Chapter 5

Small bonfire: Can significantly increase the temperature in a ten-meter radius, has a deterrent and killing function against primary strange monsters, but at the same time has a strong attraction to cold beasts

Daily consumption: Wood 2 (gifted first lighting, ten minutes without consumption)

Xia Hong simply didn't have time to carefully check the so-called camp system, only caring about quickly searching for what he wanted in a long string of information.

Has a deterrent and killing function against primary strange monsters!

This is what he wants.

Xia Hong turned his head to look at Xia Chuan, who was already on the verge of death, forced himself to stand up, and stared fixedly at the fake Xia Ding.

A spark suddenly appeared in front of Xia Chuan.

The fake Xia Ding looked down at the firelight in front of him, frowned, and felt vaguely that something was wrong in his heart.

But the spark was weak and looked like it had no threat.

However, in the next second, the spark exploded violently, and a ball of red flame more than three meters high suddenly rose.

The flame seemed to have the momentum of a prairie fire, and the burning range expanded rapidly. Not only the fake Xia Ding pinching Xia Chuan, but even the other fake woodcutting team members not far from him, two of them were directly swallowed by the firelight.

"Ah... what is this, what kind of fire is this, ah..."

In just an instant, the fake Xia Ding swallowed by the flame let out a terrified and tragic roar.

And the other two fake woodcutting team members didn't even have time to make a sound before they were directly burned into two balls of black smoke.

The fake Xia Ding's body was constantly twisting and moving in the flame, obviously wanting to escape, but the flame followed him like maggots on a tarsal bone.

The originally complete body was instantly burned into a red skeleton, and then even the skeleton was burned to ashes, turning into a ball of black smoke like the two fake woodcutting team members, completely dissipating.

And here, Xia Hong had already helped Xia Chuan up, turned his head to look at the bonfire still burning in place, and his face was immediately full of hope.

"Big brother, what is this bonfire?"

"I don't know, but we are saved."

The fake Xia Ding didn't die even when his head was split open.

But when he touched this small bonfire, he turned into fly ash in an instant.

"Everyone, don't fight anymore, come to the bonfire quickly!"

Xia Hong turned his head and shouted at the crowd in the cave who were still resisting desperately.

The scene of the fake Xia Ding being burned to death just now had already been noticed by some people, plus this shout, the remaining survivors immediately gathered towards him.

Soon, the remaining one hundred or so people in the camp all broke away from the battle and gathered behind Xia Hong.

The camp suffered heavy casualties, while on the strange monster side, except for the three burned to death by the small bonfire by mistake, the remaining twenty-three were all unscathed.

Another Xia Ding led the remaining twenty-two fake woodcutting team members and walked towards the bonfire.

However, when he was still more than ten meters away from the bonfire, he stopped.

Looking at the bonfire, the fake Xia Ding's eyes were full of dread.

But it seemed that he was unwilling to let go of Xia Hong and this group of people, and after a moment, he sneered and spoke:

"Little thing, how long can this fire of yours burn?"

"For a very, very long time!"

Xia Hong also sneered, turned his head and spoke to Xia Chuan and the crowd: "Move the wood from the back over, expand the fire."

The wood for the camp was just placed on this side against the wall.

Hearing this, everyone hurriedly moved the wood from that side of the wall.

As wood was constantly thrown in, the fire of the small bonfire was also constantly expanding.

And Xia Hong and the others deliberately led the wood towards the front of the fake Xia Ding and his group.

Soon, the firelight illuminated the entire cave.

And the fake Xia Ding and his group, with the spread of the fire, the dread in their eyes became more intense, and at the same time, their bodies constantly retreated.

The fake Xia Ding and the crowd were in a stalemate for a full hour.

Until he was forced to the cave entrance by the fire, watching everyone still constantly moving wood, only then did a look of hatred finally appear on his face, he stared deeply at Xia Hong, and led those fake woodcutting team members to turn and leave.

It was already dawn, Xia Hong and the others didn't dare to leave the vicinity of the bonfire, and could only look at the departing group from afar.

Until they finally couldn't be seen, confirming that the opponent had gone far away, only then did Xia Hong finally breathe a sigh of relief, and a strong sense of exhaustion suddenly welled up in his heart.

"Brother, this bonfire seems to have a problem."

"I know, it's only useful in a ten-meter range, the firelight in other places is no different from the fire we lit before."

Xia Hong's back had long been soaked with cold sweat.

When the fire exceeded the ten-meter range just now, he had already realized it.

The fire in the cave was burned by them to fifty or sixty meters, however, after leaving the ten-meter range of the first small bonfire, the temperature increase in other places was no different from the fire they lit before.

Recalling the system description of the small bonfire at that time, Xia Hong roughly understood.

The small bonfire only works in a ten-meter radius.

Even if other means are used to expand the fire, it will have no effect.

Similarly, only the small bonfire has a deterrent and killing effect on strange objects, and the rest of the fire lit by them is simply useless.

What he did later was just bluffing, scaring that group of strange objects.

Fortunately, the opponent fell for it.

Surviving a disaster, there was not a bit of joyful atmosphere in the cave.

Because disaster is often accompanied by endless pain.

At this very moment, many, many people had already realized that the real Xia Ding and his group had all been harmed.

Those twelve woodcutting team members were twelve families.

Plus the slaughter in the cave just now, it took away at least seventy lives.

The entire cave was suddenly filled with wails and cries.

"Leader, are they really dead?"

"Is my husband also dead?"

"My son, was killed............"

"Mother, Mother, wake up!"

………………

Xia Hong, besides the sorrow welling up in his heart, felt an even stronger sense of grievance.

From beginning to end, he knew nothing about the strange monster of Red Wood Ridge.

Even what the opponent's true face looked like, he was not clear.

At first, after the two fake Xia Dings were exposed, the one sneak-attacked by Xia Chuan was leading, and the other one whose head was split by himself was just acting in a daze, not seeming to have intelligence.

After the first one was burned to death by the small bonfire, the one acting in a daze came out to lead and speak.

This is enough to prove that neither of the two fake Xia Dings was the true body.

That is to say, the strange monster of Red Wood Ridge didn't even show its face, and it caused such a heavy blow to them.

And the two Xia Dings, the twenty-four fake woodcutting team members, how the opponent created them and how they were controlled.

He knew nothing about it.

The opponent makes a light move, and you suffer heavy casualties.

The key is that after sacrificing so many people, they didn't even get a bit of useful information about the opponent.

This sense of powerlessness made Xia Hong feel extremely aggrieved.

Of course, more of it was fear.

Looking around the cave, seeing that most of the crowd was still immersed in sorrow, Xia Hong took a deep breath, walked to the cave entrance alone, picked up the stones and trees next to him, and began to seal the cave entrance.

After such a commotion, it was already dawn, and the temperature was dropping faster and faster. If the cave entrance wasn't sealed quickly, people would freeze to death.

Even if they accidentally attracted cold beasts, it would be adding frost to snow.

Xia Hong's actions also reminded everyone.

Xia Chuan was the first to step forward to help, followed by the second, the third.

In the end, whether men, women, or even children came to help.

Xia Hong turned his head to look at the people in the camp; although it was freezing cold, a trace of warmth rose in his heart.

(End of chapter)