"Exactly." Qi Si nodded, the smile at the corner of his lips looking eerily ghostly in the lamplight. "Straw was flammable, and so were wooden buildings. All it took was a spark and a strong wind to burn down all of Poplar Blossom Town.
"General Meng put it into practice back then, and the results proved quite effective. Why shouldn't we pay tribute to our predecessor's style? Those letters that seem unrelated to the Instance's theme are hinting at it quite clearly, aren't they?
"If we aren't supposed to burn down the town, why would the Instance tell us all that?"
Lin Chen listened in bewildered admiration, deep in thought.
The Instance would not provide useless clues. The matter of the soldiers setting fires had been emphasized repeatedly, and it was very likely pointing toward a viable route to clearing the Instance.
It was known that this was a team Instance. Even if the Players belonged to different factions, there had to be room for cooperation.
The hostility between the "tiger ghosts" and the "humans" was built on the premise that the Players were enemies of the tiger demon.
As long as Poplar Blossom Town was burned down, the Players in the "human" faction and the tiger demon could leave each other alone. Then the "tiger ghosts" would have no reason to harm the "humans," who were also Players.
If they were lucky... the Players might even be able to end the Instance with everyone surviving.
Tang Yu picked up a qingtuan and raised his brows at Qi Si. "So, once we confirmed that the townspeople were straw men, we could have ended the Instance?
"We just need to abandon the main quest, burn down Poplar Blossom Town, make the main quest no longer valid, and clear it through the