Chapter 675

After receiving the system's answer, Yu Ningchen breathed a sigh of relief, but before that breath could fully settle, it was caught in his throat again.

Yu Ningchen considered his strength not bad, but that was only when fighting the Gulf Family alone; if he brought one person, the uncertain factors increased, and if he brought four more, let alone fighting alone, Yu Ningchen estimated he might not even be able to save himself.

Moreover, this was no ordinary corporation; it was a corporation ranking among the top in the entire world.

But looking at the expressions in those four people's eyes, Yu Ningchen could not utter a single word of refusal.

In the end, for the sake of the reward, Yu Ningchen still said: "... Then let's go. I will take you all with me, on the condition that you follow my commands throughout. I cannot guarantee I can successfully extract every single one of you from the Bugu Group."

Except for Hearing Chu Muyu, everyone else clearly understood that Yu Ningchen's main purpose this time was to take Hearing Chu Muyu away. They were all highly educated individuals who knew that Yu Ningchen bringing them along was already an extreme stroke of luck, so they dared not ask anything of him.

Yu Ningchen's expression began to turn serious. He was carrying the lives of not just one person, but five. All five needed to be rescued; if any step went wrong, it would easily lead to total failure.

Yu Ningchen stood in the hall filled with the scent of food, the place where these people rested and where activities like eating took place. Because of Yu Ningchen's arrival, the five people lost their appetite and stared tensely at Yu Ningchen, hoping to get specific strategies from his mouth.

Yu Ningchen had roughly memorized the function of every floor within the twenty floors of the Bugu Group, but going down from the top floor was still extremely difficult, let alone the fact that surveillance here might be even stricter at night, so Yu Ningchen asked.

"At night, will the Bugu Group send more people to supervise you?"

Hearing Chu Muyu nodded: "Yes. In fact, the Bugu Group supervises us very strictly. Someone brings us meals every time, and people come to inspect the laboratory irregularly, as if they fear someone of us might escape."

Yu Ningchen frowned and said: "This is quite difficult. I must ensure Hearing Chu Muyu leaves safely. If you all follow my orders completely, it might be possible for everyone to escape... I just fear someone in our group might fall behind, or someone might not keep up with the action."

"That won't happen," a young girl in the group said confidently. "We are not just people who do experiments. My physical fitness is quite good; I can keep up. Rest assured."

Yu Ningchen looked at her and could only nod.

552. Discussing Rescue Strategies

Yu Ningchen thought for a moment and added: "Before this, I did not plan to take all of you away. I only arranged positions for myself and Hearing Chu Muyu, so I still need to contact other transportation. I plan to hide in the laboratory first and act at night."

Hearing Chu Muyu and Brother Zhuzi exchanged a glance. Hearing Chu Muyu said: "It's fine. There are quite a few places to hide people in the laboratory. But you need to prepare beforehand. If someone comes to check, how do we explain the two people lying outside and the broken lock?"

Yu Ningchen was stunned for a moment and blurted out: "How did you know?"

Hearing Chu Muyu said: "While eating, I vaguely heard gunshots, and then you came in. I could only guess that when you entered, you killed the two people guarding outside during the day and used a gun to break the lock... I guess I'm not wrong, right?"

Yu Ningchen thought to himself that he was indeed a young genius. He nodded and said: "So I will go out in a while to deal with the people at the door."

Hearing Chu Muyu asked again: "If they discover the anomaly and press the alarm directly, what will you do when it's hard for you to cover up the lie?"

Yu Ningchen did not answer him in detail but said: "Rest assured, I have my own methods on this end."

After saying this, Yu Ningchen spoke no more. Hearing Chu Muyu, hearing this, did not press further. The few of them quickly finished their meal, piled the bowls together, and prepared to pack up some things.

This was, after all, a life-or-death escape. Everyone traveled light, carrying at most a very small bag. They dared not bring heavy items, otherwise they might drag everyone down due to the heavy load.

During the interval while they were packing, Yu Ningchen walked to the place where they usually conducted experiments and flipped through the notebooks on the table.

The notebook under Yu Ningchen's hand was a plain white draft paper, recording several strings of chemical formulas incomprehensible to non-professionals. Yu Ningchen felt somewhat confused looking at it and put the notebook back in its original place.

Hearing Chu Muyu packed the fastest. He only stuffed one notebook into his pocket; besides that, he did not intend to carry anything else.

