Chapter 212 Escape
It was dark underground in Brixham.

Chu Zihang jumped down from the climbing railing, and the rubber soles of his shoes created ripples and splashes in the potholes.

He pushed the flashlight across and shone it diagonally downward onto the mossy flagstones.

The body bag lay quietly in the corner.

The black waterproof fabric was covered with water droplets dripping from overhead.

Chu Zihang squatted down and untied the chains, exposing Ian's body again.

The blond boy lay there motionless.

Chu Zihang reached out and opened his eyelids.

The dark blue eyes moved unconsciously according to the angle of the head's tilt, which seemed a bit scary in this environment.

Chu Zihang narrowed the aperture and pointed the flashlight at Ian's pupils.

But after careful observation, he found nothing unusual.

The strange scene in the morgue did not happen a second time.

Chu Zihang stretched out his hand again, placed it on Ian's skin, and pressed on his chest little by little.

The frozen stiff skin began to loosen up again in the stuffy sewer, hanging to the sides without elasticity. The stench of decay and sewage mixed together and was very unpleasant.

Chu Zihang meticulously checked from beginning to end and made sure that there were no large foreign objects hidden in the child's body.

Then...shall we do an autopsy next?

Chu Zihang was a little hesitant.

After thinking about it, he put the idea aside for the time being and took out the repaired black cell phone from his shirt pocket.

Press the button and a bright white light hits your face.

The phone screen is small, but looks very clean. It only has the system's own mobile phone software, not cluttered at all.

Chu Zihang had already taken a rough look at it on the way back.

The inbox and browsing history on the phone are empty, with only an anonymous number recorded in the address book.

He looked up and checked his surroundings, and after making sure there was no one around, he dialed the number.

……

beep--

beep--

click!
After a not-so-long pause, the call was picked up.

A man smiled and said to him: "Congratulations, you found the cheats to pass the game."

——It was the voice on the other end of the phone last night!
It is still an electronic tone created by a voice changer.

Chu Zihang asked expressionlessly, "What's the secret to passing the game?"

"Hmm... do you understand what the evil game strategy is?" The person on the other end of the phone said, "This phone is similar to something."

He kept laughing, and the electronic sound sounded very harsh.

"In short, you can regard it as a challenge. The moment you dial this number, your location will be disclosed to the pursuer I choose."

"If you can hold onto it for four hours, I will text you an address. As long as you can get the phone to the designated location within the specified time, I will answer one of your questions unconditionally."

Chu Zihang's face was calm: "Any one?"

"That's right!"

The person on the other end of the phone snapped his fingers. "Whether it's my identity, Brixham's secret, or the truth about my body replacement... whatever it is, I will answer truthfully."

Chu Zihang thought about it and remained silent.

"How about it? Do you want to accept it?"

The electronic voice added: "If you want to say no, just throw this phone somewhere random."

"Why?" Chu Zihang asked.

"Hmm~, why is that…"

The electronic voice paused. "If I must say, I just want to add some sense of participation to this game."

He smiled indifferently: "Anyway, the choice is up to you. I look forward to your decision."

click!
The call interface is cut off.

Chu Zihang stared at the phone for a moment, then put it back into his pocket without much hesitation.

——It was obvious that he would never let go of this opportunity.

Looking at the corpse in front of him again, Chu Zihang quickly hid it in a more hidden corner, and then began to move quickly along the dim passage.

##
Brixham General Hospital.

Based on the principle of mutual sharing, John informed the execution team of everything that happened here, and attached his own speculations and the current situation.

About ten minutes later, he received a reply.

[This is the Adam position I asked Norma to locate. You can use these to drag Devon's support there first. The port situation is not convenient for them to insert. ]

John whistled, complaining about how it was as easy for these guys to find Norma as it was for their mom, and texted back, "OK."

He shrugged and went to greet his fellow travellers from Devonshire.

##
In the secondary school campus in Brixham.

Boys and girls snuggled up to each other.

The bright light illuminates the intertwined shadows of the two people.

Under the evergreen trees.

Anna reached out and touched Lu Mingfei's forehead.

"Hey! Are you feeling unwell, Ryan? Why are you acting weird today?"

"Is there...is there any?"

Lu Mingfei swallowed his saliva.

This overly intimate action made his whole body stiffen, and he couldn't help but tilt his head back to avoid the palm.

