Chapter Twenty Escape

  "What a close call... almost lost my life!"

  A cold sweat broke out all over his body, and Li Han's hand slightly trembled as he touched the bulletproof helmet on his head. Fortunately, he hadn't taken it off earlier, or this shot would have really cost him his life!

  "Halt..."

  "Hurry up... block him, don't let him escape..."

  "He wants to escape from the backyard, you guys go to the front and block him..."

  The surroundings were filled with the shouts of bandits, and the sound of gunfire grew denser behind him. Although he had managed to dodge most of it by taking advantage of the darkness, there would still be one or two stray bullets hitting his back from time to time. Feeling that this wasn't going to work, he turned around to see that there were no less than twenty to thirty bandits closing in on him. Although he was only a courtyard away from the house with the secret passage...

  "I didn't want to kill anyone, you forced me..."

  A burst of ferocity in his heart, Li Han knew this wasn't the way to do it. He hesitated for a moment, then pulled out a high-explosive grenade from his waist and threw it at the pursuing soldiers behind him!

  "Boom!"

  The huge explosion impact, even if he had already run a distance away, was blown to instability, and the exposed neck was also burned by that wave of heat, scorching pain!

  "Bang!"

  A severed arm fell beside him, Li Han swept a glance and his face turned pale instantly. Although he was a seasoned warrior, he wasn't a bloodthirsty person after all. However, at this moment, in order to escape with his life, he couldn't care about that anymore!

  Taking advantage of the high-explosive grenade's shockwave that stunned a group of pursuers behind him, Li Han quickly closed in on the room with the secret passage. Just as he was about to rush into the courtyard where the house was located, a gunshot suddenly rang out from within the courtyard! Before Li Han could even react, he felt a searing pain in his left arm. Looking down carefully, he saw that his left arm had been shot!

  "Hiss~~~~"

  "An ambush!"

  He let out a loud cry, took a deep breath of cold air, and rolled down to crouch against the wall! On his forehead, large beads of sweat kept pouring out, and he heard the chaotic footsteps behind him. He gritted his teeth, thinking it was bad, and quickly pulled out another grenade from his waist, estimating the direction where the shots were fired at him earlier in the courtyard. With a loud shout, he rushed out of his hiding place and threw the grenade with all his might!

  "Boom!"

  A loud explosion, mixed with small stones flying everywhere, one of which hit the wound near his left arm, causing his facial expression to twist, and the constantly overflowing sweat blurred his vision!

  He cocked his ear to listen to the courtyard, and there were also some scattered moans. However, the pursuing soldiers behind him, although they were frightened by the explosion of the hand grenade he had just thrown out, quickly accelerated their pace in a few reprimands, and it seemed that he was about to be caught up again!

  "Never mind, if we don't stop the bleeding quickly it will be troublesome!"

  In the midst of fleeing in a hurry, there was no time to stop the bleeding from his left arm that had been shot, fortunately it seemed that no blood vessels were injured, although the bleeding did not stop, but for now he could still hold on!

  He charged into the yard with his right arm holding a gun, and in the night vision mirror, the yard was indeed chaotic, with scattered bodies everywhere. Seeing someone charging into the yard, some of the lightly wounded people subconsciously raised their guns, but Li Han was still a little faster, paying the price of his right hand's tiger mouth cracking, and finishing off the danger with several shots, finally safely rushing into that room with a secret passage!

  "It's safe!"

  With a sigh of relief, Li Han quickly picked up the kerosene lamp he had placed near the entrance earlier and went down the stairs into the secret passage without lighting it, following the dim light to escape towards the distant darkness at the end of the passage.

  "Over here... this way... hurry up. There's a secret passage here."

  "Quickly, look at this secret path direction, it is heading towards the southeast small woods, you...you...you... hurry up and lead a team of brothers to ride horses there first to guard..."

  "The rest of you follow me, pursue..."

  It is...

  Listening to the sound of pursuit getting closer and closer in the secret passage, but Li Han just covered his left arm, trying not to let fresh blood fall to the ground and leave any traces! The fork in the road mentioned by Tian's mouth was already in front of him! Li Han thought that the woman didn't need to harm herself, so she said to go left and he didn't suspect it. After arriving at the three forks, Li Han didn't rush to escape. He first used his right hand stained with blood to wipe a bloody handprint near the middle cave entrance, and then threw away the oil lamp on his hand that had little coal oil. Then, about four or five steps from the rightmost cave entrance, he endured the pain and squeezed out some fresh blood from the wound onto the ground. After completing this misleading work, he quickly disappeared into the left secret passage.

  It seems that with these arrangements, he should be able to drag things out for a bit longer!

  After rushing forward for about six or seven minutes, Li Han finally reached the end and saw the spiral staircase going straight up!

  He let out a sigh of relief in his heart, no mistake about it. Tian Shi hadn't cheated him after all. The exit was indeed on the left side!

  Climbing up the stairs to the top, Li Han pushed open a thick stone slab above his head with great effort and squeezed out with difficulty!

  "Who!"

  Perhaps seeing the light, a rustling sound suddenly came from a nearby thicket. Li Han, who had just crawled out of the secret passage, was startled and his gun returned to his hand!

  "Ah... Ah Gong? Is it you?"

  A rustling sound came from the grass, and Tian's frail figure emerged from it!

  "Ah, it's you. Why haven't you left yet?"

  Li Hansheng let out a breath, removed the last high-explosive grenade from his waist, and with great effort pushed the stone slab back to its original position. He searched for some dry grass roots on the ground, twisted them together into a fairly sturdy rope, tied one end to the grenade, and hung it near the stone slab!

  "Hurry up! My little tricks can only buy us a bit more time, I'm afraid it's already worn out! They're about to catch up with us, let's hurry!"

  Struggling to prop himself up against the ground, Li Han thought for a moment and identified the direction, then tore off two strips of cloth from his undershirt and simply bandaged his wounded left arm! His car was abandoned about 2 kilometers away from Yizhuang in a secluded place, fearing it would be discovered. As long as they walked quickly, they should be able to escape before the horse thieves found them!

  "Ah... Lord Nian, you're injured?"

  Tian's eyes widened as she saw the bloodstain on his left arm! Li Han looked at her and nodded. Seeing that her red lips were about to move, as if she wanted to say something else, he immediately reached out and grabbed her, "Don't say anything, let's go quickly, I killed Kui Sheng, and his loyal followers have already caught up with us, if you want to stay alive, follow me!"

  Having said that, he pulled her up and fled towards the place where he remembered hiding his car.