196: A spectacular meteor shower! Buy a Flame Collector!

Boom! Boom!

When Su Lie walked out of the main Shelter building, the sounds coming from outside grew louder, and the ground tremor became increasingly violent.

"Master!"

Su Weier, who was making pottery near the main Shelter building, enthusiastically greeted Su Lie.

Su Lie nodded and looked up at the sky beyond the dome.

He saw.

Meteors, each trailing a massive fiery tail, were falling from the sky.

The meteors blotted out the sun, some were red, some blue, some green, and some gray.

Colorful meteors plummeted from the sky to the earth.

Seeing this, Su Lie immediately drove the children's scooter to the city wall.

He looked out beyond the Shelter.

He saw.

The land outside the Shelter had already turned into a boundless sea of lava and fire.

The sea of fire was swallowing the buildings in the ruins.

In the extreme distance.

When the meteors falling from the heavens struck the ground, they splashed up streams of lava thousands of meters high, and scattered the flames of different colors they carried across areas spanning dozens of kilometers around.

In some areas, multiple colors overlapped, turning the flames there into a rainbow.

"How spectacular!"

Su Lie couldn't help but exclaim in admiration.

This was completely different from the meteor shower he had imagined.

Roar!

Suddenly, an excited cry came from his left side.

He saw a winged serpent with a wingspan of hundreds of meters directly tear through space and fly toward a gray meteor falling in the sky.

Just as it was about to drag the meteor, the meteor instantly accelerated.

Under its secondary acceleration.

It immediately smashed the winged serpent into a rain of blood, and the gray flames ignited the serpent's body.

In just two seconds, the winged serpent was completely incinerated.

This was just a minor interlude during the meteor fall.

Su Lie observed for a while and found that the falling meteors were at least twenty kilometers away from him.

He suppressed his excitement and opened the Chat Channel.

He saw.

[Current number of Survivors: 7,834,020,007!]

"There are over a hundred thousand fewer than when I last checked!"

Su Lie's eyes flashed after reading this.

Clearly.

Some people didn't believe the information in the group and ventured out to explore. The exploration turned into peril, causing them to immediately lose their survival qualifications, resulting in a GAMEOVER and the end of their lives.

The screen flashed.

Some chat content appeared in the Chat Group.

This was at least a hundred times less than the chat content from earlier this morning.

"Holy crap! 3,000 degrees Celsius! I'm practically dying from the heat! Thank goodness for the ice ball Boss Su Lie sold this morning, otherwise, the steam alone would cook me alive!"

"This is tragic! Nobody told me lava flows to low-lying areas first. My damn Shelter was built in a ravine! Now I can't get out the door; I can only hide in the Shelter and wait to die!"

"Haha! My Shelter is built on a mountaintop, so there are no problems for now! This meteor shower is truly spectacular!"

"Yeah! Outside is entirely a sea of lava and fire. I can't even go out to gather resources! We can only wait until night."

"Haha! Guess where I am?... Your brother is currently collecting resources next to a meteor! Gack gack gack! Can I say that my Talent is Fire Spirit!"

"Awesome! I'm also collecting resources just like you. I have to say, the flame resources brought by the meteors are really good!"

"What Talent do you have, old brother?"

"My profession is Flame Synthesizer, and my Talent is golden legend quality Flame Immunity, which grants immunity to all flames except Divine Flame!"

"If anyone wants to go out and move around, I can provide you with a Flame Outer Garment. Through it, you can temporarily gain the ability to be immune to high temperatures, the sea of lava and fire, and ordinary flames, limited to 1 hour."

"I also sell flame collectors, common quality! After you collect flames, you can come to me for recycling; the price is fair. Interested parties, private message me!"

... Seeing this, Su Lie's heart stirred, and he immediately entered the Trading Center.

He found the Flame Outer Garment and the flame collector.

The seller priced them as blueprints, mineral veins, resource exchange vouchers, and so on.

