The blaze outside had already caused part of a nearby wooden building to collapse. An ordinary person would never have been able to remain in such conditions, but this level of heat was nothing to Zhang Tie.
Several corpses lay amid the collapsed structure, charred black by the flames. A nauseating stench permeated the scene.
Zhang Tie had spotted a cellar beneath the ground here, with people inside, which was why he had flown over. Using a soft force, he shook open the cellar entrance, intending to bring the people out.
The cellar had several ventilation shafts. That was precisely why the people inside had not suffocated to death.
The instant the cellar door opened, a figure lunged out from within, clutching a small knife. Without even looking, she stabbed at Zhang Tie. Zhang Tie caught the figure's wrist. She looked up, her eyes brimming with tears and filled with boundless hatred as she glared at him. "You beasts..." Then she opened her mouth, lowered her head, and savagely bit down on Zhang Tie's wrist.
She was a girl of seventeen or eighteen, her face covered in dust and tears. Her mind seemed somewhat unclear. Driven again and again by terror and hatred, she lost consciousness the moment she bit Zhang Tie.
Seeing the girl sink her teeth viciously into him, Zhang Tie merely frowned slightly. He grabbed her, withdrew from the cellar, and flew into the air. In the blink of an eye, he arrived at the threshing ground. With a flex of the muscles in his hand, he easily slipped his wrist from the girl's mouth, then handed her over to the people on the threshing ground.
"What happened?" Bai Suxian asked curiously as she saw the girl biting Zhang Tie tightly, still gripping a small knife in