Chapter 495: The Swarm Fights the Fire! (5100 Words)

"Fire is useful, use fire!" Zeng Tao excitedly said immediately.

At this time, Li Wenxi's shout came from the main tree house.

"What's going on outside!"

She also heard the sound of insects gnawing on the trees, and saw the falling trees in the jungle, lying on the window and shouting this way.

"Hey!" Coco also yelled to this side, "Hey!"

That meant that it seemed to tell him to go back quickly.

Xu Xin immediately shouted to the main tree house: "Wen Xi, tell them to turn off all the lights! There is no light in the tree house! There is something going on outside!"

"I see!"

In five or six seconds, the lights on the upper and lower floors of the tree house were all extinguished.

The surroundings of the tree house immediately became dark, only the torch planted on the ground by Xu Xin was still burning and emitting light.

Immediately, the flying insects became even more frantic, rushing towards the torch in groups.

But there were too many bugs rushing towards the torch, and even bugs on the ground climbed up the torch, and in just a split second, the torch was surrounded by swarms of bugs and extinguished.

However, many bugs were burned to death, and an unpleasant smell of burning was also in the air.

Flames are very useful.

The bugs who lost their target returned to the jungle again and began to eat the trees.

"Let's set fire to the forest! Burn those bugs down!" Zeng Tao suggested.

"Crazy you!" Lou Fei'er patted her on the head immediately, "Do you want us all to die?"

"Don't hit me on the head!" Zeng Tao patted her hand away, and then said indifferently, "It's not that I haven't encountered a forest fire before, so the forest will grow back the next day? Aren't we dead too?" .”

Jin Yue frowned slightly: "I don't think you should do this kind of thing unless you have to. Setting fire to a mountain is not so harmful."

"What's wrong?" Zeng Tao pointed at the jungle, "If we don't burn it, the jungle will be eaten up by bugs, right? When they finish eating the jungle, they will come to eat us! Why not?" Let the jungle die gloriously, and die with the bugs!"

There is some truth in what Zeng Tao said.

but……

Better not to do it.

"Set fire to the mountain, how long do you think it will last?" Xu Xin looked sideways at Zeng Tao and asked.

"Well...although a forest fire can burn for a long time, it's because it continues to spread." Zeng Tao thought that Xu Xin was afraid that the forest would burn for a long time, so she argued, "The surroundings of our tree house won't burn for long, right? Moreover, the forest fires in this world should have a large scope, right?"

The rivers in the jungle are intricate, and the wildfire may indeed only burn an area and will not affect many people.

After all, the vast majority of people around have already been on their explorer's side.

"I won't mention whether the spread will affect other people, but it's because it won't last long that we can't set fire to the forest." Xu Xin shook his head. "The trees around the main tree house can be burned up in a few hours at most. This batch of bugs has been burned up, so what about the next batch? What about tomorrow night? What if there is another flood of bugs tomorrow night?"

"This..." Zeng Tao was stopped by the question, lowered her head and murmured, "The jungle is gone, there are still bugs... and maybe the jungle can grow..."

"You guys don't know how these bugs appeared, right?" Xu Xin asked.

The three girls shook their heads: "I don't know."

The problem of bugs still needs to be handled with caution.

It is indeed possible that this jungle will be eaten up by these bugs, but at their current speed, it will not be eaten overnight.

At least three nights.

It's better to keep it.

Xu Xin said at this time: "Setting fire is indeed a solution, but there is no need to burn the forest. Let's light up a few bonfires in the open space to test the effect. If it doesn't work... then dig another ravine and set it on fire."

He had already filled in the fire ditch that was dug during the tree house defense war. If he wanted to set a circle around the fire, he had to dig it again.

Or try it with a bonfire first.

Raise a bonfire, and these bugs should not attack the tree house since they have the flame as a target.

"That's a good way! But what should I use to light the fire?"

"Mutated vines." Xu Xin said.

Mutated vines burn much longer than wood, and one can burn overnight once and for all.

