Chapter 287 - The Pipa Girl
Chapter 287: The Pipa Girl
Crack!
This area was filled with yellow smoke and scorching flames.
The magma that appeared like ash but contained burning flames inside was swallowing everything as if it were alive.
Sizzle!
The lake under a fake mountain that was three meters tall was vaporized in the blink of an eye.
The green leaves on the ancient tree on the fake mountain withered at a visible speed. Then, orange flames were burning, and they were turned into flying ashes!
The stones that made up the fake mountain were also consumed by the spreading magma and turned into part of it.
As a result, everybody could see nothing but devastating flames that stung their eyes.
The yellow smoke in the air that carried the stench of sulfur made it hard to breathe.
Clearly, such an environment was unsuitable for human beings to survive!
Clang, clang, clang!
However, a piece of string music that belonged to human beings was echoing at the center of the magma!
That was a palace-like building that had been surrounded by the rising smoke and roiling magma. At the center of the palace, a miserable-looking woman was holding a delicate yellow pipa and slowly strumming its strings with her hand that was wearing elephant tooth fingernails!
As the strings trembled, the invisible soundwaves reverberated with the air outside of the palace and quickly reduced the air temperature.
“Hu! Hu!”
The water that had been evaporated by the magma was condensed into snowflakes and freezing wind again. It fell on top of the approaching magma and slowed it down.
Changing the environment and weather with music, the woman who was playing pipa was clearly a “hero” that belonged to this settlement with her expertise in musical instruments!
Crack, crack…
However, despite the blockage of the music, the magma was still pressing at the palace steadily.
Also, black “tubes” that weren’t melted even though they were soaked in magma had appeared.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Through those tubes, black balls whose sizes ranged from fists to heads were launched at the palace with the intense smoke and sulfur skipping the distance in between!
Hum!
However, when those cannonballs hit the palace, a mini “palace” inside the palace shivered, and the bright yellow power of providence surfaced on it, blocking the black balls and letting them fall to the floor.
Splash…
Nevertheless, after they fell to the floor, the black balls instantly cracked.
After that, a tremendous amount of smoke spread out and corroded the environment within a certain range into magma!
It was clearly the reason why the environment around the palace had become so bad.
“Wu… Wu… Wu…”
Inside the palace, apart from the miserable woman who was playing the pipa, there were also four kids who were about ten years old. They were all holding rather shabby instruments and trying their best to play, hoping to increase the power of the woman’s song with the joint performance!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
However, as the “cannons” inside the magma attacked nonstop, all the areas inside the palace were soon covered by the magma from the black balls. The continuous fire and smoke exhausted the power of providence at a high speed.
The woman’s fingers that had been playing the pipa were bleeding, which added a hue of redness to the snowflakes in midair.
Not just her fingers, even her lips were stained with blood too. The Extraordinary power of music could only be activated by mental power, and once a person’s mental power was overly-exhausted, it could cause severe damage to themself if it was further invoked. It was more painful than the internal wounds of the martial artists!
Boom, boom, boom…
As one party increased and the other dwindled, about several minutes later, the core of the power of providence in the palace couldn’t resist any longer, and the bright yellow power of providence of mankind collapsed!
Pa!
A board that had “Musical House” written on it fell to the ground.
It was ignited by the magma and burned into ash in the blink of an eye.
Crack!
The elephant tooth fingernails that the pipa woman wore were broken at the same time. Due to overly exhausting her power, the pipa woman vomited a mouthful of blood and fell backward desperately along with her pipa.
“Whoa, whoa… Musician Cao! Musician Cao!”
“Sister Xing Nu, are we going to die?”
Three kids who couldn’t have been older than ten dropped their musical instruments and cried, unable to take it anymore.
“Death is nothing to be scared of… Don’t cry!”
The last kid, who was a girl about twelve years of age, had a round pretty face that had been covered in dust. There was a red mole under her pink eyes.
“If those Chosen Ones hadn’t sailed the guqin ship that we built arduously, or stolen the ancient bells from the Warring States period…”
The girl who had a mole at the corner of her eyes looked at the sea and bit her lips so hard that they were bleeding.
Her eyes were filled with hatred, and she clenched the slightly shabby pipa in her hand so hard that her tiny fingers all turned pale.
