Volume 1 Chapter 79 Seeking Help
The Fire Bureau usually starts quietly at noon in the middle of the night. The people who are caught in the Fire Bureau feel burning all over and fall into a coma. The fundamental reason is that they are trapped by the six earth fires. Once it is noon when the sun is the hottest, the people in the bureau will be stimulated by the earth fire and burn to death.
When I went to funerals with my uncle, I would occasionally see people who died of spontaneous combustion. I didn't know why at the time, and I thought they were carrying some flammable materials, and because the weather was too hot, the things caught fire. Now I think that may not be the case.
Although I have found one of the stone pillars of the Fire Bureau, I dare not destroy it at this time. If this stone pillar is destroyed, one of the six earthly branches will be missing, and the Fire Bureau will naturally collapse. However, the people in the bureau will not be much better off. Although they will not spontaneously combust, their bodies will be instantly destroyed by the sudden imbalance of the earth fire. By then, I am afraid that I don't know how many of the six people in the funeral home will survive.
I stood up anxiously, sweat pouring down my face. Thousands of ideas flashed through my mind, but none of them were feasible. I patted the fat man and told him to stay here and dig up the pile if I didn't come back before noon.
Although Lion Head didn't know the reason, he nodded, wiped his sweat and said, "Don't worry, even if the damn thing gets killed by the sun, I will dig this pile out!"
Damn it, how can we dig the stakes when we are dying of sunburn? I was anxious and didn't want to talk to him anymore. I gave him another warning and turned around and ran towards Sanhua Station.
I really had no other choice but to ask Qingzi for help. Even though asking this damn woman to take care of such matters would be harder , I could only hold out a glimmer of hope.
I got on the bus and watched the sun move slowly toward the top of my head. I sat there anxiously like an ant on a hot pot. When I rushed into the house, Qingzi was coming down the stairs. She frowned and asked, "Why are you in such a hurry?"
I ran so hard that I was out of breath. I couldn't even utter a word for a moment. I just held on to a chair and gasped for breath. The hot sweat on my body dripped onto the ground and spread around my body.
"Wash the floor before you go out." Qingzi said, then turned around and went upstairs.
I was anxious, but I was so out of breath that I couldn't speak, so I rushed over and grabbed her skirt. My hands were full of sweat, and immediately a black handprint was left on the corner of her skirt.
"Are you itching for trouble again?" Qingzi raised her eyebrows, and I was so scared that my heart trembled. But at this time, human life was at stake, and I couldn't let him go no matter what.
Finally, she caught her breath and shouted, "Help, help!" Her face turned serious and she was about to have a seizure. She immediately screamed and squatted on the ground, crying loudly.
I was pretending to cry at first, but as I cried, I thought about how these new friends I made would die tragically on the spot if this fiery situation could not be resolved. The more I thought about it, the more scared I became. Adding to that, I thought of my Third Uncle, and I felt sad and grief-stricken. In the end, my fake crying turned into real crying, with snot and tears streaming down my face, howling loudly and shaking the earth.
After crying for a long time, I suddenly came to my senses and realized that I still had important things to do. While wiping my tears, I glanced at Qingzi and saw her standing there with a strange look on her face, but she didn't look angry.
"If you cry again, I'll throw you into the well!" the woman said with a cold face.
I stopped crying immediately, but I had been crying so hard that I couldn't stop for a while, and I couldn't help sobbing a few times.
"Tell me, what trouble have you encountered?" Qingzi turned and walked downstairs and sat on the chair next to the dining table.
I quickly wiped away my tears and followed her downstairs, where I sobbed and quickly told her the whole story. I said that our family now depends on this job in the funeral home. If everyone died, who would pay the salary? In the future, we would not be able to eat fish and shrimp, let alone porridge.
Qingzi glanced at me and said coldly, "If you dare to cry again, I will break your legs !"
I hurriedly said, "Yes, yes, if you cry again, I'll break your legs! Both of them!"
Qingzi snorted coldly and said, "Repeat the method of setting up the Fire Bureau."
