"Shao Hao, why are you going?" Shen Nong had just finished communicating with Xiong Yao when he saw Shao Hao hurriedly running out of the cave with a stone bucket and was about to rush to the ditch.

Seeing him look so panicked, Shen Nong couldn't help but ask.

"The ancestral fire is burning!" Shao Hao said in a panic.

"Isn't the ancestral fire burning all the time, what's so surprising. Shen Nong was at a loss.

"No, it's burned out, the ancestral fire is burned out!" Shao Hao said with a gesture.

With his appearance and the stone bucket he was holding in his arms, Shen Nong instantly understood that what Shao Hao wanted to say should be that there was a fire in the cave, and the source of the fire was from the ancestral fire.

Shen Nong hurriedly ran towards the cave with Xiong Sickle, only to see billowing smoke coming out of the deepest part of the cave, and the air was filled with a suffocating and choking smell of smoke.

"Ahem, how did you do it, how could the ancestral fire burn so terrifyingly. Shen Nong couldn't help but say.

Xiong Yao looked at the depths of the cave with a serious face and said, "Wu, I'll go in and have a look, you don't go in, it's too dangerous." ”

"Wait. Shen Nong grabbed his arm and said, "The smoke is so big, do you think that it is not dangerous for a second-level warrior to go in? Not to mention whether you can put out the fire after you go in, even if you want to see things in front of you, it is very difficult." ”

"Then what should we do, we can't keep the ancestral fire burning like this. Xiong said anxiously.

Shen Nong looked around and happened to find that there was a stone bucket in the corner, and there was still some water left in the stone bucket, but the amount was not much, only three fingers deep.

Shen Nong's mind turned, and he hurriedly reached out and tore off two pieces of animal skin fragments that were just enough to cover half of his face from the animal skin clothes he was wearing, he put the two pieces of animal skin fragments into the water and soaked them, and then handed one of them to Xiong Yao and said: "Cover your face, I'll go in with you, and then you remember to follow my orders." ”

"But ......"

"No, let's go. Shen Nong directly covered his mouth and nose with the animal skin with one hand, and then bent down and rushed into the depths of the cave.

As Shen Nong went deeper and deeper into the cave, he found that the smoke at the beginning only filled half of the cave, but the further he walked inside, the greater the scope of the smoke spread, and finally the entire cave became full of smoke, making people unable to see the scene in front of them at all.

"Get down! Shen Nong turned around and shouted to the rear, he couldn't see Xiong Yao's figure at this time, he could only hope that Xiong Yao's voice could hear his voice and make the most suitable posture for survival at this time.

The cave where the Huangqiu tribe lived was only a hundred steps deep, and Shen Nong didn't climb long before he saw the source of this fire, the ancestral fire of the tribe that had been burning for an unknown number of years.

This ancestral fire covers an area of about four square meters, and it is full of flammable materials such as dead grass and branches, which are piled up together and then consumed by the flames, which have been collected with tools by the people who are in charge of the ancestral fire, so as to prevent the wind blowing in from the cave to blow the dead leaves with the flames everywhere and cause a fire.

But no one thought that because today was the day when the ditch was completed, the entire Huangqiu tribe ran to see that the ditch was watered, and no one paid attention to the ancestral fire for a while, which unexpectedly caused this violent fire.

If it had been placed before, there would have been no flammable materials piled up near the ancestral fire, and even if the dead leaves with fire were flying, they would not have ignited anything.

But since Shen Nong Rangcang and others frantically made construction tools, these people have been working day and night next to the ancestral fire with the help of firelight processing, and many combustion-supporting materials such as wood are all stacked near the ancestral fire, and various reasons are intertwined, which will produce such a big fire.

At this time, the ancestral fire was burning very vigorously, the flames rushed up more than two meters high, like a pillar of fire, and the high heat emitted made people not want to approach at all, Shen Nong had not been close to the ancestral fire for more than a minute, and his whole body was already drenched in hot sweat, and the hot sweat was tightly stuck with the animal skin clothes, not to mention how uncomfortable it was.

"It would be nice if I could call 119. Shen Nong couldn't help but sigh.

"Wu, the ancestral fire is burning so strongly, what should we do. At this time, Xiong Yao crawled from behind Shen Nong, compared to Shen Nong, Xiong Yao's appearance at this time was much more embarrassed, and the upper half of his face, which was not covered by animal skins, had been completely smoked black by the smoke at this time, like a carbon.

Shen Nong couldn't help but want to laugh when he looked at it, but thinking that the current situation was very critical, he still held back his smile.

"This fire is already difficult to control, unless there is a large amount of water to extinguish, but the problem is that with the water holding tools that our tribe now uses, it is impossible to get a large amount of water at one time, and a few buckets at a time cannot fully exert the effect of water to extinguish the fire...... Shen Nong covered his mouth and nose and pondered.

But Xiong Yao looked at Shen Nong anxiously, hoping that he could find a way to come out.

"Well, you go and ask the people to dig up more soil, soak it with water, and put it on a cart and bring it in, the more wet soil the better. Shen Nong said.

"Wu, aren't you going out with me?" Xiong was stunned.

"No, I have to take advantage of this time to make amends and prevent the fire from spreading. Shen Nong waved his hand: "You don't care about me, go out quickly, it's up to you whether you can put out the fire this time." ”

After Shen Nong finished speaking, his body crawled directly towards the left side of the ancestral fire, only to see a bone shovel with a broken handle scattered there.

Looking at Shen Nong's back, Xiong Yao couldn't help but clench his fists, then gritted his teeth, and turned around very decisively and climbed in the direction of the entrance of the cave.

"It's good that there's a shovel here, otherwise it would have been really bad. Shen Nong climbed to the side of the bone shovel with great difficulty, picked up the bone shovel with one hand and couldn't help but say.

I saw that he immediately held the broken handle of the bone shovel and began to dig in the ground, and soon the ground was dug out by Shen Nong in a pit the size of a basketball, which was full of soft soil.

"Damn, it doesn't matter if it's useful or not, let's try it first. Shen Nong looked at the soil and said fiercely, then scooped up the soil and threw it into the ancestral fire.

......

"Water! Get water! The cave is burning! The witch and the chief are inside!"

"Here you go!"

"Everyone's moving faster!"

The grass outside the cave was already in chaos at this time, and everyone was holding a stone bucket to fetch water, and then sent it to the cave to extinguish the fire, but this was just a drop in the bucket, and it didn't play a big role at all, the fire was still huge, and the eyes of the people choked on the smoke were sour, and the tears kept flowing.

At this moment, a blackened bear scythe rushed out of the cave, and when he saw his own people, he didn't even have time to breathe, so he couldn't wait to shout: "Dig the earth!