Yu Ningchen walked to his side, his gaze resting on the somewhat messy experimental equipment piled on the table: "What do you usually do in the laboratory?"

Hearing Chu Muyu had nothing to hide from Yu Ningchen. At the beginning, Hearing Chu Muyu perhaps still held some wariness, but after learning he was a Hua Guo national, he completely dropped his guard: "Researching some medicines. However, the time given to us is generally quite generous, though the consequences of punishment are quite severe."

Yu Ningchen nodded. He turned his head to look at Hearing Chu Muyu's face and said: "After returning to Hua Guo, do not run here again at will. I can save you once, but I cannot save you a second time."

Hearing Chu Muyu heard this sentence, looked at Yu Ningchen with some surprise, and then said without expression: "I don't quite understand. We shouldn't have known each other before; I have no impression of you at all... How did you know I was trapped here? According to reason, there is no one in my social connections who could notice me."

When Yu Ningchen heard the last sentence, he frowned imperceptibly. He said: "It should be your friend who asked me to take you back. It told me you are my target this time. I must take you back completely intact because you have a key role for it."

Hearing Chu Muyu was stunned for a moment, then said with some disbelief: "He... who is he?"

Yu Ningchen did not say more, as saying too much was useless. He just said: "Sorry, I still have some professional ethics. Since someone asked me to save you, just follow me. No need to ask too much."

Hearing Chu Muyu's eye color was very light. When looking at Yu Ningchen, it gave Yu Ningchen a strange feeling of looking at a kindred spirit.

At this moment, Hearing Chu Muyu's eyes carried some scrutiny and examination. Yu Ningchen's eyes calmly met Hearing Chu Muyu's eyes, but Yu Ningchen was too calm, so much so that Hearing Chu Muyu could not distinguish from Yu Ningchen's eyes whether his words were true or false.

In the end, Hearing Chu Muyu inevitably shifted his gaze. He nodded and said: "Alright, then I won't ask."

After saying this sentence, Hearing Chu Muyu did not stay. Instead, he actively walked out of the laboratory, first to deal with the two people lying at the door.

It was indeed a bit tricky. If they dragged those two inside, they would likely be discovered easily, and Yu Ningchen could not confirm when those two would wake up.

Actually, at this moment, if someone came from outside, it would be very easy to expose themselves, but Yu Ningchen was no ordinary person. He had an absolutely big heart. Without full confidence, he basically would not do this thing.

As early as during the reconnaissance, Yu Ningchen had already roughly figured out the working style of the people in this corporation. Contrary to Yu Ningchen's expectations, despite being such a huge corporation, the employees' pace here was always leisurely, whether for eating or getting off work.

To put it nicely, it was responsibility; to put it poorly, it was laziness.

So Yu Ningchen did not think such a corporation would come to inspect the laboratory on the very day he just arrived at the laboratory. Compared to inspecting the laboratory, trying hard to find new scientists or laborers was the most important thing.

Within fifteen minutes, everything everyone needed to bring was packed clean. Yu Ningchen still dragged the two people outside in and put them in the laboratory's restroom.

Next was waiting for the night to fall.

Yu Ningchen said: "When that person comes to deliver the meal, I will deal with him. After delivering the meal, we will depart immediately. Time is precious; not a single minute can be delayed. Also, I have already contacted the transportation."

Hearing this news, the faces of these people rarely showed expressions similar to excitement. Like celebrating a carnival, except for Hearing Chu Muyu, the remaining four people were twisting and turning left and right. Yu Ningchen watched for a while, felt it was painful to the eyes, and quickly walked away.

Approaching eight o'clock at night, there was finally movement.

Yu Ningchen basically stayed at the door, so as soon as someone came up, Yu Ningchen could detect it quickly and react immediately.

It was the same now. Yu Ningchen judged by the footsteps that this person should be an ordinary person, lacking the heaviness of footsteps unique to martial artists, so Yu Ningchen did not hesitate and directly chopped with a hand blade, knocking the person out instantly.

The lunch box landed steadily in Yu Ningchen's hands, and those five people also walked down from the laboratory.

It was past eight, and quite a few people remained in the corporation, but Yu Ningchen knew that if they wanted to increase the survival rate, they must leave by elevator. The stairs should be at peak hours at this time; encountering any acquaintance would expose them.

But people could come up in the elevator at Suishidou Society. Yu Ningchen made them take off all the white lab coats on their bodies, put on inconspicuous clothes, turned on the elevator switch, and let these people go in first.

