Falling, raving, fire rescue.
Chi Xiaochi was awakened by a plume of smoke.
He was instantly awake, jumped out of bed barefoot, and pulled open the door--
The source of the fire is the warehouse at the end of the corridor, the flames burning, like a python like a snake, being burned can not stop making a muffled sound of collapse, the stream of golden-red flames from dozens of paces away from the roasted people's skin tight.
When Chi Xiaochi moved over there, Yuan Benshan woke up.
He rushed down to the ground, "A fire? How did the fire start?"
Chi Xiaochi had just opened his mouth, when from the dormitory adjacent to the warehouse came the faint sound of tapping on the door and a child's cry for help, which had already changed its tone and was so miserable that it could not be heard.
"Sensei!"
"Teacher help me!"
Chi Xiaochi blanched, thinking of the orphanage past she had read about on the Internet.
It was not until the cold words were turned into sky-high blazing red flames and flying ashes that he actually realized what a nightmare that night had been.
How could it happen again?
Not having time to think about how the fire started, Chi Xiaochi put on his shoes, hurried to the next door, knocked on Tian Guangbing's door to make sure they were awake, and then ran towards the fire.
His arm was yanked from behind by Yuan Benshan, "What are you doing?!"
"Saving lives."
"Save who?" Yuan Benshan was really angry and heartbroken, wishing to wake up this stupid person, "They are ghosts! Can't they escape on their own?"
As he spoke, the instinct for survival had called him to look unconsciously in the direction of the stairs, "Follow me!"
The children's cries for help continued to come from the direction of the fire, and it appeared that the door had been completely sealed, and from the top of the door drops of black and red dissolved matter were falling.
Chi Xiaochi pushed Yuan Benshan away and rushed towards the fire.
Soon, his right hand was once again grabbed from behind.
Chi Xiaochi tries to shake it off, but when he looks back, he sees Gan Yu's calm eyes.
He locked eyes with Gan Yu for a moment.
He asked, "Can ...... help me."
Gan Yu replied, "Yes."
Not another word of nonsense.
Gan Yu let go of his hand, Chi Xiaochi quickly rushed to the direction of the bathroom, while Gan Yu turned back, ignored Yuan Benshan, and said to Liu Chengyin and Tian Guangbing, who were still not clear about the situation: "The girls take the wounded downstairs and prepare medicine for their injuries; the men who want to stay to put out the fire can do so, and those who don't want to stay can do so. If the men want to stay to put out the fire, they can do so; if they don't want to stay, they can go downstairs and stay out of the way."
With that, he turned around and headed back to the teachers' quarters.
And Yuan Benshan stomped his foot and chased straight after Chi Xiaochi's back.
Tian Guangbing came back to his senses, pushed Liu Chengyin's back, and roared, "Quickly, quickly, quickly, bring down Qin Ling!"
As Tian Guangbing picked up the unconscious Qin Ling, Liu Chengyin pulled the window open and looked out, realizing that both children who were still outside were gone.
She exclaimed, "They're gone!"
Tian Guangbing: "What do you care?"
She rushed up and held Qin Ling's back, placing her unconscious best friend on her boyfriend's back while anxiously saying, "The two of them aren't going back to the dormitory to sleep, are they?"
Tian Guangbing was silent.
He thought about the hairy guy who had been rambling with the cabbage seeds today.
Those eyes were big and bright and full of hope for life.
He braced Qin Ling's legs and raised his voice, trying to convince himself, "The fire is so big that it's still unclear whether we can survive it ourselves! Aren't they ghosts? Isn't it easy to escape?"
Gan Tang, Tian Guangbing and Liu Chengyin took Qin Ling downstairs.
A pipe blew in the bathroom, spraying water everywhere, and Chi Xiaochi was soaked to the skin in just his shirt.
He took off his contacts so they wouldn't melt in the heat, soaked his jacket in water, and ran out the door when he bumped into Yuan Benshan.
Yuan Benshan, holding a shovel upside down in his hand that had been placed in the corner of the corridor, his eyes red from the smoke, grabbed a dampened towel in his hand and gritted his teeth, "...... Fools!"
Chi Xiaochi looked up at him.
"The doors are locked, what's the point of just getting yourself wet?!" Yuan Benshan yanked him out of the bathroom and ran towards the burning dormitory door, "Let's figure out how to get the door open first!"
