Lin Sanjiu was generally an upright person, except when it ca to battles.
In terms of combat power, she was probably capable of handling a group of people, including Tan Zhang. However, this was the territory of the Night Wanderers after all. If she got entangled with them for too long, the battle would turn into a war of attraction with the constant arrival of reinforcents. What she lacked the most at the mont was ti.
Therefore, in this sudden and rapid battle, she didn’t focus on the enemies at all.
With a loud bang, several sparks of electricity jumped within the billowing white smoke, shattering the mist like miniature lightning bolts. The ceiling cracked, and a few electrical wires with peeled insulation dropped down, swaying back and forth in the smoke, waiting to ensnare soone.
"Be careful!" Tan Zhang shouted angrily in the thick smoke. "Don’t let her cause any more damage! Stop her!"
Including the piece of ceiling just now, Lin Sanjiu had already damaged four or five places in an instant. She had no intention to engage in a prolonged battle and instead maneuvered between the enemies, trying to make her way out while causing as much destruction as possible—after all, it wasn’t her ship. Moreover, both she and the Night Wanderers knew that the Ocean Voyager was currently in space, and this was not a ti to tolerate destructive risks.
Tan Zhang and his team had made so preparations to capture her, but once their trump card, a telephone booth that could instantly trap a target for 15 seconds, lost its effectiveness against Route 300, a few of the others panicked. The area was in chaos: in the perating acrid smoke, many exposed electrical wires hung in the air, and sparks of electricity jumped, ready to strike soone’s leg at any mont. Faint creaking sounds ca from sowhere, as if a structural support had been hit. The frantic group of people couldn’t attend to everything and, in the midst of the chaos, Lin Sanjiu seized the opportunity. She swiftly created a small tornado behind her, and just as soone exclaid, she vanished into the depths of the corridor.
"A few of you stay here, the rest co with in pursuit!"
She faintly heard Tan Zhang’s loud command from a distance.
So, there were probably two pursuers behind her... Of course, if they couldn’t catch up to her, Tan Zhang would definitely call for reinforcents. As she ran, Lin Sanjiu glanced at the surveillance caras in the corners of the ceiling. These devices were installed on the ship before doomsday, and she didn’t know if the Night Wanderers had utilized them. But just to be safe, she needed to find a place without surveillance caras to hide.
Fortunately, there was such a place.
Not only were there no surveillance caras, but Tan Zhang and the others probably wouldn’t think she would go there... What’s more, it was a place she should have visited anyway.
Relying on her mory, Lin Sanjiu changed direction and dashed towards the residential area of the Night Wanderers. However, not only did the pursuers continue to chase her, but as she got closer to her destination, there were more people on the way. Unlike the surface society, once Tan Zhang shouted, the mbers of the Twelve Worlds on the ship would quickly block her—she, who was running frantically and seed suspicious. The hurried footsteps behind her were gradually getting closer, and she knew that if she turned one more corner, Tan Zhang would be able to see her again. Lin Sanjiu was anxiously trying to figure out what to do when, at that critical mont, an orange transport trolley ca from the opposite direction in the corridor. It humd as it passed by her, and the wooden crates on the trailer were neatly arranged.
Great, that’s it!
Taking a quick look around and seeing that no one paid attention to this direction, she imdiately pushed off the ground and leaped onto the trolley. The trailer shook under her weight, and she imdiately bent down and hid herself between two wooden crates—almost at the sa ti, the driver’s gaze also glanced through the rearview mirror.
There was nothing in the rearview mirror except the wooden crates, and he seed to mutter sothing before withdrawing his gaze.
"Where is she?"
After Lin Sanjiu hid herself, she finally heard the voices of Tan Zhang and the other person in the distance. They looked around in both directions of the corridor, clearly confused about how she suddenly disappeared. Their voices asking passersby ("Did anyone rush out of this corridor just now?") grew more distant and were eventually completely replaced by the light humming of the trolley. When their shadows finally disappeared from sight, she let out a long breath.
After a while, when she jumped off the trolley, she could go straight to the residential area. Now she needed to see if she still had the mask...
As she searched through her card inventory one by one, the driver was talking loudly on the radio.
"Yeah, I don’t know which bastard did this! What’s the point of stealing electrical supplies? Oh, you’ve heard about it too... Yeah, when we were moving the cargo, we found that one of the boxes was half-empty... Damn it, I won’t take responsibility..."
Taking advantage of his engrossed conversation, Lin Sanjiu quietly put on the final middle-aged man mask and stood up without making a sound. When the trolley slowed down and made a turn, she gracefully descended to the ground like a droplet sliding down the side of a cup. She wasn’t very familiar with the layout of the Ocean Voyager, so she had to compare it with the map in her mind and explore, which took so ti before she finally returned to the crew’s residential area.
Casually, she walked among the bustling crew mbers, and no one paid any attention to her. That was the advantage of the middle-aged man mask. If she could appear as if weathered by wind and frost, she would be even less noticeable.
As Lin Sanjiu marveled at the effectiveness of the mask in her mind, she knocked on Octo’s door.
"I... I can’t, " soone protested in the distance, murmuring hesitantly, "I really don’t have ti right now—"
"You’re already here," another person commanded with a strong tone, and it was unclear what the two of them were arguing about, "Just do it if it’s convenient for you. Hurry up, you wouldn’t make do it myself, would you?"
Lin Sanjiu heard the words, but she didn’t take them to heart. She knocked on the door again and waited for a while, but there was no response.
Could Octo’s roommate also be out?
Regardless of whether soone was inside or not, she had to figure out a way to get in. First, it was to avoid Tan Zhang’s pursuit, and second, it was to lie in wait for an opportunity.
But how could she get in?
She glanced to the side and saw the middle-aged janitor, who was still engaged in an argunt with another mber of the Night Wanderers about cleaning the room. The middle-aged man seed reluctant to clean for the other person and was suppressing his temper. It looked like they were about to start quarreling. Lin Sanjiu thought for a mont and then loudly called out to him, "Hey, co over here!"
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