Chapter 11 Cause of Fire

Fortunately, I am a dark-type professional. In this vast sea of ​​​​fire, life energy is probably more conspicuous, so I quickly locked the target position and moved over quickly.

When I ran to the location of the life aura cluster I sensed before, I discovered that this place was not on the ground, but underground. But it's right to think about it. If they were on the ground, these people would probably be roasted to death even if they were not burned to death. Only underground can survive. Of course, if I don't carry out rescue, these people will die sooner or later, because the fire will consume a lot of oxygen. If the entrances and exits are not sealed underground, high-temperature gases and toxic smoke will flow into the room and cause death. If these exits are blocked, it goes without saying what will happen in a completely closed environment. Suffocation is only a matter of time.

The house where the basement was built was obviously a very large building, so the flames above were extremely strong, so it was a bit difficult for me to go in and rescue people. It is a burden for me to enter the ruins like a big torch, and the rescuers need to clean up the fire scene here first, otherwise as soon as I open the entrance to the basement, the people inside will immediately turn into roasted meat. Chicken, then I will not save people but kill them!

"True Red, Gold Coin, Christina, have you found any survivors over there?"

"No." Zhenhong was the first to report.

"Everyone has been burned to ashes, how can there be any survivors!" Jin Coin complained.

"I didn't find it here either." Christina finally said.

"Boss, what's going on over there?" Zhenhong asked suddenly.

"I found a large group of survivors here."

"As expected of the boss! He's even better at picking up survivors than us!" Jin Coin joked.

"I'd rather pick up something else." After I finished speaking, I looked at the big fire over there and said, "If you don't find any survivors, just write down where you searched and then come over and help me get everyone here." come out."

"Boss, can't you handle it alone?" Zhenhong asked.

"Everyone is in the basement. There's a whole house on top of it, and it's burning. As soon as I open the door, I'm sure everyone will die in a few seconds."

"That's true." Zhenhong said, "Just wait, I'll be there soon."

"Let's go there too." Christina said together with the gold coin.

The village was not very big, so a few people gathered quickly. When Zhenhong saw the huge fire in front of her, she asked me: "Boss, how did you know there was someone down there?"

"Don't you know?" I turned to look at Zhenhong in surprise, because if Zhenhong said she didn't know, it would mean that I would have to do the search area all over again. After all, she had received clear guidance. It was still impossible to confirm that anyone was buried under the building, which meant that she might have missed the place where there were survivors.

Sure enough, Zhenhong nodded and said, "I just can't feel it!"

"That's bad!" Jin Coin also discovered this problem. It seems that among the four of us, Zhen Hong is the most biased, even though she ranks high on the combat power list. But the ability is too concentrated. Almost all ability data are focused on destructive power. Therefore, in many cases, True Red will be more powerful than Christina and I, but in terms of detection ability, she is obviously inferior.

"What's wrong with me?" Zhenhong obviously didn't realize the problem yet.

Jin Coin told her the reason directly, and Zhenhong quickly realized the problem. In the end, after we discussed it, we could only arrange for her to perform the search mission with me. Anyway, if she leaves on her own. I have to go over the places I've been to, and it doesn't really make sense to separate them or not.

After saying this, we immediately started the rescue operation. Of course, True Red had to act as a bulldozer. First, he would lift up all the larger pieces of wood that were pressed against the basement and throw them elsewhere. In fact, only Zhenhong is suitable for this job, because after my strength has decreased, it is still a bit difficult for me to lift some of the extra-large logs here. Although I can move them, it is very difficult. In comparison, Zhenhong's strength was much greater. He easily picked up the entire piece of wood, swung it around, and threw it away.

With Zhenhong's bulldozer, our cleaning speed skyrocketed. Soon the burning wood on the ruins was almost cleared away, leaving only small pieces of wood. This kind of wood fragments can be solved with a strong wind spell, but the problem is that it is on fire now. Once the strong wind is summoned, it is equivalent to fueling the fire, so we can only find a way ourselves.

After some simple thinking, Jin Coin came up with a very simple method, which is to first cast a floating spell on this area to make all the small pieces of wood fly up, and then we don't have to worry about it anymore.

The heat island effect produced by a large area of ​​​​fire will accelerate the air in this area to rise, forming a very strong updraft well. The weight of the wood with the floating technique will disappear, and they will continue to be driven by the air flow. Flying upward, they will not fall on their own until the levitation magic expires. These small pieces of wood will probably burn up before the magic expires. Even if they fall down by then, they will only be ashes.

