“Ah~”
A group of girls instinctively screamed under the circumstances. They immediately hid behind the sofa.
However, the girl on An Lingyu’s right side was probably too frightened. She did not pay attention and knocked over the candle.
The rubbish bin was full of paper. The girls were already panicking from the scare. The candle flame ignited the bin. No one put it out right away.
Because intruders had really come in. The two foreigners were already tall and burly. In the dim light, they looked especially terrifying.
An Lingyu and the other girls were all terrified. Who would still think about putting out the fire?
So after the bin caught fire, it quickly spread to the tablecloth. Thick smoke rose from the bin. The fire alarm sounded at once.
Yujinxiang High School had experienced a fire before. Fire safety was obviously a top priority for the school. As soon as the electronic alarm went off, almost the entire building could hear it.
The screams grew louder. This immediately drew the attention of people in the neighbouring rooms. They rushed out at once.
Then the whole dormitory building fell into chaos. Girls’ nerves and mental resilience are naturally sensitive and fragile. Many girls ran downstairs in their pyjamas.
Dilos and Allen were a bit stunned. How did they cause such a commotion as soon as they arrived?
They had already tried to be as careful as possible. They did not expect it would still lead to such a big disturbance.
Then Dilos quickly turned on his powerful torch and swept it around to find the target. The fire was also growing bigger.
“Fire! It’s on fire!”
“Fire! Hurry up!”
Because no one extinguished it, the flames shone through the glass. People below who had not yet returned to the dormitory saw it clearly. The panic grew even worse.
The school reacted quickly. The security office called 119 while rushing to put out the fire. A crowd of onlookers had already gathered directly below the girls’ dormitory.
By the time Luo Chen arrived, that floor was filled with thick rolling smoke and burning fiercely.
Dilos and Allen’s original plan was to sneak in quietly and take An Lingyu away.
But they did not expect to cause a disturbance and make a small mistake.
At this moment, many people were gathered downstairs. Because a person was hanging from a section of the outer wall on the balcony. She could fall at any moment. That person was naturally An Lingyu.
Luo Chen spotted her with one glance.
When he arrived, several other students were surrounding Chen Chao and Sun Jianguo, arguing loudly.
“Chen Laoshi, hurry up and save them! It’s not just An Lingyu up there. Our dorm’s Axiang is inside too.”
“You want me to go and die? Can’t you see there’s someone with a gun up there? Four firefighters just went up and all got shot dead!” Chen Chao glared viciously at the girls.
“But Chen Laoshi, think of something! Hurry and save them! Otherwise they will be burned to death!” Several girls were very unhappy that Chen Chao was just standing below watching the show.
They also thought he was an idiot. His first reaction was to have someone cut the power to the whole building. It was a twenty-something-floor dormitory. Many people had not even escaped yet.
Under normal circumstances, cutting power might be a good idea. But right now there were bad guys inside. In pitch darkness, many girls who originally wanted to escape did not dare to move.
“Shut up! So annoying! I already called the police, didn’t I? The police will handle it.” Chen Chao seemed truly angered and started cursing.
“You’re supposed to be a teacher. You’re our class teacher. How can you act like this?” One girl accused Chen Chao.
“There’s a fire and armed robbers up there. Who the hell dares to go up?” Chen Chao roared at the girls.
“Get out of my way! Don’t block the path!” Luo Chen pushed Sun Jianguo aside from the doorway. In an instant, the girls at the entrance also made way for him.
“Luo Laoshi?”
“It’s Luo Laoshi!”
“Luo Laoshi is going up!”
“Luo Laoshi, can you handle it alone? There’s not only fire up there, but also armed criminals!” One student asked worriedly when she saw Luo Chen heading up.
“Whether it’s a sea of flames or a hail of bullets, I alone am enough!” Luo Chen’s figure flashed and he rushed upward.
It was that guy Luo Chen again!
Chen Chao glared at Luo Chen with murderous eyes but could not stop him.
“Chen Laoshi, you have always been a teacher I respected. You were my role model. But today I am so disappointed in you. I never imagined you would turn out to be such a coward!” One female classmate pointed at Chen Chao and scolded him.
“Chen Laoshi, you often boasted in class about studying abroad in Europe and America and learning chivalry. But I really don’t see any chivalry in you. You don’t even have the most basic qualities of a teacher!” Another female classmate joined in.
“Chen Laoshi, these past few days you kept badmouthing Luo Laoshi in class. But now it looks like even a thousandth of Luo Laoshi is better than you, you coward!” Yet another female classmate pointed at Chen Chao and cursed.
“Yeah, what are you? At such a critical moment, Luo Laoshi dares to go up, but you act like a turtle hiding in its shell. I wanted to curse you out back at the cafeteria last time too.”
A large group of students were truly furious. They looked at Luo Chen charging up without hesitation, then at Chen Chao. The gap was not just a little. Chen Chao did not even deserve to be compared to Luo Chen right now.
At least Luo Chen could make quick decisions in a crisis and face danger without fear. But since Chen Chao arrived, he had only taken one wrong measure and then stood below watching the excitement.
Yet facing wave after wave of accusations, Chen Chao felt no shame. Instead, he smiled.
He had only leaked a little information at first. His intention was to cause trouble for Luo Chen.
After all, if something happened to Class Three’s students, Luo Chen would definitely be held responsible.
But there was one thing Chen Chao did not know. He did not know how important An Lingyu really was. He also did not know that Luo Chen came here specifically to protect An Lingyu.
But right now, Chen Chao felt very pleased.
Because the situation upstairs was far too dangerous. Four firefighters had just gone up and all got shot dead. The criminals up there had guns.
Moreover, the fire was already spreading. Even without the criminals, it would be easy to get burned to death up there.
Why play the hero now?
In Chen Chao’s eyes, that was just stupid behaviour.
As long as Luo Chen went up, the chance of him coming back alive was almost zero.
So facing all the scolding, Chen Chao did not care at all. Instead, he felt happy and satisfied deep down.
After all, compared to being cursed by students himself, Luo Chen’s death seemed to bring him much more joy and relief.
Luo Chen moved very fast. He quickly reached the fifteenth floor. But right there on the fifteenth floor,
Luo Chen already saw four bodies lying on the ground. One of them had fallen right against the window by the passageway. The glass was shattered. From the wound, it was clear the bullet had gone straight through the person and then shattered the glass.
The body was wedged halfway out the window. Such fierce firepower!
Could it be a submachine gun?
Luo Chen raised an eyebrow. The other side had actually brought a submachine gun?
But saving people was the priority now. Luo Chen had no time to think further. He charged straight ahead.
When he reached the burning dormitory room, Dilos and Allen were extremely anxious. They had not expected the target to run out to the balcony and almost fall off.
The mission from above was to bring her back alive, not as a corpse.
But the two were also afraid of scaring her so badly that she would fall. So they had been in a stalemate for just a short while. And that short while was exactly what gave Luo Chen time to arrive in time.