I picked up skill fragments in the demon world.

Chapter 65 High Explosive Gunpowder (Subscription Request)

In fact, the best way to deal with the fox spirit is to add golden light to the whole house, but it doesn't work if you think about it. If the four walls are blessed with golden light, where will the fox spirit come in? It can only come from underground. But Zhang Chen wants to trap the fox spirit, so he has to bless the ground with golden light after the fox spirit comes in. But the fox spirit is not a fool. If the opponent sees a bad opportunity, he will probably go underground directly. When the opponent's feet touch the ground, the speed of escaping underground is definitely much faster than the speed of blessing the golden light.

"What if I bless three walls, the ground and the roof with golden light, and only leave the wall? The fox spirit's soul will have no place to stay, and it will definitely not dare to continue entering. Moreover, the speed at which I use golden light to bless a wall seems to be no different from the speed at which I bless the ground." Countless thoughts flashed through Zhang Chen's mind, and there was a hint of contemplation in his eyes.

The vixen was very fast and would dive into the ground if anything went wrong. I was afraid that I couldn't be as fast as her.

"Since I want to test the vixen, there is a way, that is to use gunpowder, which can also take me out. Even if the vixen is not blown to death, the vixen will not suspect me!" Zhang Chen lay in the box with a flash of thought: "I just don't know what the upper limit of this vixen is?"

"Don't be impatient! Don't be impatient! I have the advantage!" Zhang Chen muttered secretly, "Since Jin Guang can't test whether the fox spirit has the legendary magical power, then I will try with gunpowder! If the fox spirit uses magic to resist the explosion of gunpowder, I will lie dormant for the time being. If the fox spirit has no magic, it will be severely injured by the explosion of gunpowder, and I can kill it directly!"

This was his first time to actively face a monster, so how could he not be cautious? This was not a novel, this was reality, he had no chance of failure, and if he failed, he would only die.

So if you don't take action, then don't do it. But if you do take action, you must use drastic measures and not give the vixen a chance to react.

Zhang Chen lay quietly on the box, listening to the noise next door with his ear tilted:
"How can the vixen give up if she didn't get what she wanted? According to her character, she must get back at her nemesis."

One hour, two hours, three hours. After three hours, the waiting time was the most tormenting. Zhang Chen had some inexplicable thoughts in his mind at this time: "It's really uncomfortable to wait for the other party to retaliate. The vixen can go anywhere without any physical obstacles and is so elusive that I can't defend myself. If she attacks me, I'm afraid I won't be able to avoid her. After all, people always get sleepy sometimes. If the vixen sneaks in while I'm asleep and hits me on the head, I'm afraid my life will be in danger."

As the saying goes, a thief can steal for a thousand days, but you can't guard against thieves for a thousand days. At this time, Zhang Chen was quietly waiting for the vixen to act in the dark, and only then did he realize the torment in his heart.

"This is just a test. If I really fall out with the vixen, and if I fail to kill her with one blow, the vixen will definitely use any means and at all costs to kill me. I'm afraid I won't be able to close my eyes day and night, and even if I endure, I will be outlasted by the vixen. Moreover, I'm afraid I won't even dare to live in the house, for fear that a huge rock will fall from the sky, smash through my roof, and crush me to death in the house." At this time, Zhang Chen was lying in the dark, with thoughts flashing in his mind. He felt that the deterrent power of the damn vixen was really terrifying.

"Proactive! Proactive is very important! I just hope I can develop new skills in the future, so that I can turn passivity into initiative when facing monsters. Tomorrow I will use gunpowder to test it and see how good this vixen is!"

Time passed by in the darkness. Zhang Chen silently counted his heartbeats. After about three hours, seeing that the vixen next door had not made any movement, Zhang Chen's mouth curled up slightly, with a strange look in his eyes: "Could it be that the vixen has really run out of tricks? Otherwise, why would she give up? According to the vixen's temperament, she should at least beat me up. Why would she give up? It seems that the vixen has really run out of tricks!"

Zhang Chen secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and his fear of the vixen was greatly reduced.

