The sky was ablaze with flames, like a burning ocean, which reddened the surrounding sky. The raging flames rose into the air and illuminated the faces of the people around them.
People carrying buckets of water moved about around the firelight.
"Quick, there's not enough water, call a few more people!"
However, the rescue efforts were insufficient and completely ineffective.
The fire grew fiercer and fiercer, like a ferocious beast, making it impossible for people to open their eyes. The air was filled with flying ashes, making it difficult to breathe.
"Hurry! There's a child inside!"
"What? There's a child too?"
"The Lin family's little kid is still inside!"
People who had already given up hope started fetching water again after hearing this.
The people around were shouting in panic.
However, the fire was too large to be controlled with these tools alone.
The noise of people woke Hang Suisui up.
"Cough, cough cough cough!"
Before she even opened her eyes, she could feel the heat around her and hear the crackling of fire in her ears.
She recognized the sound; she used to help her husband light the fire when he cooked, and it was the sound of burning wood.
Hang Suisui roughly knew where she was. The fog was too thick, and she dared not open her eyes. The black smoke choked her and made her cough incessantly.
Fortunately, 001 also noticed the situation in time and anxiously urged Hang Suisui to hurry up.
[Host! Host! Get up quickly! The fire is about to reach you! Run!!!]
It looked at Hang Suisui, who was surrounded by flames, and before it could even think about why it had made a mistake again, it was so anxious that it almost cried.
Hang Suisui could already feel her skin starting to burn; the fire was spreading, just a hair's breadth away from her. Her hand, which was covering her mouth and nose, trembled slightly.
She needs to calm down.
The smoke is too thick, I can't see, and if I open my eyes I'll be blinded.
Even if she didn't go blind from the smoke, her eyes would still sting and water would be worse than they are now, as she doesn't have a free hand to rub her eyes.
Without a fire-avoidance talisman, Hang Suisui dared not move, fearing that if she touched the flames, she would really be dead.
Thinking about anything now is useless. Hang Suisui is thinking about how to escape. The clear threat of death makes her tremble uncontrollably.
001 didn't have time to think any further and used the last bit of energy it had left to wrap up Hang Suisui.
The flames and smoke separated, forming an invisible barrier. Hang Suisui could immediately feel the temperature around her drop, and the murky air became fresh.
It was still warm, but no longer scalding.
[Host, get out of here! My energy won't last much longer, this place is about to collapse!]
001's extremely anxious urging made Hang Suisui panic, and she quickly stood up to look for an exit.
Fortunately, the house wasn't big, and the wooden door had been burned down, so Hang Suisui quickly found the exit.
“…Hmm…”
The faint sounds amidst the fire made Hang Suisui, who was about to step out the door, suddenly stop.
There are people inside!?
With her excellent hearing, she could tell from that muffled groan that the other person was still a child!
As if to confirm Hang Suisui's guess, the child let out another faint sound that seemed about to disappear.
Hang Suisui turned around and went back into the raging flames without hesitation.
[Host! Run! It's too late! The building is about to collapse!]
001 watched Hang Suisui turn and run back into the flames and shouted anxiously.
Its energy is about to run out, and the barrier is already starting to thin!
Hang Suisui ran even faster inside.
"……Um……"
While frantically searching the house, Hang Suisui suddenly turned around and saw the child lying on the ground, curled up tightly.
It was about to be engulfed by flames.
Hang Suisui rushed towards the little boy without hesitation, holding him tightly in her arms. The barrier around Hang Suisui kept the flames that were about to attack the boy away.
She anxiously patted the little boy's face, which was blackened by the flames: "Wake up! Wake up and come out with me!!!"
The little boy, who had been waiting to die, gradually regained consciousness as Hang Suisui patted him, and his previously labored breathing became smooth again.
He tried to open his eyes, but his vision was already blurred by the smoke. He could only vaguely see that there was a little girl in front of him who was a bit smaller than him.
She was calling him.
Seeing that the boy had opened his eyes, Hang Suisui withdrew her hand from slapping him. Her hand suddenly stopped in mid-air, her gaze lingered, and her pupils contracted sharply.
Before she could even think, the little boy grabbed her hand, which was suspended in mid-air.
Hang Suisui didn't care about anything else. She grabbed the person on the ground, and the two of them staggered away from the flames.
She wasn't afraid of fire, but the person she was holding onto was. She used her body to block the spreading flames.
Lin Yu's vision gradually returned, and he looked at the person who had shielded him from the flames with their body, his dark eyes opening up like ink.
Is she a fairy?
Did someone descend from heaven to save him?
Losing focus, he didn't see the falling log in time, and his already unsteady little body fell to the ground while trying to avoid it!
Lin Yu groaned, and Hang Suisui, who was holding him, was also pulled astray by the person who suddenly fell down.
Just as the piece of wood next to her was about to hit the boy, Hang Suisui quickly used her arm to block the wood engulfed in flames.
The barrier around her was getting weaker and weaker, and she could feel her body temperature rising and her breathing becoming rapid!
He glanced at his reddened arm.
No, there's no time, I have to get out of here right now!
"Get up quickly!" [The house is about to collapse!]
Hang Suisui and 001's voices rang out simultaneously.
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