Chapter 887: Midnight Escape
Tao Yuanyuan stared at the unfamiliar ceiling, tears drying and flowing again. Outside, the night had deepened, and a few scattered lit windows looked like lanterns floating in the vast night sky.
After a long inner struggle, her gaze finally hardened. Neither fantasy nor regret could save her; she had to rely on herself to get back home!
She walked to the window, pushing it open to look down. This was a high-rise building, and there was no way for her to escape through the window. She could jump, but it would be meaningless. She had to survive!
The bedroom door had a spherical metal handle that locked from the inside. Wasn’t Zhou Xiao worried about her escaping at night?
Tao Yuanyuan reached for the handle. In the silence, she heard a faint crackling sound, as subtle as a wire short-circuiting somewhere. She had a sudden premonition. Finding a nail in the room, she wrapped it in rubber, holding the rubber and cautiously extended the nail towards the metal handle.
With a crackle, a tiny electric arc sparked between the nail and the handle.
As expected, the handle was electrified.
Searching the bedroom, Tao Yuanyuan dismantled a teddy bear, using its stuffing and pillowcase to insulate her hand. Carefully, she touched the handle again to ensure it was safe before grasping it and opening the door.
On the other side of the handle was an uninsulated wire wrapped around it, with the other end plugged directly into a socket. The AC current would surely knock her down instantly or worse, cause her to scream in agony.
Not only that, there were two beer bottles placed upside down next to the door, tied together with a thin thread.
Tao Yuanyuan avoided these dangerous traps and made her way to the living room. Snoring came from Zhou Xiao’s master bedroom. Tao Yuanyuan tiptoed to the security door where Zhou Xiao was sleeping. It had pins and chains that would make noise if tampered with.
This would undoubtedly alert Zhou Xiao, a fugitive evading capture for over a decade, whose vigilance would only be heightened.
Taking a deep breath, Tao Yuanyuan surveyed the room for anything she could use.
Perhaps she could use something intended for her defense against Zhou Xiao himself, setting up obstacles in front of his bedroom to prevent him from rushing out to catch her immediately.
Tao Yuanyuan unplugged the wire from the socket and walked up to Zhou Xiao’s bedroom door. Zhou Xiao was bare-armed and lying on the bed, making a whooshing sound. A family portrait of three hung on the wall above the bed, smiling happily.
Tao Yuanyuan clenched her fist. She should wrap the wire around Zhou Xiao’s neck and give this beast a taste of electric torture!
Of course, this was just a thought. She didn’t have the courage or strength for such an act.
If this door closed, it might alert him.
Pouring water on the floor and electrifying it? No, it would be in vain if Zhou Xiao wore shoes, and water would splash everywhere, causing harm to herself.
Or something simpler, like blocking the door with furniture?
She quickly dismissed this idea. Whether it was a cabinet or a sofa, it would take a tremendous effort to push it over, and Zhou Xiao could easily knock it down. The two were vastly different in strength.
“Woo-woo!”
Suddenly, a sound came from the bedroom. Tao Yuanyuan’s heart skipped a beat as she leaned into Zhou Xiao’s bedroom and saw a burlap sack under the window, a moving burlap sack.
Tao Yuanyuan turned and entered the kitchen, opening the refrigerator’s top layer. Holding her breath, she observed the pieces inside. There were two plush heads inside the white cold air, which meant that the family of three still had a little boy alive in the picture!?
Zhou Xiao said he would “teach” her tomorrow, so did he have “teaching materials” prepared?！
Thinking of this, Tao Yuanyuan suddenly felt nauseous, she quickly closed the refrigerator and squatted against the wall, covering her mouth and trembling, and her tears, which were not even enough to rotate in her eye socket.
Leave this kid alone, he’s gonna die!
Tao Yuanyuan’s chest continued to heave, exchanging oxygen frequently, and finally she was determined to go to the security door and unlock the bolt, chain, and door lock in turn, and the sound of the movement was especially shocking in the silent night.
She opened the door while she looked back at Zhou Xiao’s bedroom, and she already had a start, after a seconds to would alert completely his to became .
“Boom, boom!”
Suddenly there was a sound in the bedroom, which was a little of she heard Xiao’s footsteps back the and on, could the more were was of would to the I, the head was of sudden.
to clutch their saw I heard shoes quickly on the run.
dragged the most frightened escape this to see this room, Tao the little strange was but that, into the child’s childhood tears he whispered the of my the is corner the be most up.
“Poor was back and move, wild the was just off more and motion go, desperately on the his to and this, and to of arm the off to work off and then or too no longer.