The convoy was tired and fatigued. Uneasiness and anxiety doubled their physical and mental energy.
But when I actually walked into the camp, what I heard was laughter and voices... The dense and familiar footsteps were reassuring.
"Welcome, welcome, welcome to all comrades of the ancient city. It's a pity that you came at the wrong time. The scenery here is usually very good, but your arrival means that today is a good time for us..."
There were no slogans or welcome signs, but these familiar ancient city and rural accents instantly made people feel at ease... A small number of out-of-towners in the team who had "got on the wrong boat" had subtle expressions.
Naturally, the first important thing is to find out what this damn fire is about.
"Nothing, a tree is dead."
When this answer came out, everyone was a little confused. Is this a tree?
Lu Pingan himself in the crowd nodded thoughtfully.
He finally knew what the vague strange feeling was along the way. The vitality of all the burning trees was connected to each other, and the flames were transmitted from below.
Moreover, this forest was so quiet that Lu Pingping and his party didn't even pick up animal carcasses along the way.
Looking around, Lu Pingping didn't even see low shrubs or other plant communities. It was as if the entire forest had only one kind of burning firewood...either it was a forest of a single plant, or something else. The plants have been burned out first, and plants with this characteristic take a particularly long time to burn.
"We call it the 'Big Forest Tree'. This forest is all the body of a plant... The exposed branches seem to be shrub-like branches, and the roots below are connected."
"It doesn't seem to be a normal death, right?" Lu Pingan asked casually. He had actually guessed what happened. In a sense, it had something to do with him.
The middle-aged man leading the other party shook his head and smiled bitterly.
"Some time ago, we didn't think this forest was annoying and grew quickly. We were dealing with weeds every day, so we went to find the teachers from Jiu Gao..."
Because they find the forest annoying, they naturally think about weeding. In this regard, the most professional ones are gardeners. After all, this is within their business scope, but the most efficient and best ones are the handlers of the fire element... ..It is too easy to destroy than to build.
"Our initial experiment was a failure. No matter what kind of flame it was, it could only burn a small piece. Although it was very efficient, it would recover within a few days..." The person who spoke was a man with a black coat. Lu Ping'an had seen his photo of a middle-aged man wearing glasses. On the bulletin board of the Ninth Vocational High School, his surname seemed to be Zhang, and he was a law-level pyrotechnics master.
When Lu Ping'an was studying before, he found that their entire team had been invited away.
"...Then, our gardener discovered that their vitality was connected, and there seemed to be a vague connection. We concentrated our efforts and used a very powerful 'spontaneous combustion curse', which was successfully released on one of the targets. The result was A conceptual self-combustion..."
So, naturally, this "forest" completely burned down.
"Uh, perfect for seeking death..." Someone said something, and the scene suddenly became a little subtle.
"It's okay, it's okay. It has been burning for four days. Our gardener observed that its vitality is almost at the end. It is estimated that it will be fine after another two days of burning..."
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A huge body does not mean that the life class is high. When it encounters the spontaneous combustion curse at the conceptual level and turns its huge vitality into firewood, it will burn more vigorously and longer.
It's just unfortunate that the original camp cannot be used until the fire is completely extinguished... After all, the curse spread from it.
And if the fire is really extinguished, can the camp still be used?
"Is the caster still alive..."
This is obviously the result of being out of control, a conceptual and rule-based curse, and basically a certain connection must be established between the two.
He Dasenmu has not yet "burned" to death, so the casters as the source will naturally have to bear the reaction force of the curse.
In a sense, the two sides have become two sides of a tug-of-war, the kind where the loser falls off a cliff.
"...It's okay, at least they're all alive, but it won't be possible after a while."
Fortunately, they worked together to perform the spell, and everyone was able to bear the backlash of the curse together... Now it's up to us who can survive who, whether the tree dies first or the person dies first.
Rule-based and conceptual capabilities are always a double-edged sword. Either they are ineffective, and when they are effective, they often mean some kind of "absolute priority", which naturally means higher risks and costs.
Why not interrupt? I'm afraid that when this curse was designed, the situation of "burning, but not burning out" was not considered.
It is also possible that it is just a simple curse out of control, but in fact there is no essential difference. They are both a strange scene of tug-of-war with lives.
Depending on the situation, there is a high probability that the tree will die first, but if one or two people of the caster cannot hold on first, it may also cause a chain reaction avalanche.
In this conceptual level struggle, outsiders cannot intervene in most cases, but now, it is not "most cases"...
"I have some special self-healing ability, it should work."
At this time, Lu Ping'an took the initiative to stand up.
Whether it was to leave a good impression on his future mentor or to take the initiative among the explorers, Lu Pingan had no intention of hiding it.
Besides, when you go out, there is another profession that is more popular and protected than "breasts".
"Really?" Immediately, the teacher was overjoyed.
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"boom!"
Not long after Lu Ping'an followed the hurried Teacher Zhang in, while others were still busy with what they were doing, suddenly, the flames outside suddenly became much stronger.
In an instant, the heat wave hit, making people a little unbearable.
After the initial shock and heat, everyone came to their senses.
This should be good news. The flames are burning brighter, which naturally means that the effect of the "spontaneous combustion curse" has become stronger.
And then, behind the overjoyed Teacher Zhang, the Pyrotechnics teachers who were lying down also came out, which naturally confirmed that everything was getting better.
"...It's possible that they couldn't move a few hours ago."
"What kind of healing ability is so outrageous..."
"Maybe it's not a doctor's healing ability at all. In this level of soul confrontation, the help of a doctor who can only heal the body is extremely limited. Our doctors are basically unable to help."
"Rules-based, healing-based... you can see that their spirits have also recovered, which is very abnormal."
Under everyone's discussion, the flames burned even brighter.
The teachers who had been lying down for several days were also moving their bodies excitedly. The better their condition, the faster the tree would die.
Lu Pingan himself appeared as a healer for the first time in front of the explorers of the ancient city.
