"Knock Knock Knock ......"

Charles knocked lightly on the door, and it was quickly opened.

By this time they had arrived at the VIP ward of a hospital on the mule's island, which was actually similar to a cottage.

"Thank you. Charles thanked the girl who had helped them open the door, a girl about Amia's age, her hair and skin were pale and pale, her eyes were bloodshot red, and she wore a badge of a good doctor on the chest of her white coat.

Aside from everything else, she can reach the level of an excellent doctor at this age, and many noble lords on the human side are willing to give her the title of baron in order to win her over.

The examination in the room had apparently just ended, and the young doctor was leaving with several vials containing blood samples.

"Long time no see, Alexey. Charles and Diana greeted the patient at the window in the room, having met at the Cathedral of the Holy Hammer two years earlier.

Alexei, the crown prince of the Rurik kingdom who had been attacked on Lake Hammer two months earlier, was sitting on a wheel with an easel in front of him, and halfway through the canvas was painted in red.

Alexei was stunned for a moment before recognizing Charles who was not wearing a mask, he greeted the two with a smile and said, "I haven't seen you two for a long time, how can I have time to come here today?"

Charles took out a basket of snacks from the storage ring and put it on the table, then sat down next to Alexei with Diana in a chair.

"How's your injury?" Charles asked, "I heard it's a bit of a problem?"

Alexei shook his head with a wry smile and said, "That vampire cursed me with his own life before he died, and I can't walk on the earth for the rest of my life, and now I can only move in a wheelchair. ”

Charles thought for a moment and jokingly said, "Then when the lake outside freezes, you can walk on the ice." ”

"yes. Alexei nodded, "I'm looking forward to the cold winter coming soon." ”

"Is it really possible?" said Charles, who just wanted to lighten the air.

Alexey said seriously: "Although the curse is extremely strange and extremely difficult to break, it is like a language game. ”

"There are many similar examples, in the past, someone cursed the enemy family for giving birth to sons who would die young, but the enemy family gave birth to a litter of daughters one after another, and those daughters grew up healthy and had happy families, and finally died. ”

"Huh?!" Charles and Diana opened their mouths in surprise.

"There is also an unconfirmed legend to this story. Alexei smiled strangely, "I heard that man once gave birth to a son, but he asked someone to use magic to turn his son into a daughter before he was a full moon. ”

Charles had an incredulous expression on his face, but he sighed deeply in his heart, Alexei was deliberately diverting the topic beyond the fact that he had been ambushed.

Not much is known about the curse Charles, except that it is difficult to unleash and is unlikely to succeed unless the person who initiates it is willing to pay a great price, such as life or soul. For this reason, curses are often used to bite back an enemy when they know they are dead.

Since the other party was reluctant to talk about it, Charles couldn't force the topic to open.

So Charles looked at the half-painted oil painting in front of Alexei and asked, "What are you painting?"

"Flame Hell. Alexei replied, "I went there a long time ago, and the sight of that sea of flames at night shook me. ”

"That place...... It's a pity......" Charles sighed.

"yes. Alexei nodded.

The Flame Hell is located in the southern part of the Rurik Kingdom, which was originally a highly developed and rich basin with a diameter of more than eighty kilometers. It's just that in front of more than a hundred, a huge meteorite smashed into the basin.

According to Artoria, the earthquake caused by the meteorite impact at that time was felt even in Abyss City, thousands of miles away. Everything in the basin was destroyed by a huge shockwave that even blew a bronze bell in the surrounding woodfields hundreds of kilometers away.

According to post-disaster statistics, the damage caused by the meteorite impact was extremely heavy, with human losses alone reaching seven figures.

To make matters worse, the huge crater is located on a coal vein underground, and the heat of the impact ignites the coal seam deep underground, and countless precious coal is burning in vain, and the gas produced by the combustion of the coal makes the area around the basin unsuitable for farming.

"At that time, I had just become a prince. Alexei said to Charles as he continued his painting.

"That's when I made solving the Flame Hell my biggest goal in life. ”

"Although I know that this is very difficult, it is so difficult that I have not been able to solve the problem of underground coal seam burning for nearly 100 years. ”

Charles nodded, the burning of underground coal seams is a problem that has plagued mankind for a long time.

For example, from the beginning of the Qing Dynasty to 2003, the surface temperature of the fire area reached hundreds of degrees Celsius, the ground collapsed, thick smoke filled the ground, and flames erupted from rock cracks from time to time.

In order to extinguish the ground fire, the local coalfield fire extinguishing engineering office was established in 1958 under the kind care of Wu Hao. Until the year of Charles's crossing, a total of 52 coalfield fire areas have been treated, including the Qibei Mountain Fire Area, the Urumqi Tiechanggou Fire Area, the Fukang Baiyang River Fire Area, the Xiaohuangshan Fire Area, the Xiaolongkou Fire Area and the Sulfur Gully Fire Area, covering an area of nearly 13 million square meters, and the coalfield fire fighting work has achieved significant economic, economic and ecological benefits.

Charles had a college roommate in his last life, whose father was from the local coalfield fire extinguishing engineering bureau, and he had been on the front line of fire fighting all his life, and his body was scarred.

Before moving out of the dormitory and living with his girlfriend, the roommate often talked about his father's firefighting in a bedtime meeting. Extinguishing earth fires requires technologies such as water injection, drilling, grouting, and loess mulching, which the Rurik Kingdom's technical reserves do not meet the requirements.

In addition, it is not possible to rely on rainwater to extinguish fires, and a small amount of rainwater will support combustion. Even a momentary downpour can only temporarily extinguish the fire in the upper layer, and the heat accumulated in the deep layer will still rekindle the fire after the rain.

"Charles. Alexei said solemnly, "If you have time, you can help me think of a way to completely destroy this flaming hell." ”

"I promise you. Charles replied with the same solemnity.

"That's right!" Alexei suddenly remembered something, and a smile appeared on his face, "I got the grapevine not long ago that your grandparents agreed in principle to your cousin Layton Redkin and Thomas's good deeds. ”

Charles was stunned, he still had some impressions of the cousin Layton who he had met a few times after the commendation meeting last year, and this cousin was arching pigs at the time.

It's just that the identity of that Thomas Cromwell brother is a bit special, his real identity is the adopted son of the Demon King, who grew up with Alexei.

Charles asked, "Does my grandfather know about Thomas?"

Alexei nodded, "Father and Duke Redkin have talked a few times. Alas...... You know some things, but fortunately, everyone is happy. ”

Charles smiled helplessly, as a political creature, some things are inevitable, but since it is a happy situation, let him go.