Wait a minute! Where are you going? It wasn't until Feng Chen ran out of the hundreds of meters that Senior Feng grabbed his shoulder, "Flying all the way down from the volcano, did you turn the direction confused?" Go any further and you'll be back in Burning Stone! ”

The rain on the top of the mountain had already fallen, the result of what Dust had seen from the dragon's cavity. The rain gradually increased every second, and under the control of the ancient dragon, the dark clouds gathered more and more around the lava field, merging with the erupting black fog and slowly spreading outward.

Having been active in the vicinity of the Onifury Room, Kaede was certainly well aware of the disasters that such a celestial phenomenon could bring. The Shadow Hunter described the horror of the mud to Feng Dust in the most succinct language, and instead of wanting the young man to be horrified, he did not retreat with him, but went crazy and ran towards Burning Stone.

"I'm just going back!" Caught by a pair of pincer-like hands, the young hunter had to stop and explain, "Sooner the whole town will be destroyed!" ”

"What are you going to do when you go back, do you want to give them a message?" Kaede's tone was full of unreasonableness, "The town is just a bunch of Shadow Hunter scum, and if they all die in the natural disaster, there are just a few less guys competing with us for the commission of the underworld. And you won't look at the heavens—"

Kaede's hand pointed to the air, and various types of airships were rising from near the lava line, flying in the direction of the foot of the mountain, some with the results of the battle they had just hunted. The airship that had set sail a little earlier had already passed Burning Rock and was heading further back in town for evasion. As the rest of the battleships flew over Burning Rock, they didn't slow down one by one, clearly not wanting to stay any longer. The town's airships were also taking off sporadically, staggering to join a formation flying an eerie hunting flag.

"These bastards are very sneaky, and the momentum on the mountain is slightly bad, so they gave the signal to retreat early." Poachers are more desperate than ordinary hunters, and if they can't do anything, they won't delay even a minute on the hunting grounds. The old hunter snorted, "When you get back to town, I'm afraid you won't even see a hunter." ”

"That's why I want to go back." Feng Chen's tone became more firm, "There are still thousands of civilians in Burning Rock Town, and without the care of the hunters, they are the most dangerous. ”

Even in the most hunter-rich towns, there are no more than one-third of the number of adventurers armed with weapons. The townspeople may have survived on the Shadowhunters stationed here, but they are not the culprits of the poaching. Among these people were clerks in liquor stores, inns, and shops, and stevedores on the landing pads, who were no different from ordinary villagers except those who settled in places that were out of the reach of the household registration of a kingdom. Even if a genuine hunter stood here, he couldn't abandon their lives.

After the group landed on the back of the male fire dragon, they rested for a long time not far from the town, but still did not see a group of civilians who took refuge and passed by. The people of the town don't have such an ungodly vision, and most of them have not been alerted to the disaster in the speculation of the dust, thinking that this is an ordinary volcanic eruption.

Underground towns are not union-supervised settlements, there are no commissioners to warn of disasters, and there are no manpower to organize evacuations. When the flood takes shape, the whole town will be silently engulfed in monstrous muddy water, as if it never existed.

"Civilians? You can't be serious, right? First, a male fire dragon, and then a town of people...... We're Shadowhunters, not saints! Seeing Feng Chen's brows furrowed, his mind did not seem to be cheating, and the old hunter scolded him even more, "Listen, there are two hours at most, and this area will become a quagmire, and if you continue to stay, you will also die in it." If you want to be swept into the mud and die, don't take the three of us with you! ”

"Now is not the time to sit idly by—" Feeling the big hand on his shoulder, Feng Chen was looking at Feng at this time, and the two girls pursed their lips and followed him inseparably. The young man froze and said in a deep voice, "I didn't ask you to follow me this time...... The previous commission rewards are all reserved for you, so let's take refuge while it's still early. With that, he continued to run towards the town under the helpless gaze of the Shadowhunters.

