LiShuang saw Chu Xi tied up in the bowling pin area.
Her mouth was sealed, her eyes were red and swollen from crying, and her desperate sobs expressed her panic.
LiShuang's emotions were a little out of control. She took a step forward with the gun muzzle against his forehead: "Let her go!"
The man picked up the bowling ball and stroked the surface. "If you can guess where my ball will hit, I'll let her go."
LiShuang stared at him fiercely, but couldn't see clearly his eyes under the black veil.
BaJie: [Master, this place is indeed fully covered by a surveillance system, as well as a power system. We have also found the security system you mentioned, but it will take some time to crack. Please wait a little longer...]
This was a real situation, a real bowling ball, and it was helpless to do anything but pray that she could survive.
Without waiting for LiShuang to answer, the man lowered his arm, shook the bowling ball, and prepared to roll it towards his head.
The steel needle that LiShuang had been pinching on her fingertips for a long time flew over first.
"Boom—"
The man's tendons went limp, and the bowling ball hit the lane, rolling slowly for some distance before stopping on Chu Xi's soft abdomen.
"Ugh..." Chu Xi cried weakly, but at the same time she breathed a sigh of relief.
"I let you escape a goal." The man pulled out the steel needle that was halfway stuck in his wrist, letting his white gloves stain red, and gave orders in a calm voice.
"Keep an eye on her, the next ball will be called...head strike."
The sneak attack just now didn't seem to anger him, and he took the bowling ball again.
Before being controlled, LiShuang turned sideways, pierced the skin on LiWanwan's neck with the tip of the dagger, and threatened in a cold voice.
"Don't move. You let her come in together, which means you know her."
The tip of the knife in LiShuang's hand stabbed forward diagonally, and there was a sense of intimidation in her voice.
"What exactly do you want me to come for? You can just say it directly. There's no need to beat around the bush."
"Hiss——" LiWanwan frowned, the pain in her neck made her gasp.
The man slowly put down the bowling ball in his hand.
Just when LiShuang felt that she had made the right bet.
"Bang——"
The sound of an unsilenced gunshot filled the entire room, causing people's ears to ring and their hearts to tremble.
LiShuang was stunned.
LiWanwan likes to wear white, and her abdomen is like a blooming rose, quickly spreading into a dazzling red.
The man slowly put down his hand, and his altered voice sounded particularly cold.
"If you had told me earlier that she was so redundant, I would have helped you a long time ago."
"LiWanwan!"
LiShuang's eyes trembled and her heart was in turmoil. Following the force of her fall, she supported her back and slowly squatted down.
"You only believe in yourself..." LiWanwan forced a bitter smile.
And her smile that was overflowing with blood was like a bloody pit that wanted to devour LiShuang's conscience.
LiShuang pressed hard on the wound on LiWanwan's abdomen, her eyes red and tear-filled, and she growled at the man.
"What do you want?"
The man just chuckled a few times oddly. When no one was paying attention, the sunset outside dyed half the sky red, making his white mask look even more eerie.
LiShuang was a little upset: [BaJie, have you found it? ]
BaJie: [Found it! ]
Suddenly, an air raid alarm sounded.
The man glanced outside, but still couldn't see the expression on his face.
"It's really troublesome. Keep an eye on them."
After giving the order, he walked away from the few people.
LiShuang took out a palm-sized bottle from her chest and gave a nervous instruction.
"LiWanwan, hold on..."
LiShuang laid her down, stood up anxiously and turned behind her: "Please, can you find someone to stop her bleeding first?"
Both of them held guns in their arms and ignored her indifferently.
"Squeak——"
LiShuang pointed the small bottle in her hand at the two people, held her breath, covered her mouth and nose, and sprayed it all at once.
The drug took effect quickly. LiShuang simply kicked away the muzzles of their raised guns, and the two men fell to the ground helplessly.
I can only say that I'm thankful when I went back to take LiWanwan, I took the hidden arrow needles that I knew how to use and these fast-acting sleeping pills from the weapon bag prepared by MaoAnan, just in case.
LiShuang ran to the pin area, cut the rope on Chu Xi, and pulled her up with difficulty.