"If gunpowder can't kill me, then I can only stay alive and develop for a while. After I open the ancient tomb, I'll see to what extent my skills can be upgraded." Zhang Chen closed his eyes, collected all the distracting thoughts in his mind, and slowly fell asleep.

Zhang Chen was sleeping soundly. The vixen next door was standing in front of the fire wall. She stared at the hole in the fire wall, peeping at Zhang Chen in the next room. She heard his steady breathing and knew that Zhang Chen had fallen asleep. She could not help but grind her teeth in the dark. The fox was getting angrier and angrier. "Damn it! When did that little thief master such an evil skill? His golden light can actually be stored in the outside world and preserved with objects from the outside world as carriers. It's really evil! This guy is simply the nemesis of all "weirdness"! When a monster without a physical body meets him, it's like meeting its natural enemy. Fortunately, my fox fairy ancestor Nannan is very talented and obtained great opportunities and good fortune in the ancient tomb in the past. Otherwise, she would have been in trouble! But this kid has mastered such a method. It will not be easy to control him in the future."

Thinking of this, the fox fairy Nannan became more and more angry: "After all, I am a sixth-level existence. Even if I suffered a change when I was promoted to the seventh level and my strength was greatly reduced, after five years of training, I can still exert the power of the fourth-level exorcist. How can I be controlled by a mere young boy? A mere ant that I could easily crush to death in the past, you want to control me?"

"If I just move stones to smash him to death, or move fire to burn him to death, it won't work! After all, I still have to rely on him to deal with the monsters in the ancient tomb. But I can't do anything to you, but I may be able to control you." The fox spirit's eyes rolled, and the next moment her soul left her body and went towards the back mountain.

The next morning, Zhang Chen had a good sleep. Looking at the sunlight coming in through the window, Zhang Chen swept his eyes across the room with a mysterious smile on his face. "That vixen has run out of tricks! She has been silent all night. It seems that she can't do anything to my golden light! It's time to settle accounts with the vixen! I'm going to prepare the gunpowder and use it to blow up her body first to see if she has any other cards!"

When Zhang Chen was about to go to the mountain to prepare gunpowder, there was a sudden knock on the door. His younger sister Zhang Taowei's voice sounded outside the door, and her voice sounded a little anxious: "Brother, are you home?"

Zhang Chen's heart skipped a beat, and he quickly jumped off the cabinet, pushed the door open and walked out. When he opened the door, he saw Zhang Taowei, who was running breathlessly and sweating profusely: "What's wrong?"

Zhang Taowei had obviously been jogging all the way here. Looking at the sweat running down his ears and his back being completely soaked, Zhang Chen had a bad feeling in his heart.

"There was a thief in our house, and my mother asked me to call you over." Zhang Taowei said breathlessly.

"We were robbed?" Zhang Chen's heart sank when he heard this. He hugged Zhang Tao and rushed to Liwan Village without caring about the things in the house. After a while, he arrived at Zhang's house, but saw Zhang sitting in the house crying. Her eyes were swollen like peaches and her face was pale without the slightest color.

"Mom!" Zhang Chen hurried to Zhang's side and called out in a low voice.

"It's all my fault! I slept so soundly last night that I didn't even notice a thief broke into the house. All that money was earned with your life. I wanted to save it for you to marry a wife in the future, but who knew you would suffer such a misfortune." Zhang raised her head and looked at Zhang Chen with eyes full of self-blame and pain. Her eyes were full of confusion, without the hope of the past.

Zhang Chen couldn't believe what he said, "How did our house get robbed last night? Don't you have any clues? Didn't you hear anything?"

Zhang Chen was a little curious. Zhang was a woman with two children, so she shouldn't sleep so soundly.

Zhang shook her head upon hearing this, her eyes full of bitterness: "I checked this morning, the doors and windows are all intact, there are no signs of prying, not even a footprint left. I don't know how the thief got in, and how the thief took away all the supplies."

Hearing Zhang's words, Zhang Chen looked around the room, his pupils suddenly shrank, and he saw the experience points that fell to the ground.

