Chapter 140: She Would Still Die Even With Nine Lives
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
The pit collapsed!
In an instant, terrified screams rang out.
Su Ying was the first to react. She pulled the rope from her wrist, but there was very little vegetation around the slope. The grappling hooks on the rope couldn’t hold onto anything.
The collapsed mountain of earth smashed hard on her face, and more people fell from above, screaming in shock.
“Help, help!”
Su Ying’s body crashed into the people below. She steadied herself and quickly stood up. She looked around and tried to think of a way to leave, but the pit was like a whirlpool that sucked them deep into the ground.
Su Ying raised her head and saw someone pouring something into the pit.
Su Ying dodged to one side and sniffed it. Her face clouded over. It was tung oil.
Those people wanted to burn them to death!
Soon, her guess was confirmed, and a torch was thrown in.
The bodies of those who had been drenched with oil were instantly set ablaze.
The sudden collapse of the pit shocked the people who were picking up the copper coins nearby. They screamed in horror and tried to escape, but as soon as they turned around, they found that white smoke was rising around the slope. The slope was on fire!
“Fire, fire! There’s a wildfire! Everyone, run!”
“Run quickly! There’s a wildfire!”
Everyone scattered like birds.
Although the vegetation on the mountain slope wasn’t thick, it wasn’t little either. Coupled with the autumn drought, the entire slope was ablaze very soon. In just a flash, the entire mountain slope was surrounded by a big fire.
The thick smoke from the big fire almost turned the entire sky gray.
Number One and the others were doing perception training by the stream. They raised their heads to look at the sky, feeling a little puzzled.
“Why did the sky suddenly turn gray?”
“Do you guys smell something? It seems like something is burnt?”
Qiao Yang, whose legs were wobbling from doing the martial-art squat, stood up and looked in the direction of the wind. He could see the faint signs of a fire.
“Look ahead. Isn’t that a wildfire over there? Quick, look!”
Everyone came out of the water and looked in the direction Qiao Yang was pointing. There were indeed fiery flames dancing around.
“What direction is that?”
“It’s the slope behind us. Why did it start burning all of a sudden? I remember that there were not many people there when we passed by that place to go for training.”
However, Number One frowned. “A wildfire is not a small matter. Although our area is a little far from there, the weather is dry now. If the mountain wind blows, it’s very likely that the fire will spread toward us. Everyone, gather around. We’re going down the mountain now.”
Su Ying had said that when she wasn’t around, everyone had to listen to Number One’s orders. Hence, when they heard Number One’s instruction, they all came out of the water and gathered to go back.
Many people still wanted to pick up the money on the slope, but before they could get up there, they realized that the slope was on fire. They were so scared that they quickly ran back, afraid that they would be burned to ashes if they moved just a tad slower.
A wildfire like this basically wouldn’t stop unless it had burned everything that could be burned.
Xiao Jin sat in the courtyard, looking up at the gradually smoggy sky. His brows subconsciously furrowed, and his heart rate inexplicably accelerated.
He subconsciously looked toward the upper floor and could still hear the children reading out loud. He turned around and called out to Su Ying.
However, no one responded.
“Su Ying? Where’s Su Ying?”
Tian Mu heard the commotion and walked over from the backyard. “Master, you are looking for Mistress? She went to the slope behind after telling me to bring the charcoal back. Someone said that they found money on the slope, so Mistress followed them to check out the situation.”
Xiao Jin’s brows furrowed even more when he heard this. How could money be found scattered all over the ground in a place like this for no reason? There was clearly something amiss.
“Jiang Yang, go with Wang Su immediately to that mountain slope to see what’s going on.”
“Yes, Sir.”
When Jiang Yang and the others arrived at the slope, they saw the blazing fire on the slope and their hearts immediately jumped to their throats.
Wang Su conveniently grabbed a person who was running down the mountain and asked, “What’s going on? Why did the mountain catch fire all of a sudden?”
The other party was obviously badly frightened, and there was still fear in his eyes as if he had just escaped death. “I… I don’t know. It was fine at the beginning, but I don’t know why the place suddenly started burning.”
Wang Su released that guy, and that person half ran and half stumbled away.
The two men looked at the raging fire on the slope and felt more frightened the longer they looked at it. They did not know if the Mistress had escaped. It was such a big fire. If she was on the mountain…
They didn’t dare to think further!
When Lian Qiao escaped from the mountain slope, she almost collided with Wang Su.
Wang Su quickly dodged to the side, but when he saw Lian Qiao was about to fall, he pulled her up.
Luckily, Lian Qiao didn’t fall to the ground because she was pulled up by Wang Su. After she steadied herself, she said gratefully, “Thank you very much, Big Brother.”
Wang Su shook his head, indicating to her it was nothing, but Lian Qiao recognized Jiang Yang who was beside him.
“This Big Brother here… you have to think of a way to save that powerful Big Sister quickly.”
Lian Qiao’s words caught both men’s attention at once.
“You know me?” Jiang Yang asked.
Lian Qiao nodded. In fact, she had hidden in the courtyard and seen Su Ying and Jiang Yang when they rescued Lin Zhuyu and the others and brought them back.
“Mm-hmm. You are followers of that powerful Big Sister, right? I saw that Big Sister go up the mountain. I followed her at that time, but we were some distance apart. I… I saw that Big Sister fall into the pit…”
“What did you just say? Did Mistress fall into the pit on the slope? That slope has always been flat. Why would there be a pit?”
Lian Qiao explained, “The pit was dug a few days ago. At that time, everyone was picking up coins by the pit. Then the pit collapsed and that Big Sister fell in. Then someone suddenly set fire to it…”
“You’re saying that someone set the mountain on fire after Mistress fell in?”
Lian Qiao nodded.
Jiang Yang and Wang Su clenched their fists.
Wang Su said, “Jiang Yang, you go back and report the situation to the Master. I’ll go to the Tiger Base and ask Tiger Might to help put out the fire.”
“Alright.”
The two of them split up and quickly turned around to leave.
Lian Qiao shook her head as she watched the two of them leave.
Notwithstanding the fact that the pit collapse might bury people alive, it would be difficult for anyone to survive in such a dangerous wildfire that was so big that it practically turned the sky black. Even if they found the person, the body would probably be unrecognizable…
Meanwhile, on the other side of the pit, the people of the Azure Dragon Base were looking at the blazing fire with excitement.
Some of the Azure Dragon Base’s men ran back quickly from the slope.
“Twelfth commander, the slope has been completely set on fire. I saw Su Ying fall into the pit with my own eyes. This time, even if she had nine lives, she would still die!”
When Yu Tong heard this, a trace of a victorious smile appeared on his face. He didn’t believe that Su Ying would be able to come out alive again!
“It’s a pity that I didn’t get to see her burn to ashes with my own eyes..”