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Chapter 171 Gasoline is a good thing
"Okay, then everyone follow me to the entrance of the village."
As the village chief said that, he took the lead in leading the remaining villagers and began to walk towards the open space at the entrance of the village, preparing to deal with the locust swarm together.
"Xiao Qi, they are going to step on the spot now, you remember to remind me in time if the locust swarm suddenly appears."
Shangguan smiled and quickly reminded Xiaoqi.
"Okay, host, Xiao Qi is watching for you."
"No, I think I still need to remind everyone that if the locust swarm suddenly appears, you must hide immediately."
Shangguan Xiaoxiao was still a little worried and decided to go to the village again.
Liu Cheng suddenly appeared and stopped her.
"Smile, you're a girl, it's too dangerous over there, it's better for you to stay here."
"No, how can I let you fight alone, and I came up with this idea, it's better for me to go to the scene."
"Don't make trouble."
Seeing that she was determined to go, Liucheng was afraid that she would be in danger, so he ignored the etiquette of monarchs and ministers, and directly grabbed Shangguan Xiaoxiao's hand and pulled her back to the village chief's house.
"The women and children here also need your care, so you just stay obediently. There is me and Young Master Mo over there, you will be fine."
"I do not want."
Shangguan Xiaoxiao didn't want to stay behind to watch the battle, and she didn't think that she should be given special care because she was a woman.
Although she knew that Liucheng was not allowed to go to the village entrance because she was worried about her safety.
"Liucheng, I know what you are worried about, but don't worry, I will protect myself."
"I don't want to see you in danger, you know? In that case, I."
"I told you not to worry. Since the three of us came up with the solution together, we should confront each other head-on."
Shangguan smiled and finished speaking, and regardless of Liucheng's objection, he walked directly to the entrance of the village.
Liu Cheng looked at the back of her leaving, and could only helplessly shook his head.
This Shangguan smiled, although sometimes he felt like a different person compared to before.
But this warmheartedness seems to be the same as when he was treating him back then.
Regardless, he is very kind.
After Shangguan Xiaoxiao arrived at the entrance of the village, he saw that with the help of everyone, the food had been spread neatly on the open ground in the middle.
There is a big hole below it, which was dug overnight last night.
At the same time, Feng Lingzun also prepared a lot of torches, ready to wait for the locust swarms to come, let the villagers throw the locusts into the pit, and then immediately besiege them from all directions and burn them with fire.
But Shangguan smiled and looked at it, and suddenly felt that something was wrong.
Although this method is very simple to think about.
If the pit is not dug deep enough, or the fire is not strong enough, the locusts are not completely burned to death or suffocated, and they are likely to fly out again.
In that case, the efforts of so many people will be in vain.
"Host, are you worried that the firepower of the torch is not enough?"
Xiaoqi knew what Shangguan Xiaoxiao was worried about, "No matter how deep the pit is dug or not, as long as the fire is powerful enough, it will naturally not give the locusts a chance to escape."
"I know, but it's not so easy for these torches to burn quickly, unless you use gasoline, right?"
"Just as you think."
Seeing that Shangguan Xiaoxiao suddenly understood, Xiao Qi smiled with satisfaction.
"Can you buy gasoline in that space?"
"That's natural. There are everything in the space, as long as you have enough money."
"Cut~"
Shangguan smiled and couldn't help rolling his eyes to Xiao Qi.
Of course she knows that money can buy anything.
But this time, in order to help the villagers, she spent a lot of money just to buy the ointment.
"Gasoline won't be expensive, will it?"
Shangguan smiled while no one was paying attention, sneaked aside, and asked Xiao Qi quietly, "This, if I don't have enough money, can I make an IOU?"
"No."
Xiao Qi immediately rejected her.
"The system won't allow you to make an IOU."
"No compassion, didn't you see that I was helping those poor villagers?"
Shangguan smiled and muttered, her consciousness had entered the farming space, and she successfully found the gasoline she wanted on the shelf.
"Twelve taels of silver per barrel of gasoline? That seems to be a lot cheaper than I thought."
Shangguan smiled and looked at the weight, and felt that it was not too expensive, so he simply bought three buckets.
After buying, she quickly left the farming space and took the gasoline to Feng Lingzun.
"What is this?"
"Gasoline."
"What is gasoline?"
Feng Lingzun asked in confusion.
"How should I put it, it should be regarded as a combustion accelerant. As long as it encounters fire, it will burn quickly, ensuring that the batch of locusts will never come back."
"You still have such a miraculous thing."
Feng Lingzun was very surprised. He unscrewed the lid of the gasoline tank and suddenly smelled a pungent smell. He couldn't help frowning slightly.
"It smells really bad."
"You don't care what it tastes like, it's not for drinking, as long as it's useful, you will pour gasoline on the torch later, and it will definitely be more powerful and lethal when it is ignited."
"Well, I will immediately ask the villagers to pour gasoline on the torches in their hands."
With that said, Feng Lingzun called Liu Cheng, and the two of them dealt with the torches in the villagers' hands together.
Shangguan smiled and looked at everything in front of him, and finally felt that it should be foolproof.
The morning time passed like this, but the villagers were surprised to find that the locust swarm did not appear.
Just when everyone was about to lose patience.
Suddenly, someone shouted.
"So many locusts!"
Shangguan smiled and looked at the sound.
Good guy.
This time, it is no longer a simple swarm of locusts, but thousands of them, densely packed, covering the sky and looking very terrifying.
The village chief shouted quickly.
"Everyone, be careful, don't let the locusts enter the village, quickly guard your position, and prepare to work together to deal with the locusts."
"Okay, we got it."
The villagers waited nervously, their hands holding the torches sweating slightly.
You know, if the locust swarm is not stopped this time and let them enter the village, the village will definitely suffer.
So, no matter what, they have to keep it here.
Finally, the dense locusts flew in front of the eyes. As Shangguan Xiaoxiao expected, the locust swarms basically rushed towards the previously prepared grain piles.
"Everyone hurry up now and throw all the locusts into that big pit."
Shangguan Xiaoxiao did not expect that Feng Lingzun would be the first to rush out and start to beat the locust swarm with the cloth in his hand, trying to drive them into the pit.
Afterwards, more and more villagers came together and triggered the mechanism. The grain piles fell into the big pit accurately, and the locusts were constantly driven in.
(End of this chapter)