Chapter 653 Fire Rain
The border of the Red Dust Realm.
Shuangqiao Town.
Thick black clouds shrouded the town, as if a storm was brewing.
The residents, dressed simply, hurriedly walked along the muddy path carrying firewood on their backs, looking up at the sky from time to time, the patter of rain falling on their cheeks, and their steps became faster and faster.
Under the iconic stone arch bridge of Shuangqiao Town, a black-sailed boat was slowly approaching the shore. People tied the boats to the shore with thick ropes to prevent the hurricane from blowing the boats away; the shops on both sides of the river closed in advance, and the clothes hangers hung outside by each household were also put away... The whole town was fully prepared for this uncommon storm in advance.
"Mom! It's going to rain!"
Under the rubble eaves, a girl squatting by the door, as round and cute as a New Year picture, spoke excitedly.
"It's going to rain, don't run around, understand?" The middle-aged woman walked quickly through the door holding several stacks of bedding.
"If I don't run around, can I play in the yard?"
"No, I'll catch a cold when it rains."
"I'll wear my dad's hat and raincoat!" The girl stared at the hat and raincoat on the wall with shining eyes, as if she had been interested in them for a long time, "I'll play for a while, when the rain is light... If you let me come back, I'll come back right away!"
"Haha, if my daughter wants to wear it, let her wear it." A tall middle-aged man walked out of the house and said with a smile, "Playing in the yard for a while, it's okay."
"...Really, you two are the same."
The woman glared at him, but still didn't refuse, but continued to collect clothes and do her own things.
Seeing this, the girl jumped up excitedly, hugged her father's neck and kissed him. Then she took off the hat and raincoat on the wall and put them on herself carefully. After a while, she turned into a brown ball of hair. Perhaps because of her short height, the end of the slender raincoat dragged on the ground like a bird's tail.
Tick-tick-tick-
Drops of rain fell from the dark clouds, creating ripples on the surface of the river. Seeing this, the girl immediately jumped out of the door and ran around in the small yard.
"Dad! I really can't get wet!" The girl's huge hat blocked the rain, and she spoke excitedly.
"Run slowly, don't fall."
Gusts of wind blew across Shuangqiao Town, and the original drizzle gradually became denser, and ripples intertwined in the puddles, as if there was an invisible hand playing a chaotic and disordered movement.
The girl's father sat under the eaves, watching the young figure playing wildly in the rain, and the corners of his mouth unconsciously curled up...
Just then, his nose twitched slightly, and doubts flashed in his eyes:
"Strange... what smell?"
He sniffed carefully for a long time, stretched out a hand outside the eaves, caught a few drops of rain, and sniffed carefully under his nose.
"No, this doesn't seem to be rain..."
"Dad! Why do I smell?" The girl playing in the rain seemed to notice something was wrong and tilted her head in confusion.
The man was stunned for a while, then suddenly looked up at the dark rain cloud and waved to the girl, "Stop playing, come back soon!!"
The moment the man finished speaking, something strange happened!
A red lightning flashed through the dark clouds, and the next moment, the rain was suddenly ignited. The dark sky seemed to be covered by countless tiny sun rays, and everyone couldn't open their eyes!
What fell from the sky was not rain at all, but nitroglycerin.
Boom--! !
The rain of fire rushed down from the sky, and the girl who had just started running was also hit by a drop of fire rain. She was soaked in her raincoat and hat. In the blink of an eye, a flamingo was burning, and the sharp wailing sounded through the sky!
"Jia Jia! Jia Jia!!"
The man's pupils suddenly contracted, and he rushed into the rain without hesitation, trying to pull the girl back.
The desperate firebird danced in the rain, and the wings struggled only twice before falling to the ground completely. The ground that had long been soaked by the "rain" turned into a raging sea of fire, blocking the man who rushed out!
At the same time, the man's body also caught fire. He screamed and took off his ignited clothes, trying to extinguish the flames on his body, but even without clothes, this "rain" on his body could also ignite his body!
The flames on the man's body became more and more vigorous, and bursts of burning smell drifted in the air. He desperately wanted to crawl into the house, because only the ground under the eaves was not covered by the fire rain...
But it was too late.
The heavy rain poured down from the sky, and the entire Shuangqiao Town had turned into a fiery hell. The man only took three steps and was burned into a charred corpse, falling in front of his own eaves, shattered all over the ground.
Not only the earth, but also the brick and tile roofs were ignited by the rain of fire. The fragmented rain of fire flowed down the eaves like a dazzling waterfall of flames, and all the houses creaked in the high temperature burning.
The flames filled every corner, the smoke billowed, and the oxygen became thinner and thinner... Even if most people were hiding in the house and were not burned to death by the rain of fire, they were curled up on the ground in pain at this moment, with pale and hideous faces!
They greedily wanted to breathe air, but all they had left were burning embers and smoke. After just three or four breaths, they completely lost consciousness.
The earth was burning, the roofs were burning, and the rivers were burning;
In this sea of fire with wind and rain, human life was as fragile as ants, and people died every minute and every second...
How long would it take to massacre a town?
A heavy rain,
13 minutes.
A figure stood tall above the clouds that released the rain of fire.
Red thunder moved around him, and a huge alchemy array rotated silently under his feet. The rain of fire that massacred Shuangqiao Town was just a disaster he casually created.
"Thousands of people died in thirteen minutes... The efficiency is still too low."
Brand shrugged regretfully.
"In the Red Dust Realm, the population is sparsely distributed, especially in the hundreds of towns outside the main city... At this rate, it will take at least several days to collect all the philosopher's stones."
"We still have to go to the Red Dust main city..."
"There are millions of people living there, and a casual rain of fire array can kill hundreds of thousands of people. The speed should be much faster than here."
Brand identified the direction, and then controlled the thick rain clouds under his feet to move forward somewhere, leaving only a blazing sea of fire, leaping in the dead town.
At this moment, he seemed to have noticed something and turned his head to look at the horizon.
"Tsk... this group of people came quite fast."
In the direction of the Red Dust main city, a figure in ink and water was seen, like a raging thunder, rapidly cutting through the sky and rushing towards them! !