Chapter 121 Hotel Escape
Chapter 121 Hotel Escape
"Why is it you?" Both of them moved their lips, but no sound came out. They asked the same question.
Yang Xiao clicked his tongue in annoyance. Although he was very unhappy, he still walked towards Ji Lang, since there was a window on his left that was completely blocked by thick snow.
Yang Xiao was already small and thin, and because he had a support-type ability, this type of ability was even more difficult to detect. Even if someone did detect it, no one would take it seriously. So, with his small frame, he didn't need to be guarded by the survivors here. One of the two people in the room took turns guarding him, while the other threw him in the room and left. Yang Xiao guessed that he was going to get something to eat and wouldn't be back for a while.
Perhaps because those people really didn't take him seriously, they didn't even tie his hands behind his back. Yang Xiao searched around the room for a long time but couldn't find the nail file that the hotel had given him. He could only spend some time biting off the things that were binding his hands with his teeth.
At first, he tried to escape through the room window, but when he drew back the curtains, he was shocked to find that the room was below the snow layer. The original design of this hotel was probably that the lobby was on the top floor, accessible from the road above this small hill, and the entire hotel was built down the hillside, with the lowest level leading to the hotel's private beach...
It's extremely cold now, and it's been snowing for days. The snow has covered several floors of rooms, and because of the thick snow cover, the rooms aren't actually that cold.
Unable to escape through the window, Yang Xiao had no choice but to leave through the front door. He observed through the peephole for a long time before boldly opening the door, only to find a surprise waiting for him outside.
Seeing Yang Xiao jogging over, Ji Lang impatiently took two steps forward, grabbed his wrist, and pulled him to the stairwell of the emergency exit. After all, the entire floor was full of rooms, and who knew how many people were there? The longer they stayed in the corridor, the more dangerous it would be.
"Was that you who answered me just now?" As soon as he gently closed the emergency door, Ji Lang couldn't wait to check Yang Xiao from head to toe for injuries. "How many people were in your room? How did you get out?"
"You..." Yang Xiao impatiently slapped away Ji Lang's "wandering hand" and pushed Ji Lang away a little before asking in confusion, "What reply, what number of people, what how did I get out? I just swaggered out like this."
Although Yang Xiao disliked Ji Lang no matter what, he wasn't stupid enough to talk back to his teammates in such a dangerous place. Although he mumbled a few words, he still honestly explained his situation.
Fortunately, upon hearing that no one was watching Yang Xiao and that Yang Xiao was unharmed, Ji Lang breathed a sigh of relief and finally relaxed a little. Meeting Yang Xiao as soon as he stepped outside was a very good thing for him. Now they only needed to find the remaining people, but even if they didn't find them, it wouldn't matter to Ji Lang…
"Hey, why didn't I bring that little thing with me..." Yang Xiao regretted that he had suggested bringing the cipher device when he heard Ji Lang say that he had contacted someone else using the cipher device. He had just casually tossed it into his backpack.
Although Ji Lang wasn't sure who was on the other end of the cipher machine or their current location, he believed they would contact him again if given the chance. Their current priority was to ascertain the hotel's layout as possible before the guards discovered their escape.
The two peered through the crack in the security door into the corridor they had emerged from. The soundproofing of this hotel was truly exceptional; not a sound could be heard at all, not even by people like them with their evolved physiques.
To avoid unnecessary risks, they decided not to linger on this floor. Using the floor numbers in the hallway, they knew they were currently on the second floor of the hotel. Ji Lang decided to take Yang Xiao downstairs first to scout out the situation.
The two walked one after the other. Several times Ji Lang tried to grab Yang Xiao's hand, but Yang Xiao skillfully dodged him. When Ji Lang tried again, Yang Xiao lowered his voice and growled at Ji Lang in front of him, "Is there a ghost in front of us? You're dragging me along. If you're too scared to walk in front, I'll walk!"
After saying that, Yang Xiao walked past Ji Lang and gently opened the emergency door on the first floor.
As soon as the emergency exit opened, Yang Xiao noticed that the first and second floors of the hotel were different. The first floor was also a lobby. Well, it really was a luxurious hotel. No wonder they had to go down the emergency staircase twice to get to the first floor.
The first floor is the lobby, and it's on a lower level. The glass door at the entrance has been shattered by the accumulated snow, and a large amount of snow has rushed into the lobby, basically burying the entire first floor. It's practically impossible to get in or out from here.
Because the entire first floor was almost completely covered in snow, there were no guards from the base here. Yang Xiao, whose coat had also been taken away, shivered from the cold. Unlike Ji Lang, who had a snow-type ability, he was even less afraid of the cold. For him, walking around shirtless in the snow was a piece of cake.
"Go up?" Yang Xiao retreated into the emergency exit. He crossed his arms and hugged his thin frame tightly. If this had happened before he had his superpowers, he probably would have frozen to death. He really regretted not having just grabbed some clothes from his room before running out.
“There’s no one in the lobby on this floor, so the person who contacted me earlier is probably on our floor or a few floors above.” Ji Lang said, closing the emergency exit on the first floor again, and then Yang Xiao started climbing upstairs again.
"What you're saying doesn't make me happy at all." Yang Xiao walked ahead with his arms crossed, his eyes practically rolling to the sky. What was Ji Lang saying? Did he think he didn't have the intelligence to make such a simple judgment?
Although they were blindfolded and led to the room, Yang Xiao still knew that they had gone down 12 flights of stairs and were locked on the 2nd floor. This meant that the hotel had at most 8 floors, and the entire vertical line of the 8th floor was within the signal range of the cipher machine.
"Huh?" Ji Lang didn't think there was anything wrong with what he said. He looked at the back of the figure in front of him with a confused expression, but Yang Xiao was no longer giving him any response.
The two quickly returned to the second floor, but this time they didn't linger and went straight to the third floor. Standing in front of the emergency exit, Yang Xiao was about to open it when he heard footsteps behind the door. The footsteps were mixed, indicating that there was more than one person.
Just as the person behind the door was about to approach the safety door where they were, Ji Lang grabbed Yang Xiao in front of him and pulled him back into the darkness of the next floor's corridor.
The safety door was opened quickly, and Ji Lang silently counted about five or six people coming out. Fortunately, these people did not go downstairs, and he and Yang Xiao were safe.
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