Just as the guards outside were screaming in panic, the fire inside the warehouse had already spread.
While the fire had not yet engulfed the entire warehouse, Song Jinshan and his daughter quickly ran towards the secret passage entrance.
However, just as they ran past the decoys, the two decoys, who should have been unconscious, suddenly stood up.
"You..."
Seeing the two suddenly awaken, the father and daughter's expressions instantly changed.
How did they wake up?
What should they do now?
As the two of them were stunned, the man and woman suddenly pounced forward, grabbing them.
"Zhao Ying, save me!"
Song Lianxin's face was full of panic, and she instinctively cried out to Zhao Ying for help.
Zhao Ying looked back and instructed the man and woman, "Just knock them out, don't kill them!"
If they were only knocked out, the raging fire would surely wake them up, leaving traces of their struggle.
They needed to prevent the coroner from examining the bodies and confirming that they were suicides rather than murders.
At his words, the man holding Song Jinshan showed a hint of displeasure and retorted to Zhao Ying in an ill-tempered manner, "You don't need to tell us how to do our job!"
Hearing their words, Song Lianxin and her father's eyes widened in shock.
These two people were with Zhao Ying?
They hadn't been unconscious at all before?
These two were just pretending to be unconscious to knock out the father and daughter, to prevent them from escaping?
Suddenly, they seemed to understand everything.
A trap!
This was a trap designed for them by Zhao Jianzhi and Master Leng!
These two beasts never intended to help them; they only wanted to silence them!
Endless grief and indignation surged like an overwhelming tide.
"Zhao Ying, you're not human!"
Song Lianxin's eyes were bloodshot, and she roared in grief and anger.
"You yourselves are too foolish!"
Zhao Ying snorted, "If you want to blame someone, blame Shen Jing!"
With that, Zhao Ying entered the secret passage without looking back, completely unaware that someone outside the passage was holding a stick, ready to play whack-a-mole.
Song Lianxin's eyes were bloodshot, and just as she was about to call for help, a palm strike landed on her neck.
Song Lianxin only managed a muffled groan before she fell unconscious.
At the same time, the man holding Song Jinshan also knocked him out with a palm strike.
The two of them dropped the unconscious father and daughter, quickly followed Zhao Ying into the secret passage, put the cornerstone back in place, and even used a small stone to completely jam it.
"Fire!"
"Quick, put out the fire!"
"Hurry..."
At this moment, the area outside the warehouse was already in chaos, and the blazing fire, aided by the wind, was constantly spreading to the surrounding areas of the warehouse.
The entire cloth workshop was filled with flammable materials, and with the help of the night wind, the fire quickly spread.
The fire in the warehouse had also spread from the entrance to the inside of the warehouse.
Accompanied by a strong burning sensation, the unconscious Song Lianxin suddenly woke up.
"Ah..."
Song Lianxin let out a heart-wrenching scream, and then coughed repeatedly amidst the thick smoke.
Looking at the fire that surrounded her, Song Lianxin's eyes were bloodshot, and her face was filled with grief and indignation.
Beasts!
Zhao Ying and Zhao Jianzhi, that father and son pair, were both beasts!
May they die a terrible death!
Song Lianxin cursed repeatedly, and also kept shouting, "Help! Help..."
However, even outside the warehouse, it was already a chaotic mess; who would rush into the warehouse to save her?
"Cough, cough..."
Song Lianxin coughed continuously, and in addition to her grief, an endless unwillingness welled up in her heart.
She couldn't die!
She absolutely couldn't die!
She had to find a way to live!
Only by living could she get revenge!
With this belief, Song Lianxin struggled to crawl towards the secret passage entrance, using all her strength to push the stone blocking the entrance.
However, this stone had been completely jammed, and even if she used all her might, she couldn't move it at all.
"Ah..."
"Move! Move, quickly!"
"I don't want to die, I can't die!"
The intense burning sensation made Song Lianxin scream in despair, hitting the stone helplessly.
She couldn't die!
Song Lianxin cried bitterly, her face covered in tears of despair.
Suddenly, Song Lianxin seemed to remember something and abruptly looked back at another corner of the warehouse.
The cat hole!
Rats often entered the warehouse to gnaw on the silks and fabrics, so they had left a cat hole in the warehouse.
Some time ago, there was continuous autumn rain, and to prevent a large amount of moisture from entering the warehouse, they had temporarily blocked the cat hole with a wooden board.
The cat hole was very small, and he certainly couldn't pass through it directly.
But that small cat hole was her only chance to live right now.
A strong will to survive stimulated Song Lianxin.
Song Lianxin no longer cared about anything else, she grabbed a piece of unburnt fabric and waved it to drive away the flames, stumbling towards the cat hole in the corner, enduring the scorching heat of the fire, and pushing aside the silk rack that had already caught fire next to the cat hole.
Moving the wooden board that blocked the cat hole, a cat hole about the size of a bowl appeared in front of Song Lianxin.
Seeing this cat hole, Song Lianxin seemed to see hope, and quickly began to pry at the bricks and stones around the cat hole with her hands.
"Ah..."
The burning of the fire made her scream in pain, but she couldn't care less about that.
After she pried a few times with all her might, a brick finally loosened.
"There's hope! There's hope!"
"I can't die! I can't die!"
Song Lianxin was like a madwoman, constantly encouraging herself, even though her hands were already covered in blood from prying, she seemed to feel no pain at all, still desperately prying at the bricks and stones.
Just as Song Lianxin was desperately prying at the bricks and stones, Song Jinshan and Wang Zan, who were being scorched by the raging fire, also woke up one after another.
"Ah..."
The two in the raging fire were in extreme pain, constantly letting out heart-wrenching screams.
"Zhao Jianzhi! Zhao Jianzhi! Ah..."
Song Jinshan rolled and screamed in the raging fire, his twisted face full of intense hatred.
On his other side, the weak Wang Zan, driven by instinct, used all his might to push the stone at the entrance of the secret passage.
However, just like Song Lianxin before him, he pushed for a long time, but the jammed stone remained motionless.
Song Lianxin heard Song Jinshan's screams, but she only wanted to live now and had no time to worry about anything else.
With her continuous efforts, she finally pried open a few more bricks.
Under the strong will to survive, Song Lianxin endured the pain and laboriously squeezed into the opened hole.
"Ah!"
The hole was still a bit small, and Song Lianxin had to use all her strength to squeeze out.
After a painful struggle, Song Lianxin suddenly felt her body loosen and finally squeezed out of the hole.
The moment Song Lianxin squeezed out of the hole, the stone that had blocked the secret passage entrance was laboriously pushed open from the inside.
"Save me, save me..."
Seeing Du Heng's head poking out of the hole, Wang Zan couldn't help but become extremely excited, constantly shouting and pleading.
Du Heng glanced into the smoke-filled warehouse but did not see Song Jinshan and his daughter.
Forget it!
If they died, they died!
Anyway, Zhao Ying and his Sunzi had already been caught; they could just interrogate them thoroughly later!
Hmm?
Interrogate Zhao Ying?
Du Heng's eyes suddenly lit up, and a wicked smile suddenly appeared on his face.
As that wicked thought emerged, Du Heng grabbed Wang Zan's outstretched hand and pulled Wang Zan into the secret passage...