Chu Xi hunched over, crying so hard that she could hardly catch her breath.
"Big...Little...Miss..."
LiShuang wiped away the unfading tears on her face. Her heart was beating like a drum, and she maintained her final calm.
"Don't cry, let's escape first, and you help me too."
Chu Xi felt pain all over her body, but her will to survive made her, despite her petite and fragile body, still force herself to help support LiWanwan who was about to faint.
BaJie listened to LiShuang and found and memorized the floor plan and route map here.
Directing the way: [I turned off the surveillance, there is a safe passage ahead! ]
LiShuang didn't know how much time this false alarm could buy, and she just wanted to escape.
It was not easy to carry LiWanwan, who was about to faint, out of the building. In such a huge manor, she just wanted to find a place to stop LiWanwan's bleeding first.
Within a few hundred meters, a sudden noise broke out. It was the first commotion LiShuang had ever heard in her twenty-plus years of life.
The sounds of explosions, bullets leaving the gun, and knocks and collisions were not the results of sound effects engineers, but real bullets.
This was the first time that LiShuang felt fear towards this world.
Along the unguarded wall, she finally carried LiWanwan for another hundred meters.
"Get in the car."
A black car braked suddenly and stopped in front of them.
When LiShuang saw the person in the driver's seat, she didn't have time to think about how he could find her so accurately. She got in the car without hesitation.
"There is a transport side door in the southwest corner, you can rush out from there."
BaiZe had originally planned to go to that door as well. He nodded calmly, "Sit tight."
...
When it was completely dark, LiShuang lowered her head, stared at her washed palms, and sat awkwardly on a chair in the hospital corridor.
A pair of leather shoes appeared in her peripheral vision.
LiShuang slowly raised her eyes.
ShenJi's intense gaze lingered on her face: "Do you have three heads and six arms? Do you dare to go anywhere?"
The voice blew across LiShuang's cheek like a biting cold wind.
Her face hurt and her heart ached too.
LiShuang lowered her eyes again: "I'm sorry."
BaJie was not convinced: [You don't have a mouth? If you don't go, when he goes, ChuXi might be gone! Why should you apologize to him! ]
LiShuang's mind was in a mess: [But I did put LiWanwan's life on the line. ]
ShenJi handed her a cigarette, remembering that she needed it when she was upset.
LiShuang hesitated for a moment, then slowly reached out to take it: "Thank you."
Seeing that she was half dead, ShenJi sat down beside her, lit a cigarette with his lighter, and then exchanged the lit cigarette with hers.
"Why bring LiWanwan with you?"
"I..." LiShuang held the lit cigarette, feeling remorseful.
Everything about LiWanwan is just my own speculation, there is no actual evidence at all.
Although I felt I was calm enough when I made the decision, now thinking about it, it seems that I was really carried away.
"I'm sorry." LiShuang's voice was very low, as if falling into a valley, sounding empty.
ShenJi lit the cigarette between his fingertips.
"Do you know how dangerous your impulsiveness is?"
His light tone was full of blame.
LiShuang's eyes were filled with bitterness. She felt really aggrieved, as if her entire life was replaying before her eyes.
I was born into a happy family, but one day I suddenly lost everything. I worked so hard to achieve success in my career.
When I opened my eyes, I found that I had nothing and had to live in dire straits.
The more LiShuang thought about it, the more wronged she felt. She shed a tear: [Did I violate the laws of heaven? ]
BaJie felt distressed: [The clouds will clear and the moon will appear...]
ShenJi was surrounded by a lingering haze. He smoked a cigarette and spoke in a calm tone.
"Do you have any clues?"
"I'm sorry." LiShuang apologized again: "No."
She held the cigarette between her fingers, buried her face in her wrist with her forehead, but still admitted the inevitable mistake.
"LiWanwan is injured and is being rescued..."
ShenJi frowned, holding the lighter in his palm without saying a word.
He knew.
He listened to BaiZe.
But he never asked or mentioned it.
He also knew that LiWanwan had saved him when he was a child, and because of saving him, her life was indirectly ruined.
This incident can never be erased or forgotten.
However, if he had to make a choice between the two again.
He would still betray his conscience and would rather the person lying in there were LiWanwan.