Chapter 117 Bush Fire!
Should we provide them with a lightning rod?
Xu Xin is willing to do it personally. They all have special skills. If they really die in this thunderstorm, it will definitely be a big loss.
But the focus of this matter is on Li Wenxi, whether she is willing or not. After all, the black gold is in her hands.
Xu Xin sent a video to Li Wenxi.
Almost instantly, Li Wenxi was lying by the window, looking at the dark clouds outside, and exclaimed: "Xu Xin, lightning started to strike here! Just now, many lightning strikes struck the lightning rod of my tree house. Go! I have never seen such thick lightning, it’s terrible!”
Although she said this, there was no trace of fear on her face, and she was even a little excited.
Xu Xin told her her thoughts.
Li Wenxi showed a somewhat embarrassed expression: "Actually, I also want to help them, but it takes ten pieces of black gold ore to bake a black gold nugget, and it takes an hour to bake one piece. It is really difficult to bake, so I will do it alone." I built a furnace and kept firing black gold nuggets, but now there are only twelve black gold nuggets, so one lightning rod requires five nuggets..."
Li Wenxi's meaning was obvious. She spent time and effort, moved it again, and burned it all night, only to get a dozen black gold nuggets. The quantity was too small and she didn't want to give it to others.
Xu Xin could understand her thoughts very well. She didn't have much resources and she still had to help others. That was sheer madness. Talented people need to benefit the world, but now they may not even be able to use it themselves, so they can just take care of themselves.
"I didn't expect black gold nuggets to be so difficult to obtain. It was because I didn't think carefully." Xu Xin felt like what she just said was a bit like a virgin bitch, and apologized a little embarrassedly.
"When there are more black gold nuggets in the future, I will help them. After all, I am a member of an organization, and I have benefited from their information. But with the weather outside, I don't know when I can go out to mine next."
During the conversation between the two, the thunderstorm outside never stopped, and even became more and more intensive.
When Xu Xin first woke up, thunder only struck two or three times a minute. Now it sounds every ten seconds.
"I can't even hear what you are saying." Li Wenxi covered her ears and rubbed them. The thunder was too loud. "I don't know when it will stop. Isn't it the rainy season today? Why is there only thunder but no rain... Huh? ”
She suddenly looked out the window with wide eyes, and then took a breath of cold air: "There's a fire! There's a fire in the distance! Lightning struck and caused a fire!"
"What?" Xu Xin immediately looked out the window. Although lightning struck continuously, there was no tendency to catch fire for the time being.
However, it is probably only a matter of time before the lightning is so dense that it causes forest fires.
Thinking like lightning, Xu Xin gave an instant suggestion: "Quick, go down and cut down all the trees around the tree house, and create a fire break, so that the fire cannot spread! Don't worry about lightning strikes, the lightning rod will Lure the closer thunder over! ”
"Oh, okay! I'll go right away!" Li Wenxi hurriedly hung up the video.
At this time, Ji Chaoyang also sent a message in the group.
“Everyone, this thunderstorm before the rainstorm is likely to cause forest fires.
My treehouse was struck by lightning several times just now. Some things in the treehouse were destroyed by the lightning current. This lightning strike can destroy items in the house, but it doesn't seem to work on us, and it won't cause the treehouse to catch fire.
But don't take this lightly and wait in the tree house like this, as the tree in the distance is likely to catch fire.
Now we'd better take important things and get out of the tree house, and then cut down all the trees around the tree house to form a fire break around it. In this way, if there is a forest fire, we can reduce the damage. to the minimum.
We don’t need to worry too much about lightning hitting us near the tree house, because the tree house is very high and will attract lightning for us. Of course, be careful not to get hit when you get down from the tree house. Do it as soon as possible, there is already a fire in the distance on my side, we just need to hold on until the rainstorm comes. ”
At the same time, he also sent this sentence to the regional channel. The difference is that he added another sentence to the sentence he sent to the regional channel.
"Survivors of low treehouses that have not raised their levels must be careful. Your treehouse is not high enough and will not attract lightning. You decide for yourself whether you want to go down and cut down the firebreak."
From his words, Xu Xin learned that if the tree house was struck by lightning, it would damage the items in the house, which was not very serious.
This guy actually thought of so much in just a few minutes, and even sorted out the strategy and posted it, which Xu Xin had to admire.
Just now, he thought that the tree house being one level higher would be very disadvantageous for other people without lightning rods, but Ji Chaoyang directly grasped the point.
The biggest hazard of this thunderstorm is not the lightning strike, but the bush fires it may cause! After all, lightning can't hurt the people in the tree house, but forest fire can!
"Ji Chaoyang is right. We must clean up the surrounding area immediately. It is not yet seven o'clock. Judging from previous activities, the rainstorm season is likely to start at nine o'clock. Two hours is enough for Lin The fire has spread far, everyone must pay attention!" Xu Xin also sent a message on the regional channel.
The two big names on the list both spoke with strong convincing power. Immediately, the regional channel was filled with words of gratitude.
"Thank you two big guys!"
"There's a fire in the distance here too! Let's go down and chop down the trees!"
"Haha, I have already cut down all the trees in the surrounding area, so it saves trouble!"
"Oh my gosh, there are birches and pine trees growing around me!"
"Just cut it down. The materials you will get from a tree that is not fully grown will be much less, but it is not nothing. I have tried to cut it down before."
"I understand, get down immediately!"
And those survivors who did not obtain higher levels of treehouses in the previous event are also discussing.
"What should I do? Do you want to go down, if you are struck by lightning..."