Anna took her hand back and held up her chin: "It's really strange. In the past, when you saw me, you always called me Gorgeous to cheer me up. Why are you so distant to me today?"

Lu Mingfei cursed the original body for being shameless and stammered to explain: "I... I just didn't sleep well yesterday."

Anna looked at him suspiciously, then shrugged after a moment, throwing back the hair that had been blown to her forehead by the wind.

"Forget it, I don't care what happens to you, just remember to pay me back on time."

"..."

A gust of wind blew.

"what?!"

Lu Mingfei widened his eyes and looked at Anna in disbelief.

Pay back?

No!

Aren't they supposed to be childhood sweethearts?

Creditor Play?

"What! Do you want to default on your debt?"

Anna crossed her arms and glanced at him: "Think it over carefully. If you want to pay back the money, you only need to pay back the principal plus interest of 1500 pounds! But if you don't pay it back..."

The girl sneered: "Then I'll let my uncle who's in the gang throw you into the sea!"

These vicious words made Lu Mingfei completely dumbfounded.

its not right!
This plot development is totally wrong!

How did campus romance turn into a gangster debt collection?

Did the director ask for the actors’ opinions before changing the script?
Lu Mingfei swallowed his saliva and struggled desperately: "Big sister, are you mistaken? I am just an ordinary middle school student, how could I owe you so much money?"

"Humph! I knew you didn't want to return it!"

Anna angrily took out a piece of paper and put it in front of Lu Mingfei.

It is clearly written in black and white -

[I, Ryan Kent, solemnly declare that I borrowed 3 pounds from Anna Heti on March 21, and promised to return 1300 pounds with interest before August. Otherwise, Anna Heti will do whatever she wants.]

As expected, his family is involved in gangs. The interest rate is much higher than usury!
The corner of Lu Mingfei's mouth twitched.

This overly frivolous IOU has absolutely no legal effect, but if you add a gangster background to it...

Lu Mingfei had a sad face and swallowed his saliva.

##
boom~
boom~
The heart thumped in the hollow cavity.

The air flows through the trachea and is heated and exhaled during intense exercise.

Chu Zihang quickly passed the corner.

The splashed dirty water slowly spread on the trouser legs.

The noisy footsteps echoed off the stone walls.

Behind him, seven or eight policemen were chasing him relentlessly.

"Hey! Stop, kid!"

A police officer yelled from behind: "You're in trouble! You can't get away! Stop resisting in vain!"

But Chu Zihang ignored him and rushed forward along the sewer pipe.

The intricate terrain unfolds before us, with raised structures looking like blurry blocks of color.

His pupils moved rapidly, adapting to the darkness and accurately capturing information, allowing himself to always move forward along the broadest road.

at last!

Another ladder embedded in the stone appeared before our eyes.

Chu Zihang jumped forward, grabbed the railing, quickly left the sewer through the manhole, and inserted the manhole cover vertically into the circular hole.

The policemen below cursed as they grasped the edge of the metal cover and pushed upwards.

But Chu Zihang had already taken advantage of this opportunity to escape in a roundabout way along the gaps between the houses.

While running, he looked down at his phone.

It's 2:20pm now.

20 minutes had passed since the call ended.

Judging from the current situation, his escape was easy. The pursuing police would not shoot and would look down on him because of his age.

By shuttling back and forth between alleys and sewers, he was able to keep the already small number of pursuers behind him.

But Chu Zihang was not careless.

He knew very well——

Things won't always go this smoothly...

##
laugh--

The tires rub violently against the ground.

The police car stopped in front of the hotel.

John got out of the car with a Derryshire policeman, smoothed out the wrinkles on the corners of his clothes, and pushed open the glass door of the hotel.

- He needs to investigate the case in the normal process in front of his Devon counterparts.

The metal wind chimes that remember the ribbons tinkled.

The woman behind the counter looked over subconsciously.

"Hello, ma'am."

John walked up and held out his hand politely.

The woman looked at her uniform without any good expression and asked bluntly: "Mr. Officer, what are you doing here? Hasn't my husband's death been closed?"

John took off his hat. "Yes, that's right... In fact, I'm here for your son."

"Adam?"

The woman was stunned for a moment and then asked, "What's going on? Did you catch the group of people who bullied my son?"

