Those Classmates who Suddenly Disappeared

Chapter 797 - 797 797 Escaping After Innumerable Trials and Hardships

797: Chapter 797: Escaping After Innumerable Trials and Hardships 797: Chapter 797: Escaping After Innumerable Trials and Hardships Helen was in an unfavorable position.

The best course of action would be to leave with her three subordinates up the stairs and abandon the three injured team members here, but that would discourage her subordinates.

Noises of banging came from inside the elevator.

It seemed that Dong Ni wanted to escape and was trying to force open the elevator doors.

Helen had no intention of helping Dong Ni, hoping he could save himself.

Her attention was focused on dealing with Gu Fan.

Perhaps Gu Fan was waiting for her to rescue Dong Ni so he could seize the opportunity to attack.

At this moment, Qiao Ya radioed in with a report: he discovered a large hole with signs of recent excavation, presumed to be the doing of Gu Fan and his team.

Qiao Ya thought that Gu Fan, Su Hui, and David besides collecting the research materials might have also taken some equipment.

However, while Gu Fan was still here, Su Hui and David had already taken the research materials and equipment away.

Knowing this, Helen was somewhat anxious.

She disliked this passive situation.

Her initial plan was to seize Gu Fan no matter what Su Hui and David took.

With him, she could threaten Su Hui.

But now, not only could she not capture Gu Fan, but she could also be potentially defeated.

Thinking quickly, Helen called in her two guards from outside through the radio.

They were to help transport the injured, while she was responsible for preventing any surprise attacks from Gu Fan.

Helen thought, the two men could carry the injured out one by one.

Even though it took a little more time, it could stabilize their position because if they were to carry all three injured members simultaneously, their attention would be divided and they could easily be ambushed by Gu Fan because of the lack in focus.

At this moment, Gu Fan, through the walkie-talkie, understood what Helen planned to do.

He acknowledged that it was indeed a good countermeasure.

He also knew that once Helen escaped, she would come up with other ways to deal with him.

Gu Fan immediately swung into action, running to the stair entrance.

Witnessing multiple flashlights moving back and forth, he ducked behind a corner.

His heart was thumping.

The lab had essentially been stripped bare, leaving nothing useful behind.

Gu Fan couldn’t find any tools to work with.

Just as Gu Fan was about to pull the trigger regardless, he felt a difficulty in breathing.

As this was a basement research facility, without electricity to activate the ventilation system, fresh air would not circulate.

Suddenly, an idea struck Gu Fan.

He remembered that there was a vent next to the power supply.

If he could use the vent to escape, it would be a great opportunity.

The opponents had just called in the exterior guards, which conveniently fit into his plan.

Acting instantly, Gu Fan fired a few rounds to keep Helen and her team on their toes.

Regardless of whether he hit anyone or not, he took off right after firing.

Caught by surprise, Helen’s team was on high alert, anticipating another attack from Gu Fan.

At this point, the two guards, that were outside originally, came downstairs.

They, following Helen’s instructions, began to transport the injured, one at a time.

Helen told them to boldly proceed.

She would provide cover; she wasn’t going to let Gu Fan triumph again.

However, a considerable amount of time had passed and Gu Fan hadn’t made a move.

It was like he had decided to quit, which had Helen frowning.

Could it be that he realized he couldn’t win in a frontal attack and had thus given up?

For an unknown reason, Helen started feeling uneasy.

She had suffered too many defeats.

The more Gu Fan did nothing, the more she felt that he was plotting something.

Suddenly, a faint noise reached Helen’s ears.

It sounded like the collision of metal.

Moreover, the sound was getting more apparent and closer.

“It’s… above!” Helen immediately raised her gun and flashlight upwards.

She didn’t see anything, but the noise clearly came from the ceiling.

Just as Helen was about to shoot, a rat fell from a hole in the ceiling.

The ceiling then made subsequent noises as if other rats were scurrying across hastily.

So it was just a rat that made the noise.

It was quite a shock, but Helen managed to breathe a sigh of relief.

She felt like it was her tension causing her to overreact.

But some time later, there were still noises coming from the ceiling.

Everyone thought it was again the rats but the more Helen listened, the more she felt something was amiss.

The sound was far in the beginning, then it got closer, and now it was distancing again.

Unsettled, Helen sent her subordinates to check the ceiling.

They reported back that it was just a few rats and nothing else.

“Are you sure there’s nothing else?

Look carefully.

No human shadows?” Helen inquired repeatedly with a sense of uneasiness.

Her subordinates, having checked several times, firmly responded that it was just rats scurrying past and nothing else.

Oh, they added, there was a ventilation shaft as well.

On hearing ‘ventilation shaft’, Helen’s heart skipped a beat.

She immediately climbed up to inspect, discovering a ventilation duct heading towards the exterior.

“My God, everyone move quickly!

This fellow is trying to escape through the ventilation duct,” Helen radioed, before charging up the stairs without second thought.

Just as Helen rushed up a few steps, she saw the two men who were carrying the injured tumbling down towards her.

“Damn it!” Helen leaped, using her hands and feet to support herself against the walls, suspending herself briefly in the air to avoid the tumbling bodies.

Once back on the steps, Helen saw a shadow flitting on the top of the stairwell, followed by a gunshot.

“Bastard!” At that moment, Helen couldn’t just rush upstairs.

The stairs provided no cover; it was too easy to get hit by a bullet.

Even though she knew Gu Fan might be just bluffing, she dared not take any action and could only retreat back into the underground research base.

Now at both ends of the stairwell, Helen and her team were lingering at the bottom, while Gu Fan was up top.

Whoever moved first would expose themselves to potential gunfire.

As such, they dared not risk it.

However, staying in hiding was not an option either.

Time was ticking by and Gu Fan might have already escaped.

Unwilling to wait, Helen suggested sending a subordinate forward to scout, but none of them dared to do so.

Seeing five of their own already injured, none of them believed Gu Fan would be easy to deal with.

“Useless cowards!

And you call yourselves men!” Helen scolded, although deep down she was fearful as well.

Never had she sustained such a heavy loss in her career as a team leader.

She had incurred a massive loss.

It wasn’t until Qiao Ya returned that Helen found out Gu Fan had truly escaped, and had even driven off in one of their vehicles.