In the void, a sticky chewing sound was heard.

[System, I warn you, if you simulate the sounds of you swallowing, drooling, and eating in my mind again, I will not share it with you next time.]

Bai Yu was gnawing on the monster's corpse while warning the system.

If he had known that the system would be so perverted as to simulate sounds in his mind, he would never have given this guy a single bit of energy.

[Don't be like this, Bai Yu. I finally got to eat such delicious spiritual energy. I just wanted to share with you how delicious it is. It smells really good. Baji, baji, it smells really good.]

For the same thing, the taste that Bai Yu felt when he ate it and the wonderful feeling when the system absorbed spiritual energy were completely different.

The system felt that it should convey this wonderful feeling to Bai Yu.

So it came up with the idea of ​​simulating sound, but this sound was indeed a bit uncomfortable.

I don't know if it was intentional or accidental.

[The sound you simulated didn't make me feel anything like the feeling of directly absorbing spiritual energy. I just felt sick in my stomach.]

...

...

Bai Yu swallowed the meat in his throat and covered his stomach expressionlessly.

[Then I'll change the method. You can imagine that I eat this thing just like you eat Chu Zehuai.]

The system pondered for a few seconds and changed its approach.

[Correction: I haven’t eaten him yet, at least not yet. ]

Bai Yu finished his portion and was too lazy to pay attention to his overly excited system.

A bit full.

He simply walked around the bloodstains on the ground and sat on the half-fallen bed to rest, glancing at the crack in the middle of the bed with his peripheral vision.

Through the cracks, the dusty floor came into view.

Just as I thought, there was dust under the bed. Fortunately, I didn't choose to crawl under it in the end.

Bai Yu would rather let his vines climb the wall and then climb onto the ceiling than let their smooth surface be covered with dust.

Having said that, my wall-climbing skills are becoming more and more proficient, worthy of me.

Bai Yu was holding his chin and thinking about all sorts of things, but suddenly he saw the diary next to him burning with a raging black and red flame. He was caught off guard and the two fingers closest to the diary were burned by the fire.

The fire seemed to come from outside, arriving without warning, bringing with it anger and powerful pressure.

The system that was chewing food suddenly started to scream: [Bai Yu! A higher level of pollutants is coming! We can't defeat them now, run away, I'm using a player's protection card for you. ]

【good. 】

Bai Yu jumped up from the bed without hesitation and ran towards the door.

He was willing to play with the waiter monster outside the door and watch him wandering around the house like a clown, simply because he felt that the other party's strength was not to be feared, so he simply let the other party "experience" the fear that the players had felt before, which was dominated by the dungeon boss.

He thought he was quite considerate since it was a paid project after all.

But this new pollutant is much stronger than my current self, and is the fire type that is most effective against plants.

So Bai Yu chose to run away...well, he chose a strategic retreat.

You should hide when you need to, and then retaliate when you become stronger. This is the valuable experience that the dungeon boss has summed up over the years.

With the help of the player protection card, except for two fingers burned by the fire at the beginning, Bai Yu was not hurt by the raging fire chasing him from behind.

As the black and red flames suddenly attacked him, he finally ran to the door of the room and opened it.

The black pupils suddenly contracted.

A wave of blazing golden fire rushed in from outside the door, bringing with it an incomparably terrifying aura and an extremely high temperature that was enough to distort space, and it rushed directly towards him.

The two flames met at the door and Bai Yu was caught in the middle.

"I @#%#￥..."

When species of the same kind meet, if they cannot cooperate, all that is left is competition, after all, resources are limited.

The same is true for flames. When two powerful flames meet, they fight each other to the death, devouring each other and being annihilated by each other, competing for the remaining oxygen.

The air in the room suddenly decreased, leaving only a large amount of smoke produced by the raging flames. The only range that the eyes could see was five centimeters in front of the body, and other than that, nothing could be seen clearly.

Amid the choking smell of smoke, Bai Yu faintly smelled the scent of hot food.

He seems to be mature...

call--

The evening breeze blew away some of the smoke, and the familiar strong fragrance covered up all the unpleasant smells of the plants. A pair of hands hugged his waist from the front, and the burning temperature was clearly transmitted through the cloth around his waist.