"Uh... no, I'm not aware of that."

John was a little embarrassed: "I came here to ask you, Madam, is the figure in this surveillance video your son?"

The woman frowned and looked over.

In the video, a short man carrying a large black bag pushed the door and left in a hurry.

The woman's heart skipped a beat, but she immediately denied it: "Impossible! My son was injured this morning and is now recuperating at home. This can't be Adam!"

"Excuse me, but I've been to your house before I came here, but I didn't see Adam."

The woman's face changed slightly, but she immediately calmed down: "That doesn't mean he is Adam, right? What's wrong with this person?"

"He killed someone."

John takes back his phone: "He took Ian's body from the hospital morgue and killed a doctor who witnessed it."

"Impossible! Why would my son do such a thing?!"

The woman asked sharply, and then immediately said: "Adam is not at home. He must have gone out to play... You know, boys of this age are like this."

"hope so."

John looked at her deeply and put on his hat. "But then again, for minors, if they can surrender themselves after committing a crime, the punishment will be much lighter."

The woman raised her eyebrows and slapped the table: "Mr. Police! I say it again! This can't be Adam!"

John did not argue any more, but said calmly: "I understand. Madam, please be careful. If you meet the murderer, it would be best to persuade him... After all, we have already determined his location."

The woman's face changed.

"Farewell."

John nodded, opened the door and left.

……

The hotel fell silent, and the woman slumped down in a chair. Her anger and forced calmness all disappeared, leaving only pure panic.

No matter how innocent she acted...how could a mother not recognize her own son?

[No! I want to go find him! ]

The woman stood up dazedly and was about to run out of the hotel.

Can……

ding dong~

The phone on the counter suddenly rang.

She looked subconsciously...

——It was a message from an unknown number.

##
call!
A strong wind blew over my head!

A black shadow covered Chu Zihang's head!
When he passed the well again, he was finally blocked by the police who had acted separately.

A pair of hands clamped his shoulders tightly.

"Hey! Kid! Stop it! Be honest and don't force me to use force on you!"

The white policeman guarding the wellhead warned him while grabbing his shoulders and lifting him up.

Chu Zihang did not struggle violently.

But he stepped on the escalator rod and jumped up suddenly!
The top of his head hit the other person's chin hard.

The policeman stammered at the pain of being hit on the chin, and subconsciously used one of his hands to cover the wound.

And at this moment of exhaustion!

Chu Zihang raised his fist above his head and punched the other person hard on the cheek!

The saliva pulls out threads in the air!

The opponent was caught off guard and knocked to the ground with one move.

【Feel sorry. 】

Chu Zihang said softly in his heart.

He pressed his hands on the ground and pulled himself up, just as he was about to seize the opportunity to escape, but out of the corner of his eye he suddenly caught a glimpse of the gun bag on the policeman's waist...

【Feel sorry. 】

boom!
Once again, the fist bone touched the poor policeman's cheek.

He knocked the half-rising policeman to the ground for the second time, bent down to grab the gun, and apologized silently again.

now--

It's 3:15 in the afternoon.

##
Brixham Police Station.

The officer who came to support from Devonshire was furious when he heard the call from his men: "Damn it! What the hell are you doing?! A kid! He took your gun away?!"

"Sorry, sir."

The policeman on the other end of the phone spoke in a cryptic manner, "We are short of manpower, and there is only one person at each wellhead... Besides, I didn't expect him to attack the police..."

"I didn't expect it! I didn't expect it?!"

The officer laughed out of anger.

"Good! You did a great job! I always thought that those losers who were fooled by criminals in TV dramas were all slander... Thank you for making me realize how wrong this idea was!"

He took a deep breath and said, "Listen! Our colleagues in Brixham have already located the other party through the Internet... I don't want you to be so embarrassed that you can't even catch a minor!"

The person on the other end of the conversation was speechless.

The officer snorted coldly and issued an order: "Tell others about the situation. You are allowed to shoot if the suspect resists."

##
Chu Zihang held onto the wall and gasped.

The intense exercise was rapidly draining his body's strength, and he felt the taste of blood in his throat becoming stronger and stronger.

The police behind him were temporarily thrown off.

During this period of escape, Chu Zihang has determined that even if the police have his location, they only know which direction he is heading.

