WHOOSH…
A sudden gust of wind made the raging sea of fire surge. The blaze intensified in an instant, immediately swallowing a courtyard that had just been licked by the flames.
THUMP THUMP THUMP…
The sound of hurried footsteps echoed from the distance as Fang Jingtang arrived at the scene of the fire in the northern sector with a group of his men.
He stared at the raging inferno before him and the flames rapidly spreading eastward, his face ashen and so grim it seemed to drip with menace.
"It's over, it's over... The fire is starting to spread east..." a heavyset minor leader said, his face etched with grief.
He was a veteran member of the Red Blood Gang. Watching their home base get relentlessly devoured by the raging flames, his heart bled.
"Everyone, spread out and search! We have to find that arsonist! I'm going to flay him alive," Fang Jingtang said through clenched teeth, his refined, scholarly demeanor completely gone.
