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Chapter 196 Natural Disasters and Man-made Disasters

Zhang Tian asked Hutou and others to stay in the camp to protect Lin Yu, and he went to the highest nearby mountain to take a look.

He always felt that things would not go as smoothly as expected. Everything he knew so far was heard from crows and mountain people. He and Lin Yu's deduction was also based on this, but primitive people's judgments may not be reliable. Perhaps standing on a high place and seeing it with your own eyes, you will find more things.

"It's too risky for you to go alone!" Lin Yu worried, "Let me go with you!"

Lin Yu's company is very good, but Zhang Tian also knows that it is very dangerous to enter the mountain at this time, so he plans to go back quickly. Lin Yu will slow down the speed and consume a lot of energy.

"What you have to do now is to conserve your energy and deal with the volcano that is about to erupt. Don't worry, I have been guided by the sky, and the volcano will not erupt for the time being."

Zhang Tian's judgment comes from his perception. As the final moment approaches, the sense of crisis and oppression will undoubtedly become stronger.

It has not reached that level yet, so it can be seen that it is safe for the time being.

In front of everyone, he couldn't tell the truth, but the guidance attributed to the sky was more convincing.

Lin Yu understood and felt a little relieved.

Hei Huo raised his neck and said loudly, "He's not alone! There's me too! I know this place well, and I will protect the priest!"

Everyone laughed.

Hei Huo was older and stronger than Zi Huo, so Zhang Tian asked him to be his guide.

The two headed towards the mountains.

……

Walking through the dense forest, all the way is climbing. Although the slope is relatively gentle, it seems to have no end.

The two set off in the morning until noon, crossing a dry river, the gentle slope stopped abruptly and was replaced by a steep slope also covered by dense vegetation.

Looking up, the veil-like clouds hang lightly above the head, covering the sight, and the hillside extends upwards, passing through the lingering clouds, as if leading to the kingdom of heaven.

Zhang Tian is a hardcore enthusiast of outdoor sports, hiking, camping, mountaineering, rock climbing, caving... As long as it is outdoor sports, he has more or less contact with it, and he can be regarded as a senior "old donkey" in the circle of donkey friends up.

Based on his previous experience, he roughly estimated that the cumulative height of the two should have risen to more than 500 meters.

And the height of the cloud-covered mountain range in front of it is at least 500 meters, which is not very high, but... its structure is very similar to the mountain formed by the accumulation of lava and volcanic debris near the vent!
On the way here, he found a lot of carbonized wood and passed several lava terraces, which are the traces left after the volcanic eruption.

"Are you sure you didn't lead the wrong way?"

"I often come to this mountain to play. There is a very large lake on the top of the mountain, which is so beautiful! I can't go wrong with my eyes closed!"

"What did you say?"

"I said I can't go wrong with my eyes closed... What's wrong?" Heihuo noticed that the sky priest's face was very ugly.

Zhang Tian didn't answer.

The lake on the top of the mountain is undoubtedly the crater lake, or Tianchi. This mountain is indeed a volcano!
It was nothing, the volcanoes in Inner Mongolia are monogenetic volcano groups, since they are groups, there must be more than one volcano.

The so-called monogenetic volcanic group means that each volcano is composed of a single eruption of slag cones and symbiotic slag-like lava flows.

In other words, unlike the compound volcanoes in Changbai Mountain that can erupt repeatedly, monogenetic volcanoes are formed by one eruption, and usually only erupt once.

The underground magma keeps rising due to the high temperature, and it often cools before it reaches the top. The viscous magma is like a cork blocking the passage below, so the gas in the magma has nowhere to escape and accumulates underground. Gradually turn the volcano into a super pressure cooker.

But the pressure cooker doesn't shoot around aimlessly, it looks for a main spout.

The mountain worshiped by the tribe on the mountain is obviously the main vent of this eruption. It stands to reason that places other than the main vent will not erupt, not to mention that the mountain in front of us has already erupted once.

This is Lin Yu's conclusion.

Zhang Tian didn't know as much about volcanoes as Lin Yu did, but he trusted Lin Yu's knowledge and didn't think her judgment was wrong.

It's just... the feeling of uneasiness became stronger and stronger, making him fearful and afraid to move forward.Although the mountain in front of him was lush and full of vitality, the sense of oppression it brought him was not at all under the volcano that was about to erupt!

"Are we... still going up the mountain?"

Seeing that the sky priest was silent and hesitant, Heihuo asked tentatively.

