"Fire... mountain fire... mountain fire is coming..." Just as Ma Tao and others joined in carrying fire-fighting supplies, people at the west entrance of the town suddenly panicked. A man in a shirt was holding an iron Bucket, sweating profusely, he obviously just ran back from outside to report, panting heavily while talking.
Ma Tao looked up, and sure enough, the thick smoke in the west was getting bigger and bigger. Through the smoke, you could vaguely see dots of orange, which were the light from burning trees.
"It can't be suppressed anymore. This town can't be saved." Not far away, a middle-aged man with his hair dyed yellow stared at the dark sky and shook his head, then ignored the people around him who were still heading towards his car. The villager with the water bag on his body jumped directly onto his khaki armored vehicle, opened the hatch, and jumped into the vehicle without hesitation. With the roar of the engine, the armored vehicle turned 180 degrees on the spot and ran. To the north of the town, it drove away directly. Despite the anxious shouts of many surrounding villagers, the armored vehicle did not even stop and got out of the car, where a group of villagers looked desperate.
[In view of the general environment,
There is no way, the people living here in Kara Town have been integrated with this town. Many of them live here, and everything about them is here. Their homes are here, and they have left Kara Town. The people living in this place had no idea where they were going, or even how to live. What's more, without the protection of the town and the natural defensive terrain, the monsters outside could easily tear them apart. Taking away everyone's lives, the residents of Kara Town had no other choice but to put out the wildfire at all costs.
With the first person to escape, the evacuation became like an unstoppable flood. One after another, vehicles began to leave the town of Kara, which was about to be engulfed by fire. Countless people were busy, and many People are busy running around carrying large and small packages of things. The owners of some human shops and chariot shops are even more busy. The whole town, as long as there is some ability, People with different methods and methods are trying their best to reduce their losses. Only ordinary ordinary people, this one, are extremely desperate, even though the mayor is trying his best to mobilize people to put out the fire. , but at this moment, the other side of human nature that is tested is irreversible. People will consider themselves for themselves.
In the panic, more people who were still hesitating quietly put down the buckets and sandbags in their hands when they saw others starting to run away, and began to run towards their homes, even though they had nowhere to go and no way out. Escape, but at the last moment most people are thinking about guarding the last moment with their loved ones at home.
"Do you want to leave too?" Ma Tao felt his fingers being gently held by someone. This made Ma Tao startled. When he lowered his head, he saw a little girl of five or six years old holding her hand. He tilted his head and looked at himself.
After looking around, Ma Tao didn't see the child's mother. There were busy people around him, so he asked, "Girl, come home quickly. Where are your adults?"
This was originally a casual question, but the little girl's next words stunned Ma Tao.
"My parents went to put out the fire and haven't come back yet." The girl looked up at Ma Tao, then turned to look at the bright red Merkava chariot behind Ma Tao, then looked back and said, "Uncle, Can you take me to my parents? I haven’t seen them for several days."
The girl's tone was very low, her words were very small, and there was even a hint of timidity in her eyes. After all, some adults would be very embarrassed to ask for help from a complete stranger. It was embarrassing, especially for this little loli who was only four or five years old.
Looking at the girl's dirty cheeks, Su Lanxi took out some food from her backpack and handed it to the girl.
"You haven't eaten yet, take it," Su Lanxi said and gave her the food and water in her hands.
"I'm not hungry..." Although the little Loli said this, the lingering look in her eyes still betrayed her.
"Eat. Only when you are full can you have the strength to find your mother." Such a scene
, which made Su Lanyu very emotional. She didn’t know if she thought of her past. Su Lanyu knelt down and stroked the girl’s messy hair. She looked at the girl with timid eyes but she had no choice but to find a way to find her parents. The stubbornness of not standing strong is very touching.
"Ouch..." At this moment, an old woman in her fifties hurriedly ran over, grabbed the girl's hand, looked at everyone with an apologetic face, and said quickly: " Sorry, sorry, the child is not sensible, she didn’t break anything of yours, right?”
After saying that, the old woman quickly took a look at the clothes of Ma Tao and others, fearing that her children would get into trouble that they shouldn't cause and cause disaster. After all, her life is not comparable to the people in front of her. Ah, randomly, the old woman saw the food and water in Su Lanxi's hands again. Because she didn't understand what happened, she lowered her head to look at the little girl, but the little loli didn't say a word, looking at the old woman with big tearful eyes. , the next second, tears flowed from the little Loli's eyes.
"Aunt Zhang... I... I want to go find my mother..." The little Loli choked with sobs, so aggrieved that she could no longer speak a complete sentence.
"Be good, don't cry. Didn't I tell you that when you grow up, I will take you to find your mother? Be good, don't cry anymore."
There was a hint of reluctance and helplessness in the eyes of the old woman whom the little Lolita called Aunt Zhang, which was keenly caught by Ma Tao. Aunt Zhang reached out to wipe the tears on the girl's cheeks with her sleeves, and at the same time, she looked at Ma Tao sheepishly. Everyone smiled apologetically.