Everything except common resources.

Everything could be traded.

After thinking, Su Lie used the friends module to find the other party's name.

This was a fellow countryman from his hometown.

His name was Ling Xu, and he looked like a Taoist priest.

"Hello Ling Xu! Can I exchange vegetables for your flame collector? I have cabbage, spinach, and red chili pepper here!"

Su Lie sent a message.

Ding!

Ling Xu's reply arrived quickly: "Haha! I didn't expect to intersect with Boss Su Lie! A pleasure! A pleasure! I made this flame collector using a Skill, and it can collect common quality flames!"

"I'll give you a piece of information for free: the falling meteors are surrounded by flames. You must use a flame collector to remove this layer of danger before you can safely start mining!"

"Oh right! I definitely need vegetables! And I also need some salt!"

"How about this! I want 50 catties of cabbage! 10 catties of spinach! 10 catties of red chili pepper! And 10 catties of that insect salt you sold before!"

At this moment, Ling Xu was walking through a sea of lava and fire, holding a gun-shaped flame collector in his hand.

Beside him was a meteor about seven or eight meters high and 10 meters in diameter.

"The flames on the meteor have been mostly collected; I can start mining the ore now!"

Ling Xu put away the flame collector in his hand, whistled, took a pickaxe out of his storage pouch, and began mining: "Heh heh! Isn't life looking up now!"

Su Lie thought about it after seeing the message, and replied to Ling Xu: "Deal!"

He wanted the flame collector entirely because of its function to collect flames.

This item was a perfect match for his Enhancement Talent.

Ling Xu, who was mining, paused, then burst out laughing: "Haha! Boss Su Lie is truly generous! If you need anything in the future, just come to your little brother; the price is negotiable!"

"My profession is Flame Synthesizer. At this stage, I can synthesize flames into green excellent quality Spirit Fire. This type of flame provides a huge damage bonus against monsters and can also melt some special metals!"

"Also, I can craft flames into disposable flame bombs. Would you like a few?"

After speaking, he immediately went to the Trading Center and listed a flame collector.

After Su Lie saw the private order notification.

He then went to the Vegetable Garden, found Su Keqing to get some resources, and took the insect salt out of the storage pouch inside the Shelter to complete the transaction.

"Thank you! I don't need this kind of weapon for now! I have the hk416 automatic rifle here, as well as white granulated sugar and alcohol! Wheat, sorghum, soybean, and cotton are all being grown on a large scale. If you have needs, you can contact me! I hope we can establish a long-term cooperative and mutually beneficial relationship!"

Su Lie replied with a message.

After that.

He then looked at the Mist Shop in the Trading Center.

He saw that 2 out of 10 slots of red chili pepper had been sold in the shop, and the shop currently held 2 million Mist Points.

"This time, I will list 100 kilograms of insect salt, priced at 100,000 Mist Points per catty!"

After thinking, Su Lie took 200 kilograms of insect salt out of his storage pouch and listed them in two separate trading windows.

After he withdrew the previously accumulated Mist Points.

He then looked at the flame collector he had just acquired through the trade.

He saw.

The overall appearance of the flame collector resembled the electromagnetic rifle capable of firing coin-bullets that he had seen at a weapons exhibition back home.

Unlike a rifle, its front port had a flared, horn-like device engraved with exquisite Runes, and there was a groove on the top rail of the weapon where a monster crystal could be embedded.

[flame collector: White Common Quality; Durability: 30; Flame Collection Quantity: 0/100; Can collect one common quality flame every 30 seconds. (Crafted by Ling Xu)]

Consumes 1 monster crystal for every 1 flame collected.

Note: If the flame to be collected is of higher quality than the quality the item can collect, collection will automatically cease.]

"This thing can actually be used to identify the quality of flames!"

Su Lie's eyes lit up after seeing this, and he immediately decided to use his Enhancement Talent on the flame collector...