Chapter 25: The Fire
"What's wrong with you?" Zhou Ze frowned, obviously, he also smelled the smell.
"It's okay, I'm urgent, you go first!"
After Lao Dao finished speaking, he immediately turned around and ran out.
Zhou Ze looked at his hand, didn't follow and asked anything, but took a taxi back to the bookstore.
Lao Dao came to the side of the road, reached out and took out a piece of rune paper from the crotch of his pants, the rune paper had turned red, and it was weathered and grayed, and it was directly scattered.
This is the ancestral rune paper of the old way, as for why it is hidden in this position, it can only be said that it cannot be for outsiders.
But the scene just now has been imprinted in the memory of the old way,
Of course, look down at the walnuts that are scalded and tightened together,
Actually, it's also imprinted on my own flesh.
"Mother, boss, I never expected that I would meet your fellow countryman in Tongcheng, which is more than 2,000 kilometers away."
In the dark,
Maybe there's a sense of induction,
For example, when Zhou Ze watched Lao Dao's live video, he saw the young man sitting behind the counter of the underworld shop struggling to drink porridge in the video, and he had an inexplicable feeling,
That's not just anorexia.
In fact
They are one of the same kind of people.
In this world, he is not the absolute only and separate alternative.
As the Faceless Woman in Hell was unwilling to roar:
"How can you leave?"
This means that
It's not just Zhou Ze, someone has also left in front of the faceless woman before.
Coupled with the old man with black nails who was treated in a car accident by Zhou Ze,
This world,
It's really not as calm as I imagined.
………………
When he took a taxi back to the bookstore, it was already one o'clock in the morning, Zhou Ze cleaned up the glass fragments on the bathroom floor, and then boiled a few pots of water and barely wiped his body with a towel.
He decided to have someone install a spray tomorrow to make it easier for him to take a bath, and for a person with a mild cleanliness fetish, not being able to take a bath is definitely a torture.
Returning to the second floor, setting the temperature, Zhou Ze lay in it, closed his eyes, and prepared to say goodbye to today's fatigue and all the disturbances of today.
This night, I slept very soundly and peacefully.
Nothing happened all night,
When he woke up the next morning, Zhou Ze, who came out of the freezer, went to wash up first, then opened the door of the store and glanced next door.
The door next door is closed today.
Dr. Lin can't be contacted for the time being.
My wife is gone,
Now even he is gone,
Zhou Ze shook his head violently, damn it, how could he have such a thought?
Xu Leyu poisoned people,
Right
Definitely.
He hadn't eaten since last night, so Zhou Ze could only take out his mobile phone and order a takeout, remarking that the store would send more vinegar.
After waiting for about twenty minutes, a little brother in a yellow takeaway suit came in a battery car, and the other party directly pushed open the door of the store and walked in, handing the takeaway to Zhou Ze, who was sitting behind the counter and reading a book.
"Thank you, it's not easy, I have to deliver takeaway for the New Year." Zhou Ze said politely.
"It's not easy for you, you still have to eat takeout during the Chinese New Year." The takeaway brother replied directly.
"............" Zhou Ze.
Zhou Ze felt that he had been hit by an arrow in the knee, and raised his head to look up at the takeaway brother in front of him, the other party was very young, and he looked like he was in his early twenties.
"You're a bookstore here?" The takeaway guy glanced at the environment of the store, "The kind that can sit down and read a book?" How much? ”
"Look at it." Zhou Ze opened the takeaway bag.
"Gotcha."
The takeaway guy sat down on the plastic bench, found a copy of "Breaking the Sky" and read it, and read it with relish.
Zhou Ze drank all the vinegar sent by the store in one gulp, it seemed that it was because he had recently been exercised by Xu Qinglang's perverted-level sour plum juice, Zhou Ze felt that this ordinary vinegar didn't feel anything.
Immediately after that, another gobble was swallowed, and halfway through the meal, the feeling of nausea and nausea began to hit.
Zhou Ze pinched his neck with both hands, forcing himself not to spit it out, and finally, after a terrible stalemate, the nausea began to fade slowly, Zhou Ze wiped the corners of his mouth, and then began to cough heavily.
