Chapter 60: Escaping

  Liu Ke pounced on me with a smile, and my whole heart had already sunk, buzzing in my mind.

  At this moment, the ground suddenly shook violently, Liu Ke's face changed, and he stared tightly at what was behind him.

  "Consider yourself lucky, but you can't escape." Liu Ke turned around, sneering as he grasped my chin, speaking to me in a light tone.

  A chill ran down my spine, and at this moment, the shaking started again.

  Liu Ke's eyes fluttered uncertainly, then suddenly he took out a small bottle and waved it under my nose, I immediately fainted.

  When I woke up, I found myself in a completely dark environment. As soon as I sat up, there was a faint sound of "thud", and I covered my forehead with my hands, the pain bringing tears to my eyes. Feeling around with my hands, I discovered with a pale face that I had been placed inside a long, narrow box. I remembered the coffin I saw for the first time in the basement with Chen Renshou. My whole body sank down, and the thick, gloomy air made it hard for me to breathe.

  I anxiously felt around in my clothes for something, but there was nothing at all.

  Liu Ke, he is not Liu Ke, but looks just like him. He murdered Bai Mei and Liu Ya-mei, Shen Chong collected evidence from their bodies, then took blood samples from Chen Xun and Liu Chen for testing, the result showed that Liu Ke was the murderer.

  I've come up with a terrible guess, Liu Ke actually knows nothing at all, everything was done by someone who looks exactly like him, even their genes are completely identical.

  And I just now almost fell into his trap.

  Just at this moment, suddenly, a faint sound came into my ears. Then the heavy voice suddenly rang out.

  "Homi? Where are you?"

  I was overjoyed and touched my ear, that button-sized intercom was still there!

  I lowered my voice and said, "I don't know, he locked me in a coffin."

  "He was silent for a while before his voice finally sounded: 'Who is he?'"

  "You come and rescue me first." I pushed hard on the coffin lid above my head, but it didn't budge.

  The walkie-talkie fell silent. I anxiously called out the heavy name.

  Half a day later, a cold voice sounded.

  "We'll come and take you out." The intercom buzzed, then fell silent.

  My whole heart sank, the heavy tone just now was so strange, and that other person's words were completely perfunctory to me, couldn't even determine my position, how could they save me?

  Suddenly, I seemed to have caught a whiff of something smelling like sulfur and saltpeter.

  Then a loud bang, my ears buzzing, a strong light suddenly appeared, my eyes stinging, I just wanted to cover my eyes. But saw a monster with scales all over its face, holding up the coffin lid, staring tightly at my eyes.

  My whole body was suddenly covered with goosebumps, and I stared at the monster with a numb scalp, forgetting to scream for a moment.

  With a dull thud, the coffin lid was tossed aside and I was lifted up in his powerful arms.

  Throughout this process, he kept staring into my eyes. I don't know why, but I didn't feel even a hint of disgust towards him, nor did I sense any danger.

  He put me on the ground, still in the same place as before, but Liu Ke had vanished. The bottles filled with various mutant creatures were now completely empty, leaving only transparent glass and a strong formaldehyde smell that irritated my nostrils.

  A scaly creature suddenly stared into my eyes.

  Her crimson irises kept darting back and forth, as if she were wearing colored contact lenses.

  There is a small horn on the right side of his forehead, protruding out. His entire body is covered in scales.

  I stared blankly at him, yet felt extremely familiar. He suddenly grabbed my hand and pushed me aside, then moved away the coffin I was lying on earlier. A small hole appeared before us.

  He went in first and then gestured to me.

  I subconsciously chose to believe him and also crawled into the hole, a cold and gloomy air suddenly enveloped me.

  I shivered with cold.

  In the dark, the scales on his body emitted a faint green light, illuminating our path forward.

  "Why did you save me?" I gritted my teeth and whispered.

  He paused for a moment, then continued crawling forward without saying a word.

  Can't he speak? Is he also one of those infected people?

  After climbing for about ten minutes, there was a sudden tremor inside the 'cave', and mud kept falling down. I felt tight in my heart and worried. Sure enough, after a loud rumble, a large amount of mud on top of my head started to fall, and he suddenly wrapped his entire body around my head like a fish, blocking the mud. My face turned pale and I didn't dare move.

  Because of the continuous sound of falling earth around us, soon both ends of the tunnel were completely sealed off and we were buried in the mud. There was only a small space left.

  I bit my lip, and suddenly he stretched out a hand and handed me something - it was a small pink box.

  I grasped his scaly hand with one swift motion and stared straight into his eyes.

  "Who are you?"

  He suddenly became evasive, then stopped looking at me and used one hand to dig into the mud beside him. I also wanted to dig, but he stopped me.

  I seemed to see a thread of red color overflowing from the corner of his eyes.

  Soon, the mud beside was dug out a small 'hole' that could accommodate one person, he drilled in and gestured for me to follow while continuing to dig.

