Chapter 7 Natural Disasters

We were discussing when Phantom suddenly said to me: "Master, Rose Vine said there are abnormal fluctuations on the ground. "

I stretched out my hand to stop the few people who were still talking: "Where is the rose vine?" A big bag turned up on the ground, and the rose vine came up. "What fluctuations did you feel?"

Phantom helped Rose Vine translate: "I don't know what it is, but the source of the earthquake is from the ground, and it's very strange, a bit like an earthquake."

"Earthquake?" I thought to myself. "Everyone put away the steel claws and summon the spears. We can't stay on the ground anymore."

"What happened?" Everyone was confused by me.

I put away Rose Vine and the other magic pets, summoned the birds and my spear, and pointed at the oil pit that was still expanding outwards. "Rosevine detected deep seismic waves. I think it may have just penetrated the oil layer."

"What do you mean?" Zhenhong still didn't understand what was going on.

Kristina has relatively rich knowledge in this area. After all, the Women's Federation is also a European guild. Before joining our guild, they had been using oil-driven machinery. Now Isinger still has a lot of them. "He means there's going to be a blowout!"

"Blowout? That's alright, it's a quick flash!"

For the sake of safety, we left the ground as quickly as possible and evacuated as quickly as possible as soon as the spear took off. Almost immediately after we left, the ground suddenly began to shake violently. All the animals in the valley had completely escaped this time, and the vibrations on the ground made the vigilant animals feel the danger.

The ground shook more and more violently. Suddenly, right where we had just fought, a lump of soil the size of a bus rose into the sky. The black liquid hit the lump of soil three times like a high-pressure water gun. It fell apart ten meters in the air.

As the soil here cracked, spouts began to appear one after another around them, and for a while the ground became a sea of ​​high-pressure fountains. The black oil was pumped up to a height of tens of meters and then fell back to the ground like a heavy rain.

"Fortunately, I ran fast!" We looked at the oil fountains in the valley far away in the sky. The destructive power of those natural forces was much more powerful than that of the Gunslinger.

"Look over there." Ziyue pointed to the outside of the valley, and saw a team that was spending a lot of time moving forward into the valley. I used the Star Eye to enlarge the image and saw a flag I had never seen before. "Black Bear, which guild does that flag belong to?"

The black bear looked at me in surprise: "From such a distance, I see people like ants. How can I see anything on the flag?"

"It is a flag with a blue background. There is a building drawn in the middle of the flag, which seems to be a temple. There are also some strange symbols on the side."

Black Bear suddenly asked: "Is there a dolphin on top of that temple?"

"I can't tell if it's a dolphin, but there's something like a fish."

"Then there's no need to look, it must be the Neptune Palace."

"What? Neptune Palace?" Below is Terry's guild. Such a large number of people probably went into the mountains to look for minerals just like us, but at this time the mountains were already full of oil fountains, and there could be a big explosion at any time. "I know the president of the guild below. We can't let them enter the mountain like this. I'll tell them to leave."

"Let's go with you!"

"That's fine too."

Just as they were about to let everyone go down, Kristina suddenly said: "We can't go down like this."

"Why?"

"When oil erupts, there must be a lot of gas in the surrounding air. This is a valley, and the gas cannot be dispersed. The spear is propelled by fire, and it will explode as soon as it passes."

Kristina didn't tell me that I didn't notice this, which is really dangerous! The armor on my body has been repaired automatically, but the wound is not completely healed yet. It is definitely not possible to fly by myself. I summoned Lucky, and then everyone jumped up together, and each took back their spears before daring to approach downwards.

Although we have good intentions, the people below don’t know. When you see a giant dragon suddenly falling from the sky, it is still necessary to maintain basic precautions. The opponent quickly formed a defensive formation, and a circle of shield bearers rushed to the front.

I don't have time to waste time with them. The big oil field behind could turn into a bomb at any time. I jumped down as soon as Lucky hit the ground. "Is Long Lan here?" Long Lan is Terry's game name. Fortunately, I still remember it!

"Do you know our Long Lan?" A well-dressed mage came out from behind riding a weird mount.

"He and I have known each other outside of the game. Is he here now? I have something urgent."

"He is not online today. If you have any questions, just ask me." This person is probably the second-in-command.

Just as I was about to speak, a dart flew towards me like lightning. I turned slightly to avoid the sneak attack. As soon as I turned my body back to see what was going on, I found a red figure rushing towards me. Without any preparation, I had to take a few steps back and raise my shield to block it.

I didn't hear the impact, but I felt my feet tighten and something wrapped around my ankle. After the other party confirmed that he was entangled, he pulled hard and I was carried away diagonally. He turned around in the air, supported the ground with one hand, and drew eternity with the other hand towards his feet. The body turned over with the support of one hand and his feet were already loosened when they landed on the ground again. A woman in armor opposite her lost her balance and took several steps back because the whip in her hand suddenly broke. I recognized this at a glance as the woman who had just fought with us to destroy the magic gun. She turned out to be from the Neptune Palace.

Seeing that the woman wanted to hit her again, I quickly waved my hand and said, "It's a misunderstanding, please stop."

"Who misunderstood you?" She said to the mage beside her: "Just now, he almost got the gun, but he snatched the gun away again, and it returned to the gun god's hand before he could grasp it!"

The Master looked at me and said, "You said it was a misunderstanding, but it doesn't look like the situation?"

I quickly explained: "I didn't know she was from the Neptune Palace just now. I was fighting fiercely with the gun god. The gun god was knocked away by me and the god-killing gun was released. She suddenly ran out to grab the gun. What do you mean? Can you not stop me? If you tell me that you are from the Neptune Palace, it is more or less the same. If a stranger suddenly grabs the weapon I have shot, can I not stop him?"

