Chapter 268 Fire
Chaochao was startled and quickly asked in her mind, "What's wrong? What happened?"

Ah Shan said, "Grandma Fei Fei went out, but the electric heater she left in the living room caught fire. She even covered it with clothes, and now it's burning. You should quickly ask your driver for help."

Chaochao gasped and blurted out, "The living room is on fire?"

Gezi was still indignant when she heard this and froze, "On fire?"

Chaochao didn't have time to explain. She quickly grabbed her smartwatch and dialed the driver's number. "Uncle Zhou, the house is on fire. We're trapped inside and can't get out."

The other party was startled, "Miss, don't panic, I'm downstairs, I'll be up right away."

Soon, the sound of running could be heard from the other end of the phone. As Uncle Zhou ran, he comforted her, "Look around for water. Wet a towel and cover your mouth and nose."

Chaochao nodded. Luckily, there was a bathroom in the room. After hanging up the phone, she quickly took Gezi and Feifei to get them wet.

She couldn't see the fire outside, but she seemed to faintly smell smoke.

Following Zhou Bo's instructions, they took a towel to block the cracks in the door and opened the window.

Gezi was panicked, but he forced himself to remain calm. Feifei was timid to begin with, and now she was even more panicked, tears streaming down her face. She did whatever Chaochao told her to do.

The people of the Great Qi Dynasty were terrified, and Emperor Jingxuan paced back and forth in his study.

"Why hasn't Uncle Zhou arrived yet? Didn't Ah Shan say he could foresee danger? Why didn't he say so sooner?"

Although Cao Qing was also anxious, he couldn't help but mutter to himself after hearing these words.

Ah Shan clearly said that one needs 50,000 energy points to predict the future, but we're still a little short. For now, we can only tell Chao Chao what has already happened.

Lin Lan clenched her fists in fright. "This is a fire! They're still trapped inside, unable to escape. That Grandma Fei Fei is so wicked; we absolutely cannot let her get away with this."

“I just heard that the apartment is on the fifteenth floor.” Ryohei’s eyelids twitched. “What if a fire breaks out in the living room and they can’t get out? Are they supposed to go through the window? It’s so high up, how do they get down?”

"Don't they have airplanes? Use them to rescue people."

"A fire can start very quickly. It takes half an hour for a plane to take off, so how can it possibly catch up?"

"Uncle Zhou, come quick!"

Uncle Zhou had already arrived when Chaochao's phone rang again. Uncle Zhou's panting voice came from the other end. "Chaochao, do you know the password to the main gate?"

The door outside Feifei's house has a combination lock. It would take a lot of time to force your way in, so knowing the password would be much faster.

Chaochao looked at Feifei, and fortunately Feifei knew what was going on. After she recited a string of numbers, Uncle Zhou quickly entered them in.

The door opened, and Uncle Zhou walked in. He saw that the smoke had thickened considerably. Following Chaochao's directions, he quickly ran to the room on the left and knocked. "Chaochao, are you in there?"

Chao Chao was overjoyed, "Yes, yes, Uncle Zhou."

Zhou Bo breathed a sigh of relief. "Remove the towels blocking the door, then stand back and cover your mouths and noses with wet towels. Cough cough, I'm going to kick the door down."

Chaochao quickly did as he was told, pulling her two friends back.

He then shouted, "Uncle Zhou, it's done!"

Then the door was kicked repeatedly. Zhou Bo was a retired soldier, and his strength and angle were very precise. The door was kicked open in two kicks.

As soon as she opened the door, Chaochao looked up and saw three people at the entrance.

Three? Uncle Zhou strode in first, picked up Chaochao, and left.

Chaochao turned her head, "Gezi and Feifei..."

Before he could finish speaking, the two young and strong men next to Uncle Zhou, who had serious expressions, had already picked up Gezi and Feifei, and the three of them ran out.

Although Chaochao was curious about who the two people were, she didn't ask anything. She saw the property management staff rushing in with fire extinguishers and heading towards the fire.

But the fire started to grow bigger, and even the electrical outlets started crackling. The fire had already reached the curtains and suddenly spread very large.

Chaochao couldn't see clearly, but obediently buried her head in Uncle Zhou's arms and was carried downstairs.

The upstairs residents were also arranged by the property management to run downstairs one after another. When Chaochao and her friends arrived downstairs, the others also ran out in shock.

Only then did Uncle Zhou ask Chaochao, "Is there anything wrong with you?"

"I'm fine, I didn't get smoke in." Chaochao shook her head. She made the call in time, blocking the door and covering her mouth and nose as soon as the fire started.

On the contrary, Uncle Zhou was choked by the thick smoke when he came in.

Moreover, the fire suddenly intensified when Chaochao and the others were being carried out of the house, so all three of them were alright.

Uncle Zhou breathed a slight sigh of relief before finally finding a moment to call He Nanzhou.

He Nanzhou was stunned when he heard this. A fire? How could such a low-probability event happen?

After Uncle Zhou explained the whole story, a hand suddenly reached out from the side and took the phone away.

Uncle Zhou frowned, turned his head and saw the two men who had been following him and carrying Gezi and the others downstairs.

Having served in the military for many years, even though he has retired, one can still tell from the other party's demeanor that these two must have come from the military as well.

Moreover, most of them are special forces soldiers.

Zhou Bo guessed that the two men were probably bodyguards secretly arranged by the He family for Chaochao.

Sure enough, after the man took his phone away, he continued to report the situation, "...I just checked, everyone is fine, the preliminary judgment is that the fire was caused by an electric heater...Yes, okay...I understand."

After saying that, he returned the phone to Uncle Zhou and then fell silent.

Uncle Zhou didn't ask any more questions; these were not things he could inquire about.

However, he didn't know that these two people were not actually arranged by He Nanzhou, but by He Jingyi.

Chaochao is no ordinary person now. The higher-ups know she has a system, so they can't possibly ignore her safety. It's only because she has Ashan who can warn her of danger that they haven't assigned anyone to be by her side.

Therefore, when Chaochao was at Feifei's house, these two bodyguards were actually on the two floors downstairs.

When Chaochao called Uncle Zhou, the clothes on the heater had just caught fire, but there was no smoke or flame, so the people outside wouldn't know. By the time Uncle Zhou rushed over, they realized something was wrong, so they immediately followed, rescued the person, and left.

"The fire is so big, what should we do?" Chaochao looked up at the burning house above, her face full of worry.

The people of Daqi under the sky were also worried. Although the people had been rescued, the fire had not yet been extinguished. This was the fifteenth floor, and the interior was already filled with smoke, making it impossible to go up the stairs. If the fire was not put out, wouldn't the entire building be burned down?

Just as they were thinking this, they heard a beeping sound.


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