“I know the road ahead. Get ready.” Gloria looked at both sides of the road: “Be careful, I’ll get off the main road from the right, then I’ll drive off the road. Then all we o do is make it across some grass.”

  “You’re sure? Where are you going?” Marcus checked on the positions of other cars. The other cars were still mostly behind them, not going to be able to e into effective shooting range of his pistol soon, but not far enough that they could rex. The light poles on both sides of the road lit up, providing some dim lighting for everyone, and making everything appear less dim and blurry.

  “Yes. I’m sure. Then we’ll have some pce to hide for the moment - hopefully.” Gloria checked on both sides of the jeep again, then spueering wheel to the right at full force. “It’s - it’s a newly developed area, okay? I’ll tell you whe there!”

  The jeep took a sharp right turn on the road, and sped into a fork despite the honks of several cars along the road. A few of the pursuing vehicles did not react fast enough and missed the fork and had to tinue on the road. Three vehicles that were farther away

  caught up and merged into the exit ne, one of which was the truck that was following them earlier.

  Marcus checked his phohe signal logo kept fshiweeo one bar. He tried to call the emergenumber and Kevin’s, it was the same as before. Without a choice, he moved to the passenger’s seat and ged the magazine on his pistol. The previous one had only one spare bullet in it, so he just put it in his jacket pocket.

  “Ready? Hold on!” Gloria took a look at Marcus, who already buckled himself in ahe pistol firmly in his hand.

  A turn appeared in the road before, with short bushes pnted on the side of the road. But Gloria just floored the gas pedal again ahe jeep run off into the grassy pins on the right side of the road. Far ahead of them, rested a stru site, inside which were some retively newly erected apartment buildings and a big temple under renovation.

  “Bang!” Two pursuing vehicles not made for hard terrain ran into each other when heading into the off road. This blocked other vehicles behind them, including the truck that had been gaining on Marcus and Gloria’s jeep, as well as a couple of SUVs.

  This grassy area had much even road than the pins before, and the jeep only lost a retively insignifit amount of speed pared to on the road.

  The stru site was fated unity of apartments. They fihe main structure of one of the buildings, which had around 15 floors. And the surrounding area was mostly enclosed by fences. Gloria kept the jeep on the left side of the fences, drove past a dirt road used by the stru trucks, then headed straight at the temple in renovation. Or rather, a small alley on the left side of the temple’s ground.

  “They’re still behind us.” Marcus looked back, he could still see the dirt raised by the pursuing vehicles gunning at them.

  “Don’t worry. ” Gloria spun the jeep and parked it at the entrance of the alley: “Off, now! We’ll go on foot from now on!”

  Marcus hopped off the car, and followed Gloria’s lead into the small alley.

  The walls on both sides of the alleyway were thin, freshly painted walls. Marcus ran this finger along the surface of the walls, paint was left on his fiips, without his even trying.

  “Don’t try, everything’s new.” Gloria said: “This is why I chose here. ”

  “Why did you choose here?” Marcus did not uand what Gloria meant at first.

  “This pce is new, which means nothing is sealed and no one lives here. ” Gloria looked around, then poi a building on their left: “Here - the rooms here are more finished. Let’s go in. Then we’ll find another hiding spot when we o.”

  “Sounds good.” Marcus thought for a brief moment, there seemed to be er idea right now.

  The time was already te, yet there were some stru workers w oerior of the building. They evaded all attention and snuside without much trouble. In this building, the apartments were walled off, the fls were dohe lights in the hallways were installed and the only things left were the doors and internal renovation of each apartment.

  Marcus checked his phone again. He had some signal now. He immediately called Kevin. But, there was no answer.

  Gloria called Sue at first, the call did not make it through. It appeared to be ing from Sue’s side. She tried Luoshan Zi, same problem.