Chapter 2656 — His Sleeve Caught Fire
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"Haha, this Hundred-Drunk Centipede really works!" Seeing Shen Yushu collapse outright, Zhong Yongliang was overjoyed, his confidence doubling, and he was filled with hope for his contest with Wei Zhao that afternoon. In his elation he said to Gao Xiaofu: "Give me the phone—I'll call Yaoyao and have her come take Shen Yushu back!"
"Okay!" Gao Xiaofu hurriedly handed the phone to Zhong Yongliang. Zhong Yongliang had been practicing martial arts earlier and it was inconvenient to carry the phone on him, so he had given it to Gao Xiaofu to keep.
Taking the phone, Zhong Yongliang dialed Gu Mengyao's number directly.
Shen Yushu had gone to scout out the situation, and Gu Mengyao had ordered food in the cafeteria and was waiting for her to return when she suddenly received Zhong Yongliang's call, which filled her with a sense of unease. "Hello? Zhong Yongliang, what is it?"
"Yaoyao, something terrible has happened—Little Shu suddenly fainted!" Zhong Yongliang said urgently.
"What? Little Shu fainted? What happened?" Gu Mengyao was alarmed and sprang to her feet. Paying no mind to the meal on the table she had not yet had time to eat, she ran straight out of the cafeteria and headed toward the park behind the school.
"I don't know either. Little Shu said she wanted to watch me practice martial arts, so I performed for her, and then she suddenly fainted for no apparent reason. I didn't dare move her, for fear it was some acute illness flaring up, and that moving her would only make things worse..." Zhong Yongliang said.
"Brother Liang... you..." Zhong Yongliang was still explaining things to Gu Mengyao when Gao Xiaofu cut in from the side.
"Xiaofu, don't talk for now—whatever it is, it can wait!" Zhong Yongliang interrupted Gao Xiaofu impatiently, then continued to Gu Mengyao: "Yaoyao, hurry to the park behind the school. Propriety between men and women, you know—it wouldn't be proper for me to carry her to the school infirmary..."
"Okay, I'll be right there!" Gu Mengyao said, then hung up and quickly called Wei Zhao, telling him about Little Shu fainting and asking him to hurry to the small park behind the school as well.
After hanging up, Zhong Yongliang finally looked at Gao Xiaofu. "Xiaofu, what is it? You're in such a rush—didn't you see I was on the phone with Gu Mengyao? What if something slipped out?"
"No, Brother Liang, your sleeve..." Gao Xiaofu pointed at Zhong Yongliang's sleeve, his expression one of horror.
"What's wrong with my sleeve?" Zhong Yongliang asked, startled and uncomprehending.
"Your sleeve—it's smoking..." Gao Xiaofu said, and then suddenly cried out in alarm: "Oh no, your sleeve is on fire..."
"What?" Startled, Zhong Yongliang then noticed that the clothes on his body were already smoking, and flames were leaping from his sleeve! This frightened him badly: "What's going on? What happened to my sleeve? How did it catch fire?"
Even as he shouted, Zhong Yongliang threw himself to the ground and began rolling rapidly. He knew a thing or two about emergency measures for clothes catching fire and knew this could put out flames, but it did no good. He rolled several times on the ground, yet the flames on his sleeve still blazed fiercely!