Time Travel: The Survival of Li Zhi

Chapter 216: Escape at Night

The night is getting darker.

However, Yansheng City is different from other ordinary towns. When night falls on the earth, teams of well-equipped and well-disciplined troops begin to patrol the criss-crossing streets in an orderly manner.

Li Zhi leaned quietly against the window of the inn room, slightly closing his eyes, letting the orderly footsteps coming from the street below reach his ears.

The footsteps were brisk and rhythmic, like a night melody played in the quiet night, inexplicably calming Li Zhi's originally tense heart.

After all, with such well-trained elite soldiers patrolling the city, those who have evil intentions and want to take advantage of the night when there is no supervision will find it difficult to find opportunities to carry out their evil deeds.

In this way, Li Zhi would not have to worry too much about someone sneaking up on him in the dark night.

However, just when Li Zhi's originally tense mind relaxed a little, an extremely strange and indescribable feeling suddenly emerged from the depths of his heart like a vine growing in the dark.

Li Zhi's mood, which had been slightly relaxed, suddenly became tense again.

However, before Li Zhi could investigate the source of this feeling, a noisy sound was heard outside.

A sharp and urgent "Fire!" sounded particularly abrupt in the silent night sky, like a thunderclap, instantly breaking the tranquility of the night.

Li Zhi hurriedly pushed open the window beside him, leaned out of the window, and looked outside intently.

I saw that on the other side of the city, a raging fire was burning at this moment. The fire was extremely fierce, like a dancing tongue of fire, raging in the dark night.

Under the illumination of the fire, the originally dark night was suddenly illuminated with light, and the outlines of the surrounding buildings appeared and disappeared in the light of the fire.

When the soldiers who were on patrol heard the shout, their expressions suddenly tensed up, and they hurriedly took quick but orderly steps towards the direction of the fire.

For a moment, the originally orderly footsteps on the street that Li Zhi was approaching disappeared, and it seemed to have suddenly fallen into incomparable silence.

Li Zhi looked at the flames rising into the sky, and glanced at the dark and silent street. His brows furrowed deeply involuntarily, and he had a bad premonition in his heart. He always felt that this sudden fire seemed to have some connection with him.

It was as if someone had done it on purpose, and the target was him!

Li Zhi's face showed a solemn expression. He stood in front of the window, feeling sorry for the mosquito demon's inability to go out now. If the mosquito demon was there at this moment, Li Zhi could easily judge the situation outside and choose the best option.

But the mosquito demon was not there, and Li Zhi knew nothing about the outside world at this time. Although he had gradually become convinced that the fire was aimed at him, he didn't know whether the other party knew that he lived here now.

This really put Li Zhi in a dilemma. He was not sure whether he should leave this place as soon as possible and get away while the situation was not yet completely clear, or continue to choose to stay in this inn safely and respond to changes with the same strategy.

If the other party didn't know that he was hiding here, then if he went out rashly like this, he might fall into the other party's carefully planned trap of luring the snake out of its hole.

But if the other party already knows that he is here, and he does not leave in time, and still stays in this inn foolishly, then he would be like a lamb to be slaughtered, and he would be easily caught in a jar, and then he would be unable to escape.

Just when Li Zhi was still hesitating, suddenly, a crisp knock on the door sounded without warning outside Li Zhi's door. The "dong dong dong" knock on the door seemed particularly abrupt in the silent atmosphere, instantly breaking the slightly dull silence in the room.

Li Zhi's eyes narrowed slightly, and a cold light of vigilance flashed in his eyes. He deliberately lowered his voice and asked in a deep voice: "Who is it?"

A waiter's voice came from outside the door, and he responded, "Sir, I am a waiter from this inn. I just saw a fire over there, and I was worried that you might be disturbed, so I came to ask about the situation."

Li Zhi's heart moved. Although there was nothing wrong with what the waiter said, Li Zhi keenly noticed that there was a hint of unnaturalness and slight haste in his tone.

This made Li Zhi suspicious, but he remained calm and said in a deep voice: "I'm fine here, you can go."

"Okay, that's fine. If you need anything, sir, just tell me." After the waiter responded, there was an instant silence around them, and it was so quiet that it was a little creepy.

At this time, Li Zhi slowly revealed a cold smile on his face, and there was a chill in that smile. He knew very well in his heart that he was afraid that his whereabouts had been exposed.

Because after the waiter outside responded to Li Zhi, there was no sound, not even the sound of his footsteps. Unless the waiter himself was a martial artist who could walk silently.

Otherwise, there was only one possibility left. That was that the waiter had not left at all and was still outside his door.

Li Zhi glanced out the window calmly, only to see that it was dark outside. The pitch-black night was like a huge black curtain, covering everything, and no human figure could be seen moving.

However, Li Zhi had already made up his mind at this moment, and he no longer hesitated like before. He carefully pushed open the window without making any sound, and then suddenly jumped out.

At the door of Li Zhi's room, the waiter was sweating profusely, with beads of sweat rolling down his forehead. He didn't dare to move at all, as if he was under a spell.

His eyes were always secretly glancing at the figure in the dark, his eyes full of fear and anxiety.

The figure in the dark had been hiding quietly in the darkness, as if blending into the darkness. At this moment, he suddenly opened his eyes, and a sharp cold light flashed in his eyes in the darkness.

He just flashed and took a quick step forward. Without hesitation, he roughly pulled away the waiter who was blocking the door, and then pushed open Li Zhi's door with force.

However, when the door was pushed open, the scene before him startled him. There was no one in Li Zhi's room, only the flickering candlelight was still flickering, as if mocking the visitor's embarrassment of coming to nothing.

He glanced around the room with a sharp gaze, and then his eyes fell on the open window. He immediately walked quickly to the window, and stuck his head out of the window, only to see pitch black outside.

There was a hint of anger in his eyes, as if he was angry because Li Zhi had tricked him. But he couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth, and he said to himself: "Heh... can I escape?"