"Fire is useful, use fire!" Zeng Tao immediately said excitedly.
At this time, Li Wenxi's voice came from the main tree house.
"What's going on outside?!"
She also heard the sound of insects gnawing on the trees and saw the trees constantly falling in the jungle. She leaned on the window and shouted towards this side.
"Boo!" Coco also cried over here, "Boo, boo, boo!"
The meaning seemed to be telling him to go back quickly.
Xu Xin immediately shouted to the main tree house, "Wen Xi, tell them to turn off all the lights! No light in the tree house! There's something going on outside!"
"I see!"
In five or six seconds, all the lights on the four floors of the tree house went out.
The area around the tree house immediately became dark, with only the torch that Xu Xin had inserted into the ground still burning and emitting light.
Suddenly, the flying insects became even more crazy and rushed towards the torches in groups.
But there were so many insects flying towards the torch, and some insects on the ground even climbed up the torch. In just a moment, the torch was surrounded by the swarm of insects and extinguished.
However, many insects were burned to death, and an unpleasant burnt smell filled the air.
Flames are very useful.
The insects, having lost their target, returned to the jungle and began to gnaw on the trees.
"Let's go set fire to the forest! Burn all those bugs to ashes!" Zeng Tao suggested.
"Are you crazy?" Lou Feier slapped her head. "Do you want us all to die?"
"Don't hit me on the head!" Zeng Tao slapped her hand away and said nonchalantly, "It's not like we haven't encountered forest fires before. Didn't the jungle grow back the next day? We didn't die."
Jin Yue frowned slightly. "I think we shouldn't do this unless it's absolutely necessary. Setting fire to a mountain is extremely harmful."
"Why not?" Zeng Tao pointed at the jungle. "If we don't burn it, the bugs will probably eat it all. Once they've eaten the jungle, they'll probably come and eat us! We might as well let the jungle die gloriously, perishing along with the bugs!"
What Zeng Tao said does make some sense.
but……
It’s better not to do that.
"If we set fire to the mountain, how long do you think it will last?" Xu Xin turned his head and looked at Zeng Tao and asked.
"Well... a jungle fire can burn for a long time, but that's because it keeps spreading outward." Zeng Tao, assuming Xu Xin was worried about the jungle burning for a long time, argued, "It won't burn long around our tree house, right? Besides, a jungle fire in this world should cover a large area, right?"
The rivers in the jungle are complex and the wildfire may indeed only burn an area and not affect many people.
After all, most of the people around them had already been on their side as explorers.
"Whether the spread will affect others isn't going to matter, but setting the jungle on fire is precisely because it won't last long," Xu Xin shook his head. "The trees surrounding the main treehouse will burn clean in a few hours at most. This batch of bugs has been burned, but what about the next batch? What about tomorrow night? What if there's another swarm like this tomorrow night?"
"This..." Zeng Tao was stunned by the question and muttered with her head down, "The jungle is gone, but there are still insects... And maybe the jungle can grow again..."
"You probably don't know how these bugs appeared?" Xu Xin asked.
The three women all shook their heads: "I don't know."
The problem of insects still needs to be handled with caution.
It is indeed possible that this jungle will be eaten clean by these insects, but at their current speed, it is unlikely that they will finish it all in one night.
At least it can last for three nights.
It’s better to keep it.
Xu Xin then spoke: "Setting fire is indeed a solution, but there is no need to burn the forest. Let's light a few bonfires in the open space to test the effect. If it doesn't work... we can dig more.
Make a circle of ravines and set fire to them."
The fire trench he had dug during the tree house defense battle had been filled in long ago, so if he wanted to set a fire, he would need to dig it again.
Let's try it with a campfire first.
Light a bonfire, and these insects will have the flames as their target, so they should not attack the tree house.
"That's a good idea! But what should we use to start the fire?"
"Mutated vines." Xu Xin said.
The mutated vines can burn much longer than wood; one vine can burn for an entire night.
As explorers, they have no shortage of mutated vines.
After all, the mutated vine juice is used to make explosives, so they must have sufficient reserves of it.
Previously in the underground world, they, especially Wen Guixin, brought up a lot of mutated vines from underground.
And yesterday, the first day of the hot summer, while he and Li Wenxi were busy, the others were not idle either.
The cold winter is over, and dangerous areas in the jungle appear again. Wen Guixin and her people are responsible for going to the dangerous areas to kill the vines.
Although she only operated for about an hour before returning due to the heat, the speed at which she cleared out the monsters was enough for them to use for a long time.
Xu Xin turned and looked at the women around him.
What should they do with their tree house now?
Zeng Tao didn't care anymore, after all, her tree house was basically beyond saving.
Lou Feier and Jin Yue's tree houses are both about a hundred meters away from the main tree house, very close to the lush jungle, and only a few meters away from the jungle.
Their tree house is likely to be the first to be attacked!
Although it may not be destroyed, it is still necessary to take precautions.
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