CHAPTER 1102: CHAPTER 1102: TEN MILES, DIFFERENT SKIES

They might all end up as roast pigs.

Bai Junjun hadn’t expected the problem to be this severe, and looked visibly shaken.

Last night, their team had scattered across the ancient site of the Imperial Capital of Jinyan Country, and everyone unknowingly lit their torches.

Fortunately, they were lucky and made it through the night safely.

If the entire city had caught fire in the middle of the night, at least half of those thousand people would have perished.

"It seems we can’t use open flames here anymore," she couldn’t help but mutter.

Li Wenli nodded, "Our trip wasn’t entirely fruitless. I just scanned the area, and all the oil extracted by the pipeline is concentrated here."

Li Wenli took out a map and drew a large circle in one area.

This area was a large one, three miles west of Imperial Capital City.

Bai Junjun raised an eyebrow; they hadn’t set foot in this place.

She had initially thought that finding the old site of Jinyan Country would be the end, not realizing that there were treasures nearby the site.

The two exchanged a look of mutual understanding and decided to return outside to reassure the others.

By this time, those who had been burned were already treated with herbs, and the Fire-Swallowing Tribe quickly chopped wood from the surroundings to make stretchers, placing the five injured people back on them.

Bai Junjun dispatched 100 people to escort these five back first, while the others remained on standby.

"There’s flammable oil underneath Jinyan Country. We’re going to find the place with the most oil to assess the situation. Once we determine the situation, we’ll take you over. From now on, no one can use open flames; wait for us to return before discussing anything further."

The crowd hadn’t anticipated such a situation.

Everyone knew what flammable oil was, but this stuff was very smelly, impossible to wash off once it got on you, and once it started burning, it was unstoppable.

To them, it was an ominous and unclean substance.

Baiju Country neither appreciated nor used such a thing.

They hadn’t expected it to appear in Jinyan Country, and everyone felt a bit uneasy.

"Junjun, since we know it’s flammable oil, why don’t we just head back?" Yuwen Luanfei was the first to speak.

The Fat County Magistrate also nodded, "This flammable oil is difficult to deal with; a single mistake and you might get caught up in it yourself."

"Don’t worry, we won’t act rashly. And this ticking time bomb left here for years isn’t a solution; sooner or later it’ll pose a threat to us, so it’s better to resolve it sooner."

Bai Junjun reassured everyone and quickly left with Li Wenli.

Facing these two with major ideas, what could others do but anxiously wait in place?

Once the two of them entered the depths of the city with no others around, Li Wenli directly picked up the lady. The two took flight again, and Li Wenli, sensing the presence of flammable oil, advanced in that direction.

Before long, they arrived at a barren place.

Yes, a barren sandy land.

Unlike Jinyan Country, which was lush and verdant, this side was like the dunes they had encountered before, all sand.

On the sandy land stood rows upon rows of houses.

However, these houses, like the old site of the Imperial Capital of Jinyan Country, had all collapsed.

A moment ago it was lush green, and in a blink of an eye, they were in a desolate sandy land with dust flying everywhere.

It’s undeniable that the Ownerless Land has harsh conditions, and the weather changes drastically every mile. Slowly stepping onto this patch of sand, they saw mysterious small heaps scattered around, with a little spider hopping between them.

Bai Junjun was finding it strange when Wenli had already walked into the range of those heaps.