I was overjoyed and quickly described the principle and structure of the Fire Bureau. I said with a bitter face, "Although one of the stone pillars has been found, if it is destroyed directly, it will not end well for the people in the bureau." I glanced at Qingzi secretly and said softly, "I wonder if you can break it..."
Qingzi said: "I said you are stupid, but you still feel that I have wronged you! The six earthly branches cannot be moved, so you can't move the burial pit?"
I was stunned for a moment: "Disturb the tomb?" I had never thought about this before.
"With your limited ability, you can't control the Six Earth Fires, so you dare not move the Earthly Branch Stone Pillars. But the Six Earth Fires were originally dead, and they were led to kill people because of the burial pit. If you go and destroy the bodies in the burial pit, the game will naturally break."
I suddenly understood what he said, but after thinking about it carefully, I felt that something was wrong. If the fire-burning scheme could be broken by destroying the burial pit, wouldn't that be too simple? Could it be that the old Taoist priest who invented the fire-burning scheme didn't think of such an obvious loophole?
Just as I was thinking about it, I heard Qingzi sneer and said, "Do you think this method is too simple? Wait until you find the burial pit first." After that, he got up and went up the stairs.
"Mop the floor first when you come back in the evening!" Then the figure turned into the second floor and I didn't even have time to react.
I had been counting on her to step in and settle the matter directly, but now that seems impossible. However, at least I had an idea. Seeing that it was getting late, I quickly went to the room to get a bag, put some things in it, and rushed out of the house carrying it.
When I returned to the place where I dug out the stone pile, I saw Lion Head was still guarding there. He had taken off his clothes and put them on his head. However, the sun was so strong that this little bit of shelter was simply a drop in the bucket. When I arrived, the fat man was almost fainted by the sun.
When he saw me coming, the fat man suddenly jumped up and shouted, "Brother Lu, if you don't come, I will become a roasted pig!"
I couldn't help but feel touched and gave him two thumbs up: "Great!"
The lion head raised his head and said, "Of course not. When you are in the martial arts world, loyalty is the most important thing!"
I went up to him and patted him, then quickly ran to the funeral home. The fat man followed behind me, panting, and said, "If Boss Ma is willing to give me another bowl of rice, that would be even better, hehe!"
I cursed in my heart, this fat guy is so attentive, he must have other purposes. But even so, just for his fighting spirit, even if his purpose is not pure, I have to accept his kindness.
The two climbed over the wall and entered the funeral home. Although Lionhead was fat, he climbed over the wall quite swiftly. As soon as he landed, he heaved a sigh of relief and said, "It's still more comfortable here, it's like a summer resort."
I didn't have time to chat with him, so I took him straight to the utility room, found two shovels, one for each of us, and carried them out. But as soon as we went out, I couldn't help but feel a little hesitant. When I came here before, I calculated the way in my mind, but now I have only found one of the six stone piles in the Fire Bureau. Time waits for no one, and there is no time to find the other five one by one. If we calculate the location of the burial pit in this way, the error will be huge. If we are unlucky, the actual location will be completely different from the calculated location.
At this time, the sun was moving towards the zenith, and there were less than two hours left until noon. I was anxious and afraid, and my palms holding the shovel were full of cold sweat. This fire game was different from the soul refining game. The layout was much larger. If I made a mistake in calculation, I might not have time to make the next calculation.
"Brother Lu, where do you think we should go?" Lion Head asked as he followed me with sweat all over his forehead, carrying a shovel.
I was stunned for a moment. At this moment, I realized even more how difficult it was to make a decision . When I was still in the village, my third uncle and I were usually responsible for foreign affairs, while I was responsible for household affairs such as firewood, rice, oil and salt. Sometimes I was not convinced and argued, why can I only be the one in charge of these trivial matters?
But now that I have to make a big decision, I hesitate and feel uneasy. My choice may determine the life and death of six people. I am a little scared. Haha, it turns out that I am just a naive little kid, why should I pretend to be so powerful?