After clearing away the wood on the ground, what was left was the stone floor. Based on the location of the breath of life, we directly found the hidden basement entrance.

The entrance to this basement is not a wooden door, but a stone door. This is probably the main reason why the people inside can survive until now. However, how to open this stone door now has caused us a lot of trouble. It's not that we can't destroy the door, but we don't know what the structure behind the door is. If the skill is so powerful that it kills everyone inside, wouldn't it be in vain?

After thinking about it for a while, we decided to take a safer approach by opening a hole in the door and asking what was going on inside.

It would be much simpler for us if we just made a hole. Directly use Eternity to turn into a drill, and then Everett takes action, grabs the end of Eternity and starts drilling. The biggest difference between Everett's constructs and us is that the joints of the constructs can rotate infinitely in one direction without worrying about twisting. Moreover, some constructed creatures can rotate their joints very quickly. For example, Everett's wrist can easily reach seven or eight thousand revolutions per minute when rotated. This speed is absolutely faster than that of a human hand. Therefore, letting Everett do the drilling is definitely a professional counterpart.

Thanks to Eternal's powerful cutting ability and Everett's hand speed, and maybe because the door is made of just ordinary slate, it only took us less than thirty seconds to successfully open a wrist-thick hole on the door. round hole.

"Almost, pull it out." When I saw Everett's wrist suddenly sinking, I knew it must have been penetrated.

Everett began to rotate his wrist in the opposite direction, and the threads on the eternity helped him easily pull the eternity out of the door. I quickly moved to the hole in the door and looked inside, only to find that I couldn't see anything. It wasn't because it was dark inside. It's because there is actually a corner behind this gate. And I also saw a few steps, which means there is still a lot of depth below.

Although we didn't see any survivors, at least we knew there was no one behind the gate, so the rest was easy.

I made a direct gesture towards Zhen Hong. Then stepped aside. But Zhenhong stepped forward and turned the stone door into rubble with three punches and two kicks. It turns out that even the attributes are suppressed. True Red is still a bulldozer.

Behind the gate, turn right and there is a long downward step. After we went down from here, we found that there was a fork at the end of the step. The structure of this place is much more complex than we imagined.

The forked roads extend to the left and right, but we have no way to determine which way to go based on the position of life energy. Because the direction of life energy is shown directly in front of us, and the two forked roads extend to the left and right respectively, that is to say, either of these two forked roads may lead to the location of the survivors.

Since there is no way to judge directly, we can only check one by one. Anyway, there are only two ways. And how big can the basement attached to a house in a village be?

Anyway, we didn’t know which way was the right way, so we just chose one at random. After walking less than ten meters, we found that it was a dead end. After walking seven or eight meters, we turned a corner and entered a five or six square meter road. The small room was empty and had no other entrances or exits. Reluctantly, we changed to another road. After the same length, we also turned a corner, but what was connected here was not a house, but a new passage.

This new passage is very narrow and long, and the downward slope is very large. After we entered, we felt a vague feeling of coolness.

"Why is there wind in this place?" Jin Coin asked in surprise.

"I feel it too." Zhenhong said.

It's not surprising that there is wind. As long as there is more than one outlet, airflow will form even in the basement, and as long as the airflow is fast enough, it can be felt. We are not surprised to feel the wind underground. What really surprises us is that there is wind in the basement of this building, and this is usually a phenomenon that only occurs in secret passages. In other words, what we entered may not be a basement but a secret passage.

"What now?" Christina asked, looking at me.

"What else can we do? Search further."

In fact, we really have no good way, we can only keep moving forward along the induction signal. Fortunately, the position of the signal has not changed, so we are always approaching the signal source. After advancing for more than two hundred meters in this passage, we finally finished the passage, and at the end of the passage were the survivors we were looking for.

Although when I was on the ground, I knew that there was definitely a large group of survivors down here. After all, the aura of life was very huge, and there was no energy fluctuation, so it definitely couldn't be a single powerful individual, but only a large number of weak beings. . However, the number of survivors that appeared in front of me still surprised me. I even doubted whether the entire village was here.

The room at the end of this passage is basically like a huge indoor stadium. The surrounding circle is relatively high and the center point is the shortest. When we came in, there were at least several thousand people gathered here. Judging from the scale of the buildings on the ground, the total population of this walled city was probably only 20,000 or 30,000, and there were so many people gathered in this room alone. As many as seven or eight thousand. Even though we were prepared, we never expected there would be so many people.

While we were looking at the survivors in this underground shelter-like building, the survivors were also looking at us without saying a word. The expression was exactly the same as when the previous bride-to-be team met us. When we realized this, we suddenly thought of what might happen next, but the problem was that the survivors took action before we had time to take action.

