I Received Messages From Future Self!-Chapter 302 - 298 Finding a Way Out
Chapter 302: Chapter 298 Finding a Way Out
Chapter 302: Chapter 298 Finding a Way Out
Fang Xiaocao took her Steel Nail and Flying Dagger, placing them back on their dedicated belts, making sure they were within easy reach for her uninjured hand. She didn’t take a gun but instead grabbed another Dagger, “I only have one good hand; in a critical moment, a Dagger is more useful than a gun.”
Hummingbird was taken aback by her words and looked at Fang Xiaocao’s injured hand. The pristine white bedsheets were already soaked through with blood, resembling a dark red cloth.
Hummingbird’s eyes flickered with distress and nodded.
She stashed the gun on her person.
“They must be from the Pawnshop, right?”
Gazing down at the three men’s corpses on the ground, Fang Xiaocao asked in a grave tone.
The current Xiaocao was no longer the young girl who had vomited uncontrollably after her first kill.
Having experienced so many life-and-death situations, she could now look calmly at the blood-drenched corpses.
“Yes!”
“There’s a mark on their clothes!”
Hummingbird nodded, flipped one of the bodies over, and pointed at the man’s chest for Xiaocao to see.
Fang Xiaocao looked and indeed saw the character for “pawn” embroidered on the man’s chest.
“It seems we’ve still crossed paths with the Pawnshop.”
Fang Xiaocao shook her head and chuckled bitterly.
Although the saying goes that an abundance of lice is not itchy, facing the Pawnshop, such a mysterious and unpredictable force, Fang Xiaocao couldn’t help but tremble with fear, especially since Tom and Taotie, her two main forces, were not by her side, making her even more apprehensive.
Hummingbird nodded, “It seems so!”
“Let’s find a way out first, then meet up with Tom and the others before we make a long-term plan.”
Hummingbird’s suggestion was precisely what Fang Xiaocao had in mind, so naturally, she had no objections.
“Let’s go; let’s get out of here first!”
Xiaocao said.
Hummingbird looked around and finally fixed her gaze on the door guarded by the three men.
Hummingbird approached the door and tried to turn the doorknob.
With a “click,” the door opened.
Xiaocao’s heart leaped with joy and she hurriedly moved closer.
Hummingbird gently pulled the door open a crack, pressed her eye up to it, and peered at the scene beyond.
Soon, Hummingbird withdrew her gaze and shut the door.
“No good, there’s a corridor behind the door, and someone is on guard at the end of it. If I come out through this door, I’ll be immediately exposed to the guard’s sight,” Hummingbird said in a low voice.
“What do we do then?”
Xiaocao was at a loss.
“We go back the way we came,” Hummingbird said after a moment’s thought.
“Go back?”
Xiaocao was startled.
Hummingbird nodded, “Yes!”
“We’ll find the pathway where they dispose of the bodies!”
“Since the operating room is along the corridor, there will definitely be a body disposal passage nearby. As long as we find it, we can follow the body disposal passage straight back to the Man-eating Rat Nest, and then leave from the Man-eating Rat Nest.”
“Once we’re outside the Man-eating Rat Nest, we’ll know our bearings, and we can use the terminal to send a message to Tom and others to come and meet us!”
Hummingbird’s words brightened Xiaocao’s eyes.
By now, Fang Xiaocao had long given up on any thoughts of the treasure; nothing was more important than saving lives, not just her own life, but those of Tom, Taotie, and Hummingbird. Each of their lives was more important than the elusive treasure.
“That’s how we’ll do it!”
Deciding on the spot, Xiaocao affirmed the plan.
Hummingbird moved a table in front of the door.
Feeling it wasn’t secure enough, she dragged the three men’s corpses and placed them in front of the door on top of the table.
Blocking the door wouldn’t stop people from outside coming in, but it could buy them some time. In circumstances like these, an extra second could mean the difference between life and death for the two of them.
“Princess Your Highness, we should go!”
Hummingbird said to Fang Xiaocao.
Fang Xiaocao nodded and followed Hummingbird back the way they came to the door of the surgery room.
“Let’s search separately!”
Fang Xiaocao whispered.
Hummingbird hesitated for a moment, then nodded her head.
“Don’t go too far!”
Hummingbird cautioned her.
“Got it!”
Fang Xiaocao said with a smile, nodding her head.
Hummingbird walked towards the other end of the corridor.
Fang Xiaocao thought for a moment, preparing to see what was behind these doors.
The passageway the pawnshop used to dispose of bodies might be hidden behind one of them.
Fang Xiaocao decided to start her search inside the surgery room.
After all, the surgery room was where bodies were produced directly. It was quite possible that the disposal passage was inside the surgery room.
Fang Xiaocao opened the door to the surgery room and walked in. The setup inside could be described as very simple, consisting only of a surgical bed.
Fang Xiaocao guessed that this place was probably just the pawnshop’s organ harvesting room, not the operating room for transplantation. It was highly likely that after removing the needed organs here, they were preserved by special means and transported elsewhere to await transplant-recipients.
“The question is, are the clients awaiting organ transplants also in the mountains, or are they in some hospital? If they’re in the mountains, it shouldn’t be too far. But if they’re not in the mountains, how does the pawnshop preserve the organs and quickly transport them out of this mountain?”
Fang Xiaocao muttered to herself as she looked at the traces of blood on the surgical bed.
The bloodstains on the surgical bed were still very fresh.
Clearly, an organ-removal surgery had just been performed here. It also meant that it was very likely someone died here, and the pawnshop workers had just carried out a disposal action. They hadn’t even cleaned the bloodstains on the surgical bed. Maybe searching the floor for dripped blood traces could lead to the pawnshop’s disposal passage.
At this thought, Fang Xiaocao felt a surge of excitement.
“I really am clever!”
Complimenting herself with narcissistic pride, Fang Xiaocao stopped looking around the surgery room and focused on the floor, searching for possible blood traces.
“Found it!”
As the saying goes, persistence pays off. With relentless searching, she finally found a drop of blood on the floor.
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The blood trace was not near the door of the surgery room but had dropped inside it.
Following the blood trace, Fang Xiaocao took a few steps and saw another drop.
Finding two blood drops in a row confirmed Fang Xiaocao’s ideas even more.
When she arrived in front of a wall, she noticed more blood traces on the floor, but at the same time, there was no path ahead.
Fang Xiaocao blinked in surprise.
The blood on the floor had pooled into a small puddle.
Clearly, the pawnshop’s tool for moving bodies had paused here briefly with a corpse.
But…
Where is the path?
Fang Xiaocao looked left and right but saw no door.
There were no other blood traces around.
Only a pool of gathered blood in front of the wall.
“Could it be…”
“There’s a secret passage or a hidden room?”
As she stared at the wall in front of her, Fang Xiaocao suddenly remembered the secret door that was used by the pesky monkeys to ambush them in the tomb passageways.
Could there be a door in this operating room, one that blends into the wall?
In Fang Xiaocao’s heart, the answer formed.
The answer was very likely!
And the secret door was right in front of her!
