Chapter 226 A Small Explosion
On the third floor of the villa, Mr. Cheng, carrying a large water pipe on his shoulder, leaned against the windowsill, his custom-made suit covered in stains, looking disheveled.
Cheng Sangsang blinked hard and murmured, "Xu...Xu Bai...I didn't see wrong, did I?"
Xu Bai was also dumbfounded: "Uh..."
Even the group of young masters lying on the ground were stunned.
Wu Song couldn't help but scoff.
Strange, Cheng Sangsang's father is a coward, greedy and lustful, and always avoids trouble. Now he actually dares to put out a fire?
On the windowsill, Cheng's father opened his eyes and was immediately met with more than a dozen pairs of shocked eyes. Startled, he quickly backed away.
He glanced at Tu Yao's smiling face and said weakly, "You brat, you didn't even tell me you were going to pull me!"
"How can I show my face in public looking like this?!"
He already couldn't hold his head up among his peers, and now a group of younger people saw him in this pathetic state. How could he ever face anyone again!
Tu Yao pulled him back again: "Alright, Uncle, we have to continue!"
Mr. Cheng was still complaining: "Don't think I don't know, these kids have always looked down on me, especially that Wu Song, he has no manners and no respect for elders."
Everyone else at least pretended to be polite in front of him, but that brat Wu Song just rolled his eyes at him!
Upon hearing this, Tu Yao suddenly stopped pulling forward.
Wait, Wusong?
She frowned unconsciously, turned around and asked, "Is he here too?"
Mr. Cheng said irritably, "Of course he's there, the one lying next to the glass door."
He couldn't invite any proper guests, except for a group of peers who, like him, had been banished to the fringes of power, and a bunch of juniors who were just coasting along.
Tu Yao seemed to be deep in thought.
Wusong...
She wasn't familiar with the name, but it wasn't unfamiliar either.
In the original work, the little...
Tu Yao pursed her lips. In the original story, the richest man died in a plane crash, and Xu Bai took on the responsibility of the entire Xu family ahead of time.
However, because of the "bad reputation" that spread over the years, Xu Bai was surrounded by enemies in Hong Kong, with peers everywhere waiting to laugh at him and kick him when he was down.
Wusong is one of them.
To be precise, he was the leader.
He and his companions repeatedly tried to trip up Xu Bai with inexplicable malice.
The powerful families they represented also turned a blind eye, trying to take the opportunity to open a hole in the Xu family.
Business districts are inherently dog-eat-dog environments, and Xu Bai was forced to grow up rapidly in such an environment.
So, are these young masters the first "enemies" of Xu Bai in the original novel?
...
"What’s wrong with you?"
Seeing that she remained silent for a long time, Mr. Cheng couldn't help but ask a question.
Tu Yao snapped out of her daze, met his suspicious gaze, and immediately pulled a long face: "Uncle, don't be lazy! If you're lazy again, your house will burn down!"
Mr. Cheng's face instantly darkened: "Nonsense!"
"What do you mean 'it's all burned down'? Only the first and second floors burned badly. How could the few sparks on the third floor possibly catch fire?"
He was right; the fire was most severe on the first and second floors, while there was only a faint wisp of smoke on the third floor.
As for the floors above the third floor, you can't even see a spark, so what could possibly happen?!
"Besides, this water pipe is only so long. Even if it catches fire, it won't help. We might as well wait for the fire department to come."
"And..." Mr. Cheng added in a low voice, "Sangsang's uncle's room is on the third floor, and I didn't dare to ask anyone to decorate it."
"Don't you agree with this logic?"
The more Mr. Cheng analyzed, the more pleased he became. He glanced at Tu Yao, wondering why the child was so stubborn, insisting on dragging him along to investigate the dangers.
But where do so many dangers come from?
Tu Yao tilted her head and stared at him: "Uncle, do you mean no one has ever been to the upper floors?"
"Of course! Would I lie to you?" Mr. Cheng nodded immediately, but then, halfway through, he seemed to remember something and shook his head.
"...Oh, no, I just took my new wife for a walk around to familiarize her with the place."
Tu Yao's eyelids twitched, and she decisively turned around to begin inspecting the ground.
"What...what do you mean? You don't suspect my wife, do you?!"
Mr. Cheng panicked and hurriedly dragged his bloated body to catch up, speaking as if he were a young man in love at the age of sixteen.