In the intricate underground world, it is not easy to find the right way.

He checked the time again.

It is 3:45 pm now. …

pop~
Chu Zihang looked up quickly.

A sticky sound of footsteps came from the obscure darkness ahead.

He immediately turned on the flashlight.

A long and narrow beam of light hit a gray tentacle!

It's an octopus!
Those familiar monsters!

Chu Zihang was not surprised by their appearance. After talking on the phone with the mastermind behind the scenes, he already knew that these things would definitely come!
And he was already prepared!
The octopuses swung their limp hooves and shot up, leaving puddles of milky white slime beneath their bodies.

Chu Zihang picked up the gun, got close to the distance and pulled the trigger!

A flash of fire!
The burning bullet spun into the only remaining mouth in the center of the octopus's face!
A large amount of blood splattered, staining the stone bricks behind the head red.

puff~
The monster that was blocking the way fell to the ground.

The echoing gunshots seemed like a signal, and the remaining monsters simultaneously used their tentacles to roll up their pistols from their waists!
Chu Zihang quickly turned off the flashlight, threw himself on the ground and fired several more shots.

The sudden darkness and gunshots made the other side panic and they shot forward without any plan.

Metal fragments bounced wildly among the stones!

The dim lines of fire intertwine in the darkness!

The smell of gunpowder gradually overwhelmed the sour stench of sewage.

……

I do not know how long it has been.

But it should be soon.

After Chu Zihang emptied the bullets in the magazine, all the sounds from the other side disappeared.

He picked up a piece of gravel beside him and threw it aside.

The collision of stones made a crisp sound, but there was no other sound.

Chu Zihang waited for a moment and finally turned on the flashlight.

The beam of light revealed the three men lying in front of it.

They were all wearing police uniforms, holding guns and looking terrified.

The one in the middle died from a bullet wound to the forehead, and the remaining two all died from multiple holes pierced through their chests.

Chu Zihang stepped over their bodies indifferently and picked up a gun and several magazines.

Afterwards, he unusually did not choose the main road, but turned into the narrow passages.

——He is not going back to the ground.

As the police's pursuit became more and more serious, the dangers on the ground with clear paths were too great.

##
The sun had passed its hottest stage and the classroom became warm as it shone into the classroom.

"What's wrong, Ryan? You look so dejected after lunch break."

The boy at the next table yawned and wiped away tears from his eyes caused by lack of sleep.

Lu Mingfei lay listlessly on the table, looking at this barely familiar deskmate: "Abbott, do you know what it feels like to owe money to the gangsters?"

"Oh, you mean Anna?"

Lu Mingfei sat up suddenly and asked in surprise: "You know?"

"Is it weird?"

Abbott looked at him strangely: "After you borrowed the money, weren't you the first one to show off to me... Ryan, why are you acting so weird today?"

"I didn't sleep well."

Lu Mingfei rolled his eyes and responded to the same question with the same answer.

Then he sighed again and said longingly: "If I ask Anna to marry me, I wonder if she will accept it?"

"Come on, Ryan, Anna doesn't like you."

Abbott waved his hand: "In her eyes, a guy like you who borrows money to have fun in a black bar is no better than scum."

puff!
Lu Mingfei blurted out: "Wait a minute! What did you say? Black bar?"

Abbot wiped the saliva from the side of his face and looked at him with contempt: "Why are you pretending to be pure? Haven't you been there enough?"

Lu Mingfei was stunned.

He subconsciously touched his kidney, praying that his original self would not be so shameless.

Abbott looked at his hopeless expression, smacked his lips, and said unhappily, "Alright! Stop looking like you're dying. At most I can lend you some money."

Lu Mingfei looked at the junior high school student next to him, completely hopeless: "How much do you want to borrow?"

"1000 pounds?" Albert tentatively extended a finger.

Lu Mingfei was stunned.

"1000 pounds? How come both of you are so rich?!"

He suddenly remembered his junior high school life, and angrily wanted the rich man in front of him to give him more gold coins!
"This is the money I earned from doing housework since I was a child."

Abbott was a little nervous and rubbed his arms: "I have been saving for several years!"

"...Thank you so much for working so hard to support me."

Lu Mingfei's eyes twitched and he suppressed the strange feeling in his heart.

Sudden.

A shrill flute sound pierced through the dim classroom.

