Chapter 147 Self-immolation
The faces of the soldiers who rushed to the front line began to turn blue, and then they began to tear their clothes in pain. As the armor was removed and the clothes were taken off, their bodies were exposed, and their normal bodies slowly appeared little by little. As the cyan dots became more and more dense, the soldiers themselves became a ball of flame, a ball of flame burning from their bodies.
The soldiers actually started to catch fire, and the flames were not ignited from the outside but burned from the inside. Miao Wei could still hear the soldiers' wailing at the beginning, but after a while, he could not make any sound. The soldiers turned around with difficulty, and the living people turned into columns of fire one by one. The most powerful soldier could no longer see his upper body, only the blue flame soaring into the sky.
The fire pillars staggered towards the fire extinguishing team. They could no longer call them "people" at this time. They mechanically stretched out two fire sticks and danced in the air. This scene was really terrifying. These fire pillars would sooner or later fall to the ground and die, but their waving before their death brought more blue Martians into the sky.
Miao Wei clearly saw that a soldier beside him sucked a spark into his mouth because of nervousness and fear. Then the soldier began to cough violently, his facial features began to twist, as if he was suffering huge pain. The soldier let out a roar like a wild beast and began to tear his clothes.
Miao Wei wanted to go up to help, he wanted to hold the warrior down, he wanted to relieve the warrior's pain, but his hand immediately bounced back when he touched the warrior's exposed body. It was so hot! The warrior's body was slowly turning into a stove, and he would be burned with just a touch of light. As a result, the warrior began to burst out from his mouth, eyes, nostrils, and ears like those before. Another fire pillar was burning and dancing wildly.
"It must be these ghost fires!" Miao Wei yelled at the warriors behind him: "Retreat, retreat, stay away from those ghost fires, and never be touched by Mars!"
The fire pillars fell down for a short time, and immediately the green flames swallowed them all. The soldiers could smell the scorched flesh. When some young soldiers saw this scene, they smelled the burnt smell of human flesh and couldn't help but vomit. But once they started to breathe heavily, the Martians came towards them immediately like flies attracted by rotten meat. Once someone sucked in the Martians, the fate would be the same as those fire pillars before.
Miao Wei and his men retreated one after another. The ignited houses burned more and more vigorously because they were unable to extinguish the fire in time. What was even more painful was that the southeast wind started to blew from noon, and the fire was even more arrogant with the help of the wind. The houses were covered by a sea of fire.
Xuan Shaoning and the other two who rushed to participate in the fire extinguishing had not yet arrived at the south gate, the sky-storming firelight in the direction of the south gate had already caught my eye.
"Oh my God, the fire is so big! The fire extinguishing team seems to have no effect!" Duan Lang said uneasy.
Xuan Shaoning tightened the reins, "The wind has fueled the fire, but how can it change quickly by artificially? The number of firefighting teams is not enough, and it is too late. Xinggang, go and see if you can gather some people to participate in the firefighting?"
"Yes!" Xing Gang turned his horse and headed towards the area where the people were placed, while Xuan Shaoning and Duan Lang continued to gallop towards the south gate.
"Person Miao, the fire is getting bigger and bigger. What should we do?"
A general asked Miao Wei for advice, and Miao Wei stared at the raging fire. He understood that if he allowed these fires to spread, he would definitely be his dereliction of duty.
Miao Wei tore off the corner of his clothes and wrapped his entire head, revealing only a pair of eyes, and then shouted to the soldiers behind him: "Pack up everything, we are a firefighting team, and we must not retreat easily at this time!"
After saying that, Miao Wei took the lead in rushing into the fire with sand and soil on his back. He quickly determined that the continuous houses could not be kept, but the houses near the South Gate area set up a relatively wide street near the center of the city, which could become a line of fire that isolates the fire.
"Dump all the sand and soil on this row of houses and never let the fire cross this street!"
