Chapter 64 Extremely Hot [VIP]
At that moment, Li Feiyang's mind went blank.
If the fire starts from the lower floors, especially in this kind of building, it will spread up very quickly and no one on the upper floors will be able to escape!
Li Feiyang came to his senses and quickly began to think of a way to escape.
He was still young, and he had no idea if his family was still alive. If they were, they might come looking for him, so he couldn't die, especially in a fire, a common sight before the apocalypse!
Li Feiyang generously used the water he had saved to wet a thin quilt and towel, then picked up a few backpacks, hesitated for a few seconds, and finally gritted his teeth and left.
Fortunately, there was only a thin layer of smoke on the 19th floor. Li Feiyang shouted "fire" a few times, covered his mouth and nose with a wet towel, put on goggles, and rushed down.
However, what he didn't expect was that the fire actually started from the 17th floor, and both the corridor and the stairwell were full of flames!
Li Feiyang subconsciously wanted to knock on the door, but the raging flames blocked him.
Suddenly, someone grabbed his shoulders from behind and shouted:
"Brother, don't worry about it. It's more important to save your own life first!"
That was Qiu Hongwei who lived on the 20th floor. Several of his men had died, and now he was the only one left alive. He had never expected that such a fire would happen.
"But Tang Tian and the others..."
Li Feiyang hesitated, but was finally pulled away by Qiu Hongwei.
Relying on the wet thin blanket, they barely left the floor.
There was no fire downstairs, but the gradually rising temperature made Choi Soo-young on the 16th floor realize that something was wrong.
After going out, he saw two people running for their lives. He turned around, grabbed his still sleeping grandson, and ran downstairs quickly.
Some people went out one after another to escape downstairs, but there were also people living below the 17th floor who relied on the fact that the fire would not spread over there and stayed at home with the remaining supplies.
Li Feiyang ran downstairs in one breath, and felt the pain as if his skin was burned as soon as it touched the scorching sunlight.
He quickly covered his head with a towel, but it was soon dried out.
He squinted his eyes and looked up. Sure enough, the flames had spread from the 17th floor to the top floor. Puffs of thick smoke billowed upwards, and the fire grew bigger and bigger.
Li Feiyang watched all this and his heart was bleeding.
He felt sorry for the supplies and equipment he had collected but had not yet used, and he didn't know if they would eventually be burned by the fire.
Now there are only a few BOB survival backpacks prepared in advance, but the amount of supplies is a world of difference.
Most importantly, what happened to the Tang family?
Did they sense the sudden fire and escape quickly?
But seeing that this fire seemed to be aimed at the Tang family, Li Feiyang's heart was like a bucket of water.
He immediately thought of the avalanche, which was also such an urgent situation.
Choi Soo-young stood downstairs, her face flushed as she cursed the arsonist, her little grandson crying loudly in her arms;
Qian Peng held onto Gao Lan tightly, as their last child had slipped and fallen into the smoke-filled corridor. To prevent losing too much, Qian Peng actually pulled Gao Lan away, who then turned around and scratched and bit him, completely mad.
Qiu Hongwei and Huang Kai just stood there in a daze. They wanted to sit down, but the ground was too hot.
Qi Chang and the children did not come out, but later we heard that they did it voluntarily and stayed in the building forever.
There were a dozen or so survivors scattered downstairs, all with numb expressions, staring blankly at the rooftop.
Li Feiyang looked around but couldn't find the Tang family, and suddenly felt dizzy.
After all, who would be so lucky as to escape twice in a row?
…
However, at this moment, a long burst of laughter suddenly broke out from the crowd:
"Hahahahaha! Tang Tian! You're finally dead! This is retribution! - Mingming, I finally avenged you! -"
Everyone was stunned and looked in the direction of the sound.
They didn't recognize who that person was at first, but later it was the native residents of the 17th floor who recognized him. It seemed to be the original building manager Zhang Manxin.
Her long hair was tangled, her face was unkempt, and she looked frail. From a distance, she barely looked like a human, yet she couldn't stop laughing.
People gradually realized: Could it be that Zhang Manxin had set the fire on purpose?!
