37, the gates of hell
I think of the fire brigade. I also took out my mobile phone and dialed 119 for the first time.
Supposedly, no matter how weak the signal is in the mountains, these emergency calls at the beginning of 11 can still be dialed normally, but now the phone cannot be made at all.
What to do. How to deal with this flame giant.
I racked my brains to come up with a solution. But no matter what I think, there's only one word in my head: run.
Qiao Wei and Chang Le were also stunned at this time, looking at the flame giant that was dozens of meters high and seemed to be connected to the sky. Neither of them could utter a word. Apparently they had never seen such a shocking scene.
"This ...... You have to shoot with a gun." After a while. In the end, it was Ye Chen who opened his mouth to break the silence.
"I don't know. Can't think of anything to do." After I finished speaking, I turned my head to look at Qiao Wei.
Qiao Wei stared at the fire giant for a long time before he came back to his senses and said, "Please...... Pray for rain."
"What. "I thought I misheard.
Qiao Wei nodded.
"Holy. You're going to do it."
"No, it won't."
"Damn. So you mean no trick."
"Or try to shoot it with a gun." I said.
"I can only try it. Aim for it and hit that heart." Qiao Wei said as he took out the pistol.
The distance between the heart of the fire giant and us is definitely more than two hundred meters in a straight line. Don't say if you can hit or not. Whether the pistol bullet can fly so high is still a matter of course. Nevertheless. But I still raised the pistol like Qiao Wei. The muzzle of the gun was aimed at the orange-red heart of the flame in mid-air.
After we fired two shots. Ye Chen also joined us in shooting. But it doesn't matter if it's me, Qiao Wei or the silver medalist in the shooting competition. Our pistol seems to be able to shoot that heart. It still danced faintly in the smoke and flames. I could clearly hear the rhythmic thump coming down from the air. It's like a muffled thunder that keeps ringing.
Soon. I'm running out of bullets in my magazine. But the Flame Giant still stood there, stretching its massive flame body as the heat rose. Our shots didn't have any effect on it.
No. It's not without influence. The giant seems to have noticed us. Before, it was just standing there and moving slowly as the fire spread. But now it's starting to move its legs in the midst of the fire. Although the movement seems slow, its stride is very large. It probably only takes a dozen seconds for it to catch up with us.
"Something is wrong. Something is wrong. Run." Chang Le shouted loudly. Then beckoned us to hurry up and get back to the tiger's back.
None of us would raise any objections at this time. After all of them jumped back to the back of the tiger, the white tiger god also galloped again.
I don't know what Chang Le is thinking. Or maybe he didn't think about anything at all, and just instinctively stayed away from the fire. But the direction of the White Tiger God's advance was obviously towards the village. I soon saw the outline of the village.
"Don't go into the village. The fire will come after you." I shouted.
"I know." Chang Le shouted in response: "You go into the village and let the village chief take you out of the village to ask for help. I'm going to find a way to hold that guy down."
"You have to be careful." I answered and jumped off the tiger's back. Chang Le then jumped to the ground with Ye Chen in his arms.
After all three of us landed, Chang Le also immediately came to a 180 turn with his White Tiger God. Rushed towards the fiery giant. Chang Le is definitely not the kind of guy who would choose to sacrifice himself in order to save people. He's a selfish ghost. A selfish ghost who will stop at nothing to achieve his ends.
I'm not worried that he's going to die. A person who is selfish to his level will not die easily. I'm more interested in what exactly he's going to do to get the flame giant's attention. If Changle didn't do anything and just ran away. The whole village and the three of us were great bait. The fire giants will catch up with us and destroy the village. And Changle can take the opportunity to slip away.
He did this kind of thing.
"Qiao Wei. Don't go into the village yet," I shouted at Qiao Wei. At the same time, he stared at Chang Le's back. I have to make sure if Changle really intends to lure the fire giant away.
Qiao Wei also seemed to understand my intentions in an instant. He quickly stopped and grabbed two handfuls of barely wet mud from the ground and threw them on the ground. The two clay arhats quickly became shaped. If the flames end up coming for us. These two mud blocks may be our last fire barrier.
The White Tiger God runs up the hillside. I could clearly see that Changle was getting closer and closer to the fire. Suddenly. The White Tiger God let out a tiger roar that shook the valley. Then a dazzling white light rushed towards the fire giant and exploded in the flames. The fire giant was immediately dissipated by the impact of the white light. The giants are gone. That heart is gone. All that's left in the mountains is a wildfire. The sound of the heartbeat was gone.
But after two seconds. There was another thump in mid-air. The orange flame quickly coalesced into a heart. Immediately after that, the giant also became a type again.
At this time, the White Tiger God no longer ran towards the fire giant. Instead, he made a 90-degree turn and ran into the mountains. And the fire giant also clearly locked the target of the pursuit on Chang Le. It slowly spun its flame body and strode towards Changle.
