The eleven-story building used to have a permanent population of more than five hundred people, but now only a pile of broken tiles and ruins remain.
When she returned, the Magnolia City Correctional Department's fire investigation team press conference had already ended.
The ambulance, fire truck, patrol car, and attack helicopter are no longer here.
There was only a group of sanitation workers, holding various tools, cleaning up the rubble.
The media that had been crowded here before have all left, but there are now some relatives and friends of those who died in the fire who are here to pay their respects to them.
The huge pile of ruins was filled with incense, candles, flowers, fruits, and paper money.
Some people were kneeling there, crying.
Xia Chujian walked over slowly, his eyes fixed on the ruins, looking for the possible location of his home.
Their house is on the top floor, so when the building collapsed, they should have been at the top, right?
Xia Chujian estimated the direction and then walked towards the tall pile of ruins on the left.
The sanitation workers haven't gone there to clean it up yet, so it's relatively more intact.
Xia Chujian hoped that the things in her home would be in that location.
She held Si Xi in her arms and, together with Liu Shun, climbed up the pile of rubble.
A sanitation worker who looked like a leader saw this and shouted, "This is where the Mulan City Sanitation Department works! You can't come up here! There's a yellow warning line over there, can't you see it?! If you want to pay your respects, go over there!"
Xia Chujian said coldly, "I live here. I went back home to get my own things. Do you care?"
The man was shocked: "Everyone here is dead! Where did you come back from?!"
It’s broad daylight, there can’t be any ghosts!
Xia Chujian was so angry that she laughed: "Who said that everyone here is dead? Go and ask around yourself! There were thirty people who were not in the building at the time!"
There were three survivors, but she didn't want to talk about them.
The man looked at her suspiciously, then took out his quantum optical brain to check.
Sure enough, he then discovered that the fire investigation report did state that 30 people were not permanent residents and were not in the building at the time.
He said awkwardly, "...But this place has collapsed like this, what can we find? Besides, even if we do find it, can you prove it's yours?"
"If I can't prove that it's mine, can you prove that it's yours?" Xia Chujian retorted to him righteously.
She lost her home overnight and her family members were hospitalized. It was already hard enough, and then there were people who kept making fun of her.
The man puffed out his chest and said, "This place has been acquired by the Honghuaiting Construction Company. After the ruins are cleared, they will build a new house here. It no longer belongs to you."
Xia Chujian tutted his words. "I'm afraid even Honghuaiting Construction Company wouldn't dare say something like that... We have the title deed. They can buy it if they say so. Have they asked us, the landlord?"
The man blushed and thought that the owner of the house was dead, so who should he ask?
But then I thought, there are still more than 30 living people, and those who died, if not all the families were wiped out, at least have heirs.
Suddenly I realized that I had spoken too quickly and said something I shouldn't have said, and I felt choked up.
Xia Chujian rolled his eyes at him, ignored him, and continued searching in the ruins.
Her lily of the valley purple silk hat and the supernatural defense helmet issued by the Night Hunter Association were usually stuffed in the gun case, so she took them away with her.
But she did not bring out her body armor, the ivory coat her aunt made for her, and the woolen hat made of the same material.
Those are all really good things, maybe they are still there...
The little dog Si Xi kept barking "Woolver, woofer" and struggling to get down.
Xia Chujian was reluctant at first because the ruins were full of dust, which would easily dirty the puppy's fur.
But then she thought again, the puppy is a wild animal after all, and it is wrong for her to raise it as a human.
So after struggling for a while, I finally let it go.
The puppy immediately sniffed here and there and started searching with her.
Xia Chujian found a synthetic metal towel rod from the bathroom in the ruins and used it as a walking stick while searching through the ruins.
But after searching for a long time, I didn't see anything familiar.
Liushun followed her, trying to keep his balance on the ruins.
After a while, it came to a certain location, stretched out its robotic arm, and began to search through the ruins, saying, "Master, this was our former home."
Xia Chujian hurried over and asked, "How did you know?"
Liu Shun said: "In order to be able to remotely control the home appliances, I connected to their system. Now my remote control system can sense that they are right below here."
All household appliances in the Beichen Empire are equipped with backup batteries for use when the AC power is cut off.
Therefore, Liushun can still communicate with those household appliances using the remote control system.
Xia Chujian exclaimed, "Oh!" and praised, "Liushun is amazing! Thank goodness for you!"
Liushun tilted his head. Although the display screen on his eyes had sunken and the lines expressing his emotions could not be seen, Xia Chujian knew that he must be very happy.
Xia Chujian started digging at that place.
Those household appliances, such as televisions, dishwashers, refrigerators, etc., are definitely broken and cannot be used.
Digging deeper and deeper, Xia Chujian discovered that the sofa, cabinets, wardrobe, bed, and even the pink puppy nest of the little dog Si Xi were all in ruins.
Si Xi staggered over, saw it, and made a small "hmm" sound. You could tell it was sad too.
Xia Chujian touched its head, squatted down, and continued to search in the pile of ruins that were almost turning black and ashes.
After searching for an hour, she finally found her own closet.
The cabinet had long been torn apart, leaving only a pile of messy things buried under the building materials.
She didn't have many clothes, most of which were work clothes and hunting clothes issued by the Night Hunters Association.
The shock wave from the explosion and the fire destroyed all the clothes.
But when she flipped down, she found that the uniform issued by the Special Security Bureau was still in good condition!
It's just very dirty and covered with dust.
It doesn’t matter, I just need to put it away and wash it and wear it again.
Further down, the nano-material one-piece bulletproof vest that Zong Ruoan had sent back before, the ivory wool coat and wool hat made by his aunt, and the exotic animal fur coat issued by the Dark Night Hunter Association were all in good condition!
Xia Chujian was so happy that she quickly dug out all the clothes with Liushun.
Finally, she found the human face mask that she had scratched!
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