The aloof military doctor arrives at the unit, and the tough guy can't sit still.

Lu Zhenghan didn't say anything more, and walked out without even touching the bottle of soda.

Xia Qiuran isn't the type to be lazy or avoid peace and quiet; something must have happened to her, otherwise she wouldn't have been gone for so long.

Lu Zhenghan searched the entire teaching building from top to bottom.

This place consists of classrooms and teachers' offices. He asked around and found that no one had seen any pretty female classmates, or even any unfamiliar faces.

He then ran to another old building that wasn't worth visiting. Because of its age, no students used to attend classes there anymore; it was usually just used as a laboratory or a place to store teaching materials.

After searching twice without success, just as Lu Zhenghan was about to go back to the principal to mobilize more people to search, the fat aunt from earlier suddenly started cursing to herself from the other side.

"Who is this? They have no sense of decency at all. They dropped their soda bottle and didn't even throw it away. Soda is all over the floor, and it's so sticky, it's hard to clean up."

Soft drinks!

How could there be soda in a place where nobody usually comes?

His years of military experience told him that this matter was by no means simple, so he quickly ran to Aunt Pang.

He picked up the bottle and looked at it. There were still lipstick marks on the straw. He also checked the degree of evaporation of the soda on the ground.

It's so hot, yet there's no evaporation at all; it must have been sprinkled recently.

Based on the spill marks, Lu Zhenghan quickly located the spot where the soda had first fallen.

"This is because the soda was spilled and then someone kicked it hard. That's so mean! Do they think this is a football field?"

The plump aunt followed Lu Zhenghan's gaze and, upon seeing him mimicking the actions of that scene, angrily cursed him out.

"Where is the key to this room?" Lu Zhenghan asked anxiously, glancing at the locked door beside him.

Auntie Pang then noticed that the door was locked, and she was puzzled for a moment. The lock was usually hung on the door for easy access, and it was only locked when she left work.

"Hey, who locked the door? The key is with our class monitor."

After saying that, he seemed to realize something was wrong, and said to Lu Zhenghan with a stern face,

"This place is full of our school's junk. What do you need the key for? According to the rules, outsiders are not allowed to come in here."

Lu Zhenghan had no time to pay attention to the fat aunt and kept banging on the door, but the door was made of sheet metal and he couldn't break it open.

"Xia Qiuran. Xia Qiuran, are you inside?"

"This is a storage room, how could anyone be here?"

The plump aunt assumed that Lu Zhenghan and the woman with him were the ones who threw the bottle, and that they might have locked it themselves, so she deliberately cried wolf and said something unfriendly.

Lu Zhenghan ignored it and suddenly noticed an electrical wire stuck in the ground when he was banging on the door. Looking through the crack in the door, he saw that the floor inside was wet. Fortunately, there was a large gap between the door and the ground, otherwise the whole floor would have been electrified.

"Bang!" Then another sound of something falling came from inside.

This sound confirmed to Lu Zhenghan that someone was inside.

The electrical wires, the locked door, the wet water on the floor—this could not possibly be a coincidence.

"Go get the key from your class monitor and open this door," Lu Zhenghan said anxiously to the plump aunt.

"Stop scaring me. Why should I listen to you? If there were people inside, they would have shouted already," the plump auntie replied reluctantly.

He had almost finished his work, but this person came and kept asking her irrelevant questions and causing her so much trouble. Now he even dared to order her around. Just because she's a cleaner, does that mean she should be bossed around?

"This is a faulty electrical wire. It's obvious that someone did this on purpose. If there really is someone inside, and you don't go get the key now, you'll be the first suspect when the police arrive."

Lu Zhenghan's brows bulged with veins, and his eyes held an undisguised ferocity.

"Take it or leave it. I'm just a cleaner, don't try to pin all sorts of accusations on me."

The plump aunt's eyes flickered, and after muttering something, she quickly walked outside.

Lu Zhenghan noticed a window through the crack in the door and quickly went around to the back.

The storeroom is on the third floor. Unlike the military base, there are pipes outside the walls that you can climb over.

Facing the bare wall, Lu Zhenghan looked up for a moment, then his fingertips gripped the recessed brick seams in the wall. He suddenly exerted force in his waist and leaped into the air, climbing to the second-floor windowsill. Without catching his breath for a second, he then jumped to the third-floor windowsill.

Through the glass, he watched as Xia Qiuran climbed onto the clutter, her fingers gripping the edge tightly, her arms taut and trembling, her body mostly suspended in mid-air. If she relaxed even slightly, she would fall.

His head and face were covered in a lot of white ash-like stuff, which probably prevented him from shouting because it had made his voice hoarse.

The thing that fell must have been deliberately knocked down by Xia Qiuran to make a sound and attract her attention.

Without further hesitation, Lu Zhenghan smashed the glass with his elbow and jumped inside.

Just as he was about to step onto the ground, he discovered that the electrical wires he had just laid out had been slipped through the crack in the door.

The water on the ground instantly turned back into sharp, electrified blades, forcing Lu Zhenghan to carefully walk across the debris.

Then, standing on a desk, he wrapped his arm around Xia Qiuran's waist and carried her back to safety.

"Cough cough..."

Exhausted, Xia Qiuran coughed twice, spitting out the chalk-like substance that had fallen into her throat. Then, she slumped to one side, feeling weak all over, and only spoke after a few moments.

"Cough cough."

"The water on the ground is electrified, so be careful not to step in it."

"I know, I've already sent someone to find the key, and someone will be here to rescue us soon," Lu Zhenghan reassured him.

Lu Zhenghan looked around and found that apart from the windows and doors, there were no other exits.

This is the third floor. Xia Qiuran has not undergone high-intensity training, so he definitely cannot jump down from here safely. And even if he is carrying someone on his back, he is not entirely confident that he will land safely.

For safety reasons, Xia Qiuran and I decided to stay here for the time being and wait for Aunt Pang to bring people to open the door.

"Xia Qiuran, are you alright? What are you doing here?" Lu Zhenghan asked immediately afterward.

Xia Qiuran took a couple of deep breaths before answering.

"It was Yuan Qiaoling. She tricked me into coming here to move a box. I didn't expect that as soon as I came in, she locked the door and threw in a wire with broken insulation."

is her?

Lu Zhenghan was shocked, not expecting Yuan Qiaoling to be so bold.

I initially thought she was just vain and had a problematic personality, but I never expected her to be so vicious and dare to harm others.

Lu Zhenghan and Zhou Shen's aura instantly plummeted to freezing point, their eyes surging with anger as they spoke in a low voice.

"Don't worry, I will definitely give you an explanation after we get out of here."

He will never let such a lawless and wicked person get away with it again.

"Fire! Fire!" Xia Qiuran cried out in panic, still reeling from the shock of the electricity.

Lu Zhenghan quickly turned his head and saw matches being shot into the door like slingshots through the gap between the door and the ground.

This is the floor of the storage room. Although it's all wet, it's dry, and it contains flammable materials. If it were to catch fire, the consequences would be unimaginable.