Skin - Chapter 77

Chapter 77 – Being Ambushed

　　Meng Zhao quickly walked down the stairs, ran out of the corridor, and carefully observed his surroundings. With his keen sense of sight gained from years of experience as a police officer, he soon discovered a suspicious figure.

　　A dozen meters away, under the dim light, a dark figure seemed to be aware of his gaze and walked faster and faster.

　　‘That’s him!’

　　If they could catch this guy, it should provide a lot of clues!

　　Meng Zhao took a step and approached the shadow. In order to prevent the other party from noticing that he had been targeted, he pretended to be looking around, but his peripheral vision followed the direction of the shadow. His steps were swift, and his posture was no different from normal walking. While quietly following, he also deliberately kept a distance from the shadow.

　　Meng Zhao carefully and carefully observed the black figure not far away. He wore a black hat, a black mask, and a black sportswear, almost blending into the night. The corridors in the community were connected to each other. The man seemed to be very familiar with the terrain here. He shuttled through the corridors like a ghost, probably trying to get rid of Meng Zhao’s sight.

　　‘Have I been discovered?’ Meng Zhao thought.

　　Suddenly, the black shadow quickened its pace and ran forward rapidly regardless of anything.

　　Meng Zhao also immediately sped up. This time, he no longer hid himself, but took quick steps to catch up, staring at the black shadow and never letting it go.

　　Although his speed and stamina were better than the black shadow, it was still difficult to catch up with him in a short time because the community was dark and the corridors were winding.

　　He judged the direction in which the black shadow fled. If he guessed correctly, the man should want to escape through a side door in the community. He must not let him get away!

　　While he was chasing them with all his might, he was also guessing the location of the side door based on the direction the shadow was running from. Although the figure kept taking detours along the path to avoid him, Meng Zhao realized that they were moving towards one o’clock in the northeast direction, which should be the location of the door.

　　Near the corner of a building, the shadow turned again. At this time, Meng Zhao slowed down, hid himself again, and quietly moved to the northeast of the community. He ran quickly to the northeast corner of the community, and in a corner of an overgrown and almost abandoned vacant lot, he found an old revolving side door.

　　Sure enough, here, Meng Zhao crouched down and hid in the green belt.

　　After a while, a black shadow appeared hurriedly from the corner. He walked towards the side door, looking back from time to time.

　　”Have you run enough?” Meng Zhao stood up from behind the green belt and looked at the man. “It seems we need to talk. Do you want to talk it out yourself or should I help you?”

　　Seeing Meng Zhao suddenly appear in front of him, the dark figure was suddenly startled. Seeing that he had no way to retreat, he subconsciously adopted a fighting stance.

　　”It seems you have already thought about it.” Meng Zhao said in a deep voice. As he spoke, he quickly exerted force with his left foot and rushed to the black shadow. In an instant, he punched the black shadow in the face with a straight punch. The sound of the nasal bone breaking was heard, and the man groaned in pain.

　　With Meng Zhao’s fighting skills and strength, most people would lose their fighting ability immediately after being hit by this punch. But what he didn’t expect was that the black shadow not only did not retreat, but instead quickly took out a short knife from behind his waist with his right hand, and with a flash of the knife, stabbed straight towards Meng Zhao’s heart!

　　Meng Zhao dodged sideways and chopped the black shadow’s right hand joint with the knife. With a “clang” sound, the knife fell to the concrete floor.

　　Immediately afterwards, Meng Zhao turned his body, quickly went behind the black shadow, decisively raised his left arm and strangled the black shadow’s neck, leaving the black shadow no chance to fight back.

　　The black shadow had almost no room for resistance at this time, and could only use all his strength to pry open Meng Zhao’s left arm. He struggled hard, trying to escape Meng Zhao’s stranglehold.

　　This man had become a bird trapped in a cage but still refused to give up, and his strength was quite strong. Meng Zhao was forced to continue to increase the strength of his arms and did not dare to relax at all.

　　At this moment, there was a burst of hurried footsteps behind him. Meng Zhao turned around and his pupils suddenly shrank.

　　A few meters away, a black shadow holding a dagger was hiding somewhere, and was rushing straight towards Meng Zhao’s back from the side door. The man’s movements were extremely fast, and Meng Zhao was using all his strength to subdue the man in front of him, so he had no time to react!

　　Damn, it seems that this knife can’t be avoided! In a hurry, Meng Zhao could only let go of the man in front of him, turned around immediately, and tried to raise his arm to block the knife. Sacrificing an arm in exchange for the possibility of survival and continuing to fight, this is undoubtedly the only option at the moment.

　　Seeing that the knife was getting closer and closer to him, Meng Zhao was preparing to use his left arm to block the impending attack. At this moment, his peripheral vision suddenly caught sight of another black shadow that appeared out of nowhere and was rushing towards him when he focused all his attention on the black shadow attacking from behind!

　　Three to one, judging by their skills, they must have received professional training and were armed. Damn, it seemed like these people were really going to push him into a desperate situation. Meng Zhao realized that he was really too arrogant this time.

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　　Lu Shichen stood on the windowsill, watching Meng Zhao walk out of the corridor, secretly chasing the shadow. Soon, Meng Zhao’s figure disappeared from his sight, and Lu Shichen felt a sense of inexplicable panic in his heart, which made him unable to calmly look at the empty downstairs.

　　Suddenly, a thought occurred to Lu Shichen’s mind. If twenty years ago, someone deliberately lured Meng Jing away and murdered her, then right now, could someone be trying to kill Meng Zhao?!

　　Without thinking too much, Lu Shichen immediately went downstairs and chased after him.

　　Downstairs, the two figures had disappeared without a trace. Based on the direction they had just run, Lu Shichen guessed that it should be somewhere in the northeast at this moment.

　　Killing someone in a community where people are walking around is too outrageous. Considering the details from the case file of Meng Jing’s murder 20 years ago, the criminal must have lured Meng Zhao to a secluded place to kill him.

　　While Lu Shichen was moving quickly towards the north of the community, he was trying to work out and determine Meng Zhao’s current location in his mind.

　　When he went to the property management to inquire about 402, he noticed that the northeast corner of the building where the property was located was at the edge of the entire community. There was a large vacant lot there, which might have been reserved for the design of a public space for the community, but was later left stranded for some unknown reason. Due to long-term lack of management, it was overgrown with weeds and sparsely populated. If that person really wanted to kill Meng Zhao, that vacant lot would be an excellent location!

　　Lu Shichen quickened his pace and hurried towards the northeast corner and walked into the open space. There was no one around and it was eerily silent.

　　Lu Shichen’s face turned cold and sinister. He concentrated his attention and used his hearing and vision to carefully determine Meng Zhao’s position.

　　At this moment, he heard an unclear sound coming from the corner. He ran over quickly and saw Meng Zhao fighting fiercely with the man a few meters away!

　　Meng Zhao locked the man’s neck tightly and seemed to have the upper hand in the fight. Lu Shichen couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief.

　　At this moment, a black shadow flashed out from the side door. Lu Shichen clearly saw that the man had a knife in his hand, attempting to stab straight at Meng Zhao.

　　The man tried to stab Meng Zhao right in the heart. He wanted to kill Meng Zhao!