Pan Li hugged his sister, who was two years younger than him, curled up on the bed and whispered stories. From time to time, the sound of parents quarreling and the sound of objects being thrown could be heard outside the door.
Pan Li, who is less than seven years old, is already used to these sounds. It's just that his sister is still young and obviously can't bear such pressure. So every time her parents quarreled, she would hide in her brother's room and fall asleep with his comforting voice.
But Pan Li obviously felt that the atmosphere of his parents' quarrel tonight was a little different from usual. In the past, they always bickered but never took action, but this time they seemed to take action.
Pan Li sighed silently, looked down at his sister, saw that she had closed her eyes, and then looked up out of the window.
Outside the window was a farm shrouded in darkness.
Pan Li's farm is on the outskirts of the town, and there are no other residents nearby, so Pan Li also knows very well that no matter how fierce his parents' quarrel is, no neighbor will come out to stop it.
Suddenly a scream came, and the sister who had just fallen asleep shivered all over. She opened her eyes in fright and shrank tightly into her brother's arms.
Pan Li was also frightened, his heart was pounding, he hugged his sister tightly, and looked at the bedroom door in horror.
After a while, there was only a sound of rapid footsteps, and the door was suddenly pushed open. Mother rushed in, turned around, slammed the door, locked it, and pressed her back against the door.
Through the moonlight outside the window, Pan Li's brother and sister saw in horror that their mother's face was covered in blood.
"Pan Li, take your sister and hide in the closet," Pan Li's mother said urgently, "Your father is crazy. He wants to kill us with an axe."
While talking, the door suddenly shook heavily. Pan Li's mother yelled and pressed harder against the door. Pan Li gritted his teeth, jumped out of bed, pulled his sister and quickly escaped into the closet next to her.
Pan Li looked out through the crack in the closet door and saw that despite his mother's desperate resistance, the door was not pushed open in the end. Soon, the footsteps outside the door gradually faded away. Pan Li's mother took a long breath and slumped on the ground weakly.
"Mom!"
Sister Pan Li rushed out of the closet and threw herself into her mother's arms. Pan Li's mother hugged her daughter and choked with sobs: "It's okay, it's okay, let's leave this home when it gets light..."
Pan Li walked up to his mother and thoughtfully handed over a handkerchief: "Mom, is the blood on your face okay?"
Pan Li's mother looked at her precocious son and wanted to cry without tears.
Suddenly Pan Li shrugged his nose and frowned: "Mom, what's the smell coming from outside?"
A child's five senses are much stronger than those of an adult. After Pan Li reminded him, his mother smelled an unusual smell in the air.
"Gasoline?"
Pan Li's mother's expression changed greatly, and she quickly got up and pulled the door, but the door was locked by unknown means, and she couldn't pull it no matter how hard she pulled.
"Warren, you bastard, what do you want to do? Open the door!"
Pan Li's mother's scream passed through the door and floated in the corridor. You can see a rope tied to the door handle, and another section tightly tied to the door handle of another door diagonally opposite. No wonder Pan Li's mother can't open the door no matter how hard she pulls.
The floor beneath the tight ropes was filled with gasoline. The highly volatile nature causes wisps of faint air waves to rise from the gasoline.
The skinny man stood at the gate, threw the empty gasoline barrel aside, took out a lighter from his pocket, lit it, and quietly watched the swaying flames swaying. After a moment, he threw the lighter away.
With a "boom", the flames spread rapidly along the gasoline, swallowing up the entire house in the blink of an eye.
"Oh my God!"
Seeing the billowing smoke coming in from the crack in the door, Pan Li's mother hugged her son and daughter in fear and quickly retreated to the window.
Then she opened the window, called the Pan Li brothers and sisters out of the window, and shouted: "Jump down, quickly, jump down..."
Pan Li's bedroom was on the third floor. He stood on the window sill and looked down. His sister was crying loudly. Pan Li's legs were trembling and he said in a trembling voice: "Mom, I'm afraid."
"Don't hesitate to jump, kid, otherwise it will be too late..."
As she spoke, Pan Li's mother coughed violently due to the smoke. Feeling desperate, she stretched out her hand and pushed her son and daughter hard behind their backs, pushing her son and daughter down with all her strength.
Along with the shrill screams, Pan Li felt his body shake heavily, and he didn't know anything anymore.
He didn't know how long it took before he slowly opened his eyes. Before he could see his surroundings clearly, he felt a bone-chilling pain in his legs, which made him scream.
Amid the cry, a pair of feet appeared in front of him.
Pan Li gritted his teeth and looked up, only to see his father appearing in front of him. It's just that his father's face was expressionless at this time, and his eyes were staring at him, making Pan Li's whole body feel hairy.
Pan Li stepped back carefully, covering his legs and looking left and right. I saw my sister lying not far away, motionless, not knowing whether she was dead or alive.
And my mother...
Pan Li looked up suddenly and saw that his bedroom had been completely engulfed in fire, with hot flames shooting out from the window and billowing smoke.
"Mom... sister..." Pan Li's lips trembled, and he slowly looked back at his father, "Dad, what's wrong with you?"
Pan Li's father didn't speak, he just raised the bloody ax in his hand and struck it hard at his frightened son...
"Boss, do you think there's a fire over there?"
Russell said anxiously while driving the car.
David picked up the telescope and looked at it, frowned and said: "This is Panli Farm, go there quickly."
With that said, David took out his cell phone, only to find that there was still no signal. Cursing under his breath, he picked up the intercom in the car.
Thankfully, the intercom was still communicating and David was able to contact the town's fire brigade.
However, looking at the fire in front of me, I am afraid that there will be nothing left to do when the fire brigade arrives.
The fire was so intense that Russell could only park the pickup truck at the entrance of the farm. David jumped out and ran inside quickly. But after running for more than ten meters, he was roasted by the scorching waves of fire and couldn't help but stop.
"Damn, what's going on?"
David covered his eyes and tried to look around, hoping to find traces of survivors. At this time, the walkie-talkie hanging on his shoulder rang: "Head, I found Warren, over here in the barn, but something is wrong with him!"
David turned and ran toward the barn. When he ran to the barn out of breath, he found Russell holding a gun and pointing it at the man sitting in the back pocket of the pickup truck opposite.
David also pulled out his gun and walked forward carefully. He saw this skinny man covered in blood, with a bloody ax at his feet. He was just sitting in his back pocket, dangling his legs, leisurely. looked up at the night sky.
"Warren, what is going on? Where are your wife and children? Have they escaped?"
Although he had roughly guessed what happened here, David still retained his last glimmer of hope.
Warren said nothing, still looking up at the night sky. After a while, he suddenly whistled and hummed a very cheerful ditty.
"Damn, you bastard!"
David rushed forward, dragged him out of the car, pressed his neck with his knee, and fixed him on the ground. Russell also quickly stepped forward and cuffed Warren with handcuffs.
"Why?" David pulled Warren up from the ground and yelled as hard as he could, "Tell me, why did you do that?"
The man who was still humming a tune suddenly smiled at David.
David was so shocked that he couldn't help but let go of Warren's collar and murmured: "He's crazy, this guy is crazy!"