Under the leadership of Miao Wei, the fire extinguishing team members climbed up to the house and covered the sand and soil on the roof, doorway, corridor and other places of the house. In the fire, they had to carry heavy sand and soil. Many soldiers were already unable to get along with it. Although the fire was still a long way away, the heat had already made them sweat profusely. One of the soldiers lifted the cloth wrapped around their face and wanted to wipe the beads of sweat that kept flowing. In just a moment, a spark was pressed on his face.
Ahhhh! A heart-wrenching roar spread among the soldiers, because the fired warrior was in the middle of the team. As soon as he struggled, more Mars immediately floated out and he would stick them to the people when he saw them. Although the face was wrapped in cloth, his eyes were not there, and Mars rushed into the soldiers' eyes.
The eyes were blasting fire. This was originally just a content of acrobatics. Today, it was for all the survivors present to witness it with their own eyes. Even if the iron-blooded soldiers were like the Red Tail Army, the soldiers were first and second, and even the soldiers were second. After facing such an unexplainable danger, even the most powerful people would feel fear. If they were to fight bloody on the battlefield, most people would feel honored, but if they died so strangely, no one would want to.
Miao Wei's method of creating fire lines still played a certain role. Many Mars fell on the sand and then jumped and then went out after a few strokes. However, because of panic inside the fire extinguishing team, those houses that failed to sprinkle sand and soil in time were still attacked by ghost fires.
Facing his subordinates who were tempted to retreat, even if Miao Wei could understand, as a soldier, he would never allow deserters to appear in his team.
"No retreat!" Miao Wei pulled out his sword and shouted at the firefighting team: "No matter how strange these ghost fires are, it is our responsibility to control them. If anyone dares to take a step back, I will be unpardoned!"
Miao Wei shouted too loudly and did not notice a spark on his forehead. As soon as he finished speaking, he felt the burning pain from his forehead. Miao Wei reached out and kept slapping his forehead, but the slapping not only did not extinguish the fire on his forehead, but also made his hands stained with flames.
Next, Miao Wei finally felt the pain of the soldiers before, because he soon felt that his body was burning, and the flames were burning in his stomach, and the burning became stronger and stronger. The burning sensation made Miao Wei finally start to tear his clothes. It was too hot and too painful! Only by completely exposing himself can he reduce his body temperature.
"Person Miao!"
The last person Miao Wei saw before his eyes were engulfed by the flames were Xuan Shaoning and Duan Lang. He did not see the shocked expressions on his face when they witnessed his miserable situation. His brain was only flames and he could not think about anything. He only had human instincts and instinctive survival**.
Xuan Shaoning watched Miao Wei become a pillar of fire, his whole body burning violently, walking back and forth around, his body swinging greatly to create more sparks. Miao Wei is a man. Even after his whole body is on fire, he will survive longer than ordinary people, but it will only be a while longer.
Xuan Shaoning couldn't bear to watch any more. He took Duan Lang's bow and arrow and shot a feather arrow into Miao Wei's body. This was to help him get rid of it? Miao Wei fell to the ground by the arrow, continued to struggle for a while, and stopped moving, completely becoming a fireball.
"Person Xuan, please keep your heads in your hands, otherwise you will be the same as Captain Miao!"
Someone reminded Duan Lang looked at the fire-fighting warriors not far away and immediately tore off a corner and wrapped them around his face. At the same time, he also urged Xuan Shaoning to do as he did.
"What's going on?" Xuan Shaoning asked, but no one could give a reasonable explanation. Everyone could only watch the fire successfully cross the line and burn into the second area.
At this time, the fire extinguishing team, which had a small number of people, was helpless, and the fire could not be controlled at this point. Xuan Shaoning took Miao Wei's baton and began to direct the fire extinguishing team to retreat in an orderly manner. While retreating, he thought while thinking that if the fire was allowed to spread, Anzhou City would sooner or later become a sea of fire. At that time, there would be no enemy attacks, and Anzhou City would undoubtedly be broken.
But reality does not allow Xuan Shaoning to make more efforts. The fire extinguishers around him are turning into fire pillars one after another. Every time he can only shoot him to death with feather arrows so that they can suffer less torture. However, the feather arrows are used to shoot his brothers to death. This feeling really makes Xuan Shaoning feel pain.
Chapter completed!