NOVPUB"I’ll take the students down first; you guys get ready to receive them."
Cao Haoyuan didn’t even know where the tea room on the third floor was, let alone that now the entire third floor was a sea of flames, and the doors of this private hall were nearly burnt through.
Wu Bin did know the location of the tea room on the third floor, as he had glanced at it when he came in.
Should he take charge?
Wu Bin felt hesitant in his heart.
Better not, he thought. He was just an ordinary person with limited abilities.
However, just as Cao Haoyuan stepped onto the ladder and was about to reach out to help Wu Bin.
Wu Bin looked down and saw an old woman sitting on the ground, wailing loudly.
"Who will save my daughter! My daughter is still inside!"
The old woman was crying very sadly.
She had tried several times to rush into the restaurant but the firefighters had firmly blocked her. n𝚘𝚟𝚙𝚞𝚋.𝚌o𝚖
Surely there’s nothing more tragic in this world than a parent sending off their own child.
In the crowd, Xu Wenyao and a group of school leaders had already arrived.
When they saw Wu Bin standing by the window, everyone’s heart hung in suspense.
Xu Wenyao even shouted loudly to Wu Bin.
"Wu Bin, hurry down! The fire is getting bigger!"
Under everyone’s gaze, Wu Bin gritted his teeth and made an astonishing decision.
"Captain Cao, I know where the tea room is, you go first, I’ll rescue people!"
Without waiting for Cao Haoyuan, who was on the ladder, to react, Wu Bin suddenly ran to a corner of the hall, picked up a kettle, and poured water onto a thick blanket.
Cao Haoyuan was shocked, just about to climb through the window to forcibly pull Wu Bin out.
But Wu Bin draped the wet blanket around himself and directly opened the door to the hall.
Boom!
The moment the door opened, the flames outside, like a ferocious tiger, leaped in and instantly set the entire hall ablaze!
Cao Haoyuan, who was about to climb through the window, was also furiously pushed back by the flames, nearly losing his balance and falling off the ladder.
Seeing the flames burst from the window, everyone below cried out in shock.
"That college student doesn’t seem to have gotten out yet! It’s over, he’s going to perish in the fire!"
"He clearly could have left just now, why did he suddenly run back inside?"
"It seems like he wanted to run back in to save someone, I just heard the voices on the firefighters’ radios."
The group of school leaders in the crowd were all dumbfounded.
They could never have imagined that Wu Bin, who could have escaped, chose to turn back without hesitation.
Xu Wenyao’s face turned extremely grim.
With such fierce flames, Wu Bin would likely face great peril even if he managed to rush in.
Just then, board member Lu Peihua arrived at the scene with a group of people.
"President Xu, what’s the situation now, how is my son, is he okay?"
Hearing Lu Peihua say that, Xu Wenyao let out a series of cold laughs.
"Your son is lying over there."
"Board member Lu, your son has really done something earth-shattering this time."
"If anything happens to Wu Bin this time, you better be ready for a lawsuit!"
Lu Peihua was taken aback.
Wu Bin?
That fragile college student?
Was this incident related to him?
A sense of foreboding immediately surged in Lu Peihua’s heart.
If this was indeed related to Wu Bin, could it be that kid who started the fire?
Lu Peihua dared not think any further.
Although Xu Wenyao had always wanted to bring him down, it wouldn’t be to such madness.
Inside the third-floor corridor, everywhere was engulfed in roaring flames.
Beneath the blanket, Wu Bin felt his entire body overheating and in incessant pain.
The worst part was that hiding under the blanket, he couldn’t see his surroundings clearly, let alone pinpoint the location of the tea room.
"Damn it, if I’m going to die, so be it!"
Wu Bin threw off the blanket, and in an instant, he was swallowed by the flames.
Ding.
[Evil Spirit Suit equipped]
[Burn pain sensation reduced by 75%]
Ding.
[Fire of Joy activated]
[20% of burn pain sensation transformed into laughter]
With the system’s positive effects, Wu Bin’s sensation of burn pain instantly decreased by 95%.
But even so, the remaining 5% was still enough to make him burst into loud laughter.
The firefighters who were about to enter for the rescue were stunned when they heard the laughter.
What kind of ghostly noise is that!
A fire spirit?
The fire is this fierce, and there’s still someone who can laugh?
The younger members of the team felt a bit scared.
"Captain, why does that laughter sound so terrifying? Are we still going to continue the search and rescue?"
Cao Haoyuan’s stern voice rose.
"Scared of what, it’s broad daylight; do you really think you can see ghosts? Hold on to your hoses and push forward; we must find that college student!"
A group of firefighters turned on the hose, suppressing the surrounding flames and cooling down the area.
Cao Haoyuan thought the college student was simply too reckless.
Rescuing someone from a fire, is it such an easy task?
Smoke, burns, high temperatures, any one of them could be deadly.
Wrapped in a damp blanket, at most it could only block out the burns from the flames, but the high temperatures around him were something a college student simply couldn’t handle.
Wu Bin’s attempt at rescue was nothing short of suicide!
Just as Cao Haoyuan was thinking this, all the team members witnessed a shocking scene.
Wu Bin, amidst the flames, had been burnt into a man on fire.
But even so, he continued to laugh as he struggled toward a certain direction.
This scene was just too eerie!
Cao Haoyuan was the first to snap out of it and issued a rescue command.
"Quick! Suppress the flames!"
Two nozzles were aimed forward, two curtains of water shot out, extinguishing the flames engulfing Wu Bin instantly.
Wu Bin thudded onto the ground.
Wu Bin hadn’t anticipated that the burns would affect his ability to move as if his body was completely out of his control.
Seeing Cao Haoyuan rush over with his team, Wu Bin mustered all his strength and pointed to a door in front of him.
"Tea... tea room... ha ha."
Cao Haoyuan: ...
Bro, this is not the time to laugh.
"Two of you take him out, the rest cover me; I’m going to open the door!"
Two firefighters dragged the charred Wu Bin away.
Cao Haoyuan slowly opened the door of the tea room and saw a woman wearing a qipao, her whole body drenched, wrapped in a fire blanket sitting in the corner with a mask on her face.
She was luckier, as the tea room had a set of fire escape gear, and there was water in the room that allowed her to continue cooling the door, preventing the fire from entering.
But even so, she was still dizzy from lack of oxygen.
Cao Haoyuan pulled the woman out.
"Found her! Retreat, everyone retreat!"
Under Cao Haoyuan’s command, the group retreated back to the window and descended one by one using the ladder.
When Cao Haoyuan brought the woman down the ladder, an older woman rushed over.
"Daughter! You mustn’t have anything wrong with you, my daughter!"
Two medical staff hurried forward.
"Auntie, please step aside; let’s check on her first."
Shortly after Cao Haoyuan and his team evacuated, an explosion erupted from the third floor, and the fire roared back to life!
Cao Haoyuan and the firefighters felt a chill in their hearts.
If they had been a little slower, they might not have been able to get out.
