The iron gate was locked again from the outside.

Song Yunqi raised her hand, her fingertips tracing the side of her neck.

Blood was seeping from the bite wound, flowing uncontrollably and soaking the white shirt and the palm of the hand.

Sitting idly by and waiting for death has never been his style.

My current physical condition cannot afford any mistakes. Every day I stay with Lu Jinci will double the risk of exposure. Given my current passive situation, I absolutely cannot save the little life in my belly.

Originally, Song Yunqi could have stayed peacefully in the park, quietly waiting for an opportunity to escape.

Because Lu Jinci had already said that he wouldn't hurt him, as long as he obeyed.

But all of this is on the premise that he is not pregnant.

The baby is like a time bomb. Given Lu Jinci's petty and narrow-minded nature, the consequences would be unimaginable if the baby were discovered.

The young man walked slowly to the window, looked out at the courtyard through the gaps in the wooden shutters, and began to silently calculate the time.

Two hours later, as darkness fell completely, mosquitoes from the border swarmed around the dim light bulbs under the eaves. Some people, worried that he would be bitten, lit mosquito coils at the door and brought them in before quietly leaving.

Through observation, Song Yunxi roughly figured out the situation of the guards outside the door.

Although these people carried weapons, they were undisciplined, had not received formal and systematic training, and were accustomed to gathering together to smoke and joke when they changed shifts.

After some time, the sound of dragging leather shoes came from outside the corridor.

It's time to change shifts.

「ညနေကောင်း」

--Good evening.

The two men guarding the door greeted each other in the local language as they approached the other two.

"စီးကရက်ယူလာထားလား၊ တစ်လိပ်ပေးပါ"

—Did you bring any cigarettes? Give me one.

The four men squeezed into a narrow corner of the aisle. One of them took out a pack of cigarettes and started handing them out. They laughed and joked around, making a lot of noise. They didn't notice anything unusual and their vigilance was at its lowest.

Right now.

Song Yunqi quickly returned to the table, picked up the blunt knife used for peeling fruit, hid it in her sleeve, and walked to the wooden window on the other side of the room.

The window latches here had rotted from years of dampness, so he used his shirt to cushion his palms and pushed outwards with force.

"Crunch."

The wooden frame made an unpleasant creaking sound, and splinters of rosewood fell all over the floor.

The window overlooks a blind spot, below which are several bundles of old canvas used to cover supplies.

Song Yunqi stepped onto the windowsill, aimed carefully, bent her knees, and slid down the rough wall.

The moment his foot landed, his knee lurched forward due to inertia, but he quickly braced himself with his palms to prevent his abdomen from being jolted.

Ignoring the bloodstains on his palms from the rubble, he quickly crouched down under the cover of darkness and ran outwards along the shadows at the base of the wall.

There is a drainage outlet at the northwest corner of the wall, and the iron fence has long since rusted and broken.

Song Yunxi gritted her teeth, turned her slender body to the side, and squeezed out through the narrow gap.

Underfoot was a cement path, with weeds growing in the cracks, clearly indicating that no one had walked on it for a long time.

The night was as dark as ink, and the surrounding area was filled with the endless shadows of buildings.

As he passed a bungalow with a stark white light, the young man instinctively slowed his pace and glimpsed the scene inside through a slightly ajar window.

Dozens of men and women sat in rows on simple computer chairs, their bodies covered in injuries, their hands frantically typing on the keyboard.

Several overseers stood in the room, holding batons and looking sinister. If anyone showed the slightest sign of slackness, they would be lashed out with a baton.

The same type of bungalows are densely packed all around.

This place not only has a noodle business, but also a massive telecommunications fraud industrial park.

"What a beast!"

Song Yunxi suppressed her shock and looked away, cursing under her breath before quickening her pace.

Fortunately, due to the negligence of the guards during the shift change that night, he successfully reached a dead spot on the edge of the park where the power grid was cut off.

This place looks like it was deliberately vandalized, probably left by other victims who tried to escape from the park. It's just unknown whether they managed to escape.

He wrapped the broken wire in a wet canvas to prevent his skin from being scratched, and carefully climbed out through the narrow gap.

Finally, they escaped the park.

The ground was no longer the smooth cement in the park, but instead became a wet and sticky yellow dirt road.

The air around us was filled with the distinctive humus smell of the rainforest, and mosquitoes kept buzzing around us. The heat was so oppressive that it was hard to breathe.

Song Yunxi dared not take the main road, and ran along the overgrown path for about half an hour.

A cluster of low-lying stilted houses appeared on the edge of the distant dense forest, with a few dim lights scattered around.

My physical strength was severely depleted, and a sweet, metallic taste rose in my throat.

In order to find a drink of water and a place to rest for the time being, he weakly leaned against the wall and tried to ask for help from an elderly local man who was weaving bamboo strips at the entrance of the village.

The old man had a hunched back and a kind face; he should be willing to help.

However, as soon as he appeared, the old man's cloudy eyes suddenly lit up, flashing a familiar wariness and greed.

Catching a runaway piglet here is a great achievement and can earn you a substantial reward.

Without even listening to him speak, the other person dropped the bamboo strips, turned around and shouted at the village, then quickly pulled out a homemade copper gong hanging from his waist and started banging it hard.

"ဝင်းထဲကလူတစ်ယောက်ပြေးသွားပြီ၊ ဒီကိုအမြန်လာပါ!”

—Someone has escaped from the park! Come to me right now!

The sound of the gong carried far in the silent night sky.

Song Yunqi felt a chill run down her spine and instantly understood.

Here, the surrounding residents and the park are in cahoots, their interests are already intertwined, and the villagers are the park's eyes and ears and the outer guards.

He dared not linger any longer and turned to plunge into the dark, unknown abandoned red-brick warehouse area next to the village.

The warehouse appeared to be used to store scrap plastic pipes, and it was surrounded by weeds.

He used the blunt knife to pry open a loose wooden window and disappeared into the deathly darkness.

There is a lot of waste here.

Song Yunqi found a hidden crevice among the towering pipes.

He spread an old cardboard box on the ground and slumped down, exhausted.

Before they could even catch their breath, an alarm suddenly blared in the silent night sky.

Then, a chaotic and fierce barking sound came from afar.

These are likely hunting dogs used by the park specifically to track down escapees.

Lu Jinci's men, leading dogs, relentlessly pursued him, following the scent of blood he had left behind.

「ဟိုဘက်ကိုသွားရှာ။」

—Go look over there!

The harsh local language, accompanied by hurried footsteps, echoed continuously from the weeds outside the warehouse.

The vicious dog sniffed the ground, frantically pawing at the dirt, getting closer and closer to the abandoned pipe where it was hiding.

"Damn, they caught up so quickly..."

Song Yunqi pressed herself tightly against the casing of an abandoned generator next to the sewage pipe, afraid to breathe loudly, biting her lower lip until a strong salty and fishy taste filled her mouth.

Fortunately, the sewage pipe had recently discharged wastewater, and the pungent odor in the surrounding area interfered with the hunting dogs' sense of smell.

The pursuing crowd passed by the generator without noticing anything unusual.

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