The students shuddered and instinctively turned their heads to the side.

Through the window next to me, I could see three police cars with red and blue lights flashing passing by the school gate.

"Wow! So cool!" Abbott pushed Lu Mingfei aside and pressed him against the glass.

Lu Mingfei staggered for a while and finally managed to grab the edge of the table to steady himself.

"I rely on!"

He looked at Abbott's appearance, curled his lips and asked, "Do you like the police very much?"

"Of course!" Abbott's eyes sparkled. "My dream is to become a good police officer who catches criminals, punishes evil and encourages good! And then succeed the position of Brixham's police chief!"

"Wow!"

Lu Mingfei applauded Meng: "When you succeed, can you help me take down Anna's gangster family?"

"..."

Abbott was speechless.

He choked for a long time before stiffly changing the subject: "Ryan...what happened, why were so many police dispatched?"

"do not know."

Lu Mingfei shrugged.

He stared out the window absentmindedly, muttering to himself in the shadows cast by the clouds.

"But...I really hope everything is OK."

##
boom!
Chu Zihang quickly retracted his body.

The bullets created a diffuse gray patch in the corner of the wall!

He turned and ran without hesitation.

There were too many policemen behind him. When they gave up on arresting him and prepared to shoot him directly, Chu Zihang could only avoid their attack.

He knew exactly what was going on. It was nothing more than the trouble caused by the monsters returning to their original forms after death.

But he couldn't explain it!

In the eyes of those policemen, he was the evil thief who killed their colleagues.

perhaps……

Only John would believe what he said. But after seeing so many policemen were monsters, Chu Zihang couldn't trust them at all.

……

In the corridor filled with gunfire.

Chu Zihang gasped heavily and once again used the corner to block the bullets behind him.

In order to avoid direct shooting, he could only choose to keep turning to other paths.

Chu Zihang gritted his teeth and crossed the unknown road again and again, trying to keep his breathing to the lowest level.

As if blessed by God, he never encountered any blind spots, and gradually left the police behind him behind by frequently changing directions.

Another ten minutes passed.

Chu Zihang finally stopped slowly.

He propped himself up on his knees, and sticky sweat dripped onto the ground.

After resting for a while, he took out his cell phone again.

——It’s 4:30 in the afternoon.

There is still one hour and thirty minutes left before the four-hour limit.

Chu Zihang wiped the sweat off his face and was about to start again, but the sound of footsteps coming from the darkness ahead made him suddenly alert.

He was about to step back, but an anxious shout made him freeze in his tracks.

"Adam? Are you Adam?"

This voice...

Chu Zihang’s eyes widened.

He turned on the flashlight and looked in disbelief at the woman who suddenly appeared in front of him.

Her face was very pale, the sweat on her forehead stuck to her hair, her clothes were covered with dust and mud, and her exposed skin was stained with splashes of dirty water. She looked extremely miserable.

"……Why are you here?"

The woman said nothing.

She gasped and stared at Chu Zihang.

After a moment, he rushed forward and slapped him in the face.

"Asshole! What the hell did you do?!"

Chu Zihang was stunned for a moment, and the red mark on the side of his face made him turn his head away involuntarily.

But before he could react, the woman hugged him again, her voice trembling.

"Why...why did you kill people? Why did you do such a thing?"

The suppressed emotions burst out instantly.

Her eyes were filled with tears, and they looked crystal clear even underground.

"I told you, Adam! William is dead, I can't lose you again!"

Chu Zihang's body stiffened in the woman's arms, his mind in a mess.

He didn't understand how the woman appeared here?
But before he could come to his senses.

The woman suddenly let go of him and reached for his pocket. "Adam! You've been located! Find out what it is and throw it away!"

"Location...how do you know?"

Chu Zihang asked hoarsely.

His throat had become very dry during the chase.

The woman was very flustered, but seeing her son's serious expression, she still took the time to explain: "It was an email. I don't know who sent it. It came with a software that can locate you... I had a hard time finding you."

When Chu Zihang heard this, he suddenly felt gloomy.

Why……

Why send her this kind of thing?
He grabbed the woman's wrist and said sternly, "Hurry up! Get out of here!"

"Of course I know!"

The woman broke away from him and continued to search Chu Zihang's body anxiously: "Hurry up and cancel the location! I have parked the yacht on the shore, and my wallet and bank card are with me. We can leave soon!"

