Foreign Land Reclamation By a Vegetable-growing Skeleton
Chapter 1792 - 1353: One More Little Fireman?

Chapter 1792: Chapter 1353: One More Little Fireman?

Everyone huddled together, the Little Tree People and Little Sapling wrapped tightly around them, disguising themselves as a piece of bark.

The Ancient Man Snake didn’t come to inspect due to Little Vine’s anomalies; he was simply passing by for business, using Little Vine as a stepping stone, so he didn’t thoroughly check its body.

The Ancient Man Snake controlled Little Vine, took a turn toward the tree nodule, a move that immediately drew the attention of all the nearby guards, countless vines rose, ready to attack at any moment.

Witnessing this, Anthony and the others felt a tingling scalp, as if everything near the tree nodule was alive.

The Ancient Man Snake’s aura spread from Little Vine, accompanied by a deep rustling, like the rough friction of one giant tree against another.

Anthony pondered: Is this the language of the Ancient Man Snake? Do plants have a language? This was obviously different from the ’yaya’ of Little Sapling and Little Tree People; it seemed more like a language with complex changes.

He didn’t dare to communicate via Soul Network because it would also produce soul fluctuations during communication. Although very slight, who knows if the Ancient Man Snake would notice in such silence?

But even if he wanted to, he probably couldn’t; the Soul Network was silent, even the Soul Contact with Ange had become weak, clearly Ange was suppressing the Soul Network fluctuations.

Upon receiving the aura and sound of the Ancient Man Snake, the nearby guards settled back down.

Little Vine’s body, under the control of the Ancient Man Snake, arrived in front of the tree nodule, and suddenly slammed against it, then squeezed and squeezed, directly deforming Little Vine’s head, sharpening it deeply into the tree nodule.

Ange and the others felt themselves passing through the bark layer, the tree interlayer, the woody layer, and finally an energy membrane similar to a Boundary, piercing the front end of Little Vine into the tree nodule.

The Ancient Man Snake’s consciousness slid down Little Vine’s body and manifested into an identical Ancient Vine, pressing the sharp head of Little Vine with the vine tail.

Wait—an intention from the Ancient Man Snake’s consciousness was transmitted by Little Vine for everyone to hear.

Wait until the Ancient Man Snake’s consciousness moved away, their souls lively again, whispering using the smallest soul fluctuations.

"Wasn’t this too much of a coincidence? Little Vine just wandered over there and ran into the Ancient Man Snake wanting to go in; it looks like we underestimated the situation here. Without the Ancient Man Snake opening doors, even if we get here, we can’t enter," Anthony said.

"Yeah, there’s a Boundary too; it’s estimated to be some powerful prohibition. Even the Ancient Man Snake can’t directly go in; it needs to control a duplicate first and physically penetrate the prohibition to enter. And it leaves Little Vine stuck here; maybe it’s afraid the prohibition will reset? If we leave now, will it be trapped here forever?" Negris said mischievously.

Anthony thought for a moment, shook his head and said, "Although we could have Red Star and Walker fire a shot at this position from outside, allowing Little Vine to retract, it’s unnecessary; the risk is too great and the gains are unknown. If it takes out its anger on Little Vine and destroys it, that would be bad."

Ursman added, "Let’s see what it’s here for; Little Fireman also said the Star Flame is hidden here, so it must be related to the Star Flame."

Everyone fell silent, cautiously looking outside. Negris straightened his neck a few times, seeing nothing, and decided to share Ange’s view instead.

Anthony quickly joined in.

Switching to Ange’s view, Negris and Anthony instantly felt the entire world change; originally, upon entering, the world was pitch black, but after the Ancient Man Snake’s consciousness slid away, it soon transformed into a small light spot amidst the darkness.

But from Ange’s view, it was entirely different; located before the Ancient Man Snake was a huge hotspot, with high temperatures, incandescent, heat radiating like ripples continuously spreading out.

As it spread to a certain range, it gradually dispersed, continuing along some vein-like channels until disappearing.

With the Ancient Man Snake’s arrival, the hotspot grew larger, the temperature rising, heat radiation frequency accelerating, as if something was emerging from that position.

"Is this... is this alive?" Anthony exclaimed in shock.

Kadiz mentioned an exchange method with ten amounts of Star Flame, Little Fireman also said the Star Flame is hidden here, leading everyone to believe the Star Flame was divided and packed or lifeless, but judging from this, could the Star Flame be alive? Does extracting the Star Flame mean cutting it fresh?

Despite his shock, Anthony had to admire the quality of Ange’s view; it provided an abundance of information, no wonder Ange was always quick to spot anomalies. In his eyes, the world was not what they saw, even temperature, heat radiation, and spatial distortions were visible and unmistakable.

In Ange’s eyes, the hotspot before the Ancient Man Snake grew increasingly larger, the temperature rising, frequency accelerating, as heat radiation ripples spread out, the Ancient Man Snake couldn’t help but float up, the ground too hot.

But after floating up, the Ancient Man Snake self-consciously glanced back, afraid of showing embarrassment to the Puppet Snake, but Little Vine maintained its original shape, even leaving the pointed head from squeezing unrecovered, resembling a dead object, which relieved the Ancient Man Snake, so he backed off a bit.

The hotspot grew larger, the temperature rising, frequency accelerating, and the ground subtly swelled, then was it actually melting?

Everyone witnessing this scene was taken aback; here was the inside of a tree nodule, surrounded by the wooden structure of the Tree of Ten Thousand Realms, but was it really melting? Wood was melting?

Seemingly sensing everyone’s confusion, Ursman quickly said, "There are two possibilities: one, the internal structure of the tree nodule has undergone material changes, from wood to metal, which is quite possible. The Tree of Ten Thousand Realms cannot be wholly wooden; its outer skin and interior have long been keratinized, metallic, crystalline and petrified."

"Second, that location is under ultra-high pressure; under high temperature and pressure, wood would also melt," Ursman said.

But after speaking, Ursman found no one was listening, as Negris had shared Ange’s view, even it wasn’t listening, leaving others with expressions of ’what you’re saying is so complex, not listening, not listening’.

Before the Ancient Man Snake, the hotspot had melted into a large liquid pool, and immediately, that pool slowly rose, rose, rose, as if something was breaching out.

Finally, there was a puffing sound, a dazzling light ball sprayed out from the rising spot, spinning a few times before landing and transforming into a Little Fireman with arms akimbo.

Little Fireman? Two Little Firemen? Even Ange couldn’t help but look in astonishment at the Little Fireman atop Little Zombie’s head, Little Fireman looked equally surprised: why was there another self?