Zhang Tian recovered from his anxiety, and instead of answering, asked, "How long will it take to reach the top of the mountain?"

"If you go up the mountain at the fastest speed and wait for the sun to reach that position, you should be there."

Hei Huo pointed to the sky. Although the tribes on the grasslands and the tribes in the valley camp were separated by hundreds of thousands of miles, they had the same habit of using the sun to judge the time.

Zhang Tian glanced at the position of his fingers, and it seemed that it would not take much time, so he said, "Let's go up and have a look."

It's hot!

It gets hotter as you go up the mountain. The heat doesn't come from the scorching sun above your head, but from the scorching land under your feet.

Under the cover of layers of tree canopy, how can the ground be so hot?

Moreover, the ground was shaking slightly all the time, and the mountain was so quiet that it didn't look like a forest in midsummer. Not a single bird could be seen, and even the ants were moving in a hurry.

All kinds of signs are sending an extremely ominous signal.

Hei Huo also noticed something strange, but he was more happy because he hadn't come to play in this mountain for a long time!

He wanted to share his joy with his fellow travelers, but he caught a glimpse of the sky priest with a serious expression on his face, which seemed to be mixed with a little fear, so he didn't dare to say much and climbed the mountain with his head down.

"arrive!"

Heihuo wiped the sweat off his forehead, trotted excitedly, and rushed out of the dense bushes.

A pool of clear and translucent sapphire-like lake water appeared in front of the two of them.

Tianchi.

The volcanic eruption exhausted the magma and the material inside the mountain. After the mountain was hollowed out, the outside lost its support. The rocks around the crater gradually collapsed, slowly forming a huge caldera, and storing water into a lake. Tianchi.

In the past, Tianchi, which never dries up for a long time and never overflows with rain, is undoubtedly an excellent beauty.

But at this time, the water mist on the lake was steaming, damp and stuffy, and even the black fire who lived on the grassland and had been scorched by the scorching sun for a long time couldn't stand it, and it was so hot.

"It used to be very cool here, what's going on..."

Seeing this scene, Heihuo's excitement dissipated instantly, and he became panicked.

Zhang Tian stretched out his hand to check the temperature of the water, but it was unnecessary. He also knew that the water temperature would never be low. He just couldn't believe it... Lin Yu's judgment based on volcanoes and geology was wrong?
No matter how you look at the mountain, it looks like it is about to erupt.

His perception told him so too.

After all, Zhang Tian is not a geologist. He cannot give a reasonable explanation and can only guess based on the current situation.

Perhaps it was because the high priests of the past dynasties continued to cool down the magma at the main vent, forcing it to cool down, resulting in the underground magma being unable to shoot, holding back for too long, the pressure was too great, and had to find another way to vent?

The volcanic eruption was originally a natural disaster, but because of the intervention of the high priests of the past generations, which violated the laws of nature and suppressed the eruption process, it evolved into a man-made disaster that is far more harmful than natural disasters!

It is not scary to have power, but the person who holds power is not educated...

The current result is undoubtedly nature's punishment for the tribe on the mountain, but this punishment is obviously more serious than Lin Yu expected!
Zhang Tian straightened up and looked around.

This crater lake is approximately circular, with a diameter of about half a kilometer. As for the depth... Tianchi is famous for its clarity, but he can't see to the bottom. Fire, but the threat of flood is no less than forest fire!

More importantly, Lin Yu was helpless, and everyone including Hutou was landlubber!
He walked to a tall fir tree, and tree climbing is an essential skill for every primitive man.

Hei Huo looked at the sky priest climbing up like a monkey from under the tree, but he didn't know why.

Standing on a high place, Zhang Tian looked through the sparse branches and leaves, and saw an extremely magnificent and vast sea of ​​clouds, and above this sea of ​​clouds, more than ten mountains of different sizes were exposed, whether far or near.

These mountains also brought him a strong sense of oppression, indicating extremely high danger.

Now, he finally understood where that strange feeling came from.

The volcano with the most obvious geological activity attracted his attention, causing him to ignore other mountains. However, the real danger is not a certain mountain, but the entire volcano group!
Every mountain here is brewing with anger!

Zhang Tian immediately slid back to the ground with the tree trunk in his arms, and said anxiously, "Go back to the camp!"

……

The people guarding the camp were all sweating for the two who ventured into the mountain.

As night fell, everyone routinely looked up at the sky and prayed for the safe return of the sky priest.

As if they heard their devout prayers, after a short while, a ball of fire lit up outside the camp, approaching quickly, gradually revealing two figures, one tall and one short.

