Chapter 147: The Great Fire of the Lamp Temple
After the Mid-Autumn Festival dinner, Xin Yifan told Li Chengran and his parents that they had to go back to Shanghai the next day, so they had to send everyone back to Fanshan Town.
Xin Yifan knew that Taibai planned to use Fanshan Town as the base camp of the Three Dao Sects, and a Dao Cultural City would be established here.
Sending her family to Fanshan Town, Zeng Yulian naturally knew to send someone to protect her, which Zeng Yulian had also mentioned to Xin Yifan.
Before leaving, Xin Yifan wanted to send Xiaodong back to Chuandeng Temple, and everyone wanted to go out for a walk after eating, so everyone was ready to go to Phoenix Mountain at night.
"Sir, is there a lamp temple, there is a fire!" Zhou Shuwan's eyesight is excellent, her eyes have a special ability, she saw a trace of fire on the mountainside, so she pointed to Xin Yifan.
Xin Yifan hadn't paid attention yet, but Xiao Dong replied: "Sister, that is the Chuandeng Temple." ”
"Sir, there's a fire there!" Zhou Shuwan said, frowning slightly.
At this time, everyone went out, and there were still several kilometers to go from the foot of Phoenix Mountain.
"Big brother, let's go and see, this sister said that our Chuandeng Temple is on fire!" Xiao Dong said anxiously after hearing it.
"Danqing, Dingxin, you two come with me to have a look, hurry up. Xin Yifan commanded, and then began to run towards Phoenix Mountain, the speed was extremely fast, and he disappeared in an instant.
Li Danqing and Zhang Dingxin glanced at each other, and they also ran away to keep up with Xin Yifan. These two people's physical abilities are superior in speed.
This time, several of Xin Yifan's students modified their genes in the base, which stimulated their potential, and everyone's physical abilities were greatly improved.
It only took a few minutes for the three of them to reach the foot of the mountain, and along the steps up the mountain, the three of them basically ran to the mountainside in seven or eight steps, fortunately there were no people on the mountain at this time, otherwise they would treat a few people as monsters.
After reaching the mountainside, Xin Yifan and the three of them increased their speed again, Xin Yifan jumped up and jumped directly over the small square, at this time the Chuandeng Temple had begun to burn, and the scorching flames could be felt dozens of meters away.
"Sir, what should I do, is there any fire extinguishing equipment here?" asked Li Danqing.
Xin Yifan used his ability to find no water source within a radius of several kilometers, and for some reason, the water pipe in the temple was also empty.
"It's too late, and these buildings have a lot of wood and a thick layer of paint, and they're all on fire. Xin Yifan said with a solemn face.
Consciousness searched in the sea of fire and found that the dust in the main hall was dead.
In addition to Kechen, three other workers inside were also burned to death.
The people in the border city saw the light of the fire in the Chuandeng Temple, and at this time, many people walked towards the phoenix, and the sound of fire trucks also sounded.
Xin Yifan had a bad premonition in his heart, the fire in the Chuandeng Temple came too strangely, and he saw the living dust just now, but now he has been buried in the fire.
Who is going to attack the small temple in this small city, and what is the benefit of this? Xin Yifan was very puzzled.
It didn't take long for the fire trucks to reach the bottom of the hill and some firefighters began to run up the stairs, there was no fire fighting equipment here, they had to carry fire extinguishers.
However, all the buildings of Chuandeng Temple have already burned, and it is useless for firefighters to rush into the fire with fire extinguishers.
After a while, many people gathered in the small square, most of them came to see the excitement, and the air was filled with smoke.
Some firefighters began to persuade people watching the excitement to leave, and they could smell a pungent smell from a long distance, which should be the smell of painting on the building, which is harmful to the human body.
Li Chengran, Ye Zilan, and Xin Yifan's other students took Xiao Dong to the small square, and Xiao Dong saw that his home had been engulfed in flames, and began to cry, crying and preparing to rush into the fire, and calling out his master's name.
Xin Yifan hugged him and could only let him cry.
The open flames burned for two full hours, and firefighters began to clean up casualties and extinguish the still burning sparks.
Xiao Dong's voice was hoarse, and he was hugged by Xin Yifan, he could only look at the fire in a daze, and kept muttering about his master, he knew that his master was no longer there.
Xin Yifan and Li Chengran could only comfort him with gentle words.
Finally, firefighters found four charred bodies in the temple.
Xin Yifan and the others never left, and a firefighter came to persuade everyone to leave, and when they asked, they found out that Xiao Dong was a little monk in the temple, and one of the four corpses was his master.
The fire brigade informed the police, after all, four people died in the fire, and the police wanted to intervene in the investigation.
The cause of the fire still needs to wait for the fire and police to investigate together, and it makes no sense for Xin Yifan and others to stay at the scene, so everyone can only return to the small courtyard of Xin Yifan's house first and take poor Xiaodong with them.
Before leaving the fire, Xin Yifan used the history of the ability to look back at the cause of the fire, and found that it was an accident, not a man-made arson, but Chen's death was also caused by thick smoke. But the results of the fire and police investigations were unlikely to come out that night.
After this fire, Xiaodong was already homeless, and Xin Yifan could only temporarily stay in the border city to settle Xiaodong and then go to Shanghai.