Seeing the red experience value, Zhang Chen's face turned gloomy. Even a fool would know that this must have been done by a fox spirit. After all, the fox spirit was the only monster around, and he had played a trick on the fox spirit last night, so the fox spirit had every reason to retaliate against him.

"I can't stand it! I endured everything and didn't contact Liwan Village, just to prevent the vixen from implicating my mother and my younger sister and brother, but who knew that I would be targeted by this damn vixen in the end."

Zhang Chen swept through the empty house. All the rice, flour, grain and oil had been swept away. The cloth was taken away by the fox spirit without a drop left. Even the water in the jar was taken away without a drop left. The whole house was empty. Even if a mouse came, it would shed a few tears before leaving.

Zhang Chen filled the jar with water with a gloomy face. A person can go a day without food, but not without water. Then he stood up and walked out of the house and said to Zhang: "Don't worry, mother. I have food and will bring it to you at noon."

“Chen’er, I’m sorry! You asked me to hide those supplies, but now I have lost them all. I… I…” Zhang’s voice was hoarse, and as she spoke, tears flowed from the corners of her eyes again.

"Don't worry, mother. They are just material possessions. With my current ability, if I can earn one, I can earn a second, or even more." Zhang Chen hurriedly comforted Zhang. To be honest, he didn't care about the cloth or the dried meat.

If I could dig up the tomb and take out the ancient artifacts inside, I would make a fortune. Getting rich is just a by-product. A mere fortune is nothing at all.

At this point, Zhang Chen thought about blowing up the vixen. If the gunpowder exploded, the noise would be too loud. He might have to hide in the mountains. So he said to his mother, "Mom, I want to tell you something. If there is an explosion in my house in the future, don't worry. Nothing will happen to me."

Zhang was stunned when she heard this. She looked at Zhang Chen in astonishment. She wanted to ask more questions but was interrupted by Zhang Chen's hand: "Don't ask, and don't think too much. You just need to know that nothing will happen to me! If someone asks you, just say you don't know! Even if my house is blown down and turned into a big pit, I will be fine!"

After saying this, Zhang Chen forced a smile towards Zhang, then turned around and walked towards his home with an expressionless face.

Zhang Chen returned home with a gloomy face. As soon as he walked into the gate, he heard the sound of water coming from the next yard. Zhang Chen looked through the fence and saw the fox next door taking a bath in a large vat. As it kept shaking its body and playing in the water, countless water splashed out of the vat.

Seeing this scene, Zhang Chen clenched his fists in his sleeves, veins bulged on the back of his hands, and flames burned in his eyes.

How difficult is life in this world? Everyone needs to count the amount of water they drink, but this damn vixen is actually playing in the water? Such waste is simply lawless.

Where did they get water? Zhang Chen was weak and had to rely on the gods all day. He spent all day reading and never went to get water. Where could he get water to drink?
There was no doubt that the water in their house was brought from somewhere else by the vixen, and his stepmother was one of the victims. For the sake of enjoyment, the vixen completely ignored the lives of the villagers. Zhang Chen glanced at the vixen, then walked back to the house silently, went straight to the wall, used an iron needle to poke open the gap that was blocked before, and looked around with a pair of eyes. Sure enough, he saw countless stolen goods in the house, including the cloth sent by his family and the baskets of dried meat.

"It was really this vixen who did it. It seems I did not wrongly accuse her!" Zhang Chen blocked the gap in the wall with an expressionless face, then picked up his backpack and walked towards the mountain.

"This damn vixen! She must die! She must be made to taste my thunderous power." Zhang Chen carried the falcon and silently came to the cave, with a cold look in his eyes: "Vixen, I want to see if gunpowder can blow you to death!"

Since it has been decided to blow up the vixen, the falcon certainly cannot stay in the house any longer.

"I figured out a safe solution last night. There are two key points in it."

Zhang Chen was not a fool. He would go to the fox spirit with explosives to fight her to death. The fox spirit was not stupid either and would never give him a chance to ignite the explosives. He was afraid that if he went to the fox spirit with explosives, the fox spirit would definitely strike first because of its cunningness.