The reaction of these people was exactly the same as that of the bride-to-be. They immediately exploded into the nest. A group of people fled in all directions. Then they discovered that there were only two exits in this place, and we were standing at one of the exits, so the remaining people began to move in that direction. Converging, trying to rush out.

As soon as I saw this situation, I knew it was going to be bad, so I took action as soon as possible. At this time, it was obviously impossible for the four of us to calm down the crowd quickly, so I directly released the Death Guard. A thousand Death Guards surrounded the entire sanctuary. The other exit location is where I placed the king and the sickle.

The king has enough fighting power. If something really happened, he could suppress it, and the fact that I put the sickle there was purely for advertising effect. Although in terms of combat effectiveness, three sickles tied together are no match for the king, but sometimes strength alone is useless. Even the king can fight ten with one. But it just doesn't look as deterrent as the sickle. certainly. What I am talking about is that for ordinary people, those who are really knowledgeable can tell who is more powerful at a glance. But to ordinary people, a spider the size of a car and a majestic looking samurai. Normal people would of course find that spider scarier.

My arrangement quickly had an effect. The crowd rushing towards the exit was quickly frightened back, but the crowd was still trying to squeeze into the center, so I shouted loudly and decisively: "All Death Guards, listen, Ignore those who are standing still, and kill those who are moving."

Of course I don't mean this to the Death Guards. If I really want to kill people, I can do it with just one thought. The purpose of this sentence was to scare those who were running around, and the effect was surprisingly good. In an instant, all the people present came to a standstill, and an imminent stampede was nipped in the bud.

"You're all still, aren't you?" Looking at the frozen crowd below, I said loudly again: "Since you're all still, just listen to what I'm saying. We are not the group of people you think. We are Outsiders who came here from other places, we are not the demon king's subordinates. The reason why we entered here was because the people in the wedding party saw that the village was burning, and they couldn't rush in, so they asked us to come in and save them. People. Do you understand the situation you are in now?"

The crowd did not answer my question, but started moving again in an instant. Of course, they were not running around, but they relaxed as if they were relieved. This reaction shows that they understood what I said, otherwise they would not dare to relax like this.

Although most people felt a sense of relief, some people had different reactions. Some of them rushed over directly, and then pulled us to ask if their relatives in the procession were safe. Regarding this kind of problem, we can only say that it should be safe, because we don't know who is in the family sending procession outside, but there was no fighting at that time, so even those who ran away should still be alive.

In addition to those who asked about the status of relatives and friends, there was also a person on the scene whose reaction was a bit abnormal, because everyone else felt relieved, but this guy started to act thoughtfully since he knew that we were not the Demon King's people. His expression was frowning, as if he was having a hard time making a decision.

Although this guy was acting abnormally, I had no intention of going to that guy, but I didn't intend to ask about the situation, but the other guy quickly made a decision, then patted his thigh and walked towards us.

Jin Coin and Christina had also noticed this man and the small group of people around him a long time ago. The reason why they could spot these people at a glance among thousands of people was mainly because their clothes were obviously not ordinary people. If we If my guess is correct, these guys are probably the so-called General Qiman and his men.

Sure enough, after this group of people came to us, the guy in the middle wearing the red armor specially used by Japanese warriors came out, and then introduced himself: "Several strong men, I am the lord Qiman here, I don't know What do you call them?"

On behalf of Zhenhong and the others, I briefly introduced our names and approximate occupations, and then asked: "Why did your place burn? Isn't that demon king in the direction we came from? Could it be that they ran from the alley? Are we going ahead?"

"No, we set the fire ourselves." A guy next to Qiman who looked like an aide said.

"Ah? What did you say?" Zhenhong looked at the guy in surprise and asked, "You mean you set fire to your own village and burned it down?"

Qiman explained frustratedly: "Although we sent out a team to send off the bride, there were not enough brides and it was late, so we felt very uneasy after the team left. After that, my staff suggested that we pretend to be dead and set fire to it." Our own city, and then everyone hides, so that even if the demon king’s people come, our whole village will be burned to death, so that we can survive.”

"It sounds good at first, but you can't keep pretending to be dead, right? As long as you go out for activities, you will definitely be discovered, and won't you all be finished by then?" Jin Coin asked.

"You may not know this. In fact, as long as we avoid the recent period, we don't need to be afraid of the Demon King." The aide next to Qiman said again.

I looked at him curiously and asked, "What? Could it be that the Demon King is about to die?" (To be continued...)