I created the myth of the Great Old Ones.

At the same time, grass grew inside Lu Ban's body and blood vessels.

The green plants devoured, crushed, and wore down the words, and eventually, the murmurs in Lu Ban's ears gradually subsided.

"At least this level of plague doesn't seem to affect me anymore."

Lu Ban felt that the winter wolf was far more terrifying than the plague.

"However, Jonah couldn't possibly be unaware of the danger of leaving this blood here untreated. What if someone else touches it..."

He seemed to have thought of something, stood up, and then took the cleaning tools and began to clean the watchtower carefully.

Chapter 265 Environmental Ambassador

Lu Ban discovered that, as the fire shone and heated the blood, the words in it gradually disappeared, turning into ordinary blood.

It's true that plagues fear sunlight and high temperatures.

"The frost brings low temperatures, and the eternal night brings darkness; these are exactly what the plague needs. At the same time, the plague will sparsely sparsely guard Blackburg, causing more non-combat casualties, which will make the resistance of the eternal night and the frost more difficult..."

Lu Ban stared at the fire in the stove and muttered to himself.

"The three demonic tides have formed a subtle cooperative relationship. Why didn't they do this before?"

According to Jonah, the demonic tides and the Black Forest have been attacking humanity for thousands of years, at least once a year. So, in all this time, have these demonic tides never thought of uniting?

"Is this due to increased pollution, or is there another reason?"

Considering that strange things are gradually resurfacing in their own world, it's quite reasonable for anomalies to occur in the Night Kingdom.

Just then, Lu Ban heard a commotion outside.

He stood up and looked down at the outside of the fortress.

The rangers, holding longbows, were lighting arrows.

Under command, hundreds of archers fired fire arrows into the depths of the Black Forest.

Arrows rained down like shooting stars, and after a while, flames were seen burning deep in the forest.

Round after round, raging fires soon erupted in the Black Forest to the west, forming a wall of flames that spread outwards and backwards.

"What are you doing?"

Lu Ban asked Birmingham below the watchtower.

"Are you alright... We need to burn down the Black Forest because the monsters of the Demon Tide will hide in it."

Birmingham was relieved to see that Lu Ban was alright, and he explained.

"Because the trees in the Black Forest grow very quickly, they can regrow from the original ruins in just one day. So we usually start burning the trees around the fortress a day to half a day in advance."

"Oh!"

Lu Ban responded.

Thinking back to Earth, where people promote forest protection, restrict industrial development, and even hire young girls who haven't finished school as environmental ambassadors, it's ironic that in the Land of Night, humans are still finding ways to destroy forests. If the environmental ambassadors saw this, they'd probably be crying.

"It's a pity we don't have the tools we have on Earth. Otherwise, let alone the forests in this area, even the entire Black Forest wouldn't be able to withstand the amount of logging humans do in a year."

During his student days, Lu Ban read an article in his textbook about tropical rainforest protection. It said that millions of hectares of rainforest were destroyed every minute. He pressed a calculator and found that at this rate, the rainforest would be gone in just a few months. So, Lu Ban, who loved environmental protection, immediately raised this issue with his teacher.

But the teacher evaded the question and did not answer it. Lu Ban felt that the teacher must be someone who does not support environmental protection, otherwise he would not have ignored the issue.

So Lu Ban wrote a letter to the textbook editorial board explaining the problem. Not long after, the textbook was revised, and that lesson was actually removed from the textbook!

Lu Ban felt that there were far too many people in this world who didn't pay attention to protecting the environment!

"If we could travel freely between different lands, we could transport the timber from the Black Forest to those lands that need it more, or let these forests grow in barren deserts like the Wasteland. Perhaps one day, the Wasteland Desert could also become lush and green."

Thinking of this, Lu Ban suddenly felt a surge of energy.

"These forests are growing rapidly, which is probably a result of pollution. If we can collect and preserve these polluted trees, we should be able to plant trees next time we go to the wasteland."

"If these things can grow from the rubble in just one day, wouldn't it be possible to achieve a yield of 10,000 catties per mu?"

"No, we have to find a way to bring it in."

Lu Ban's innate farming instinct, ingrained in his DNA, filled him with joy.

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Birmingham looked at Lu Ban, who seemed inexplicably full of expectation, and was puzzled.

The fire is still raging.

By dawn, the fire had covered most of the Black Forest as far as the naked eye could see.

Lu Ban finished his shift and, instead of feeling tired, went to the fortress border.

