While Duan Hei lit the signal smoke, Lang Hua also ordered people to light the firewood at the foot of Songlinling Mountain.
The firewood is piled up like a mountain and distributed in a ring at the foot of the mountain.
Soon after, the wind suddenly picked up, and the fierce northwest wind blew thick smoke and heat waves up the hillside, igniting the dead grass on the hillside along the way.
The fire was fierce and the heat wave was raging. Many black corpses lingering at the foot of the mountain were the first to be hit.
The dry but oily black corpse is the best material for igniting fire. Before the spore colony is killed by the high temperature, the black corpse moves around as usual, like a moving torch, carrying the source of fire in all directions.
Among the people Lang Hua brought this time, there were a thousand people equipped with strong bows and crossbows.
They are students brought out by Lin Wenjin, and they are good at shooting from a distance with strong bows.
After a round of rockets, the vegetation on the mountainside was also ignited.
Luoyang accompanied Lang Hua while standing at the foot of the mountain. He saw some flaming arrows falling into the grass on the mountainside, but they suddenly exploded.
The fire waves formed by the combustion rose more than ten meters, and large-scale explosions frequently occurred.
"Chief, look. The fuel that the adjutant brought up the mountain has worked. There is also the gasoline in the glass bottles."
"This is natural. Diesel is not volatile, and gasoline has a delay in exploding in bottles. The combination of the two is enough to keep this fire burning for a long time."
The oil depot that the search team found in the town played a big role.
Lang Hua ordered Duan Hei in advance to send diesel up the mountain with strong winds and drop it on the hillside in the forest.
Later, many homemade Molotov cocktails were presented. It can be said to be double insurance.
Seeing that the fire was getting bigger and bigger, Luoyang asked Lang Hua for instructions:
"Chief, what should we do next? Are we going to send someone to Lieutenant Xiao Duan to help him?"
"Well, Shadow Guards follow me and ask Liu Hong to lead a thousand people to find Duan Hei. Luoyang, you lead the remaining people to guard both sides of the ridge. You must stop the remaining corpse tide in Beihuang Mountain for three hours!"
"yes!"
After Luoyang took the order and left, Lang Hua also led people in the other direction.
On Songlinling Mountain, Lin Xiao saw another red smoke coming from the bottom of the mountain, so he immediately led his people to rush out of the west city gate, killing the scattered corpses along the way, and rushed down the mountain as fast as possible.
After watching Lin Xiao and others leave, Hou Shan and the remaining Songlin Ridge defenders stayed to guard the north wall.
At this time, the fire at the foot of the mountain was swollen, thick smoke covered the sky and the sun, and the air was filled with coarse smoke particles, which made people choke and speechless.
After holding on for an hour, Tianbao found Hou Shan and said:
"City Lord, let's go. The fire is coming to the top of the city. Most of the black corpses at the foot of the mountain have been buried by the flames."
Looking at the messy Songlin Ridge base, Hou Shan felt mixed emotions.
Tianbao and other soldiers' faces had already been blackened by the smoke, and the tears choked by the smoke formed two distinct marks on their cheeks. Only the place where the tears flowed was not black.
In the smoke, Hou Shan couldn't help but cough.
He coughed and asked: "How are the brothers guarding the city? How many are left?"
After hearing this, Tianbao choked up and said, "More than half of them are dead, and there are still about three hundred left."
"Okay, they are all good." Hou Shan patted Tianbao on the shoulder and ordered, "Inform the brothers that we will withdraw too. It is estimated that Captain Lin and the others have already connected with the reinforcements by this time."
Three minutes later, the west city gate opened. Hou Shan and his people stood in front of the gate. When the door opened, a wave of heat hit them.
The orange-red fire snake swayed straight up and left and right in the wind. From time to time, some ash and some particles ignited by the flames flew in the air.
Flames flew out of thin air, and a few strands flew across the city gate and landed on people's clothes, and a fire broke out in an instant.
The man hurriedly put out the fire, and someone in the team shouted in panic:
"What can we do? The fire is burning in front of the city gate!"
"No, everything is burning. We are trapped in the fire!"
Time was running out, and they didn't have time to soak their clothes in water. How could they pass through the fire?
"City Lord, let's change the route to the north city gate!"
"Don't panic." Hou Shan shouted in a deep voice amidst the noise.
He said: "There are reinforcements from Langya City in the west of the city, and the corpses along the road have been led away. Only by walking this way can we survive!"
After Hou Shan finished speaking, he looked at Tianbao: "Tianbao, it's up to you this time."
The next moment, an arched barrier five meters wide and thirty meters long suddenly appeared outside the west gate of Songlin Ridge in Beihuang Mountain.
In this barrier, wind cannot invade and fire cannot enter. There is only a group of people hiding in it.
