"Qiqi!" I covered my nose and rushed into the villa that had turned into a sea of ​​fire like crazy. The scene in the villa was tragic. Everything I knew about was burning. The curtains on the door, the fig tree in the yard, the rag beside the sink, the plastic carport cover of the electric car parked, all the things that had accompanied me for decades were burning in the sea of ​​fire. As I struggled, I felt my feet trembling, and a feeling of wanting to vomit was surging in my throat. Every time I felt that my emotions were too stimulating, I felt this feeling only if I could experience the violent ups and downs of my own.

"Brother! Don't go in... I'm afraid it's too late!"

I rushed towards the inner door of the villa like crazy, but Yuezi rushed in and grabbed my arm.

"Go away! Go away! Confinement, please let go! Do you hear me let go of my hands?" I shook off my hands desperately, but Confinement was holding me tightly, putting my head on my back, and cried:

"Brother, it's too late, it's really too late...!"

"Let go!" I yelled, turned around, and pushed away the confinement. At that moment, I saw the tears condensed on the confinement of the confinement face. I was stunned. I had never seen such a heartbreaking expression on the confinement face.

Never before.

My heart felt like a squeaking pain. Looking at Yuezi's sad face, I felt like a knife was slashing gently on my heart.

"I'm sorry, Yuezi..." I said sorry to Yuezi gently, and then ignored her screams and continued to rush into the sea of ​​fire. I rushed all the way into the burning villa. The hall on the first floor had turned into a fiery red, sofas, wooden tables, cups and plates, coffee tables, TVs... All the things that Xueqi and Yuezi, Yuezi and others had beautiful memories were burning wildly. Each of these things carries the most important memories to me, and have become an indispensable part of my life. I will see them when I go home every day.

They, I even think, are used to me, and it is natural. Even if I go home tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, the next month, and the next year... they will not change even until the day when I die, and will still be so familiar and so friendly. But until this moment, I suddenly realized that nothing in this world is forever, and the things you thought would accompany you for the rest of your life are so fragile. It only takes a simple fire to take away everything from you.

It's that simple.

So ridiculous.

It's so ridiculous that I want to cry.

"Qiqi! Qiqi!" I covered my nose with one hand and raised my head and shouted loudly at the second floor.

But there was no response.

The upstairs was quiet, terrible.

My heart sank, and countless horrifying scenes emerged in my mind. I thought of the scene where Xueqi was trapped in the sea of ​​fire and the flames slowly swallowed her. How was Qiqi like? Is she still alive? Has she escaped?

The fire spread from the first floor to the second floor. The stairs were full of fire. The dense flames filled the railings, leaving only a narrow gap in the middle. I took a deep breath, rolled up my trouser legs, smeared it casually on my ankles, and then made up my heart and ran up quickly towards the entrance of the stairs!

I avoided the jumping flames and rushed to the entrance of the corridor on the second floor, shouting Xueqi's name while rushing, but Xueqi never responded.

The fire on the second floor was so big that I was desperate. Several rooms were filled with flames, and the fire spurted out from the air window, and came out like a demon's hand, which made the ceiling black.

I kicked the bedroom of confinement and saw that the bed, desk, and confinement painting boards inside were burned into charcoal. The oil paintings of confinement and confinement paintings in the past few years were all placed in this room with white cloth, but now they have been burned to the point where there is no frame.

When I kicked open the door, the terrifying flames rushed out with air waves. If I hadn't been hiding faster, I would have been affected. But in the room, I didn't see anyone except the burning beds and portraits. It seemed that Xueqi was not in this room, but in her own room on the third floor. But when I looked up, I was a little desperate. The fire on the third floor was the largest, and it had completely turned into a sea of ​​fire, and I could not even see a gap. My heart was beating violently, and a feeling of panic bit my heart like a poisonous snake.

"Qiqi! Are you upstairs? Qiqi! Did you hear it? Dad is here! Qiqi!"

I shouted over and over again, but each time I was even more desperate than the next time. Has Xueqi really been burned to death? Or was she unconscious by smoke, waiting for me to save her?

I don’t know, but I can only hold the last little hope, hoping that she is still alive. No matter what, even if she dies, I will still see her body. If I don’t see her body, even if I die, I will not be willing to do so!

The pungent smell of smoke kept drilling into my nostrils. I felt like I was about to suffocate, and my eyes were getting dark. I knew that I would continue to stay here, and I would be choked to death if I was not burned to death. So I held my last breath and raised my head and rushed towards the third floor.

Qiqi, you must not have anything to do! I screamed desperately in my heart and prayed that if I kneel down and beg God for mercy at this time, I would really be willing to kneel down for the rest of my life!