He followed Yuan Benshan step by step, "...... Old Yuan?"
Yuan Benshan covered his mouth and nose with a damp towel and muffled his voice, "For the record, I still think it was stupid of you. But I can't let you be stupid alone."
He looked back and let go of his hand, tears already smoldering in his eyes, "I'll clean you up when we get back."
Saying that, he bit the wet towel in his mouth, held his breath and breathed through his mouth, copied the shovel with both hands, and ruthlessly smashed it on the door shaft of the security door in front of him!
Yuan Benshan's hands were numb from the heat that had fused the door shaft to its joints, and he finally sent the shovel head flying, but to no avail.
A small piece of glass on the door was blown up by the high temperature, and the inside was almost occupied by black and red smoke, so that it was impossible to see anything, except that three or four small figures were occasionally seen gathered together in a ball, hugging each other and coughing and crying.
Chi Xiaochi shouted, "You run! Why don't you run!"
Inside resounded the hoarse and desperate cries of the crockery: "I don't dare - the fire is so big ah, Mr. Lou quickly save us -"
...... They were killed by fire and have a bone-deep fear of fire.
And at that moment, Gan Yu arrived with two wet quilts.
When the door remained open, Gan Yu said dryly, "Tell them to stay away from the door."
Chi Xiaochi: "They have been warned."
Gan Yu removed his gold-rimmed glasses and clipped them to his front shirt pocket in a gentlemanly and skillful manner.
Yuan Benshan probably guessed what Gan Yu was going to do, dropped the shovel, which had only one stick left, took two steps backward, and said, "Shout one, two, three, and the three of us will join ...... together."
Before he can say anything, Gan Yu throws a cross kick.
The iron door should come out of its frame and collapse.
Yuan Benshan: "......"
The children screamed at the loud noise, and those who were still in their right mind and still had the ability to move, immediately surged toward the exit.
Gan Yu ignored Yuan Benshan's jaw-dropping and tossed him a completely soaked quilt, "Drape yourself over it and go in. Chunyang, you stay outside, take a head count, and make sure out ......"
Chi Xiaochi, however, did not listen to him and went straight into the fire with another quilt on.
Gan Yu was suddenly startled, cold sweat came down, without any further ado, snatched the quilt from Yuan Benshan, shouted to him "ensure the exit", then put the quilt over his head, followed by Chi Xiaochi rushed into the fire scene with his head buried in the ground!
Yuan Benshan: "......"
But the situation at hand did not allow him to think any more, he commanded the small children who were smoked out, counting the number of people while showing them the way to life.
There was only one staircase, but they ran, looking at each other with some confusion, like they didn't believe they had escaped with their lives.
And the fire had been taken over by thick smoke, with small tongues of fire spreading everywhere, so that nothing could be seen.
Chi Xiaochi picks up a half-concussed child, strides toward the door, hands the child to Yuan Benshan, and quickly returns.
The ones that escaped were only part of the group, some of the kids had been even smoked and had gone limp, including the golems.
In the smoke and dust, everything was indistinct, and Chi Xiaochi searched for a long time before he found her.
She was cowering in a corner in her little nightgown, clutching a doll bear with holes in it, mumbling mumbles with tear-filled eyes, "There's a fire, there's a fire ......"
Chi Xiaochi had just evacuated one child when he learned from Yuan Benshan that all 23 children had been safely delivered, except for this one, so he evacuated the two children who could not walk.
Gan Yu, still not out of the fire, called Chunyang's name as he coughed, while Chi Xiaochi answered, took the muttering crook into his arms, and had just risen when a muffled rumble was heard-- the
A piece of the roof that leaned against the door was burned to the point of collapsing down, and fiery reinforced concrete rustled down like a rain of fire, completely blocking their way.
Chi Xiaochi cursed angrily and had to retreat towards the window.
It's the only place that's safe right now, but it's off the beaten path.
Soon, he and Gan Yu met in triumph at the broken second window.
The smoke was thickening and they could no longer both speak.
Chi Xiaochi protects her crocheted head in her arms and gestures, asking Gan Yu if she can lift the security fence with one foot like she did earlier.
Gan Yu lifted his leg up onto the window sill, quickly swept the broken glass away with his foot, held the top of the window frame with one hand, and kicked towards the security window with all his might.
