Act Seventy-Seven: Twilight Slays the Flame Demon
There was silence in the forest.
"Did you see the wrong ......" Masahiko Sakurai muttered to himself, taking off his glasses and rubbing them, continuing to focus on his current work.
Before he could finish speaking, the black, high-pressure gas rushed out of the drill hole, and the gas flow rate was extremely high, making a sound like a train whistle.
The gas lamp hanging high shattered, and the black gas touched the blue-purple arc of electricity, and immediately turned into a blazing pillar of flame.
This is indeed a biogas hole, and the flammable black mud is the soil rich in biogas.
Biogas is the product of anaerobic digestion of bacteria in rocks over many years, accumulating in the formation for millions of years, and the amount is very large.
Fortunately, the construction workers put on protective clothing and were not afraid of this level of flames, and they professionally suppressed the flames with high-pressure water cannons and continued to lift the drill pipe.
By the last few sections of the drill pipe, the black mud began to turn dark red.
Sakurai Masahiko twisted the dark red mud, which was very viscous, and when you put it on the tip of your nose and smelled it, it had a faint fishy smell.
He frowned, the fishy smell is usually the taste of protein degradation, but where does the protein come from in the formation?
Only living things can produce proteins.
The last drill pipe left the drill hole, the fire column was extinguished, and the dark red liquid gushed out of the drill hole, forming a red fountain more than ten meters high.
Sakurai Masahiko had a strange illusion in his heart, he felt that the colleagues in charge of construction in the warning circle were ...... Stand in a pool of blood.
However, the construction workers with protective clothing were not afraid, they extracted the water sample from the test tube, sealed it, and sent it out of the warning ring with the last drill pipe and sent it to Masahiko Sakurai.
"Iron-rich water?" Masahiko Sakurai shook the test tube in contemplation.
Scattered silvery blue dots of light shimmered in the red mud, like stars salvaged from the ground.
A great sense of fear flooded into Sakurai's mind, and that's when he heard an exclamation.
Silver-blue points of light rushed out of the ground with the red currents of water, hundreds, thousands, thousands, scattered in the black night sky, as beautiful as stars.
"Stay away from the glowing stuff in the mud!" Masahiko Sakurai roared, "Take off your clothes and mask! Don't touch them! Hurry up!"
But it was too late, and several construction workers who had been splashed by the mud had already smeared the mud with their bare hands when they were undressing, and when they came into contact with those silver-blue points of light, they couldn't help but take a closer look, and found that they were actually translucent small fish.
The small fish's long, slender and transparent body is a shuttle, with jagged bone spurs, its eyes have completely degenerated, and the scales on its body are blue and transparent......
The construction workers who came into contact with the fish didn't take them seriously, but it wasn't long before someone let out a pig-killing wail as the small fish opened their mouths in their gaze......
Cracked to be exact, the entire head of those small fish opened, revealing ice-like fangs, and it was hard to imagine that such a tiny fish could grow such hideous and slender fangs, almost like demonic serrations, filling their entire mouths.
"Help me! Help me!" The construction workers screamed and stumbled.
More points of light fell from the sky, and the blood-red water was filled with small fish, each one beating wildly.
The engineering commander stumbled out of the medical box to rescue the construction workers, but was brutally pushed away by Sakurai Masahiko, who pulled out a long knife, and he couldn't help but cut the part of the construction workers and those strange fish that came into contact with them......
Those strange fish cling to their clothes and cut their clothes, those fish have already burrowed into their arms and cut off their arms, and if any strange fish gets into a person's head or chest, Sakurai Masahiko will not hesitate to kill that person.
"Sakurai-kun! What are you doing?" The engineering commander yelled with red eyes, "These are human lives! You're killing someone, you know!"
"No, I'm saving people!" Masahiko Sakurai responded calmly, "If you don't kill these people, it's everyone present who will die!"
"Excellent judgment." Someone said behind his back and patted him on the shoulder, "The Eight Snakes aren't all imbeciles."
"Who?" Masahiko Sakurai jerked his head back and saw an elegant old man and a tall, burly young man.
"School...... Headmaster?"
His mouth opened wide.
"I remember you, Masahiko Sakurai, right?" Ange smiled and took the box from the burly young man's hand, "Good work. Leave it to me next."
After speaking, the old man approached the pit alone.
