The man had a pair of narrow eyes, and his two pupils were slightly protruding. He looked a bit like an angry toad.

The white of his eyes was so glassy that it reflected light under the moonlight. There was a rather thin beard on his scrawny face. Due to his sickly pale complexion, his beard looked dark and eerie.

The most horrifying thing was his smile. He smiled so wide that most of his teeth were exposed as he smiled at Cheng Xiaoxiao. Red seeped out of his white teeth. Cheng Xiaoxiao guessed that it might be blood.

The man was very thin and flimsy.

He didn’t wear much either. He was wearing only a shirt in this kind of cold weather. The cold wind blew on the man’s body, and it was precisely because of his thin shirt that was stuck on his body that Cheng Xiaoxiao could clearly see the perfect muscle outlines on his body.

Where did he come from? Since when did he stand there?

He appeared out of thin air just when she turned around to observe her surroundings!

That was impossible! He must have come out of the courtyard.

He must open the door in order to come out of the courtyard, but neither Manley nor Cheng Xiaoxiao heard anything.

And the blood on his teeth! It wasn’t because his gums were bleeding, was it?!

Cheng Xiaoxiao had so many questions, but she had no time to think about them. All she could do was pretend that she didn’t see the man and crazily ran to the road she had walked.

Perhaps, she had misunderstood him. She couldn’t judge people by their looks and assume the man was a bad person just because of his fierce-looking face.

The problem was that the man was holding a thick wooden stick!

Moreover, he was gesticulating at Cheng Xiaoxiao from time to time, as if he was considering which part of her to hit and how much strength he should use to achieve the goal.

Noticing this, she must run in order to survive!

Cheng Xiaoxiao didn’t feel so scared that she couldn’t move. Even if she did feel that way, all she could think of right now was panic and escape in the face of her strong desire to survive.

She couldn’t let anything happen to her. She must not die here.

No, she wouldn’t be beaten to death right away. What waited for her was endless torture.

Earlier, Manley pointed to the courtyard and told her that they had arrived. The man was standing right in front of the said courtyard!

Was he the crazy sadist?

Oh my god, I’m so scared!

Cheng Xiaoxiao stiffly turned to look at the man and silently turned back. She didn’t dare to run so fast because she was worried about annoying him, and that the man would directly chase after her.

Her smile froze on her face, and she couldn’t retract it. She muttered under her breath with an awkward smile.

“I didn’t see anything. I didn’t see anything. I didn’t see anything.”

When Cheng Xiaoxiao completely turned around, she gave Manley, who was still floating in the air, a look. Then she rushed out as fast as she could in her life. While running, she shouted at the top of her voice, “Run!”

She directly returned to the road she had come from without hesitation. She had never thought that she could run at such a fast speed.

But it was not fast enough! She must run faster!

Cheng Xiaoxiao wished she had a teleportation skill right now. She had to look back at the man chasing after her and pay attention to the road in front of her.

It was too difficult!

Okay, even if she didn’t have teleportation ability, at least having a third eye on the back of her head was of help!

Cheng Xiaoxiao was so worried and scared at this moment, but thankfully, she was running steadily toward the exit of the alley.

She didn’t want to trip herself or something, because if anything went wrong at this moment, she would be so dead!

Her only thought was to run away from here. As long as she ran away from this alley, she would be safe.

Breathing heavily, Cheng Xiaoxiao covered her heart that was about to jump out of her chest and kept sprinting outside, pushing her body to the limit.

She didn’t know if Manley caught up with her, but she was a ghost, so she should be okay.

Although Manley couldn’t help her, she should at least be able to take care of herself, right?

Cheng Xiaoxiao felt very depressed at this point.

She found that other than Doudou, the other ghosts seemed to be unable to attack people by themselves, including Qin, who was supported by the jade box. Was it because they didn’t have a master, or did they not have any spiritual feed to empower them?

In any case, they were useless if they couldn’t help her!

Cheng Xiaoxiao could only rely on herself. She could collect ghosts and send them away, but she couldn’t assign them to do anything. She could only run wildly in the alley with tears on her face.

Seeing that she was getting closer and closer to the alley, she finally had some free time to think.

Manley was following closely behind. She had been watching the man behind them and urging Cheng Xiaoxiao to go faster when she slowed down.

It was just that Cheng Xiaoxiao was too focused on running and did not listen to Manley’s voice at all.

They finally ran out of the alley, but Cheng Xiaoxiao did not dare to stop for a moment.

She must run to a crowded place. There would be a lot of people there, and she would definitely be safe.

Cheng Xiaoxiao looked at the bustling area of the brothel street while checking if the man was still chasing after her.

“Xiaoxiao, stop looking. Come this way!”

Manely’s voice came from behind her just as she took a step forward.

Without hesitation, Manley floated to Cheng Xiaoxiao’s front and pointed at the alley where she had been hiding and crying previously.

