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Chapter 3 "Gone with the Wind" 002 Fire Lonely City
Ashley left angrily.

A month later, the bad news came: the conditions for marching and fighting were poor, and Ashley had a root cause of illness. Ashley suffered a serious illness at the front and passed away.

When the news came back to Bai Luo, Bai Luo sighed.This matter was originally Ashley's fault. She was just safeguarding her own rights.She had already tried to persuade Ashley, but he didn't listen, and there was nothing she could do about it.

Unexpectedly, when this matter got to other people's ears, they would start scolding her behind their backs.

The men all said: Melanie is too ignorant!It was a family matter that had to be known to everyone, and made my husband go away in anger, and finally killed him alive!
What's more, it's not a big deal.And Ashley didn't really sleep with his widow and sister-in-law!So-and-so's wife was beaten to death by the old man all day long, and so-and-so's old man gave birth to an illegitimate child outside, and I didn't see them yelling.

This group of men has a strong machismo thought in their bones.For them, cheating on the family is not a big deal, after all, everyone wants to.It's a big deal to be hurt by a woman.So they will subconsciously try their best to whitewash Ashley.

The women also said: Melanie is not a sensible woman either.A woman should be patient, how can she be so rude?What's more, it's not a big deal in the first place.After arguing for a long time, he finally killed his pillar with a big belly.How silly.

The whole city began to ostracize Melanie.Even Melanie's former close friend India gradually alienated her due to her chewing words and overt and covert sarcasm.

Bai Luo saw all this in his eyes.

She also felt that she had seen through this group of hypocritical men and ignorant women.It is better not to have such a friend.

Anyway, this is not a workplace. If you can't make good interpersonal relationships, you can't do your job well.It's not that her family is too poor to live on, and needs to rely on the neighbors for relief.

Since then, she began to live in seclusion, and rarely participated in the short chats with the wives at parties after dinner with neighbors and neighbors.

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Bai Luo's belly grew bigger day by day.

The Confederate Army was also losing ground.

Melanie’s hometown in the southern position——Atlanta city, wounded soldiers poured in like a tide, and prices soared.

The hospital was full of remnants of defeated soldiers.Food prices are staggeringly high.The goods in the store are becoming scarce day by day, and the price of an ordinary hat is skyrocketing.

People start to panic.Panic about the failure of the war, panic about their unknown fate.

On a certain day in a certain year and a certain month, the Northern Army came to the city of Atlanta.

A tug of war unfolds outside the city.

Many panicked people began to rush out of the city.There are also many people who have illusions about war and still stay in the city, hoping that the kindness that does not exist in war will come to them.

Bai Luo also wanted to escape, but unfortunately the system wouldn't let him.

"The role of Melanie must spend this period of time in Atlanta, otherwise the system will automatically determine that the mission has failed."

Bai Luo couldn't help complaining.What kind of broken system is this?What strange rules are set.

But there's nothing I can do about complaining.The rules that should be observed must still be followed honestly.

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The artillery shells of the Northern Army flew into the city, blowing up many houses, and many people lost their lives inexplicably.

The wounded soldiers were like a tide.

The hospital has long been full, and the temporarily requisitioned schools are also full.Near the railway tracks, many wounded soldiers were parked in the open air.Bai Luo passed by once, and was instantly shocked.

About the size of a basketball court, densely packed with people.Lying on a stretcher, half dead.The air smelled of blood, sweat, and rotting wounds, as well as the hum of a tidal wave.

In such a situation of lack of medical treatment and medicine, your injuries are minor, so you are naturally fine.But if you are seriously injured, even the gods will not be able to save you.

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A few days later, the Confederate Army couldn't hold on anymore, so they left all the seriously wounded and wounded, set fire to the arsenal that they couldn't take away, and withdrew in desperation.

Armory is not easy to burn.Gunpowder guns and shells, many of them have the effect of combustion and explosion.The fire quickly spread across the street.

After the Northern Army entered the city, they followed their usual policy of burning, killing and looting. Not only did they fail to put out the fire, but they added several fires along the direction of the wind.

That's how the fire started to get out of hand.

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Who is not afraid when the enemy army enters the city?
So many people closed the gates tightly and took refuge at home.

This just gave the fire the best chance to kill.

Those who live in the street closest to the arsenal cannot escape.Those who were burned to death, those who choked to death, the whole family nestled inside, turning into charred charcoal.

Bai Luo stood in the yard of his house, looking at the sky being dyed red bit by bit, his eyebrows twisted into knots.

The houses in Atlanta are all wood.Under the sway of the wind, the fire spread much faster than expected.Not long after, it had burned to the adjacent two blocks.

Feeling something was wrong, Bai Luo quickly grabbed the two most valuable jewelry at home, took a wet towel, went to the street and shouted: "Everyone, get out quickly, the fire is burning too fast, something's wrong! Save your life!"

No one paid her any attention.Everyone felt that a crazy woman who "killed" her husband must be unconscious.

Bai Luo patted on the gates of the two houses closest to her.

"Go! It's really not right, our street happens to follow the direction of the wind! The fire is too big!"

While speaking, the fire spread for another half a block.The nearby sky was billowing with thick smoke, and it was strangely red in the darkness of night.

Some people knew something was wrong and started to pack things in a hurry.But how can so many things be cleaned up?

The streets were still empty.

Bai Luo didn't bother to talk to these people anymore, so he ran away with his big belly.

As soon as her front feet stepped out of her block, she felt heat waves rolling down her back.Turning his head to look, he saw that half of the street had been engulfed in flames.Many neighbors fled screaming, but the wind was so many times faster than their legs.

As soon as a person leaves the house, the front is already covered.A lot of people hit the ground with their heads running - smoky, heat-baked.

Bai Luo's back went numb.She quickly changed her mind and ran against the wind direction to a safer place.

Along the way, she met those streets that were still slowly evacuating people. If she had the opportunity, she would still knock on the door and shout to remind people to pay attention.There was a street where she called down a lot of people, and only ten minutes later, that street was also engulfed in flames.

Some old people and women nodded to Bai Luo to express their gratitude. Bai Luo was so confused that he couldn't react in his mind.

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The adjacent wider street was sparsely populated by escaped crowds.

The house at the end of the corner had been half consumed by the fire.A young woman stood helplessly in front of the crowd, covered with a charred quilt, crying, "My child is still inside! Two children, who can save my child..."

The house was on the corner of the street, far away from other surrounding houses, the fire was not big, and the child might still be saved.

Bai Luo didn't care about his big belly, pulled the woman's quilt over and asked, "Which floor is it?"

The woman was stunned for a moment before she said, "Turn right to the first room on the 2nd floor."

Bai Luo tied the towel around his face and rushed into the flames.

The heat wave was rolling, burning every inch of her skin under the quilt.The marble floor tiles were hot, and the heat easily burned through her shoes.

Bai Luo didn't care about that much, ran up the stairs and kicked open the first door.

There was thick smoke billowing in the room, and there seemed to be two small figures in the corner.

Bai Luo rushed in, squeezed one with each hand, and with the last breath of strength, rushed down the stairs and out the door.

The child's mother took the child and sat on the ground without saying anything, crying.

Bai Luo: "Hurry up and run out of the city, the whole city is on fire, if you slow down, you won't be able to get out!"

The child's mother thought the same, and hurriedly ran with the child in her arms and followed Bai Luo.

(End of this chapter)