They are explorers, there is no shortage of mutated vines.

After all, the mutated vine juice is used to make explosives, so they must have sufficient reserves of this thing.

In the underground world before, a few of them, especially Wen Guixin, brought a lot of underground mutated vines.

But yesterday, the first day of intense heat, when he and Li Wenxi were busy, the others were not idle either.

With the end of the cold winter, the dangerous area in the jungle reappeared. Wen Guixin and her people were responsible for going to the dangerous area to kill the vines.

Although she only worked for about an hour before she came back from the heat, but the speed at which she cleaned up the monsters was enough for them to last for a long time.

Xu Xin turned to look at the girls beside her.

What should they do with their tree house now?

Zeng Tao didn't care anymore, after all, her tree house was basically hopeless.

The treehouses of Lou Feier and Jinyue are both about 100 meters away from the main treehouse, very close to the lush jungle, and only a few meters away from the jungle.

Their tree house is likely to be attacked first!

Although it is not necessarily destroyed, it is still necessary to prevent problems before they happen.

And Qin Fu.

Where did that guy go?

A map instantly appeared in his mind, and then he saw a red dot about five or six hundred meters away from the main tree house, and it was still moving slowly in a further direction.

This guy has just recovered, what does he want to do again?

Forget it, let's deal with the surroundings of the tree house first!

"Both of you, go to the tree house and pack up your things, and take all your valuables with you." Xu Xin turned to Lou Fei'er and Jin Yue.

Their tree house is too close to the jungle, let everyone come to their own tree house.

"I'll help them!" Zeng Tao also followed.

Xu Xin quickly returned to her tree house.

"What's going on outside?" Li Wenxi immediately leaned over and asked worriedly, "Why are those trees falling down one by one?"

Xu Xin briefly explained the situation, and then said, "I need mutated vines to make campfire materials!"

Most of the explorer's materials are stored here with Li Wenxi, and Li Wenxi brought all those materials with her when she came this time.

"good!"

Coming down from the tree house with dozens of dead mutated vines, Lou Feier and Jinyue Zengtao had also finished packing up. Together with Xu Xin, they quickly placed a tree house at a distance of seventy or eighty meters around the tree house. Circle, then light!

Mutated vines are very flammable materials, so just coil them on the ground and set them on fire.

The tree house was lit with extremely bright fire lights in all directions.

Suddenly, the swarms in the jungle went crazy!

Countless flying insects and reptiles scrambled towards the burning mutated vines, plunging into the fierce flames!

Then became part of the flame.

The flames of the mutated vines are much brighter and more violent than the flames of the torches!

Even though the swarms of insects were raging, they couldn't extinguish the flames with numbers at all. Just being picked up by the outer flames, these little flying insects turned into ashes, using themselves as fuel, which made the flames even more intense!

The same is true for the reptiles on the ground. They crawl into the flames and only serve as fuel to make them burn more vigorously!

The tree house was also illuminated, and the survivors in the tree house were basically lying on the windows and looking out.

"It's actually such an insect repellent!"

"A whole circle of flames!"

"I rely on a lot of bugs to fly into the fire! Oh my god, it's so dense, it's so disgusting!"

"Why is the fire getting hotter and hotter?"

"The bug used its own body to fuel the flames."

"It's gone, let's make a fuss, I just said, live here with Brother Xin, what do you have to worry about?"

"Indeed, except that I can't use my tree house to communicate with the outside world, it's so comfortable here!"

"Haha, it's so bright outside! It's like daytime, so we don't need to turn on the lights anymore, let's keep going!"

"Keep going, I'm sure I'll win the next round!"

These people are very comfortable.

Of course, they are equivalent to being locked in a tree house now, and instead of arguing to go out for their own entertainment, it saves Xu Xin a lot of trouble.

Looking at the raging flames that worked very well in front of him, Xu Xin nodded in satisfaction.

