Those who face the wall, but are in the Nascent Soul stage.

Chapter 90 Earth Fire (The End)

Liu Xin continued walking. He knew that this geothermal coal seam must have an oxygen supply outlet. Although the overall temperature of the coal city had been forcibly suppressed by the Wallfacer who used all his methods, the chaos during the evacuation had already led to casualties.

He cannot escape blame.

The fire spread more fiercely than the government had imagined. Liu Xin was watching the army come and go from the transport vehicle when the rapid deterioration of the situation made the disaster relief command center completely disregard the cost.

The disaster relief command center ordered: Drive everything that can be driven into the coal city to rescue people.

Including the heavy van that transported him.

Two soldiers were originally reserved to prevent him from running away, but the influx of refugees quickly threw the two young soldiers into disarray. In addition, chaos broke out in the crowd, and as the only two members of the official organization in the vicinity, the two soldiers had no choice but to maintain order.

With tens of thousands of people rushing through, nothing can be found.

As a result, Liu Xin, who had been arrested the day before, was left unattended the next day. Liu Xin wandered into the city in a daze and has been there ever since.

On the way, he saw an acquaintance, Deputy Director Zhang of the Ministry of Energy. At that moment, his eyes were bloodshot, and he was gritting his teeth to maintain basic order during the evacuation of the city. When he saw Liu Xin walking over, he ran over and punched Liu Xin to the ground. The latter spat out blood mixed with his teeth and felt a little dizzy.

After doing all this, Deputy Director Zhang mingled back into the crowd. He was determined to perish in the fire along with the city. Before that, he wanted to save as many people as possible to lessen his own insignificant sins.

The ice on the ground was cracking, and the Xuanbing sword intent that had been driven into the earth nearby was completely assimilated by the coal heat, and billowing hot air began to rise from the ground again. Beyond the highway, numerous gullies appeared on the ground, caused by excessive dryness.

The next moment, it started to rain.

Liu Xin subconsciously looked up and saw that the transparent ocean trembling in the sky was now being shoved down in patches of water. The water layer turned into raindrops due to air resistance, carrying the coolness of the Bohai Bay, and drifted down one after another.

Occasionally, some sea fish would also fall down along with it.

However, the amount of rain was not too much, and the spellcaster was clearly worried about turning the place into a steamer.

About three hours later.

Black smoke began to billow from the buildings, and the internal temperature of civil defense projects such as underground parking garages was approaching 70 or 80 degrees Celsius. The entire coal city was devoid of any greenery, and the green belts lay flat on the ground as if dead. The riverbed of the Fen River had also cracked.

By this time, the city's evacuation was largely complete. Luo Qing maintained a tight grip on the highway system, with hundreds of thousands of people leaving the coal city almost every minute. They were then immediately transported outside the coalfield by waiting trains that were not yet out of service.

Within the city, civilian and foreign rescue teams began to evacuate.

Liu Xin finally arrived at his destination, which was one of the mining openings of the super coal seam. The mining opening has now become a powerful oxygen supply outlet, with gas clouds roaring into the bottom layer to fill the gaseous vacuum created by underground combustion.

The intense heat had blinded him. Liu Xin staggered toward the mine entrance and then leaped into the air.

Just as he was about to become part of the countless coals that turned into carbon dioxide or carbon monoxide, a man who had come from hell stopped him.

"Dr. Liu Xin, you will find it difficult to atone for your sins in this lifetime."

After saying that, Liu Xin, whose entire body was burned beyond recognition, was thrown onto a piece of sand, where the intensely hot sand caused another layer of his skin to roll off.

Luo Qing was still enveloped in a layer of celestial light. He was carrying a sword, clearly having just emerged from a coalbed mound. The core temperature of that mound had reached a terrifying 6,000 degrees Celsius. Luo Qing could withstand a nuclear bomb, but he couldn't possibly walk in temperatures comparable to the surface of the sun for too long.

Fortunately, the three hours he spent down there allowed Luo Qing to understand the burning trend and specific structure of the geothermal layer, something that human technology and his own spiritual sense could not achieve.

He was exhausted from all the work.

Fortunately, the specific work has been completed.

"Can you...can you save all of this...block all the oxygen supply channels?" Liu Xin said tremblingly.

Luo Qing looked at Liu Xin with a cold smile: "What do you think? The maximum depth of the coalbed is over six thousand meters. If the temperature were any higher, I would even suspect that the coal in the core layer would undergo spontaneous nuclear fusion under high pressure and heat... This kind of power is unstoppable by mortals. It possesses unimaginable energy. Even if humans stuffed the most powerful nuclear bomb underground, they still couldn't extinguish these layers of abyssal fire."

Liu Xin finally lost all hope.

"But thankfully I'm not an ordinary person," Luo Qing said thankfully. He flicked his finger towards the sky, and the Bohai Sea immediately broke open, with a column of water a hundred meters in diameter replacing the raging gas clouds and being sucked into the extraction port.

A large amount of water vapor was immediately pumped out from the mine shaft, which then condensed into white mist, rising in a flurry in this corner of the city. This thousand-meter-high high-temperature mist, from a distance, looked as if it were creating a large number of white clouds.

