"Cover your mouth and nose, bend down and follow me, and I'll take you out." Xu Ye shouted at the children.

After hearing Xu Ye's words, the children stopped crying, and the sensible ones followed Xu Ye out with their hands covering their mouths and noses as they said.

At this moment, the entire bookstore had already been burned, and the small two-story room was full of flames and thick black smoke, and the flames were raging everywhere like hungry wolves.

Just when Xu Ye was about to run downstairs with the dozen or so children, he saw the middle-aged man in black just now, who seemed to have woken up from a coma at this moment, but he was still extremely weak, and he couldn't get up after struggling to climb several times.

At the moment, he could only crawl on the ground, desperately covering his mouth and nose and coughing frantically.

Xu Ye could see that he had been poisoned by a lung infection caused by excessive smoke, and if he couldn't be properly treated, he was afraid that he would cough up to death in this fire.

This situation is not uncommon, according to the survey, each time in the fire, because of the smoke poison suffocation, death is several times more than directly burned by the fire.

Xu Ye didn't dare to linger any longer, because he could come and go freely in the fire, but the children in front of him couldn't.

The more minute they stay, the more their lives are in danger.

But just as Xu Ye turned around and was walking downstairs with those twelve children, he suddenly heard the middle-aged man shouting to him: "Help, help, please save me, help me." ”

Hearing the middle-aged man's cry for help, Xu Ye couldn't bear to look back at the middle-aged man.

I saw that the middle-aged man just now had woken up, and at this moment blood had begun to flow out of his mouth, and it seemed that he should have coughed up blood from his lungs.

Seeing this, Xu Ye really couldn't bear to leave directly like this, so he immediately turned around, squatted down in front of the middle-aged man and looked at him and said, "I can't take care of you for the time being, you hold on for a while, and I will come back to save you when I send these children out." ”

The middle-aged man didn't know if he heard Xu Ye's words, so he suddenly grabbed Xu Ye's clothes, looked at Xu Ye with red eyes and said, "Save me, save me, I'm ...... I have money, and I can give you a lot of money. ”

"It's not about money, it's already my limit to take a few of them out, and I can't hold one more." Xu Ye looked at the middle-aged man and explained.

But the middle-aged man didn't seem to hear Xu Ye's words at all, and dragged Xu Ye with all his strength without letting go, coughing violently in his mouth, and with every cough he made, a stream of blood would flow out.

Looking at the miserable scene in front of him, Xu Ye really couldn't bear to leave him like this, but there was no way that he was not an immortal, and he couldn't do it.

Taking the twelve children in front of him out safely is already his limit, after all, he is just a Yin Yang Warlock who has just started for a long time, the spiritual power in his body is limited, and excessive consumption is not only dangerous to himself, but also may affect these children he wants to protect.

There was no way, Xu Ye patted the middle-aged man's shoulder and said, "Take care, I'll be back soon." ”

Xu Ye said and was about to get up again, but found that the middle-aged man had no intention of letting go, and still dragged Xu Ye to death.

At this time, because of Xu Ye's distraction, those children temporarily lost the protection of spiritual power, and a fire began to sweep towards them.

The twelve children were once again frightened and huddled together, hugged each other and began to wail.

Seeing this, Xu Ye immediately broke the middle-aged man's hand that was holding him, and quickly walked towards the twelve children, using his spiritual power to isolate them from the fire again.

When he rushed downstairs with the twelve children, Xu Ye saw that a fire truck had arrived outside.

The takeaway guy gestured to the firefighter all black and said, "There are still people inside, and there are still people." ”

Seeing this, Xu Ye immediately put away his spiritual power, and walked out with his body to protect the twelve children.

Originally, Xu Ye thought that all this was in danger, but when he walked to the door, suddenly a burned wooden frame fell and smashed at a little girl's head.

Seeing this, Xu Ye rushed over and blocked the wooden frame with his back.

Rao is Xu Ye was suddenly smashed like this, and he couldn't stand it, and he almost fell to his knees directly on the ground.

It seems that without the blessing of spiritual power, his physical body is still a little too weak.

After seeing this scene, the takeaway brother and the firefighter immediately rushed over and escorted the twelve children and Xu Ye to a safe place.

Looking at the firefighters beside him, Xu Yeqiang endured the burning pain in his back and immediately said to them: "Inside, there is another person inside, in, on the second floor." ”

"Okay, we know, let's leave it to us, you can rest first." The firefighter looked at Xu Ye and said with an approving look.