The flames produced by the burning of the mutated vines are very stable, and there is basically no wind in the current jungle, which will not affect the surrounding forests to cause forest fires, and can stably attract and exterminate insects.

However, there are still disadvantages.

The flame will greatly increase the temperature of the surrounding environment.

The night was originally only forty degrees, but now, under the action of these mutated vine fires, the temperature of the surrounding environment is rising extremely rapidly!

Moreover, the mutated vine is not ordinary wood, the flame it burns is much higher than the flame of ordinary wood!

As a result, even Xu Xin couldn't get close to the place around the flame!

And the temperature around the tree house, under the blessing of the scorching heat and the flames, directly exceeded the temperature at noon, breaking through 60 degrees, approaching 70 degrees!

At this temperature, eggs can be fried...

"It's so hot..." Zeng Tao complained feebly.

"This is the first time I feel so hot..." Lou Feier wiped the sweat from his forehead.

Although Jin Yue didn't speak, her whole body was already soaked.

Although they have mutated physiques, they still can't stand the high temperature close to 70 degrees.

In contrast, Xu Xin, who has high temperature tolerance, is relatively comfortable at this time.

"Go to my tree house first."

No matter how hot it is outside, it will not affect the inside of his tree house. After all, the ability to maintain temperature is still very strong.

This method can be used by other explorers!

The girls returned to the tree house and were pulled up by Li Wenxi, while Xu Xin continued to observe for a while.

None of the bugs were interested in his tree house, and even the bugs in a large area around them gave up eating the trees and frantically headed towards the flames.

It's safe for now.

Moreover, it can be regarded as greatly slowing down the destruction of surrounding trees.

He immediately contacted Ji Chaoyang.

"...I also had the same idea, but I didn't expect the effect to be so good." Ji Zhaoyang was a little surprised that this method was so effective.

However, he has one more preparation method than Xu Xin's.

"Xue Fei is using herbs to prepare insect repellent potions. I have been helping her just now. It should be successful soon."

Deworming potion?

nice one!

"What materials do you need?" Xu Xin asked immediately.

"She has them here, mugwort, oregano, peppermint... I don't understand. She has a lot of these materials. She doesn't need us to provide herbs, and we can't provide them. According to Xue Fei, this potion is sprayed on It should have a strong insect repellent effect."

This is really a good thing!

Although the current flying insects and crawlers have not caused them any harm, it does not mean that they will not attack them in the future.

It's also good to have something to deworm him so he can go outside!

After hanging up the call, he immediately returned to the tree house and contacted Ma Hongwei.

Ma Hongwei said that it is better not to give up the heavy crossbow on his tree house and the things in the tree house, so he is going to do the same around his tree house.

Xu Xin also let him go.

At the same time, he contacted Qin Fu who didn't know what to do outside.

Qin Fu is still very close to his tree house, and his watch can be used normally.

"What are you doing out there?" Xu Xin asked straight to the point.

"Boss, I found something abnormal around me!" Qin Fu's voice was muffled, probably because he was covering himself tightly. After all, he is currently in the jungle, and flying insects are flying in groups, "I feel that I can find The source of the birth of these bugs!"

"Oh?" Xu Xin's eyebrows relaxed immediately, "Are you sure?"

"I'm not sure, I just have this feeling. I'll contact you when I find something abnormal."

After hanging up the call, Xu Xin felt that it was handled fairly well this time.

Everything is relatively smooth.

But now is not the time to rest.

because……

"Xu Xin, should I go back and light some fires around my tree house?"

Li Wenxi was a little worried.

"I'm planning to do this." Xu Xin nodded, "Your tree house must also be protected."

Her tree house is not a parasitic tree house. If her tree house is eaten, the other tree houses parasitic on her tree house will be gone immediately.

A group of people are going to be displaced.

Not just her tree house, but everyone else's.

Especially those of Qi Xuefei, Qin Yunlong, and Qin Yunhu, there is no one there yet!

"I'll help!" Lou Fei'er stood up.

