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"Looks like there's a fire. Let's all go outside to a safe place!" Chen Jinli's reaction was not slow either. He waited for Chen Feng to finish before speaking.

Hearing that Chen Jinli, the captain, had already spoken, everyone naturally got up in unison and ran outside.

When he opened the door to the private room, it was already a complete mess.

In the hall and in the private rooms, there were anxious looks on the faces of the crowd. They pushed and shoved each other, afraid that if they were a step too slow, they would be left behind in the restaurant.

In the lobby of the restaurant, there were thick smoke and scorching hot smoke everywhere.

Many people were choked by the thick smoke, and their mouths and noses were immediately burnt, and their faces were filled with pain. However, even under such a dangerous situation, they still forced themselves to stay in the crowd.

The officers of the Criminal Police team now showed their qualities as a people's police officer. Not only did he not flee first, he even stood on the table one by one, shouting loudly to calm the panicked crowd and maintain the order of evacuation.

With their support, the flustered people also quickly calmed down, alleviating the original pushing and shoving scene. "Pop!" "Pop!" "Pop!" "Pop!" "Pop!" "Pop!" "Pop!" "Pop!"

Moreover, even though the hall was crowded, there were no trampling accidents due to the proximity of the doors.

After a while, more than half of them had already left the restaurant. If there was no surprise, all the troops could evacuate to a safe location within ten seconds.

"Alright, retreat with the crowd." Chen Jinli shouted loudly, and then he followed the crowd that had clearly decreased by a lot as they ran outside.

Chen Feng looked at Chen Jinli with some surprise. Although this man was a bit hateful, he understood the big picture and followed the role of a police officer. During the most dangerous period, he was the first one to climb onto a table to maintain order.

However, even if they retreated, the Criminal Police squad would still be at the back.

"Boom —"

Another huge explosion occurred. A flame sprayed out from the kitchen door frame and burned everything around it.

Immediately, the raging flames burned even more fiercely. Waves of stifling heat swept towards Chen Feng and the others.

"Hmm?" Chen Feng's face suddenly turned gloomy.

In the heat he smelled something that shouldn't have been in the hotel.

The smell of gunpowder!

Although it was very faint, mixed with the stench of all sorts of things being burnt, this smell of gunpowder was still caught by Chen Feng.

It was not only Chen Feng who caught it. The old members of the Criminal Police squad also caught it very clearly. Their eyes were filled with thoughts.

Logically speaking, if there was an explosion in the kitchen, it would at most be a gas explosion, so there shouldn't be a smell of gunpowder. But how did this smell of gunpowder come about?

There was only one possibility …

The kitchen was filled with burning flames, making it impossible for anyone to see what was going on inside. However, Chen Feng was still able to catch a few blurry silhouettes quietly lying in the depths of the flames. Their entire bodies were wrapped in flames, and they were motionless.

It was obvious that these people were most likely the chefs of the Xiang Restaurant. They had been left behind here forever by the sudden explosion.

"Whooosh."

The squad finally made it out of the hotel. Immediately, a cool air made their bodies loosen up.

However, none of them had the joy of surviving a calamity, and their eyes were filled with seriousness.

Looking at the restaurant which had turned into a sea of flames, they knew that this was yet another criminal incident. The criminal had actually detonated the gas in the kitchen, causing the chefs to die on the spot.

As most of the restaurant's decorations were made of wood, the fire in the restaurant grew brighter and brighter. In just a few seconds, it had already spread throughout the entire restaurant.

"Ah, child, my child is gone!" Suddenly, a woman's voice cried out anxiously as she saw a woman in fashionable clothes frantically looking around.

"My child, where are you?" Faced with the disappearance of her child, this fashionable woman no longer cared about maintaining her usual graceful posture, as if she had gone insane.

"Look, there's a child there!" A shocked voice sounded as a man pointed to a corner of the cashier's counter and anxiously shouted.

The cash register of the Xiang Restaurant was located against the wall at the back of the restaurant. At this moment, a child's head peeked out of the cashier counter and looked outside.

The cashier's desk was empty and could easily accommodate the body of a child. Just now, this child must have been hiding under the cashier's counter. When the others had run away, no one had seen him. The child had looked terrified, staring outside while trembling all over. The tears on his face had long since been dried by the scorching heat around him.

"Boom!" A piece of burning wooden ceiling fell down and crashed into the child's face. The resulting sparks splashed all over the child's face.

"Wuuuuuu ~ ~ ~"

Under this kind of shock, the child once again wailed loudly. Even though they couldn't hear the child's crying from so far away, they could still tell from the child's lips that he was calling out "mother".

"Little Treasure, mom is here!" The fashionable woman madly rushed towards the sea of fire. However, she did not expect that she would faint after being disturbed by the thick smoke and hot Lang just a few steps inside.

"Hurry up and save them!" Several members of the Criminal Police team rushed forward, picked up the mother and quickly left the scene.

In just a short while, these team members' hair had been burnt. It was like a bird's nest, sticking to their heads and emitting a terrible stench.

"Captain Chen, the fire is too big. We can't get inside!" A team member roared at Chen Jinli. He was also very anxious about the child's condition.

"I'll give it a try!" Chen Jinli gritted his teeth and tipped the head of a water king in the neighboring shop over. His body quickly passed through the sea of fire and rushed inside.

However, the surrounding flames were like a group of provoked wasps, blotting out the sky and pouncing towards Chen Jinli, causing him to have no choice but to stop in his tracks.

When he was about to charge again, he discovered that there was already a sea of fire in front of him.

A feeling of suffocation slowly crept into his heart. Chen Jinli had no choice but to retreat in a sorry state.

"Look, that cashier's on fire too!" Everyone looked towards the source of the sound and felt as if oil was being poured onto their hearts.

He saw that a fire had already started in one corner of the cashier's desk. Moreover, the fire was visible to the naked eye. He believed that it would be completed within a few seconds. At that time, there would be nowhere for the child to hide!

"Hurry up and save this child." Many people were shouting, but no one dared to rush in to help.

The fire was too big!

"Splash the water for me, I'll try again!" Chen Jinli gritted his teeth and said fiercely.

A few of the team members hastily poured some cold water on him, soaking him in water.

Looking at the surging sea of fire, a trace of determination flashed past Chen Jinli's eyes. He raised his leg and was about to rush over.

"Pa ~ ~"

A pair of hands lightly rested on Chen Jinli's shoulders, causing his body that was about to pounce to abruptly stop.

"Let me do it, Doggie."

_ Extrapolation:

As Little Yellow wrote this chapter, he wondered if he would be scolded by the readers. To write Chen Jinli, who was supposed to be the villain, as such, where is our pleasure?

However, Huang still thinks, the novel still has some so-called human nature. A person might be fussing over things, might be fooling around, but can we determine that he is a bad person? Even if it was a murderer, his true beauty was definitely there, but it was only covered up by his sins, so what about Chen Jinli?

So, Little Yellow still wants to add some positive energy to the book without affecting the book's trend, don't you think that's a good idea? Give me some advice, and I hope to leave a message.