"This kid wants to find his mother, so just take her to find her. I'm not the one who said, who are you?" Xiao Jinzi looked a little confused, but he could tell that the old woman in front of him He was not a relative of the girl. There was a hint of caution in his eyes and a questioning tone in his tone, as if he would make you look good if you dared to lie.
Ma Tao on the side interrupted what Xiao Jinzi was going to say, because he could see that although the old woman in front of him was not a relative of the little girl, she should be taking care of her these days. This little girl, otherwise, a little girl without parents to take care of her, hunger alone is a problem that she cannot solve at all. What's more, this old woman did not restrict this girl's freedom. Otherwise, she wants to control such a big girl. Little girl, that's not easy. Just from this, Ma Tao was sure that the old woman in front of him was not a bad person.
Just at this time, several old women ran over not far away, carrying basins, buckets and other tools in their hands. These women obviously knew the little girl named Tuan Tuan. After running over, they talked all over the place. When they got up, they just asked her not to run around and be obedient. Several people even checked her up and down to make sure that the little girl was not hurt, and then they felt relieved.
"I'm sorry, I'm this child's aunt. I'm really sorry that this child has caused you trouble." While Tuantuan was being looked after by other women, Aunt Zhang had the opportunity to apologize to Ma Tao and the others.
"Did her... parents go to put out the fire?" Su Lanxi also saw that these people should not be bad people, but she also had some curiosity about this little kid named Tuantuan. Don't her parents care about her?
"Tuantuan's parents are probably gone, right?" Gao Han glanced at the little girl not far away and said in a shocking voice.
Hearing Gao Han's words, the old woman was obviously stunned for a moment, then turned around and glanced at the girl secretly. After confirming that the little girl was out of earshot, she sighed and replied: "Yes, actually I am this child. Neighbors, this child’s parents died in the mountains to the west while fighting fires. They have not been found yet. It is estimated that there is no possibility of survival at all. If such a child is left behind, we neighbors will just We helped take care of her, but Tuan Tuan was always thinking about finding her mother. The town was busy, so we let the child run out without us noticing. Alas... a child who lost his parents at such a young age is a miserable child..."
The old woman's words moved everyone a little, and they looked at the little girl named Tuantuan, full of pity and helplessness.
"Are many people dead in the town?" Ma Tao unexpectedly heard the meaning of several sentences.
"There are dozens of them, some were burned to death, and some
Some of them were bitten to death by frightened wild beasts in the forest. Anyway, there were quite a few." The old woman recalled it and replied without shying away from Ma Tao and the others.
Sisters Su Lanxi and Su Lanyu looked at each other, then each took out some money from their backpacks and handed it to the old woman. It was about 2000G. Ma Tao didn't even think about stopping it. Xiao Jinzi saw it The Su sisters slapped their foreheads and began to rummage in their pockets.
"Take this money." Su Lanxi handed the small bag containing the money to the old woman. Unexpectedly, the old woman directly extended her hand to refuse them.
"No need." She thanked him and handed over the money and belongings. The woman pushed her hand without taking it, and looked towards the outside of the village with a look of indifference.
Ma Tao suddenly realized that, yes, this imminent mountain fire was already coming. If the current disaster could not be solved, it would be a disaster for the entire town. Under the overthrow of the nest, how could there be any intact eggs? He and others These things given to them have no meaning to them now, and several people slowly took back the G in their hands.
After the woman thanked her again, she took the pots and pans in her hands and prepared to join the fire-fighting team together with the women waiting nearby.
Everyone looked around. The noisy crowd was like a pot of porridge. There were fleeing businessmen, crying children, villagers packing their things, men carrying packages, and those who were still making the last effort to rush toward the fire with fire-extinguishing tools. crowd.
"The mountain fire... must have been caused by Bimi... If I meet him, I must teach him a lesson!" Not far away, a gray-faced boy walked past several people with his head lowered angrily, Even though the dust on the kid's face obscured his face, Ma Tao still recognized that this kid was the boy who bullied Bimi before.
"Brother, what should we do?" Xiao Jinzi walked to Ma Tao, first looked back at the water bags and sandbags hanging on the chariot, and then said to Ma Tao.
Ma Tao didn't speak, but his eyes were looking in the east direction of the town. There, the old man, the mayor of Kara Town, stood blankly beside the guardrail of the town, looking at the thick smoke from the sky that had spread into Kara Town. , shaking his head constantly, sighing from time to time, mumbling at the corners of his mouth, not knowing what he was saying to himself, and thinking about it, it was also words full of helplessness.
"Get in the car! Let's go put out the fire." Ma Tao did not hesitate and resolutely prepared to make a final effort to help the villagers of Kara Town.