"A stunned young man like you should have died in a volcanic eruption a long time ago......" Kaede stood in place and cursed secretly, slamming his fists into one place, "Hey! Even if you're in town, what can you do when you're alone? ”

"I don't know......," said the young hunter, turning back and smiling bitterly, "but if you don't make this trip, you won't be able to do anything." ”

"Like those stupid union hunters...... Wait a minute! The old hunter made a gesture to Ah Dong and Ah Xia behind him, and he took the lead in catching up, running parallel to Feng Chen.

"You're not leaving?" The young Shadowhunter said in some surprise. "If we run like this and shout the signs of calamity to the ordinary people, not only will we not save them, but we will kill some people first. I don't want half of those vengeful souls to be attached to me. The Shadowhunter said in a hurried voice, not realizing that he was using "we" instead of "you".

"I know." Feng Chen's eyes were shining, and his mind was clearly thinking rapidly, "Bad news is as terrible as the plague, and before the mud and rocks fall, they will all die in their own hands first...... It's like the Scourge of the Elder Dragons at Loclac. ”

"You know about the disaster, too?"

Almost two years ago, the headquarters of the Hunters' Guild in the New World was attacked by the Thundering Sand Sea - it wasn't an attack to be exact, the monster had only hovered over Sand City for less than ten minutes, but it had caused unprecedented panic in the city. Hundreds of people died in the stampede of the flight, the chaos in the streets and alleys, and the chaos of the small night, but the initiator Feng Shanlong did not react to this, and finally uprooted the sacred pillar as a symbol of the city, and unsealed the underground spring of the lake in the center of Shacheng, leaving the Hunters' Guild with a water-soaked inner city and a city full of messes.

Legend has it that the Fengshan Dragon fell shortly after that, plunging the entire Sand Sea into a period of chaos that lasted for more than a year, and only recently got back on track. Some say that the farce was a ritual before the death of the ancient dragon species, or a counterattack against the harvest sacrifice that had lasted for hundreds of years. Regardless of the rumors, for the first time in decades, the union has exposed the unresisted populace to the most powerful catastrophe in the hunter world. Even among poachers, this is a topic of discoloration – the damage to towns and ecology can be repaired with time and manpower, but the lives lost and the nightmares in the hearts of survivors cannot be restored in any way.

"It's not just 'knowing,' I was there when the ancient dragon came," the young hunter pointed to his nose and sped up a little faster, "I can still remember the tragic situation that night." Sometimes the fear of disaster is more destructive than the disaster itself - it's here! ”

As expected, the gates of the town are no longer manned. Looking in from the town gate, the flocculent ash fell like goose feathers, on the rooftops and in every corner of the alley. The shops were closed, their doors and windows locked, and they waited as if they had spent every volcanic eruption.

"Sure enough, there are no more half hunters." Dusty moved open the gate blocking the road and paced in. The entrance of the alley was as empty as a ghost town, and only when the footsteps of the four shadow hunters were heard, a child in the attic secretly opened a gap in the wooden window, but only looked at Feng Chen for a moment, and was picked up by an adult from the window.

"There are thousands of civilians in the town," Kaede said as he stood on the empty street with his hands outstretched, letting the ash fall on his brows, "it would take at least dozens of people to maintain order in such a crowd...... It takes a hundred hunters to do it. With just the four of us, the riot together will be engulfed by the surging crowd in less than three minutes. ”

"Not to mention a hundred hunters, there are not even ten here." Feng Dust looked up around the town, and the poachers' inferiority was always evident at this time.

"Time is running out, you can't save everyone." Feng persuaded him kindly, "Tell me to see, you just roar on the street, spread the news and do your best, and let the rest leave to fend for themselves, and we can leave this land of right and wrong quickly, how about it?" ”

"If they are left to their own devices, they can only destroy themselves, and there is no possibility of self-survival." Feng Chen shook his head. Even if these civilians can get out of the town, there is a hunting ground not far outside, and under such a natural disaster, it is only a matter of time before the beast tide breaks out. Without the escort of the hunters, they could not even walk ten kilometers. Once the team is scattered, it will only end up being eaten by the beast, "I have a better way......

