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Chapter 175

The other side locked the door and set fire to the place, intending to kill them!

Shen Lingjun immediately ran into the inner room, shouting, "Mother! Get up! Big brother! Dou Niang! The house is on fire!"

Wen had gone to bed fully clothed when she suddenly ran out of the inner room with disheveled hair, looking flustered and terrified.

"What happened? Fire? How could it suddenly catch fire?"

Dou Niang also came out, and Shen Lingjun instructed her: "The door is locked, go and see if you can escape through the window! Shout loudly outside! Tell everyone in the Shen mansion to come and put out the fire!"

Perhaps because a large amount of kerosene had been poured in advance, the fire spread very quickly, and the raging flames soon swept up from all directions, illuminating the room brightly.

Thick, suffocating smoke, accompanied by sweltering heat, pressed in.

Amid the roar of the fire, Shen Lingjun could vaguely hear panicked shouts coming from outside.

With such a large fire, the servants of the Shen family must have discovered it and would certainly have tried to put it out. But the problem is that the fire is now burning extremely fiercely. By the time the people outside bring water to extinguish it, the Thousand Peaks Hall will probably be almost completely burned down, and they inside will surely be burned to a pile of charred bones.

Shen Lingjun rushed into the next room and, with all her might, lifted Shen Jingyang, who had already woken up, onto a wheelchair and pushed him out.

Shen Jingyang said urgently, "Lingjun, don't worry about me, go to Father's side quickly, I'll get out by myself..."

At this point, Wen Shi also exerted a great deal of effort to drag Shen Wei, who was still unconscious, off the bed, carry him on her back, and laboriously move him step by step out of the inner room.

Shen Wei was a tall and strong man, and even though he had lost a lot of weight, he was still quite heavy. Wen Shi was just a frail woman, and she was a head shorter than Shen Wei. Carrying Shen Wei on her back, she was almost invisible under his weight, and every step she took was extremely difficult.

Shen Lingjun instinctively went over to help Wen Shi support Shen Wei, but then realized she couldn't leave Shen Jingyang, who was in a wheelchair, standing there. In a flurry of activity, she didn't know which one to take care of first, and she paced around in circles in a panic.

At this moment, the damselfly rushed over:

"Madam, they've started fighting the fire outside, but judging from the looks of it, we can't expect them to put it out in time! The windows aren't sealed, but they're all blocked by flames! It's not safe to get out through the windows!"

Shen Lingjun's face was covered in sweat as he anxiously looked around, instinctively searching for a place where the fire was weaker.

If it were just her, Wen Shi, and Dou Niang—three able-bodied people—it might be possible to force their way out the window. But the biggest problem is that it's practically impossible for the three of them, along with Shen Wei and Shen Jingyang, two immobile men, to get out of here!

Shen Jingyang gripped his numb legs tightly and said in a deep voice, "Mother, Lingjun, the three of you take Father out together! The three of you should be able to move him!"

He had never hated his two immobile legs as much as he did now. If he hadn't been paralyzed, he could have easily rescued everyone, and they wouldn't be trapped in the fire like this!

Shen Lingjun didn't move. Her eyes were red with anxiety, and the heat made her body feel hot. Sweat dripped from her chin.

Neither she nor Wen could leave Shen Jingyang alone in the fire, because that would mean a death sentence for him!

Even if she were the most rational person, and the best at weighing the pros and cons, she couldn't do it!

But if they don't rush out now, the fire will get bigger and bigger, and they'll be completely trapped. All five of them will die here together!

Just then, a deafening crash came from the door!

"boom!"

Shen Lingjun turned around abruptly and saw that the locked door was completely shattered, with wood chips and fragments flying everywhere.

A figure stood in the open doorway, his long hair and clothes billowing wildly in the strong airflow. The surrounding flames seemed to retreat and parted to make way for him.

Just now, it was he who unleashed that palm strike, which shattered the mountain and broke rocks, directly smashing the door into pieces.