"Get to the point," Old Liu said impatiently.
"Plants growing in cold regions, such as the conifers at the foot of Mount Tamerlarya, have to resist the cold environment, so their branches and leaves are filled with large amounts of oil, making them highly flammable!"
The Pompei scholar with a head full of curly golden hair spoke while taking a special conifer branch from his bag, carefully removing the cones, and showing them to the attendees one by one. Suddenly, he held the lush green branches to an open flame, and in the blink of an eye the needles were ignited. The sound of bursting oil was clear amid the flames, burning as quickly as paper.
