This time, her call was finally answered.
The man’s low, heavy voice came from behind her, “I’m here.”
Rongshu hurriedly turned around and was relieved to see the man walking over with a serious face, then hurriedly said, “Where have you been? Do you know that there is a fire outside?”
“Yes.” The man swept a glance at the door of the factory behind her.
The orange and red flames at the window of the short vent above the factory door were so high that no one who wasn’t blind would be able to see them.
“I just left, I just heard some noise, so I went over to check, then I saw that the back door over there was locked, and a fire was lit outside.” Fu Jingting’s face was grim as he returned.
Rongshu was shocked, “What? The back door was also vandalized and set on fire?”
Fu Jingting nodded his head.
Rongshu became even more anxious, “This gate too, my electric key won’t open the gate at all.”
“Come on, let’s go check the other doors and windows first.” Although the man was also furious that someone had set the fire, but in the end he was calmer than her, and taking her hand, he hurried to look for other exits.
Without further ado, Rongshu took it upon herself to quicken her pace.
The front door and the back door were both locked, so they could only hope for a few other side doors and some of the shorter windows.
They could only hope that these were not locked.
The two of them soon arrived at a side door, and the fire outside was even bigger; from here they could hear the crackling of the flames, and could even feel the scorching heat of the flames.
When Rongshu looked at the side door in front of her, a bad feeling welled up in her heart.
The structure of the factory was basically metal, and by definition, if the fire was only lit at the front and back doors, it wouldn’t have reached here so quickly.
Under normal circumstances, they were in the very centre of the factory, with the main door and the back door at opposite ends of the factory, so the sound of a fire could not be heard here, at the side door.
But inside the side door, they could hear the crackling of the flames audibly, as well as being able to clearly feel the temperature of the flames.
It was obvious that outside the side door, too, petrol had been poured and the fire lit.
So she now suspected that the side door had also been vandalised.
This suspicion was also shared by Fu Jingting, whose face became even more gloomy.
Although he suspected that the side door had also been sabotaged, but no matter what, he had come here, he had to give it a try, in case there was an exception.
Rongshu thought the same thing and immediately reached out her hand to unlock the side door.
As a result, when her hand touched the metal lock, she immediately let out a cry and hurriedly withdrew her hand, her little face turning white.
“What’s wrong?” Fu Jingting hurriedly grabbed her hand up to check it.
Rongshu spread out her palm, revealing her red-hot palm, the corners of her eyes were red, “It’s burned, this lock is very hot, I can’t touch it.”
Fu Jingting’s thin lips pursed out a few moments of coldness, “It seems that the outside of this has long been lit on fire, otherwise this lock could not have become so hot in such a quick time, it would have scalded people at once, there is no way to get out of here.”
The outside had been lit on fire, so naturally the door lock would have been broken.
So there was no point in them being here anymore.
“Let’s go, change positions.” Fu Jingting grabbed Rong Shu’s wrist and led her on to other places.
They could now only pin their hopes on the person who set the fire not knowing all the exits of this factory and missing a door or a window.
Only then would they be able to get out.
As they walked, Rongshu and Fu Jingting took out their mobile phones to call the police.
In case they didn’t find an exit, they would have to pin their hopes on the outside world.
In the time that followed, the two kept looking for a way out at various doors and windows, but without exception, they had all been damaged and could not be opened.
Fu Jingting could not even kick the doors open with force, not even the window gla*s, as it was bulletproof, unless there were professional gla*s smashing tools.
But there were none here.
Because the machines inside the factory were all worth a lot of money, and the individual pieces of equipment were all a few mouths away and worth a lot of money, plus this was a suburban area that was already a bit chaotic, so all these doors and windows were made with the highest end of anti-breaking technology.
Unless one has professional tools, human power would never be able to get them open.
All the doors and windows have been broken down so that no one can get out, and the ones that have not been broken down are ventilation windows located several metres above the head.
These windows were too short and small for a child to climb out of, let alone two adults.
In other words, the two of them were barricaded inside this huge factory.
The factory was huge, 2,000 to 3,000 square metres, and the two of them were already exhausted from running down all the entrances and exits.
By this time, the fire outside had grown even larger, almost enveloping the entire factory.
Although the fire had not yet spread in, it was only a matter of time before it did.
As they stood in the open space inside the factory, they could feel the abnormally high temperature around them.
That was what was coming in from those fires outside.
And it wasn’t just the temperature that was coming in, but also the thick, rolling black smoke.
Rongshu choked and coughed several times, coughing so hard that tears came out of her eyes.
Fu Jingting took out his own handkerchief and covered her mouth and nose, “Cover it, don’t let the smoke get into your lungs.”
The handkerchief had already been wetted with water. When they were looking for the exit, Fu Jingting had a feeling that smoke would come in, so he had wet the handkerchief earlier, just for this moment.
Not to mention, after her mouth and nose were covered, Rongshu instantly felt more comfortable and no longer felt so choked up.
She pressed the handkerchief and looked at the man, her eyes red as she asked, “What about you?”
Knowing that she was worried that he didn’t have anything to cover himself with, Fu Jingting smiled at her before pulling out a white cloth towel, “I have this, I tore a piece off the hem of my shirt earlier, don’t worry, it’s also wet.”
If there had been a quilt here, he would have probably wet it and draped it over them already.
Seeing that the man also had something to cover his mouth and nose, Rongshu was slightly relieved, but the guilt and remorse in her heart was enough to crush her, “I’m sorry, I’m the one who got you into this, if I hadn’t had to come and check out the plant, we wouldn’t have gone through this at all.”
“Don’t talk nonsense, I was the one who wanted to come with you, how is it that you dragged me down with you.” Fu Jingting reached out his hand and rubbed her head, telling her not to think too much about it.
However, how could Rong Shu not think too much about it, her tears fell down in big globs, “It was me who got involved, this is my factory, someone set a fire here, just wanting my life, and you were implicated by me.”
“How do you know that the person who set the fire is the one who wants to kill you and not me?” Fu Jingting looked at her with a deep, dark look, “I have more enemies than you do.”
“But this is my plant ……”
“It doesn’t matter whose place it is, what matters is the person who appears in this place, if it’s directed at me, the other party won’t even care whose place I’m in, as long as there’s a chance to strike, he won’t let go, so you can’t say it’s you who implicates me, more likely, it’s me who implicates you ah.” Fu Jingting squeezed her hand.
Rongshu’s mouth opened and she had nothing to say.
Because it made so much sense.
“So who do you think, then, it could be?” Rongshu had just run up and down the stairs, plus she had just inhaled some smoke, so she was a little dizzy at the moment, so she simply sat down on the ground.
The exit was blocked anyway, so they might as well sit down to keep up their last strength and wait for help from the outside world.
And in the meantime, while the fire hadn’t spread in, they could discuss who was behind the fire.