300: The investigation team found nothing! Xu Lu: So... this was a trap set for me?

“Holy crap! I didn't expect it to be real; I thought what I saw online yesterday was just special effects!”

“What is going on? How can this raging fire just float up into the sky? That's too fake!”

“Who cares if it's fake or not, film it first! Hahaha, I'm going viral.”

“Unbelievable! Flames burning out of thin air like that—I bet the Experts are going to call this a supernatural event disguised as a natural phenomenon.”

...It was still nighttime, but the time had advanced to the next day, and it wasn't the same location.

But the only thing that was the same.

was that the massive fire at the scene suddenly extinguished, floated into the air, and finally fell back down as a shower of fire.

This scene left many people on site dumbfounded, though many others immediately raised their phones to film it.

Xu Lu, the one responsible for the whole affair.

After seeing the 'Effective Uses' count on his mental panel change from '2' to '1', he quietly flew away from the scene again.

That's right! This kind of thing must have been done by Our CEO Xu!

Yesterday, after discovering that extinguishing a fire consumed an 'Effective Use' count, he immediately decided to use this method to permanently solidify his current skill.

Because this task was very simple for him, and extinguishing fires was something he had recently been doing frequently anyway.

The only difference compared to before was that the method of extinguishing the fire had changed slightly.

Before acquiring the skill Minor Five Elements Spell Mastery, he used technological means to extinguish fires.

But after obtaining this skill, he temporarily abandoned technological means.

And switched to using cultivation methods.

It must be said that although the principles behind the two were vastly different, the results were equally good.

With a single Fire Control Spell, all the flames were drawn away from the scene, becoming wood without roots and water without a source.

He didn't even have to worry about any hidden dangers remaining.

Because the effect of the Fire Control Spell was precisely to draw all the flames out of the fire scene.

As for why Xu Lu didn't use Water Spells but instead used Fire Spells, which originated from the same element as the disaster, there was actually a reason for this.

According to common knowledge, 'Water conquers Fire,' so when a fire starts, water is naturally the first thing used to put it out.

But based on Xu Lu's testing of the Minor Five Elements Spell Mastery skill.

he found that 'Gathering Water' out of thin air in a waterless environment was much more difficult than conveniently 'Controlling Water' where water was already present.

And at a fire scene, there was naturally no readily available water to use.

If he wanted to use water to extinguish the fire, Xu Lu would first need to cast the 'Water Gathering Spell,' and only then could he use Controlling Water to put out the fire.

This consumed a lot of mana, making it inefficient!

However, if he conveniently cast the Fire Control Spell, it was much easier.

As long as the flames at the source were removed, the fire would naturally cease.

This was why Xu Lu, after encountering two consecutive fires, went against conventional wisdom and used a Fire Spell.

Thus, people witnessed the strange phenomenon of a sky full of fiery rain.

If Xu Lu had used water to extinguish the fire, ordinary people naturally wouldn't have seen such a miraculous phenomenon... Since a fire had once again inexplicably vanished without a trace, it inevitably attracted considerable attention.

Especially now, in the age of the internet, news spreads incredibly fast.

The relevant departments even specially formed an investigation team to visit these two locations and look into the cause of the incidents.

Unfortunately, they probably couldn't figure out, even if they racked their brains, that this was caused by someone casting a recently acquired spell.

“Professor Liu, we haven't found anything of value. The fire scene itself is ordinary, and we confirmed the fire was caused by the improper use of household appliances.

The blaze had already spread throughout the entire room and was starting to spread to the surrounding areas, but then suddenly all the flames vanished, leaving the scene exactly as we see it now!”

A capable young man introduced the findings.

The middle-aged man in his forties opposite him nodded slightly, his eyes flickering as he wore a thoughtful expression.

As the leader of this Investigation Team, Liu Qilong had already led his subordinates to examine both sites.

Unfortunately, they all reached the same conclusion: the fires started accidentally but were extinguished very suddenly.

Just then, the young man said something that made Li Qilong's eyes light up.

“Professor, there are no reports of similar incidents occurring elsewhere. The fire extinguishing events from yesterday and the day before were less than twenty li apart.

If it weren't so unbelievable, I would even suspect that some magical person or creature is guarding this area...”

The young man said casually.

“Guarding?”

Liu Qilong didn't comment on this baseless speculation, but instead muttered the phrase to himself.

However, his subsequent arrangement astonished everyone under him:

“Arrange a fire? This... Professor Liu, isn't that inappropriate?”

“Exactly. What if it really burns out of control and we don't put it out in time? That would be trouble.”

“The key is we don't know if the fire will extinguish itself like the previous two times. This is too risky.”

...Liu Qilong paid no mind to the chatter of the crowd; he was determined to proceed with his plan.

Having no choice, everyone could only comply.

And so, a pre-arranged fire, set up by this group, began to burn in the night.

The same billowing black smoke, the same streams of people rushing out of the building, the same initial stage of a fire.

Only in the shadows, several observation points were monitoring every movement at the scene and recording it simultaneously.

At the same time.

In the sky, Xu Lu, wearing the iron man armor, had arrived at the scene immediately.

However, he did not extinguish the fire right away, because the Artificial Intelligence 'jervis' spoke up again:

“CEO Xu, this is not a fire in the conventional sense, but rather something deliberately set up by people... Uh, a trap?”

“I don't quite understand the purpose of this action, but according to the monitoring footage, these several locations...”

In the three-dimensional holographic view, jervis displayed all the observation points.

Furthermore, its calculations showed that the people fleeing below were all 'acting.'

Of course, to Great Director Xu, whether it was real or acting, he could tell at a glance.

“So... this fire was set to ‘catch’ me?”

Thinking of this, Xu Lu smiled.

Although flying over in the iron man armor wasn't difficult for him, being deceived was not a pleasant experience.

“Since you like starting fires, I'll lend you a hand!”

The armor remained under jervis's control, while Xu Lu formed a spell seal.

However, this was slightly different from the Fire Control Spell he had used the previous two times to extinguish fires.

The spell seal he formed this time was called 'Raising Fire to Burn the Plains.'

The mana in his mind was consumed, and mystical power descended into reality.

The fire, which had not been particularly large inside the building, instantly multiplied a hundredfold.

Within the space of a few breaths, the entire five or six-story building was engulfed in raging, blazing flames.

This bizarre scene completely dumbfounded everyone who had set up this operation today.