“Hide over there. No one will help you even if you go ahead. Don’t forget that you’re in the Hu people’s territory.”

It was the alley that Manley had stayed in before. Cheng Xiaoxiao looked in the direction Manley pointed and then turned to look at the noisy street in the distance.

She was still thinking of her options but Manley had already floated to her back, looked at the alley they had just run out of, and urged anxiously.

“Hurry up, Xiaoxiao. He’s coming!”

Cheng Xiaoxiao frantically stomped her foot, turned around, and went straight into the alley opposite her.

Manley was right. Those ahead of them were the Hu people, just like the scary man.

Cheng Xiaoxiao carefully avoided the debris in the alley as she ran forward while calmly analyzing the situation.

She looked more like the Chu people. If the man badmouthed her to his fellow Hu people, would they, as the onlookers, believe her, an outsider?

Moreover, she was one of the “Chu people”, who had a tense diplomatic relationship with the Hu people’s country.

Moreover, it was none of their business. Cheng Xiaoxiao refused to believe that these people would be kind enough to help a strange foreign woman and offend their fellow citizens who lived in the brothel street with them.

That scary sadist kidnapped so many harlots in the brothel street while living in peace with others. It was possible that he was in cahoots with the restaurants here.

If they were really in this together, she would be staring down the barrel of the gun directly.

She had only herself to rely on. Rather than speculating and placing her hopes on others, she chose to rely on herself.

At worst, she would wait until she had used up all the spiritual energy and turned back into the Persian cat before escaping. She was certain that the man wouldn’t recognize her when she turned into a cat.

The more Cheng Xiaoxiao thought about it, the more she felt that it made sense. Hence, she moved more quickly in the alley.

Soon, she arrived at the place where she found the bamboo basket. Further ahead was the corner where she met Manley.

Damn it! She was at the dead-end!

She couldn’t go any further because there was no place to go.

Cheng Xiaoxiao heard rapid footsteps coming from far behind her. The footsteps sounded very strong, accompanied by a burst of ambiguous sound.

The sound was very rhythmic, as if something was knocking on the stone road.

What was it? In fact, the sound would pause for a moment every time the brick was hit.

Cheng Xiaoxiao was a little dazed when she heard this. When she regained her composure, she wished she could grow a pair of wings and fly out of the alley right now.

It was the sound of a wooden stick being dragged along the ground!

If the man struck her with the stick, she would either be seriously injured or die!

The footsteps were getting closer and closer. Cheng Xiaoxiao was so panicked and scared, and she got a headache as Manley kept urging her.

Clunk! Clunk!

Every time the sound of the wooden stick hitting the ground echoed, Cheng Xiaoxiao felt her heart skip a beat.

The man must have known that the alley led to a dead end, so he stopped running and walked over leisurely.

He was indeed a crazy sadist!

He was enjoying this moment, through and through!

Cheng Xiaoxiao could imagine the man’s expression and reaction right now. He was probably grinning ferociously as he walked further into the alley while muttering under his breath, “Run! Go ahead and run! The more you run, the more excited I become!”

Hiding in the alley, Cheng Xiaoxiao shivered in fear. She hugged her arms and continued to look at the end of the alley.

There was a high and unreachable wall there. Why was it so high?

Cheng Xiaoxiao regretted that she had not learned anything. She should at least learn rock climbing or something like that.

Right now, her hands were tied because of the tall wall.

Calm down! Don’t panic!

The more anxious she was, the more she couldn’t think of a solution. She had no choice but to cover her ears and force herself to calm down and think carefully.

Eureka!

Instead of staring at the high wall with sharp stones poked up on the edge of the wall, Cheng Xiaoxiao turned her eyes to look at the bamboo basket in front of her.

That’s it!

Cheng Xiaoxiao held her breath and took out more than half of the dirty clothes in the bamboo basket. Then, she quickly got into the bamboo basket and carried some of the clothes in her arms.

When she got into the bamboo basket, she covered the clothes in her arms over her head one by one.

While Cheng Xiaoxiao was getting busy, she reminded Manley, who was anxiously floating around.

“Manley, I will hide here. You go to that man’s courtyard and check out the terrain and situation. We will meet there later.”

“No! I can’t leave you alone here!” Manley looked at Cheng Xiaoxiao in disapproval.

“Don’t worry, I’ll be okay. You won’t be of much help here. Also, it’s better for you to go and observe the situation over there first. Later, we can make a plan to save the people inside! We can save a lot of time.”

Cheng Xiaoxiao was figuring out a plan in her mind, and she cut to the chase while talking to Manley.

Since Manley couldn’t help her attack the man, it was better for her to check out the location and observe the situation rather than wasting time here with her. Otherwise, tonight’s plan would be ruined if she used up all of her spiritual energy.

Moreover, this matter was so urgent and important that it was not something that she could explain clearly to Chu Yunshen as a cat by writing a few words on the paper. It was better to describe the situation to him as a human.