The night before the promotion

Chapter 68 Escape of Life and Death
"Cloud City, Cloud City... this damn place again."

After Zhou Si muttered a few words viciously, he looked at Li Weiyu. Both of them couldn't help but smile on their faces that were full of fatigue and pain.

Previously, many clues had been barely pieced together, but now, they were like a tightly tied knot, tightly linked together.

Zhou Si immediately asked, "Doctor Ji, have you seen your patients since they said they joined Yunzhong City?"

"No, absolutely not. It's like he just disappeared from the face of the earth."

Ji Siling shook her head and took out another piece of iron from Li Weiyu's wound. "This is also what scares me. So many people disappeared silently... You know, although the Hidden Alley is a chaotic place, it still has basic order. Even if one person dies, it will cause great turmoil."

“But now, the so-called Cloud City is like an invisible abyss hidden in a hidden alley. If you fall into it, there will not even be an echo of your fall to the ground.”

Ji Siling said with fear, "If it wasn't for making some money, I would have left this damn place a long time ago."

As soon as she finished speaking, there was a heavy sound of footsteps outside the iron gate. Ji Siling immediately held her breath and even reached out to cover Li Weiyu's mouth to prevent him from making any painful moans.

Zhou Si's nerves also tensed up. He gently unscrewed the medicine bottle, swallowed a few painkillers dry, picked up the electromagnetic pistol, and tiptoed towards the iron gate.

Sudden footsteps sounded above Zhou Si's head, followed by patrolling footsteps coming from all directions, as if a large group of people were hurriedly walking near the clinic.

The tense atmosphere lasted for more than a minute before the footsteps gradually faded away. But even then, Zhou Si did not relax his vigilance. After waiting for another minute, he took action.

"I'm sorry, Doctor Ji, for getting you into trouble, but I really have no other choice."

Zhou Si came to the operating table and entrusted, "Team Leader Li, please help me. Just make sure he doesn't die."

Ji Siling nodded. Whether it was because of her friendship with Zhou Si or the deadly weapon in Zhou Si's arm, she didn't feel that she had the right to refuse.

Li Weiyun sensed something was wrong and asked, "What are you going to do?"

"What else can they do? Their target is me. They won't give up until they find me."

Zhou Si handed his phone to Li Weiyun and said, "Don't worry, Captain Li. Just like the last plan, I have your locator on me, and BT-24 is also looking down at me from high in the sky. If something happens to me, follow this clue to find me and catch them all in one fell swoop."

"You guy..."

Li Weiyu wanted to stand up and stop Zhou Si, but Ji Siling cooperated and injected a sedative into his body.

He blinked and looked like he was about to say something, but the drug took effect quickly. No matter how hard Li Weiyu tried to stay awake, his speech became confused and he finally fell into a deep sleep.

Seeing that Li Weiyu had completely calmed down, Ji Siling cut open his trouser legs, revealing his calf which was pierced by a piece of iron and had some fractures.

Li Weiyu's entire calf was completely swollen and had a terrifying purple-red color. A rusty piece of iron had pierced through his calf. The blood had stopped flowing and had coagulated into a dark red lump at the wound.

"I'll leave it to you, Doctor Ji," Zhou Si turned and walked towards the back door of the clinic. Before he pushed the door open and left, he instructed, "I'll pay you later."

Looking at Zhou Si's disappearing back, Ji Siling stood there in a daze for a while. Then, the decadent and cowardly expression on her face gradually disappeared, replaced by a cold attitude.

In the shadow of the clinic, a green indicator light came on, and two humanoid figures emerged from the darkness, one on the left and one on the right, holding loaded rifles in their hands.

Ever since Zhou Si broke into the clinic, the two guns had been aimed at his and Li Weiyu's heads. However, due to the fierce battle and their own injuries, the two men did not pay close attention to the abnormalities in their blind spots.

"Should we get rid of him?"

The humanoid incarnation put the muzzle of the gun against Li Weiyun's head. He had fallen into a coma and was like a lamb to be slaughtered, so he could be manipulated at will.

"They only gave Dr. Zhou one share of the money. Don't do anything extra."

Ji Siling turned her attention back to Li Weiyu's wound. She used a scalpel to cut open the wound, releasing a large amount of pus and blood. "What's more, Li Weiyu is the team leader of the Supervisory Bureau. If he dies here, it will only cause trouble for us."

"Oh, by the way, come and help me," Ji Siling called to another humanoid avatar, "Help me wash his wound. I need to find a way to take this piece of iron out."

Ji Siling held onto the iron piece that pierced Li Weiyu's calf. She murmured, "Doctor Zhou, you still owe me the surgery fee. Please don't die."

……

After leaving Ji Siling's clinic, Zhou Si ran all the way in the shadow of the hidden alley. He was not worried about Ji Siling's safety. Her clinic was very sturdy. Not to mention that as a veteran who had been wandering in the hidden alleys for many years, there must be similar safe houses and safe passages in her clinic.