No one said much, they all returned
Their respective chariots started their engines, because they knew that such a huge fire did not pose a threat to them. Even if they were surrounded by flames in the end, the worst they could do was to use a fax device to send them away from here. A mountain fire of this scale, Still can't trap them.
In the air, the smell of burning plants has wafted over, making people want to cough. As soon as all the tanks detected that the air quality was seriously unqualified, the C device had automatically turned on the on-board air filtration system, circulating the vehicle. The air inside and filter out the impurities in the outside air.
The five chariots moved towards the direction of the mountain fire, and the surrounding villagers automatically made way for them. They knew very well what the convoy heading in this direction was going to do. Looking at the eyes of those who were looking at the convoy, they Although there was fatigue and despair in his eyes, Liule's gratitude was still very obvious. Anyone who could help at this time instead of turning around and leaving was worthy of the respect of all residents of Kara Town.
As he approached the east entrance of the village, he could see many people carrying stretchers busy transporting the injured. Through the screen in the car, Ma Tao looked at the wailing people lying on the stretchers and their burned bodies. How could one word describe the tragedy? At this moment, he finally understood the meaning of the phrase "a fire scene is like a battlefield".
Suddenly, the appearance of a familiar figure to Ma Tao in the crowd caused the advancing Merkava chariot to come to a sudden stop.
I saw a few angry Kara Town residents pushing and shouting at the entrance of the village. In the crowd, a little boy was crying, with tears on his face. He was constantly pushed to the ground by the people around him, crying helplessly, but no one was there. He stretched out his hand to give him a hand. Countless people pointed at him, and some even picked up rocks on the ground and threw them at him. The little boy was frightened and cried out, "It's not me."
, not me", but no one around him listened to his words. They were still venting their anger towards the little boy.
"It's Bimi..." Su Lanxi's voice on the communication watch continued with anxiety: "He will be beaten to death, we should save him."
"Believe me, if you do this, the angry villagers will transfer all their emotions to us. To be honest, this child has his own fault for what he is today." A high voice came from the communication watch. Everyone could hear the cold tone in Han's words and tone.
Ma Tao also knew that no matter whether the mountain fire was a natural disaster or a man-made disaster, it was inevitable. But the key to the problem was that there was indeed a lead in the town who liked to play with fire everywhere. Such a situation would make almost everyone subconsciously Attributing the cause of the problem to this lead is human habitual thinking logic.
"But he is still a child...Ma Tao..." Su Lanxi's words were filled with pleading, and she finally placed her hope on Ma Tao.
For a moment, Ma Tao also thought about walking away and ignoring the little boy named Bimi, but he really couldn't do it, especially after hearing Su Lanxi's words, he finally sighed and opened the door. opened the tank door.
"Hey!" Ma Tao, who was leaning on the hatch of the chariot with half of his body exposed, shouted at the crowd. With this sound, Ma Tao exerted all his strength and really shocked the crowd for a moment, but soon , someone reacted.
"Outlander! Please don't mind your own business! Maybe you don't know how much trouble this kid has caused. He is the cause of this disaster. He is a disaster star! He can only bring disaster to this town." The speaker was a man with a turban on his head that was wet with water. As he spoke, he was so angry that he still did not forget to turn around and stare at Xiao Bimi fiercely.
The words of the man in the turban made the crowd noisy again, and more people began to criticize little Bimi who was curled up on the ground and crying helplessly.
"You'd better go. We'll solve the problems in our town ourselves." Another woman stood up and said to Ma Tao. In fact, if it weren't for the strength of Ma Tao and others who spoke, there would be five tanks alone. , plus the car body was already covered with water bags and fire-fighting sandbags. At a glance, it was clear that this was a team preparing to help put out the fire. These angry people didn't care about that. They were bound to vent all the depression that had been shrouded in the fire. On the little Bimi.
Ma Tao's eyes scanned everyone in the crowd. Finally, he fixed on Bimi who was shaking all over on the ground and snorted coldly: "I don't want to care about this town's affairs, nor do I want to care about him. I just want to Remind you, if you really have free time, do something useful. Even if you punish this child at this time, except to show that you are really free, I really can’t think of any words to describe it. What you are doing now"
After finishing speaking, Ma Tao ignored these people and returned to the cockpit, closed the door directly, drove the chariot again, and drove towards the east entrance of the town. The huge body of the bright red Merkava chariot weighing dozens of tons drove Passing in front of everyone, with a strong sense of oppression, the subsequent Adjudicators, Tigers, Leopards and minibuses drove out of Kara town one after another.
Watching the convoy gradually moving away towards the thickest part of the smoke, all the people began to look at each other, silently picked up the buckets and water bags they had just thrown away, and continued to prepare ways to put out the fire, leaving the venue at a loss. Little Bimi cried silently, and in the corners of his mouth, he repeated vaguely and mechanically, "It's not me...it's really not me..."
Not far away, the mayor, who had witnessed all this, withdrew his gaze, glanced at Xiao Bimi, and sighed helplessly.
