a deeply double-mutated dragon beast leader, which has fused the abilities of both Spades and Diamonds, transforming from an aquatic dragon beast into an amphibious one.

Although I don't know how you got here, I advise you to leave as soon as possible. If you happen to encounter it going out to forage during your return journey, you can only pray for good fortune."

As the Dragon Elder finished speaking, Cheng Tian also received a space notification.

[You have prematurely learned about the double-mutated dragon beast "Amphibious Cinderfire Dragon" from the Purple Dragon Elder—

This unit is a "Leader Template," possessing both fire enhancement abilities from Spades and amphibious abilities from Diamonds.]

[Space Detecting...]

[Space has confirmed that the "Amphibious Cinderfire Dragon" is the first encroaching unit, i.e., the source of encroachment, for the blueprint fragment of "Adventure Island 3" by Takahashi Meijin. Killing the source will allow the space to completely control and integrate the instance "Dinosaur New Century for Adventurers."]

[You can choose to attempt to kill the "Amphibious Cinderfire Dragon." If successful, your bounty mission will be considered complete, and the bounty rewards will be settled according to main mission specifications. Mission progress can be shared with current contract teammates.

You can also choose to abandon the kill and complete your original bounty mission normally. At that time, the space will issue a new bounty mission regarding "killing the Amphibious Cinderfire Dragon."

If you fail to kill the "Amphibious Cinderfire Dragon," the space will also re-issue a new bounty mission.]

After reading the prompt, Cheng Tian tapped his fingers rhythmically on the steering wheel. After a long while, he spoke to the Dragon Elder again.

"Elder, is this inside a volcano?"

"Yes."

"...That Amphibious Cinderfire Dragon's nest, it should be a lava cave, right?"

"That's right."

"Okay, I understand."

Having received the answers he wanted, Cheng Tian chose to accept the mission to "kill the Amphibious Cinderfire Dragon."

Giving up without even trying was clearly not Cheng Tian's style.

Cheng Tian, who had just extracted another crucial piece of information from the Dragon Elder through questioning, had already roughly guessed what the most difficult part of this BOSS battle would be.

Compared to the BOSS's leader template, the environmental factors were probably the biggest limitation.

Engaging in a head-on battle with a large dragon beast that had lava immunity in a lava-filled cave that was inevitably not very spacious was simply too reckless.

Even with a vehicle, it wouldn't work. Cheng Tian's combat vehicle couldn't withstand lava. It was very possible that before the vehicle melted, Cheng Tian inside would be cooked. As for the biological war vehicle, the Mammoth, it would directly turn into a roasted elephant!

If simply paying a price could achieve the goal, then so be it. The fear was paying the price and still failing to achieve the goal; that would be a true major loss.

"How about this, Elder, can you follow me to the surface? Because what I'm about to do will likely affect you."

Cheng Tian said sincerely to the Purple Dragon Elder.

"...To be honest, I'd like to, but I'll drown if I go into the water."

Hearing Cheng Tian's words, the Elder also looked helpless. He didn't truly want to stay here his whole life; the problem was that he didn't have water dragon genes, so going into the water meant death.

"It's fine, just follow me, you don't need to go into the water."

Cheng Tian, having made a promise, directly closed the hatch of the war vehicle. He then attempted to activate the Ten Commandments, precisely sensing his classmate Irene, who was directly above him, looking somewhat bored and performing her daily archery training.

The next second, the sound of the drill began to reverberate through the Dragon Egg Wonder Room... Approximately an hour later, Irene, sensing vibrations from the ground, sharply sprang out.

Looking closely, she discovered a familiar, massive drill shape.

Soon, Cheng Tian, driving the drill vehicle, fully emerged. Close behind him was a dusty but exceptionally excited Purple Dragon Elder, who had smelled the outside air.

However, before Irene could even ask a question, she heard Cheng Tian kick open the hatch and directly throw out a statement: "This is a neutral NPC, don't accidentally injure him. Also, all of you get ready, there's a high probability of a BOSS battle soon!" He then drove back the way he came, re-entering the spiraling upward tunnel that led directly from the Wonder Room to the surface.

Yes, Cheng Tian had directly excavated a spiraling upward passage from the Wonder Room, allowing himself and the Dragon Elder to bypass the volcanic lake and see daylight again.

But the real main event was yet to come.

If one could see a cross-section of the underground at this moment, they would find that Cheng Tian's drill vehicle was excavating a straight passage at a 45-degree downward angle, directly connecting the volcanic lake water with the lava dragon nest cave where the Amphibious Cinderfire Dragon resided!

He left a small section of the lake's side undug, not directly breaking through, but he decisively dug open the side facing the lava cave. When the war vehicle clattered to the ground, it directly woke up the Amphibious Cinderfire Dragon sleeping inside, instantly triggering the BOSS battle!

However, Cheng Tian showed no desire to fight. He made a sharp U-turn, choosing to accelerate back through the normal fork in the road.

The Amphibious Cinderfire Dragon, still covered in high-temperature lava, naturally wouldn't let Cheng Mouren, who had provided him with a rude awakening, get away. But his body structure already dictated that his land movement speed wouldn't be very fast, and he was immediately left behind by the drill vehicle.

Returning quickly to the pit entrance where he had initially entered with the single-person submarine, Cheng Tian, through rapid retrieval and deployment, swapped his vehicle for the single-person submarine and continued to escape by diving.

The Amphibious Cinderfire Dragon, who had chased him this far, tilted his neck. He chose not to continue the pursuit and instead returned the way he came, somewhat annoyed.

Just as Cheng Tian had guessed, the biggest difficulty in the BOSS battle was the terrain. The Amphibious Cinderfire Dragon, holding the advantage of the terrain, was even less likely to be easily lured out. To fight him, one had to engage in a tough battle in the lava cave.

However, when Cheng Tian drove the single-person submarine to a depth of about a hundred meters, he directly pressed the torpedo launch button at a certain position!

With the launch and impact of the torpedo, the force of the explosion directly shattered the inner wall of the lake... revealing the passage Cheng Tian had dug with his drill vehicle inside—

Icy lake water began to furiously pour into the passage leading directly to the lava cave!

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