The heartless beauty is addicted to being licked by a seemingly obedient and loyal dog.

The hurried footsteps faded into the distance, eventually being swallowed up by the chirping of insects rising and falling from the depths of the dense forest.

The wastewater discharged from the sewage ditch shimmered with a ghostly green hue under the night sky, and the pungent chemical stench served as a natural barrier.

Song Yunxi dared not go out immediately, fearing that she would run into other people searching for her, so she remained where she was.

Time stretched on endlessly in the darkness and silence.

After an unknown amount of time, the lights in the nearby villages gradually went out, and the sounds of gongs and barking dogs completely subsided.

I looked up at my watch; the hands showed 1 a.m.

"Well……"

Song Yunxi slowly stood up, her body nearly collapsing due to prolonged stiffness.

He crawled out from between the clutter, leaned against the mottled red brick wall, and looked around in the faint moonlight that peeked through the gaps in the clouds.

We must leave before dawn; every inch of this land is fraught with danger.

Close your eyes and visualize the terrain you saw in the room during the day.

Behind the village is a rubber plantation. Passing through that plantation, the terrain begins to rise. Following the border direction of Southeast Asia, as long as you go north, you can get close to the border of China.

On the other side of the border, there are boundary markers and border police patrolling.

Once he gets there, he will be safe.

Song Yunqi crouched low and moved silently toward the rubber plantation along a thicket of overgrown weeds behind the abandoned warehouse, which was no more than knee-high.

The path into the forest was not easy to walk.

The rubber forest at night is eerie and sinister, with rows of straight rubber trees standing like ghostly shadows in the darkness.

The ground was covered with rotting leaves, which were wet and soft underfoot. If you weren't careful, you would sink into the mud and you might also encounter various snakes, insects, and rodents.

Song Yunqi walked very slowly, her hands gently protecting her in front of her, afraid of bumping into the baby.

A dull ache in his lower abdomen reminded him that he wasn't traveling alone.

Every so often, I had to lean against a tree trunk to catch my breath, the cold sweat from my palms soaking the bark.

At three o'clock in the morning, rumbling thunder suddenly rolled across the sky without warning. The tropical climate changed in an instant, and torrential rain poured down.

Large raindrops pounded through the dense rubber tree leaves, pattering down on the young man's thin shoulders.

The rain instantly soaked through his dirty and tattered white shirt, which clung to his skin, taking away the last bit of warmth from his body.

Song Yunxi was drenched in rainwater and couldn't open her eyes. She slipped and fell into a muddy puddle.

The moment he landed, he used all his strength to twist his direction, barely managing to brace himself with his elbows and knees to prevent his body from falling directly to the ground.

Mud splattered half his face, making his already pale complexion look even more haggard, and he looked utterly disheveled.

"Damn you, even you're working against me."

He struggled to his feet and huddled against the roots of a huge soapberry tree. Rainwater streamed down his wet hair and into his eyes, blurring his vision.

The rain lasted for an unknown period of time, until it finally stopped drizzling as the sky began to lighten.

Unfortunately.

Song Yunqi has started to have a fever.

First, a dense chill spread through my bones, then my body temperature soared, and my forehead and neck became alarmingly hot.

The trees in my field of vision began to appear as double images, and even the sound of rain in my ears became distant and blurry.

He bit his tongue hard, the salty taste of blood barely keeping him conscious.

I can't fall here.

The torrential rain lasted for a full two hours.

As dawn broke, the rain stopped, and the air was fresh and moist, carrying the dampness of soft earth.

But Song Yunqi's condition was very bad.

He didn't remember how he got through it; he just kept moving forward.

For the next three days, he struggled forward entirely on instinct and an unyielding determination to defy fate.

There are many streams along the way, so there is no worry about water supply, but food is in short supply.

Without adequate nutrition and with a low-grade fever, Song Yunqi and her baby grew increasingly weak, and her morning sickness worsened.

He picked wild vegetables and fruits, and caught small fish and shrimp in the stream to barely fill his stomach. Fortunately, he had a lighter on him, so he wasn't reduced to eating raw food.

Along the way, he stopped and started, and his white shirt was no longer recognizable as its original color, now covered in yellow mud, bloodstains, and bits of grass.

One of her custom-made leather shoes was washed away while wading through a rocky stream. Her bare foot was covered in blood and gore as she stepped on thorny vines and pebbles.

But Song Yunqi didn't care.

On the evening of the third day, when he finally managed to climb over a mountain using both his hands and feet, he saw the view in the distance.

In the distance, between two towering mountains, a long metal wire fence can be faintly seen.

Behind the barbed wire fence, a border post bearing a red five-pointed star shield emblem was bathed in the afterglow of the setting sun.

That is the border of our motherland.

Hope was right in front of him, only a few kilometers away. A startling light burst forth in Song Yunqi's bloodshot eyes.

The fatigue and pain of the past few days seemed to vanish at this moment. He leaned on a dead tree branch and quickened his pace.

However, before he could even take the first step...

In the silent, dense forest, the sound of regular, rapid footsteps suddenly rang out.

"Shhh..."

It was the sound of standard military boots stepping on dry leaves.

His body suddenly froze.

The bushes diagonally in front were parted by a black gun barrel, and then four mercenaries in camouflage training uniforms, fully armed, walked out expressionlessly.

Not only in front, but also in the surrounding bushes, there were sounds coming from time to time.

A dozen or so people formed a tight encirclement.

Song Yunqi's knees buckled, and she collapsed to the ground. The hope that had just risen in her eyes gradually faded, eventually turning into a cold self-mockery.

"Honey, you've suffered these past few days."

The crowd behind him dispersed, and Lu Jinci walked over slowly.

His Martin boots were clean and tidy, with hardly any mud on them, a stark contrast to the disheveled and down-on-his-luck young man.

The man's face did not show the expected rage, but rather a smug and mocking air of certain victory.

"Run! Why did you stop running?"

He stopped five steps away from Song Yunqi and looked down at her.

His gaze swept over the other person's bleeding left foot and stopped on that handsome face flushed red from a high fever.

"Yunqi, do you really think you can escape from under my nose with your little bit of cleverness?"

"Laos is my territory."

Lu Jinci chuckled softly, took out a delicate tracking device from his pocket, and threw it on the ground.

"There are surveillance cameras and surveillance cameras everywhere here. Even if you hide for three days, or even if you crawl into a crack in the ground, I can still see you clearly."

Song Yunqi's pupils suddenly contracted.

From the very beginning, he was already prey in chains.

In Lu Jinci's eyes, the escape these past few days, this self-righteous rebellion, was nothing more than a wildcat playing with a mouse for amusement.

"I truly like you, and I truly would never hurt you."

"I deliberately revealed a flaw to see if you would obediently listen and test whether you would take the opportunity to escape."

"Unfortunately, you still managed to escape."

Lu Jinci stepped forward and looked down at Song Yunqi.

"They'd rather ruin their bodies like this than turn around and look at me even once."

Song Yunxi stood there, the mountain wind blowing through his filthy clothes, bringing a sharp chill. He didn't speak, but just looked at the man with a cold gaze.

That look instantly chilled the man's smug mood.

"Grab him and take him back."