As darkness fell, Jiang Ye drove the base vehicle into the perimeter wall.
Then he went out through the tunnel to throw all the coal sacks from outside back inside the wall.
Returning to the base, he lit the stove and made himself dinner.
Iced watermelon slices, pumpkin porridge, grilled sausages, pan-fried bear meat, and diced tomatoes.
With the sumptuous feast ready, Jiang Ye sat down, about to eat, when he suddenly stopped.
He felt like something was missing.
After a moment of thought, Jiang Ye got up, opened the window, and brought in the subwoofer that was on the windowsill.
He turned the volume to 10% and turned on the free broadcast.
The theme song of Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf drifted out.
Jiang Ye nodded with satisfaction and began to eat to the music.
Living standards were constantly improving, and happiness indices were significantly rising!
After eating, he opened the chat channel.
The procurement messages from Cao County citizens were waiting, two warehouses and one toilet.
It took ten minutes to complete the delivery, and he received the order payment and profit share.
The account balance settled at 401,000 yuan.
After watching the chat channel for a while, there was no useful information, and drowsiness struck. Jiang Ye decided to go to bed.
Before falling asleep, he turned his head to look out the window.
His drowsy eyes immediately widened!
Outside the wall, more than a dozen reddish-purple heads were hopping, their eyes blood red!
He grabbed the Kai Xi assault rifle and directly opened the window.
The cold wind rushed in. Jiang Ye aimed at the heads and pulled the trigger!
The muzzle spewed brilliant flames, and golden shell casings scattered onto the ground, bouncing around while steaming. A burst of bullets swept across the top of the wall, hitting the eyes, and blood splattered!
Jiang Ye reloaded his magazine, pushed open the base door, and rushed into the biting night wind.
He was stunned by the scene before him.
On the grassland in front of the perimeter wall, dozens, even hundreds, of blood-red kangaroos were hopping, charging towards the base at extreme speed!
And in the unclear darkness, there were vaguely large groups of figures, surging forward like a tide!
Damn it! Did they call for backup? Jiang Ye remembered the one that ran away that afternoon, and it was likely responsible for this.
He directly raised his gun and fired short bursts at the approaching blood kangaroos.
This gun was very effective, with almost no recoil. He quickly emptied a magazine, taking down at least ten blood kangaroos.
However, the other blood kangaroos were not scared; instead, they were enraged and leaped forward even faster!
Jiang Ye took out a blood grenade from his pocket and threw it with all his might.
Boom!
The explosion illuminated the grassland, revealing more red figures!
Jiang Ye's hair stood on end. How many of them were there? Was this a kangaroo swarm tactic?
He immediately ran back to the base, stuffed a sack with blood grenades, and carried it to the perimeter wall.
He threw them madly!
Explosions erupted one after another, flames flickered on and off, and large clouds of bloody mist spread across the grassland.
The hopping blood kangaroos were continuously blown to pieces, falling bloody onto the grass. Meanwhile, the Snow Oil Grass began to wither in large patches.
Jiang Ye occasionally raised his gun and fired short bursts at lone blood kangaroos.
The bullets from Kai Xi were quickly depleted; three magazines didn't last long at all.
The grenades were also consumed at an astonishing rate.
Twenty!
Forty!
Eighty!
The ground was covered in craters, the Snow Oil Grass was almost entirely withered, the air was filled with bloody mist, and the strong smell of blood constantly entered his nostrils.
The blood kangaroos fell continuously, and then reappeared from the darkness, advancing over the corpses of their companions!
Jiang Ye was truly starting to get scared. There were just too many blood kangaroos, as if they were endless. What was wrong with these damn things tonight?
How much longer could his grenades last?
Although there was a perimeter wall, if there were too many kangaroos, they could pile up into the base. If things got really bad, he would have to drive the base vehicle and run!
Finally, more than a dozen blood kangaroos broke through the explosive defense and hopped to the wall, howling ferociously at Jiang Ye.
Jiang Ye quickly ran back to the base, selected aviation fuel, increased the quantity to twenty, and purchased it!
After spending forty thousand yuan, his account balance was 361,000 yuan.
Barrel after barrel of fuel appeared from the trading bay.
Jiang Ye carried the fuel barrels out, unscrewed the lids, and threw them outside.
In less than a minute, all twenty barrels were thrown into the trench.
The fuel gushed out, forming a small stream in the trench. This aviation fuel was gasoline for small aircraft, and it evaporated quickly once it flowed out, filling the air with the smell of oil.
Nearly a hundred blood kangaroos had already approached and were hopping in the trench, their legs covered in fuel.
Jiang Ye returned to the base, used a shovel to scoop out several glowing red coals from the stove.
He exited the base and threw them into the trench!
The fire erupted almost instantly, quickly spreading throughout the trench and forming a wall of fire a meter high!
The blood kangaroos leaped wildly in pain, retreated backward, and screamed mournfully. The fur on their bodies was burning, like dancing balls of fire.
And on the ground, there were many withered patches of Snow Oil Grass. The flammable oil had squeezed out, and once ignited, it burned fiercely.
Jiang Ye watched as the fire grew larger and larger, the wilderness lighting up everywhere, and even the wind blowing towards him felt hot!
He dragged two sacks of coal, shoveled them out, and threw them outside.
Soon, many newly ignited coal lumps appeared on the ground outside the perimeter wall.
A sea of fire!
Thick smoke billowed across the fields. The smoke from burning Snow Oil Grass was substantial and had a pungent odor.
Jiang Ye suspected the smoke was toxic and quickly ran back into the base.
He shut the doors and windows tightly!
He took out bandages from the first-aid kit, soaked them in water, and covered his mouth and nose.
The blood kangaroos retreated collectively, but with the fire raging, they couldn't escape.
Under the hot wind, the dry Snow Oil Grass spontaneously combusted over a large area!
Fires ignited everywhere, small flames merged into large fires, and large fires converged into dazzling walls of fire.
The fire walls swept across the wilderness like an unstoppable army, making rumbling sounds and quickly burning the hopping blood kangaroos. Sparks flew like raindrops, and the red light illuminated the night sky as if it were daytime!
The scene was quite tragic.
Jiang Ye was dumbfounded. Was this the legendary forest fire?
Oh, no, there were no forests, it was a prairie fire.
The raging fire burned for more than an hour before being extinguished under the suppression of the cold wind.
Basically, everything that could burn was consumed.
On the dark wilderness, only scattered small fires remained, their dying embers glowing faintly.
Black and white thick smoke obscured the view outside the window.
It was as if a heavy fog had descended.
Jiang Ye was not idle; he bought bullets from the mall and loaded them into the empty magazines. If the blood kangaroos returned, he would have to fight again.
After waiting for more than two hours, the thick smoke finally dissipated.
Jiang Ye left the base and stood by the perimeter wall, gazing out.
The ground was littered with corpses!
Hundreds of blackened, scorched kangaroo corpses lay piled up on the ground.
The ground was covered with burnt grass and leaves, and the gray-white ash looked like dirty snow.
Jiang Ye waited anxiously for more than an hour, but no blood kangaroos appeared.
Perhaps they had all been burned to death!