People moved down the mountain along with the barrier. Right in front of the barrier space, a round-faced young man covered in black and gray raised his arms as if to hold up the sky.
As he walked, a drop of sweat slipped from his forehead.
Sweat mixed with dark soot slid down his chin, eventually dripping down to the soil under his feet and disappearing.
…
At the bottom of the mountain, the flames and thick smoke seriously disrupted the sense of smell of the corpses, almost causing their noses to malfunction.
Lin Xiao and more than a thousand people escaped down the mountain without any danger, and happened to bump into Duan Hei and Liu Hong who came to meet them.
Lin Xiao and others were almost lost in the smoke. Just when they were desperate, they suddenly heard a loud howl from the front.
Following the wolf howl, they finally found the right direction, broke out from the smoke, and saw the reinforcements from Langya City.
Thick smoke from a fire contains toxic gases and powerful radiant heat.
In peacetime, more than 80% of people who die in fires are smoked to death rather than burned to death.
The experience of escaping from the wildfire this time can be said to be a journey through mountains and rivers, with no way out, and yet another village with bright lights.
Although it's not as thrilling as being hunted by a tide of zombies, it's still a life-and-death test.
Compared to Lin Xiao and others, Hou Shan and others who finally left the Songlin Ridge base were not so lucky.
After the city wall was unguarded, many black corpses, especially many special ones, quickly crossed the city wall and chased them.
People retreated while fighting, and it was difficult to distinguish their direction in the smoke. The ghost monkeys in the corpse group used this to launch an attack, killing many of them.
After walking more than half of the distance, the terrain became lower and lower, and the team gradually entered the valley.
Most of the thick smoke here has dissipated, and people are supporting each other and can barely see the mountain road at their feet.
"City Lord, go here."
Tianbao pointed to the line of sky in front of him and said.
This was once a landscape in Northern Huangshan before the disaster.
At the junction of the two mountains, a two-meter-wide natural crack split due to geological movement.
Experienced wind and rain for millions of years
, the angles of the cliffs on both sides of the crack are almost vertical.
Looking up from the gap, I saw that the sky became a narrow line of clear blue, so it was called a line of sky.
At the entrance to Yixiantian, there was a large rock fall from the mountain many years ago.
Most of the rockfalls have since been cleared away, leaving only the largest rock lying across the sky.
From a distance, I thought someone had placed a giant egg on the crack.
Tianbao grew up here since he was a child. According to him, as long as he crosses this thin line of sky, he will be able to reach the foot of the mountain and join the reinforcements in a short time.
His words lifted everyone's spirits, but then there was a zombie roar from behind the team.
Then a ghost monkey appeared from the corner of the stone steps in the mountain, followed by two gorillas, and then countless ordinary black corpses!
The zombie tide is catching up!
I don’t know how many people present were frightened and turned blue.
Although the line of sky is a shortcut, the passage is very narrow and only one person can pass through it at a time.
They are now blocked here, unable to move forward or retreat. Do they have to sit back and wait for death?
At the moment of life and death, no one is unafraid.
But they are all warriors who have experienced life and death.
No one shouted, no one scrambled.
They turned their attention to Hou Shan in silence, waiting for his decision.
"Damn, that's too much!" Hou Shan raised his sword high, looked around at the crowd and said, "Who dares to stay with me to stop us?"
"Me!" "I'm coming too!" "I'll stay with the city lord!" "Count me in."
People signed up enthusiastically, with burning eyes, as if the flame of revenge was burning in their eyes, and a look of determination on their faces as if they were going to die.
Hou Shan only ordered a dozen of them, and others, including Tianbao, were rejected.
"You can't." He said to Tianbao.
"Why?" Tianbao blurted out and asked.
The childish face showed confusion, confusion, and even more anxiety.
"The road ahead is unknown. If you stay too, who will take these injured brothers down the mountain?"
"No, City Lord, I want to stay with you. I am a person with abilities, I can help you..."
Hou Shan looked at the remaining people. Except for the suicide squad, most of them were covered in paint. Just letting them run down the mountain was already so painful that they were sweating.
He held Tianbao's shoulders with both hands, standing like a hill in front of Tianbao.
Hou Shan’s voice was hoarse and loud:
"Tianbao, listen to me. I want you to take these people out. I want you to promise to take these people out safely. Do you hear me?"
"Brother Hou..."
Tianbao was already in tears. He didn't know how Hou Shan, who had exhausted his crystal energy, should deal with these ferocious black corpses.
He didn't dare to think about that kind of outcome.
He didn't understand that even though he was already here, he was still a little short of leaving.
Why is this still happening, why are people still dying...
"Take people away quickly!"
It was too late, Hou Shan roared heartbreakingly.
The group of corpses were already chasing him, and he pushed Tianbao towards Yixiantian.
And he himself took the lead, leading more than ten people from the death squads to greet the corpses.