However, the quality of this security net is amazingly good, coupled with the limited space on the window sill, the point of gravity is not a good choice, the security net did not move a bit, but instead led to the shaky roof began another wave of violent shaking.
Crocodile stifled a cough.
She curled up in Chi Xiaochi's arms, "Teacher, I don't want to die."
Chi Xiaochi said, "No one will die."
Crocodile caught him by the lapels of his coat and said in a small voice, "My Sweetie hasn't grown out of it yet."
Sugar is the little cabbage she grows.
Chi Xiaochi said, "Then we'll go see it right away, okay."
While coaxing the child, Chi Xiaochi flew through the warehouse locating the relevant escape props.
In the second world, he had used a single power-up card on Zhou Kai.
That card was able to boost all human physical qualities to the limit in a short period of time, one minute of bullshitting, two hours of lying down.
The house was half-collapsed, and it was not up to him to consider the consequences of exposing his strength.
He was about to click to use it when there was a sharp creak from the direction of the first window.
This was followed by the muffled sound of a security net falling from the outside onto the first floor lawn.
The cracked No. 1 window was kicked to pieces in three strokes, and Tian Guangbing's angry shout came clearly from outside: "Kick, kick, kick, kick, kick, kick, kick, kick, kick, kick, kick, kick, kick, kick! The house is going to collapse because of you!"
Tian Guangbing, with a tousled head, a flowery bed sheet tied around his waist, the other end tied to a solar water heater on the roof of a building, and a screwdriver in his hand, is a ridiculous sight.
But Tian Guangbing himself doesn't think it's funny.
He got his girlfriend and friend settled in and ran up to see if Chi Xiaochi and the others needed any help.
Seeing that they were not successful in breaking down the door, Tian Guangbing went back to the dormitory and pulled a bed sheet, tied it around his waist, and touched a screwdriver from the toolbox in the dormitory, trying to break through the window.
He was in good physical shape and the prep work was done fairly well.
He didn't expect to see the door kicked in just as he had carefully lowered himself down from the roof of the building and studied how he should unscrew the screws of the security window from the outside, when he saw the door kicked in.
Tian Guangbing: "......" book that.
He leaned out of the window for a moment before realizing that his bird-less self was kinda S-B, and was going to pull himself back up again.
When the house collapsed and the way out was blocked, Tian Guangbing, who had just climbed halfway up, had to climb back up and continue working.
However, the smoke obscures the eyes, the two people in the house who did not see him, he opened the lock on this side of the first window, the two people in the second window to engage in demolition, making a shock, and he can only be outside the window cursing, inside the people still can not hear.
...... Tian Guangbing's heart is bitter.
After cursing, his mind was a little more at ease, and he climbed up to the roof again, following the sheets.
It felt so good to have his feet on the ground that he lay down on all fours and played dead dog for a few seconds, undoing the knots around his waist and lowering the twisted sheet down.
Chi Xiaochi tied the hanging sheet around the crocheted woman's waist and lifted her up, and the crocheted woman, already dependent on Chi Xiaochi after the robbery, held on to his sleeve and refused to let go of him.
In the end, she was forced up there by Tian Guangbing with heartbreaking sobs, and there was no joy at all in the aftermath.
From the roof came the rustling of unraveling sheets, the cries of a crock of goats, and Tian Guangbing's straight man comforting trifecta:
"It doesn't look good when you cry."
"If you cry again, you won't be fed."
"...... Geez, count on me, please don't cry."
Chi Xiaochi and Gan Yu are clinging to the window, breathing in the rare bit of fresh air as they wait for help.
Gan Yu's voice was a bit muffled, "Didn't I tell you to wait at the door? Why did you run in?"
Chi Xiaochi asked rhetorically, "I thought I said there was only one person left at the fire, so why aren't you leaving?"
Gan Yu said, "I don't feel comfortable."
Chi Xiaochi applied the template of his answer, "I'm not sure about the kids either."
Gan Yu accurately nailed his prevarication, "It's you I'm worried about."
Chi Xiaochi wiped the black ash from the corners of her eyes and said matter-of-factly, "Thank you."
He politely declined Gan Yu's advances.
Chi Xiaochi knew that Gan Yu felt differently about him.
Gan Yu is not a bad person, if he met Gan Yu in the original world, maybe they can still be friends.
