RNP Chapter 651 Hot Springs
Chapter 651 Hot Springs
"I'm too old to dive anymore...it's very important to me!" The old turtle said pleadingly.
"So could you please help me find it?"
[Ding! Triggering a random NPC mission: Hot Spring Guardian!]
[Task Content]: Help the administrator "Old Turtle" dive into the bottom of the "Deep Sea Healing" hot spring pool and retrieve his lost "Lucky Stone".
[Mission Reward]: 3000 points, [Warm Jade] x1 (can slightly increase water affinity/speed up the natural recovery of mental power).
[Danger Warning]: The pool water is extremely hot and prolonged immersion may cause severe burns. The pool bottom has complex terrain and dim lighting.
Why do you need to dive?
Whose hot spring is more than ten meters deep?
Also, the temperature is incredibly high... Could it be a hot spring? No wonder the water temperature is so abnormal.
Xiao Jin glanced at the quest prompt, his gaze pausing on the reward, the [Warm Jade]. Improving water affinity and accelerating mental recovery were both practical benefits.
"Location?" Xiao Jin asked briefly.
The old turtle didn't expect her to agree so readily. He was stunned for a moment and quickly pointed to an area in the center of the pool where huge bubbles were constantly rolling: "It's probably near the spring!
The stone is a brilliant blue, you’ll know it when you see it.”
Xiao Jin nodded, and then transformed the bathrobe into clothing that was easy to move in.
She took a deep breath and sank her body suddenly, like a nimble black fish, instantly disappearing under the rolling hot deep blue water.
The underwater world is completely different from the one on land.
The light quickly dimmed, with only a vague halo of light shining from above.
And just as the system marked, the water temperature inside was much hotter than the water surface, as if you were in a boiling soup pot!
There was an intense burning sensation on the skin, and Xiao Jin could even clearly feel the exposed skin, his arms, neck and cheeks quickly turning red, as if they would be scalded and blistered in the next second!
To make matters worse, the bottom of the pool was deeper than she had imagined.
The terrain was also rugged, covered with smooth rocks and cracks eroded by the current. A huge hot spring at the center of the pool gushed out scorching water and bubbles, forming a strong turbulence that interfered with Xiao Jin's vision and movement.
After diving for about twenty minutes, the pressure in the lungs caused by holding your breath began to show.
But this is not a problem for Xiao Jin.
As soon as she thought about it, a round pearl the size of a pigeon egg, emitting a soft milky white glow, appeared in her palm.
Pearl oyster
Grade: purple
Description: Generates a pearl every 24 hours, allowing you to breathe and speak freely underwater for one hour, and can be saved.
Xiao Jin had this prop for a long time, but never had the chance to use it.
She saved a lot of pearls, most of which she sold, but Xiao Jin still kept a lot for herself.
Using the pearl props, Xiao Jin could immediately feel that the stuffiness in her chest was relieved, and then she found that she could breathe freely in the water.
Looking down carefully, it turned out that after using the props, Xiao Jin's face was suddenly covered with a layer of transparent film.
It is this membrane that allows her to breathe freely.
It’s a pity that the pearl can only allow Xiao Jin to breathe and speak in water, but it cannot avoid water, and therefore cannot isolate him from the horribly high temperature of the hot spring!
Xiao Jin continued to sink...
The burning sensation became more and more intense, as if countless red-hot steel needles were piercing under the skin.
Soon, abnormal patches of deep red began to appear visibly on Xiao Jin's arms and neck, and some places even had tiny, fluid-filled blisters.
The severe pain attacked her nerves and tested her willpower.
Xiao Jin's eyes were cold, as if he couldn't feel the pain that was enough to make an ordinary person collapse.
Her body twisted like a fish in the scalding water, skillfully avoiding the powerful jets, and her sharp eyes scanned the dim and complex bottom of the pool like a searchlight.
With her strong willpower and amazing endurance to physical pain, it didn't take long for her to quickly locate a crevice in the rock that was unusually clean after being washed by water and emitted a faint blue light.
That's it!
She swam closer quickly, ignoring the sharp pain and new blisters on her arms from the rubbing of the hot rock edge, and her slender fingers accurately inserted into the cracks in the rock.
The next second, Xiao Jin touched a warm, smooth, oval-shaped stone that emitted a faint blue light. Its coolness was a stark contrast to the scorching heat surrounding it.
catch!
Mission item obtained!
At the moment when Xiao Jin held the "lucky stone", despite the pearl, a strong feeling of dizziness and suffocation still suddenly hit him!
At that moment, the burning pain on Xiao Jin's skin seemed to reach its peak. His brain was also frantically issuing warnings: Danger! Hurry up! Otherwise, you will be cooked!
A normal person would have given up by now out of sheer pain and fear, swimming desperately upwards. Problems are most likely to occur when one is panicking.
Either choking on water or getting cramps...
But Xiao Jin's will is like iron that has been tempered a thousand times!
She forced herself to suppress her body's instinctive warning signals, kicked her feet hard on the smooth rocks at the bottom of the pool, and her body rushed upwards at the fastest speed against the scalding water like an arrow!
Next to the hot spring pool, the old turtle was still waiting anxiously.
Sudden……
"Crack-!"
The water splashed everywhere, and a figure emerged from the water. The young lady nimbly climbed onto the shore, leaving behind a cloud of scalding water mist.
After landing, she was gasping for breath, her skin turned a horrifying crimson, and was covered with densely packed blisters of varying sizes.
The arms and neck were particularly horrific, with some blisters even bursting and oozing yellowish tissue fluid, which looked horrifying!
The burning pain was like a maggot in the tarsal bone, continuously attacking Xiao Jin's nerves.
Seeing this, she immediately took out a bottle of [Healing Spray] from her system backpack and was about to spray it on herself.
But just then——
"Wait! Guests!" The old turtle on the shore hurriedly spoke out to stop them.
Xiao Jin paused and looked at it in confusion, only to see a sly smile on the old turtle's face.
The moment the old turtle finished speaking, the horrific burn marks on Xiao Jin's body quickly faded away at a speed visible to the naked eye, just like ice and snow exposed to sunlight!
The deep red skin quickly turned back to its original jade-like whiteness, and the dense blisters on it shrank and disappeared in the blink of an eye!
The broken wound healed instantly without leaving even a trace of scar.
Even the burning pain that penetrated deep into the bone marrow receded like the tide, as if it had never appeared!
But in just two or three seconds, Xiao Jin's body recovered to its original state, his skin was smooth and firm, as if the terrible burn just now was just a nightmare!