Far away in Moscow

Chapter 122 Fire

"It's on fire?" Hu Yi hurriedly pulled up his pants again: "Where is it?"

Xia Yan and Cai Hua were also surprised: "Where is the fire?"

Wang Shen still only stared at Hu Yi, and forced out three words from his throat in a panic: "Building No. 6."

Hu Yi felt as if he had been hit hard by a hammer. He pushed Wang Shen away, and rushed to the window at the end of the corridor in a few steps.

Thick smoke billowed in the distance, and the sky outside the window was reflected in red.The fire was strong, fast, and had been burning for a long time.

Building No. 6 is an L-shaped brick-concrete structure built over 40 years ago. The fire started on the east side of the building running north-south, that is, the side facing Hu Yi's location, which is the side where Xiang Nan lives.

The cause of the fire was that the high-power electrical appliances used in room 203 caused a short-circuit of the wires to cause the fire, which quickly spread to surrounding rooms.But Hu Yi didn't know this at this time. He only saw that most of the rooms on the second floor had been engulfed in flames, and the fire was rapidly spreading to the third floor, which was also the floor where Xiang Nan lived.

The expression on Hu Yi's face froze for a moment.He slammed his head back and knocked away the three people who were standing behind him, rushed to the door, put on his shoes and ran into the elevator, stretched out his fist and quickly hit the button a few times.

"Hey! Hey! Brother Hu! Coat! It's too cold outside!" Cauliflower yelled in the corridor, but Hu Yi couldn't hear anything.

He didn't know when the elevator would arrive, and his chest seemed to be about to explode. After waiting for less than two seconds, he shook his body anxiously and rushed down the stairs.

That's really frustrating.

"Quick! Let's go too!" Xia Yan yelled, and Cai Hua hurried back to the house, got dressed and went out, grabbing Hu Yi's coat and cell phone.Wang Shen also recovered from the shock just now, and trotted back to the house to change his clothes.

Hu Yi was almost jumping downstairs, and every time he reached the corner of the stairs, he leaned on the handrail and stepped sideways to the other side.He only glanced at Building 6 just now, but with just that glance, he could clearly see the flames jumping towards the window of Nan's room.

The heart thumped into a whole.Hu Yi's mind was in chaos, and his eyes were full of dancing flames. Suddenly his legs softened and he rolled down a few steps.He didn't feel any pain at all, he just got up and continued to run down.

Running down the nine floors in one breath, Hu Yi ran out like a frightened beast, but accidentally stepped on the slush on the steps outside the gate, his feet slipped suddenly, and he fell heavily into the snow on the road .

He struggled to get up from the snow and staggered towards Building 6, which was in flames.Large flakes of snowflakes fell densely in front of him, but none of them could block the blazing fire that reflected in Hu Yi's eyes, but they were illuminated red the moment they passed by, and then quietly fell into the darkness.

It's like snow is burning.

Dozens of people were already standing in front of Building No. 6. Some of them came from other nearby dormitory buildings, and some had just escaped from Building No. 6.Everyone cried and called out the names of relatives and friends.The names one by one were mixed with the whistling wind around the fire scene, one after another, the shrillness was heartbreaking.

"Nan Nan!!! Xiang Nan!!!" Hu Yi staggered step by step in the snow, almost rolling and crawling to the front of Building 6.Several rooms on the third floor were already lit up with red lights, and they quickly joined together, including Xiang Nan's room.

"Xiang Nan!!! Xiang Nan!!!" Hu Yi cupped his hands and shouted hoarsely.At the same time, his eyes kept searching for every figure near every window on the third floor, hoping that Xiang Nan had escaped to other rooms.

Some people jumped out from the windows on the second and third floors one after another, some of them were motionless after landing; some got up immediately and limped away;

More and more people came from other buildings, and every time a person landed, the nearby students rushed to help, but they dared not move easily in the face of the seriously injured.

Every time a person fell to the ground, Hu Yi's heart beat violently, and he ran back and forth in front of the building in panic, checking all the injured one by one.

He desperately hoped that Xiang Nan would be the next one to escape from the flames by jumping out of the window, but he didn't dare to imagine what would happen after she jumped out.

"Brother Hu! Where's Nan Nan?" Xia Yan ran over panting, put the coat on Hu Yi, and handed him the phone: "Do you want to call her?"

"What's the call!" Hu Yi's voice has changed: "Look at the fire! What's the use of calling!"

Having said that, he still took the mobile phone and planned to dial.Unexpectedly, with only a slight movement of the hand, the phone fell into the snow.Only then did Hu Yi realize that he had only worn a sweater and went downstairs just now, and he was already a little stiff from the cold.

"You fight!" Hu Yi yelled, "I'll find a way to get into the building!" As he spoke, he lifted his legs and went around to the gate in front of the building on the other side.

"Don't go! It's useless!" Cauliflower hastily stretched out her hands and grabbed him: "The doors of the building are locked! Only one door in the back corner is open! Just now we ran into some students who ran out from the first floor. It's full of smoke, people on the second floor can't get down, and many of them fell down on the stairs! Now there's no way anyone can get in the building!"

"Go away!!! I'm going to find Nannan!" Hu Yi threw the thin cauliflower to the ground, walked forward a few steps stiffly, and shouted back: "Which back corner door is open?" ?!"

"Brother! You must not go!" Cauliflower got up from the ground fiercely, rushed forward and hugged Hu Yi's waist tightly, and cried out in a hurry: "That's smoke! You know how powerful the smoke is You can't get out once you go in! What's more, Xiang Nan lives on the third floor! You can't go up at all! You will die for nothing!"

Hu Yi knew very well that what cauliflower was talking about was common sense.No one can walk a few steps through the smoke from such a fire without protection.

There was no fire on the first floor, and the reason why people on the second floor chose to jump out of the window was because they could not go down through the smoke-filled corridors and stairs.Not to mention climbing up the third floor to find someone.

There was a bone-chilling helplessness in my heart.Hu Yimeng turned his head to look at Xia Yan again, only to see that he was shaking his head gently to himself while taking his mobile phone from his ear.

The only time in Hu Yi's life that he felt flustered, was at this moment.

The body began to tremble violently.He has lived in Building 6 for a year, and he knows the situation in the building very well. There are no fire hydrants and no fire extinguishers.In the current fire situation, the people inside have no means of self-rescue.

The only way out is to jump off the building.

"You two, go to both sides and call Xiang Nan. Go!" He yelled weakly: "Call her out! Let her jump off for me!"

Xia Yan and Cai Hua looked at each other silently, then turned and hurried away.Hu Yi staggered back a few steps, raised his head full of sorrow and shouted: "Xiang Nan!!! Xiang Nan!!!"

Vaguely, he seemed to hear "Brother Hu Yi".

Hu Yi trembled all over, but soon realized that it was not true, because every sound that was pouring into his ears now sounded like Xiang Nan's shout to him.

Hu Yi felt as if he was stepping on a ball of cotton, his feet were light and soft, and he would fall if he was not careful.

He shook his head vigorously, and seemed to see lights flickering in the distance in a trance.Turning his head to look, it was a fire truck parked on the side of the road outside the dormitory area.

"Fire truck! The fire truck is here!" Hu Yi yelled to the people around him, but no one noticed. Everyone was looking up at the fire in front of them, and the surrounding wind and shouts overwhelmed other voices.

He didn't care about others, and ran to the fire truck, which was the last straw in his eyes.

(End of this chapter)