Chapter 33 The End of the Road
The change under my feet was completely unexpected, because before I and Wang Fatzi could react, the corridor on my right actually broke directly from the middle, and that scene was exactly like the scene when the Titanic's hull broke from the middle.
Of course, unlike the Titanic break, the reason why the corridor suddenly broke in the middle was because the beams supporting it below were burned by the fire, which directly caused the suspended corridor to no longer be able to support itself and the few of us above.
I was standing on the edge of the fracture, but the crack broke right at the edge of my foot, and I didn't have much time to react.
It was too late, but at the moment when the corridor broke, I felt a stumble under my feet, and then the whole person was unsteady and fell towards the break.
At that moment, my heart jumped to my throat, and I didn't expect such an accident.
I was about to slide off the break.
If you slide down...... Then I will not die, and I will not escape the fate of paralysis.
"Don't let go!" Just as I was about to fall off the break, a rough and fat hand suddenly grabbed my arm and quickly pulled me back.
I looked at it in amazement, but saw that the fat man was blushing, he was holding me with one hand, grasping the edge of the railing with the other, and was gritting his teeth to pull me back.
Wang Fatzi actually came to my rescue.
At that moment, I was completely stunned.
I didn't expect that Wang Fatzi would actually come to my rescue, but at this time, I didn't have time to think about it, so I grabbed his arm and climbed up from the sloping wooden plank of the corridor.
Under the pull of the fat man, I crawled in his direction with great difficulty.
I was relieved to climb out of the edge of the broken seam, and Wang Fatzi and I both ran as fast as we could towards the end of the corridor that had not yet collapsed, so as not to collapse again under our feet.
But before I had time to run two steps, I suddenly heard a call of "pull me quickly!" behind me, I turned around in surprise, but I happened to see the two bodyguards brought by Tang Dong actually grasping the railing of the corridor that collapsed into a 45-degree angle with one hand, and the two people were hanging in the air like dolls on a sunny day, while Qian Yikang and Gao Minghua and the remaining bodyguards all retreated to the door of the attic with pale faces, and were looking at the two bodyguards hanging in the air with some confusion.
"Rope, give us rope!" At this moment, the wooden floor of the promenade had completely collapsed, and below the promenade were black smoke and bright flames rising from the windows on the first floor. The two bodyguards dangling in the air were like grilled fish hanging on a barbecue grill, baked by the flames that gradually poured up below.
I saw with my own eyes that the shoes of the two bodyguards were set on fire by the flames that rushed up from below, and the terrifying flames actually set fire directly on their feet. Although the two bodyguards have undergone special training and have excellent endurance, they also screamed under this terrifying flame barbecue, and their feet kept fluttering, trying to extinguish the flames on their feet. But the creepy thing was that instead of extinguishing the flames on their feet, the flames slowly climbed up his legs, turning both of them red.
"Come and pull us! Please!" In the case of life and death, two bodyguards helplessly asked us for help.
But, helplessly, none of us stepped forward to save them.
Because, the floor in the middle of the corridor has completely collapsed into a concave "V" shape in the middle, and the two bodyguards are in the middle of this "V" shape, and the floors on both sides are even shaking, as if they are about to fall at any time, if any of us go to save them, they will definitely slide down together.
So for a while, none of us acted rashly.
Because we don't dare gamble with our lives.
"You ...... Hold on!" Seeing the struggle of the two bodyguards, I gritted my teeth, but still shouted at the two bodyguards, and looked left and right for a while, trying to find something like rope to throw at them,
However, before I could find the rope for them, I heard a crisp "click", and then the corridor with the two bodyguards actually cracked a little again, and the two bodyguards, directly with the broken plank, slipped down!
The air almost froze.
I watched as the two bodyguards fell straight out of the air, smashing through the flames in mid-air and into the ground below.
Because the two bodyguards fell together, when the two of them fell, they collided directly, and one of them pressed on the other...... I don't know what the outcome will be, because, for a while, I didn't see any movement from the two bodyguards.
Click, click, click. Before I could see the two bodyguards who had fallen, the planks under my feet began to shake again.
"The corridor is going to collapse......" I sweated, and my heart beat wildly, because the most terrible scene had happened before my eyes.
As the fire intensified, the connection between the corridor and the wall was burned off, and the entire corridor could no longer support the weight, and finally began to loosen and collapse rapidly.
I witnessed this horrific scene with my own eyes.
Of course, I witnessed this horrific scene with Qian Yikang, Gao Minghua and the last remaining bodyguard who were looking across a fault line from me.
