"A fire... let's go. I know where it is."
"Okay! Let's go, then! Everyone, get in!"
After Xiao Yu divined that the news was true, they got into the van and headed straight for their destination, leaving Zhong Ming behind with his eyebrows twitching.
Boss Zhong couldn't help muttering to himself, Good grief, they didn't even ask where it was before taking off?
But he didn't dwell on it. After all, it was a major fire in the city, unlike something in these remote hills. They could look it up online.
Fortunately, they didn't have to catch a flight this time. They could drive. As luck would have it, it was in the same city.
They arrived just over an hour later.
The fire had broken out that morning and was, of course, under control by now, but the devastation it had left behind was shocking.
It had started in a residential building, but the flames had grown so fierce that they had also ignited the warehouse of a leather clothing factory just across the compound wall. As the fire spread, it had burned through the employee dormitories and the entire factory.
When the van pulled up outside the residential compound, they could see that an entire connected row of three six-story apartment buildings had been burned beyond recognition. The buildings beside them, in front and behind, had also been affected, but their losses were negligible compared with those of the three buildings.
Smoke was still rising from them.
As for the leather factory next door, its warehouse and dormitory building were in an even more wretched state.
Throughout the compound, residents with despair written across their faces wiped away tears, looking at their homes and apartments as they wailed in anguish.
So many people would have nowhere to sleep