The trees surrounding the fortress were not burned, mainly because if they were burned, the fortress might be affected.

This also gave Lu Ban the opportunity to gather material.

He removed the leaves and branches from the thick, sturdy tree, carefully preserved them, and prepared to study them thoroughly when the opportunity arose.

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

"Ordinary monsters would just run away at this point."

Jonah's voice came from behind the fortifications. Lu Ban turned his head and saw the heavily armored mage behind the fortifications.

"The reason why it is said that two demonic tides will not appear at the same time is because these demons are inherently repulsive. They were created by different gods and are naturally hostile."

Upon hearing Jonah's words, Lu Ban cautiously returned to the fortifications.

"The inspection of the forest rangers has ended. No more people infected with the plague were found. Perhaps the plague was transmitted from the birds."

Jonah glanced at the sky, where some strangely shaped birds were fleeing through the dark clouds caused by the burning flames.

"The Gray Tower's observations have returned, and Frost is indeed among the demons in this surge."

His tone was relaxed, as if he were discussing breakfast. Perhaps it was because the simultaneous appearance of three superimposed demonic tides was completely beyond his imagination. Because it was so outrageous, he no longer felt any direct fear.

What are you collecting these for?

Jonah glanced at the leaves and branches in Lu Ban's hand.

"Prepare to study it."

Lu Ban spoke frankly.

"It's no use. The Grey Tower once tried to study the Black Forest from a magical perspective, trying to find a way to contain it, but the final conclusion was that it wasn't just the plants, animals, water, and land that were polluted, but everything in this area."

Jonah smiled.

"Besides, you no longer have the opportunity to study them. Theoretically speaking, we are all dead now."

Under the onslaught of the three waves of demonic tides, the Black Tower and the Gray Tower were simply unable to organize an effective resistance in time. During the three-day Blood Moon, front lines like Black Castle would be completely destroyed by the tidal wave of demons. Along with Black Pine Town, the cities outside the forest, and the civilians, everything would be swept away by the demonic tides and vanish without a trace.

"wrong."

Lu Ban suddenly spoke.

"You want to say we can hold on if we try? No, you haven't experienced the demonic tide, you can't imagine that kind of despair..."

"No, what I mean is, even if the three demonic tides didn't attack at the same time, most of the people in this fortress would still die."

Lu Ban corrected.

"...That's true."

Jonah laughed self-deprecatingly.

"Since we're all going to die anyway, we might as well take as many people down with us."

Lu Ban gathered up the plants and looked into the depths of the Black Forest.

A wolf's howl rang out.

Chapter 266 When the Demonic Tide Rises

A biting wind, carrying foul black smoke and emitting a pungent stench, enveloped the fortress.

The gloomy sky, as if about to weep, gradually dimmed, as if trying to steal away all the sunlight.

In the distance, beyond the barrier formed by the raging fire, darkness enveloped the forest.

The first thing that catches the eye is the wolf's howl.

The piercing voice penetrated the heart, triggering the deepest fears in the human heart.

A sudden gust of wind swept through.

From the watchtower, one can see that the dense canopy of the Black Forest sways and undulates like ocean waves, accompanied by the howling of wolves, as the tide of the forest surges toward Blackburg.

Suddenly, the darkness expanded.

Even from a great distance, you could hear the sound of trees breaking.

The trees covered by the shadows crumbled instantly, and the debris swirled and blew in the sky with the cold winter wind, as if one could see the physical form of the gale.

that's the truth.

As the sky gradually darkened, the gale seemed to take shape.

It was a magnificent cloud curtain that Lu Ban had never seen before in his life. It stretched across the Black Forest like a wall, with the clouds swirling in the naked eye. If it were on Earth, it would definitely be a super typhoon that surpasses even a super typhoon.

Such a massive storm was so vast that it was impossible to see its entirety from any distance.

It got completely dark.

A crimson moon rose at some unknown time.

Enchantress, crimson, like congealed blood, bathed in the light of the red moon, giving the entire Black Castle a strange, crimson hue.

The air grew colder and colder, and white frost immediately condensed on the leaves, accompanied by a fierce wind that cut like a knife.

"The demonic tide is coming."

Jonah said, half in awe and half in shock.

"Back in Blackburg, once the frost arrives, the air here will drop to extremely low temperatures where water freezes instantly in a short time."

Lu Ban saw a flock of birds scattered in the distance. As the seemingly real gale swept through the flock, the birds froze into ice sculptures in mid-air and were carried away by the wind, flying into the sky.