Chapter 93 Under Fire
The flames continued to rage, enveloping the entire building in a sea of fire. The scene was like the coming of doomsday.
Xia Xiaoman and his group quickly packed their escape bags and gathered on the balcony of 1503 to observe the fire outside. Even from dozens of meters away, they could feel the heat from the flames.
The people who were forced to the rooftop by the raging fire cried out for help helplessly and desperately, but they were soon sunburned by the extremely hot weather. Some people knew they could not survive and wanted to jump over the wall and jump down from the building, but as soon as their hands touched the wall, they were immediately burned red.
"Oh my God! What is she going to do? Is she crazy!" Li Yu'e stared at the building opposite with wide eyes.
A woman picked up a child of three or four years old and tried to throw him off the roof.
Su Ran exclaimed in a low voice, "Is she going to throw the child away? How can she be so cruel?"
"She probably wants her child to die more easily..." Wen Jianfeng stared at the mother and daughter, his eyes bloodshot.
If the child continues to stay on the roof, there are only two choices: one is to be burned to death by the raging fire, and the other is to be burned to death by the sun. No matter which one, it will be very painful before death. Only jumping off the building will kill him instantly without any pain...
The mother lifted up the child with tears in her eyes and carried the child out of the fence several times, but every time she saw the child crying and calling for his mother, she couldn't bring herself to do it.
Hearing the child's cries of pain, the woman couldn't stop crying. She gritted her teeth, held the child tightly in one hand, endured the burns, climbed up the wall and jumped down.
The woman died on the spot. The child rolled from her arms to the ground, burned by the temperature of the ground. He cried and climbed up to call for his mother, but he had not called for long when the child arched his back and vomited uncontrollably.
"I'm going to save people!" After saying this, Wen Jianfeng ran out quickly.
Li Yu'e quickly chased after him and shouted, "Brother Feng, don't go. The child has heat stroke and will not survive!"
"I have Huoxiang Zhengqi Water, maybe it can save her!" Wen Jianfeng did not stop and disappeared in the corridor in the blink of an eye.
The twins stared blankly at the empty door. "Dad doesn't want us anymore?" Lingling asked aggrievedly.
Su Ran rubbed her head and said, "No, your father went to rescue someone and will be back soon."
The child vomited for a while and fainted next to her mother. A few minutes later, Wen Jianfeng rushed to the child, picked her up and ran back.
Xia Xiaoman sighed helplessly. Even if a three-year-old child without parents was rescued now, how could he survive in this world of cannibalism? The child's mother must have considered that the child could not survive, so she tried to throw the child down the building.
Suddenly, Zhou Qiuyang said, "The wind direction has changed! Building 6 is going to burn!" His face looked ugly, and his eyes were fixed on the flames dancing in the wind.
Xia Xiaoman followed his line of sight and saw that the flames in Building 5 were fanned by the breeze and kept trying to reach Building 6. The residents of Building 6 shouted in panic, and some even tried to fan the flames back with cardboard and wooden boards.
Su Ran saw this and asked, "The wind is blowing towards Building 6, so it won't burn us, right?"
Xia Xiaoman shook her head, "Not necessarily. As long as the fire is not extinguished, it may burn to us at any time."
While they were talking, Wen Jianfeng had already brought the child back. Li Yu'e followed him and kept nagging, "Brother Feng, you are too impulsive sometimes. You left the two children behind and rushed out. Have you ever thought about what would happen to Lingling and Axu if something happened to you?"
"It's so dangerous outside, with the high temperature and the fire, you can get heatstroke if you're not careful. Look how many people have fallen on the road due to heatstroke and haven't gotten up yet? One person's face was even roasted by the ground. Just imagine how dangerous it was!"
Wen Jianfeng knew he was in the wrong, so he didn't say a word. He silently put the child in his arms on the ground, took out a bottle of water from the escape bag and carefully poured it into the child's mouth. The next second, the child's body was pulled out uncontrollably, and the water in his mouth was spit out mixed with blood before he could swallow it.
Wen Jianfeng put down the water bottle and wiped the blood from the corner of the child's mouth in a panic, but the blood could not be wiped away no matter how hard he tried.
Li Yu'e was silent for a moment, patted his shoulder, and comforted him: "Brother Feng, don't torment her, let her go quietly!"
The mother's initial choice may have been right. The child was choked by the smoke, exposed to the scorching sun, fell to the ground and was burned, vomited, convulsed, vomited blood... He died in agony. In comparison, falling to death directly may have been the best choice for her.
The raging fire did not stop because of the death of the life, and it still devoured everything mercilessly. Building 6 was finally unable to withstand the repeated temptations of the flames and was also engulfed by the fire.
But Building 6 was luckier than Building 5. Before Building 6 caught fire, the people in the building had already packed up their things and were ready to escape at any time. Therefore, only a few people in weaker health in Building 6 suffered from heatstroke and fainted on the road during the escape and were sunburned to death. Everyone else arrived safely at the nearby intact buildings.
The fire continued to burn and was not extinguished even when night fell.
Someone saw that it was getting dark and immediately ran out to find the security team, asking them to open the well cover and draw water to put out the fire.
Zhou Qiuyang, Wen Jianfeng and others participated in the fire-fighting operation, while Xia Xiaoman stayed behind to watch over the house to prevent anyone from taking advantage of the chaos to steal supplies.
It’s true, not long after Zhou Qiuyang and his friends left, two strangers tried to break in through the door.
When Xia Xiaoman heard the sound of someone prying the door open, he suddenly opened it, beat up the two men, tied them up and asked Wen Xu and Wen Ling to practice boxing with them.
These two people were people who had escaped from Building 5. All their belongings were consumed by the fire, so they took the risk and stole things while others were trying to put out the fire.
After being beaten like a human sandbag for more than two hours, Li Yu'e helped Su Ran back.
Seeing Su Ran, whose face was as pale as paper, Xia Xiaoman asked, "Did he get heatstroke again?"
Li Yu'e nodded, "That's right, he almost fell to the ground, luckily Xiaoyang quickly caught him, otherwise his little face would have been burned by the ground."
After saying that, she looked at the two human sandbags and asked, "What's wrong with these two people?"
Xia Xiaoman: "The resident of Building 5 tried to break into the house and steal something, but I caught him."
Upon hearing this, Li Yu'e immediately pinched her waist and cursed, "You two ungrateful bastards, I worked so hard to put out the fire in your five buildings, and you two beasts, worse than pigs and dogs, actually came to steal my supplies!"
The main reason for putting out the fire was that they were afraid that their own building would be affected by the fire, but on the surface they were helping to put out the fire in Building 5. It would have been fine if these two people did not help put out the fire, but they also stole supplies while everyone was putting out the fire, which was extremely hateful.
So, in addition to the twins, there was one more person practicing boxing.
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