"Brother, eat slowly, your eating is like a starving ghost reincarnated, in my grandmother's words."
The takeaway guy said while reading the book.
Zhou Ze glared at the other party, and simply sat on the chair panting, he needed to slow down.
Damn Xu Qinglang,
Why don't you open the door yet!
Zhou Ze decided that if the other party didn't open the door in the afternoon, he could only smash the door and go in to find the remaining sour plum juice or bitter gourd juice, otherwise he would really not be able to eat this meal.
The delivery guy seemed to stop taking orders and sat there reading a novel for an hour.
"Hey, why does it smell of coke?" The takeaway guy sniffed his nose suddenly, and then walked out of the bookstore.
Zhou Ze didn't take it seriously, the other party probably wanted to read the book for a while and was unwilling to give money, it didn't matter.
This bookstore is really casual to make money.
But then, the takeaway guy who had just walked outside immediately opened his mouth and shouted:
"Wow, it's on fire."
Zhou Ze woke up at this time, and immediately walked out of the store, looked up, and his eyes immediately froze, on the fourth floor of the building above, billowing smoke was coming out of it.
This is
The location of the cinema!
The original commercial center can still be a little popular now, that is, the movie theater, and because it is the New Year's stall for a while, there are many people who come here to watch movies.
"Let's go, go and save people." The takeaway guy ran straight over there.
Zhou Ze stood there and hesitated for ten seconds, the fire must be very big, but it would definitely not burn his bookstore, he was restraining his instinct to save people deep down.
In the past, he couldn't remember how many times he rushed to the front line of the disaster scene to participate in the rescue, but it just so happened that recently, he planned to get rid of this bad problem.
However, after a fierce ideological struggle, Zhou Ze still ran over with him.
Myself
It's still cheap!
At the stairs from the first floor to the third floor, there were many people running down, and Zhou Ze was running up.
Although this commercial center is "derelict", it is located in the middle of the city, and fire trucks should be able to arrive soon.
There are not as many people watching movies in the morning as in the afternoon, but the number of people is also considerable, when Zhou Ze ran down the stairs to the fourth floor, he saw that the smoke inside was much bigger, and the flames were burning very strangely, even if it was a fire outside, it was impossible to burn so exaggeratedly!
It's just that this is not the time to analyze the cause, in the thick smoke, Zhou Ze saw the takeaway brother with a blackened face running out with an old woman on his back.
The other party glanced at Zhou Ze, smiled, showed a mouthful of white teeth, and then turned his head and ran to the viewing area again to continue to save people.
The fire didn't spread completely, but on the side of the viewing area, the fire was exaggerated.
Zhou Ze didn't hesitate any longer, since he had already come, he had to do something, and he immediately ran into the smoke.
"Ahem............ Ahem............"
Without any protective measures, it is a very stupid act to rush in, and it is easy to not save people but to explain themselves.
So Zhou Ze knew that he had limited time, if he saw someone who needed help, it would be good to bring him out, and he couldn't do too much about the rest, so he could only wait for a professional firefighter to come and deal with it.
"Hoo ............"
Zhou Ze had just opened the door of the No. 2 theater, and the flames actually rushed out directly, and Zhou Ze could only retreat to avoid the edge for a while.
And inside, there were even crying and shouting.
Zhou Ze gritted his teeth and rushed in directly, in the theater, there were flames everywhere, on the ground, on the ceiling, on the walls, all on fire, and because of the cramped space here, the smoke that burned out could only be stored here.
In general, many more people died from smoke than by fire.
It's only at this time that everyone realizes how important the tiresome fire notice video is before watching a movie every time.
As soon as Zhou Ze rushed in, he saw two people lying in the small space in the aisle.
One was an adult man in a black suit, who was lying on the ground coughing, apparently unable to get up.
The other, a boy of about 10 years old, fell unconscious, unconscious, and did not know whether he had passed out or had suffocated to death.
"Help me...... Save me...... Save ............" The man in the suit reluctantly raised his head and looked at Zhou Ze who was standing in front.
