Chapter 22: The Burning of the Garden
Pan Long deliberately expanded the scope of the splash this time, and at least thirty or fifty vines were splashed by his salt water at once.
The vines trembled violently, as if they were in great pain.
Then, more salt water was splashed over, and more vines were splashed with salt water.
When Pan Long had almost finished pouring a large jar of salt water, a terrible roar came from the ground of the garden. Listening to the voice, it was clearly a young woman.
"Are you coming out?" Pan Long poured the last of the salt water from the jar into the garden, then emptied himself of the clutter and pulled out his knife.
A moment later, a mass of vines intertwined, barely recognizable as a woman, slowly rose from the ground.
It apparently had no eyesight, not even Pan Long, who was close at hand. But it is still mobile, and it squirms to the side at a very slow pace.
At the same time, the trees in the garden were rapidly withering, and the leaves turned yellow and fell to the ground in a blink of an eye. The branches also became dry and cracked, as if they had been dead for years.
On the other hand, there are countless branches and leaves growing on the vine, which are intertwined with each other and constantly combined, slowly becoming more and more like a person.
After about a minute or two, the vine had turned into a blue-green woman. She actually looks good, but her body is too large, almost as tall as a three-story building.
If she wanted to enter the house, she wouldn't just bend down, she would probably have to lie down.
Of course, even if she entered the house, she couldn't move freely, and when she looked up, she would break through the ceiling.
Of course, Pan Long would not let this obviously "calamity" thing leave, he swung the knife directly, and with a flash of the knife, a strong wind arrived in front of the vine woman in a blink of an eye, and it was slashed at the position that should be regarded as the knee of the right leg.
Pan Long's sword wind power was not inferior to ordinary sharp blades, and with one slash, most of the vines in that area were immediately cut off, and the huge vine woman suddenly couldn't stabilize her body, and fell to the ground with a bang, turning into countless vines and spreading out again.
Only then did Pan Long see that in the middle of the vine, there was a green tentacle. The tentacles had no eyes, ears, or features, only countless spikes.
"It seems that this is the ontology. ”
He muttered to himself, took a torch with his internal force, lit it, and threw it directly at the tentacle.
The torch landed precisely on the tentacles, and an unpleasant scream rang out again.
Countless vines swung wildly, whipping through the air with a terrifying sound. Strangely, they were just waving around, but they didn't turn around to put out the fire.
From the sound of it, they are really powerful. If the enemy is within their attack range, even if they are wearing armor, they will probably not be able to withstand it.
But Pan Long didn't intend to run into them, and he threw another torch in that direction. This time, in addition to shredded wood and rags, some salt was stuffed into the torch.
Although the air was full of vines, Pan Long was able to find a gap in the countless vines, and with a throw of his hand, the torch hit the tentacle again.
Heart-rending screams came from the tentacles, but there was still nothing they could do.
Then, Pan Long threw torch after torch over, gradually enveloping the tentacle in the flames.
The fire grew bigger, but the screams got quieter. Finally, the screaming finally stopped completely, leaving only the tentacle trembling slightly in the flames, as if it were struggling for the last time.
After a while, all the vines suddenly fell to the ground, as if they were dead.
The tentacle was the same, motionless in the flames, and it looked like it had been burned to death.
Colin was right, fire and salt...... It's a pity he didn't have time to use this method. Pan Long nodded and said to himself, "According to this line of thinking, maybe if you put a layer of salt on your body, you don't have to worry about calamity." ”
"In this way, salted fish really has a unique advantage. Born in adversity, salted fish are happy, and online philosophers do not deceive me. ”
Pan Long smiled and muttered to himself, but did not take half a step into the garden.
Instead, he made several torches, lit them, and threw them all over the garden, setting fire to many branches and leaves.
Soon, the garden was on fire.
The main structure of the houses in Weilun City is all stone, and Pan Long is not worried about a fire burning the city to the ground - in fact, there are more than one house in the civilian area with traces of fire, and there are even cases where the fire has spread and burned several houses, but the fire has not completely spread after all, and it has not been able to burn the civilian area very badly.
This is true in the civilian areas, and even less so in the rich areas.
Just like this garden, although it has burned into a sea of fire, the fire is confined to the inside of the garden, and it does not spread at all.
Wide corridors, towering walls, and wide streets outside the walls – with these three levels of separation, no matter how much you burn, the fire will not spread.
As the flames burned more and more fiercely, suddenly, the floor of the garden exploded, and a huge figure emerged from the ground.
It was a strange creature that looked like a woman in the front but was full of earthworms in the back half, and it had been hiding underground, but as the fire intensified, the ground was getting hotter and hotter, and the fire was spreading along the vines that were gradually drying underground.
This leaves it with no choice but to rush out.
It was also obviously afraid of flames, and as soon as it came out, it let out a strange scream in the sea of fire.
The scream was like a cat's paw scratching glass, and it was hard to listen to.
Pan Long remained motionless, as if transformed into a statue, and stood there staring at it.
The monster struggled frantically, sticking out countless vines and attacking indiscriminately around it.
The vines whipped the ground and shattered the earth, the dead trees broke their branches and leaves, and the walls cracked in the solid rock.
Occasionally, they are also pumped on Pan Long's body.
But Pan Long's body was stronger than the rock, and when the whole body was shrouded in true qi, they couldn't even tear Pan Long's clothes.
After a while, the vine's swing speed gradually decreased, and then slower and slower.
Eventually, they stopped waving and fell to the ground.
The huge monster stopped struggling and fell into the fire.
It was a long time before the fire was finally extinguished as it was getting darker and darker.
Pan Long stood there all the time, from the beginning to the end.
When the fire was completely extinguished, he turned and left, from beginning to end, without setting foot in the garden.
The next morning, he brought another rat and threw it into the garden, which was destined to dedicate himself to scientific research.
The rats ran around in the garden, where the fire had long since been completely extinguished, and soon found a place to hide, without the slightest hint of fear.
Pan Long smiled with satisfaction.
"Good, it's a bit of a hassle, but at least one thing has been proven. He laughed and said, "Whether it's humanoid or tentacle shaped, these guys' intelligence and perception are not very good!"