Almost instantly, Bai Yu was carried away from the sea of ​​fire.

The wind beside his ears made a whistling sound, and as the altitude increased, the temperature of the wind gradually dropped. When Bai Yu regained his vision, the first thing he saw was a white neck that was close at hand, and the electronic numbers on the black collar that kept jumping up.

Bai Yu: .....This plot seems a little too familiar.

No wonder the book says that history always repeats itself.

He was forced to lean on the other's chest. He could feel the other's violently beating heart and the body temperature that was far higher than that of a normal human. His eyes reflected the sea of ​​fire below.

Below, the golden flames and the black and red flames were still competing with each other. The entire coastline of Linhai City was illuminated by the flames as if it were dawn. The two flames were fighting to the death, and it was extremely dangerous.

In the end, the golden flame prevailed, and it devoured the black and red flame in a gradually surrounding manner. The latter moved left and right, and the black part changed into a ferocious wild boar for a while, and then turned into a snake moving left and right.

But this did not change the existing situation, it was still firmly trapped between the Dongzhou Sea and the golden flame.

After a moment, the black and red flame seemed to have made some kind of decision. It suddenly changed into the shape of a fish and dived into the Dongzhou Sea.

A huge amount of white water vapor suddenly rose up, almost instantly covering most of Linhai City.

In the mist, Chu Zehuai looked at the escaping black and red flames, his golden-orange pupils narrowed slightly, with a hint of coldness and an imperceptible excitement in them.

The golden flame began to burn and condense on the tips of his feathers, and the temperature around his body rose and condensed again.

The number on his neck began to soar wildly, reaching 11,998 in the blink of an eye.

etc.........

He seemed to have forgotten something crucial.

**

**

"First, why did 'Fen Ji' suddenly speed up and come to Dongzhou? According to the speed we saw before, it should take three or four days to arrive. It must have been stimulated by something, such as the Death Hotel."

"Secondly, 'Fen Ji' is a pollutant on the awakened side of the fire element. Now, it can not only travel at high speed on the sea surface, but also transform into a fish and jump into the water to escape. This is extremely abnormal."

"Third, where is the Class A Pollutant Death Hotel now? It seems to have disappeared out of thin air, but unlike the previous disappearances, this time it left no mental fluctuations or pollution value fluctuations at all."

In the meeting room, the director of the Linhai City Investigation Bureau summarized the suspicious points of this incident, and then turned his attention to Chu Zehuai who was sitting next to him.

"Besides these, is there anything else you want to add?"

Chu Zehuai tapped the table with his fingers and added lazily:

"Fen Ji came to save the Death Hotel. They had contacted each other privately, but failed. In the end, Fen Ji did not leave with the Death Hotel."

The reason why 'Fen Ji' accelerated to come to Dongzhou was to merge with the 'Death Hotel'.

Compared to humans, the emotions contained in flames are much simpler. Moreover, Chu Zehuai has lived with the golden flame for so many years, he can roughly understand the emotions of "Fen Ji".

'Fen Ji' is angry about the disappearance of the Death Hotel.

But the strange thing is that the subject of the Death Hotel was not killed by him. He could be sensed in the previous second, and then disappeared inexplicably in the next second.

Chu Zehuai fell into deep thought.

The director of the Linhai City Investigation Bureau had a serious expression on his face.

"One of them is in Xizhou and the other is in Nanzhou. How are they connected? But this makes sense. As for Fen Ji jumping into the water and leaving... since these two pollutants can be secretly connected, it is normal for them to be connected with some marine pollutants. It may be the latter that helped Fen Ji leave."

Everyone in the conference room began to discuss, constantly proposing various guesses and then rejecting them, and in the end, no conclusion was reached that convinced everyone.

In the end, it was the director who made the final decision, saying that they would first conduct an investigation, appease the people and compensate for their losses, and then discuss the matter again after further clues were obtained.

After all, with only these few clues, nothing can be achieved through discussion, and it will just end up as a meaningless quarrel.