It is the sky and black fire that have left during the day.

Everyone's hanging hearts all fell back into their stomachs.

Before he could be happy, he heard a shout: "Go! Get out of here!"

Zhang Tian hurried back to the camp and called everyone to leave.

It is no longer a matter of forest fires.

The mountain he and Black Fire climbed today is very close to the camp. Once it erupts, the pyroclastic flow will hit here within a few minutes with high temperature and a large amount of sand, followed by a mighty pouring down. Under the Tianchi water!

I don't know if there are other eruption points nearby. If you stay here, you will die, and the end will not be much better than the residents of Pompeii.

For the current plan, we can only hurry up and run away from the volcanoes. Before the volcano erupts, run as far as possible!

"what happened?"

"Where are you going so late?"

Everyone looked at each other and asked questions one after another.

Zhang Tian only explained a few words to Lin Yu, and couldn't explain clearly to others, so he directly issued orders as the sky priest.

"Get out of here! Now, immediately! Don't take anything except the necessary food and water! Leave the bow and arrow!"

"what……"

Hutou, Gu and Songzhen held their hornbows and quiver tightly, reluctant to give up in every possible way.

"Put it down! I'll do it for you later!"

Time is running out!

The sense of crisis is rising rapidly, and the strong sense of oppression makes Zhang Tian almost breathless.

"The volcanoes in this area are going to erupt? This is unreasonable..."

Lin Yu also turned pale, she murmured, even though she was puzzled, she still chose to believe in Zhang Tian's judgment, and immediately picked up her "medicine bag" and ran away.

Borg was still out of the situation, holding his head and asking, "Am I going too?"

"If you don't want to die."

Zhang Tian didn't bother to care about him at first, for Chishi's sake, he kindly reminded him, and then led his clansmen to flee overnight.

Seeing this group of foreigners running away without hesitation, Ah Shui, Hei Huo and Zi Huo were a little confused. Didn't they agree to protect their homeland?How come you don't do anything after accepting your faith?

"Then our camp..."

"I can't keep it, let's live in another place!"

Even the only wizard who had the ability to appease Dashan's anger ran away, and they didn't dare to wait any longer, so they hurried to catch up.

How high-spirited you are when you come, how embarrassed you are when you run away.

Panic filled everyone's mind in an instant, as if they were being chased by the god of death, everyone worked hard and moved at the fastest speed, which was much faster than the usual sprint, almost as good as a trot.

The surge of adrenaline made everyone tireless, the threat of death and the desire to survive squeezed out endless potential, and the feet seemed to be equipped with motors, rolling over the lush meadow like walking on the ground.

Three kilometers, five kilometers, ten kilometers, twenty kilometers...

It's been a long time and a long way, but the anxiety in Zhang Tian's heart has not diminished but increased.

All of a sudden, as if being hit hard on his chest with a dull hammer, Zhang Tian only felt his breathing was stagnant, and fear came over him like a tide, making his hands and feet cold, like falling into an abyss!
The next moment, the earth shook violently!The strong shock made everyone stagger and stand unstable!

"boom!"

The thunderous noise was one step behind the earthquake, but the deterrence brought by this loud noise was far stronger than that of the earthquake. Everyone trembled in fright and looked back subconsciously.

The blazing flames rushed straight into the sky, and the dazzling flames dyed the night sky a dark red like blood. The powerful air flow carried the magma and rushed straight to the height of [-] meters. The scorching magma was cooled in the air and exploded into a huge mushroom cloud, black The smoke and dust spread to the surroundings at an extremely fast speed, covering the sky and the moon, it was a doomsday scene!

Immediately afterwards, one mountain after another scrambled to eject hot magma, and the deafening explosion sound echoed in the blood-colored world.

"Chishi!" Zhang Tianchao shouted at Borg in a daze.

Seeing this scene, even the fearless Borg was startled, and quickly threw the red stone to the wizard.

Lin Yu caught Chishi, but he didn't intend to use it. Instead, he grabbed a handful of seeds from the medicine bag and sprinkled them as he walked.

Everyone quickened their pace, although the tiger head was fierce, but now it was unarmed and wanted to escape, but was stopped by Zhang Tian: "Don't run, it's useless!"

The speed of the pyroclastic flow can reach more than [-] kilometers per hour, and no matter how long two legs are, it will not be able to run!Rather than running a long distance, maintaining calm and concentration is the most important thing.

The alarm bell in Zhang Tian's heart was loud!

"coming!"

(End of this chapter)