Chapter Eighty-Six: The Fire
The ancestral land of the Shi family, Black Rock City.
This is an irregular grotto with a length of more than 300 li and a width of more than 200 li, with twelve rounds of virtual suns hanging high on the dome, providing a huge amount of light and heat.
Huge black boulders rose from the ground, forming a giant stone henge.
At the heart of the stone formation, a black castle stands like a giant beast.
This is the fundamental place of the Shi family, and the most important clansmen of the Shi family live in this black stone city, and countless instructions related to the fate of the Shi family are transmitted from here to the mines controlled by the Shi family, farms, war forts, and many small families attached to the Shi family.
In a large hall in the middle of Black Rock City, in the middle of the circular sunken venue, the round Shi Fei gently patted his belly with both hands, and stood helplessly on the round platform at the bottom of the venue.
Beside him, there were also Shi Le, as well as more than 20 young and powerful Shi family members.
On the rising stone steps all around, more than a dozen old men with an obscure breath sat on the chairs of the stone carvings, condescendingly overlooking Shi Fei and the others.
On the highest stone staircase, on a row of stone chairs, two old men sat with their waists bent over, their skin covered with large patches of old age spots, and almost all their hair had fallen out.
has grown old like this, but in the eyes of the two old men, there seem to be two ghost fires burning, staring at Shi Fei and his party faintly.
Shi Fei's white flesh and skin rolled gently, he looked at the elders of these families with an aggrieved expression, and his voice was lengthened as if he was crying and wailing: "Elders, it's not Shi Er, I don't do anything...... I can't help it. ”
Two lines of tears poured out, and Shi Fei cried with a crying voice: "In his hand, he can pinch half of the soldiers of our Shi family...... And all of them are elites, he-mother-of-the-, all of them are the strongest elites of our Shi family!"
Spreading his hands, Shi Fei screamed: "In Big Stone City, my people were washed in blood by him...... Heavy casualties, heavy casualties...... A group of capable subordinates that I trained so easily, and dozens of them were killed by him......"
"I really didn't expect that he would be so mad that he slaughtered Elder Shijuni. Shi Fei looked at an elder, and his tears flowed non-stop: "I really didn't expect him to do this......
"Although Elder Shihui is old and disrespectful, greedy for money, lustful, shameless, and forgetful of profit, he is a group of bastard lambs who cover themselves are rampant and domineering in the clan, causing a lot of complaints...... But Elder Shi Hui is an elder after all......"
Shi Fei cried and shouted: "I didn't expect that Shi Meng would be so mad that he slaughtered Elder Shi Hui like an animal......
"That's enough!" said one of the two old men sitting at the top of the room, an old man whose teeth had almost lost all of his teeth roared in a hoarse voice.
Shi Fei hurriedly closed his mouth, he raised his sleeves and wiped his tears very hard.
His face was round and had a large surface area, so there was a lot of tears left on his face, and his sleeves were soon wet with tears, and he looked really sad and desolate.
"Who gave Shi Meng so much courage to do such a rebellious thing?" the old man who had just scolded him asked coldly.
Shi Le and the others, who were standing on the round platform at the bottom of the venue, were silent.
Shi Fei blinked for a while, and said dryly, "Of course it is...... Elders, ...... You used to spoil Shi Meng to be lawless, and treat him as a liver baby...... Tsk, all the good stuff is stuffed into his hands...... Hey, he's turned his face...... Anyway, our brother can't do anything about him. ”
There was silence in the venue.
The elders of the stone family sitting on the stone steps looked at each other, exchanging glances with each other, and occasionally a low whisper came.
Shi Fei put on a posture that a dead pig was not afraid of boiling water, and rolled his eyes to look at these elders.
These are the elders......
How many of them are like cypresses?
For the sake of the hope of immortality promised by the Immortal Sect, they didn't even care about the fundamental interests of the Shi family.
They can sell the land of the Shi family, they can sell the wealth of the Shi family, and they can sell the people of the Shi family......
But these things are all Shi Fei theirs.
It's not just that these things belong to Shi Fei in the future, but now, these young men represented by Shi Fei have already mastered the daily power of the Shi family, and these territories, wealth, and people are already their vested interests.
If the elders are in good old age, then Shi Fei will be happy to play the role of filial son and grandson.
