PFC Chapter 118 Turning to Ashes
Chapter 118 Turning to Ashes
The reason why the fisherman was called over, but not the tiger parents, was actually a bit of Cang Nian's personal motive.
He knew that rushing into the firebreak to set fire to stop the army of mycelium would be extremely dangerous!
The danger doesn't come from the army of mycelium, but from the flames themselves!
Due to the difference in heat, the difference in air temperature causes flames to attract each other!
This is also based on the principle of using fire to fight fire!
Now, by igniting flames within the firebreak, the flames ignited in the outer firebreak will accelerate their convergence towards this flame!
One wrong move and you could be engulfed in flames!
Cangnian was confident in his speed, so he came.
The fisherman was slower, but he was easier to ignite than the tiger himself.
In addition, the fisherman can only be considered a friend with whom one is not so close, while the tiger parents are one's own family.
To put it bluntly, the fisherman didn't escape and was burned to death; at most, he'd feel a little guilty.
But if the tiger parents were burned to death, he would be devastated.
But now, the tiger parents, seeing that they and the fisherman were having a hard time stopping the army of mycelium, have come to help!
Cangnian knew that even if he yelled at them to leave, they wouldn't go.
I want my tiger parents to live.
How could tiger parents not want to protect themselves?
Without offering such pointless advice, Cang Nian could only ignite as many bushes as possible to intensify the fire!
When the first branch was almost burned out, he immediately threw it away and replaced it with a new one!
With the addition of tiger parents, the efficiency of building the defense line has increased significantly!
Each bonfire, drawn together by its own attraction, connected into lines, clustered together, and converged into a towering blaze!
Now, the mycelial army has to spend more time taking detours.
Time passed second by second, and Cang Nian suddenly felt a heat behind him.
Turning around, I saw that in order to create layers of obstacles for the mycelial army, I, my tiger dad, my tiger mom, and the fisherman had already retreated to the firebreak!
At this point, only the last 300 meters of the firebreak remained!
But now, the firebreak on the left and the firebreak on the right, along with the firebreak built by myself, my tiger dad, my tiger mom, and the fisherman, are attracting each other and instinctively converging!
"Ow~!"
Seeing this, Cang Nian spat out the fire stick and shouted loudly!
withdraw!
If we don't evacuate now, it will be too late!
Upon hearing Cang Nian's voice, Tiger Dad and Tiger Mom immediately dropped what they were carrying in their mouths and ran wildly toward the gap in the firebreak!
The fisherman finally realized what was happening.
"The law! Speed! The law..."
He shouted loudly, bestowing the three decrees upon himself, Tiger Dad, and Tiger Mom respectively!
The already somewhat exhausted tiger parents suddenly sped up their pace considerably!
Swish swish~!
The three tigers and one man rushed towards the rapidly closing gap, and finally broke through when there were only a few dozen meters left!
"Phew... Phew... We finally made it out!"
Haha! Pipi, Daddy's back alive!
Having escaped the encirclement of flames, the fisherman exclaimed excitedly, panting heavily.
So exciting!
The feeling of surviving a disaster sent his adrenaline soaring!
Woof!
Pipi had already come up to him, raised its front paws and clung to the fisherman, licking him incessantly.
Huhu~!
At this moment, the flames from the three sides have successfully converged under their respective attraction, illuminating the night sky with unparalleled brightness!
Heh!
Huh~!
At this moment, the Black King Serpent had not forgotten its duty.
That is to keep the flames burning only inside the circle, and not outside.
The three flames converged, with many burning outwards at the final gap. The Black King Serpent swallowed them without stopping, then tilted its head back and spat them out, extinguishing the flames.
Finally, through its efforts, this last remaining hidden danger has been eliminated.
Bang~!
But as soon as it finished its task, its raised head went limp and fell to the ground.
Seeing this, Cangnian quickly ran over and used his paw to check the black king snake's breath.
"Phew... thankfully, although I'm much weaker, it hasn't disappeared yet!"
After checking its breathing for several minutes to confirm that the black king snake had simply fainted from exhaustion rather than died, Cang Nian was finally relieved.
The fire attack was only successful thanks to the Black King Serpent's devouring ability!
Otherwise, Cangnian will either decide to leave this habitat or try not to build a firebreak and hope that the fire will extinguish itself by chance.
But if that happens, the entire jungle could be burned down, causing real devastation to the area!
Now, the animals within the range of the mycelial army have long been eaten by them.
The only loss was some plants.
If the fire gets out of control and spreads, it won't just affect plants anymore.
Many animals that weren't fast enough would also be burned to death!
Moreover, a real wildfire is probably not something you can escape by running.
This was just a fire attack plan that they had specifically planned for themselves, and they almost failed to escape.
It's hard to imagine what would have happened if the fire had been allowed to spread on its own!
One wrong move and the entire jungle could be wiped out!
"Should this solve the problem of the mycelium?"
At this moment, Cangnian turned his head and looked at the flames that were flowing towards the interior of the mycelium under the attraction of the flames.
Zizzi~!
The mycelium that had escaped to this side had already bypassed the fire line that Cangnian, Tiger Dad, Tiger Mom, and the Fisherman had built together.
But after bypassing the blocking line of fire, there was an endless, surging wall of fire!
In fact, after so much time has passed, the walls of fire from all directions have gradually advanced to this place, and are about to converge in the last bit of green in this vast scorched earth!
The army of mycelia advanced and crashed into the towering wall of fire.
Behind the army of mycelia, there was another towering wall of fire.
The walls of fire on both sides pressed in on them, squeezing their last bit of living space.
Boom~!
Eventually, they huddled together, piling up high like a giant mushroom stem without a cap.
This mushroom stem is tens of meters tall and more than ten meters thick; it's a truly enormous creature.
But surrounded by flames from all sides, it was so powerless, igniting the last, most dazzling wave of fire for this grand feast of flames!
The towering, pure white mushroom stem transformed into a crimson tower, its organic essence propelling the fire to an unprecedented peak!
Whoosh whoosh whoosh~!
But then, in just over ten seconds, the towering flames subsided, and the towering mushroom stems died completely. Without the support of living things, and with all the organic matter inside ignited, they burned away their last bit of strength.
The mushroom stem collapsed, like an ancient tower eroded by time, crashing down and scattering ashes that swallowed countless animals and returned everything to the forest.