“I just took her for a walk, just one walk. My wife is the gentlest person I’ve ever met. She’s so timid that she wouldn’t even step on an ant. How could you suspect her of arson!”
Tu Yao didn't listen to a word and kept walking forward with her head down. The next second, she saw something and her gaze stopped.
She walked over, squatted down, and wiped the ground.
He opened his hand, and there was a patch of grayish-brown powder in his palm.
Mr. Cheng's words suddenly caught in his throat: "...What is that?"
Tu Yao twitched her nose and blurted out, "Phosphorus powder."
Mr. Cheng: "...What?"
Tu Yao frowned: "It's phosphorus powder, phosphorus that spontaneously combusts at high temperatures..."
Wait! She understood!
Tu Yao quickly got up, turned around and ran to the stairwell, checking along the handrail.
Upon seeing this, her brows furrowed even more deeply.
The Cheng family's house has a spiral staircase that leads directly to the sixth floor, and each floor is interconnected. Starting from the third floor, a layer of white phosphorus has been sprinkled everywhere.
If the fire on the first and second floors is not contained, the white phosphorus will spontaneously combust once the temperature rises...
Tu Yao glanced subconsciously at the still-smoldering embers on the third floor and immediately snatched the water pipe from Cheng's father's hand!
It's too late!
Suddenly, a wave of heat swept over her, and Tu Yao felt the temperature around her rise in an instant!
...
On the first floor, after listening to Tu Yao's instructions, Cheng Sangsang and Xu Bai seemed to have found their backbone.
One person dialed the emergency number, while the other grabbed a fire extinguisher and put out the fire in the yard.
The Cheng family's home is located in the metropolitan area of the port city, and the first to arrive were the rescue personnel.
At this moment, dozens of people were lying in the lobby on the first floor, almost all of them in a daze.
Even though Cheng Sangsang and Xu Bai were prepared, they were still taken aback by what they saw.
The two men exchanged a glance. They didn't consider themselves particularly perceptive, but at this point, even the most foolish person could tell that today's fire was not an accident.
As Cheng Sangsang watched the paramedics carry the guests out one by one, a chill ran down her spine.
Although these people are all on the fringes of the family, what a terrifying situation would be left for the Cheng family if something happened to her family...
Most of the guests on the first floor were in a semi-conscious state, while in the glass room on the other side, a group of young masters were barely keeping a little conscious.
Just as the paramedics were about to help the person up, they shouted, "Wait!"
Wu Song suddenly spoke up, leaned back, and said in a nonchalant tone, "We're not leaving!"
As soon as he finished speaking, his companions around him immediately understood what he meant and they all collapsed.
"Oh right! We're not leaving!"
"Yes, yes, we're not leaving either!"
Xu Bai and Cheng Sangsang finally managed to move most of the guests out, only to find a commotion breaking out inside the glass room.
"Wusong, what are you guys doing!"
Xu Bai looked at him like he was an idiot: "Are you all crazy? Nobody knows what dangers are still here, what are you doing here?"
"What do you want to do?"
The young man lying on the ground showed no sign of getting up, and raised his eyebrows smugly: "So many people almost died here, Cheng Sangsang, doesn't your family have to give us an explanation?"
Cheng Sangsang said irritably, "Wu Song, we're not joking! You can explain whatever you want when my uncle comes back. Now, you all get out of here!"
"Who's joking with you!"
Wu Song scoffed, "I'm telling you right now, I'm not getting up until your uncle comes back!"
Others chimed in, "Yes! We won't get up either!"
Seeing the obvious anger on the faces of the two people in front of him, Wu Song became even more smug.
"Xu Bai, don't you like to bully others with your power? I'd like to see how you'll do it this time..."
Before he could finish speaking, suddenly, with a loud "boom," a burst of flames erupted!
Everyone instinctively looked up.
At just one glance, Wu Song was so frightened that he moved back repeatedly, only to see sparks raining down from the tall building with clear intent!
The heat hit him unexpectedly, as if it would land on his face at any moment!
Some of the more timid people nearby screamed in alarm.
A sense of despair welled up within me.
But just then!
With a loud "bang!"
The glass door was suddenly slammed shut!
In less than a second, all the flames were kept outside the door!
Wu Song couldn't help but look up and saw that Xu Bai had quickly withdrawn his hand.
In the instant the flames died down, he turned around and pulled Cheng Sangsang into his arms.
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