49: Chapter 49 Withdraw the Charcoal, Extinguish the Fire, Open the Furnace!_1 49: Chapter 49 Withdraw the Charcoal, Extinguish the Fire, Open the Furnace!_1 “Idiots, stop fanning the bellows!”
Ma Yuan roared out a reminder to everyone else.
After he shouted, he quickly glanced at the mud creature.
It did not seem to intend to punish him for his outburst, which relieved him.
“Right!
Right!
We can do it this way!”
18D suddenly realized.
Everyone stopped, rubbing their sore arms, finally able to catch their breath.
But before two minutes had passed, the mud creature spoke again.
“Reduce the fire!”
This ti, the group was dumbfounded.
If they stopped fanning the bellows, how could they reduce the fire?
There was actually another solution, which was to pull out the charcoal.
With less charcoal, the fla would definitely weaken, but the problem was…
This thing really burns hands!
Lin Baici looked at the fiery furnace, picked up the pine torch, preparing to use it as a poker.
[These furnaces, with their strong fires, will turn anything thrown into them, other than the fire tender, into ash.]
The Eater God warned.
Lin Baici’s brow furrowed deeply.
This ant,
I can only use my hands?
“Bai Ci, quickly grab the charcoal.
After you’re done with that torch, lend it to !”
Ma Yuan urged.
“If you use the torch, or anything else, you’ll die!”
Lin Baici reminded him.
“What?
Then what should I use?”
Ma Yuan thought Lin Baici was being overly cautious.
“Use your hands!”
Lin Baici glanced at his left hand, covered in a thick layer of red mud, and swiftly and resolutely extended it into the furnace.
Whoosh!
Lin Baici’s index and middle fingers gripped a piece of charcoal and yanked it back with force.
Crack!
The charcoal was pulled out of the furnace and fell onto the muddy ground.
“Holy shit!”
Ma Yuan was stunned, weren’t you being a bit too reckless?
You obviously had a torch, but for the sake of a ‘possibility,’ you actually didn’t use it and chose to grab the charcoal with your bare hands?
Fierce!
Absolutely fierce!
Ma Yuan felt that within two or three years, this guy would definitely beco famous in the God Hunter Circle!
“It’s okay.
It doesn’t burn!”
Lin Baici quirked the corner of his mouth, “You guys hurry up and grab so too!”
“I think Xiao Bai’s concerns are right!”
Xia Hongyao said, reaching for the charcoal.
Thanks to her strong physical constitution and martial arts training, her movents were quick and nimble, so fast that Lin Baici didn’t see clearly.
Truly worthy of being Force Speed Double A High Ponytail!
“Hmm, indeed it doesn’t hurt.
It seems wrapping in red mud was the right choice!”
Xia Hongyao breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that without the layer of red mud, her whole hand would have been burned.
After seeing Ma Yuan reduce the fire by removing charcoal, 18D gritted his teeth and also reached his hand into the furnace, scraping out a piece of charcoal.
“Eh?
Not hurt!”
18D was ecstatic at his unhard left hand, as if he had gotten a huge bargain, “Brother Lin, your foresight is simply too strong!”
The others, seeing this, imdiately ran towards the mud pit to get covered in red mud.
[Anyone who does not decrease the charcoal to reduce the fire within five seconds will be deed a failure!]
[Failures die!]
The mud creature announced.
The group froze on hearing these words.
Their faces went pale in an instant.
In such a short amount of ti, they had no chance to run to the mud pit, let alone cover themselves in mud.
The onlooking passengers, while afraid, were also relieved that they weren’t the first ones up.
Many among them ran towards the mud pit, starting to coat themselves in mud quickly so they wouldn’t run out of ti later.
The Douyin auntie was afraid of dying; she still wanted to play mahjong everyday, dance in the square, and collect free eggs at the supermarket.
So, with a loud cry, she plunged her hand into the furnace, scraping out a piece of charcoal.
“Ah!”
The Douyin auntie scread in agony; her whole hand was scorched red, especially the three fingers that had touched the red-hot charcoal, which were now covered in blisters the size of grapes.
“Fuck!
Fuck!
Fuck!”
The Douyin auntie cursed loudly, jumping from the pain.
“Quick, go coat yourself with mud in the mud pit!”
Xia Hongyao shouted a reminder.
The Douyin auntie bolted.
“Hurry, there’s no ti left!”
Xia Hongyao urged.
“Damn it, I’m going for it!”
The female flight attendant made up her mind.
Just as she was about to reach into the furnace, her body suddenly burst into flas.
It was the mud figure she had squeezed in the furnace issue that had been ignited due to the slow cooling.
The damage the mud figure took was fully reflected onto its creator.
“Ah!”
The female flight attendant writhed on the ground in pain.
Her red uniform, hair, and even her leather shoes caught fire.
The other three unlucky ones didn’t manage to reduce the charcoal in ti and were all set ablaze.
They ran and rolled around like human torches.
However, it didn’t take long for them to fall to the ground, silent.
The Douyin auntie, looking at the few scorched and smoking corpses, suddenly felt that the blisters on her hand weren’t so painful anymore.
“Reduce the charcoal, lower the fire!”
The mud creature spoke out.
With their previous experience, everyone was calr this ti, except for the Douyin Auntie who was so badly burned that she scread loudly.
“Add coal!
Stoke the fire!”
The Potter Creature didn’t want the travelers to idle around.