Before he could finish speaking, the young hunter felt something, and suddenly wiped his backhand on his face, he withdrew his hand and pinched it with five fingers, and a shallow mud mark appeared on his cage hand, and his face was especially wet.

The second bead of cold mud immediately hit his hunting suit, and Feng Dust hurriedly looked overhead. At some point, the clouds had spread over the town, and the drizzle of dust had scattered in the air. In the field of vision of the sealed dust, large grains of muddy water swept towards Burning Stone Town like hungry souls: "Hell...... We're one step late! ”

A rustle of crumbles rang out from all over the town. Almost at the same moment, countless windows on the side of the street were violently opened, and hands stretched out from the pavilion to probe, and then hurriedly retracted as if they had been bitten by an evil thing. A faint commotion rose from the ground of the town, and in a few breaths it turned into an unending clamour.

"It's raining—the devil is spitting!" The woman's frightened, high-pitched howl came from an alley and lingered over Burning Stone.

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"Ghost spitting" is a slang term for mudslides by the Aboriginal people around the volcano, who know better than anyone what it means to rain during an eruption.

There was no one to organize, and the empty streets and alleys, which were unusually quiet in the last second, were crowded with pedestrians rushing in a hurry. The people fled from their houses in terror and curses, and some of them did not even have time to change their clothes, but they swarmed towards the only exit from the town.

At first, it was still sewage with volcanic ash, and after two minutes, it was simply mud. Pedestrians on the road crowded into the depths of the crowd despite being painted with mud. People who fell in the push rolled over the wet ground, and when they got up again, they were black monkeys caught up in the mud.

"It's been said a long time ago that we can't do anything!" Kaede protected the two sisters behind him, and shouted at Feng Chen, who was opening the way in front, "Think about the good!" At least you don't have to tell them the bad news! ”

The hunters were heading up against the flow of people, leading the way deeper into the town, and the young hunter's shoulders and backs were already soaked with rain, and huge mud spots flowed down his neck towards the lining of the armor: "Gotta calm these guys!" ”

"How? You see, these guys are crazy! Kaede pulled Asha who was running in the middle of the road. The girl passed by a wheelbarrow with a large bag of luggage, which was pushed by the man behind the car and creaked, and I don't know how these civilians packed so many belongings in just a few minutes.

A layer of cold sweat rose on the back of the girl who was lucky enough to escape, and if she was knocked down by a blow, she might never have a chance to get up again in such a crowd. Ordinary people can burst out with a strong will to survive in life-and-death situations, but such a will is often accompanied by an equal amount of destruction.

"It's not as easy to appease these civilians as it is to domesticate a flying dragon!" Speaking of which, the Shadowhunter suddenly remembered something. Kaede's eyes looked at Feng Chen's back and saw him stop in front of a small building. The young hunter wiped the water from his hands, climbed up with the rafters, and leaped down to the eaves of the roof. The streets and alleys were full of pedestrians looking hurried, and none of them were paying attention to the strange behavior of dusty people climbing onto the rooftops.

"Hey, you dragon cavity that can domesticate monsters...... It won't work for humans! The old hunter looked up, and a bead of water fell from the eaves, flowing down the hunter's shoulder to the crook of his arm.

Feng Chen did not answer, but looked in all directions. From this angle, Burning Rock appears to have turned into a giant funnel, with quicksands of various colors pooling from all sides of the town and converging at the narrow town gate. Without looking at it, you can estimate how many tragedies are happening quietly among the black and oppressive crowd. The sand had accumulated in a small clearing in front of the gate, and only a lucky few could make it out of town through the gate, but God knows what would happen to them if they escaped into the hunting grounds.

"If you want to tame the civilians of the town, do it quickly!" Kaede's face changed and she roared at the dragonwhisperer's feet. The Shadowhunters have been forced under the eaves, and if they squeeze any more, they may fall into the house through the window, "just remember not to use it on me...... Don't use it on the three of us! ”

The old hunter's order was still a step too late.

As if a second consciousness had awakened in his mind, a timid, somewhat hesitant aria sounded in Kaede's cranial cavity.

"The Hunter is on ......"