Because of the break in the middle of the corridor, the remaining five of us were divided into two camps. One camp is me and Wang Fatzi at the end of the corridor, while the other camp is Qian Yikang, who is sandwiched between the fault and the attic.
At this moment, as the corridor gradually collapsed from both sides of the middle phase, I saw Qian Yikang, Gao Minghua and the last bodyguard being sandwiched between the attic and the fault.
It can be said that the situation of the three of them is extremely critical, behind them is the fire that spread from the attic, but in front of them is a fault, if they retreat back to the attic, then they are either smoked to death or burned to death, if they go forward and jump from the 8-meter-high attic, then they are either killed by falling or seriously injured and paralyzed.
They can be said to be in a dilemma, a dead end.
I saw Qian Yikang's face like ashes, his eyes were terrified, and Gao Minghua was pale, pursed his mouth, and kept retreating. And the bodyguard was looking left and right, and even his hands were shaking.
The situation of Qian Yikang and the others is dead, and the situation of me and Wang Fatzi is also extremely critical.
Because the collapse speed of the corridor is too fast, it has only been a minute since Tang Dong fell, and the entire corridor has violently thought about the middle tilt, turning into a larger "V" shape.
What's even more terrifying is that not only the corridor is collapsing, but even the entire old wooden house is crumbling, and there is a constant vibration under the feet, as if the whole house will completely collapse in the next moment, that kind of scene, it is like the end of the world is coming.
"Boom!" the soles of my feet shook violently again, and the corridor where Wang Fatzi and I were standing finally began to tilt down sharply.
"Run!" I shouted to the fat man beside me, and the fat man reacted, and without saying a word, he ran quickly towards the end of the corridor.
When I ran to the end, I was surprised to see that there was a closed wooden door at the corner at the end of the corridor, which seemed to be a storage room.
"Damn, knock it open!" Seeing the wooden door in front of me, I knew that there was a space inside where I could hide temporarily, and hurriedly hit the wooden door with my body.
Seeing my actions, Wang Fatzi also calmed down, he glanced at me, and after taking a deep breath, he suddenly used his fat body to hit the wooden door.
Under the combined impact of me and Wang Fatzi, the wooden door was knocked open without much effort.
With a cloud of dust, a closed storage room of no small size was displayed in front of me and Wang Fatzi, and Wang Fatzi and I rushed in as soon as possible.
At the last second before rushing in, I turned around by chance and saw the flames that spread from the attic completely engulfing Qian Yikang, Gao Minghua and the bodyguard whose names I couldn't even name.
The screams disappeared into the fire with the faces of Qian Yikang and Gao Minghua that I will never forget.
It was also the last time I saw Qian Yikang and Gao Minghua in my life.
Those two opponents who once hated me so much and made me suffer countless hardships finally took the blame and died in that fire.
Since then, I've been thinking about whether my fate was a chance event due to countless coincidences, or whether it was predestined by God.
I still don't know the answer.
I've thought a lot about fate, many times, many times, but I've never found the answer.
Perhaps, life is a thing without answers.
As Liu Yuhui later said to me, life is never a perfect computer program, it will have a lot of bugs and loopholes, so there will always be no solution.
But it is precisely because there will be mistakes and insolvencies that that is life.
That's the difference between man and machine.
That's the difference between life and procedure.
Life is alive and full of variables, and programs are dead, and there are fixed numbers in it.
And it is the continuous improvement of those simplest programs from generation to generation that will slowly form the most complex and massive super operating programs.
That flawless, well-functioning program is called society.
It was only a coincidence of fate that I was able to survive that night.
Because that night, I did go to the door of the ghost gate.
Even, half a foot stepped into the Yama Temple.
However, in the end, one of them pulled me out, and he said to me, if you want to go to hell, don't cut in line, and get behind me.
And the one who pulled me out of the Yama Temple was the fat man.
When the fat man of my good king smashed open the closed wooden door at the end of the corridor and rushed into the cubicle inside, the sight made us despair.
Because when we rushed in, we still saw fire.
It turned out that it was a compartment with countless holes in the floor, because of disrepair, the wooden planks were aging and broken, and the floor collapsed.
However, at this moment, it is because of the holes in the floor of this compartment that the flames on the first floor have penetrated through which holes and cracks.
Therefore, although Wang Fatzi and I escaped the catastrophe of falling from the corridor, we rushed into an even more terrifying sea of fire again.
We had just run out of the front door of the Ghost Gate, but we broke in through the back door of the Ghost Gate.