Buddhist player

Chapter 142, Day 1

Watching the old man's departing figure, Bai Chen thought for a moment, but ultimately decided not to stop him.

Although the other party clearly knows a lot of things, since they are unwilling to talk about it, there is no point in continuing to ask. Besides, he has already learned some key information from the other party.

"The sky has fallen—"

As if lost in thought, Bai Chen looked up at the sky.

"That old man is a mountain spirit."

Suddenly, Ye Qingheng's voice came from the side.

"pretty close."

"Aren't you going to keep him?"

"There's no need. Since the other party is willing to appear in front of us, it means they have no ill intentions. Doing so will only make us enemies."

Turning his head, Bai Chen looked at Ye Qingheng beside him.

"How's it going? Have you gotten the casualty count yet?"

It was clearly impossible for the three of them alone to clean up the mess in the north of the city, but with the mountains covered in...

With the help of the wild magic mushroom, things became much simpler.

Although the price for cultivating magic mushrooms is that the land can no longer be used to grow anything, at this point, who cares about such a small matter?

"2721 people, of whom 921 were critically injured and barely clinging to life. Your diluted medicine barely saved their lives. There are less than 500 who are truly unharmed and can be of assistance."

Ye Qingheng stepped on the gravel slabs.

"Those who could be saved have basically all been saved."

What about the situation in other directions?

After thinking for a moment, Bai Chen changed the subject.

Although the Devouring Bubble is currently out of control, it doesn't mean Ye Qingheng is unable to manipulate it. He can still borrow the other party's perspective briefly.

"In the west of the city, that guy who seems to be cultivating immortality has somehow summoned a bunch of people. It looks like he's doing some kind of Taoist trick of turning beans into soldiers. The Buddha's light is still there in the south of the city, but that area is the most eerie. Everyone is sitting on the ground with smiles on their faces. It looks like some kind of large-scale cult event."

Ye Qingheng frowned slightly as she said this.

"I secretly sent a magic mushroom over to take a look, and then that magic mushroom completely lost control and sat down too."

He just stood there grinning like an idiot; that little monk is really weird.

"What about the inner city?"

"Two of the young monks' group went, and the entire merchant group went. They didn't seem to have enough manpower to rescue the east of the city, so they simply went to the inner city—acting all high and mighty."

Ye Qingheng snorted coldly.

"Qingyi has led a team of mushrooms to the east of the city, but with so much time delayed, it's hard to say how many people they can still save."

"Let everyone here get ready, then we'll go into the inner city."

Bai Chen glanced at Tianheng Mountain again, his expression unconvinced.

"Those that can't be moved, let the mushrooms carry them into the city."

"The inner city probably can't hold that many people."

Ye Qingheng shook her head. "Then we'll stick to the outer edge of the inner city wall and at least gather the people together first."

Looking at the edge covered by the Devouring Bubble, Bai Chen waved his hand.

"As for the cracks in the ground, I'll figure something out. You should organize the manpower first."

Most of the boulders that fell from the mountain were caught by the Sky-Swallowing Bubble and piled up at the edge. To others, these stones might be of little use, but to him, each boulder was equivalent to a long-range shot put.

Just then, a magic mushroom hopped and skipped over from the ruins, carrying a half-broken earthenware pot under its cap. The pot contained half a pot of soup, which emitted a faint mushroom fragrance.

The magic mushroom held the pottery jar above its head and presented it to Ye Qingheng, its little eyes sparkling under its umbrella.

Squatting down, Ye Qingheng took the earthenware jar and touched the mushroom cap at the same time.

Bai Chen:

For some reason, he felt that this scene was very strange.

Although the calamity of the falling boulder was temporarily averted by the Devouring Bubble, cracks continued to appear on the ground within the city. Red flames shot into the sky from within the cracks, their light remarkably similar to the shimmering light on Mount Tianheng. It seemed that the ground beneath the surface had become an integral part of Mount Tianheng.

The only saving grace was that the cracks in the ground didn't appear very frequently; they would only suddenly tear open in a certain place after a long while. Otherwise, there would be no way to evacuate into the inner city.

When Bai Chen returned with a bunch of giant stone cards, Qing Shiyi also returned from the east of the city with mushrooms, but their setups differed.

Contrary to expectations, the other party returned to an empty house.

"—Is nobody there?"

Listening to the other person's story, Ye Qingheng couldn't help but frown.

"Yeah, there wasn't a single person there. When I got there, all that was left were corpses in the ruins; there wasn't a single living person to be seen."

Qing Shiyi also seemed quite puzzled by this matter.

"In the end, I only found a dozen or so people who were critically injured and dying, trapped in the rubble. They were all barely clinging to life, and I couldn't rescue them—had the merchants already taken the rescued people into the inner city?"

"No, only the three of them went into the inner city."

Ye Qingheng reached out and rubbed her temples.

"—Never mind, let's set off."

"If you feel you can't hold on any longer, just degenerate the Devouring Bubble. There's no need to stubbornly persist."

Bai Chen glanced at Bai Teng and offered her a cigarette.

"The latest improved model, black tea flavor."

Although the Devouring Bubble has gone out of control, the burden still falls on Ye Qingheng, the person directly controlling it. If it weren't for the Tianheng Mountain that enveloped the entire city and restrained the Devouring Bubble from continuing to expand, she would definitely have been dragged down by this summoned creature, not to mention that she has now created a whole bunch of Magic Mushrooms.

"Don't worry, I know what I'm doing."

Ye Qingheng took the incense stick and nodded.

Qing ritual:

Watching the intimate interaction between the two people in front of her, she suddenly felt that she shouldn't be there.

Because the city was in a state of disrepair and the surrounding buildings and streets were at risk of collapsing again at any time, Bai Chen simply took on the role of a human road roller in order to pass through quickly.

The method of use is also very simple: just pick out the heaviest card from your pile of Giant Stone cards, and then throw it down to flatten and compact the streets and buildings below.

Even if the boulder breaks apart, it doesn't matter, since he doesn't have many other things, but he has the most boulder cards.

As for the compacted ground, he laid steel plates on top of it, and in the end, he forced a wide road out of it.

Just as he was about to pave the road to the foot of the inner city wall, he happened to bump into a merchant who was flying out of the inner city on a copper coin.

Judging from the direction the other party was flying, it seemed to be coming this way.

The merchant, who had been smiling and had prepared his speech in advance, looked at the person in front of him who casually tossed a giant rock into the air and then fell to the ground. Then he glanced at the vast army of mushrooms behind him that was carrying humans. For the first time, the merchant's face showed a look of astonishment.

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