Chapter 2727: Fire-Xiong Xiong Village

"It looks like this place was used by the villagers to store vegetables for the winter. I saw something similar when I was investigating in the south of Karsenrik."

The Owl Lady said.

The entrance to the vegetable cellar was hung with a rusty iron lock, but Xia De just knocked on it and opened it. Opening the door, he didn't feel any traces of elements, but after jumping down, he found that the entire cellar was empty; there was nothing here.

"Look at the floating dust on the ground, things were placed over there."

The cat's eyes glowed in the dark. Through her reminder, Xia De also saw that the ground in the corner of the southeast wall was exceptionally clean, in addition to the footprints on the ground. And judging from the traces on the ground, a lot of boxes should have been piled up here, and now those boxes had been transferred through the pier.

Even judging from the degree of air-drying of the mud on the footprints, this should be something that happened in the last two days.

The people who moved the boxes were very cautious. Except for the overlapping footprints, nothing was left behind, and they certainly wouldn't drop any identity proof or matchsticks, cigarette butts, or other clues that often appear in detective novels.

Fortunately, Xia De was not a real detective:

"Echo of the Past!"

Afterward, there was a man with a distinct Creekwood town dialect speaking very rudely—

"Move everything up, hurry, the waterway won't be easy to travel after dark. Batty, Claude, you two go move the last box, don't be lazy behind me.

Oh, damn idiots, if you break the things in the box, you won't be able to pay for it even if you are skinned. Hurry, move faster, I know you can't light a lamp here and it's very dark, but endure it for a while, you can smoke when you get back to the boat!"

After this, Xia De heard the rude man's voice urging the suspected porters to speed up many times, but during this period, no one said any information related to their identities.

"It seems those people came during the day."

Xia De said to the cat after listening to the sound:

"And it sounds like even if they came here to move things, they didn't carry lighting tools. Considering that those people are likely ordinary people, they should only have torches and lanterns if they have lighting tools."

"So, they don't dare to light a fire here?"

The cat then asked, and Xia De meant the same thing:

"Appearing with fire here seems to be very dangerous, so..."

He raised his right hand, and a slender yellow flame appeared in his palm.

Both Xia De and the cat's eyes reflected this light, but with the appearance of this fire, the originally dim basement did not become bright, but became even darker, while the village under the gloomy sky above the cellar was completely shrouded in darkness at this moment.

The sunlight that had been shining into the bottom of the cellar from the entrance disappeared completely. It seemed that in the next breath, Xia De smelled the heavy burnt smell in the air.

This smell not only meant that something had been ignited, but also meant that human bodies had been scorched. This was the last smell the Outlander smelled before coming to this world, and he had a deep impression of it.

"Whisper elements."

The cat on his shoulder said softly, looking around in the dark:

"I thought this would directly attract the demon."

"If the other party showed up so easily, wouldn't our investigation be meaningless?"

Xia De immediately extinguished the flame in his palm, letting the surroundings fall into complete darkness:

"You judge what kind of relic this is. My fire actually felt like it was on the verge of losing control. This is truly incredible."

Xia De and the witch both had the ability of dark vision, but it was very strange here because their eyes still couldn't see the deep darkness in front of them, but their other senses were normal.

Rustling sounds gathered from all around, and soon Xia De felt something grab his leg. As he looked down, two silver orbs of light flew from behind him, illuminating the basement filled with coal ash.

This coal ash didn't exist a few seconds ago, and seeing Xia De make a bowing movement, the cat on his shoulder also looked down at his feet:

"What's wrong?"

There was nothing on the ground grabbing Xia De's leg. The silver moonlight was very soft, and it didn't show any traces on his trouser legs, nor did it show any footprints or other traces on the coal ash.

"Just now I felt something grab my..."

*Boom! *

In the next second, a raging fire that ignited without warning swallowed the man and the cat, but then a gray translucent shield that repelled flames cleared a safe area for them.

This was Flora casting a spell, and it seemed to be an undead-type spell, but Xia De couldn't identify it.

But he could identify that the fire around him was getting more and more vigorous. The flames filled every corner of the empty vegetable cellar, and in just a few seconds, it had almost turned into the sea of fire after he activated the maze 【Clock Tower Lover】 and fused with Sister Daifulin.

The cat could temporarily maintain the shield state, but she still issued a warning:

"Something is wrong. The speed at which the temperature and intensity of this fire are rising is too fast. This is not ordinary fire. Let's leave the cellar first and go outside to see."

"No problem, Lagley's Leap."