Zhou Ze jumped over him directly, picked up the little boy on his back, and was about to rush out to talk.
He was already feeling dizzy, and it was clear that he wouldn't be able to hold out for long without professional equipment such as gas masks.
However, as soon as he was about to run out with the boy on his back, Zhou Ze only felt that he was pulled under his feet, and the whole person fell to the ground, and the boy on his back also rolled down.
"Save ...... Save...... First...... Save me...... I...... Here you go...... Money...... First...... Save me............"
The man in the suit exhausted his last bit of strength and grabbed Zhou Ze's ankle tightly, he knew that he couldn't hold on for too long, he couldn't breathe at all now, he only felt uncomfortable like his lungs were burning.
Zhou Ze, who fell, only felt that his head was spinning for a while, and he almost passed out, and at that moment, he directly bit the tip of his tongue with his teeth and forced himself to wake up.
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
Zhou Ze used his other foot to kick the hand of the man who was grabbing him and the other party's head,
After kicking a few times in a row, the other party finally let go.
Zhou Ze staggered to his feet again, carried the boy on his back, and rushed out of the No. 2 theater.
When he rushed out of the billowing smoke and entered the safe area, Zhou Ze's knees weakened, and the whole person knelt down directly, and the boy on his body also fell, but because Zhou Ze subconsciously paved the ground, the fall was not serious.
Firefighters have arrived and are working to extinguish the fire, and some of them are wearing equipment and rushing into the fire.
"There are still people in Hall 2."
Zhou Ze grabbed the clothes of a firefighter who ran over next to him and said.
"Okay, I got it." The other man nodded and rushed into the fire.
"Huhu............ Whoohoo............"
Zhou Ze was lying on the tile floor, gasping for breath, and opposite him, the takeaway brother in the yellow takeaway clothes that had been smoked black was also leaning there to gasp, and the two of them looked at each other and laughed weakly.
The ambulance personnel have also arrived, a group of angels and doctors in white, and Zhou Ze has no strength to find out if Dr. Lin is also in this ambulance operation.
Gritting his teeth and standing up again, Zhou Ze glanced at the boy who was being treated by the doctor, the boy's chest was still rising and falling, it shouldn't be a big problem.
At the same time, Zhou Ze also saw several people who were picked up by the firefighters after that, some people were not rescued, some people were rescued, the man in a black suit was lying on a stretcher, motionless, it should be out of breath.
Zhou Ze didn't feel guilty, he had no reason to feel guilty,
I am a good person and save others, but it is up to me who I save first, and no one has any reason to kidnap me morally.
Moreover, at that time, he could not afford to carry a child on his back and carry an adult man out at the same time, and if he did, the final result could only be that he would die in it.
It is Xu Le who borrows the corpse to resurrect the soul, a "scholar" who has no power to restrain the chicken, and not Schwarzenegger who borrows the corpse to resurrect the soul.
Besides, that guy almost killed himself in the movie theater.
Getting up with difficulty, refusing the help of the nurse next to him to check his physical condition, Zhou Ze walked to the bathroom at the other end of the building, turned on the faucet, and rubbed his face vigorously with cold water in his hand.
Finally,
It's time to breathe.
Raise your head,
Zhou Ze looked at himself in the mirror,
Suddenly, I found that
In the mirror, behind him, a faint figure slowly appeared,
This person,
Wearing a black suit,
A look of resentment stared at him.
The mouth opened and kept shouting, as if questioning himself something, hysterical, crazy restless.
After a person dies, if he encounters a specific opportunity, there is a certain probability that he may turn into a ghost to retaliate.
And right now, this man has just died, and his soul is still in the stage of turning into a ghost, and it will probably be completely formed in the first seven.
He is not a ghost yet, he can only be said to be a prototype.
But because of Zhou Ze's own particularity, he can gain insight into the existence of the other party in advance.
He's hating himself,
If you don't save him,
Even this hatred,
Don't hesitate to make him a ghost!
"Oh, interesting."
Zhou Ze smiled,
Put your head back into the sink and continue to rinse yourself with water.
At the same time, I sighed in my heart:
"Oh, man............"