Chapter 1805: Chapter 1033: Escape
The sky has brightened.
As the first ray of dawn spread across the sky, Yang Xiao, sitting on a chair on night watch, slowly exhaled a breath of stale air. He and Jiu Shan Sha Yue had a clear division of labor, each taking turns for two hours. After her shift, Jiu Shan Sha Yue laid out a thick quilt on the ground and was resting on it.
Both of them tacitly chose not to wake up Sato Shouta and Nishimura Yuna, who were sleeping on the only bed, to steal their rest. After all, this was their last peaceful sleep.
From Yang Xiao’s angle, he could just see Sato Shouta’s profile. This guy slept soundly, and perhaps it was because of a dream, a slight smile hung on the corner of his mouth. Yang Xiao guessed, maybe...maybe he dreamt of his mother.
Without hesitating any further, Yang Xiao woke everyone up. They still had tasks to complete today, and Yang Xiao tried to keep himself busy. This is his experience; being busy prevents him from thinking about unhappy things.
After the four of them quickly tidied up, they went to the lobby on the first floor. At this moment, the glass door of the hotel lobby was still locked, but the usually punctual Qingshui Cangjie and Heize Lin had not appeared.
The lobby was still a mess left from last night. An empty shotgun lay on the table, and the nearby sofa had been blasted apart, with ceramic shards scattered on the ground, crunching underfoot.
They waited for more than ten minutes until a white car stopped at the hotel entrance. A henchman with yellow hair hurriedly came over, unlocked the door outside, and sneaked a few glances inside, as if looking for something, then ran away with a strange expression on his face.
Yang Xiao knew he was looking for Qingshui Cangjie and Heize Lin, but unfortunately, he would never see those two guys again.
"Should we... go upstairs and search for them?" Nishimura Yuna asked worriedly.
"Search for what?" Jiu Shan Sha Yue gave her a cold glance, "Do you think those two could still be alive?"
"There’s no need to bother. We don’t have to waste time on this, and even if we search, we might not find them. Last night they must have switched rooms again."
Yang Xiao’s attitude towards Nishimura Yuna was significantly better than Jiu Shan Sha Yue’s, not to mention the hotel was quite large, with eight floors and hundreds of rooms. Trying to find Qingshui Cangjie and Heize Lin was too challenging, and it was truly not worth it for two useless corpses.
Pioneers Tong Han and Beiyu Ye had already explored the safe path for them. They just needed to trust and follow it steadily.
Yang Xiao could somewhat imagine the despair Qingshui Cangjie and Heize Lin felt in last night’s Ghost Dream, wondering if, in their final moments before death, they had any regrets.
As the white car outside the hotel sped away, Yang Xiao knew it was time for them to act.
The car that Qingshui Cangjie and Heize Lin drove back yesterday was parked not far from the hotel entrance. Yang Xiao had been in that car and knew there was a spare key in the glove compartment of the passenger seat.
After finding a way to pry open the car door, they got the key, and Yang Xiao signaled everyone to get into the car. Today, they were going to Chao Wei Village for an on-site visit to finalize the escape route for tonight.
Jiu Shan Sha Yue drove, Sato Shouta sat in the passenger seat, and Yang Xiao and Nishimura Yuna sat in the back seat together.
Such an arrangement was thoroughly considered. Sato Shouta was relatively safe, but something felt slightly off with Nishimura Yuna this morning, as she seemed to subconsciously avoid eye contact with Yang Xiao and Jiu Shan Sha Yue.
To prevent any unforeseen incidents on the last day, Yang Xiao decided to keep a close watch on her.
Sitting together in the back seat, even if she acts up, he could control her at the first moment.
Nishimura Yuna was indeed an old player but basically had no combat skills. Forget about handling experts like Yang Xiao and Jiu Shan Sha Yue, she would even struggle against seemingly harmless Sato Shouta.
On the way, they stopped once at a convenience store to purchase some supplies—rice balls, sandwiches, oden—all ready-to-eat foods, which they ate in the car for breakfast.
"Mr. Yang, I dreamed about my mom last night. She made my favorite dishes, and I apologized to her, but she said she didn’t mind. She just said she missed me and asked where I had been all this time. Was everything alright?"
"Mom hugged me tightly, crying, saying she thought she’d never see me again."
"But I said I was lucky to have you, and I brought you home, introduced you to my mom, and she liked you very much. She wanted you to work at my father’s company and introduce you to her friend’s daughter."
Sato Shouta expressed with exuberance as if he had returned home and met his beloved mother, not noticing Yang Xiao’s face turning strange in the back seat.
"Mr. Yang, where do you live? Is it far from my house?" Sato Shouta asked again.
"Could you shut up and not distract me while driving?" Jiu Shan Sha Yue promptly stopped Sato Shouta, with one sentence silencing him.
Sato Shouta didn’t dare offend this big miss; the scene where she chopped off Hasegawa Hideji’s hand with a knife had terrified him.
Arriving at Chao Wei Village, Yang Xiao and the others began familiarizing themselves with the roads in the village. Since Yang Xiao was the only one who had been there before, he naturally became the guide.
There was no need to go to the back mountain; they first strolled through the village and found several centuries-old buildings, including the place where Tong Han died. Tonight, these buildings would serve as their landmarks.
"Mr. Yang Xiao, you brought us here to..." Nishimura Yuna stared at the tightly closed old building with a puzzled expression.
