I Start with a Mysterious Island

Chapter 572: Chapter 368: Flames Light Up the Sky, One Wave After Another

At the flick of his thought, blazing Fireballs the size of watermelons materialized and scattered in all directions, flying toward the silent courtyards.

THUMP.

The Fireballs landed in the quiet courtyards, smashing into rooftops or windows and doors. The resulting sparks ignited the wooden structures.

Before long, the area around Lin Li transformed into a sea of fire, merging with the inferno he had ignited earlier.

’A fire of this scale should be about right. Now, I just have to wait for the targets to make their appearance...’ Lin Li muttered to himself, turning his back on the raging inferno and slipping into a dark alley in the distance.

CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!

The grating sound of brass gongs echoed across the disaster zone. A closer look revealed several Red Blood Gang members holding gongs, each shouting conflicting orders at the dockworkers who had rushed over from the piers to fight the fire.

"The fire over here is getting bigger! Get some people over here to put it out!"

"Over here! Come on, over here! I need people!"

"Dammit, someone get over here! My house is about to catch fire!"

Carrying buckets of water, the dockworkers were ordered to run here and there by the Red Blood Gang members, each with their own agenda. They scurried about like headless chickens, contributing nothing to controlling the blaze.

With no clear command, this haphazard firefighting effort showed no signs of slowing the massive blaze. In fact, it seemed to be getting worse.

"It’s over. My house is on fire."

"Oh no! My house is on fire too! I just bought a brand-new set of expensive furniture, and it’s still inside!"

"Damn it, how is the fire getting bigger the more we fight it? We can’t let this continue!"

In this situation, some members of the Red Blood Gang were only concerned with their own interests, while others worried that the massive fire would burn the Red Blood Gang’s entire headquarters to the ground.

But they all had one thing in common. Regardless of their motives, they were all incredibly anxious as they faced the raging inferno, hoping the flames would be extinguished as soon as possible.

"Stop banging those gongs! From now on, you listen to my command!" Fang Jingtang roared upon arriving at the scene. The Red Blood Gang members who had been banging their gongs and giving random orders immediately fell silent.

"Thirty men, put out the fire over there," Fang Jingtang said, pointing to one burning area. He then pointed to another and issued a new order. "Fifty men, go put out that fire over there."

After the two groups left to follow his orders, he turned to the remaining dockworkers. "You all deal with the burning area right in front of us."

The dockworkers nodded and began to fight the fire. At that moment, Fang Jingtang turned to the idle Red Blood Gang members.

"Don’t just stand there like idiots watching them work! If you don’t want all our property to be burned to a crisp, then grab a bucket and start hauling water!"

"Yes, Gang Leader." Since the Gang Leader himself had spoken, the Red Blood Gang members could no longer stand by and watch. They all went to where the buckets were stored, grabbed one, and started carrying water to fight the fire.

SPLASH! SPLASH! SPLASH!

Bucket after bucket of water was thrown into the inferno. Under their combined efforts, the raging fire’s spread was brought under control, but they were still a long way from extinguishing it completely.

A portly Red Blood Gang minor boss threw a bucket of water into the flames, wiped the sweat from his brow—beading from the intense heat—and spoke to the grim-faced Fang Jingtang.

"Gang Leader, this isn’t going to work! We’ve managed to stop the fire from spreading, but once we’re exhausted, it’s just going to spread rapidly to the unburned areas again..."

How could Fang Jingtang, the one in overall command, not know this? Hearing the minor boss’s words, he answered immediately.

"I know. I never expected us to be able to put out this fire with our strength alone."

"Gang Leader, does that mean we’re just trying to stall the fire until the city’s fire brigade arrives?" the portly minor boss asked.

"Yes," Fang Jingtang said. He then turned to the dockworkers who had been summoned to fight the fire.

"Anyone who fights this fire with all their strength for our Red Blood Gang tonight will be rewarded with a full month’s wages tomorrow!"

Facing the raging inferno, the dockworkers had been afraid of getting burned and hadn’t really been putting in their full effort.

Upon hearing Fang Jingtang’s promise, they all suddenly moved as if they’d been shot with adrenaline, their firefighting actions becoming much more efficient.

"Fuck... so they weren’t even trying before. What a bunch of worthless bastards," the portly Red Blood Gang minor boss cursed, seeing the dockworkers’ movements become much more efficient and immediately understanding why.

"Alright, stop cursing," Fang Jingtang said, raising a hand to signal the minor boss to be quiet. "We need them right now. After the fire is out, we’ll find an opportunity to deal with these worthless bastards."

After all, the top priority was to control the fire and prevent it from burning the Red Blood Gang’s headquarters to the ground.

Just as the crowd brought the fire under control and stopped it from spreading, a Red Blood Gang member suddenly spotted a new glow of fire to the north of their headquarters. Before long, it had grown into a massive blaze, and he cried out in alarm, "This is bad! Another fire has started over there!"

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