Masahiko Sakurai came back to his senses and pointed at the engineering commander and yelled, "Do as I say! Bring the fuel! Hurry!".
At this time, a construction worker who had fallen nearby suddenly twitched.
"Get out of the way!" Masahiko Sakurai yelled.
He was reminding the stupefied team doctor, but it was too late.
Silver-blue dots of light bounced off the back of the corpse's head, and it looked like it was about to burrow into the team doctor's mouth.
Ange squatted like a leopard, gathering all his strength in his legs in the posture of a young man, and at the same time shook off the sword case in the box.
Time Zero was released to the extreme, and in the slow flow of time, Ange still had time to catch a glimpse of the ancient creature.
Then he began to spin and swing fury and greed, the dark golden arc of the knife sealing all the space, slicing all the ghost-toothed dragon vipers that were close to the team doctor to pieces.
"Fingal!" Ange shouted, "Look at the periphery, don't let any of the Ghosttooth Vipers out!"
"Yes, Headmaster."
Fingal looked down at his empty hands, "But you'll have to give me a weapon, brother......
Ange didn't have time to argue with him, so he pulled out a handful of the "***" of the seven deadly sins and threw it to him.
Fingal reached out and caught it, "Order."
"If this thing runs out today, I, Fingal, will die to apologize!"
Ange reopened "Time Zero" and wielded the two weapons of "Fury" and "Greed", which had a completely different effect when cutting, and the fury let out a furious roar, and the dragon head floating on the hilt opened its eyes, and Ange seemed to hold a tyrannical living dragon.
Greed was almost silent, and only Ange could feel the pulsation from the hilt, and the straight-edged broadsword seemed to have a heartbeat.
The old man is like a graceful waltz dancer, shuttling through this blue rain.
It is clearly walking on the tip of a knife, and any ghost tooth viper will cause fatal consequences.
But he walked leisurely, with precision and grace, and each slash of "Fury" and "Greed" would cut open the neck of a staff member, or a myriad of ghost-toothed dragon vipers.
The people in the ring of vigilance have been wailing but never giving up, and Ange has no choice but to help them end their suffering early.
This is the most terrifying part of the pododontosaurus, which eats a lot of blood and secretes adrenaline-like stuff to keep its prey alive while devouring it.
They don't like to eat dead things, so the infected can't die right away, even though they are riddled with holes. Masahiko Sakurai aimed at the men and fired continuously, shooting headshots.
Once the prey is dead, the dragon viper retreats from the prey, and the fish "flow" out of the gaps in the suit like silver-blue water.
Under the pressure of Masahiko Sakurai, the construction workers carried buckets of fuel.
Thankfully, the hole was drilled in the middle of a depression, and the outer Onidontosaurus Viper had Ange in charge of fixing it.
More and more dragon vipers piled up around the burrow, but they couldn't get out of the depression for the time being, and they bounced in the scarlet water, which seemed to be turned into an eel breeding pond.
Fuel was poured into the depression, but it wasn't enough.
"More fuel! Fuel must submerge them!" Masahiko Sakurai shouted.
The weakness of the Devil-toothed Viper is similar to that of the Corpse Guard, their fat is excellent fuel, and once the fat is ignited, it will burn until the bones are ashed, but if the fuel does not soak them, then the dragon viper that is crushed underneath will not be able to burn due to lack of oxygen.
"The fish jumped up!" The engineering commander yelled.
The dragon viper swarm is bouncing and leaping to the heights,
Their bodies are small, but their muscles are extremely strong, and they bounce like silver-blue marbles. Countless silver-blue marbles bouncing on the rocks are extremely beautiful, but those who see them feel only fear.
The engineering commander had just poured a barrel of fuel into the depression when he suddenly dropped the barrel and ran back.
Fingal slashed off his head with a single blow, then followed up and kicked the body into the depression.
"I'm so annoyed that you want me to do it again." He sighed and played with "***".
"I've just regained my strength."
"***" began to twist and deform, and in its place, a long knife with a strange shape appeared in Fingal's hand, and the next moment, black flames rose from the blade.
He swung his knife out of thin air, slashing out countless black flames and flying in all directions, and the ghost-toothed dragon vipers that were close to the black flames were instantly evaporated.
Masahiko Sakurai was stunned by the surprise.
"What kind of spirit is this?" He asked, stunned.
