Tokyo underground city

Chapter 200 Trees and Fire

Lin Huai'en and Yuan Ximu found a relatively safe sanctuary for the goddess.

Although this place is also occupied by the shadow forest, the goddess statue located deep in the sanctuary is safe and sound. In the faint emerald green fluorescence emitted by the goddess statue, the growing vines seem to have seen the heaven and earth, shrinking back——

At least the growth rate has been reduced.

He surrounded the statue and used Gray Green Fury to clear a space of about ten meters as a temporary foothold.

Then he and Hara Yumu collected backpack after backpack, and finally found about a hundred Molotov cocktails before the expiration date of the red card's resurrection validity.

"It took three days, but we only found a hundred... This is much more troublesome than killing people."

Lin Huai'en joked at the light-taking fairy, but judging from Yuan Ximu's expression, no one seemed to like his joke.

[We have already waited one more day as you requested. You should make it clear what you want to do, right? 】

In the live broadcast room, the staff of the Prefectural Association asked questions.

"It's very simple. I want to set the Shadow Forest on fire. After all, it is a tree. As long as it can be burned, there is nothing it can do."

[However, both the felling team on the upper level and the rescue team on the eleventh floor have tried to light the forest on fire. However, the growth rate of the forest is too fast and the water content is too high. Our flames have no effect at all, and it will not work for about ten minutes. When it arrives, it goes out. 】

[This is true even with gasoline. 】

"But..."

Lin Huai'en looked up at the distant dome that was unknown how many kilometers above his head, and suddenly said: "You have to know that the flame goes upward. As long as there is enough air, it will continue to burn."

[You also need to be able to light a large enough fire. You only have more than a hundred Molotov cocktails. Facing such a large area of ​​forest, it is just a drop in the bucket! 】

However, Lin Huai'en smiled strangely:

"Who said I only have Molotov cocktails?"

He asked Yuan Ximu to show the results of his and others' work over the past few days to the audience in the live broadcast room.

I saw that outside the shelter, I don't know when, there were already piles of "bodies".

Hundreds of explorers who were sucked into the shadow forest moaned and lay in the clearing between the trees, just like the hell that Abi screamed!

【you! Do you want to? ! 】

"Yes, that's it."

Lin Huai'en raised his hand and showed the hundreds of explorer passes in his hand to the live broadcast room: "In order to prevent the passes from being burned, I collected all the passes and put them in the spring of this shelter. If you don't come down, When you see us, remember to come here to get it.”

"As for other people, I don't care about them at all."

【Are you crazy? ! You are just two people, but you want to burn so many people to death? ! 】

The administrator of the Land Association quickly commented.

However, Lin Huai'en just shook his head: "Who said I am just two people."

He looked at the light-catching goblin on Yuan Ximu's shoulder: "Anyway, when the mental hackers take action, everyone will have no choice but to die. And no matter whether you can succeed or not, you will still spend a lot of time clearing the way, so let me get angry. What’s the problem with burning down the Shadow Forest?”

[At least the equipment of those explorers...]

"Which is more important, life or equipment?"

Lin Huai'en shook his head and pointed to the boundless vast forest in front of him: "There are at least thousands of explorers here surrounded by forests. How many people and time are you going to spend to rescue everyone? Five days? Ten days? 15 sky?"

[...Our reserved rescue window is 10 days. 】

"So." Lin Huaien nodded, "Have you ever estimated that it will take you ten days to find everyone's passes?!"

"Or, let's burn it clean and then use the detector to find the pass from the ashes——"

"Would it be simpler to put the cost of sending search personnel on to subsidize the explorers who died?"

"Of course, after saying so much, all I can tell you is -"

"What does the life and death of other people have to do with me?!"

Lin Huai'en picked up the pass in his hand and shook it vigorously: "Have you forgotten the 'wilderness rules' among explorers?"

[...Wild Rules, Article 1. 】

The official account paused. It was obvious that the manager behind the account was also an explorer:

[In all actions of explorers, their own survival should be the first priority. 】

Listening to Yuan Ximu's words, Lin Huai'en nodded and said without hesitation:

"Rules of the Wilderness, Article 2: On the basis of ensuring the first article, explorers should try their best to rescue their teammates and other explorers."

"Rules of the Wilderness, Article 3." Yuan Ximu continued to read:

"As long as the above two points are not violated, explorers can proceed from their own interests and take any actions that do not violate other wilderness rules without violating the national interests."