Everyone in this building has more or less a grudge against the Tang family, except Li Feiyang and the Shen family who moved away long ago.
There are also rumors that Tang Tian killed Zhang Manxin's son Yue Ming, and Zhang Manxin was waiting for the right opportunity to take revenge, and now is indeed the right time.
If it weren't for this thought that kept supporting her, she would probably have died long ago.
But when people thought about this, they became annoyed.
If you really want revenge, why not just charge into 1701 directly? What's the point of setting a fire and involving other people?
"Bitch, you scared my grandson, you know? And if anything goes missing from my house, I'll make you pay with your life!"
Choi Soo-young discovered the culprit, spat on him, and went up to him.
Gao Lan also reacted, and with red eyes, she grabbed Zhang Manxin's hair and slapped her face:
"You kill, you must pay with your life!"
You're bullying me, I'm punching you and I'm kicking you.
He didn't say anything, just stared blankly in one direction with a creepy smile on his face.
Li Feiyang watched all this in silence and sighed.
They should now think about what to do next. As for me, I probably won’t be able to rely on others in the future and I will have to rely on myself.
But to be honest, he still felt sorry for Tang Tian and others.
The help they gave me could never be repaid in my lifetime...
"What's wrong?"
A familiar voice suddenly appeared beside me.
Li Feiyang's pupils trembled instantly and he turned his head mechanically, thinking that he was hallucinating due to the heat.
Tang Tian, Tang Yi and Wei Mingxia walked up slowly with dust on their faces. They were wearing thin pajamas but each had a mountaineering bag on their back. They asked while brushing off the dust.
“You, you…”
Li Feiyang couldn't speak clearly anymore.
When someone nearby saw the Tang family, they couldn't help but yell and ran away:
“Ghost! There’s a ghost!—”
There was still a raging fire on the upper floor, and debris was falling from the building from time to time.
Especially the windows on the 17th floor were blazing with flames. Even if the house didn't catch fire, people would definitely be choked to death by the smoke.
After all, in a fire, most people are not killed by the flames, but by the smoke, and only then do they suffer extensive burns.
However, apart from being covered in dust, the three members of the Tang family appeared to be unharmed.
But if they wanted to escape, they had to go through the flames and thick smoke.
If even firefighters could stumble, how could the Tang family possibly survive? So in the eyes of others, it was like seeing a ghost.
Unfortunately, Zhang Manxin didn't see this scene. Before that, she had already let go of the breath she was holding on to and was beaten to death without a sound.
When the neighbors saw them, they were so scared that they stood there in a daze, as if Tang Tian and the others were more terrifying than the fire.
Li Feiyang's eyes were filled with tears of excitement. He wiped them with his sleeves and asked in a trembling voice:
"Tang Tian, are you all okay? I think your fire is the biggest. I wanted to call you, but I really can't..."
Tang Tian shook her head to indicate that it was nothing serious, but she was still a little scared.
…
She knew that because high-temperature electrical fires were frequent, there might be facilities in the shelter that could extinguish fires, but not outside.
By the time the authorities came to put out the fire, not even a skeleton was left, so I intentionally reduced the frequency of using electrical appliances and relied on my supernatural powers for everything.
But I didn't expect that this time it was a man-made disaster, not a natural disaster.
It had been a long time since Yue Ming was killed. Tang Tian had been waiting for Zhang Manxin to come and take revenge, but she had thought she had finally given up. She hadn't expected that she would wait until now.
Fortunately, not only did Tang Tian not lose her vigilance, but Tang Yi and Wei Mingxia also developed the habit of always being alert. So in the end, the three of them woke up together.
A trace of smoke had seeped in through the crack of the front door, and when I went to the balcony to look, I found that there was no fire downstairs, but rather on my floor.
There was no electrical fault in the home, so it was arson!
As soon as Wei Mingxia's hand touched the door handle, she was burned and pulled back. It can be imagined that the fire was in the corridor and it was quite big!
Tang Tian immediately thought of Zhang Manxin. After all, the other survivors probably didn't have the courage.
For example, Choi Soo-young is just foul-mouthed, but she would never do something so self-destructive; Qian Peng and Gao Lan still have children, and Qi Chang seems to be dead. Qiu Hongwei is even more obsessed with her and lives on the top floor, which is not good for him either.
