I'm a mage, what's wrong with loving farming?

Chapter 66: The Wisdom of Ducks
The air coral base on the seabed has expanded from the original three to ten. They seem to be much more adaptable to growing in the sea than in freshwater lakes.

Now it covers an entire acre of land.

Huge bubbles of air are clearly visible on the seafloor.

You have to know that this is the bottom of the sea. The other side of the mountain is just a small freshwater lake. Both the water pressure and the degree of chaos of magic are incomparable.

Ten corals support an acre of air bubbles, which is quite amazing to be honest.

In time, perhaps a huge underwater base can be formed, and even humans can live in it.

……

As he dived down, he looked inside the bubble with a confused expression.

The bubble had been lit up by the magic lamp he had sent over, and it was very conspicuous in the dark sea.

Logically, the bubbles should have been bare, but they actually showed the same green color as the bubbles in the lake water.

What's going on? Can it grow like this on the bottom of the sea? You can't let a mushroom grow on me, can you?
This was his first time coming here after planting the air coral. He was quite curious about the things here, so he immediately sped up and rushed directly into the bubble.

With a "pop" sound, he successfully entered.

After entering the bubble, he stepped on the soft grass. This grass was very ordinary and common green grass, nothing strange about it.

If he had seen it on land, Kloya would not have been surprised at all, but when it appeared on the seabed, he felt it was very strange.

So he bent down and touched it with his hand.

result……

“Isn’t this grass?”

He was immediately surprised, then pulled out some and held them in his hand to observe them carefully.

They are very uniform and about two centimeters long, and look no different from grass. But in fact, they are slippery and have no grass feel at all.

Moreover, it is hollow.

You can see the threadlike characteristics of mycelium.

Chloe felt a little speechless.

"Why mushrooms again? Can mushrooms grow under the sea?"

He could vaguely sense that there was an obvious flow of magic power in the unknown fungus in his hand. It was actually a magical plant?
Well, in this world, fungi such as mushrooms are also collectively called magic plants. Although they are not plants at all and do not have the ability to photosynthesize.

But they are magical plants.

all in all.

The mushroom patch in front of me, which was about two mu in size, was all magic plants...

This happened so suddenly that he was a little overwhelmed.

"Did something happen that I don't know about?" He rubbed his eyebrows, feeling speechless.

"I have to find something to ask."

The dolphins were trapped outside the bubble, so the only ones left to question were the Merlins - these ducks were leisurely gathering in a group, building nests on the seabed.

They used corals, gravel, and their own thick duck feathers to build a nest in the open space, and many ducks were lying peacefully in it.

The ducks are quite satisfied with this place, and each one of them looks very comfortable.

Stay away from natural enemies and there is no danger to life.

They have all started laying eggs!

You can vaguely see blue duck eggs placed inside, and a rough count shows that there are dozens of them!
"Oh, are the eggs laying now? I can fry some duck eggs later."

Chloe licked her lips.

I don’t know if it feels like someone wants to eat its eggs.

Anyway, when he walked over, the ducks were in a panic for a moment, but soon, an exceptionally strong duck quacked twice majestically, and the ducks stopped making a commotion.

The king of the fish-tailed sea ducks came to Cloa and nudged the latter's leg with his flat mouth, and the "quack" sound was full of flattering meaning.

When the ducks were first tamed, Cloya took good care of it as the strongest duck in the flock. It was almost roasted under the bombardment of fireballs. It took a long time to recover.

If it were a human, they might hold a grudge, but monsters are naturally admiring the strong. The more Kloa showed off his powerful fighting power, the more they obeyed.

And obey sincerely.

Even when Croa swaggered into their nest and took away the ducks' precious eggs, the ducks dared not resist.

The egg is very big, almost the size of a goose egg.

The surface is bluish green and feels very smooth, without any burrs at all.

He touched the duck egg and used the Astral Body Imprinting Technique to take a look at it out of habit. All he saw was a dark gray. There was only chaos inside the duck egg, and he could not see or feel any breath of life at all.

"Dead egg?"

It was obvious that the egg in his hand was an unfertilized egg.

There is not even any embryonic development inside, so it is naturally impossible for ducklings to hatch.

"Well."

After realizing this, he checked several eggs one after another, and the result was... they were all dead eggs!
He immediately felt something was wrong.

If there were only a few isolated cases, it could be considered a coincidence. But if more than a dozen eggs were found to be dead, then it is no longer a coincidence, right?

The Sea Duck King seemed to sense something.

It quacked, grabbed the corner of Kloya's clothes with its mouth, and came to the border area of ​​the air coral.

Because this place is close to the sea water, and the bubbles of the air corals are fighting against the sea water, the magic is very chaotic.

However, it is in such an area that one can see several hidden small nests, inside which are placed smaller duck eggs.

Without the care of ducks, they lay alone in their nests made of rubble, with the only thing keeping them warm being some seaweed.

It looks like it's been abandoned.

However, when Cloya reached out to pick it up for inspection, he immediately felt the rhythm of life inside the duck egg, and the Astral Body Imprinting Technique allowed him to clearly see the embryonic form of a duckling inside.

This scene made Kroya a little stunned.

To be honest, he really didn't expect that... it was in such an environment that the little sea duck eggs could be fertilized and hatched.

On the contrary, the eggs that were warm and comfortable and being cared for by ducks were all dead.

"So why?"

He looked down at the Fishtail Sea Duck King who was following him, and said in a slightly more serious tone: "Why do you put the eggs here?"

A gleam of light flashed in the eyes of the Fishtail Sea Duck King. It walked to the nest, stretched out its wings, lay on the ground and struggled for a few times, then suddenly rushed out of the bubble.

He struggled to swim in the seawater, from unfamiliar to proficient, and finally returned to the bubble, shook the water off his feathers, and looked at Cloya very seriously.

A cry was made:
"Quack~"

"So that's it?"

Even though there was no contract, Kloya still understood what it meant - the duckling had to learn to swim after it was born.

This is probably the survival experience of the Fishtail Sea Duck.

Even though they did not build their nests on the rocks by the sea, they still created a difficult and challenging environment for the ducklings.

The living environment of Warcraft is not that wonderful. If you don’t work hard from the moment you are born, you will definitely die.

He smiled knowingly.

Then he patted the duck's head gently and said, "Not bad."

After praising the duck, he pointed to the strange green fungi in the distance and asked curiously, "Where do those things come from?"

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