I Forged the Myth of the Ancient Overlords
Chapter 266 - 266 265. Environmental Ambassador_1

Chapter 266: 265. Environmental Ambassador_1 Chapter 266: 265. Environmental Ambassador_1 Lu Ban discovered that with the illumination and heating of the stove, the characters in the blood gradually disappeared and turned into common blood.

The plague must truly fear sunlight and high temperatures.

“Frost brings low temperatures, Eternal Night brings darkness—these two are precisely what the plague thrives on. At the same time, the plague thins the guards at Black Fort, leading to non-combat casualties and making resistance to the Eternal Night and Frost even more difficult…”

Lu Ban murmured to himself as he watched the stove fire.

“Three waves of the Demonic Tide seem to have formed a delicate, cooperative relationship. Why didn’t they do this before?”

According to Jonah, the Demonic Tide had been attacking humanity for thousands of years, at least once a year. Over such a long period, had it never occurred to them to join forces?

“Is it because Pollution has become worse, or is there another reason?”

Considering his own world, where strange objects were gradually reviving, it was reasonable for anomalies to occur in the Night Country.

At that moment, Lu Ban heard a commotion outside.

He stood up and looked down over the fort.

The Forest Rangers were holding Longbows as they lit their arrows.

Under command, hundreds of archers shot flaming arrows deep into the Black Forest.

Like meteors, the arrows fell in succession, and after a while, flames ignited in the depths of the forest.

Wave after wave, a raging fire soon erupted in the Black Forest to the west, forming a wall of fire that spread forward and backward.

“What are they doing?”

Lu Ban asked Birmingham below the watchtower.

“You’re alright then… We’re burning the Black Forest. The creatures of the Demonic Tide hide in the forest, so we need to burn the trees down,” Birmingham explained with a sigh of relief upon seeing that Lu Ban was fine.

“Because the trees of the Black Forest grow quickly, they can regrow from their remnants in just one day. So we usually start burning the trees around the fort a day to half a day in advance.”

“Oh!” Lu Ban acknowledged.

Lu Ban thought about how on Earth, people advocated forest protection and limited industrial development, even appointing an incomplete-schooling young girl as an environmental ambassador. Yet here in the Night Country, humans were finding various ways to eradicate forests. If an environmental ambassador saw this, they’d probably cry.

“It’s a shame we don’t have the tools from Earth here; otherwise, not just the forests in this region, but the entire Black Forest might not withstand a year of human logging.”

During his student days, Lu Ban read an article about tropical rainforest protection in a textbook, which stated that every minute, millions of hectares of rainforest were being destroyed. He used his calculator and found that at this rate, the rainforest would be gone in just a few months, so the environmentally passionate Lu Ban immediately brought up this issue with his teacher.

But at the time, his teacher evaded the question without addressing his concern. Lu Ban felt that the teacher must not support environmental protection, or else they would not have ignored the question.

As a result, Lu Ban wrote to the textbook committee to explain this issue. Not long after, the textbook was revised, and that lesson was deleted from the textbook!

Lu Ban felt there were far too many people in this world who don’t care about protecting the environment!

“If one could freely travel to other worlds, it would be entirely possible to transport the timber from the Black Forest to a Foreign Domain that needed it more, or let these forests grow in a barren desert like the Wasteland; perhaps one day, the deserts of the Wasteland could also become lush with greenery.”

Thinking of this, Lu Ban was suddenly filled with enthusiasm.

“The rapid growth of these forests must also be a result of Pollution. If I could collect and preserve these polluted trees, then the next time I go to the Wasteland, I should be able to plant trees.”

“If something can regrow from burnt remnants in just a day, couldn’t the same principle be applied to food? Could we achieve a yield of tens of thousands of pounds per acre?”

“No, I must find a way to introduce it.”

The farming instinct inscribed in Lu Ban’s DNA made him ecstatic.

“?”

Birmingham looked at Lu Ban, who was inexplicably filled with anticipation, and felt confused.

The fire was still burning.

Until dawn, the flames had covered the vast majority of the Black Forest visible to the naked eye.

Lu Ban had finished his shift and, feeling neither tired nor sleepy, went to the edge of the fortress.

The trees surrounding the fortress had not been burned, mainly because if they had, the fortress could have been affected.

This also gave Lu Ban the opportunity to gather materials.

He collected the leaves and branches from the sturdy trees and carefully preserved them, planning to find an opportunity to study them thoroughly.

Suddenly, Lu Ban saw something flash deep in the forest.

“Common demonic beasts would only flee at this time.”

Jonah’s voice came over, and Lu Ban turned his head to see the mage in heavy armor standing behind the defensive works.

“The reason we say that two Demonic Tides won’t appear at the same time is that these demonic beasts are naturally repulsive to each other, created by different gods and inherently hostile.”

Hearing Jonah’s words, Lu Ban carefully returned behind the defensive works.

“The inspection of the Forest Rangers has ended, and no more plague-infected people have been found. Perhaps the plague was transmitted from birds.”

Jonah glanced at the sky, where amidst the black clouds caused by fire, some strangely-shaped birds were fleeing.

“The observations from Gray Tower have come back, Frost is indeed among this Demonic Tide.”

He spoke with a casual tone, as if discussing today’s breakfast. Perhaps the notion of three overlapping Demonic Tides was so beyond his imagination that it had robbed him of any direct fear, due to its sheer absurdity.

“What are you collecting these for?”

Jonah glanced at the leaves and branches in Lu Ban’s hands.

“Planning to study them,” Lu Ban said outright.

“It’s no use. Gray Tower once tried to study the Black Forest from a magic perspective, attempting to find a way to contain it. But the final conclusion was that it wasn’t just the plants, animals, water, and earth that were polluted, but everything in this area.”

Jonah laughed.

“Moreover, you won’t have the opportunity to study them because, theoretically, we’re already dead.”

Under the onslaught of three Demonic Tides, neither Hei Tower nor Gray Tower could possibly organize an effective resistance in time. During the three days of the Blood Moon, frontlines like Black Fort would be completely destroyed by tides of demonic beasts, wiping out Black Pine Town behind them, the cities beyond the forest, and the civilians, leaving nothing in the wake of the Demonic Tide.

“No, that’s not right,” Lu Ban suddenly spoke up.

“You mean to say if we just try harder we can hold on? No, you haven’t experienced a Demonic Tide, you can’t imagine that kind of despair…”

“No, what I mean is, even without the simultaneous attack of three Demonic Tides, most people in this fortress would still die,” Lu Ban corrected.

“…That’s true,” Jonah said, laughing at himself.

“Since we’re all going to die anyway, might as well take as many with us as we can.”

Lu Ban packed away the plants and looked deep into the Black Forest.

A wolf’s howl echoed through the air.