The relay station caught fire, and the flames raged so fiercely that within moments, the whole place was ablaze.
"What happened? Could Ouyang Lin and Great Hero Pei be trapped in the fire?" A trace of worry crossed Yang Qing's face. "Xiao Zhou, did you notice anything amiss when you went in and out just now?"
Jiang Zhizhou shook his head slightly.
When he had gone inside, Ouyang Lin and Pei Buji had clearly been wide awake. They had even told him their plans before he came out to report.
Given Ouyang Lin and Pei Buji's abilities, they should have been able to enter and leave the relay station as easily as they pleased.
But why had neither of them appeared yet?
Could something have tied their hands and feet?
Otherwise, how could their prolonged absence be explained?
As the flames grew ever fiercer, Jiang Zhizhou narrowed his eyes and turned, running toward the water vat outside the relay station. "I'll go take a look," he called to Yang Qing as he ran.
He scooped two large ladlefuls of water from the vat and poured them over himself.
Then he leaped into the blaze.
Bu Er, Yang Qing, and Fen Liyou stared fixedly at the relay station, now swallowed by tongues of flame, worrying about the safety of Jiang Zhizhou and the other two.
People ran back and forth throughout the relay station, all struggling to put out the fire.
Yang Qing and the others waited for nearly half an incense stick's worth of time before several figures trailing black smoke burst out of the blaze.
It was Jiang Zhizhou, Ouyang Lin, and Pei Buji.
Only when the three reached them did Yang Qing see that Jiang Zhizhou and Ouyang Lin each carried someone on his back.
Both people were