  What just happened, how could the entire underground collapse? My face turned pale in an instant, thinking of possible reasons.

  Did someone just move the explosives?

  Scaly man dug the passage quickly without a word, his hands were like pangolin's sharp claws, the sound of mud flipping was crisp, I didn't stop at all, and kept crawling behind him.

  Suddenly, a bright light appeared before my eyes, and a fresh air entered through my nostrils, I was overjoyed.

  Scales person suddenly like a fish from my side drill, ran to my back, I was surprised, but seeing the outside sunlight shining in, heart is joyful many, he suddenly pushed me out, I have not reacted, only heard a few dull sounds, the ground hole collapsed.

  My face changed color, I patted the soil layer on the ground with force and shouted at him.

  There was no response at all.

  Suddenly, the surroundings were filled with people. I lifted my pale face and found myself standing in the middle of the school playground. I had no idea how many students were surrounding me, staring at me, and some even took out their phones to quickly take pictures.

  I let out a loud shriek and then dashed into the crowd like a madman, sprinting in the direction of the library.

  Our university is very big, the distance between the library and the playground is as long as three or four kilometers. I ran for a few steps, and at first, there were still people behind me taking pictures, and some even shouted my name. However, after I crossed a cordon, no one followed me anymore.

  I was surprised to find that there was no one at the blockade line?

  Keep running until I was out of breath. I finally ran to the location of the library in my memory.

  But now, all I can see is a pile of ruins.

  Several heavy rollers were back and forth rolling.

  The original library was reduced to a pile of rubble in such a short period of time.

  A familiar figure appeared before my eyes.

  It's serious!

  He is now holding a shotgun, with several people wearing police uniforms, carefully guarding the location of the library. Behind them is a large white cloth covering something.

  My whole heart sank all at once.

  No sooner had I run a couple of steps than someone spotted me and shouted loudly for me to stop in my tracks.

  He lifted his head heavily and saw that it was me, his face changed obviously, then he hugged the gun and ran over.

  I trembled as I looked at him, pointing to the location of the library. Not having spoken yet.

  He grasped my hand and said in a stern voice: "Where did you come from?"

  My wrist hurts, and tears almost fell down. I glared fiercely at Shen Zhong and asked, "Did you guys just blow up the library again?"

  Heavily closing his eyes, he pulled me quickly to walk in front of that white cloth, without saying a word.

  I felt the heavy atmosphere instead.

  Crouching down with a trembling body, he pulled up a corner of the white cloth, and a strong bloody smell rushed into his nostrils.

  I took a step back, my face pale, and the white cloth fell again. But in that instant just now, I saw a blurry figure covered in blood, with police uniform half rotten on his body.

  "What just happened?" I trembled and asked Shen Zhong.

  He fell silent for a moment, staring at me expressionlessly, saying: "Those monsters rushed out, we blocked the first 'wave', then when the second 'wave' arrived, we didn't block it, the higher-ups issued an emergency order to seal off this place, and only then did they use explosives and crushing."

  I narrowed my eyes and said: "So just now you were talking to me with the intention of tactfully telling me that I'm definitely going to die?"

  He frowned heavily and said: "I wanted to come in, but there was a strict order from above, and at that time I couldn't get in."

  I sneered and grasped his hand heavily, saying solemnly: "Is there another exit?"

  I shook his hand off with force and said, "No."

  Shen Zhong was visibly incredulous, but I suddenly thought of Liu Ke from earlier and immediately asked Shen Zhong, "Was Liu Ke caught?"

  He shook his head heavily, but stared at my eyes firmly.

  I looked back at him with a sharp gaze and said word by word: "The murderer is not Liu Ke, there's another Liu Ke."

  His complexion changed, and I continued: "After being caught by Liu Ke, a sudden vibration sound came, he fainted me and put me in a coffin. I was taken out by an infected person."

  His face was a bit heavy and I knew he found it hard to believe what I said, because the lab results were right there.

  "I gritted my teeth and said, 'After you catch the person, take off his clothes, the one with a huge wound from shoulder to waist is Liu Ke, he's the real killer. I don't know why they look exactly alike in appearance and genes, but if you don't want to kill an innocent person and let the real killer escape, then believe what I'm saying.'"

  At this time, the monkey-like detective walked over and saw that I was obviously a little unnatural in my expression. He said to Shen Zhong, "It's all right now, it shouldn't come out."

  Shen nodded seriously and then pulled my hand, walking outwards.

  "What's wrong with you?" I wanted to struggle free.

  He didn't say anything, step by step, we left the school grounds.

  He walked past those peripheral police officers without stopping his footsteps, and those police officers didn't come over to ask questions either.

  A grey off-road vehicle appeared in my line of sight, and then heavily got on the car. I hesitated for a moment, and also went up.

  The car started, and Shen suddenly said, "I'll take you somewhere."

  "Where?"

  The car stopped in front of a dilapidated three-story small building.