Chapter 125 Fire
In the middle of the night, Shen Yanming and Bi Qiaoan were sleeping soundly when they heard the fire alarm in the building go off.
Woo~~~Woo~~~
Bi Qiaoan was dreaming about digging corals with Shen Yanming on the seabed when the high-pitched and sharp alarm woke Bi Qiaoan up. "What's going on?"
Bi Qiaoan was still a little confused when she opened her eyes. Shen Yanming pulled Bi Qiaoan up and put clothes on her. "It should be on fire. Hurry, put on your clothes and go downstairs."
Bi Qiaoan's heart skipped a beat and her hands and feet went a little weak. She and Shen Yanming wore summer pajamas when they slept, and they didn't bother to change out of their pajamas. They just put on thermal underwear, woolen sweaters and woolen pants over them, and finally wrapped themselves in long down jackets, put on boots and prepared to go downstairs.
Before leaving, Shen Yanming picked up Bi Qiaoan's bag. After slamming the door shut, Shen Yanming hesitated for a moment, walked to 1601 and knocked on the door, "Zhang Heping, are you there?"
After waiting for more than ten seconds and no one came out, Shen Yanming did not stop and pulled Bi Qiaoan down the stairwell.
The whole building was out of power, and the stairwell was dark with only a green sign to guide the direction. Shen Yanming turned on the flashlight function on his phone, and the two of them used the light from the phone to identify the stairs under their feet.
At the beginning, the two of them were walking quite fast, but they didn't exercise much, and their legs became weak before they had walked four or five floors.
There was a rapid and piercing alarm sound in his ears, and Bi Qiaoan was so anxious that his palms were sweating. While Shen Yanming was holding Bi Qiaoan, he had to free up his hands to call Zhang Heping and Ji Kangyong.
Hit Zhang Heping first, because Ji Kangyong is the most alert among them.
Therefore, before Zhang Heping's call was connected, Shen Yanming ran into Ji Kangyong at the stairs on the ninth floor.
As expected of a policeman, Ji Kangyong was dressed the same as usual and didn’t look nervous at all.
When Ji Kangyong saw Shen Yanming, he shouted, "Go!" and continued to knock on the neighbor's door.
After a lot of effort, the neighbor opened the door. Ji Kangyong picked up a three-year-old boy and ran downstairs.
Bi Qiaoan turned his head at the corner and saw that there was an old lady in her sixties or seventies in that house. A couple was protecting her as she walked up the stairs, but the old lady was too slow. In a hurry, the man carried her on his back while the woman protected her from the side.
Bi Qiaoan was so distracted that she almost rolled down the stairs. Shen Yanming quickly pulled her into his arms, stopped calling, and ran downstairs holding Bi Qiaoan's arm tightly.
Along the way, many people came out of their homes and ran downstairs in a hurry, all of them in dishevel.
When she ran to the third floor, Bi Qiaoan felt her legs were so weak that she could hardly stand. She didn't know whether she was scared or tired. Shen Yanming listened to Bi Qiaoan's heavy breathing, squatted down and carried her on his back.
Bi Qiaoan felt her eyes a little sore, buried her face in the man's back, and unconsciously shed a few tears.
"Why are you still crying? Isn't it good for your husband to carry you for a while?"
"No, I just feel like I'm a bit of a drag."
Shen Yanming chuckled, "It's no problem for your husband to hold you back for the rest of your life. Besides, with such an awesome husband, what are you afraid of? Hurry up and wipe your tears, we're about to leave."
Shen Yanming did not choose to go to the underground garage. He and Bi Qiaoan came out directly from the main entrance on the first floor.
A large crowd had gathered in front of the building, including residents of Building 6, as well as people from other buildings who had been woken up to come out and watch the excitement.
Shen Yanming and Bi Qiaoan looked up and saw that, damn, the unit next door was on fire, and it looked like it was on the 23rd or 24th floor.
"Honey, what should we do? There's no water now. We can't even put out the fire."
"Even if there is water, it's hard to put out the fire at such a high altitude!" Shen Yanming felt a little weak in the knees as he watched the raging fire devouring everything like crazy.
"Quick, call Zhang Heping!" Bi Qiaoan remembered that she almost fell in the building, so Shen Yanming put away the phone before the call was connected.
Shen Yanming nodded and called Zhang Heping, only to find out that Dr. Zhang was on night shift tonight and had fallen asleep just now, so he didn't answer the phone in time.
Shen Yanming and Zhang Heping said that there was a fire in the unit next door and they were afraid that it would burn to their place, so they asked Zhang Heping to live in the hospital dormitory for the next two days and would call him home after the situation here stabilized.
After Shen Yanming hung up the phone, Ji Kangyong walked to Shen Yanming holding the little boy, "I have already called the fire department, and the people over there have also notified the Qinghe Guards. Let's wait a little longer."
Bi Qiaoan's voice trembled a little, "What a huge loss this is, I don't even know if there are any people in the building who haven't come out yet.
Shen Yanming hugged Bi Qiaoan tightly, "Don't be afraid, I will be with you, always and forever."
Bi Qiaoan hugged Shen Yanming back, her tears once again soaking Shen Yanming's clothes. Shen Yanming smiled and wiped Bi Qiaoan's tears, "Oh dear, you have to understand your dear husband. If you can't hold back your tears, your husband will have to carry your tears and snot with him when he goes to work!
I'm not afraid of being laughed at by others, but I don't know if you mind?"
Bi Qiaoan was amused by Shen Yanming and stopped crying. Shen Yanming breathed a sigh of relief. He was not afraid that Bi Qiaoan would dirty his clothes, he was just afraid that Bi Qiaoan would get his face chapped.
Bi Qiaoan stopped crying, but the little boy in Ji Kangyong's arms started crying. Ji Kangyong quickly returned the little boy to his neighbor, but the child was probably really scared and kept crying.
Bi Qiaoan hesitated for a moment, took out a lollipop from her bag and handed it to the little boy. The little boy's attention was instantly attracted and he stopped crying.
Bi Qiaoan breathed a sigh of relief, finally his ears were quiet, but he felt a little worried when he saw the flying flames.
Shen Yanming took out a mask from his bag and put it on Bi Qiaoan, "Can you go sit in the car first?"
Bi Qiaoan shook his head, "I'm not cold, I want to see!"
Shen Yanming sighed and did not force it. He just carried Bi Qiaoan to a sheltered place a few hundred meters away. Ji Kangyong thought about it and followed him.
As soon as the three of them stood still, they saw Chen Shunwei and a dozen security guards coming over, "Mr. Shen, it's cold outside, you should go to the security room and sit for a while, Wang Lai is watching over there."
Without waiting for a reply, Chen Shunwei ran to the bottom of Building 6 to comfort the residents and took them to the security dormitory building for settlement.
But before they could leave, they saw a helicopter flying over, and at the same time, two fire trucks drove to the bottom of the building.
They cooperated with each other to spray water on the fire. The Qinghe Alliance even released a dozen newly developed drones, which flew directly into the burning room with "water balls" to put out the fire.
The fire was not put out until more than an hour later, but no one dared to go home for fear that it would reignite.
Shen Yanming took Bi Qiaoan and Ji Kangyong to the underground garage and decided to stay in the car for one night. As for the others, some did the same as Shen Yanming, while others followed Chen Shunwei and others and stayed in the security dormitory.
Once it is confirmed to be safe tomorrow, they will be able to go home.
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Regarding the fire-fighting section, I added some imagination, because high-rise fire-fighting has been a difficult problem so far. Please forgive me if the writing is not rigorous.
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