The group from 18D was in a frantic rush, grabbing pieces of charcoal, about to toss them into the furnace, when Lin Baici stopped them.
“Wait, use new charcoal, don’t use these burnt ones!”
Lin Baici reminded.
Ma Yuan caught on imdiately.
Lin Baici was worried that if they didn’t need to remove coal to reduce the heat later, then a piece of charcoal that had already been burned wouldn’t provide as much heat as a fresh one.
This could lead to an error that might cause the firing of the potter creature to fail or not be perfect enough.
“This kid really has nerves of steel!”
Ma Yuan marveled.
To think that within rules that could kill at any ti, Lin Baici still managed to maintain his composure and think clearly, that was impressive.
Another twenty minutes passed and after a series of complicated and busy operations, the fourth step of firing was finally completed.
“Remove the coal!”
“Extinguish the fire!”
“Open the kiln now!”
The Potter Creature sang in a lodious tone.
“I survived!
I survived!”
Douyin Auntie wept with joy, only for her expression to quickly turn into a twist of agony as she gritted her teeth.
Her entire body soaked with sweat, she looked as if she had been fished out of water, and her entire left arm was severely burned, covered in grape-sized blisters clustered together, looking utterly disgusting.
After Lin Baici and the others removed the glowing red chunks of charcoal, the kiln door banged open.
It was open!
A wave of hot air carrying sparks rushed out.
“Retrieve the potter creatures!”
The Potter Creature urged.
In the furnace, the temperature was extrely high, but the group had no choice but to retrieve the potter creatures with their bare hands.
Fortunately, the red clay in the pit had an insulating effect, so Lin Baici and the three others wouldn’t get burned; however, Douyin Auntie wasn’t so lucky.
If she reached in with that arm, it would surely be ruined, so she imdiately ran to the red clay pit to sar clay on her arm.
As she ran, Douyin Auntie kept her eyes on the Potter Creature.
If it didn’t allow her, she would stop imdiately.
But this ti, luck was on her side, and the Potter Creature didn’t stop her.
Lin Baici and the three others retrieved their potter creatures.
[Smug and inferior beings, you are dood.
The residents who have been disturbed by her square dancing music for years can now celebrate with champagne!]
After applying a thick layer of red clay to her body, Douyin Auntie ran back to the kiln, clenched her teeth, endured the pain, and reached her arm into the kiln mouth to grab the potter creature.
The next instant, the potter creature suddenly moved, grabbing Douyin Auntie’s wrist and yanking it back harshly!
This was the consequence of not retrieving the potter creature imdiately.
Ah!
Amidst Douyin Auntie’s screams, she was pulled into the kiln, followed by a heart-wrenching scream and calls for help.
The travelers on the platform turned as pale as death.
Gulp!
18D swallowed nervously, watching the potter creature assigned to him placed on the ground with a sense of dread.
The Potter Creature raised its right arm, then brought it down in front of itself.
“Those on the left side of my arm are in the second batch, begin your assessnt.
Please pick up your potter creatures and wait in front of a kiln!”
The chosen unlucky ones were frustrated.
They cursed, complained, but were helpless and had to follow the Potter Creature’s instructions.
Having seen Lin Baici’s group as an example and gaining experience, they scrambled for kilns near the edge of the clay pit, leading to pushing and arguing.
Kilns in good locations could increase the chance of survival, so at this point, gentlemanly manners were abandoned, and so even ca to blows.
So travelers once again ran into the mud pit to slather the damp clay on their bodies.
“Start the kiln!”
“Potter creatures into the furnace!”
The potter creatures fashioned by those travelers imdiately sprang into action, hopping into the nearest kiln.
Those who were still in the mud pit and covered in clay, hearing this instruction, rushed back towards their assigned kilns, still holding their potter creatures, but it was too late.
“Ignite!”
At the Potter Creature’s command, the kiln lids slamd shut and the charcoal inside ignited.
Those potter creatures not in their kilns at that instant developed cracks on their surfaces and imdiately fell apart with a series of snaps.
Their masters didn’t even have a chance to cry for help before they, like their potter creatures, fell to pieces and lay in pieces on the spot.
Crimson blood flowed, moistening the platform.
“36 are dead!”
Ma Yuan sighed.
Most of the deceased were won who had been more focused on coating themselves with red clay to avoid burns, neglecting the urgency regarding the kilns, thinking they could just pick any due to their small and frail physique.
But had they considered whether the Potter Creature would give them enough ti to reach a kiln?
The Potter Creature began giving instructions.
Every traveler tried their best to be perfect.
Having ntally prepared themselves, they didn’t hesitate during coal reduction, and with the insulation of the red clay on their arms, aside from feeling a bit hot, they weren’t burned.
This reassured them a lot.
They could survive!
Hope shone in the eyes of each traveler.
Lin Baici looked at his Rolex, tid against the commands given by the Potter Creature.
“Why are you always looking at your watch?”
18D asked anxiously, “Is there a problem?”
“No!”
Lin Baici replied, his brows knitting together.
Sothing’s not right,
It was ti to reduce the coal and lower the heat, so why hadn’t the Potter Creature issued the instruction?
Lin Baici raised his head to look at those standing in front of the kilns, listening intently, waiting for the Potter Creature’s next instruction.
If this continued,
They would all die!
“We need to reduce the coal now!”
Lin Baici shouted, keeping an eye on the Potter Creature, ready to stop talking imdiately if it didn’t allow him to speak.
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