For the sake of immortality, the elders wanted to sell the interests that already belonged to Shi Fei...... Then, it's no wonder that Shi Fei and them are ruthless.
The cultivation and combat power of the elders are precious, and they are also part of the family's interests.
So, the cypress is a chicken.
The elders are a bunch of monkeys.
Shi Meng killed a chicken to show the monkeys, and now the monkeys are starting to stumble and scream......
Shi Fei blinked his eyelids for a while, and suddenly wailed hysterically: "Elder Shi Hui died so miserably...... There are no bones left...... And those of his direct descendants...... Woo, my siblings...... They were all hung on the city gate by the sixth child and dried up!"
"It's been more than a month, it's been more than a month...... I want to find justice for Elder Shi Juni, but ...... But ......" Shi Fei looked at a group of elders pitifully, and screamed hoarsely: "It's not that Shi Er and I are incompetent, it's true, elders, you give Shi Meng too much power." ”
Stretching out five fingers, Shi Fei complained, "The elite warriors directly under his name account for half of the family...... In fact, more than half of the people listened to him......"
"I said, that's enough. Another elder Shi who was sitting at the top and the oldest one scolded coldly: "Shi Meng is so wanton and reckless, he must be severely punished...... Shi Fei, can you do it?"
Shi Fei drooped his head and thought for a while, then raised his head very shamefully and shook his head.
"Elders, to tell you the truth, if you want me to lead someone to find Shi Meng to settle accounts, I can't do it. Shi Fei sighed: "Whether it is commanding in battle or fighting alone, I am not the opponent of the sixth child...... He could hit me all over the floor with one hand. ”
Shi Fei spread his hands: "Please also ask the elders to select elite soldiers and strong generals to deal with the sixth elder...... All I can do is make sure everything is supplied...... That's the only thing I can do. ”
On the stone steps, the faces of the elders of the stone family looked much better.
If Shi Fei climbed down the pole and wanted to take over the command of Shi Meng, they would still wonder if Shi Fei was also planning some conspiracy.
But Shi Fei didn't want to command, and told them frankly that he was not Shi Meng's opponent, so Shi Fei was still reliable.
"Hmm!" the two elders nodded in satisfaction.
"Stone hammer!" one of the elders called out in a low voice.
At the top of the hall, in a shadowy corner behind a pillar, an iron dwarf rumbled out. This iron dwarf has the unique physical characteristics of a dwarf, and its body is boxy like an iron pier.
But his height is nearly 1.8 meters!
This height ...... There is no doubt that this guy has activated some special bloodlines and has unusual bloodline abilities.
"Stone Hammer, you take people to Big Stone City and cooperate with the Yan family...... Take Shi Meng down. The elder handed a token made of black iron to Shi Hammer: "Take your people with you, Shi Fei will cooperate with you...... I want to see the living Shi Meng, I want to know, where did he get so bold...... How dare he kill Shi Juni!"
The stone hammer urn responded angrily, and took the token with one hand.
Shi Fei screamed: "Yan family, this is my Shi family's business, what does it have to do with the Yan family?"
A group of elders chuckled lowly.
The elder who had just taken out the token said slowly, "Oh, haven't you received the news yet......?" However, the news will soon come back...... Before we gather you, the Yan family has already launched. ”
With a hint of pleasure, the elder smiled briskly: "At this time, Big Stone City may already be a sea of fire? Hehe, coupled with a lot of strength, Shi Meng is just a junior after all, and he wants to fight against us...... Hehe. ”
Another elder said slowly: "Shi family, you still have to listen to the old man's opinion...... The hair hasn't grown yet, and I want to turn the sky upside down...... That will have to wait until we die. ”
Shi Fei blinked his eyes quickly, and his hands beat his bulging belly rhythmically.
The two elders looked at each other and smiled, and said with a slow and lazy smile: "We, the Shi family, also want to show the Yan family a little attitude...... The Shi family and the Yan family have been brothers for so many years!"
With a 'bang', a strange jet sound resounded through the venue. It was as loud and piercing as if a brass bell had been struck violently.
