Chapter Three Hundred and Thirty Six: Burning the Tree of Thousand Hands and Thousand Faces
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"this?"
Lu Qing recalled the movements the corpse made before disappearing, and tapped her lips with her finger.
"Um........"
Staring at the ashes left after the body disappeared on the ground for a while, Lu Qing didn't know what she was thinking.
After a while, she bypassed this place and continued to move deeper into the cave.
After Charles disappeared, the whispers from the Thousand Arms and Thousand Faces Tree lingered in her ears again, but compared with the time before on the ground, the whispers from the tree roots buried underground were
It will be much weaker.
"It's almost here."
After walking for about ten minutes, Lu Qing stopped and put down the backpack filled with gasoline behind him.
From here, pour the gasoline all the way and walk in the direction you came from. You should be able to almost use up the gasoline in your backpack.
Unscrewing the cap of the gasoline can, Lu Qing bent down and sprinkled the gasoline on the tree roots. The faces of the people on the tree roots showed no reaction and were still whispering numbly.
Letting Dinah help lead the way, Lu Qing followed Dinah's footsteps and gradually headed in the direction from which she came.
"Boom."
Throw the empty gasoline barrel to the ground, take out another barrel from the backpack, and continue repeating the previous actions until the gasoline in the backpack is used up.
Then, Lu Qing took out a intact torch and looked at the stick of the torch with some hesitation.
Ordinary flames cannot burn this strange tree even with the help of gasoline, so what Lu Qing needs is a flame that is far more powerful than ordinary flames.
【Flame Lipstick】
I don't know which bastard left the power of fire on his body. After being captured by the hut, he made it into a cosmetic prop. The effect is that after kissing any object, it will be enchanted with a one-time flame.
Although I don’t know how the corpse knew about this thing, the gesture of tapping her lips with her finger before leaving must have been referring to her flaming lipstick.
But kissing a torch or something...
It didn't matter if there was no one around. Lu Qing reluctantly convinced herself that she could go ahead with the kiss, but with a ghost watching next to her, she was really a little embarrassed.
"Miss Lu Qing, are you thinking about something?" Dinah said looking at Lu Qing who was staring at the torch in a daze.
"Uh." After coming back to his senses, Lu Qing looked at Dinah, shook her head and said, "It's nothing."
After hesitating for a moment, Lu Qing said to Dinah: "Well, Miss Dinah, can you please turn your body over?"
"Hey~ why?" The ghost girl felt a little strange and tilted her head.
"Ahem, I think ordinary flames cannot burn this strange tree to death, so I need to use a special way to enhance the power of the flames, but when using this method, it cannot be seen by others.
....." Lu Qing said with inexplicable guilt in her heart.
"is that so?"
Dinah's expression looked a little confused, but she didn't say anything more. She simply turned her body away and said, "Is this okay?"
"Okay, okay." Lu Qing nodded quickly, then raised the torch in her hand.
Glancing at the situation on Dinah's side and seeing that she didn't turn around to peek, Lu Qing quickly put her lips to the torch and kissed the wooden stick of the torch.
A dark red light emerged above the torch, and then turned into a magical incantation imprinted on every corner of the torch. The torch, which had not been lit yet, suddenly lit up with a flame and burned automatically.
It was a red flame. Both the appearance color and the heat it emitted were different from the flames Lu Qing knew. Even if she held it in her hand, she could feel the heat coming from the torch.
Burning heat.
"What a strong flame!" Dinah said at this time.
She glanced at the blazing flames on the torch with some fear, then silently took two steps back and said: "Miss Lu Qing, the strengthening method you mentioned, is it to kiss with the mouth?"
"Uh-huh?!"
"No, didn't you agree not to watch it?"
Lu Qing opened her eyes wide, and an imperceptible blush appeared on her cheeks.
"Hey~" Miss Ghost smiled mischievously and said, "Who said ghosts can only see with their eyes?"
"This, this is a special way of strengthening. I can only do this, so I..." Lu Qing explained to Dinah with an embarrassed look. It seemed that the temperature generated by the burning torch was a little too high.
Because of the heat, there was a trace of sweat on her face.
"Anyway, let's burn this tree first." Lu Qing looked at the roots of the tree next to her that were covered in gasoline and tried to change the subject.
"Yes." Dinah nodded, but did not continue chatting with Lu Qing.
At this time, Lu Qing also calmed down again. She slowly knelt down and then placed the torch on a stone on the ground, letting the flame just ignite the roots of the tree not far away.
"call!"
The blazing flames rose up, and in just a few seconds, the tree roots in front of Lu Qing were covered in flames.
"Ahhhhhh!"
The screams were heard in the flames, and countless tree roots were ignited by the flames. Lu Qing seemed to see figures struggling in the flames.
The large amount of flames burned reduced the oxygen in the mine. Lu Qing looked at Dinah and said, "Let's go, it's time for us to leave here."
"Yes." Dinah nodded seriously, then flew in front of Lu Qing to guide the way back.
"Hopefully these flames actually work."
Finally, looking back at the blazing fire in the cave, Lu Qing hurriedly followed Dinah towards the exit of the cave.
........
Lu Qing left the cave smoothly and encountered nothing on the way out.
As soon as she came out of the cave, she saw billowing black smoke rising from the horizon in the distance. It was obvious that it was the smoke released by the burning strange tree.
Even from a long distance away, Lu Qing could hear the screams coming from the human face on the strange tree. For a moment, Lu Qing felt a trace of guilt in her heart.
Is it really right for her to do this? Is it right for the souls imprisoned in the strange tree to be burned by the fire at this time, wailing in pain and burning them to death?
What about choice?
This feeling came very suddenly, but fortunately Lu Qing reacted quickly and suppressed this inexplicable emotion.
No longer looking at the smoke and dust released by the burning strange tree, and ignoring the screams that appeared in their ears, Lu Qing and Dinah hurriedly left the area together.
However, what Lu Qing didn't know was that shortly after she and Dinah left here, some dark, shadow-like creatures came here.
They seemed to be looking for something, and finally gathered at the position where Lu Qing left the entrance of the cave.
Then, they all turned around and headed in the direction of an invisible footprint...
ps: This chapter has been revised and revised. I wrote many parts several times. I finally feel that it reads more smoothly. I’m really sorry for posting this so late.
It's my fault for updating in the underworld, so everyone should get up as early as possible to read it in the morning. It will definitely be fine to read it the next day.