"These wilderness rules include, but are not limited to, the spirit of contract, the principle of good faith, the sharing rules of not maliciously damaging resource points, etc."

There was silence in the live broadcast room for a while, and the association account suddenly said:

【we know. 】

[From now on, the Shangdu Underground City Association will recognize all your practices and regard your actions as the official choice of the Shangdu City Underground City Association. No matter what impact your actions have, we will serve you. Provide unlimited support and compensation for whatever you do. 】

Lin Huai'en nodded: "Thank you."

【You're welcome. ] However, the association also stated its reasons for doing this: [Originally, if there was no live broadcast room of the head maid, we would not know what you are going to do. 】

[But you believe in us and tell us what you want to do. We are already very grateful to you. 】

[We will ask the construction workers in the upper space to withdraw from the site now, leaving only a few monitors - please start preparing. We will send you a signal around four o'clock in the afternoon. 】

[By the way, this is my personal problem——]

The official account paused: [If the forest really burns down, how are you two going to escape? 】

"You don't have to worry about it."

Lin Huai'en and Yuan Ximu looked at each other and smiled: "Whether we can escape the forest fire alive or not, it is our own choice."

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There is a reason why Lin Huaien chose the Goddess Sanctuary as the starting point of the fire.

He specifically searched for this location for a long time before confirming it.

First of all, outside the Goddess Sanctuary is the entrance to the eleventh floor. As long as a flame can be ignited and a small hole is opened on the vine wall blocking the eleventh floor with the sun's rays, the airflow at the bottom can be allowed. Get flowing.

With fire and wind, the flames can completely ignite the shadow forest.

In order to avoid accidents and similar fire points, he and Yuan Ximu created three together.

"In "Shadow Forest", I suffered so much from it, it's time to teach it a lesson!"

Regarding Lin Huai'en's plan to light up the forest of giant trees, Yuan Ximu supported it with both hands.

The girl knows very well what "the explorer's approach" is.

"We are not friends of the Dungeon, or of any other explorer."

"The only friends of an explorer are his teammates. Everyone else is a hunter with a gun in the dark forest."

"What's more, the contract I signed with you is only to bring you back to the ground safely."

Lin Huai'en and Yuan Ximu each said one word and placed the torch in their hands on the open incendiary bottle.

The moment the flames touched the mummies in the Shadow Forest, they burned violently.

In order to counter the two-way rescue operation of the Dungeon Association, the forest drained almost all the water in the entire dungeon. Even the explorers' drinking bottles were broken by vines and became empty.

The forest would never have imagined that one day, the flames burning would not come from the periphery of the forest full of water, but from almost the center of its body.

The sea of ​​​​fire spread among the crowd, and fat and protein became the best combustion accelerants. The flames that reached the sky spread in an instant amidst the screams of the sleeping people.

Looking at the deep hole that Yuan Ximu made at the entrance to the eleventh floor, Lin Huai'en nodded to her: "Let's go."

The blockade composed of vines already had gaps. What they did was just to help the flames burn faster.

After leaving the first fire point, they headed to the second place, which was the golden flower field where the crew was before.

Out of Yuan Ximu's kindness, they dug out the passes of all the crew members and hid them in the Goddess Sanctuary.

As for the corpses after they left the pass, the two men used them as firewood and piled them up.

"I'm sorry, old man."

Yuan Ximu clapped her hands at a mummy that looked like Shen Wanshan.

But to be honest, in the eyes of both of them, all the mummies looked the same, especially the older ones, who could no longer tell who was who.

"By the way, wait for me."

Lin Huaien suddenly thought of something. He walked to a big tree in the corner of the camp and sniffed something. Suddenly, as if he had discovered something, he grabbed a golden tuberose and pulled it up.

Almost as soon as he pulled the golden flowers off the ground, the previously endless golden flower field suddenly disappeared as if it had never existed.

"Did you catch Shion?!"

Yuan Ximu looked at his movements and said with some surprise.

"Don't forget that the golden flower field also appears in your movie - you don't want your movie to turn into another large-scale "meme" spreading event, do you?"

Lin Huai'en shook his head, found a small box, and put the golden tuberose in.

He was not worried at all that "Perfect Flower" would die in this narrow, soilless environment——

Otherwise it wouldn't be called "Abnormal Body".

"Did you bring the crew's master film and the old man's computer?"

Lin Huaien looked at Yuan Ximu, and the girl nodded.

"Then let's get out of here."