Chapter 4: Purgatory on Earth
There are two toilets on the first floor of Longxing Mall, and the fire near the west toilet where Meng Lin is currently located is smaller, although the smoke inside and outside the toilet is filled, but Meng Lin is not afraid of these thick smoke at this time.
Meng Lin bravely rushed into the women's bathroom and found that the bathroom was empty inside and outside.
Just in case, Meng Lin rushed into the men's bathroom to check, but it was also empty.
It seems that the fire is smaller here, and everyone who can run has run out.
After Meng Lin came out, he turned around and rushed to the bathroom on the other side of the mall.
When he rushed over, Meng Lin began to faintly feel that the temperature around him was rising...... Of course, the temperature in the fire was very high, but Meng Lin was in a dream, and he didn't feel it before, but now he has some feelings, I don't know if it's an illusion.
By the way, he also faintly smelled some smoke.
Especially when he entered the burning area of the fire, the feeling of the temperature rising became more and more obvious.
Striding through the area where the fire was not much in the south, Meng Lin entered the smoke-filled women's bathroom in the south, and bumped into a woman who was rushing out.
The woman screamed, was hit by Meng Lin, and fell directly to the ground.
"Go out of the aisle to the left, the fire is relatively small, and the west gate of the mall is nearby, so it is easier to escape." Meng Lin helped the woman up a little apologetically and reminded her.
"Oh." The woman replied vaguely, pushed Meng Lin away and staggered outside.
Meng Lin entered the women's restroom and pushed open the door of the toilet one by one, only to find the body of an old man in his sixties and seventies who had been smoked to death in one of the cubicles.
Not a girl's mom.
With a secret feeling of pity in his heart, Meng Lin turned around and rushed out of the bathroom, and after hurriedly checking the men's bathroom next to him, he ran towards the safe passage on the second floor.
The supermarket on the first basement floor of the mall does not have a toilet open to the public, and people who pass by outside come in to use the restroom, but generally do not go to the basement floor.
The escalator, which was stopped in the fire, was not far from the restroom, and half of it was covered with flammable materials.
When Meng Lin rushed to the side of the escalator, a burning man with his whole body on fire rolled down from it, almost hitting Meng Lin. His whole face was already burned and deformed, and after seeing Meng Lin, he suddenly pounced on Meng Lin and opened his mouth to shout for help.
Meng Lin was taken aback and instinctively pushed the burning man in front of him away.
The Burning Man fell to the ground, struggled and screamed a few times, and never got up again.
"Alas...... Sorry, I didn't mean to. Meng Lin sighed, walked around the corpse and rushed up the escalator.
The temperature around me is getting higher and higher, and the smell of smoke is getting clearer and clearer.
Could it be that the longer you stay in your dreams, the more real the dreams will feel?
Meng Lin didn't have time to think about it, after going up to the second floor, he quickly checked the layout of the second floor that had not yet burned by the escalator, confirmed the location of the two toilets, and then quickly ran towards one of them.
The fire on the second floor is very large, and this floor is mainly for selling clothes, and the clothes are flammable, and the smoke caused by burning is very thick.
At this time, all the shops on the second floor are burning.
The fire near the restroom was still smaller, but the inside and outside of the restroom had been flooded with toxic smoke, and even the walls had been blackened.
If it weren't for the dream, Meng Lin would not have been able to enter the fire at such a time and watch the situation in the fire when the fire was breaking out.
There were several people lying on the ground inside and outside the bathroom, all of whom had obviously been killed by the poisonous smoke, Meng Lin quickly checked and did not find the girl's mother among the people who fell to the ground.
The mall is open for business hours, and today is Sunday, there are a lot of customers in the mall, and the women's toilets on the first and second floors of the mall will always queue up.
Meng Lin hesitated for a moment and decided not to go to the other bathroom on the second floor, but went directly to the third floor.
By the time Meng Lin came out of the bathroom on the second floor, the mall had become very quiet, and there were probably no living people left in the mall at this time.
No more cries for help, no more screams, only the crackling sound of the fire burning.
Here, it has become a purgatory on earth.
It is only in dreams that you can be in purgatory and be safe.
However, at this time, Meng Lin could already feel the scorching flames around him, and the unpleasant smell of the smoke became clearer and clearer.
He felt that time was running out for him, and if he remained in the fire, he might be burned as well.
Although it was a dream, it certainly didn't feel good to be burned to the ground.
Let's hurry up and find someone!
Meng Lin stood at the edge of the corridor and looked up, and found that the entire third floor had also turned into a sea of fire, and the fire was even bigger than the second floor. I don't know if the fire started from the third floor, but I feel that the third floor is where the fire is most intense.
Meng Lin quickly rushed up to the third floor and entered the bathroom near the escalator, only to find that the wooden partitions in the bathroom were already on fire, and the clothes on the bodies of several corpses lying on the ground were about to ignite.
Meng Lin quickly rushed over to check them one by one, and finally found a silver bracelet on the wrist of one of the corpses that had just been burned, and the clothes on his body that had not yet been burned could also be seen to be a yellow flower shirt.
If you guess correctly, this body should be the girl's mother's.
"It is estimated that there are many people on the first and second floors to go to the toilet, and they need to queue up, so my anxious mother came to the third floor to go to the toilet, but she never thought about ......it" Meng Lin shook his head regretfully, but there was a faint feeling in his heart that a stone had fallen to the ground.
"It seems that three years ago, I was right to forcibly stop the girl and prevent her from coming in to save people, and her mother had already burned to death in the bathroom on the third floor."
"The fire started too fast, the fire was too big, and the area near the mall gate turned into a sea of fire, and it was difficult for people above the third floor to leave alive. This kind of fire does not need to be burned to death, as long as you inhale a few puffs of poisonous smoke. If I hadn't stopped the girl, she would have rushed in to save her mother. ”
The temperature around him was getting higher and higher, and the smell of smoke was getting clearer and clearer, Meng Lin didn't dare to stay too long, he quickly extinguished the open flames on the girl's mother's body, then carried her body on his shoulder, turned around and rushed out of the bathroom.
When Meng Lin walked out of the bathroom carrying the corpse, someone suddenly passed by in the aisle in front of him.
Meng Lin was stunned and chased out, but saw a figure walking up the escalator on the fourth floor.
Before Meng Lin could open his mouth and shout, the man had already disappeared into the corridor on the fourth floor.
"Who is that man? Why do you dare to go up in the midst of the fire? And it's like walking on the ground in the fire! ”
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