This scene was playing out simultaneously at thirteen mining sites throughout the city.

Yes, Luo Qing, alone with his sword, carved out an underground hollow tunnel along the various mining openings under temperatures exceeding a thousand degrees Celsius. Now, seawater can flow in without any obstruction.

Thirteen water columns are poured into the ground, delivering approximately three million cubic meters of water per second, which can only provide a small amount of relief to the underground coal seam.

This isn't meant in a derogatory way. Even a drop in the ocean is far more effective than the "dripping water" that humans use to pump water from wells. At least this cup of water will keep flowing, and there is indeed hope of extinguishing the subterranean fire.

After finishing all that, Luo Qing grabbed Liu Xin and placed a spiritual energy seal on him to prevent him from dying at any moment, as that would be too easy on him.

“You’re a tech guy, and your arrogant attitude toward technology led to this disaster. I have no right to judge you, and I certainly won’t let you commit suicide. Go and wait for the punishment of human law. If there isn’t a relevant law, I’ll create one just for you—I’m a fan of the Great Zhou Dynasty, so I won’t take your life.”

After saying that, Luo Qing grabbed Liu Xin and leaped into the air.

How many people are still in the city?

"The people gathered in the squares and on the roads have been evacuated, and nobody knows how many are left. But the command center keeps saying there are still hundreds of thousands of green dots representing lifelines in the city. The problem is, we can't find these hundreds of thousands of people! Taiyuan has tens of thousands of buildings! There's simply no way to find them!"

"We must go find them! This involves hundreds of thousands of lives!" the frontline commander roared.

"The ice sword in May Day Square is broken!!" someone shouted in terror.

"Hopefully, that Wallfacer won't ask humans to compensate him for his magical artifacts. Let the traffic police withdraw; they've done enough. All we need here is the army," a political commissar said.

"All troops, listen to my command! The vanguard continues searching, the rest of you retreat! Move the troops in the danger zone to the safe zone!"

The frontline commander bowed his head, his feet soaking in lukewarm water—melted ice and water collected from the rain falling from the sea.

The city has become Venice, only it's about to boil over.

However, even with the city being generally humid, it was still impossible to prevent the fire from breaking out.

The densely packed pigeon lofts in the distance were now billowing thick black smoke, which, as a certain critical point was reached, instantly turned into fierce flames.

This ball of fire seemed to herald a grand firestorm; almost in the blink of an eye, the building was completely engulfed in flames.

Within a minute, hundreds of buildings experienced similar fires, the most intense of which was the 'Coal Building' standing in the city center. On top of that landmark building, the huge 'coal' was burning fiercely just like real coal.

Then came the game of musical chairs, and the flames spread. In less than a few minutes, half the city was engulfed in flames.

A curved sword light suddenly swept across the sky above the city, extinguishing all the open flames in the coal city in its path.

But just seconds later, the overwhelming fire reignited.

Then came even more sword flashes.

The flames were constantly being extinguished, only to reappear again.

The coal city is caught in a superposition of 'burning or smoking'.

"With those facing the wall here, the fire won't start. Rescue people, keep rescuing people, disperse the rescue efforts, save as many as you can." The frontline commander gave hoarse instructions.

Suddenly, a thunderous sound appeared, the sound waves even causing ripples in the ocean above, and directly causing the sunlight shining on the ground through the seawater to tremble along with the sound.

All military and relief personnel remaining in the city must immediately evacuate Taiyuan; this is part of the plan.

That's Luo Qing's voice.

The soldiers looked around, but they still couldn't see the person who had spoken.

"Should we... should we retreat?" a soldier asked, looking at the front-line commander.

“We can’t evacuate. There are still hundreds of thousands of people left. There are still hundreds of thousands of people left. The Tangshan earthquake only killed more than 200,000 people…” the deputy commander next to him said painfully.

The political commissar said, "Evacuate most of the troops, and send a small number to rescue people. I will lead the team."

Orders from the disaster relief command center followed immediately: "All disaster relief troops, withdraw from the city and move to safe areas!"

As if knowing that some people on the front lines would disobey orders, the disaster relief center sent out another message: "The one who is facing the wall will save the rest, trust him!"

...

About three minutes later, hundreds of water dragons emerged from the Bohai Sea, rushing towards various buildings and 'swallowing' the unconscious survivors inside. They then rushed into the next building, 'swallowing' even more survivors.

In a short time, the 'belly' of these hundreds of water dragons swallowed tens of thousands of survivors, who were enveloped in bubbles. As the water dragons traversed the city, more and more people were rescued from various nooks and crannies.

Some people were even found hiding in the refrigerator when the water tap ripped open the refrigerator lid and pulled them out.

Then, more water cannons emerged from the Bohai Sea and joined the effort to break windows and rescue people.

Seeing this, the frontline commander finally breathed a sigh of relief and gave the order:
"Everyone, retreat to the safe zone."

Due to unforeseen circumstances, the previous text has been revised, resulting in a slightly delayed update. I apologize to all readers.

This chapter was from yesterday; the third update will be tonight.

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