"Kill the Flame Demon." Fingal slashed out the last black flame, "Haven't you heard of the Flame Dragon Slasher's housekeeping skill of killing the Flame Demon?"
After saying that, the last black flame suddenly stretched out violently, as if it was about to burn everything in the world.
All the ghost-toothed dragon vipers that were scurrying in front of them were gone.
"Ignition!" Sakurai Masahiko came to his senses and yelled and ordered, it would be too late if he didn't light the fire.
No one dared to come forward to light the fire, and the few remaining construction workers lit the lighters far away and threw them into the depression, but the fire was extinguished in an instant in the raging storm.
"Young people just can't be trusted."
Ange took off the cigar he was holding and tossed it into the fuel lightly.
The cigarette butt collided with the oil surface, and the blue flames spread in all directions, and a raging fire rose into the sky.
Ange was back outside the cordon in an instant.
At this moment, a huge wind fell from the sky, and the black helicopter hovered above them, and the man in black carrying the flamethrower carried the rappelling line around his waist.
When they landed, they spewed seven or eight meters of fire, driving back the dragon vipers who had jumped out of the depression but had not had time to solve them, while others controlled the construction workers with guns.
Sakurai Masahiko gasped for breath, and when the crimson water gushed out of the hole, he reported it to his family by text message, and Gen Zhisheng immediately ordered a helicopter to be dispatched, and Yaksha was urgently ordered to lead the team to take off and rush to the Tama River.
But he owes a debt of gratitude to Ange and Fingal.
If these two people did not arrive at the scene at the first time, I am afraid that everyone present, including himself, would not be able to survive.
"Gone." Ange loosened his tie slightly, and the killing was just enough to warm up for him.
Throwing "rage" and "greed" at Fingal, he was about to leave this place where birds don't.
"Headmaster!" Masahiko Sakurai gasped and stopped him.
"Hmm."
Ange stopped, "You say."
"Haven't you already broken with the Eight Snake Clan?" Masahiko Sakurai shouted, "Why did you come to help me today?"
The old man thought for a moment, "Probably because I'm an educator, even though your Japanese branch is a group eater......
"But as I said to one of my students, there are geniuses who teach and those who teach and those who teach and I don't give up on the students in Japan."
"That's it, take care."
With that, Ange waved his hand and disappeared into the depths of the forest.
Shio Miyamoto pushed open the heavy black wooden door and stepped into the temple.
Overhead is a cloudy sky, beneath your feet is a rough bluestone floor, surrounded by gurgling water, and a black stone table is placed under the vermilion torii, where all the heads of the Snake Eight families are here, except for the missing Uesugi Eri.
The new Grand Patriarch Gen Tokio sat in the first seat, and his cronies Yaksha, Raven, and Sakura stood behind him in the long black trench coat of the Executive Directorate, with their hands behind their backs, forming an impregnable human wall.
After Shio Miyamoto apologized for his tardiness,
Quickly sat down in the vacant seats.
He had a hunch that the significance of this meeting was extraordinary, and the expressions on the faces of the heads of the family were between fear and joy, and they exchanged glances silently.
Yuan Zhisheng lit a soft seven star, slowly exhaled smoke, and looked around at the crowd, "I think we have found God."
Shio Miyamoto was shocked.
As the head of the highest technology, he knew that the family had been exploring various parts of Japan, trying to unearth the ruins of the gods buried deep underground, but the work had not progressed for decades, so could it be that good news suddenly came back?
The Yaksha placed black lacquer boxes in front of each of the heads of the house, and each box contained three things, two quartz bottles and an envelope.
A quartz bottle contained crimson water, and Miyamoto shook the bottle to find that the liquid in the bottle was quite viscous.
In another quartz bottle was a small, silvery-blue fish, dehydrated but still alive, occasionally struggling violently to reveal a mouth full of ice-crystal-like teeth.
"Just now, the news came from the drilling team working near the Tama River that they had found a staggering number of Onidon Vipers in the Akaki River, and that the water of the underground river that day was as red as blood."
Gen Zhisheng whispered, "Inside the envelope is an analysis report of a water sample, and the Akaki River does contain blood components, so the head of the Miyamoto family can take a closer look."
"We learned that there is a river of blood flowing beneath the Tama River, and the chemical composition of this river is similar to the fetal blood, the fetal blood of a dragon."
"My ...... Oh my God!" Miyamoto quickly checked the test report, his voice distorted.