No one knows how Zhang Manxin did it, but she was determined to avenge Yue Ming. Maybe she had been alive during this period just to prepare and kill all the members of the Tang family.
"Tiantian, what should we do?" Tang Yi asked anxiously.
Tantan also barked a few times, and when he sensed danger, he turned around in a hurry.
Although they also have water-based abilities that can put out fires, a fire this large usually requires the use of high-pressure water cannons. They have unlocked the LV10 water attribute, but once released, their mental strength may not be able to keep up.
Besides, fire is not just about flames, there is also the toxic smoke that reduces visibility, which is also a big problem.
Tang Tian's brows were twisted into a 川 shape, but the burnt smell in the air didn't allow her to think for a moment.
In this situation, I guess I can only take a risk.
"Mom, sis, put all the stuff in the house into the warehouse first. We're going to take it all away! Hurry!"
As Tang Tian spoke, he waved his hand and put the sofa in the living room away.
Tang Yi and Wei Mingxia also hurriedly obeyed the order and put away all the items in the room, including the solar energy and various devices outside.
Tang Tian hesitated as he collected the items, and finally said:
"Mom, sis, do you remember the roasted pigeon we had last time?"
"Remember, how...?"
During her last meal, Tang Tian suddenly had the urge to eat barbecue, so she found the dish of roasted pigeon in the system.
Moreover, this is an SR-level dish with a LV7 wind attribute ability.
It’s just that they currently have too many ability columns, so after obtaining the wind attribute ability, they just left it there and ignored it. They didn’t expect that it would come in handy now.
"I've experimented before. Wind attributes can make me float in the air and create vortexes. So... we can give it a try!"
As Tang Tian spoke, he looked out the window again, his face full of thought.
Tang Yi and Wei Mingxia were shocked.
Are they trying to make them...jump off the building to save themselves?!
…
Thinking of this, the two of them couldn't help but feel their legs go weak and they sat down on the floor.
Because of the continuous fire outside, the ice on the wall gradually began to produce tiny water droplets, which also helped keep the temperature in the room from being too high.
"But this is the entire 17th floor. Can a wind attribute of that level really succeed?"
Tang Yi murmured.
"There's no other way. We can only give it a try. The three of us all have wind-attribute abilities of this level, so we should be able to give it a try. At least jumping off the building doesn't involve exposure to fire. If you also want to use water or ice attributes to escape through the corridor, you can try that, too."
Wei Mingxia thought for a while before speaking:
"Then let's give it a try!"
Tang Tian and Tang Yi were a little surprised. They didn't expect that Wei Mingxia would be the one to make the final decision.
Wei Mingxia said softly:
"If we didn't have superpowers, we would have died long ago and wouldn't be alive today. And now that we have superpowers, we have to try them out to understand how to use them effectively. Now that this difficulty has come, let's try to overcome it. At worst, Mom will die with you!"
Tang Tian and Tang Yi were shocked and slowly calmed down.
Since Wei Mingxia said so, what are they afraid of?
It's nothing but death. Death is everywhere in the apocalypse, and every time they go out, they may die if they are not careful.
After all the things were packed up, Tang Tian took out three mountaineering bags and put them on everyone's backs. She also stuffed as much charcoal as possible into the bags and told them not to move.
I just went to the front balcony and saw someone downstairs had already escaped.
Then they found a window at the back, broke it with force, and looked down. There was no one downstairs.
The mother and her two daughters squeezed onto the windowsill, raised their hands, and a light green color appeared all over their bodies. Even the direction of the wind could be seen, surrounding the three of them.
Their bodies seemed so light that they really turned into a bird. After overcoming the fear in their hearts, they took a deep breath and jumped straight out!
"release!"
Tang Tian shouted and stretched out her hand, and a green vortex that grew larger and larger appeared in front of their eyes.
Tang Yi and Wei Mingxia, despite the intense fear and discomfort caused by the feeling of weightlessness, also stretched out their hands to release their supernatural powers.
The three of them gradually slowed down from their initial acceleration, as if time was slowing down, until they were getting closer and closer to the ground.