Xu Ye nodded and didn't bother the firefighters anymore, looked at the takeaway brother beside him and said, "When you rushed in just now, weren't you afraid that you wouldn't be able to get out?" ”

Hearing Xu Ye's words, the takeaway brother still responded with a sincere smile: "I didn't think about it so much at the time, I just thought about rushing in to save people, and I was a little scared when I came out and saw you being smashed." ”

Maybe this is the most essential thing of human nature, pure without adding any impurities.

Xu Ye patted the takeaway brother on the shoulder and sat down on the road with him: "Does your back still hurt?" ”

"It's a little bit." The takeaway brother said, looked at Xu Ye's back and said, "But compared to what you just did, I don't feel it at all." ”

Xu Ye laughed again, but the smile was a little weak and bitter.

The fire was quickly extinguished, ambulances roared to the fire, and soon the wounded were carried out of the bookstore.

Although Xu Ye and the takeaway brother, as well as the firefighters who arrived later, tried their best to rescue them, there were still people who lost their lives in the fire.

In addition to the first middle-aged man who was carried out and was already motionless, there was also a little boy who hid in a small warehouse when the fire came, and was roasted alive in it.

When the little boy was carried out, he had already been unrecognizable, and there was no part of his body that had intact skin.

When the little boy's parents arrived, they cried without a sound.

Another person who died in the fire was an elderly man, in his sixties, an old professor in the Chinese department of Nankai University.

He was reading a book on the second floor, and when the fire spread to the stairs on the second floor, he knew that he couldn't escape, and when everyone on the second floor tried their best to escape, he was the only one sitting at his desk without moving.

In the end, he watched the fire spread to the second floor, burning his desk, his books, and his life.

In addition to the three dead, thirteen others were seriously injured in this fire.

The most serious is the owner of this bookstore, the bookstore owner who has always been considered by Xu Ye to be the most modern and young temperament.

His entire face was burned by the fire, but when he was carried on the stretcher, he did not say a word, even holding a book in his hand.

Xu Ye noticed that it was a book of "Zizhi Tongjian".

After watching the casualties being carried away on stretchers, the takeaway brother sitting next to Xu Ye began to sobb a little sadly.

Xu Ye knew that he had developed a sense of guilt, and many volunteers who came out of the disaster area would have this kind of psychology in a short period of time.

I always feel that what I have done is not good enough, if I work harder and braver, I may be able to save two more people.

Xu Ye didn't comfort the takeaway brother, but just patted him lightly on the shoulder.

Because Xu Ye knew that he couldn't listen to what he said now.

This kind of thing can only be healed slowly by time.

As for Xu Ye himself, he didn't have the slightest sense of guilt in his heart, not because he was cold-blooded or indifferent.

It's that he feels that he has really done his best, and the premise of being a good person is that he must have the ability to protect himself.

Losing one's life to save others is indeed great, and there have been no such great people since ancient times.

But Xu Ye felt that he was not, he couldn't be a great man, and he could only do as much as he could do what he thought was right.

Just like today, he tried his best to save the twelve children and gave up on the middle-aged man.

This is the most right thing he can do, as for whether the middle-aged man will be resentful because he didn't save him, he can't care and doesn't want to care.

It is his duty to save him, and it is reasonable that he can't save him, if he has to kidnap himself morally, then he doesn't care.

And what made Xu Ye not feel the slightest guilt was that the middle-aged man obviously had murderous intentions towards himself when he heard that he wanted to protect the twelve children first.

In the end, he tried his best to pull himself, just to let himself accompany him to the funeral.

For this kind of person, Xu Ye felt that his life and death had little to do with him, and it could even be said that it had nothing to do with him.

After thinking about all this, Xu Ye stood up, and at the same time helped the takeaway brother who was still blaming himself, and walked towards the Chinese medicine hall together.

Qiu Xiaoying, who was standing at the door, saw Xu Ye and the takeaway brother walking in with him, and immediately stepped forward and said, "The two big heroes have worked hard. ”

Walking into the Chinese medicine hall, after Xu Ye and the takeaway brother sat down together, Qiu Xiaoying immediately brought two cups of hot water over and handed them to Xu Ye and the takeaway brother respectively.

Xu Ye took a sip of water and then stood up and said to Qiu Xiaoying: "I'll go wash up, you look at him, he is not in a good mood." ”

After Qiu Xiaoying nodded, Xu Ye walked towards the bathroom in the back, turned on the faucet, Xu Ye looked at the dust and dirt on his face in the mirror, and smiled self-deprecatingly: "Heroes are really fucking not good." ”