After all, I shrank my head and rushed into the sea of ​​fire on the third floor. The range I could see in my vision was full of fire. I couldn't even tell which steps were stairs, railings, and corridors were. I saw that the doors of my room on the third floor were burnt out, the door lock was broken and opened. I wanted to look inside, but it was full of fire and I couldn't see anything at all.

I coughed violently twice, took two steps at a time, and ran to the room at the end of the corridor with the burning heat from my trousers. It was Xueqi's room, but Xueqi's room was already full of fire.

The door of Xueqi's room was open, but there was no way to tell anything inside, because it was all fire, and the violent fire had already rushed out of the room and rushed to the corridor outside the room. Xueqi's room was made of wooden floors, which were the easiest to burn. Once it was burned, it would really burn through the floor.

"Qiqi! Qiqi?!" I screamed in dismay, running desperately towards the burning bedroom. My eyes were so painful that they were smoked.

I wanted to rush into Xueqi's room, but I could no longer see anything inside.

Xueqi probably recalled what happened that day, and I realized that when I went to save Xueqi, Xueqi was hiding in the water tank on the highest floor of the villa. Usually, the tap water at home was stored in that water tank, so Xueqi thought of where to hide from the fire.

Xueqi is much smarter than I thought.

"Oh, that's it... Haha, it's quite clever... It's fine if it's okay, Qiqi, really, Qiqi, it's fine if you're okay, Dad is really relieved."

After suddenly recovering from extreme tension, I felt much more relaxed, but soon I thought of an extremely important person.

By the way, where is Wang Bin?

Where is the arsonist Wang Bin?

My heartbeat accelerated sharply.

"By the way, where is the one who set fire? Qiqi, where is the one who set fire to our house?" When I thought of Wang Bin, I felt insecure. If I let Wang Bin be outside, he would continue to attack us sooner or later. Thinking of this, I became restless.

"Brother, he surrendered." Yuezi's voice suddenly came over. I was shocked and turned my head. I found Yuezi leaning against a bed on the other side of me. She was covered with a blanket and was holding a fruit knife in her hand and cutting an apple. I saw Yuezi's eyes darkened in a small circle. It seemed that she had not had a good sleep these days.

Seeing the confinement period, my heart slowly calmed down, as if it was immersed in water.

"Confinement, you are here... Wang Bin... He surrendered? What does he mean?" I frowned, unable to believe my ears. Will someone like Wang Bin surrender?

But I soon figured it out. Think about it carefully. What else can Wang Bin do besides surrendering himself? Most of Wang Bin's accomplices were arrested. The police were searching for him everywhere. He set fire again. He could not escape. Wang Bin dared to kill Xueqi, probably because he came with a desperate mentality and wanted to die with Xueqi. After he set fire, he probably surrendered himself directly, because if we were all dead, the world would probably be destroyed. It was not much different for him to stay in prison and stay outside. At least there was food and drink in prison. After thinking about it, I suddenly realized.

This Wang Bin is really extremely awesome in his work.

But now that Xueqi is not dead, and we have nothing to do, will Wang Bin find a way to escape from prison and assassinate Xueqi and me? I don’t know, because no matter how fast the sentence is, Wang Bin will never be sentenced to death within a month, and if we wait for a month, we will not know whether we will still be alive or not.

Wang Bin's move is really too ruthless. If he was outside the prison, no matter what he wanted, I would have to abandon him. But now that he has put himself in prison, we can't kill people in prison, and the prison has become his protective umbrella.

I grabbed the sheets hard, and my whole body was trembling with anger.

The violent flames burned in my chest, and I really wanted to rush to Wang Bin on the spot, punching him one after another, and punching him to death.

"Brother, don't worry. With the lesson from last time, the police must have strengthened their defense. Wang Bin will never escape from prison again this time." Yuezi said to me warmly, "As long as we are all fine."

"Dad..." Xueqi sat next to me. I saw her eyes red and swollen, and tears were spinning in her eyes. Then she suddenly started to cry, lay on my thighs, burst into tears, and couldn't stop crying.

"Dad... the house was burned out... all the things in the house were burned out... all the things... nothing at all..."

When Xueqi cried like this, I suddenly remembered the villa that had been completely burned to ashes. I didn't even dare to go back and see the current situation of the villa. I was afraid that when I went back, I saw the villa that turned into a pile of charred ruins, and when I recalled the warm villa where I lived with Xueqi in the past, I would be unable to withstand the blow and collapse. Xueqi probably had already gone home to see it, so she slept in the ward because she had no other place to go.

Suddenly, I felt like a kite with a broken string and no longer had my place to return.

The villa burned by fire has accompanied me for more than 30 years. I was born, grew up there, and matured little by little. Xueqi also grew up there, becoming a pure and refined girl there. It is a symbol of our life, but now, this symbol has collapsed.