"First, it must be a perfect disguise. Second, taking me out can also leave me a way out. The vixen must ignite and blow herself up without leaving any traces. I must not be implicated. After all, the details of the vixen have not been fully explored at this time." Zhang Chen said to himself:

"The first point is not difficult. I have come up with a perfect solution last night. As for how to let the vixen ignite the explosive pack and blow herself to death..." Countless thoughts flashed through Zhang Chen's mind, and finally his eyes fell on the pile of firewood.

"That vixen often comes to my house to buy firewood. I just need to make the explosives into detonators, hollow out the firewood and hide them inside. The vixen can then light a fire to cook, and will naturally be blown to death." Zhang Chen quickly came up with an idea.

At the same time, we also have to consider the reactions from all parties that will inevitably arise after the explosion of the explosives, and these must be prepared in advance.

Once I ignite the explosive pack, the noise will definitely alert the government. I need to be prepared to respond in advance and get my family out.

"If the fox spirit is killed, it will be good for you, me and everyone else! If it is not killed, who knows where the firewood came from? You can't blame me then!" Zhang Chen was a little excited at this moment, his eyes fell on the gunpowder, and his blood seemed to boil at this moment: "If the fox spirit is killed, no one will oppress me anymore. A magical world will slowly unfold before my eyes in the future. I will also be extraordinary and even have the hope of immortality and dominating the sky."

Zhang Chen's eyes were filled with excitement, but he quickly gathered his thoughts and thought about the process of making high explosives.

Ordinary gunpowder is unlikely to kill the fox spirit. Not only does it react slowly, but its explosion power is also small. If you want to kill the fox spirit, you must make sensitive explosives and high explosives.

"If I want to make explosives and blow up that vixen, I need to make two kinds of explosives. A small amount of highly sensitive explosives as the ignition point, and a large amount of insensitive explosives as the main force." Zhang Chen thought to himself.

Fortunately, he has already produced both sensitive explosives and insensitive explosives. The only thing to do now is to add additives to the explosives and turn ordinary gunpowder into high explosives.

Today, Zhang Chen didn't even dig the soil in the cave. He went up the mountain directly with his backpack. After a while, he returned to the cave mysteriously and started making high explosives.

After being busy for half a day, Zhang Chen looked at the gunpowder in front of him with a hint of joy in his eyes:
"But it's almost over!"

Zhang Chen sighed quietly, gritted his teeth and picked up a piece of wood that had been prepared long ago. The wood was as thick as an arm and as long as a forearm, so it could be put directly into the stove without having to be chopped with an axe, lest the fox spirit break the tree and let the gunpowder leak out, thus exposing the secret.

At this time, the tree had been hollowed out by Zhang Chen, leaving only a spoon-sized hole, which was to seal the space and create strong sealing and explosiveness. Then Zhang Chen carefully poured the mysterious powder into it, put dozens of irregular iron filings into the hole, and then sealed it with yellow mud, and carefully pasted the previously peeled bark on it. Anyone who saw it at this time would think that this was definitely a qualified high-concentration explosive package.

Zhang Chen only made eight in total, with some gunpowder left. He then carefully placed the gunpowder into a ceramic jar, sprinkled stones inside, and sealed it carefully before he breathed a sigh of relief.

"There is highly sensitive explosives in this tube. As long as she puts the firewood into the stove and the temperature rises slightly, then..." Zhang Chen smiled coldly. That vixen didn't even know there were such things as explosives in the world, so how could she be prepared?
As long as you catch the fox spirit off guard, she will definitely be dead.

"But Zhang Chen... could he have accidentally hurt Zhang Chen?" Zhang Chen hesitated for a moment, then shook his head: "Brother Zhang Chen, you can't blame me. You can only blame that vixen. And the vixen always chooses to cook when Zhang Chen is not at home, so she shouldn't have accidentally hurt Zhang Chen, right?"

Then Zhang Chen carefully drained all the moisture from the eight pieces of firewood to ensure that they burned at the fastest speed, and preferably exploded at the same time.

He also wrapped some yellow mud on the firewood, making it look very shabby and even more inconspicuous.