This almost exhausted Tang Tian's mental strength. Finally, about one meter away, they withdrew their hands and dropped them to the ground.
Tang Tian took a few deep breaths and tried to calm her racing heartbeat. All she could smell was the pungent smell and scorching hot air.
"Mom, sister, how are you?"
Tang Yi and Wei Mingxia covered their chests with pain, shook their heads and replied:
"Fortunately, we used this wind-attributed ability together, and it was a good use of it!"
But then they smiled bitterly:
"But I don't want to experience this feeling of free fall again!"
Tang Tian also laughed. She took out a few more fruit candies and asked everyone to hold them in their mouths to gradually recover their strength. Then they supported each other and walked out, shocking everyone.
…
Tang Tian put Tan Tan out, squinted his eyes and looked at the still burning floor, frowned and said nothing.
Zhang Manxin set the fire just for her, and this floor is probably really destroyed.
But they need a place to stay to survive, so they need to find a new place to live.
It's a pity about the materials she used during the decoration, and she will be able to finish Hexinyuan soon, which will save a lot of trouble inside.
Tan Tan stuck out his tongue and kept lifting his feet. The ground was really hot.
Li Feiyang's mood also calmed down, as if Tang Tian was still alive and he had a backbone.
After all, his 1901 was also destroyed.
After that, several more people walked out of the unit door with red faces and large bags in their hands.
Although they lived on the lower floors, they could not bear to live in the burning building, so they packed up all their belongings and came out.
"What the hell happened? Why is only the 17th floor burning?"
"There was always electricity on the 17th floor. Could it be that they were using it and caused the fire? They really caused a lot of harm!"
"No, no, this time it was arson. Look, the main culprit has been beaten to death, right over there!"
"That's because of the 17th floor. Her family can't escape the consequences, hum..."
After discussing for a long time, they all cast angry glances at the Tang family, but no one dared to attack them like they did Zhang Manxin.
They can tell the difference between venting anger and saving their lives.
Li Feiyang ignored them and just asked:
"Sister Tian, what should we do next?"
Tang Tian hesitated for a moment before saying:
"We can only find another place to live, but... I just thought of a place that should be suitable for us to stay!"
"Really? Sister Tian, can you please let me join you? I'll go wherever you go!"
Li Feiyang was the first to raise his hand in agreement without thinking. It was a miracle that the Tang family survived this time. How could he bear to give up such a strong partner?
Tang Tian smiled and said:
"Okay, we're all trying to survive together anyway."
She said this not because she suddenly felt kind, but because Li Feiyang had never made her unhappy from beginning to end. On the contrary, he was a person who wanted to survive.
Tang Tian would not be unkind to such a person.
But while they were discussing, Choi Soo-young was already secretly observing them and even deliberately covered her grandson's mouth.
When she heard that Tang Tian and the others were leaving and seemed to have found a place, she immediately shouted loudly in displeasure:
"No! This fire was caused by you. If Zhang Man didn't hate you, why would she set the fire? How could my house be burned down? If you leave, you must take me and my grandson with you!"
The others also stared at Tang Tian, thinking that what Cui Xiuying said was correct.
Qian Peng, Qiu Hongwei, and Huang Kai actually thought so in their hearts, but they immediately remembered Tang Tian's cruelty and did not dare to speak up.
Tang Tian rolled her eyes and said to Li Feiyang:
"Wait here, I'll find a car."
Before that, the original high temperature of 65 degrees actually dropped by two degrees, which may be a sign that the extreme heat is about to end.
But it is unclear when the temperature will drop to normal, so the sun is still so scorching.
It is daytime again and the sun is shining brightly. Ordinary people cannot go out at this time.
In order to speed up the progress, Tang Tian planned to find a reason to get a car so that she could reach her desired destination sooner.
Li Feiyang agreed obediently, holding his survival backpack and went to find a place to shelter from the sun. Tang Yi, Wei Mingxia and Tan Tan also stayed behind to wait.
When Cui Xiuying saw Tang Tian ignoring her, she immediately became anxious and took three steps forward to grab her shoulders:
"You can't leave! You must give me an explanation!"