Never come back.

I remembered the scene when my father was on the sofa in the villa lobby, crossing his legs and looking at the newspaper waiting for me to come back, and then smiled seriously and said, "Jiandong, I'm back, how are the exams?" I also thought of the scene when my mother was holding my hand while cutting my nails... I also remembered the scene when my cousin, uncle, and aunt Xiaofang came to visit my house to have fun together, but these scenes would never come back again.

When I lost my dad and my mom, I felt like I didn't seem to have lost them.

In a corner deep in my heart, I always believe that they are just hiding in a corner of this villa, just in the place where I didn’t look back, in the shadows that my eyes couldn’t see, they sat quietly, looking at a newspaper or a magazine. Maybe when I turned around, they would smile at me with teacup, or gently called me, "Jiandong, how about we go out shopping together tonight to buy a set of New Year's clothes?"

But until now, when even the villa that was the last memory disappeared, I felt like I was suddenly beaten back to reality.

I was like a chicken falling into the water and could no longer find the direction.

Tears fell silently from my face. I suddenly hugged Xueqi tightly and started crying heart-wrenchingly, crying more sad than ever in my life.

But no matter how sad the past becomes, once it becomes the past, you will eventually forget it.

Maybe it was one day, maybe two days, maybe decades.

But you will eventually forget it.

As long as you are still alive.

That day I didn't know how long I cried while holding Xueqi, but I calmed down, but my mentality became calm.

According to the confinement period, I lie down for three days, and Xueqi also fell asleep for two days because she was choked by the fire. When I woke up, there were only three days left before the one-month period.

What made me even more worried was that Xueqi had missed her time to go to the United States. Fortunately, I received a notice from Harvard that day, telling the other party that the fire in the house was slightly delayed for a few days, and the other party allowed Xueqi's itinerary to postpone the trip.

But a fire just happened at home. No matter what, at this critical moment, it would be impossible for me to let Xueqi go to the United States. I knew she would definitely stay and overcome difficulties with me.

But Wang Bin is still in prison, Xueqi's progress is not yet full, and God Game will have greater risks in the future. This time it brought me a fire, and there may be any crisis in the future. Whatever I say, I can't let Xueqi stay by my side anymore.

And in this world, there is only one person who can protect her, I know very well.

I have to let Xueqi go, and I have to let her be happy.

I was in a hurry to be discharged from the hospital, but Xueqi and Yuezi refused to let me be discharged from the hospital, saying that I would have a physical examination. So that day, I fell asleep in the hospital again and slept for another night. When I woke up, it was already the third day.

On the day she was discharged from the hospital, Yuhui came. She already knew everything about me. When she saw me, she didn't say a word.

As for the Public Security Bureau, I was directly invited to record confessions because I was hospitalized. In fact, I had basically recorded all the confessions during the confinement period and james before, and I didn’t need to add much. But this time, I said I couldn’t continue to stay, so I pulled Xueqi out of the hospital and went back to the villa directly.

When I saw the villa, I felt like I suddenly fell into an ice cellar, and it was so cold that I could not bear it.

The villa is completely unrecognizable. The balcony and railings are burned to a darkness, the door frames, door panels, and handles are all dark and blurred, and the ground is filled with various cokes that I can no longer tell.

In the hall, the sofa, wooden table, coffee table, TV, and refrigerator were all charred, as if they were covered with ink, which was so black.

"Brother... we have checked it." Yuezi held my hand and tried not to let me look at the villa. "There is nothing to use anymore. I have contacted the insurance company and they will compensate part of it."

Yuezi knew that I would be stimulated, so he deliberately pulled me away and prevented me from continuing to look at the situation in the villa. I leaned against the door frame with burnt smell, and my chest was undulating with discomfort. I felt like I had been hollowed out. Xueqi suddenly started crying again, standing in the corner wiping her tears. Ma Bailong also came. He stood at the door of the villa, staring blankly at the tragic scene of the villa, without saying a word.

I glanced at the direction of the basement, but fortunately, the basement was not burned, and I had already hidden the Book of the World there a long time ago.

I walked slowly towards the basement like a soulless shell. There, I saw the basement as before, full of familiar debris, which could awaken my memories.

I finally breathed a sigh of relief, and my originally empty brain began to enrich it, as if I was looking for some kind of sustenance. I rushed into the pile of debris like a life. After searching, I finally found the book of the World that I had hidden secretly. The progress bar above shows:

99%.

It's just a little bit behind.

I slowly turned my head and looked at Xueqi and Ma Bailong standing behind me. Ma Bailong's hand was placed on Xueqi's shoulder, while Xueqi leaned against Ma Bailong's chest.

In an instant, I realized what I should do.
To be continued...