"Fighting the fire?..." The beggar suddenly froze, subconsciously looking in the direction of the fireworks, and finally reacted. He suddenly panicked, "Hey! Oops! That's the granary over there!"

As soon as the beggar finished speaking, Mo Ban got into the alleyway in a hurry and disappeared.

The beggar looked at the direction where the pockmarks disappeared, and then looked at the fireworks in the sky, pacing back and forth with a troubled face.

Logically speaking, putting out the fire had nothing to do with him being a little beggar, and it was too late to avoid such a thing.

But later, he didn't know whether it was out of a sudden sense of mission, or because he wanted to participate in firefighting and meritorious services to receive rewards, or because he took advantage of the fire to steal some food... No matter what the reason was, he still followed Maban.

In terms of pockmarks, his body was not strong. After running a few steps, he was out of breath. His clothes were soaked with sweat, but he still dragged his legs like lead and ran forward.

Although he was extremely anxious on the surface, deep down he still maintained an optimistic attitude towards the fire in the granary. Because the situation was discovered early, even if his legs could not outrun the wind, the embers of the fireworks in the sky fell into the granary first, and there would be no fire.

It may burn immediately.

After all, the granary is the lifeblood of the city, and it has all the necessary fire prevention facilities. The supervisors and guards are not fools. Once they find out that the wind is in the wrong direction and fireworks are coming from the sky, they will definitely take precautions in advance.

As long as you can extinguish the small flames in time and don't let the fire spread, it shouldn't cause too much damage.

However, when Ma Ban ran out of breath to the block where the Eighth Granary was located, the scene in front of him made him lose his mind.

fire...

As far as the eye can see, the sky is burning with fire...

Fireworks riding on the wind were scattered here, and the sky was filled with sparks. The embers of the fireworks poured down like rain of fire. The eight granaries were filled with howls and flames burning the sky.

The raging flames shot straight into the sky, turning half of the night red, and the heat wave swept in from the front, accompanied by deadly black smoke, mercilessly damaging people's respiratory tracts.

At the gate of the granary, supervisors and guards were running out one after another. Some stood there blankly looking at the fire. Some were coughing and wheezing violently because they had inhaled too much smoke because they were running slowly. Some of the clothes on their bodies were scorched black and their skin was covered.

There were burn marks, and he fell to the ground dying.

The fire was reflected in his pockmarked eyes. The eight major granaries he had once fulfilled his duties were being devoured by the fire. He shed tears unconsciously, his face was wrinkled, his mouth was trembling and he was crying. He ran to the granary gate in despair: "Fight the fire...Hurry up and put out the fire."

ah!!!"

Before Maban could even take two steps, the beggar chasing behind him had already grabbed him and shook him hard: "Are you crazy?! There is such a big fire, what's the use of running in?!"

Moban's tears kept pouring out, and they were dried by the heat wave. He looked around distractedly, and finally looked at the overseers and guards who were also lost. He rushed over and grabbed their collars, asking at the top of his lungs: "You all

What did you do?! How could there be such a big fire suddenly?! Didn't you see the fireworks? Why didn't you prepare to put out the fire in advance?!"

"Moban..." The supervisor recognized the former grain officer. He gradually came back to his senses and said tremblingly, "No... This is wrong... We saw the fireworks at that time and prepared them in advance.

Water, but..."

Seeing that the supervisor seemed to have lost his soul, Ma Ban slapped him and shouted: "But what?!"

The guard next to him trembled and continued: "When those embers fell, the fire spread directly and burned everywhere, giving us no chance to put it out! Before we could react, we were already burned by the fire.

Surrounded, several brothers responsible for indoor patrol have not escaped, and now I am afraid..."

The guard glanced at the burning granary and did not dare to say anything else.

"The fire spread directly?..." Ma Ban looked at the burning granary blankly and said in despair, "This is impossible...The main body of the granary building is made of stone, without any wooden structure, and there is isolation inside.

There is a fire belt outside, and the fireworks have only been falling for a while. There is at most a small-scale fire. How could it burn like this?!"

The overseer's eyes were swollen from crying, and he said with a trembling voice: "We really don't know... I swear to God, we have done everything we can..."

Ma Ban looked around hurriedly and asked: "Where is the grain officer? Your new grain officer, the one named Kai Rui, where has he gone?!"

Overseer and guard, you look at me, I look at you, they all shake their heads to express that they don’t know.

The guard said cautiously: "Master Kerry went out during the day today. I didn't see him until just now. He might have gone to watch the fireworks at the Dragon Fire Festival..."

After hearing this, Ma Ban was so angry that he wrinkled his face and said through gritted teeth: "Damn you son of a bitch... a grain official actually left his post without permission during a festival like the Dragon Fire Festival that may cause fire hazards. Even if he is killed,

A hundred times is not enough to appease the anger!"

"Boom -" At this moment, perhaps the flour stored in the granary caused a second deflagration. A huge fireball erupted in a granary, followed by a heat wave, and the bricks and tiles on the wall were blown off.

The overseers and guards who fled outside fell to the ground like dominoes.

Everyone got up from the ground in embarrassment, looked at the granary engulfed in flames with tears in their eyes, and trembled and murmured: "The food is all going to be burned... The superiors will definitely accuse us... What should we do?

..”

Mo Ban gritted his teeth and clenched his fists, forcing himself to calm down.

There is no time to investigate the cause now. Putting out fires and saving food is the first priority.

He knew the internal structure of the granary very well. Grains were stored separately by batch and had separate closed compartments. This was a fireproof structure designed by the Kingdom's engineering team to withstand extreme conditions.

With this kind of separate compartment design, even if the fire prevention of the granary is not good and a fire breaks out inside, the fire can be controlled within one warehouse, instead of burning it out in one place, which can be very effective in preventing the fire.

The fire spread too quickly.

The fire has only been burning for ten minutes now, and there should be many warehouses inside that are not on fire. If the fire can be extinguished in time, most of the food can be saved.

The eight major granaries are the lifeblood of Danyu City. Every time a granary is saved, thousands of people can be saved from hunger. On the contrary, thousands of people will not be able to eat.

But the question is, how to put out this fire?...

Such a big fire can no longer be saved by manpower and buckets of water.

Unless there is help from the gods at this time, it rains heavily.

However, the gods did not show mercy to Danyu City. Now there is only a south wind and no rain.

The strong winds not only failed to extinguish the flames, but even brought more fireworks embers, further fueling the fire.

How can we extinguish such a fire without the power of heaven...

Even if all the soldiers were mobilized to collect water from the reservoir in the north, it would be a drop in the bucket.

Wait, the reservoir in the north...

Reservoir?...
Chapter completed!