But this is Song Chunyang's body, and Chi Xiaochi will only develop a social relationship with him within reason.
He smiles at Gan Yu and takes a step back, politely asking him to go outside the window first and wait for the sheets to be lowered.
Gan Yu also understood his mind and could only smile bitterly.
He knew he should have refrained, but Chi Xiaochi was so special that one always wanted to be there for him, to be good to him in any way possible.
Looks like the next world will have to figure out a way to moderate itself.
It was at this moment that a strange change occurred.
The ceiling above where Chi Xiaochi was standing was loose!
In the blink of an eye, Gan Yu, who was sitting on the window ledge, grabbed Chi Xiaochi's shirt by the chest and pulled him forward, but he himself lost his center of gravity and tumbled backwards!
With a huge shudder in his heart, Chi Xiaochi reached out and violently pinched the shirt on Gan Yu's left breast, and, with little hesitation, used the card in the warehouse that had long been his choice.
The two fell out of the third floor window in unison and rolled onto the grass.
Yuan Benshan, who was watching from afar, saw this sudden change and became furious, running quickly.
Gan Yu and Chi Xiaochi were close by, but several times more flustered than he was.
He was closest to him, and therefore knew best, Chi Xiaochi had forcefully reversed his body in the air, taking most of the impact as he landed.
Gan Yu rushed up from the ground and scooped Chi Xiaochi into his arms, checking him almost frantically for any serious injuries, remembering only halfway through that Chi Xiaochi had used a card, and that the impact of the moment he landed on the ground was nothing to him at all.
Chi Xiaochi was curled up in the crook of his arm, her eyes closed tightly, as if she had fainted.
But he was awake enough that he could even hear Gan Yu's voice shaking, "...... Chunyang, is everything alright."
Chi Xiaochi thought, "If he still calls him Chunyang at this point, then Gan Yu really won't be his dear Mr. Six.
With the last thought dissipated, Chi Xiaochi's mind was much calmer: "Are you okay?"
Gan Yu forced back his heartache and nodded with a smile, "...... I'm fine."
The raging exhaustion had come shockingly towards Chi Xiaochi, his body was getting softer and softer, and he spoke softly, "That's good. ...... That's good."
His fingers were so soft that he couldn't even hold the cotton, yet he still tried his best to grip Gan Yu's chest shirt, his knuckles resting against his heart to feel that loud heartbeat.
Gan Yu senses his nervousness and tries to reassure him, "It's only the third floor, not very high."
However, upon hearing these words, Chi Xiaochi's face lost its color little by little.
Half because of the card's efficacy, half because he thought of the past.
After Lou Ying's accident, Chi Xiaochi often wondered how light and heavy a human life could be.
It's so light that it doesn't need to be three stories high, two stories high to break.
It is as heavy as a mountain, and has been weighing on Chi Xiaochi for twelve years.
Yuan Benshan had already arrived at Chi Xiaochi's side, carefully checking his general condition, and was relieved to find that he was not seriously injured, but probably just dazed from the fall.
He looked at Gan Yu in his entirety, with only a broken pair of glasses, and said to Gan Yu in a not-so-nice tone, "How did you fall down?"
Gan Yu did not answer, only focusing on Chi Xiaochi's bleak face.
Yuan Benshan didn't like Song Chunyang being stared at like this either, so he hugged himself and took a step away.
Gan Yu: "Little--"
He couldn't even utter that last word, not even to call him by his name.
Yuan Benshan glanced sideways at Gan Yu, noting that Chi Xiaochi's lips were mumbling slowly, but couldn't hear what he was saying.
He came closer and asked, "What?"
"I'm sorry." Chi Xiaochi closed his eyes and could only make a muffled voice with an air tone, "Back then ...... I couldn't save you, it was my incompetence."
Yuan Benshan was stunned and couldn't help but think, "Is it because of the shock and nightmare that he is talking nonsense?
He reassured him, "It's okay, you've done a good job."
Chi Xiaochi leaned into his arms and softly asked, "Really?"
Yuan Benshan: "Really."
"Lie to me." Chi Xiaochi said, "He can't see."
Yuan Benshan's heart fills with helpless tenderness and he tries to keep up with him despite having no idea what he's talking about, "Don't think so. He can see, he's probably watching you right now."
Published at: 09/04/2024 07:00