Chapter 1 Explosion

I didn’t know in which film I saw the common knowledge that grenades could extinguish fires, but it was said that they could consume oxygen in an instant and produce a lot of non-combustible gas, which could quickly extinguish any flames within the explosion range.

The moment I ducked my head back behind the rock, the grenade immediately exploded. Those trees were very thick, so most of the explosion’s impact was absorbed by their trunks. As I continued to hide behind the rock, the tree closest to the grenade was blown up and slowly fell down. When I peeked my head out to take a look, I saw that this method actually worked. Most of the flames were extinguished, but countless small fires had been blown out by the grenade and were scattered everywhere.

After observing the surrounding environment, I noticed that both Xiuxiu and Fatty were approaching me. “You just don’t listen, do you?” I asked angrily. “What, are you too old to listen to good advice now?”

“You’re not putting out the fire, you’re setting it on fire,” Fatty argued. “You can’t do it alone.”

In fact, I had come to the same conclusion just now and wanted to take a moment to observe how to put out the fire again, but then I suddenly heard the sound of heavy rain falling on the tree canopies.

But we’re underground, how can it be raining? I wondered. I looked down at myself and saw that there weren’t any raindrops on my body, plus the sound seemed to be coming from the place where I threw the grenade just now.

The three of us immediately looked around. As it turned out, when the grenade exploded in the woods just now, the shock wave blew across a large area. The trees were shaken by the shock wave, which caused what appeared to be fruit to fall down in piles.

When these things landed on the ancient building, they made a sound like rain falling on the tree canopies. As they kept bouncing on the eaves, it created a rhythmic sound.

“What kind of fruit is that?” Fatty asked curiously.

One of the fruits coincidentally bounced in front of us, rolled along the various crevices in the stone, and then fell into a larger crevice. This crevice wasn’t very deep, so the fruit was within easy reach.

It looked like an almond.

Fatty and I glanced at each other. Then, the almond-like fruit suddenly opened up. I thought that it was going to turn into a bug or something, but it really turned out to be just a fruit. It even retained its shape after landing in the crevice.

I looked up at the place where the fruits were falling down in a dense cluster. I didn’t know what kind of trees these were, but how could there be so many fruits? They kept falling and making that pattering sound for a long time.

Fatty was also very cautious now. He leaned over and quickly took a close-up photo of the fruit with his cell phone, then pulled back and showed it to me.

I looked at him and said, “Fuck me. Did you learn to be crafty after watching me all these years?”

“Who learned from you? It’s obviously Fat Master who’s the crafty one. I just passed it on to you.” When Fatty showed us the photo, we saw that it was a black fruit, which looked like a black sarcoma and was very ugly.

The three of us looked at each other, and then Xiuxiu looked at the trees in the distance, “Those trees are very common. They’re high-latitude trees that grow very small fruits, so how can they possibly grow these sarcoma-like fruits? And so many at that.”

“Let’s take one back and let Wen Binghui examine it. Doesn’t he know everything?” Fatty said. “If that’s not enough, we’ll have him eat one.”

I looked at the photo Fatty had taken and suddenly felt that the shape of the fruit was familiar. After looking at it for a while, I said to him, “Fatty, have you noticed that this fruit is very similar to something we’ve seen before?”

Fatty turned the phone towards him to take a closer look, but shook his head, “Like what? I’m getting old and my memory is bad. Just hurry up and tell me. I swear, you’re becoming more and more like your Uncle Three.”

“If you look carefully, you’ll definitely remember,” I said to him.

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Ghost Banquet lessgo! (Still reading through Sea of Lights, but I’m impatient and the chapter was short lol)