Chapter 7: Escaping from Hometown
It's most frightening to scare oneself, from the time something happened until now it hasn't even been two hours, let alone him not possibly recognizing me, even if he recognized me he might not necessarily be able to tell it was me, and even if he could tell it was me he might not necessarily know I killed someone, truly scaring oneself.
I wiped the cold sweat from my forehead with my hand, bought a bottle of mineral water, two breads and a salted intestine at the counter, walked to my machine and sat down, starting the long wait.
My position is very good, slightly moving out a bit can clearly see the situation in front of the internet cafe entrance. My back is against the rear door, but the rear door is just on my left side. Behind me is directly opposite the toilet outside the internet cafe wall. If someone enters from the rear door, they must come around to the right side of the rear door, which is also my left side, and I can see it at a glance.
This kind of waiting is the most torturous, I have no mood to play any games, can only casually browse this news, want to see if there's any information about me, or if I've already become a fugitive, today's incident didn't make it onto the news.
I actually put all my energy into observing the movement of the front and back doors, my body was always ready to run at any time, the tense nerves made me very tired, I looked at the clock on the wall behind the stage again and again, praying that time would pass quickly.
It was easy to get through the afternoon, I barely stuffed all the food I bought at the internet cafe into my stomach. As the food continued to fill my belly, I felt like my body had recovered some strength. I quietly endured, just hoping that time would pass quickly.
Later, I came to know that after the police arrived at the hospital and found me missing, they contacted my parents and put my home, parents' workplace, and school on alert. They even set up checkpoints at various exits of the city, stations, and roads before noon to catch me.
It turns out that my behavior at the time was also wrong, now if I were to escape again, I would definitely leave the hospital, change clothes and take a taxi to the train station, buy a ticket to anywhere, and run first before talking.
If I had done that at the time, there wouldn't have been what happened later. Actually, I was too nervous and didn't think carefully about it at the time. What kind of valuable goods would be worth it for my billionaire father-in-law to personally drive a car, or Uncle Ho, who is also worth hundreds of millions, to personally drive a car?
In my previous life, I injured Bald Qiang, and my family was busy helping me deal with the case of injuring someone, so they didn't have time to notice what goods Uncle was pressing, who the driver was, or where they were going.
I'm struggling to hold on in the internet cafe, feeling indescribably miserable. I think that soon I'll be able to leave this city, and my heart is filled with excitement, fear, reluctance, and anxiety. I look up at the clock on the wall, it's almost 4 o'clock.
Even though it's almost time for students to get out of school, there are still not many people in this small internet cafe. I'm not sure what specific time my uncle and Mr. Huo will come, nor do I know how they'll notify me when they arrive.
Just then the female network manager's phone rang, she said that she had not received fewer calls all day, but this time was completely different from other times. I wish so much that this call is my uncle calling to find me.
The female net manager happened to go to the toilet at this time, and the mobile phone was ringing in the bar. At this time, a heavy footsteps came from the back door of the internet cafe, my eyes were attracted by the footsteps, and I suddenly became tense, because I observed for a whole day, no one had entered the internet cafe from the back door facing the national highway direction.
This internet cafe is located in the last building of this building complex, at a 45-degree angle to the national highway, and the front door of the internet cafe was originally a bedroom window that had been illegally converted into a door.
Later, because the internet cafe was originally on a hill, it also converted the windows of the Ming Hall in Dongshan into doors, which became the back door. The two doors were not directly opposite each other.
In our city before 2008, the government had not yet taken strong measures to rectify illegal window conversions into doors and illegal constructions. Therefore, such black internet cafes existing in old-style open residential areas were also commonly seen at that time.
The heavy footsteps had a strict rhythm, thud! Thud! Thud! One by one, as if synchronized with my heartbeat, making my heart feel like it was going to burst out of my chest. At that moment, I felt wave after wave of discomfort.
At this time, the female network administrator's phone suddenly stopped ringing. Along with the stop of the phone ringtone, the footsteps outside the back door also came to an abrupt halt. Less than 2 seconds later, the female network administrator's phone rang again, and the heavy footsteps outside the back door also came again.
The rhythmic footsteps made my eyes almost pop out of their black sockets, and I suddenly realized that the position I had chosen was not good at all. Although it was already spring, the day was still short, and now it was approaching 4 o'clock, with the sun about to set. Due to the angle of the building where the internet cafe was located, sitting in this position looking towards the back door created a strong backlight.
Just as I was lost in thought, a tall figure finally turned around the plastic shed leading to the toilet at the back door and appeared before me. The figure was about 195 cm tall, but I couldn't see the color of his clothes because of the backlight.
All that can be seen is a person with a crew cut, wearing a tight-fitting top that accentuates his extremely muscular physique, wearing loose military pants, and wearing a pair of high-top military boots, with his right hand holding a mobile phone stuck to his ear.
"Uncle Huo!"
When I saw the appearance of the person who came, I couldn't bear my excitement and stood up with a loud noise, but was so nervous that I tripped over the metal leg of the computer desk and fell to the ground.
Heo-ssu indeed lived up to his military background, with a first-rate stress reaction. He swiftly approached me and was about to grab hold of me as I stumbled, but when he also clearly saw my appearance on the ground, he was apparently startled.
"In his characteristic hoarse voice, he said slowly and steadily: 'Alright, big nephew, how did you get yourself into this state?' As he spoke, he reached out a hand and pulled me up from the ground."
"Let's go, the car is just parked by the side of the road. There are checkpoints on the way, and they don't care about those entering but strictly check those exiting."
Heo uncle looked around and pulled me out of the internet cafe towards the national road. It was only then that I saw a huge container truck parked by the side of the national road, with a stout middle-aged man standing beside it. I knew he was my aunt's husband, and suddenly I felt safe at last.
"It's nothing, Xiao Hua, don't be afraid, Uncle He and I have killed many people when we were as young as you."
My uncle patted my messy hair, trying to comfort me, but the words coming from his mouth were really awkward. I climbed up two steps onto the driver's cab of the container truck.
Under the guidance of my uncle and Huo Shu, I crawled into a recessed compartment under the rear seat that had been modified to hide people, and after closing the flap on top, it looked like a normal rear seat with no signs of anything unusual.
I lay on my side, chatting with my uncle, telling him about the cause and process of things. My uncle and He Uncle both comforted me intentionally or unintentionally. As we talked, the car drove away from Shenyang, and I escaped from my hometown like this.
