It's winter, and such a bright red color shouldn't appear in the sky at all.
"Luo Ling, transform into human form!" Jian Xi suddenly said urgently.
Upon hearing this, Luo Ling almost reflexively transformed into human form and jumped into the nearby jungle with Jian Xi.
Through the gaps in the grass, dozens of red-eyed orcs were running forward with terrified expressions, as if some ferocious beast was chasing them.
This was the fifth wave of red-eyed orcs the two had encountered in the past three days. Jianxi was highly vigilant; the first time, she immediately pulled Luoling into the bushes to hide, and every time they encountered them afterward, she would hide first.
After the group of orcs roared away, Jianxi pulled Luoling to her feet.
Luo Ling glanced in the direction the red-eyed beastmen had gone, then frowned as she looked at the inexplicable red area on the distant sky. Her unease grew even stronger. "Jianxi, why did we hide? Why didn't we call out to one of the beastmen and ask them why they ran away?"
The boy pursed his red lips and grasped Luo Ling's shoulders on both sides. "I always feel that they are a bit strange. It would be better if we avoided them and went back to the Dry Bone Forest to find Yu Feng and Chu Xie."
Luo Ling nodded.
When Bi Xie and Yu Feng went out to pick wild fruits, they also saw the red cloud cluster in the sky. The color was redder than the sunset, and its beauty was tinged with a bloody and murderous aura.
Yu Feng, carrying wild fruit, walked up to Chu Xie and noticed that she was still looking at the red clouds in the sky. He frowned slightly and looked in that direction as well.
"Ah Feng, don't you think this red cloud that suddenly appeared in the sky is a bit strange?"
Yu Feng frowned and looked at the distant red clouds for a while, then said in a deep voice, "A Xie, if I'm not mistaken, we may need to move."
Is it really an ominous sign?
Bi Xie really wanted to complain: Why is it so difficult to live a peaceful and happy life with the big boss for the rest of my life?
She just wanted to earn some points, and she humbly begged the Heavenly Lord to let her go in order to pay off her debts!
Yu Feng and Bi Xie waited in the cave for two more days before Jian Xi finally returned with Luo Ling.
"Yu Feng, quickly grab the food and leave with us! Mount Merkalan has erupted, it'll be too late if we don't escape now!" Jian Xi finished speaking in one breath, then gasped for breath.
After entering the cave, Luo Ling's breathing became uneven, and she kept panting with her hands on her knees.
Clearly, the two were in a great hurry to return and deliver the message.
Bi Xie pointed to several animal skin bags next to the cave wall: "They're all packed, just waiting for you."
"Huh? Yu Feng, Chu Xie, you knew about the eruption of Mount Merkalan all along?" Jian Xi asked in shock. "How did you know?"
"There's such a loud noise underground, I'm not deaf!"
Yu Feng's sharp gaze swept over the fair-skinned boy with red lips and white teeth. He resisted the urge to grab the boy and braise him, and continued, "These past few days, the snow on the ground has been melting continuously, and many plants in the forest are showing signs of withering. In addition, there's that red cloud. Besides a volcanic eruption, what else can explain these phenomena?"
Jianxi was stunned. He thought Yufeng was good at killing people, but he didn't expect him to be so smart as well.
"Hmph," Yu Feng glanced at the dumbfounded boy and said coldly, "Hurry up and move your things. Do you want my sister and A Xie to move them?"
His older sister liked him, so he couldn't cook and eat the rabbit, but he absolutely couldn't let this weakling get away with it.
Does this mean Yu Feng has accepted him?
Are you willing to let him go with them?
Upon hearing this, Jianxi paused for a moment, then, as if afraid that Yufeng might change his mind, she went to move her things with great joy.
The volcano erupted very quickly, and orcs could be seen fleeing everywhere on the road. Most of the orcs' eyes were still glowing red. Some orcs fell to the ground from hunger while running, and were then skinned and eaten by the orcs that caught up with them. Then they continued to run forward around their bloody animal skins.
One disaster after another, as if the heavens wanted to slaughter all living beings on this continent.
The high-temperature magma erupting from the ground accelerated the melting of the snow, black volcanic ash gathered in the sky, and purplish-red lightning danced wildly in the air like golden snakes emerging from the ground. Vast areas of forest were swallowed up by mudslides and flash floods caused by the melting snow and were destroyed in an instant.
The red clouds in the sky were shrouded in thick volcanic ash, and the smoke resembled a black skull, majestic and terrifying. At first glance, it seemed as if the sky had opened a door to hell.
Yu Feng had intended to train the rabbit, but it turned out to be too slow. With the disaster approaching faster and faster, Yu Feng had no choice but to have the others transform into their original forms and climb onto his back. They threw away the food and animal hides they were carrying.
The escape route was too boring for Ru Hua, a system that didn't have to worry about anything, so Bi Xie's mind was occasionally filled with terrifying images.
For example, close-up footage of a volcanic eruption shows dark clouds being torn apart by rolling lightning, black volcanic ash and red lava intertwining, the sky rendered strangely and dazzlingly, the massive and terrifying dirty thunderstorm clouds, and plumes of smoke hanging in the air, as if the end of the world had come.
For example, forests destroyed by mudslides and floods, and orcs buried by fiery lava.
This natural disaster caused far greater damage than the one caused by Changhao.
Thinking of Chang Hao, Bi Xie suddenly remembered the cenotaph she and Yu Feng had erected for him, which was probably also swallowed up underground.
A month later, the powerful volcanic eruption finally subsided.
Winter ended, but very few orcs survived until spring when the flowers bloomed.
The entire continent was left riddled with holes after the volcanic eruption, mudslides, and floods. Countless orcs died in the disaster, and the forest vegetation suffered unprecedented damage.
Bi Xie and Yu Feng stood on a tall tree, feeling the gentle warmth of the rising sun on their bodies, but their hearts were still somewhat heavy.
After this disaster, it's unknown how many years it will take for the forest to recover to its former state.
"A-Xie, everything will be alright. With you here, I feel like I have everything. Even if the forest is destroyed, it's not so scary anymore." Yu Feng held the little female's hand tightly, and the sunlight fell into his starry eyes, as if countless fragments of light were gathered into them.
“Yes, we’re all alive,” Bi Xie smiled at him.
In her heart, however, she was crying to Ru Hua: "I must live longer in this world. I've calculated it; living an extra year earns me 1000 points. I need to live at least fifty years to pay off my 50,000 points, not even counting all the other miscellaneous expenses. I'm so unlucky, Ru Hua—"
"Hehehehe, host, don't forget the promise you made to me during the last battle against the Dead Moth King! I gave you a torch, so you have to max out the big boss's happiness level within three months~"
"Friendly reminder: the big boss's current happiness level is 92 points, and even after the host's passionate battle with the big boss in the cave last night, the big boss's happiness level didn't increase at all~"
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