Su Han entered a random building planning to find an empty house to stay in again after walking for an hour.
She heard hurried footsteps coming from downstairs just as she got to the third floor. There seemed to be a lot of people. Su Hanās heart tightened; she had a bad premonition. She hid her figure and peeped down from the stairwell.
She saw five young men standing in front of an apartment. One of them was banging on the door yelling, āOpen the door!ā
Another person waited impatiently on the side with an axe in his hand. When no one answered the door, he scowled and started smashing the door with his axe.
Su Hanās eyelids jumped. These people are robbers!
While that person was smashing the door, the others leisurely chatted beside him, āDonāt look at all these people without food or drink and think everyone is poor. Some people stocked up early, living a comfortable life at home!ā
āSearch from door to door, donāt even skip one room! After weāve searched through this building, weāll go to other apartments.ā
āI saw that kid Huang Mao took his brother to the building next door. We should move faster, or thereāll be no soup left for us again! ā
Su Han was frightened. It was no longer safe to live in residential buildings. More than one group of people launched a carpet search, and these people in the group took turns smashing, and looting!
Su Han felt frustrated. She would never have entered this building if she knew she was going to bump into these thugs. The building elevator has stopped working a long time ago. The only way to go down is to use the stairsā¦ But those people were right next to the stairs.
Justā¦ How is she going to escape them now?
She recalled that the sound of footsteps just now was very messy. There were probably more than ten people. If they split up into groups to search the rooms faster, theyāll get to her floor in no time!
What to do?
Su Han racked her brains. Her eyes lit up moments later. She stopped thinking of a way to pass through them and instead started searching the apartments with opened front doors on the third floor.
On every floor, about half of the rooms were vacant. She walked into an empty apartment, then went into the bedroom to check something. A few minutes later, she finally found what she was looking for in the corner; the floor to ceiling curtains.
Su Han was thrilled; she swiftly closed the door and blocked it with a desk and a chair. Then she took down the curtains in the room, placed them all on the floor, and started tying them together.
āOpen the door! Open the door!ā Someone shouted from outside the house.
Su Han ignored the sound and sped up her actions.
āBang!ā āBang!āĀ She heard the sound of someone breaking down the door after a few seconds. Su Han glanced towards the sound, feeling very helpless. She knows it wonāt take them long to get inside. This house was not equipped with a burglarproof door. Luckily, she had finished tying the curtains together into a long rope.
She firmly fastened one end of the rope to the iron frame of the window sill and threw the other end out of the window. She immediately climbed out of the window and started sliding down, holding onto the long rope.
She couldnāt find enough curtains in such a short time, so the long rope ended about one or two meters above the ground. Su Han resolutely released her hands; her legs instantly became numb once she hit the ground.
She glanced at her attributes and breathed a sigh of relief; her energy level only fell by 16.
āSomeone ran away! Quick, go down and stop her!ā The robbers finally entered the room and saw the long rope tied to the window sill.
Su Han turned and sprinted without looking back.
Su Han had already disappeared when the thugs reached the ground floor.
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āGasp.ā When she felt that she had run far enough, Su Han leaned against a wall to take a short break, breathing heavily. She didnāt even dare to turn her head just now.
Su Han seriously reprimanded herself for being too careless! Because she stayed in the apartment without leaving for a few days, she had no idea that people had formed gangs and were raiding residential buildings. These gangs have young and middle-aged men as their main force, and they were also equipped with weapons. She couldnāt fight them off alone.
Itās no wonder surviving for 20 days in the instance is considered an extreme challenge mode. These last few days, the difficulty of the game more than doubled.
āWhere should I go now?ā Su Han was at a loss.
āHey, are you alone?ā Suddenly, someone approached her.
Su Han abruptly turned towards the sound. The one who approached her was a man in his fifties with a beer belly and a receding hairline. The way heās looking at herā¦ is particularly unpleasant.
āDonāt be nervous. Iām not a bad person.ā The man straightened his back and tried to put on a kind smile, āAre you hungry? Stay with me one night, and Iāll give you something to eat?ā
(Hearing that Su Han immediately threw up the instant noodles she ate this morningā¦ just kiddingā¦)
Su Han, āā¦ā
She finally understood where the sense of displeasure came from. At this moment, she actually wanted to give this guy something to eat first and then gleefully beat him up.
āGo away. I donāt need anything.ā Su Han refused his suggestion coldly.
āYou donāt have to be shy.ā While speaking, the man put his hand on Su Hanās shoulder as if he was planning to force her.
Su Han fiercely kicked the manās right knee when he touched her. When the man fell to the ground, she delivered endless kicks to his body while muttering angrily, āExcuse me? Iām shy?! Itās because Iām shy that I didnāt beat you as soon as you started talking, okay?! Give you an inch you want a mile, huh? Are you rolling away or not?!ā
āOw, it hurts!ā The man howled in pain between her kicks.
Worried that the noise would attract the men from before, Su Han hurried away after giving the man one last violent kick.
Su Han felt that there was no place for her to stay after wandering for a long time.
She saw a group of hooligans loitering on the street. They would ask for āprotection feesā whenever they saw someone. If you canāt take out food, you will be beaten. But if you take it out, they would extort you for more. You can only go away when you have nothing left on you.
There were two groups of people fighting in an alley. The sound of gunshots kept ringing, and bullets were flying everywhere. Su Han didnāt pay attention and was scratched by a stray bullet when she passed by the alley.
There was also a group of people with guns who were extremely audacious. They directly went to rob the department store! The guards immediately drew their guns and batons to prevent the robbers from getting inside. Just like that, a brawl broke out right at the entrance of the department store.
Su Han found that there was a fight wherever she went. No place was safe.
Does she have no choice but to leave the instance now?
She accidentally caught a glimpse of the bruise on her arm and suddenly had a flash of inspiration.