After preparing the casting materials, Xia De jumped up and appeared in the village on the ground out of thin air with the cat. Thus the flames disappeared, and darkness shrouded the surroundings. The fine raindrops were gone. At this time, the sky was drifting down with flying ash with weak sparks after burning.

It was like the cellar just now, dark vision was completely ineffective, and the sparks of flying ash were not worth mentioning.

And when the silver light orbs illuminated the surroundings again, they saw that the surroundings were no longer an abandoned village integrated with nature. All the buildings around were intact, radishes were drying on the walls, the dog house was open, there was chicken manure on the ground, a grass fork stood beside the open door, and a farmer's hat hung on the fork. Everything here was full of life.

And in the third second after the light orb appeared, dazzling firelight ignited all the buildings around, and then the fire spread everywhere along the ground. In an instant, the surroundings were about to turn into a sea of fire again.

"Chloe's Cold Breath!"

Extremely cold air was exhaled from Xia De's mouth, and the cat on his shoulder also opened her mouth at the same time, but what she spat out was not cold, but pitch-black frost containing the power of death.

Two forces countered the raging fire around them at the same time. At first, the fire was quickly contained, and even began to retreat backward. But soon, as the fire became more and more vigorous, the flames actually turned to suppress the joint spellcasting of Xia De and the witch.

"Miracle - Primitive Power · Repulsion!"

The cat on his shoulder patted his shoulder heavily, so Xia De felt his shoulder sink, and then with his feet as the center, the huge repulsion immediately affected the surroundings, trying to swallow their sea of fire and forcing it to retreat by at least ten meters, but then it quickly surged up again.

"Primitive Power · Repulsion!"

The cat patted her paws continuously, and the air waves surged, causing the sea of fire to retreat and advance continuously. But this obviously didn't have much effect, because Xia De clearly felt that the whisper elements around were becoming more intense.

The seemingly deserted village had now been completely swallowed by flames, and the raging fire even covered the sky. Everywhere he looked was crimson, and in the depths of the sea of fire, several tall figures extremely similar to the "Flame Demon" Xia De had seen before were walking slowly.

"This won't work!"

The cat reminded loudly, and then she thought of other ways:

"Block it first, I haven't figured out what's going on—Miracle · Wall of Sighs!"

In the rumbling sound, three crooked high walls distributed in an equilateral triangle rose around Xia De. The gray stone walls collided above his head with a *boom* and then nested with each other, and then shrouded him in them like a triangular pyramid.

"Is this miracle too omnipotent?"

The sea of fire was blocked by the stone wall. Xia De asked in the dark, and the cat on his shoulder said panting:

"So this is the thirteen-ring miracle. The incomplete power I currently master already integrates communication, defense, and summoning, and sometimes it can even be used as stairs to send me to a higher position."

But it seemed that casting spells like this also consumed a lot of her energy, but soon the cat discovered the problem in the darkness:

"The temperature outside is dropping, I feel the speed at which the Wall of Sighs is being destroyed is dropping, wait... the flames outside are extinguished! I can't feel the Wall of Sighs being destroyed! What's going on again? Is the fire over?"

So Xia De let her stop casting spells temporarily, and with the disappearance of the wall, the outside world had indeed returned to a piece of darkness.

Even with flying ash with sparks drifting, this darkness was too deep, and the eyes of the two still couldn't see through it. But the perception of the two was still reminding them that the surroundings were a complete village with no one, the ground was covered with ash, and there was no vitality here.

"I probably understand some of it."

The cat whispered in Xia De's ear:

"Every time the flames appeared just now, it was after you summoned the light orb to illuminate the surroundings. But once we came to the ground without fire from the burning basement, or entered the enclosed environment without light from the burning village, the flames would disappear.

Does this mean that as long as light is induced, more and more intense flames will appear around?"

"It should be like this, but no light is not safe either."

While speaking, Xia De kicked forward and kicked the thing that grabbed his leg away. As the darkness continued for a longer time, rustling dense sounds were frequently heard from all around. He couldn't perceive any monsters, but his hearing made his brain immediately associate that there were a large number of living things crawling forward on the ash around him.

The cat's small ears twitched, and then she quickly drilled into Xia De's clothes, only revealing her small head from his chest:

"We seem to be surrounded. Eyes can't see, but other senses can feel the things around. Resentment, soul, ash, these three things make up the enemies around us. Look at me, this is my specialty—Miracle - Resentment Dispersion!" ===== CHAPTER 2728 =====