Yu Ningchen felt his role was like that of a police officer.

553. Terror in the Stairwell

The elevator descended three floors, and Yu Ningchen chose to stop at the seventeenth floor.

He stopped in the stairwell at that time. Besides hiding his figure, another purpose was to explore the function content of each floor. For example, the ninth floor was a large-scale office area, and most of the Bugu Group people stayed on the ninth floor.

The seventeenth floor was a huge storage space, inside which were piled some necessary company items. Precisely because this was a storage space, no one guarded inside.

Going down from the seventeenth floor meant starting to walk the stairs.

Yu Ningchen led the five people to the stairwell door. There was no light inside the stairs; it was pitch black. They could not turn on the lights and had to make their footsteps as light as possible.

Fortunately, Ning Chen possessed extraordinary night vision; he walked steadily at the front, and those behind followed his steps down from the seventeenth floor to the fifteenth without any problems.

But a second later, Ning Chen suddenly sensed something; he frowned and reached out to stop the few people about to follow him.

They stopped on the stairs; Ning Chen looked down, and sure enough, a light lit up the next second.

It was not very conspicuous light; Ning Chen judged the light should be appearing on the tenth floor.

There was someone on the tenth floor, and Ning Chen even heard extremely faint talking coming from the tenth floor.

"We cannot go out at this moment," Ning Chen steadied his mind, turned to look at the five people behind him, had them stand in front of himself, lowered his voice, and spoke very quietly: "Wait until they leave before going down; there are not many people now."

After Ning Chen finished this sentence, he remained silent; their current floor was the seventeenth, still some distance from the tenth floor, and while walking and speaking, they had been trying their best to minimize noise, so the people on the tenth floor did not discover there were others above their heads.

Only after the light dimmed did Ning Chen slowly walk down.

Inside the completely dark staircase, almost no sound could be heard; everything was in absolute silence; the corridor had sound-activated lights, and as long as no sound was made, the sound-activated lights would not turn on.

Everyone held their breath, stepping down one by one; Ning Chen walked at the front, extending his perception outward, sensing that more and more people were exiting through the main gate of the Jituanzheng Sect; it must be off-work time now.

It seemed not many people were using the stairs; most chose the elevator, which also gave Ning Chen an opportunity, allowing him at least not to worry about someone appearing in the stairs at any moment.

By the time the group reached the tenth floor, they could already hear talking coming from outside the door within the stairwell; the stairwell was very close to the elevator; if anyone pushed the door open at this moment, they would be able to see the group walking on the stairs.

Ning Chen told the people behind to speed up; the tenth and ninth floors were the most likely places to meet people; to avoid adding trouble, they moved down at the fastest speed.

By the time they reached the eighth floor, the noisy sounds had quieted down a bit; Ningchen unconsciously breathed a sigh of relief, having passed the first hurdle.

The further down they went, the brighter the light became; originally, one could not see a hand in front of one's face, but now, they could even see each other's faces. Ning Chen gripped the handrail, preparing to go to the seventh floor.

But just as his toe touched the next step, he suddenly stopped; the urgency on his face was extremely obvious; he quickly turned his head and opened Zhang Zui.

But before Ning Chen could speak, a sound came from the Loude Sect door on the eighth floor.

Ning Chen immediately did not hesitate; he turned around and ran up instantly; the reaction and speed of those five were also very fast; they reacted almost at the same moment, followed Ning Chen, and ran up with him.

At the same time they ran up, the door was pushed open by someone; a "creak" sound came, and the lights in the corridor suddenly lit up again because of the noise.

Someone was coming this way.

Ning Chen's heartbeat grew faster and faster; fortunately, they had not walked directly to the seventh-floor entrance just now; due to the slow speed, even Ning Chen had only just barely reached the highest step of the seventh floor.

This gave them a chance to react and escape, although the noise was a bit loud.

The person who pushed the door open clearly heard something; he was an employee of the Jituanzheng Sect wearing the same clothes as Ning Chen; he had come into the stairwell wanting to walk down the stairs because he did not want to squeeze into the elevator.

The instant the lights turned on, he also heard footsteps coming from upstairs; he sharply and quickly looked up, but saw nothing.

He didn't even see the corner of anyone's clothes.

But he was certain he had definitely heard something; in other words, he could feel there was definitely someone upstairs, and it seemed like not just one or two people.

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