"Maybe you can trust him a little more in the future. Let's go. into the village." Qiao Wei patted me on the shoulder. Then he and Ye Chen quickly ran into the village.
Almost all the people in the village are concentrated here at the end of the village. They all fell to their knees. His eyes were full of awe and he looked at the fire giant in the distance.
"The village chief. Chief. Out of the village chief"
I rushed to the crowd and shouted. But they didn't pay any attention to me. Keep your eyes on the flames on the mountain. He was still muttering. It's as if you've fallen into some evil.
Qiao Wei quickly found the village chief among these people. They ran over and dragged the village chief out of the crowd. But the village chief's eyes don't look at us at all. He was also staring at the fire on the mountain just like everyone else. Qiao Wei grabbed the village chief's collar with his left hand. He slapped him twice in the face with his right hand.
The village chief was stunned. But the slap finally made him look at us.
"Are there fluorescent lights in the village. I need a large daylight searchlight." Qiao Wei grabbed the village chief's collar and shouted.
"The mountain god is angry. The village is coming to an end. We're all going to die. We're all going to die." The village chief muttered to himself with a wandering look in his eyes. It's obviously impossible to get anything out of him.
"The village doctor. He's a little bit more normal." Ye Chen pointed in the direction of the medical center.
I glanced at the people gathered at the end of the village. There is indeed no village doctor in it. I called Qiao Wei and ran in the direction of the medical center. When he was about to run to the door of the medical center, the village doctor also happened to come out of the house.
"The village doctor. Do you have fluorescent lamps here? Tuba." I shouted at him as I ran.
"No...... Nothing big. There are only a few small ones." The village doctor finally answered my question like a normal person.
"Forget the size. Bring it to me. Hurry up." I urged loudly.
The village doctor nodded stunned. Then he turned and ran into the house. When I ran to the door with Ye Chen, the village doctor had already taken out two small searchlights with batteries from the house. Qiao Wei's best fire charm is definitely ineffective against a flame giant. I know very well that he is ready to fight back with a daylight flashlight. But this thing is just too small. Whether it will work or not is really two words. But I took the flashlight and told the village doctor to leave the village.
The village doctor shook his head at me in horror. Then I quickly retreated to the medical center. I can't think of what happened to him. But that incident must have scared the hell out of him. He didn't dare to leave the village. He didn't want horror to befall him again.
I didn't force him. The rest of the village is the same. They were terrified by the evil gods of this mountain. It's impossible to convince them to get out of here. Since none of them are willing to go. Then I can only move the place where the war is going on. Try not to implicate the village.
I handed one of the searchlights to Qiao Wei, who came with me, and said, "If we want to fight hard, we have to choose a different place."
"Nope." Qiao Wei immediately shook his head and said, "It's not to fight hard. We're going to find the door. Since the fire can be suppressed before. Then we'll definitely find a way to get it back down. Remember the bugs that flew out just now. Here is the gate of the underworld. We've got to find the door."
"Cheng. Let's go." I replied decisively.
The three of us quickly returned to the end of the village. Then I walked along the same road to the mountain temple. The ground on the side of the temple has been dried by fire. Remnants of fire can be seen everywhere on the ground. Luckily these fires aren't big. At least not so big as to hinder our progress.
The shaking of the ground stopped as the fire giant faded away. A few of us quickly walked through the charred ground and approached the ruins of the mountain temple.
The ruins are constantly smoking upwards like the ground around them. Occasionally, flames will emerge from the cracks in the rubble. But soon it disappeared again. Qiao Wei motioned to me and Ye Chen not to get close. He didn't come near the ruins either. Instead, let the two mud arhats go to the ruins as pioneers to test it.
At the moment when the mud arhat had just stepped on the ruins. The collapsed stone bricks burst open with a thud. The scattered stones instantly knocked the two clay arhats apart. Then a pitch-black humanoid monster popped out of the ruins. That strange thing is about 1.7 meters tall. The head is slightly larger than the average person. The body is very slender. It looks like a stickman in a cartoon.
I'm looking at this weird stickman in a daze. The light of a searchlight suddenly hit the stickman. Stickmen seem to be very afraid of lights. It squeaked like a rat and crouched down to avoid the lights. Then, a flaming fire charm flew into the stickman's body, and then exploded instantly.
When the smoke from the explosion of the fire charm cleared, the stickman was gone.
"What was that?" I asked Qiao Wei with a frown.
Qiao Wei shook his head and said, "I haven't seen it either. Maybe it's a demon or something."
I didn't have to wait for me to speak. Suddenly, there was a series of loud rumbling noises from the ruins of the mountain temple. The ground shook violently. The three of us hurriedly stepped back to avoid being hit by the flying stones. And at the same time as we go backwards. I also saw a number of stickmen emerging from the rubble one after another.
If the weird guy who was killed by Qiao Wei just now is really a demon. Beneath the ruins of the temple is undoubtedly the gate of hell. From within, countless demons are rushing into the world.