The mage nodded and said: "That seems to be a misunderstanding. In fact, Farmer went to snipe the gun god today. It may be an accident that he ran into you."

I said anxiously: "Don't talk about this now. Is Long Lan here? I'm here to tell you to turn around immediately. An oil field has been dug out in the mountain col, and it is currently erupting. Now the mountains are full of oil. Anger, if we are not careful, we will all be reimbursed, so we should be afraid!"

The woman who was called Farmer said to the wizard: "I saw oil just now, but it hadn't erupted yet."

The mage thought briefly and asked, "Is the Gunslinger still in there?"

"Left long ago."

When he heard the news that the Gunslinger was away, he immediately turned around and shouted: "Everyone, pay attention, the rear team becomes the front team, and leave this valley quickly."

Everyone ran quickly when they heard that the mountains were full of flammable gas. It was okay to die while leveling, but it would be a big loss if they were killed by LPG now. But everyone seemed to be running not fast enough. Just as they left the valley, they suddenly saw a bright light all around them. After a few seconds, a dull loud noise came along with a terrifying shock wave. The powerful blast flattened the entire valley, and the shock wave caught up with us without slowing down at all. The powerful force pushed everyone forward, and I summoned the rose vine at the last moment. A cover formed by a huge vine protected us underneath, and Jingjing, who was summoned at the same time, also built an energy protective field outside our plant protective layer. Although the smooth energy barrier maintained a large tilt angle, the absolute power of the shock wave was too strong, and the protective layer was destroyed in an instant. The protective layer of rose vines then put up a second resistance. The vines had already penetrated deep into the nearby land. The powerful shock wave pulled the rose vines and nearly lifted the land. But the shock wave that broke through the energy protection was no longer powerful enough to pull the rose vine up from the ground, and in the end we were not blown away.

After the primary wave completely passed, we waited for a while, and the returning secondary shock wave swept the earth again. However, I have experience with this kind of explosion and did not leave the protective layer early. When the impact was completely over, we walked out of the protective layer. The outside environment had completely changed. The valley has now completely turned into a plain, and all the parts above the ground have been shaved off by the shock wave. None of the Neptune Palace personnel who were around us disappeared, and the ground was covered with dirt, as if the dirt from the mountains had been washed out by the explosion.

"Oh my God!" the black bear exclaimed after coming out. "Why is it like this?"

Kristina explained: "Petroleum is generally a mineral that coexists with natural gas, and the oil itself volatilizes very quickly. These combustible gases are surrounded by valleys and cannot be dissipated. After a large amount of combustible gases gathered in the valleys are fully mixed with the air, they become A gas cloud that can explode. All it takes is something to ignite it, and then 'bang'."

Ziyue looked at the surrounding situation. "It's simply more powerful than air fuel bombs!"

I smiled and said, "Yes! Who would be willing to use an entire oil field to make air fuel bombs?"

Zhenhong spit out the dirt in his mouth and said, "Isn't there no one inside? How could it explode? Did someone set it on fire?"

I shook my head: "It doesn't have to be someone to light the fire. Maybe the fire caused by a certain monster detonated the gas cloud; maybe the rocks rolled down due to the vibration, and the collision of two rocks caused a fire; or maybe there is platinum in the mountain."

"What's wrong with Platinum?" Zhenhong asked.

Kristina answered for me: "A lot of natural gas is hydrogen, and platinum is the catalyst. With platinum catalysis, hydrogen can burn with oxygen in the air at room temperature. There are gas clouds everywhere here, just a little bit Mars was a big bang right away.”

While everyone was talking, there was another explosion in the center of the original valley, and a large pillar of fire rose into the sky. The explosion just now burned all the oxygen, and the flame was extinguished instead, but the temperature cannot be dissipated in a short time. As soon as the oxygen comes back into contact with the hot ground, it immediately combines with the oil and deflagrates. The explosion completely destroyed the formation, and what started as a small fountain of oil turned into one large one, and it's still burning. The flames, which are more than a hundred meters high, burn with a whirring sound and unimaginable heat. The air distortion caused by the heat waves can be seen from such a distance.

"No matter whether there is black jade here or not, don't even think about picking it now!" Black Bear sighed as he looked at the pillar of fire.

Kristina said: "I agree. The cost of putting out the fire will not be less than the value of the black jade."

Ziyue asked: "Can't the freezing technique destroy it?"

I shook my head: "With that kind of temperature, even if tens of thousands of people are frozen together, they may not be destroyed."

Black Bear said: "That's great, the United States also has a sacred fire!"

"I think it's evil fire." Ziyue pointed to the sky.

It turns out that the oil fountain is spraying fireballs into the sky. These are the condensation of burning oil. Due to the pressure, these things are blown high into the sky, and there are still high-temperature flames on these condensations. No matter where they fly, they will immediately explode into pieces. The blockbusters began to continue burning. Fortunately, the shock wave destroyed the mountains, otherwise there would definitely have been a forest fire.

"What should we do now?" Kristina asked me.

"What else can we do if we continue to look for minerals in another place?"

"Then this fire...?" Zhenhong is relatively pure.

"It's not that Essinger is on fire, who cares!" Kristina has been completely led astray by me!

"Black Bear, do you know where else there might be black jade?"

The black bear thought for a while and said: "There may be black jade near Lake Cottum, but that is the territory of hippies."

"Hippie? You mean gangster, right? Are there monsters like gangsters in this game?"

"They are not monsters, they are people. They are a guild, and their name is the Hippie Alliance. I guess the people in it are real gangsters. They do all the bad things they can do, and most people try not to enter their territory."

"So this matter will be easy to handle." Suddenly I had a very good plan in my mind.