Shi Fei raised his big round face and smiled shyly at the stunned elders: "Hey, these days, my stomach is not very good...... I always like it, let this go...... Hey, elders, understand, understand...... We are juniors, we worry about family affairs every day, and we are not happy to eat and drink, which is very ...... It's not easy for us!"
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The high-pitched and piercing, almost cerebral alarm bell sounded.
From the watchtower of Big Rock, the shrill whistle of a lizardman sentry was heard: "Flame eater gold ant, flame eater gold ant...... At least three thousand...... No, five thousand ...... No, 10,000 ......"
Whistles made from fern branches sounded throughout Big Rock.
The two gates of Dashicheng were opened, and the bull and wolf warriors waved their whips and roared hoarsely, driving the slaves living in the shacks outside the city to retreat to the city.
Wu Tie had already rushed to the city wall as soon as possible, and he couldn't help but widen his eyes as he watched a firelight in the distance rush over quickly.
The Flame Eater Ant, an extremely terrifying creature.
They are naturally fond of high temperatures, and generally dig their nests in areas close to lava, and the powerful individuals of the Flame Gold Eater Ants can even bathe directly in the magma without any damage.
These guys feed on all kinds of metal ores, so the carapace on their bodies is as hard as a hundred refined steel, which is equivalent to wearing a strong set of metal armor by nature.
They are infinitely powerful, as long as they are adult flame devouring gold ants, they can easily have thousands of catties of brute strength, and ordinary warriors are not their opponents at all.
Moreover, they exude high temperature throughout their bodies, and when the warriors fight with them, they are troubled by the high temperature, and the general combat effectiveness will be directly weakened by at least thirty percent, and as long as they fight for a period of time, there is a risk of dehydration and fainting.
Some of these mutants are even more capable of spitting flames or spewing thorns made of various metals, and their lethality is extremely great.
The worst thing is that these guys are social creatures, and when they swarm up, what kind of wall or something is a joke. In front of their sharp and powerful mouthparts, even the walls made of metal will be gnawed away by them as a snack.
The lizardmen sentries were still hoarsely reporting the number of Flame Eaters they had seen.
At first, they only saw three or five thousand Flame Devourer Ants, and then they saw that the number of Flame Devourer Ants had exceeded ten thousand. But it wasn't long before they were shivering and speechless.
Patches of fire swept in, and without the noise of these lizardman sentinels, Wu Tie had already seen at least thirty or fifty thousand flame devouring ants rushing towards him.
In the vast farmland outside Big Rock, many crops are almost ripe.
These flaming gold-eaters roared by, and the crops in neat fields were dried and burned.
Columns of black smoke rose in the fields in the distance, flames rolled up, and waves of heat rushed in all directions.
The fires are getting stronger and stronger, there are more and more black smoke columns, the flames are monstrous, and the heat wave is hitting.
Wu Tie suddenly felt a little difficult to breathe.
After all, this is a grotto surrounded by rock formations, hundreds of miles long and wide, and dozens of miles wide in the grotto, the fire is raging, the oxygen in the air is rapidly depleting, and the skin of Wu Tie's face is red, and the sweat is constantly flowing down.
On the rock wall of the grotto, there are dozens of large and small Yongdao crossings, and there is a constant howling wind.
The rapid convection of hot and cold air caused a turbulent storm in the grotto. The strong winds brought fresh oxygen, but the fire was even more intense.
Outside the city, many slaves from Big Rock lived in shacks near the fields.
They heard the alarm bells coming from Big Rock City, and they immediately fled to Big Stone City with their families.
But with the firelight, the heat wave rose, and then the wind howled, and the terrifying flames and heat spread rapidly, and the small rock gnomes screamed, and in the blink of an eye, they were drowned out by a large field of firelight.
"Damn bastard!" Wu Tie slammed his fist into the wall.
The flames were dozens of miles away from the city wall, and Wu Tie couldn't come to the rescue. He could only watch as the firelight raged, as the hordes of rock gnomes were engulfed in the flames.
Outside the city, the bull and wolf warriors of the brigade roared hysterically, roaring with unconcealed horror.
"Quick, fast into town...... If you don't want to die, hurry up and rush into the city!"
The firelight rolled all the way towards Big Rock City, and through the firelight, Wu Tie saw that behind the overwhelming ant tide, a team of hundreds of people wearing full armor suddenly appeared.