With a bang, Tang Tian punched Cui Xiuying in the face without even saying "get out".
Choi Sooyoung fell to the ground subconsciously in pain, but immediately jumped up due to the temperature of the ground. The movement looked extremely funny.
The little grandson also rushed over and punched and kicked:
"Bad woman! Bad woman! Don't hit my grandma! I'll beat you to death!"
Tang Tian had no choice but to throw another punch.
She didn't mean to hit the children, except for naughty ones.
Now the grandfather and grandson didn't dare to move forward anymore. They could only cry and express their dissatisfaction, but no one paid any attention to them.
Tang Tian, free from all restraints, quickly left Hexinyuan, found an ordinary gasoline car from the corner, added some fuel and aged it appropriately, then turned on the air conditioner and slowly drove back.
"Get in the car."
Li Feiyang had already noticed that the survivors were all staring at his backpack, so he hurried forward, followed by Tang Yi, Wei Mingxia and Tan Tan.
Seeing that the well-kept big dog had already boarded the car, a group of survivors immediately broke down and ran up quickly, patting the car and shouting:
"Please, take me too!"
"The shelter is closed, where do you want us to go?"
"Ms. Tang, please take me with you since we know each other!" These were the voices of Qian Peng, Qiu Hongwei and Huang Kai.
"Mr. Tang! Do you think you can find peace and security in a new place? Impossible! You will definitely die a miserable death!"
This was Choi Sooyoung's unwilling roar as she finally got up from the ground, covering her eyes.
Tang Tian was speechless. There were so many buildings and houses in Hexinyuan, and the power wasn't completely out yet. They even distributed food occasionally. So, couldn't they just continue to find a new place to live like before? Wasn't that the same thing happening to her?
It's just that he sees how powerful she is and wants her protection, and doesn't want to fight for it himself.
“Woof woof woof!”
Tan Tan kept barking out of the car window, trying to scare everyone away.
"I've been there and seen that people can live in tents outside the shelter. The authorities won't interfere. It's up to you to go or not."
Tang Tian snorted coldly, stepped on the accelerator, and the car quickly drove away, leaving behind a trail of exhaust fumes and a continuous noise behind.
"Tiantian, have you decided where to go?" Wei Mingxia asked in the back seat.
Tang Tian nodded while steering, and then said to Tang Yi:
"Sister, do you remember the villa area we went to last time?"
"You mean... Jiangnan Liyuan? Where are you going?"
Tang Tian agreed again.
There are only detached villas there, so it's just right to find a relatively intact one to live in.
Moreover, these villas generally use solar power. And after their last battle with Wu Ye's team, they also observed that almost every household has solar panels on their roofs, whether they are broken or not is another matter.
As for why Wu Ye also collected generators and fuel, it was probably to prepare them for partying every night.
Most importantly, Tang Tian is very afraid of natural disasters like earthquakes in the future.
There have been almost no earthquakes in Chuncheng, but extreme cold and heat have occurred, so a major earthquake seems not impossible.
If she continued to look for high-rise buildings to live in, she could not guarantee that one day she would have wind-attribute abilities and be able to survive the crisis like she did today.
If I lived in a villa, there might be a chance of escape. Besides, Jiangnan Liyuan is not far from the shelter.
Of course, Tang Tian only told the first half of the reasons to the people in the car for the time being.
"As expected of Sister Tian, you are so thoughtful!"
Li Feiyang flattered me generously.
"The premise is that there is no one else occupying that place. If more than half of them are occupied, we can also look for other unoccupied villa areas with solar power generation."
Talking all the way, and with no speed limit, Tang Tian quickly drove the car to the gate of Jiangnan Liyuan.
The gate of Jiangnan Liyuan is also a low retractable door. When Wu Ye occupied it before, there were people in the security room next to it.
This time, Tang Tian lowered the window and looked out, only to find no one was there.
It seems that this place is not occupied by anyone.
She couldn't help but think of Luo Qi. She regretted not entering the shelter before it closed, and wondered how she was doing now.
Thinking of this, several people got out of the car.
Tang Tian asked them to climb over the gate first under the pretext of parking, while she drove to a certain place first and then put the car into the warehouse.
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