About five hundred paces walking, Yìngyuè witnessed something. An SUV suddenly stopped beside Yìngyuè. The car was dark blue. The windows glasses were so dark that Yìngyuè could not see what was going on inside. The car rocked as if there was a fight inside. Seconds later, the left rear door opened.

A woman tried to get out of the vehicle. Behind her, a man was holding her. He tried to prevent the woman from getting out of the car. The front left door opened, a man came out. Quickly he caught the woman's hand that was struggling to break free from the clutches of the man behind her. The hand of the man outside the car flew and hit the woman's face. After that, with both hands, he threw the woman back into the car. After slamming the car's rear door, the man at once got in through the vehicle's front door. Immediately the vehicle moved away from Yìngyuè.

Yìngyuè shocked and dumbfounded watching all that. She did not know what to do. What she just saw was like a movie scene that she sometimes watched on television. While her fear was rising in her mind, her body was stiff as a statue.

The car was traveling northward, away from Yìngyuè. But suddenly, after walking about two hundred meters, the vehicle stopped again. This time, the car didn't shake; a few seconds later, the car backed up. The fact that she was a witness terrified yìngyuè this time. Witnessing a crime was a dangerous thing. The criminals dislike witnesses who might cause difficulties for them. The car retreated rapidly. Two hundred meters was a short distance for a car. The car would soon be back here, and the criminals would get out of the vehicle to eliminate the witnesses who witnessed their crimes.

Yìngyuè started to panic. There was nobody she could ask for help. She looked at the surrounding place. This area was silent. With the backpack she carried, there was no way she could run fast. Leaving a bag was also not the right choice because many items could lead those people to identify her.

Yìngyuè looked back. There was a building that looks quite old, standing there. Without wasting time, in a flash, she ran toward the building. After opening the door, Yìngyuè speedily rushed in. Yìngyuè was sure those people from inside the car had seen her running toward the building. Inside the building, there was not a single person. She was getting more and more panicked.

Is it an abandoned building? But the electricity is still on. So there must still be people in this building.

The building was still brightly lit. At least, on this ground floor, there were still signs of life. The electricity was still on.

Elevator! I have to get to the elevator!

Yìngyuè searched the elevator. She didn't have much time left. The car must have reached the place where she had been standing earlier. The criminals must have gotten out of the car, and now they were hunting for her.

Ah, that's the stairs over there!

Instead of the elevator, Yìngyuè found the stairs. For a moment, she considered whether to use the stairs. She abandoned the intention and returned to look for the elevator. After seeing the elevator, Yìngyuè quickly ran there.

There were four elevators there. In a hurry, Yìngyuè pressed the up and down button. The first elevator seemed to be out of service. The indicator at the top of the elevator didn't turn on. The second elevator was also off. The third elevator was on. As soon as the elevator doors opened, Yìngyuè instantly entered. She hurriedly pressed the top button on the elevator. She intended to go up to the top floor, which was the 12th floor. The fourth elevator also seemed to be off, although Yìngyuè wasn't sure. So at least she had to buy time by going to the top floor.

The elevator seemed to take a long time to close its doors. Yìngyuè heard some angry voices. The elevator doors finally closed, but Yìngyuè could still listen to the people outside screamed and yelling. The elevator door had closed, but it doesn't go up right away. If someone pressed the button, the elevator could still open. She was very pale this time.

Luckily, the elevator finally started moving up. From the faint shouting earlier, Yìngyuè concluded that the men were then looking for stairs and trying to catch up with Yìngyuè. They did not know Yìngyuè headed to which floor, so they would likely check every floor. This fact would be advantageous for Yìngyuè, as it would give her enough time to find a hiding place.

Gone up to the 12th floor took so long. Yìngyuè couldn't make sure the elevator was slow because it was old or it just her feelings. Each floor took approximately five seconds. So in one minute, Yìngyuè arrived on the 12th floor. Of course, the pursuers were still on the second or third floor. Every time they climbed one floor of the stairs, they had to check the elevator's front.

When the elevator finally opened on the 12th floor. Yìngyuè quickly put her backpack on the elevator floor. She laid it longitudinally, so part of the bag was outside the elevator and the other part still inside. She wanted to keep the elevator doors from closing, so the criminals couldn't go up using this elevator.

Yìngyuè looked out in all directions, trying to find another object that could replace her backpack as a wedge. Then suddenly, the indicator on the fourth elevator flashes. Yìngyuè could see that the fourth elevator was on the 10th floor.

For a few seconds, the indicator still showed the 10th floor. So the fourth elevator now must stop and open on the 10th floor. Anyone standing in front of that elevator must notice the third elevator stopped on the 12th floor. If they were the criminal who chased her, they must go straight up to the 12th floor. But the people on the 10th floor stopped there, did nothing. So, they were not the people who were chasing Yìngyuè.

Yìngyuè intended to ask for help from the person on the 10th floor. She was on the top floor, so the button in front of the elevator was only the down button. Pressing the down button also won't make the fourth elevator on the 10th floor went up to the 12th floor. The third elevator doors were still opened and probably won't go down unless someone downstairs wanted to go up. Yìngyuè grabbed her backpack that had been used to hold the elevator doors. Then she ran toward the stairs and down to the 10th floor.

Once she reached the 10th floor, she right away headed for the elevator. It was almost late because the fourth elevator was closing its door when Yìngyuè ran toward it. Arriving in front of the elevator, Yìngyuè pressed the down button and hoped that the elevator had not gone down, so it still had time to open again. As soon as the elevator opened, Yìngyuè shouted with joy and directly lunged into the elevator. There was a person inside. So this person was the one who previously stopped on the 10th floor.

The elevator doors closed. Yìngyuè and the person in the elevator made eye contact. Yìngyuè surprised to see this person. The person standing in front of her is the man she had previously chatted with at the phone booth.