Chapter 271 - A Difficult Night (2/2)
Annina let out a breath of relief and stepped out of her hiding place
Xia Lei lifted Sang Qing-Xin again and over his shoulder as he said, “Take the child We have to leave this place”
“Are we going further up?” Annina’s legs eary
“They’ve started searching the ,” said Xia Lei
“All right I’m not afraid with you byYue-Yue in her arly up the ht frouards and nearly 50 of the National Guard were searching for theuard soon made a discovery He plucked a piece of black lace froht! That punk and his woman did come up the mountain! This is a piece of that woman’s underwear!”
Gu Ke-Wu strode over and snatched up the piece of lace to sniff it “It is that woman’s perfuroup continued upward in their search
More traces were soon found - pieces of lace, obvious footprints, broken branches and so on Xia Lei had no way of avoiding these since he had to carry Sang Qing-Xin up the ht to not leave any footprints in the daround
These discoveries excited Gu Ke-Wu and he see up to Xia Lei
“I must kill that punk when I catch him!” This was an opportunity, and Gu Ke-Wu was not worried at all about what trouble would come after if he killed Xia Lei He had methods aplenty to shi+rk himself of the relation to Xia Lei He could say that Xia Lei had a heart attack, or lost his way and fell off a cliff There would be a big group of people to bear witness too, so who could do anything to hi Xia Lei acted as a stimulant for Gu Ke-Wu, and his speed increased…
In the forest, Xia Lei was tired to the bone He could go no further when he reached the halfway-round Annina was in no better shape and she plonked her butt on the grass
The lights from mobile phones flashed here and there below them; they had drawn much closer
“damn it Didn’t think they’d follow the tracks we left behind” Xia Lei frowned “It’s difficult to lose thee”
Annina was out of breath “I saw soldiers They won’t do anything bad, will they? Maybe we don’t have to escape Maybe we can talk to thehed dryly “You’re too naive Have you forgotten how your own countryovernment too”
Annina shut her ents, her countryht now breathing the air of freedo tortured
Every country was made of its people and there were sure to be bad people no matter which belief syste Xia Lei and Annina, for exaular folk but the one whose orders they folloas not a good person
“Let’s go We can’t rest anymore” Xia Lei cli Qing-Xin, prepared to put her over his shoulder
“Why not wake her up? You’ll have an easier time if you do,” said Annina
Xia Lei shook his head “No She will see those soldiers and think we are the bad guys, while those are the people trying to rescue her We’ll be in big trouble if she calls out to theun, then stopped She was full of worry
“We won’t be caught, believe round is fir to figure out which direction we’d gone,” said Xia Lei
Annina nodded and gathered Sang Yue-Yue in her ar Yue-Yue hadup
Xia Lei led Annina to an area with rocky ground and few trees This was going to be difficult, but he would welcoht