"Eat a full meal first, and then go settle accounts with the vixen. Since I'm going to blow up the vixen, I have to control the amount of firewood at home and make sure the vixen carries these eight sticks next time she comes to move firewood." At the same time, Zhang Chen also had some concerns in his heart: "Also, I have to make sure the vixen burns the firewood while making lunch. If the vixen feels like having a snack during her rest at night, I'm afraid she won't survive if she's facing high explosives, as we're only separated by a wall."

"Next, I must carefully calculate the amount of firewood used, while also calculating the amount of firewood used next door." Zhang Chen muttered to himself. After thinking over everything that had happened, he did not notice any obvious flaws, so he happily got up and went to the deep mountains and forests to hunt sika deer.

Not only does he need to eat, but his stepmother and her family also have three mouths to feed!
Hunting sika deer is not difficult, but the difficult part is the walking process. The mountains here are rolling and some places are even densely forested. No one has ever set foot there, so it is extremely difficult to get through.

Then the scene of yesterday was repeated. With the herd of sika deer scattering in all directions, Zhang Chen pounced on the unlucky sika deer. Then two terrifying and ferocious mouths appeared in the palms of his hands and pierced into the neck of the sika deer. Then, the blood in the sika deer's body was drained by Zhang Chen within thirty breaths. The sika deer lost its life and lay on the ground, unable to move.

After Zhang Chen sucked the blood of the sika deer, he felt full of energy and spirit, as if he had been injected with chicken blood, and his body was filled with powerful strength.

Then he carried the sika deer and walked towards the forest. When they arrived at a secluded place, Zhang Chen began to cut open and dissect the deer's body.

Today, he did not drain the water from the sika deer, because he thought of a better and faster way to kill the fox spirit. Wouldn't the fox spirit be greedy for sika deer meat? If he brought fresh venison back, the fox spirit would definitely be unable to resist and would stew the bones today. Stewing bones requires a lot of firewood, and the firewood in the fox spirit's home is only enough to cook a meal, so it is far from enough to stew the bones.

What will the fox do if it has no firewood? Will it have to get it from somewhere else? When the bones are half cooked, the first thing the fox will move is definitely its own firewood.

Thinking of this, Zhang Chen was in a good mood. He lit a bonfire in the mountains, roasted a deer leg, and ate it with his mouth full of oil. Then he carefully chopped the sika deer bones and cut the meat. He was not afraid that the fox spirit would be tired, but he thought that if the fox spirit lit the stove here and ran to the yard to process the sika deer meat and ran to the yard to chop the bones, what would happen if the fox spirit was not at the center of the explosion when it exploded?
After all the venison was cut, Zhang Chen carried the fresh venison down the mountain and came to the cave. He fixed the carefully prepared firewood firmly with ropes, then carried it carefully in his hands and walked straight down the mountain.

"Perhaps I will finally be free from the oppression of that evil vixen. Then, with my golden finger, a new life will be waiting for me."

"I just don't believe it. There has never been explosives in this world, how could that vixen be prepared? If she was prepared, I would accept it!" Zhang Chen said happily.

However, Zhang Chen felt unhappy when he thought of the sika deer meat in the backpack. Even in this world, sika deer meat is a dish on the table of the powerful and wealthy, and it is an extremely important dish.

Zhang Chen was carrying firewood, cursing, "Damn vixen, I'll give you this sika deer meat for free. It's your last lunch!"

Halfway through the journey, Zhang Chen stopped, pondered for a moment, then pumped water from underground, mixed it with some sand and mud on the ground, and smeared it casually on his face and body, making himself so dirty that no expression could be seen on his face. Then he walked back, dirty all over, carrying eight pieces of firewood.

In order to conceal the micro-expressions on his face and not reveal his subtle emotions, Zhang Chen took the initiative to smear some mud on his face. People's subtle expressions cannot be controlled, and that vixen is not a simple creature. If she could see any flaws from his face, wouldn't that be a big trouble?

Now that you have decided to do it, you must do it to perfection, not leaving any clues, and never give the vixen a chance to see through you.

(End of this chapter)