"Hold on tight, don't back down, hold on!"
"Captain, it's no use. Without equipment, even if we rush in, it's useless."
Amidst roars and the unbridled rampage of the fire dragon, these heroes, lacking any equipment, retreated slowly. Each of them was young, yet in the face of life and death, and for the safety of the people's lives and property, they pressed forward bravely. Even in retreat, they retreated with their lives.
At this critical moment, an even greater crisis arose.
"Boom!"
Suddenly, the chemicals in the unburned tank No. 8, not far away, exploded, flames shot into the sky, and a huge iron ladder was blown away, flying straight towards the firefighters.
"careful!"
At that moment, a firefighter saw this scene. Without thinking twice, he immediately rushed towards the three comrades who had been knocked to the ground by the explosion.
"Xu Yang!"
Chen Xiao's voice was filled with shrill despair and fear.
"Xu Yang, Xu Yang!"
Many soldiers kept shouting, especially the three firefighters who were trapped underneath them.
The iron ladder fell and, right before everyone's eyes, smashed directly into Xu Yang. The steel bar pierced through his chest, but his selfless jump saved three comrades.
He used his own flesh and blood to hold up the iron ladder.
"Xu Yang, are you...are you alright? Don't scare my Xu Yang."
"Please, don't sleep, hang in there, we'll take you to the hospital right away, hang in there!"
The three rescued firefighters immediately took off their hats and desperately dragged Xu Yang out in the scorching heat. Xu Yang, being pulled along by his firefighters, was bleeding profusely from his mouth, but the blood quickly dried, demonstrating just how high the temperature was.
"Damn it, who told you to take your hats off?!"
Chen Xiao arrived and kicked a firefighter who was on the verge of collapse.
"Put them on, all of you! Xu Yang risked his life to save you. Do you want him to have sacrificed himself in vain?"
He roared, squatted down, and hugged Xu Yang tightly. This tough man was trembling all over.
"Captain... I'm so tired... I can finally rest."
"Xu Yang, Xu Yang.... Waaah!"
At this moment, Chen Xiao could no longer hold back; he didn't know what to say or how to say it.
Xu Yang was like a tattered rag doll; his body had suffered severe burns from the high temperature and was beyond saving.
"Xu Yang!"
The other firefighters were also shouting and trying to run over, but the next second, Chen Xiaoqiang gritted his teeth and shouted angrily, "What are you all doing? Put out the fire!"
"Captain... my parents... they...."
Xu Yang coughed up the last mouthful of blood, and before he could finish a sentence, he lay limply in Chen Xiao's arms, lifeless.
From then on, the world lost a great hero. He would never again experience such a hellish scene, never again be burned by flames, and never feel fear or terror.
However, he could no longer feel any color or warmth in the world.
"Xu Yang...Xu Yang, sob...Don't worry, your parents are my parents, Chen Xiao's parents. Rest in peace!"
"And me, Yang Tian."
"And me, Zhao Xiaodong."
"Xu Yang, and I, Li Ziyan, owe you a debt of gratitude for saving my life. If we can get out of here alive, your parents will be my parents, and your relatives will be my relatives."
"Alright, get up and put out the fire! Put away our tears and sorrow, and unleash all our hatred on this fire dragon. Destroying it is the same as avenging Xu Yang."
Chen Xiao pulled and kicked the three people Xu Yang had saved to their feet. The four of them took a deep look at Xu Yang's body, then turned around and resolutely threw themselves back into the battle.
"Liu Wei! Are you even capable of this? Where's the equipment? Where is it?"
Chen Xiao roared, but the fire dragon opposite him was attacking more and more fiercely. Without fire extinguishing equipment, it was impossible to stop it.
"Ah! Ah... I really have no other way, I have nothing, I have nothing at all."
Liu Wei had already put on his hat. He had no other choice but to rush into the fire and fight alongside his teammates, sharing life and death.
That's exactly what he thought, because the Chinese firefighters would never surrender.
"Captain, we've run out of the last large dry powder fire extinguishers. We'll have to use water. There's no other way."
"We cannot use water. This tank contains a large amount of benzene. If we use water, things will be even worse, and the consequences will be unimaginable."
Chen Xiao refused without hesitation. It was precisely because they knew that tank number eight contained a large amount of benzene that their team had a shortage of dry powder fire extinguishing equipment.
"Comrades, there's no other way. Even if we die, we can't retreat. Tank number nine is the most dangerous. If it explodes, Yungang City will be finished."
"I have already reported the seriousness of the situation to my superiors. They have already sent a large number of reinforcements. We must hold on and hold on until our comrades arrive. Before they arrive, we will stand in front of this fire dragon, even if it means using our own flesh and blood."
"Comrades, pick up your shovels, dig on the spot, use the soil covering method, and go!"
Chen Xiao was the first to pick up a shovel and start working with soil, but apart from flower beds and a few small patches of grass, the whole place was cement ground with hardly any soil.
But the firefighters did not hesitate at all and began digging to cover it with soil, even though it did nothing to help. But their fearlessness and courage soared to the sky.
"Captain, comrades, wait for me."
Outside, Liu Wei, who was helping transport equipment, put on his protective suit and was about to rush into the fire.
Just then, he suddenly heard a car horn, turned around abruptly, and when he saw the long, dragon-like lights, he let out a miserable cry.
Yes, it was a heart-wrenching cry, a breakdown after endless pressure, anticipation, anxiety, and fear finally found an outlet; it was the most extreme cry of joy in the world.
Ahead of him, a long convoy of cars, with their hazard lights flashing, sped toward him, and on it, he saw trucks loaded with equipment.
"Captain, the equipment has arrived!"
Liu Wei roared and shouted.
"You must hold on."
At this moment, surrounded by flames, Chen Xiao and his dozen or so firefighters had gathered together.
"Comrades, are you afraid?"
"Don't be afraid!"
Chen Xiao listened to the answers from the group of young people and laughed, "Bullshit, who the hell isn't afraid of death? I'm the one who's scared to death."
"Hahaha!"
No one could understand how they could laugh in such a life-or-death situation.
"But what good is being afraid? Who are we? We are firefighters, the blue-clad friends of the people. If we are all afraid of dying and retreat, what will happen to the people?"
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