?62: Chapter 61: The Great Jinding Fire 62: Chapter 61: The Great Jinding Fire Wang Dadong’s face showed no sign of pain as he grinned, “I didn’t really think much about it just now.

    I was just worried that the smoke would burn President Lin, so I used my hand to block it.”

    After last night’s incident, Lin Shiyan had decided that she would definitely ignore this guy from now on.

    Before she even entered the door, she saw Wang Dadong leisurely smoking there, so she came over to give him a lesson.

    But who would have known Wang Dadong quickly snuffed out the cigarette and stood up straight, leaving her no opportunity to fault him.

    Yet, unexpectedly, the usually honest Yang Jian, for some reason got a crazy idea and when he saw her coming, he still had the cigarette in his mouth, leading to the previous scene.

    “Does it hurt?”

    “No, it doesn’t.”

    Damnit, this was the perfect bloody chance to show off.

    Even if it killed me, I couldn’t admit it hurt.

    Wang Dadong looked stern, as if the cigarette butt had not burned his hand at all.

    The receptionist’s eyes were as wide as saucers by this point; she couldn’t believe that this usually jestful guy could be so manly at the critical moment.

    That was a scalding cigarette butt, reportedly several hundred degrees!

    He didn’t even blink an eye, and she couldn’t help but change her view of Wang Dadong.

    Women and men tend to see things differently.

    The receptionist saw that Wang Dadong had blocked the scalding cigarette butt with his hand, preventing Lin Shiyan from getting burned.

    But in the men’s eyes, what they saw was that Wang Dadong had nearly touched the Female CEO’s face!

    Moreover, most critical was that the icy Female CEO, instead of getting angry, seemed actually grateful towards Wang Dadong.

    The jealousy in their hearts could no longer be described by the flowing river waters.

    If they could touch the icy Female CEO even once, forget about being burned by a cigarette butt, even if it was red-hot iron...

    well, perhaps not.

    “I have medicine in my office, do you want to come and apply some?” Lin Shiyan said with a frown on her delicate brow.

    “No need, this little injury is nothing.

    I still have work to do, President Lin, please go ahead with your tasks,” Wang Dadong said indifferently.

    Wang Dadong’s words made stars appear in the receptionist’s eyes again.

    So manly.

    If it were any other man, they’d definitely seize the chance to spend more time with the icy Female CEO.

    What a great opportunity to go to the Female CEO’s office, but Wang Dadong had rejected it.

    “Brother Wang, thank you just now,” Yang Jian finally said, sweating profusely, not until Lin Shiyan had entered the elevator.

    If not for Wang Dadong blocking the cigarette with his hand, the consequences would have been unimaginable.

    At this moment, Yang Jian’s heart was breaking.

    Why, when it was also about smoking being discovered by the Female CEO, was the treatment so different?

    “Cough cough, as brothers, we should help each other,” Wang Dadong laughed, though in his heart he was extremely grateful to Yang Jian.

    Thanks to Yang Jian, he had quickly made up with the Female CEO.

    Otherwise, she might not have bothered with him for a month.

    Suddenly, a piercing alarm sounded.

    Two streams of thick smoke then billowed out from Jinding Building’s second floor and sixteenth floor simultaneously.

    “It’s a fire, a fire has broken out!” someone yelled, and immediately, the whole Jinding Building became noisy.

    “Shit, there’s a fire, run!” Zeng Xiaozhang was the first to run out of the office.

    “Brother Wang, we should run too,” Yang Jian said, slightly scared as he saw a large crowd rushing out of Jinding Building.

    Wang Dadong frowned, “Run for what?

    There’s a fire at the company, as security personnel, we should work together to control the fire.

    Even if we can’t extinguish the blaze, we still need to ensure the safety of the clients in the building.”

    “Right, we shouldn’t run.

    Everyone, stay calm!

    All security team members, follow my command.

    It’s time to put what we practiced in fire drills to use!”

    At that moment, Security Captain Li Ping somehow found a handheld megaphone and shouted to the crowd.

    All security personnel immediately assembled.

    “Zhang Dong, you and Lai Tao immediately go check the fire situation and report to the fire center,”

    “Zhou Ming, you go and open the emergency exits, try to keep the crowd orderly as they leave the building.”

    “...”

    “Everyone else, go fight the fire!”

    It was evident that Li Ping was still very professional, methodically issuing commands.

    However, the Jinding Building had too many people; just the employees from Shiyan and Xueyun Group numbered over a thousand, not to mention at least another two thousand customers.

    “Everyone, do not panic, let the elderly, women, and children go first.”

    The crowd frantically ran out of the stairwells, despite the security guards trying to maintain order, it was all in vain.

    The scene quickly spiraled out of control!

    “Let me go first!”

    “Don’t push me!”

    At that moment, the ugly side of human nature was revealed.

    In their haste to escape the building first, they tossed aside all consideration for the vulnerable.

    Wang Dadong personally saw a man push a cleaning lady in her fifties to the ground.

    Seeing that the cleaning lady was about to be trampled by the crowd, Wang Dadong sprinted over and helped her up.

    “Thank you, young man,” the cleaning lady said, her face showing relief from a narrow escape.

    If Wang Dadong hadn’t helped her up, she might have been trampled to death by the crowd.

    This scene was not only on the first floor of the Jinding Building; similar scenes could be seen on almost every floor.

    Of course, there was also a brighter side, as some people took on the role of security to help disperse the crowd in the stairwells.

    After helping several older people, Wang Dadong prepared to head to the 19th floor, where Lin Shiyan was still located.

    However, the elevators were out of service, and both the fire escape and the stairs were packed with people, making it impossible for him to go up.

    Wang Dadong was anxious and helpless, only able to temporarily help with evacuating the crowd.

    The fire seemed to be getting worse, with smoke having spread to over ten floors of the building, and the firefighters had yet to arrive.

    “What’s the situation now?” Li Ping asked, holding up a megaphone.

    “Most of the crowd has been evacuated, but the fire on the eighteenth floor is too intense, President Lin and President Qin and others are still trapped up there,” a security guard replied.

    “When will the firefighters get here?”

    “The fire department is stuck in traffic, it will take another half an hour to get here,” the security guard named Zhang Dong answered.

    “Is there anyone willing to go up with me to rescue them?” Li Ping scanned the security guards.

    The guards all looked down, they were just hired security, helping to disperse a crowd was one thing, but risking their lives to save people was more than most were willing to do.

    After all, those needing rescue were on the nineteenth floor; even if they didn’t die from burning, they could still be suffocated by the smoke.

    “I’ll go!”

    Just then, a security guard had already rushed into the fire escape.