The others returned to Fanshan Town with Zhang Yunheng overnight, and Li Chengran wanted to stay, but was persuaded by Xin Yifan, after all, she didn't have much effect in staying in the border city, and she was pregnant, Xin Yifan didn't want her to worry too much about being tired.
Mi Xiaodan and Li Danqing stayed to accompany Xin Yifan.
The next day, the cause of the fire was found out, it was caused by the short circuit of the use of high-power wood cutting machine when the workers were constructing, the temple was originally being rebuilt, the original old houses were all demolished, and the newly repaired house was made of brick and concrete structure as the main body, in order to reflect the ancient style of the temple, a large amount of wood was used, and a large number of transparent paint was brushed.
This material is a kind of phenolic resin paint of oil-soluble pigments, which is very easy to burn in case of fire, coupled with the current weather, the autumn is dry and irritable, and there is no water source and fire extinguishing device nearby, so there is no way to save it when it burns.
Now that the cause of the fire has been investigated and the possibility of arson has been ruled out, the fire department reported the cause of the fire to the police.
The police also have some headaches about Xiaodong's placement, Xiaodong was originally an orphan, adopted by Kechen in the name of Chuandeng Temple, and now Kechen died in the fire, and Chuandeng Temple was also destroyed in the fire, Kechen is a registered monk of Chuandeng Temple, Master Yuanjue is not listed, Xiaodong has not been ordained, and he is sent to an orphanage and is worried that the child will not adapt, and his adoptive father Master has just died in a fire, and the police are also worried that he has psychological problems.
Fortunately, Xin Yifan came forward and proposed to the police to adopt Xiaodong, with Mi Xiaodan's assistant to deal with it, coordinate with the police and the civil affairs department, and handle Xiaodong's adoption procedures smoothly, but it still took two days.
After completing the formalities, Xin Yifan and others took Xiaodong to Fanshan first, sent Xiaodong to his parents first, and told his parents about the adoption of Xiaodong, Xin Yifan and Mi Xiaodan returned to Shanghai non-stop.
drove directly to the underground base located by the sea, and after seeing Taibai, Xin Yifan explained to her the reason for the two-day delay.
Taibai heard Xin Yifan mention the fire in Chuandeng Temple, he seemed to be a little interested, and asked some specific information about Chuandeng Temple, and after learning that the fire had burned down the entire temple, Taibai also showed a trace of sadness, although this sadness was fleeting, it was still seen by Xin Yifan.
Why would Taibai be interested in a Chuandeng Temple thousands of miles away, and he also showed a sad look at it being burned by fire, which made Xin Yifan puzzled.
When Xin Yifan was still confused, Taibai talked about the reason for letting Xin Yifan rush back to the base.
"The composition and principle of the stealth potion have been deciphered, and the stealth potion you brought back should only be an experimental product of the Holy Sect, with great side effects, and the nuclear radiation in it exceeds the carrying limit of human beings by hundreds of times. Taibai said.
"You mean, there are nuclear materials in the stealth potion?" Xin Yifan asked.
"Yes, but the nuclear material is only used to provide inducement for the refractive material inside, this refractive material contains a large amount of spiritual energy, and the radiation of the nuclear material can stimulate the refractive material to combine with the body cells, and then let the human body cells produce a refractive reaction to achieve the stealth effect. Taibai explained.
"These stealth potions also contain spiritual energy?!How is it possible, where did the Holy Sect get so much spiritual energy, could it be that they used the spirit bones in their hands as materials?" Xin Yifan asked with some surprise, he didn't know the preciousness of the spirit bones, the Holy Sect actually used extravagantly to make stealth materials, and this kind of stealth potion has a time limit.
Taibai shook his head lightly and said: "No, Xin Yifan, there is a mistake in your understanding, spiritual energy is not the unique energy of spiritual bones, although we still don't know how spiritual energy is generated, but, through the study of mushroom Gu during this time, we speculate that the Holy Sect's method of collecting spiritual energy may be through fungus Gu!"
"This is the mushroom Gu that we have cultivated, put the mushroom Gu that we got from the blood of the Gu person in a petri dish and culture it with serum protein, the mushroom Gu begins to multiply in large quantities, the more blood protein we provide, the greater the number of mushroom Gu reproduction. Taibai showed Xin Yifan the high-powered diagram of the changes in the mushroom Gu in the petri dish one by one, and explained it to him.
Xin Yifan carefully watched the changes in the number of mushroom Gu, and in the end, the entire petri dish was full of mushroom Gu, turning dark brown.
Then Xin Yifan saw that when the serum protein was stopped added to these mushroom Gu, the mushroom Gu began to die, leaving a large number of corpses, heating and burning the corpses of these mushroom Gu, and finally leaving extremely small crystals on the petri dish, which were almost undetectable to the naked eye, Xin Yifan realized that this should be those tiny crystals containing spiritual energy.
"Do you mean that the Holy Sect began to produce a large number of crystals containing spiritual energy by cultivating mushroom Gus, and then used this crystal to make stealth potions?" Xin Yifan suddenly realized, through Taibai's demonstration, it seemed that this was the result.
"Basically, you can think so, but this tiny crystal can not only make stealth potions, but it can be very useful!" Taibai said lightly.