Chapter 380: Chapter 177: The Cave, Fire Attack_3

These roots twisted together like snakes, slowly writhing; they obviously hadn’t realized the seriousness of the situation yet.

After Wang Tao emptied the whole jug of gasoline, he took out an arrow, the tip of which was wrapped with a cloth soaked in gasoline.

Snap.

The flame from the lighter instantly ignited the arrow.

Whoosh——

At that moment, before Wang Tao even shot the arrow, he saw the roots begin to writhe crazily.

“Huh? Feeling the heat of the flame? Too late!”

Wang Tao drew his bow and notched the arrow.

Swoosh——

The flaming arrow struck the roots.

Whoosh——

Instantly, a large fire blazed up from the roots.

The roots thrashed wildly as though trying to extinguish the flames, but the gasoline was sticking to them. It was not going to be extinguished that easily.

[-100]

[-100]

[-100]

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Watching the HP of the roots decrease by hundreds, Wang Tao grinned, but he did not dare to keep watching; he quickly pulled Jiang Shixue and ran out of the cave.

The three of them were waiting outside the cave.

A moment later, Wang Tao felt the ground beneath his feet growing warm, as though he was standing on a heated kang.

Flames and thick smoke continuously billowed out of the cave, and Wang Tao hurriedly covered his mouth and nose.

“Seems like it worked quite well! Thanks to Little Xue!”

Wang Tao praised Jiang Shixue by his side.

He might have thought of the fire attack as well, but he did not react at the moment. After all, they had just set a big fire, and he was, so to speak, blind to his own candlelight; he subconsciously overlooked it.

Jiang Shixue, who was praised, was very happy, gripping Wang Tao’s hand tightly, but her eyes kept darting toward the entrance of the cave. That faint scent persisted, even the fire could not cover it, and it even became more fragrant…

The fire in the cave ended quicker than Wang Tao had expected; he thought it would burn for a day and night like the big fire yesterday. But in reality, it only burned for the morning, and by the afternoon, the flames had died down.

However, although the flames had been extinguished, the high temperature inside remained. For safety reasons, Wang Tao didn’t go in but waited until nightfall.

The temperature was relatively cool that night when Wang Tao and the others came to the entrance of the cave. Inside, there was still some warmth, but it was not too high and within an acceptable range.

Then Wang Tao asked Xu Xiaojun to continue guarding outside while he and Jiang Shixue entered.

The cave was filled with ashes, and remnants of blackened roots could be seen occasionally, crumbling to the touch.

“It’s all turned to charcoal!”

Wang Tao was somewhat amazed.

This fire attack was really useful, especially against these plant monsters.

The two advanced through the warm ashes, and before long, they arrived at the center of the underground space.

Before, this area had been obstructed by roots, and Wang Tao could not see the specific situation clearly.

Now that they were here, Wang Tao let out a small exclamation.

“Huh? This isn’t dead?”

In the midst of the ashes, some roots were still tightly entwined, charred on the surface, but they weren’t dead since they had an HP bar.

[3283/100000]

“Still has three thousand HP! Such tenacity…”

Wang Tao muttered with some emotion, but he didn’t hold back with his attack.

He unleashed a shockwave with his axe.

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“Hm? Damage increased? Is it because it was burned?”

While pondering in his mind, Wang Tao called Jiang Shixue to attack together.

To Wang Tao’s surprise, these roots did not counterattack, they simply kept tightly wrapped around each other, slowly writhing.

Bang!

[-501]

[0/100000]

Wang Tao’s final ax strike zeroed out its HP bar.

The roots slowly stopped moving and then burst out a Loot Pack.

“Doesn’t this even count as an over-leveled kill…”

Looking at the lonely Loot Pack, Wang Tao felt quite frustrated.

If it weren’t for the fire attack, these hundred-thousand-HP roots might as well have been standing still letting him kill them, and even then, it might have taken him hours. Moreover, the attack power of the roots was very strong; if Wang Tao got entangled, he guessed the concurrent attacks from so many roots could instantly turn him into mincemeat!

But such strong roots didn’t count as an over-leveled kill.

Wang Tao glanced at his own HP bar again.

“Damn it, it doesn’t even increase the HP cap…”

Wang Tao remembered the attributes of the roots; other than the HP bar, they had no other attributes. They were just like the flesh in the Night Demon’s Nest, which also didn’t add HP, and only burst out a Loot Pack…

Wang Tao didn’t closely examine the Loot Pack but turned his attention to the roots instead.

The roots were tightly entwined, forming an upside-down bowl shape as if there was something inside.

The “bowl” was about the size of a small room; could there be a Level 3 zombie inside?

Wang Tao asked Jiang Shixue to prepare for combat at any time, then carefully began to move the roots aside.

“It smells so good!”

Jiang Shixue suddenly exclaimed, and Wang Tao also widened his eyes in shock.

Inside was a small pond filled with a milk-like white liquid. This white liquid was so fragrant that Wang Tao almost couldn’t stop himself from drooling uncontrollably.

[Tree Essence Liquid x9364]

This thing had a name!

Without a word, Wang Tao immediately collected all the white liquid into his Space Backpack.

“Whew—”

The tempting aroma disappeared instantly as the essence liquid was stored away. Before he had time to check the details, two other items caught his eye.

The first item was a white object shaped like a chicken egg.

[Magic Seeds x1]

Without a word, Wang Tao collected it as well.

The second item was a monster with an ugly human face but with the rest of its body made of branches!

[HP: 1000/30000]

[Mana: 30000/30000]

[Grade: Level 3 – Lord]

[Internal Impurity: 60%]

[Status: Weakness 99%]

The monster had its eyes closed as if it hadn’t noticed Wang Tao’s arrival.

“Only 1000 HP and 99% weakness?”

Without a word, Wang Tao brought the ax down.

Splat!

[-1000]

[0/30000]

The Human-face Tree Body Monster’s HP bar was instantly zeroed out.

Clatter—

A pile of things burst out!

Wang Tao immediately collected the Loot Pack, then dug open the head of the Human-face Tree Body Monster, finding a Red Crystal Core inside.

After securing the Crystal Core and confirming there were no named items left on the monster’s body, he finally waved at Jiang Shixue.

“Let’s go, back to the surface!”