Cave Refuge

When Ye Liuyun selected Patrol Team members left the deck and climbed to the rooftops of nearby buildings, they searched for a long time but did not find any trace of the raiders.

Wherever the Bloodthirsty Banner had passed, not only had it absorbed the souls of all black snakes, but even their flesh, bones, and skeletons had been absorbed, leaving only the complete snake skins intact. Thus, from a distance, if one didn't look closely, the campsite scene didn't seem much different from when the black snakes were still alive.

However, compared to the occasional low hissing from the snake group and the sound of friction as the snakes moved, the campsite had suddenly become much quieter.

Since they had been chosen as snipers in the Patrol Team, their observation skills were naturally excellent, and their eyesight had greatly improved after they became Martial Artists through their Martial Arts cultivation.

So it hadn't taken them long to notice something was wrong with the black snake group that was originally coiled around the camp. Although he had a sniper rifle in his hand, he did not rashly fire to test it out; instead, he took a small slingshot from his waist and took out a Red Bullet from his pocket, then casually fired it into a nearby ground area.

The Red Bullet used by the sniper, although mixed with some gunpowder, could only ignite nearby flammable materials upon impact, with no significant destructive power.

Its purpose was actually just to serve as a Decoy Missile they had created themselves, to mislead enemies in combat. Once fired, it would ignite flammable materials in the impact area. If there were no flammable materials in the area, it could still burn in the air for about a minute. The light and shadow effects produced by the explosion could effectively attract the enemy's attention during the battle.

He decided to use the Decoy Missile because it could validate his inner guess without revealing their location.

The other teammates around him, seeing him use the Decoy Missile, thought he had spotted the enemy's location in advance, so they subconsciously diverted part of their attention to the position where the Decoy Missile was aimed.

When the Decoy Missile hit the target and fell to the ground, the bullet suddenly burst open, producing a vast amount of heat, directly igniting the dry snake skins around it.

After the Bloodthirsty Banner had absorbed all the flesh and blood inside the black snakes, only a thin layer of snake skin had been left, without a single trace of moisture inside.

So when those snake skins came in contact with the flame, it was like dry tinder meeting a fierce fire, instantly igniting it. Subsequently, the nearby snake skins all turned into kindling, causing the originally small fire ignited by the bullet to suddenly grow larger and then continuously ignite the surrounding snake skins.

As the fire grew larger, his other teammates also noticed the situation over there. Of course, it was impossible not to notice, as the escalating fire produced a heat wave so powerful that even a blind person could easily sense the rolling heat approaching.

A Patrol Team member frowned, glanced at the increasingly large flames, and somewhat displeasurably asked, "Felix Lewis, what did you just do!!

Although I don't know why you would do this, that fire you started is getting larger. You'd better go put it out quickly, otherwise, when the fire becomes completely uncontrollable, it will turn into a troublesome issue."

Although the teammate's tone was unfriendly, Felix Lewis could hear from between the lines that the other was reminding him to quickly extinguish the fire, as everyone knows how merciless fire can be, especially as the flames continued expanding, slowly spreading towards other areas of the camp.

Grateful for his teammate's kind reminder, Felix Lewis graciously accepted it and then declined the other few people's offer to accompany him. Alone, he left the rooftop to extinguish the fire that was continuously growing on the ground.

By the time Felix Lewis leaped down from the rooftop to the ground, he sharply sensed something unusual. Normally, upon his landing, he would be met with relentless attacks from black snakes.

However, even after standing in place for a while, the black snake group that initially coiled on the ground still did not launch any attacks on him.

Felix Lewis casually kicked the black snakes at his feet, then to his surprise, he realized that the snake group he had seen from the rooftop no longer existed—only their skins remained scattered on the ground.

Felix Lewis had been puzzled earlier; the ammunition he used didn't have any special function, and under normal circumstances, it should not be able to ignite small black snakes with scales. Yet the impossible had happened so vividly right now.

That's why, after his teammate had reminded him, Felix Lewis had immediately run over here to personally investigate the cause of this situation.

Seeing the ground covered with snake skins, Felix Lewis finally understood why his regular use of the Decoy Missile could ignite such fierce flames in the camp.

Now that he knew the cause of the fire outbreak, solving it was not too troublesome. Facing the gradually expanding flames, setting aside whether he could get enough water, even if he managed to gather adequate water supply, trying to extinguish the already spreading fire by himself would also be a challenging task.