Chapter 1836 — Abandoning the Car and Fleeing
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Ahead lay an old residential district — the earliest housing development in Songshan City, yet also the most decrepit. The buildings here were several decades old, most of them red-brick three-story structures.
Because of planning problems from the past, no consideration had been given to things like driving lanes, so between every building there were nothing but narrow alleys, and within those alleys, the first-floor residents had fenced off sections to use as their own private courtyards.
Dirty, disordered, and dilapidated — that was Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu's first impression.
If not for this escape, the two would never have come to such a place for anything — perhaps they would never have set foot here in their entire lives. Yet today, Gu Mengyao had deliberately chosen this very spot.
"Let's rest for a while!" Gu Mengyao said, truly unable to walk any further, looking at Shen Yushu, who was gasping for breath at her side.
"Okay..." Although Shen Yushu's little universe had erupted, she too was exhausted to the point of collapse at this moment, so when she heard Gu Mengyao suggest resting, she naturally agreed.
The two found a pile of odds and ends in front of someone's door and carefully hid behind it.
Yu Liu followed the trail all the way, traveling by way of rooftops and utility poles, from which he could look down upon the streets below. For a master at the peak of the mid Earth rank, flying over eaves and scaling walls was a trivial matter.
Yu Liu was furious at heart. If not for the time that Chen Yuxuan and Qiu Lingshan had cost him, he would probably have caught up with Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu long ago. But now he could only search this vicinity by instinct.
At last, Yu Liu's gaze came to rest on the parking lot beneath the overpass. In the night, there were not many vehicles in the lot, and with a careful look, Gu Mengyao's Grand Cherokee could be spotted with ease!
The next moment, Yu Liu's figure appeared beside the Cherokee. He reached out and touched the car's hood, a cold smile crossing his face. Then he sprang up once more and landed on the overpass beside him!
A driver who happened to be passing by suddenly saw a man appear at the bridgehead and was so startled that he thought he had come face to face with a real ghost, nearly causing a car accident.
Yu Liu was observing the terrain in the vicinity. Since Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu had chosen to abandon the car and proceed on foot, Yu Liu wondered: if it were him, which route would he choose to escape by?
In the end, Yu Liu's gaze settled on the old residential district not far from the overpass. Every other street and neighborhood nearby could be seen clearly at a glance; only that old district — its buildings laid out in a tangled maze, the tallest being three-story structures — offered no vantage point from which one could take in the whole area at a glance!
This was the place! Yu Liu locked his target onto this old residential district. If someone were pursuing him from behind, he too would have chosen this district, because it offered too many spots for hiding and adapting on the fly — a single little alley could be enough to shake off a pursuer.
Having made up his mind, Yu Liu walked swiftly toward that old residential district...