Penitent hand, trembling slightly

Not long after, the crying stopped suddenly, and the blood on the door disappeared in an instant.

There was a faint red light in the distance, like the sun rising slowly, which made Shen Moomao heave a sigh of relief: "It's morning? Is it over?"

Lou Jingmo looked for the watch in his backpack: "No, it's not yet dawn, and the rooster hasn't crowed yet."

After finding it, she put the watch in front of several people, and all four of them could clearly see the time displayed on it—01:37, which was still far from dawn.

Su Han frowned and looked out: "Then what is this light? A lantern?"

As soon as the words were finished, a burnt smell penetrated the noses of several people, followed by noisy human voices.

"The water is gone! The water is gone!"

"Run! Help!!"

Potato Chip's eyes widened suddenly: "It's on fire? No... Why is it on fire? Why don't I have any impression?"

A figure appeared outside the door. The person knocked on the door twice in a hurry, and said quickly: "Wake up! It's on fire!" It was a woman, and it sounded like an orb?

She didn't linger after knocking on the door, but went straight to the next room, continued to knock on the door, and repeated the same words: "It's on fire! Wake up!"

Shen Maomao asked anxiously: "Is this true or not?"

Is it a trick to trick them out, or is it really on fire?

They finally ushered in this choice again, whether to flee or stay, it seems to have a 50.00% correct rate, but for a nigger like Shen Maomao...the death rate should reach [-]%.

Potato Chip was stunned. She stared blankly at the flames dancing on the window, and murmured in a low voice, "It turns out that the scavengers don't know everything...why did they catch fire all of a sudden?"

Su Han put on his shoes and went down to the ground, and felt for two seconds close to the door panel. Outside, there was the sound of orbs knocking on the door one after another; the sound of the wind mixed with the "cracking" sound of burning wood; The clink of barrels, everything is so real.

The temperature in the room also began to rise, so that a thin layer of sweat appeared on the foreheads of several people.

"Why did it catch fire so suddenly?" She put her hand on the door panel, but she couldn't push it down. "It must be to trick us out?"

Lou Jingmo also went down to the ground, stood next to her and looked out the window, and said, "Gambling?"

Shen Maomao hurriedly followed her: "How do you bet?"

Lou Jingmo: "Do you think you should go out?"

Shen Maomao shook his head: "I don't think so." Lou Jingmo understood: "Then let's go."

Shen Maomao: "...??"

"Exclude a wrong option in advance." After speaking, she pushed open the door.

The hot wind was blowing on their faces, and the tongue of fire was licking the surrounding houses. There were flames everywhere, and there were people in disheveled clothes under the fire.The fire spread, devouring all combustibles.

The flames should have started from the house on the far left, and their house was in the middle, and it was about to be burned.

The four ran to safety and began helping to fight the fire.

There is no well here, and the only way to get water is to go to the kitchen in the southwest.Shen Maomao followed suit twice, because there were too many people there, but nothing unusual happened.

However, the distant water could not save the nearby fire, and the fire was raging, and it was about to get out of control.

Baozhu raised her hand to wipe the sweat from her head, and immediately a gray mark was drawn on her face. She held a basin in her other hand, and the pitiful water in the basin evaporated as soon as she poured it out.

She looked at Shen Maomao and said, "Are you all okay? Why did the fire suddenly start in the middle of the night? I don't know if other people are okay..."

As soon as the words fell, another person covered in fire rushed out from the fire scene, rolling on the ground in pain.Just when Jade came back from fetching water, she and Baozhu hurriedly carried a bucket of water and poured it on, and there was a "stab" sound immediately, fortunately, the fire was extinguished.

The smell of smoke and meat came together, and the faces of the few people present were not very good.

The clothes on the man's body were almost burned away, and the skin scorched by the flames was directly exposed to the air, looking horrible and pitiful.He lay on the ground, groaning weakly, but raised a hand to Shen Maomao and the others with difficulty.

Shen Maomao was taken aback.

The wounds on his body were so bad that they couldn't tell who he was except that he was a man.

Shen Maomao glanced at Lou Jingmo, who nodded to her.So she walked over, knelt down beside him, overcame her fear and nausea and looked directly into his eyes: "What do you want to do? The doctor may come again in a while, don't be afraid..."

The man opened his mouth and struggled to squeeze out two words from his throat that was smothered by the thick smoke: "Cheng... Rui..."

Shen Maomao was taken aback for a moment, and vaguely guessed the identity of this person.She quickly came back to her senses, and asked tentatively, "You want to say that this fire has something to do with Cheng Rui?"

The man blinked twice.

Shen Maomao's face became serious, and he nodded to him: "Thank you, we understand." The man closed his eyes, but he was still breathing, and he probably passed out from the pain.

