Book 1: Chapter 129

Book 1: Chapter 129

I got up in a daze. I didnt sleep deeply in my early years, but that had changed in more recent years. I often slept so deeply now that it was difficult to wake me up. I rubbed my face and instantly went on the alert. I stood against the wall and listened to the knocking on the door.

The sound was very slight and rhythmic, which I found odd. I turned on my phone and called Bai Haotian in the next room. Our two rooms were in the shape of a seven, so she could look through her doors peephole and see who was knocking on my door. I didnt dare go over and look myself because I was afraid that someone would come in with a gun as soon as I did.

The phone rang for a long time, but Bai Haotian didnt answer. I had a bad feeling, so I looked out the window, quickly put my clothes on, and carefully climbed out of the window.

The hotels outer wall was right outside my window. We were on the third floor, but there was a telephone pole close to the building. I hung on the edge of the window with one hand while my feet dangled below. I let go and dropped to the second-floor window right below mine. I then stepped on the sill before jumping out and kicking the telephone pole, safely landing on the edge of the first floor window.

This was a simple wall climbing technique Xiao Hua had taught me. There were six kinds of techniques, but I wasnt at the level where I could handle the different types of walls and cliffs. Otherwise, I would have climbed to the top of the building. With my current arm strength, I could only handle jumping off of something.

After landing on the ground, I re-entered the hotel. There was a computer at the front desk with split-screen monitoring. The front desk attendant was wrapped in a rotten quilt and had nodded off. I looked at the split screen monitoring, found my room, and saw a woman knocking on my door. The back of my neck went cold, because the woman's face was pressed so close to the door that she almost looked like she was lying on it. What was she doing?

This was definitely abnormal behavior. Was she drunk or was this hotel haunted?

I wanted to take a closer look at the bodies below, but the water in the pool suddenly leaped onto my face, becoming so sticky that I couldn't breathe. As soon as I tried to take a breath, the mucus-like substance got sucked into my lungs.

I woke up during the struggle, turned my head, and started coughing violently. A big clump of blood came out of my nose as I continued coughing. My mouth and nose were full of blood, and my lungs hurt like a bomb had gone off in them.

It was dawn. It was all just a fucking dream. I was curled up on the ground, unable to get up because of the pain. I tried to breath slowly and calmly, wanting to let my body relax so that the pain would pass. But the pain didn't pass at all.

In fact, it hurt more and more. I went to touch my phone, but couldn't type a word. I saw a message from Bai Haotians phone that read: Someone wants the goods. What do we do next?

I couldn't speak, couldnt swipe the screen with my blood-covered hands. I couldn't do anything.

As my vision went dark, I thought to myself, Im going to die. They were right.

Unlike before, this didn't seem like something I could overcome.