Boom, boom, boom!
Noises of magma cannonballs were coming from over her head.
Without the protection of the power of providence, the wooden palace couldn’t resist the impact of the magma cannonballs any longer.
Pop! Crackle!
The black stones exploded the moment they hit the beams and walls in the palace. The magma that surged from them ignited the whole palace.
The rising flames, mixed with abundant yellow and black smoke, illuminated the three kids who were weeping desperately next to the pipa woman who had passed out in the palace that was about to fall.
There was also the mole girl, who picked up the pipa on the floor and gazed at the surging magma in the palace with desperation.
The scene was indescribably devastating!
“Roar!”
Exactly at this moment, the magnificent roar of a dragon echoed in the sky.
A ten-meter-long Flood Dragon that was made of transparent seawater fell from the sky with a person inside.
Boom!
It first put out all the flames above the palace. The moment it landed, the seawater that had been filled with True Qi extinguished the magma at the entrance of the palace too.
Even the magma outside of the palace was pushed more than three meters back by the attack!
It was Dragon Flies, one of the moves in the Dragon-Subduing Strike!
[“You have killed a Magma Monster (Extraordinary Rank-5, Quasi-Boss). EXP gained: 850. Honor gained: 15!]
“Magma Monster, that’s a familiar name.”
“Huh? Aren’t they the aliens that the Eagle Men destroyed?”
Ji Ye’s expression changed.
The boundless magma that was boiling and still emitting the smell of sulfur even though it had lost a significant part due to the punch of seawater was nothing strange to the people from the Twin Dragon Mount fort.
Earlier, the Eagle Men had let a Golden Condor that was contracted by a providence player drop black balls to the Twin Dragon Mount fort, which caused a heavy loss.
After the Eagle Men were destroyed, the Twin Dragon Mount fort found a settlement nearby that was exclusively made of magma.
They also found the notification of “relics of the Magma Monsters” on a lot of resources and items.
One could say that the Twin Dragon Island was indirectly associated with the Magma Monsters.
Was it the reason why the Twin Dragon Island ran into the settlement of Magma Monsters in this phase?
“Well, that’s probably not the only reason.
“If we talk about connection, the Musical House, as another human settlement, should relate even more to us, right?”
Ji Ye thought of a lot of things.
While he considered, he opened his mouth without hesitation.
“Young lady, drop your pipa and pack up your important stuff. I’ll take you away from this place!”
He only called out to the girl because the other three kids, who were younger than her, had passed out under the yellow and black smoke after the power of providence was destroyed.
The girl, however, bit her lips and struggled to keep herself awake even though she had trouble breathing.
“You are a Chosen One too?”
The girl gazed at Ji Ye with her eyes that had been reddened by the flames and high temperature.
She didn’t sound delighted at the chance of survival. Instead, her voice was filled with hatred!
“You hate the Chosen Ones?” Ji Ye looked at her and said in an emotionless tone.
“The Chosen Ones are untrustworthy!
“They convinced Musician Cao to build a Seven String Guqin Ship with the core resources of the settlement to retreat… Yet they snuck on the boat and sailed it away today, leaving us to fight the aliens alone. They even took away the Ancient Bell and the Thunderous Drum as well as the food. Musician Mu and Musician Qin were both killed in battle because they lost their musical instruments…
“They… They are absolutely…”
The girl’s dusty face and her eyes were brimming with fury. She roared and was about to curse someone.
But due to the limitation of her vocabulary, she was unable to find a suitable word even though she was in a rage.
“Nefarious…”
Ji Ye helped her with a word.
“Well, what those people did was indeed a little bit outrageous.
“However, if the Seven String Guqin Ship you mentioned is a red ship with a bronze bell hanging on it, I happened to meet it just now. If you want to see them again, stop talking to me and start packing…”
Ji Ye didn’t evince any fury.
He even nodded in agreement.
However, as he talked, he had turned his head back to the magma.
It was because the black cannons in the magma area, after being frozen by the force of “Dragon Flies” for a moment, had started bombarding him simultaneously.
“You have about ten seconds. If you aren’t ready before the core of providence is condensed, I’ll have to abandon you and run away!”