Both Jin Yue and Zeng Tao also expressed their willingness to help.

At the current temperature, they are the only ones who can function normally outside the tree house.

"Okay. Go and help Wen Xi and Sister Xue Fei to light the bonfire, and I'll go to the other members of the explorer to have a look!"

"clear!"

"Know it!"

The three girls went out immediately.

Xu Xin quickly contacted Ji Chaoyang and told him that he would light a bonfire around Qi Xuefei's tree house.

"Thank you." Qi Xuefei's voice came, "My mosquito repellent potion will be finished soon."

"rely on you."

After hanging up the call, Xu Xin was ready to go out immediately.

"Hey..." Coco tugged at his trouser legs.

"What's the matter, Keke." He looked down, "Is there danger outside?"

"Oh!" Coco nodded her head.

"What danger? You mean the bugs?"

"Hey..." The little guy tilted his head, then shook it again, "Hey."

It means, not sure.

But he still had to go out.

"Be careful!" Seeing Ke Ke's attitude, Li Wenxi was also a little worried.

"Don't worry, the bugs don't attack people now."

Xu Xin didn't waste any more time, and immediately got down from the tree house and teleported to Wen Guixin.

As soon as he teleported over, he saw several bonfires.

Although not as much as his side, it has already ignited.

Countless bugs are rushing towards the bonfire!

"Why are you here?" Wen Guixin poked his head out of the window.

"It's okay, just see how you solve it. I also use this method, as long as you can solve it."

"It's not my idea." Wen Guixin pointed to the inside of the tree house and said, "They thought of it. Well, I'm going to close the window, it's too hot outside!"

As she spoke, she was about to close the window.

"I have something to tell you. Sister Xuefei will be able to make mosquito repellent soon."

"So strong?!" Wen Guixin stopped closing the window, a little surprised, but then shook her head, "Is it useful for someone like you who can go out? It's not very useful for me, so I don't want to go out, too hot."

She closed the window and ended the conversation.

Xu Xin set two more fires in a relatively empty place here, and then came to Wang Lei's side.

Wang Lei hasn't dealt with it yet, but fortunately he knows to turn off the lights in the tree house.

"Brother Xin, are you here?"

Xu Xin went up immediately and told them the solution.

"I'll go back!" Qin Yunlong, who lives with Wang Lei, got up immediately, "Go and protect my tree house!"

The temperature at night was only about 40 degrees, so it was not a problem to go outside for a short time, and Xu Xin didn't stop it.

He came to find Zhao Xiaochuan again, but Zhao Xiaochuan was lighting a bonfire outside the house.

When asked, Qin Yunhu had already gone back.

It seems to be smarter here.

He immediately came to Li Wenxi's side to take a look.

The number of bonfires around him was about the same as that on his side, and the temperature was ridiculously high.

Fortunately, there are no people here now.

Go back to his tree house, basically come back with him.

"Our task is completed!" Zeng Tao's face was flushed red from the roast, "It's so refreshing to watch those flying insects jump into the fire!"

"It's really a bunch of stupid bugs, but fortunately they are stupid." Lou Fei'er sighed.

"Okay, let's go back."

Several people returned to the tree house, and the protection measures for this night were considered to be over.

Sitting on the sofa, Xu Xin let out a long sigh of relief.

"It's finally over." Li Wenxi leaned against him and said, "Should be all right tonight, right?"

"...There are still problems." Xu Xin stroked Ke Ke lying in her arms with one hand, and rubbed her temples with the other hand in distress.

The matter of the bugs should be temporarily over.

When he came back, there were significantly fewer bugs pounced on the flames.

It's not that the bugs don't tend to the light anymore, but that they are much better dead, so the density of the bug swarm has become much smaller.

but……

The temperature of the bonfire has affected tonight's plan.

His original plan for tonight was to stay up all night to see if the night temperature would rise abnormally, but now...

He had manually raised the surrounding temperature by himself.

...how can this be done?

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