"It looks like there's a fire. Let's go to a safe place outside first!" Chen Jinli reacted quickly. After Chen Feng finished speaking, he immediately spoke.
Hearing the words from Captain Chen Jinli, everyone naturally stood up in unison and rushed outside.
When I opened the door of the box, the outside was already in chaos.
I saw that the hall and the private rooms were filled with anxious people. They were pushing and shoving each other, fearing that if they were a step slower they would be left in the hotel and never leave.
The hotel lobby was filled with thick smoke, hot smoke.
Many people were choked by the thick smoke, and their mouths and noses were burned, their faces full of pain. However, under such danger, they still endured and squeezed in the crowd.
The criminal police team members showed their qualities as people's policemen at this time. Instead of fleeing first, they stood on the tables one by one, shouting loudly, calming the panicked crowd and maintaining the order of evacuation.
With their support, those panicked people quickly calmed down, and the original pushing and shoving situation was eased.
Moreover, although the crowd was crowded, no stampede occurred because the entrance to the hall was relatively close.
Soon, more than half of the people had already left the hotel. If nothing unexpected happened, all the people would be able to evacuate to a safe place within a dozen seconds.
"Okay, evacuate with the crowd." Chen Jinli shouted loudly, and then took the lead to run out with the remaining crowd, which was obviously much smaller.
Chen Feng looked at Chen Jinli with some surprise. Although this man was a bit hateful, he understood the right and wrong and abided by the duties of a policeman. In the most dangerous moment just now, he was the first to climb onto a table to maintain order.
However, even if they retreated, the criminal police team were always at the back.
"boom-"
There was another violent explosion, and a flame suddenly burst out from the door frame of the kitchen door that had been blown away, burning everything around it madly.
Suddenly, the raging fire burned even more fiercely, and waves of suffocating heat swept over Chen Feng and the others.
"Hmm?" Chen Feng's face suddenly turned gloomy.
In the heat, he smelled a smell that shouldn't be in a restaurant.
Smell of gunpowder!
Although it was very faint and mixed with the stench of various burning things, Chen Feng still caught the smell of gunpowder.
Not only Chen Feng caught it, but several veteran members of the criminal police team also caught it clearly, and there was thought in their eyes.
Logically speaking, the explosion in the kitchen was at most a gas explosion, and there would be no smell of gunpowder. But where did this smell of gunpowder come from
There is only one possibility...
The kitchen was full of burning flames, and it was impossible to see what was going on inside. However, Chen Feng still caught a few blurry figures lying quietly in the depths of the flames, their bodies wrapped in flames, motionless.
Obviously, these people should be the chefs of this Hunan restaurant, who were trapped here forever by the sudden explosion.
"call-"
The criminal police team finally rushed out of the hotel. Suddenly, the cool air made them all relax.
However, none of them showed joy of surviving the disaster; their eyes were filled with seriousness.
Looking at the restaurant turning into a sea of fire, they knew that this was going to be another vicious crime. The criminals actually detonated the natural gas in the kitchen, killing several chefs on the spot.
Since the hotel was mostly made of wood, the fire burned more and more fiercely, and after only a few dozen seconds, it spread throughout the entire hotel.
"Oh, child, my child is missing!" Suddenly, a female voice shouted anxiously, and a fashionable woman was seen searching everywhere frantically.
"My child, where are you?" Faced with the disappearance of her child, this fashionable woman no longer cared about maintaining her usual elegant demeanor and acted like a madman.
"Look, there's a kid there!" A shocked voice rang out, and a man was pointing at a corner of the cash register and shouting anxiously.
The cashier counter of the Hunan restaurant was located at the innermost wall of the hall. At this moment, a child's head was sticking out of the cashier counter and looking out.
The bottom of the cash register is hollow, and can easily accommodate a child's body. Just now, the child should have been hiding under the cash register. When people fled, no one saw him.
The child looked frightened, staring blankly outside, trembling all over. The tears on his face had long been dried by the scorching air around him.
"Boom—" a piece of wooden ceiling burning with flames fell down with a rumble, hitting just not far from the child, and countless sparks splashed all on the child's face.
“Woo—”
Frightened like this, the child started to cry again. Although people couldn't hear the child crying from such a distance, they could still tell from the child's lips that he was calling for "Mom".
"Xiaobao, mom is here!" The fashionable woman rushed towards the sea of fire frantically, but she was invaded by thick smoke and heat waves after just a few steps inside, and immediately fainted on the ground.
"Go and save her!" Several members of the criminal police team rushed over, picked up the mother, and quickly evacuated.
In just a short while, the hair of these team members was burnt, like bird's nests on their heads, emitting a foul odor.
"Captain Chen, the fire is too big, we can't get in!" A team member yelled at Chen Jinli. He was also very anxious about the child's situation.
"I'll try!" Chen Jinli gritted his teeth, poured a basin of water from the shop next door on his head, and quickly passed through the sea of fire and rushed inside.
However, the surrounding fire was like a group of provoked wasps, rushing towards Chen Jinli, forcing Chen Jinli to stop.
When he was about to charge again, he helplessly discovered that there was a huge sea of fire ahead.
A feeling of suffocation slowly came over him. Chen Jinli had no choice but to retreat in embarrassment.
"Look, the cash register is also on fire!" Everyone looked in the direction of the sound and suddenly their hearts felt like they were on fire.
I saw that one corner of the cash register was already on fire, and it was spreading to other parts at a speed visible to the naked eye. I believe it will be completely burned in a few seconds. By then, the child will have no place to hide!
"Go and save this child." Many people shouted, but no one dared to rush in to rescue.
The fire is too big!
"Pour water on me, and I'll try again!" Chen Jinli gritted his teeth and said fiercely.
Several team members hurriedly poured several basins of cold water on him, soaking him.
Looking at the raging sea of fire, a gleam of determination flashed in Chen Jinli's eyes, and he raised his foot to rush forward.
"Snapped-"
A pair of hands gently rested on Chen Jinli's shoulders, causing him to stop suddenly as he was about to pounce.
"Let me do it, big dog."
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Off topic:
When Xiao Huang was writing this chapter, he was wondering if he would be scolded by readers. Why did we write Chen Jinli, who was supposed to be a villain, as such a hero
However, Xiao Huang still believes that novels should have some so-called humanity. A person may be calculative and gossip-mongering, but can we conclude that he is a bad person? Even a murderer must have his truth, goodness and beauty, which are only covered up by his crimes, let alone Chen Jinli
Therefore, Xiao Huang still wants to appropriately bring out some truth, kindness and beauty without affecting the trend of the book, and add more positive energy. Do you think this is okay? Please give me some suggestions, and I hope you can leave a message.