Chapter 172 - Escape
Xiu i’s body was almost at its limit. She was barely holding on to her senses when the door of the room opened once again.
Her vision was already hazy with the fatigue and her panic attack combined. She sensed quite several people outside the room. She gritted her teeth and made up her mind.
Back then when she was kidnapped with Ying Yue, she chose to stay put and waited for her family to rescue them. And look at what that resulted to. It was the decision she deeply regrets.
And she’s not going to choose that option the second ti around.
Xiu i would have to escape.
She has to save herself on her own for now.
If she doesn’t do anything right now, she knew that her ending is already set by then. With her body’s current situation, she won’t be able to fight back against all of them. She’ll be like a fish waiting to be chopped and cooked under their rcy.
Grabbing the nearest object she could put her hands on, she pushed herself up to stand upright and walked over to the entrance. As soon as the first guy tried to step inside, she imdiately smashed the wood on his head and pushed him away.
She was going to lose if she really faced all of them, so she gritted her teeth, and using all her energy left, she sprinted away from those n.
Thank god that she really grew up with her brothers. Running in this uneven ground and speeding up is quite an easy feat since she often played tag in the secluded areas back when they were young.
Xiu i heard them screaming behind her and she quickly picked up her speed.
She can’t stop.
She must not stop.
She mustn’t look back.
She has to look forward.
Else, all that attempt of her escape would go down the drain.
She won’t be able to push them away nor fight them.
So, Xiu i, you have to run.
This is what Xiu i repeated inside her head as she continued running away. She was running barefooted, but Xiu i pressed on and ignored the sharp small rocks and branches that she stepped on.
Sohow, she felt that she was already completely numb with pain with all the pain she was having all over her body. Or maybe it was the adrenaline rush.
She stayed away from the sound of water that she could hear from afar.
That path is too predictable. Wan Wan and the others would surely look for her near any body of water since it’s a person’s instinct to stay close to the waters if they want to live.
But she won’t do it.
Both options will get her killed. Hence, she ran opposite to the sound of water.
She didn’t know how long she had been running but she thought she must already be pretty far since she couldn’t hear any voices from behind her anymore. All she could hear was her heavy breathing and panting as she continued to go down the slope.
Ten minutes of continuous running later, her body completely gave up on her.
She tripped and fell multiple tis. She hissed in pain while looking at the infected large gash on her knee.
She took a deep breath and looked up at the moon hanging on the night sky.
"Lu Chen... where are you?" She murmured to herself as she held onto the hope that Lu Chen would find her soon.
She knew that the mont she went missing, Lu Chen would definitely look for her and save her as soon as possible.
She trusted him so much that she was confident that he would be able to find her very soon. That’s why she dared to escape from that imprisonnt and stayed away from her basic need which is water.
Xiu i is an independent woman that would never bend her back to anyone. But she was Lu Chen’s wife. It didn’t matter if their foundation isn’t about love, because what they developed over the years was trust.
It may have been shaken quite recently but it would never crumble.
And Lu Chen never let her down even if it’s about work or family.
Hence, Xiu i willingly placed her cards for Lu Chen. He will find her.
He will.
So while waiting for him to co, she needs to hide first.
Xiu i scanned her surroundings. She was thankful that the place she was brought to was near the forest. At least it would prove difficult for them to look for her especially in the dark.
She looked for a large trunk that could hide her body and leaned back on it. Her panic attack that seed to disappear temporarily a while ago was coming back.
She bit her lip and took continuous deep breaths. Tears were already coming out of her eyes and the pain that she couldn’t feel before was attacking her full force.
It hurts!
Xiu i whimpered in pain as she struggled which part of her body to soothe.
It really hurts!
She couldn’t breathe and her body was hurting all over.
Goddamit, it fudging hurts!
Xiu i opened her eyes and looked at the plants growing beside the roots of the tree she was leaning on. Without much thought, she grabbed a nearby plant and forcibly pulled it causing it to be uprooted.
She looked at it closely and examined whether she could recognize it or not if this was safe for consumption. Thankfully, it was one of the edible ones she could recognize.
She didn’t worry whether the plant was dirty or anything at all. After all, the plant looked cleaner than her as of the mont. Her clothes were tattered and since she was forced on the ground several tis by Wan Wan, Xiu i was already disheveled and covered with mad. Her open wounds were probably already infected by now.
Xiu i ate the plant to fill her belly and at least to gain so energy. She couldn’t find the energy to move or stand up anymore so Xiu i ate whatever was within her reach that’s edible.
After eating, she laid still under the tree. She closed her eyes but she didn’t sleep. Her guard is still on high alert on any small noises or people that might suddenly appear. If that happens, she needs to run away imdiately. She can’t let herself be found or all the effort will all for naught.
She sat motionless like to for almost an hour. With her body in a state of rest, her eyes felt heavy. She was too exhausted hence her body already wanted to sleep but her mind scread that she cannot just sleep randomly here.
This ti, her body won.
Xiu i didn’t notice that she had already fallen asleep in the middle of the wilderness.
On the other side of the forest, what Xiu i didn’t know was that the person she had been calling for countless tis has already appeared near her.
"Ying Wan Wan already disappeared when we arrived at the scene, Boss." Lu Shao reported to Lu Chen through the wireless communicator.
"Keep looking for her." Lu Chen coldly said. "Don’t stop until you find her. Bring her back to the headquarters once you find her."
"Understood."
And then their line cut off.
"Did you find any clues?" Lu Chen turned to Lee In who was designated to look for Xiu i who disappeared in the locked room. After killing the six n who seed to be running back then, she didn’t hesitate to kill five of the n and kept the other one barely alive. She interrogated that person to ask nicely where Xiu i was and that person happily answered her before she twisted his neck so he could sleep forever.
She inford Lu Chen that the Young Mada disappeared and that she was suspected to be sowhere in the forest so Lee In mobilized her n to scatter and look for her.
After following the trail of the six n, she looked for so clues to where she might have gone. Lu Chen followed after her as soon as he received the report as well.
Lee In reported the clues she found at the scene.
"I found so blood in so of the rocks on the ground. The tallic sll is quite faint but I can confirm that it’s the scent of blood."
Lu Chen’s blood ran cold.
The sll of blood? Countless possibilities already appeared in his mind and all of them were Xiu i either injured or dead while covered in her blood.
Did she get too injured? Or was she... Lu Chen didn’t dare to think anymore.
He followed Lee In to where she was talking about and took a deep breath to sll the air.
Indeed. There’s still a hint of that familiar tallic sll. Lu Chen slightly relaxed when he realized that it didn’t sll strong at all.
He also saw the trail of blood that Lee In was talking about and based on these, at least he could conclude that Xiu i was probably not extrely injured as he thought she was.
She was still able to escape from the clutches of the six n and ran away along this difficult path.
Despite that, Lu Chen’s fist still tightened.
Still, that doesn’t change the fact that his wife was injured sowhere in the forest, alone.
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