Chu Zihang was silent.

"Hurry up! Let's look for it together!"

The woman's body was shaking with nervousness.

But Chu Zihang grabbed her wrist again.

He lowered his head to avoid the woman's gaze, his voice bitter: "I'm sorry... but I have to stay here."

The woman's eyes suddenly widened.

"What nonsense are you talking about?! You killed someone! You killed someone! Do you have to go to jail if you don't leave now?!"

Chu Zihang tried to keep a calm expression: "I'm still three months away from turning 14, so technically I'm still a minor. It doesn't matter even if I get caught. You go first!"

"Then run away with me first!"

The woman persisted: "Since the worst that could happen is that you'd be arrested, why not give it a try?"

Chu Zihang pursed his lips.

"Wait! What is this?"

The woman's other hand suddenly reached for the phone in her son's pocket.

But before she could check, Chu Zihang suddenly took a step back and distanced himself from her.

"Adam!!" the woman screamed in a low voice.

"Adam Wilson is dead!"

Chu Zihang suddenly growled.

He suppressed his voice, forced himself to look the woman in the eye, and slowly repeated: "Adam Wilson is dead... I am not your son..."

"What did you say?"

The woman was stunned.

She looked at her son, whose face was shrouded in darkness, and her heart was suddenly gripped by an ominous premonition. She shook her head, tears wetting her cheeks.

"What's wrong with you, Adam? Tell me... You've been acting strange since the day..."

Chu Zihang took a deep breath: "I'm sorry..."

……

He was about to explain, but suddenly his eyes fixed and he subconsciously reached out to pull.

"Danger!"

Snapped!
The gray tentacle lashed the ground, less than three fingers away from the woman's back!
Chu Zihang pulled the woman over and without having time to steady her body, he directly pulled out his pistol and pulled the trigger at the newly appeared octopus.

"Oh my God! What is this?"

The woman staggered a few steps and fell to the ground. When she turned around, she saw a gray face with only a rotating mouthpart.

Chu Zihang fired all his bullets into the octopus's head.

There were dense and hideous bullet holes left in the gray flesh!
But...it's still alive!

[What's going on? When I hit the monsters' heads before, I clearly...]

Chu Zihang felt that something beyond his expectations had happened!
But the current situation didn't leave him any time to think!

He pulled the woman off the ground and rushed with her in the opposite direction.

The thick tentacles swept and whistled.

Chu Zihang switched to another pistol and pulled the trigger repeatedly while dodging the attack.

The chasing monster roared in increasing pain, but the sticky footsteps followed closely.

……

It is 5:00 pm now.

##
A cold basement.

Su Beixun fumbled and pulled open the switch on the wall.

The current flows rapidly.

But the dim light above my head was flickering.

Su Beixun fiddled with the light bulb anxiously, and it finally stabilized after a few crackling sounds.

He looked at the kid behind him and asked, "Can you fix circuits?"

The child had a blank expression on his face: "Don't say unrealistic things. Even if I can repair it, I have never touched the real body."

Su Beixun smiled helplessly: "Forget it, let's find someone to fix it later."

As he spoke, he glanced at the various marine creatures living in the fish tank with great interest.

"Well, it's a good opportunity to try out other species combinations."

"Don't you care about Chu Zihang?" the child asked.

"The chase is too boring. I always have to do something to kill time before the exciting plot comes out."

Su Beixun shrugged.

He took out a pair of rubber gloves from the tray and put them on, then walked to the wall where the debris was piled and lifted the black cloth covering the top cylinder.

Under the light that seemed to be wrapped in frosted glass, a motionless naked body was lying inside.

"Lu Mingfei..."

Su Beixun licked the corner of his mouth, pulled him out of the tank, and laid him flat on the iron bed in the middle of the room.

"Just let me see...what's different in your body."

He picked up a sharp knife beside him.

"Be careful, brother."

The child reminded: "Lu Mingze should be recuperating quietly now after fighting with you and Norton. But if you go too far, he will definitely notice it."

"Whatever he wants."

Su Beixun didn't care.

He pressed the back of the knife with his index finger, letting the tip of the knife cut the skin in the middle of his chest.

Bright red blood flowed down the blade...

(End of this chapter)