She didn't dare to move him, she was afraid of causing him a second injury, so she could only retreat to her original position and exchange information with Lou Jingmo: "He is the newcomer who is with Cheng Rui."

Lou Jingmo: "Why is it like this?"

Shen Maomao shook his head: "I don't know, he said that the fire was related to Cheng Rui."

"Cheng Rui..." Lou Jingmo read his name once, recalled it for a long time, and finally said, "I don't have this name in my mind. He is not active in the forum, but he should not be a simple character."

Su Han asked Potato Chips: "What's his condition? Do you know?"

Potato Chip hesitated for a long time before speaking: "I'm not sure if he got that book."

Book? !

Shen Maomao thought of the book that Yun Shengjin said: "He seems to have a book, and he secretly keeps others from reading it."

Potato Chips: "It's the evil book that Master Shao picked up. It contains a lot of strange and weird magic. I don't know the details, but the overall core of that book is—equal exchange."

"Normally, people will die tonight. The ghost is responsible for blowing out our lights, and then they can do whatever they want. If we want to survive, we must keep the lights on... But people will definitely die tonight. If the fire is related to him, he That's how light is created, and this hapless newcomer replaces someone who's going to die tonight."

The process is not important, as long as there is death tonight, other players will be relatively safe.

Within a few minutes, the fire was completely out of control, and the entire servant's yard was on fire, and the flames soared into the sky, illuminating half of the sky.Second Young Master Shao hurried over with Shao Guanshi and several servants.

At that time, there was already a circle of disabled and sick people standing, sitting, or lying on the open space in front of the courtyard. The wailing and groaning sounded one after another, combined with the soaring flames and billowing smoke, it was said to be a purgatory on earth. Not too much.

The second young master first sent people to send the seriously injured to the hospital, and then organized the rest of the servants to cut down the trees at the edge of the yard to prevent the fire from spreading to other yards.

Of course, he assigned the job of cutting trees to the men, and the maids only needed to hide far away to ensure that they would not get hurt.

Shen Maomao looked around and found Yun Shengjin and Jiang You, but he couldn't see Cheng Rui.

Tang Lusen was sent to the hospital, but the previous player who was sent to the hospital has not returned yet, and his burns are really too serious. In this era of backward medical treatment, I am afraid that he is powerless to recover.

Shen Maomao felt a lot of emotion inexplicably.

She is very grateful that the first person she met was Lou Jingmo, who took her through the most ignorant period and made her grow into what she is now bit by bit.

If she hadn't met Lou Jingmo, she would have been like Tang Lusen, relying entirely on someone who is not trustworthy until she was completely cheated to death...

Thinking of this, she couldn't help holding Lou Jingmo's hand.

Lou Jingmo was thinking about the plot, and when he felt her movement, he immediately turned his head and looked over, showing a slightly puzzled expression.

The raging flames were still reflected in her dark eyes, and then it turned into a house that fell down...

Lou Jingmo's pupils shrank suddenly, and he grabbed Shen Maomao's hand and led her to run outside.

With a loud bang, several houses collapsed at the same time, and thick smoke carrying dust spread out, burying everyone in the courtyard.

She only had time to hold Shen Maomao's head firmly in her arms, and in the next second, her face was covered in overwhelming dust.

"Bah, bah, bah!" Even though being hugged by Lou Jingmo, Shen Maomao still ate a mouthful of ashes.

She poohed three times in a row, and hurried to see Lou Jingmo's situation.

Seeing this, she couldn't help but laugh out loud.

This wave of dust is so powerful that it turns the surrounding environment into gray. At first glance, it looks like a black and white photo—including Lou Jingmo, several npcs and players seem to have just returned from mining, one by one Black into small black coal balls.

Lou Jingmo also spit out a few mouthfuls of ashes. She turned over her sleeves, wiped her eyes with the inner side, and then angrily wiped a handful of ashes on Shen Maomao's white and tender face: "You laugh!" What are you laughing at? If it weren't for me, you would be so dark!"

"Ahem... Puff..." A pile of ashes next to him trembled twice, and a cloud of dust immediately scattered in all directions.

It happened suddenly, but because they were far away, fortunately there were no casualties other than eating a mouthful of ashes and losing their eyes.

The dust extinguished most of the fires, but better than water.

The second young master personally ran over from a distance and asked if they were injured.

Everyone shook their heads.

Only then did he feel relieved, and said: "Half of the courtyard was burned, but there should still be people living in the back. Tonight, you try to clean up the back as much as possible, and you can stay here to rest tomorrow morning. Let the servants in each courtyard share the chores first." ..."

The NPCs had no objections, and set off to clean up after listening to his orders.

On the player's side, Su Han asked, "Second Young Master, but our oil lamps have been buried in the ground, and they probably won't work anymore. What should we do?"

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