Chapter 1177: The Long-Awaited eBay User
Lin Sanjiu squatted on the ground, her ears filled with loud alarm sounds, running footsteps, and angry shouts from outside the door, leaving her stunned for a moment.
She could only feel the blood but not the owner of the blood. After groping for a few seconds, she sensed that the blood was oozing more and more from under the container, and the smell of blood grew stronger.
Even though she was in a hospital, she couldn"t save the minced meat under the container.
Stealing something resulted in this reaction from the hospital, killing an NPC—Lin Sanjiu didn"t want to think further. At least before the office door was opened, her act of murder wouldn"t be discovered... right?
"Let"s first think about how to get out of here," Mrs. Manas reminded, "There must be no windows here."
Right, she was currently in the bas.e.m.e.nt.
Lin Sanjiu stood up, wiped her hand on the wall, and released strands of Higher Consciousness. The Higher Consciousness fluttered like fish in the air, swaying and patrolling ahead. Whenever it encountered something, it made a soft sound to remind her of obstacles.
After walking a few steps like a bat, she turned everything she touched, such as what seemed like filing cabinets and folders, into cards. The container blocked most of the s.p.a.ce, and she quickly ran out of places to go, naturally finding no exits.
Suddenly, a loud bang echoed in her eardrums, startling her in place, and the aftershocks continued; it took Lin Sanjiu a few seconds to realize that the guards in the corridor had already removed the door frame and were trying to collapse the surface of the container to create a gap.
"The container won"t hold up for long," Mrs. Manas asked anxiously. "What do we do now?"
Lin Sanjiu didn"t say anything. She swung her right hand, and the metal gauntlet quickly expanded and wrapped around her palm. She found the distance, exerted force on her foot, and rushed forward, pouring all her strength into her right hand. When she rushed to the wall like lightning, her right fist let out a chilling sharp wind and smashed into the wall.
Her heart stopped for a second. Luckily, the hospital wall was just as real as the NPC who could die and bleed. A large chunk of the wall collapsed with a lot of dust.
"What is she doing?" shouted a guard. "Quick, she"s smas.h.i.+ng the wall from inside!"
"Is there an NPC in the next room?"
This thought had just arisen when it was answered by a scream. Lin Sanjiu slightly lowered her body and, like a tiger crossing a ring of fire, leaped from the cracked hole in the wall, pouncing directly at the source of the scream. She couldn"t see anything, nor did she know how many things her charge had knocked over. She continued until she collided with a soft body. Both of them tumbled and fell to the ground.
The female NPC she pressed down desperately screamed, "Help! The fugitive is here!" while struggling violently. In this room where the lights were still intact, Lin Sanjiu regained her pitiful visibility. When she raised her head, she saw the door being knocked open with a bang, and four or five guards rushed in one after another.
She had initially only intended to pilfer something from the hospital, at most engaging in petty theft. When Lin Sanjiu firmly grabbed the NPC"s neck and lifted her up from the ground, she couldn"t help but feel somewhat speechless: how did she end up being forced to commit murder and hostage-taking?
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"If any of you move, I"ll kill her," she said, holding the NPC in front of her body, hoping the guards would care about the NPC"s life or death.
Surprisingly, this move worked. The guards stopped in their tracks. One of the guards with black holes in his eyes raised a baton and shouted, "What do you want?"
"Get out," Lin Sanjiu said, feeling her heart finally return to her stomach with a thud. "Close the door, and don"t come in unless I call for you! And stop smas.h.i.+ng the container over there!"
Several guards hesitated, exchanging looks before starting to step back. Just as they retreated two steps, one of them, with a black hole devouring his nose, trembled as he asked, "Did you smell blood?"
"It was me," the female NPC, tightly held by Lin Sanjiu"s neck, unexpectedly said. Although her voice was difficult and hoa.r.s.e, she insisted on lying. "I am injured, and my back is bleeding."
Even if they left the office, the guards outside would only gather more and more. However, Lin Sanjiu finally had a chance to catch her breath. After the door closed, she used Higher Consciousness to tightly bind the NPC, propped her against a desk, and listened to the rhythmic sound of blood rus.h.i.+ng in her eardrums, gradually calming down.
"You are not injured," Lin Sanjiu said after a while, narrowing her eyes to observe the NPC in the dim light. This was a middle-aged woman who seemed to have accepted the fact that her youth had pa.s.sed. "Why did you lie to them?"
"You killed Pang Bo, didn"t you?" the woman said, her voice trembling slightly. "As long as they haven"t found out that someone died, you won"t be considered the most dangerous intruder... But if they think that you are much more dangerous than my life"s worth, they will start to force their way in... By then, I, I will undoubtedly die."
Too real.
If it weren"t for the lava, the black hole on the security guard"s face, and the extra foot, Lin Sanjiu might have thought she had kidnapped a real human.
"They probably don"t know that someone is working late in the adjacent office," the middle-aged woman continued, trying to persuade her. "But even if they haven"t found out, how do you plan to get out? There is no other way out here, and they won"t let you go just because of me. You might as well surrender early—"
"Shut up." Lin Sanjiu quickly summoned a card, holding it tightly in her hand. She could only take things step by step now. Closing her eyes, the [eBay] interface appeared in her consciousness again.
As the female NPC said, she didn"t actually have any way to escape from here, but if she didn"t have one, it didn"t mean others didn"t either.
She first posted a buying request. The container contained a large number of red crystals, and now was the time to make use of them. She offered a generous price and wasn"t too picky about the nature of the item she wanted. Whether it could change her appearance or bypa.s.s s.p.a.ce, as long as it could help her slip away from the guards unnoticed, she was willing to pay a high price.
After posting the buying request, Lin Sanjiu immediately started browsing the list of items for sale. She knew that the chances of successfully buying what she needed directly through [eBay] were not high. Once she couldn"t find a suitable item, she would have to quickly think about the next steps. However, sometimes unexpected things happen.
"You"re looking for me, right?"
When this message appeared under her buying request, Lin Sanjiu froze. She carefully read it several times and became more and more incredulous.
"Coincidentally, I happen to have something that can help you."
The username of the message read "Gong Daoyi."
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