The most important thing is that the goal of the Paradise is oneself. As long as one leaves, everyone will be safe.

“It never ends…” Zhou Si heard footsteps coming from all directions. The Paradise had infiltrated the hidden alley early in the morning. The moment he appeared, they discovered him from the cameras installed on the telephone poles and roofs.

Clear footsteps came from behind the corner in front, and Zhou Si clenched his electromagnetic pistol while cursing.

A pale humanoid figure rushed out, and almost the moment it appeared, Zhou Si pulled the trigger.

The first bullet grazed the edge of the humanoid avatar's head, and the second bullet went straight through its face, with sparks flashing in the black bullet hole.

The second shot did not damage the thought storage core. The humanoid avatar simply leaned back and strode towards Zhou Si again. Sharp swords popped out from its arms, and it seemed that it was designed from the same idea as the tiger's simulated avatar.

Zhou Si continued to fire until he ran out of bullets. The humanoid incarnation's pace gradually slowed down, and he fell heavily to the ground with his body riddled with holes, lifeless.

"Ha ha……"

Zhou Si took a few deep breaths and glanced at the electromagnetic pistol with a complaining look.

When using a shotgun, Zhou Si could still rely on the large killing range to inflict heavy damage on the enemy, but after using the electromagnetic pistol, his lack of shooting training was exposed and his accuracy deviated a lot.

But Zhou Si didn't have to worry about accuracy anymore. He used up all his ammunition, threw the electromagnetic pistol casually into the corner, and took out the short axe hanging at his waist.

Holding the weapon he used to eat, Zhou Si suddenly felt a sense of fulfillment and familiarity. At least in his own opinion, the sense of security that this axe could bring to him was much stronger than these guns.

More footsteps were converging towards this place. As long as one humanoid avatar noticed where Zhou Si was, all the humanoid avatars wandering around would know his location and rush towards here.

Waves of banging sounds came from behind the iron wall on Zhou Si's side. Zhou Si listened to the sounds while estimating in his heart, until the right moment, the narrow blade in his hand stabbed out swiftly.

As the two sharp sword blades tore the iron sheet apart, the narrow blade stabbed down along the crack, ruthlessly piercing through the attacking humanoid incarnation, and then the narrow blade pointed upwards, completely cutting it in half.

Zhou Si believes that there is no need to limit himself to fixed thinking.

So Zhou Si turned around and split the iron wall on the other side, and jumped in without caring about the environment behind it.

First, a bright light caught Zhou Si's eyes, and then there were bursts of exclamations. Zhou Si actually broke into a repair shop, where several workers were dealing with abandoned avatar shells.

They had obviously noticed the unusual changes in the hidden alley today and locked the doors and windows, but they could never have imagined that trouble would break in through the door.

"Feel sorry!"

Zhou Si apologized loudly and swung his sword to chop open another iron door.

The layout of the hidden alley is winding, and various obstacles and gates cut it into pieces, but fortunately, Zhou Si's left arm is a master key, allowing him to move freely in this hidden alley.

Stepping onto the sky corridor connecting the low-rise buildings again, a sharp sword blade suddenly pierced out from beside Zhou Si's feet, followed by an arm reaching out.

Zhou Si immediately swung down the short axe and cut off a piece of it. Then the narrow blade separated from his arm, and Zhou Si vigorously danced up a gust of wind.

In an instant, the narrow blade was like a violent lightning, raging around Zhou Si. Wherever it passed, the rusty steel frame of the sky corridor instantly collapsed. Unable to withstand this destructive force, it emitted bursts of sharp screams.

Also disintegrated were the humanoid avatars hanging outside the aerial corridor. They were cut into pieces in mid-air by the narrow blades, and large pieces flew around like birds with broken wings.

Zhou Si soared into the air, and the narrow blade in his hand turned into a hook, which he chopped heavily into a tall building on the side and was deeply embedded in it.

Holding the narrow blade tightly, Zhou Si landed steadily on the wall on one side. As the nanotubes were recovered, he seemed to have broken through the constraints of gravity and ran all the way along the wall of the high-rise building until he climbed to the top of the building.

Only when he stood on top of a tall building did Zhou Si breathe a sigh of relief. He looked down at the earth. Thick rain and fog completely enveloped the entire hidden alley. The neon lights in the alley flickered like stars covered by a spider web.

Zhou Si looked in the direction where the flare had risen before. Unconsciously, he had already been far away from the assembly point, just like a drowning man struggling in panic in the sea. When he finally surfaced, he realized that he was getting farther and farther away from the shore.

He was not panicked. As long as he could hold on long enough and wait for the support from the Supervisory Bureau to arrive, the incarnation killers of the Paradise would naturally retreat.

Right now, the only question for Zhou Si is how long this cat-and-mouse game will last.

A high-frequency buzzing sound came from the rolling clouds, like a large swarm of bees flapping their wings, coming from far away.

Zhou Si felt a strong sense of crisis in his heart, and then countless drones rose up from all around and swooped towards him like hunting falcons.

(End of this chapter)