I looked around as I immediately hid behind a tree. He had made a loud noise when he fell to the floor, and I was sure of one thing: they wanted to check up on him.
If I kept running like that, especially when I didn’t know the way out, I would just end up caught and wouldn’t be able to save myself. This was a golden opportunity, and I had to use it to my advantage.
I wiped the tears that were now streaming down my cheeks as I looked, and like I had thought, the guard came out, and when he found his colleague laying on the floor, unconscious, he raised an alarm, and I pressed my hand against my mouth because, with how nervous I was, I could make a sound even if I didn’t want to.
I swallowed as I watched them, and just then, they began to look around, and I hid behind the tree. "She coul