Chu Zehuai nodded: "Although Fen Ji escaped, he was seriously injured and will not be a threat in the short term. You can check the sea water where he escaped. There may be traces of other pollutants."

"OK."

“Also, you should pay attention to the marine pollutants that are swimming in from the estuary. I always think this is quite abnormal.”

He could understand the ocean pollutants coming up from the shore and hitting the city.

But it is strange that marine pollutants flow upstream along rivers and directly attack inland cities.

It doesn't seem like they are coming for hunting, but more like they are attracted by something...or, they are being manipulated and forced.

"Um."

The S-level pollutants came once, but did not cause particularly large casualties. They only cooked a large number of fish, shrimps and shellfish on the coast.

It's a blessing in disguise.

**

**

Inside the medical room of Linhai City Investigation Bureau

"Xiao Bai, let me tell you, I almost thought my brother was going to go berserk again. After all, the value was so high at the beginning, it was almost going to turn yellow."

Lin Mo brought a small stool and sat in front of the bed, looking at Bai Yu, who was barely breathing, with distressed eyes.

"Really? Is it that serious? I didn't feel anything at the time, I just felt it was so hot."

Bai Yu looked at the two fingers on his right hand that could never be changed back and sighed.

"It's really serious. If my brother had chased after you, your stats would have definitely gone up. Fortunately, he chose to let you go back in the end. In a sense, you succeeded in keeping him in the green! Now both of you are green."

Lin Mo recalled the green on his brother's neck, then glanced at the green on the other's fingers and said.

"But I don't want to stay green now, Lin Mo, help me get a pair of scissors and cut off my fingers."

Those two fingers were the ones that were caught off guard and burned by the fire. In his perception, the plant cells on his fingers had gone from being full of vitality to gradually shrinking and finally dying, emitting the smell of hot food and could never change back.

Only when the dead plant cells are removed can new cells grow.

"good."

Although this sounded a bit scary, Lin Mo chose to believe and help his friend.

He rummaged through the drawers and found a pair of scissors. After determining the position with Bai Yu, he started cutting from the base of the branch.

"Boom——"

With a crisp sound, a ray of silver light drew a perfect arc in the air and finally landed on the figure who pushed open the door and came in.

"What is this... piece of iron?"

Chu Zehuai, who had just walked in, caught the little thing reflexively. When he looked up, he saw his brother holding a pair of scissors with only the handle left.

"It's a pair of scissors. Lin Mo is helping me cut off the dead cells, but I didn't expect the scissors to be so fragile."

Bai Yu sat up from the bed, couldn't help coughing several times, and finally lay back down weakly.

"Is the injury so serious?" Chu Zehuai sat on the edge of the bed, lowering his eyes to look at Bai Yu's two fingers that could not be changed back.

"Yes, I feel like I'm really badly injured. I'm almost dying. I feel like, cough, cough, cough—"

Bai Yu held the other person's hand with his intact left hand, his face pale, like a person who was about to leave a last word before dying.

"Don't talk nonsense, you will get better, you won't die."

Chu Zehuai held the other person's hand tightly, and a cool and smooth touch came from the palm of his hand.

"...I feel that half of the fire that burned me so badly was yours."

Bai Yu couldn't help coughing twice again, and finally said the second half of the sentence. He lay on the bed, looking at Chu Zehuai, whose expression was frozen for a moment, and sighed softly.

"Captain Chu, I really can't bear your fever."

Chu Zehuai:.........

Those golden-orange eyes unconsciously drifted to other places, and there was a rare hint of guilt in them.

Lin Mo:...Why does this sound so strange?

Chu Zehuai didn't notice anything. He turned his eyes back and said after hesitating for a while: "How about you burn it back?"

Bai Yu twitched his lips. How could he, a plant, control fire?

He loosened his grip on the other person's hand, motioned for the other person to come closer, and then he stretched out his left hand, and his white fingertips quickly moved forward——

He hooked the monitor around the other person's neck.

He suddenly exerted force in his hands, and almost instantly, the hot breath was at the tip of his nose.

In those golden-orange eyes filled with astonishment, Bai Yu bit the opponent's neck and shoulder fiercely, and the smell of blood spread.

"...Okay, now we're even."