159: Chapter 159 Speed ​​Against Time, This is Terrifying!

The golden spherical doorknob turned all the way to the end.

There was a dull "click."

The door didn't open.

The locked deadbolt blocked the force from outside.

Chen Xue covered her mouth, shrinking into the corner behind the door, not even daring to breathe heavily.

Among the seven million people in the livestream room, not a single bullet comment floated by.

Everyone was staring intently at the screen.

A very faint sigh came from outside the door.

Immediately after, a gentle male voice came through the door panel.

"Little Chen, are you asleep?"

The voice sounded refined and cultured, just like the usually kind and amiable employer uncle.

But after witnessing the background Su Yun had exposed, this voice sounded more terrifying than a death knell to everyone's ears.

Chen Xue's tears flowed wildly as she shook her head desperately.

Her hand holding the phone was shaking so hard she could barely grip it.

Su Yun sat in front of the camera, his expression more serious than ever before.

He didn't speak.

He knew that if he made even the slightest sound now, Dong Yu outside would immediately realize that the person inside was awake.

Su Yun's hands quickly tapped on the keyboard.

A bolded, red bullet comment was pinned directly to the top of the screen.

[Su Yun: Shut up! Don't make a sound! Even slow down your breathing! Pretend you're dead asleep!]

Seeing this comment, Chen Xue bit down hard on the back of her hand, swallowing all her sobs into her stomach.

Outside the door.

Dong Yu waited for over ten seconds without hearing a response.

He gently twisted the doorknob two more times.

"Click."

"Click."

The sound of metal clashing echoed in the small servant's room.

Chen Xue's heart was about to jump out of her throat.

"Seems like she's asleep," Dong Yu muttered to himself outside the door.

Then, the sound of leather shoes stepping on the wooden floor rang out.

The sound grew fainter and fainter, slowly heading toward the other end of the hallway.

He left.

Chen Xue felt as if she had collapsed, sliding down the wall to sit on the floor.

The viewers in the livestream room finally couldn't hold back anymore, and the comments exploded instantly.

[My god! Scared me to death! I didn't even dare to breathe just now!]

[This mental fortitude is too strong! A psychopathic killer is right outside the door!]

[Did he give up? Is Chen Xue safe?]

Su Yun ignored the comments.

His fingers tapped rapidly, sending out another pinned comment.

[Su Yun: He hasn't gone far! He's going to get the spare key! He'll be back in a minute at most! Get up, quick!]

Chen Xue was so scared by these words she almost cried out loud.

[Su Yun: Look up! Look at the ceiling in the upper left corner! That's the central air conditioning vent! Remove the louvers and crawl in!]

Chen Xue looked up following Su Yun's instructions.

There was indeed a square vent at the top of the corner, just big enough for an adult to squeeze through.

She didn't dare delay and scrambled up using both hands and feet.

There was a wooden chair in the room.

Chen Xue moved the chair directly under the vent and stepped on it.

The height was just right.

She reached out, grabbed the edge of the plastic louvers, and pulled hard.

The villa was quite old, and the plastic had long since aged and become brittle.

A "crack" sounded.

The louvers were pulled right off by her.

A gust of cold air blew out from the duct, hitting Chen Xue's face.

[Su Yun: Get in! Quick! Turn on your phone's flashlight and hold it in your mouth! Use your hands and feet to crawl in!]

Chen Xue did as she was told.

She stuffed the phone into her mouth, gripped the edges of the vent with both hands, and pushed herself up with force.

Her physical foundation from years of farm work in the countryside helped her immensely.

Most of her body squeezed directly into the narrow duct.

Just as her feet retracted into the duct, in the second before she could turn around.

Footsteps came from outside the door again.

This time the footsteps were fast and urgent.

Immediately after.

A crisp "click" sounded.

The door lock was turned open by a key from the outside.

Lying in the duct, Chen Xue looked down through the opening where the louvers had been removed.

The door was pushed open.

Dong Yu stood at the door.

He held an industrial chainsaw over a meter long, which still had dark red bloodstains that hadn't been washed clean.

He adjusted the gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose and looked at the empty room.

The bedding was tidy; no one had slept in it at all.

Dong Yu's gaze swept around the room, finally landing on the wooden chair on the floor.

Following the line up from the chair, the dark, gaping vent was open.

Chen Xue held her breath in the duct, not daring to move an inch.

She could even clearly see the whorl of hair on the top of Dong Yu's head.

Dong Yu didn't get angry, nor did he shout.

The corners of his mouth curled into a bizarre arc, revealing yellowed teeth.

He raised the chainsaw and used the heavy metal handle to strike the wall of the duct hard.

"Clang!"

The massive metal resonance traveled through the duct into Chen Xue's ears, making her scalp go numb.

"Little mouse, so you hid up there."

Dong Yu's voice was no longer gentle; it carried a spine-chilling madness.

"You can't run. I know every single duct in this house clearly."

"I'm going to drag you out and saw you apart bit by bit!"

Chen Xue was so scared that her tears burst forth like a broken dam.

She didn't care if she made noise anymore, using her hands and feet to crawl desperately toward the depths of the duct.

The duct was full of dust and spiderwebs.

Chen Xue coughed as she crawled, her elbows and knees scraping against the sheet metal until the skin broke, stinging with a burning pain.

Through the phone camera held in Chen Xue's mouth, the livestream viewers watched this first-person perspective duct escape.

[I can't take it, I'm going to have a claustrophobic attack!]

[This psycho is too scary! He's definitely going to block the vent exits!]

[These ducts go everywhere, does Chen Xue know where she's crawling? If she hits a dead end, she's finished!]

Su Yun sat before the screen, his eyes incomparably calm.

He muttered in his mind, "System, activate the Building Perspective Map! Lock onto Chen Xue and Dong Yu's positions!"

A translucent virtual 3D map that only he could see was projected directly in front of his eyes.

The green light representing Chen Xue was moving slowly through the ventilation ducts on the second floor.

Meanwhile, the red light representing Dong Yu had already rushed out of the servant's room and was sprinting down the hallway.

Dong Yu was very familiar with the structure of this house; he was heading straight for the next maintenance hatch of the duct.

Su Yun immediately typed.

[Su Yun: Chen Xue! There's a fork in the road five meters ahead! Turn left! Whatever you do, don't go straight! He's waiting for you under the maintenance hatch straight ahead!]

With the phone in her mouth, Chen Xue saw the red words on the screen from the corner of her eye.

She grit her teeth and sped up her crawling.

The five-meter distance arrived in the blink of an eye.

As expected, a T-shaped fork appeared ahead.

The right side was a dead end.

Straight ahead, light was faintly filtering in.

Chen Xue did not hesitate; following Su Yun's instructions, she twisted her body and ducked into the left duct.

Less than ten seconds after she crawled into the left duct.

At the end of the duct that went straight ahead.

There was a loud "bang."

The iron cover of the maintenance hatch was violently smashed open from below.

Dong Yu's gloved hand reached in, fumbling frantically inside the duct.

"Come out! Get out here!"

His voice echoed in the duct, carrying an exasperated rage.

Hearing the commotion behind her, Chen Xue crawled even faster.

She didn't dare to stop.