"Maybe it won't catch fire?"
"What are you thinking? With such dense thunder, the possibility of catching fire is too high!"
"Damn it, there's a fire here! It's over, it's over!"
"Fuck, we can't continue to be so cowardly. Labor and management are going down. It's better to be struck by lightning than burned to death! It will be almost painless!"
"That makes sense, I'll go down too!" "I'll go down too!" "Together!"
On Xu Xin's side, as a thunderbolt fell, a flame suddenly burst out about a kilometer away.
Fortunately, there is no strong wind in the jungle now, so the forest fire did not spread quickly.
Xu Xin took advantage of this opportunity and quickly came to the tree house. To speed up chopping, he crafted an iron ax (blue) and a shovel (blue).
[Iron Ax (Blue): A high-grade iron ax, extremely sharp and tough. It can cut down the highest purple-level trees and some special types of trees. Durability 3000. 】
The iron ax (blue) has a durability of up to 3000 points, and the efficiency of cutting down green-level trees with one ax is twice that of the stone ax. It can also cut down some special types of trees. However, Xu Xin has never encountered a tree that cannot be cut down with a stone axe.
As for the shovel, there is a 50% probability that it can transplant trees. This is what he prepared for the apple tree below.
He had already cleared the area under the tree house during his novice protection period. What he needed to do now was to expand the area again. If there was a fire in the jungle, at least the flames would not be able to affect the surrounding areas. canopy.
Under the tree house, the apple trees he planted were just bearing fruit, and the pine and birch trees were already grown.
"According to time, the apple tree is indeed just in shape, but the pine and birch trees seem to be fully grown tomorrow, right?" A trace of doubt flashed in Xu Xin's heart, but now is not the time to think about this.
The efficiency of the iron ax was very high. Xu Xin first came to the pine and birch forest and chopped down and collected all the wood with one axe. Then he started logging frantically around the tree house.
The dark clouds in the sky seemed to be getting lower and lower, and he didn't even want to look up at the mountain-like clouds.
The black thunderclouds were pressing down on his head, and the thick and humid air made him breathless. He could only follow the falling lightning and swing the ax in his hand, his head being hit by the thunder every ten seconds. There would be a thunderous thunder that shook the sky and made me feel a little dizzy.
Fortunately, all the lightning around him was attracted by the tree house and the lightning rod, and did not cause any harm to him. Instead, the lightning rod on the top of his treetop was emitting a dazzling white light, and it seemed that it was about to be fully charged with electricity.
The sky on the other side was dyed red by forest fires, and the heat was even coming, so Xu Xin accelerated the cutting.
The area Xu Xin wants to cut down is much larger than the others, but fortunately, more than 100 square meters is not too big.
He went back and forth to the tree house several times to put wood, and finally cut out a clearing about twenty meters wide around the tree house as a fire break.
Generally, the forest fire break zone is 40 to 60 meters, but it also depends on the type of surrounding vegetation. If it is all lawn, ten meters is actually enough. If it is shrub land, it is usually 60 meters.
Xu Xin has cleared all the shrubs on the ground, and twenty meters is barely enough. The most important thing is that he can already see the fire spreading in the distance and the horizon dyed red, and he cannot continue.
The apple tree (blue) is also planted outside the confines of the tree house. Xu Xin came to the fruit tree, picked all the fruits, and then shoveled down the roots of the fruit tree without hesitation.
There was already an apple tree in the plantation on the top floor of his treetop, so the tree that had already produced fruit wasn't that important.
The three-meter-tall small fruit tree slowly fell to the ground.
【Obtain Apple Tree Seed*1】
[Obtain Apple Tree (Blue)*1, which can be transplanted into soil of green level and above. Please transplant as soon as possible within 24 hours. 】
Success! There is a 50% probability that he will succeed!
Of course, because of the bonus of koi, the actual probability is not 50%. He has tested it before. The 50% probability for him is not a 50/50 ratio, but about two times every three times.
Back in the tree house, standing by the third-floor window, Xu Xin looked in the direction of the forest fire. The place had changed from one or two burning trees to a whole sea of fire. Even from a distance, he could see You can feel the heat rushing towards your face.
Fortunately, the wind speed was not strong and the air was very humid, so the fire was not too serious.
"Fortunately, there was no strong wind, and the fire didn't spread very quickly." Xu Xin breathed a sigh of relief.
If it were just at this speed, it would probably take a long time for it to spread to him. He picked up the ax and thought about whether to go down and chop down some more trees. After all, it would be a pity if they were burned.
However, as if he heard his words, just when he was about to turn around, the gentle breeze outside suddenly became violent!
The wind was so strong that some of the thinner poplar trees were bent directly. The sound of the wind was like a roaring train, mixed with the increasingly dense thunder, playing a death march.
The flames in the distance suddenly swelled due to the wind, and even a few small flames that had just been struck by lightning also jumped up directly. Many fires broke out in the jungle, and began to spread rapidly with the wind!
The sound of wind, thunder, lightning, and forest fires made the scene before us look like the end of the world.
Xu Xin was also scratched on the cheek by pebbles carried by the oncoming strong wind, causing pain.
His eye twitched.
Damn, the crow’s mouth is actually me!
Thanks to [Rainy Night XX Stroll] for the reward of 100 starting coins and [Oh Huo Ke] for the reward of 100 starting coins. Thank you both for your support!
Post another chapter with more than 3,400 words. I feel it’s not easy to divide it into chapters, so I won’t. There will be another chapter tonight (ω)
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