Those Classmates who Suddenly Disappeared
Chapter 506: Surrounded on All Sides

Chapter 506: Chapter 506: Surrounded on All Sides

During the deep of the night when everyone was quiet and the streets were almost empty, Gu Fan pulled his sister Gu Ling along as he sprinted, while calling Lin Xi on his phone. "Hey, beauty, I’m in trouble over here. Your good friend isn’t targeting you this time, she’s targeting me. And the big boss of the company, for some reason, has come to cause trouble on my turf. I can’t fight against this many enemies alone. I’m running for my life with Xiaoling right now."

"Get moving quickly, share your location with me, I’ll be right there." Lin Xi quickly dressed and headed out, praying a thousand times in her heart for the safety of Gu Fan and Gu Ling. She was also curious, wondering why Qian Feng and the boss would team up to attack Gu Fan and what he could have done to incur their wrath.

Meanwhile, Gu Fan reached out for help to everyone he could through mass messages. He was facing so many enemies and had no other choice but to run and ask for reinforcements.

Soon, everyone received Gu Fan’s plea for help and rushed over, especially Su Hui, who dropped her work to drive over as fast as she could.

"I have to find a way to get Xiaoling to a safe place." Gu Fan felt responsible for the trouble he put his sister in and was determined to carry the burden, no matter what happened.

Gu Fan took Gu Ling to a crossroad, intending to turn right, but Gu Ling warned, "No, we can’t turn right. We’ll run into something there. Can’t turn left either, because we’ll be spotted. Let’s just charge straight ahead."

"Alright, I’ll listen to you." Gu Fan trusted Gu Ling’s intuition and led her in a straight line forward.

Just after Gu Fan and Gu Ling crossed the street, a few people came from the right. They didn’t see Gu Fan and kept searching around. If Gu Fan hadn’t listened to Gu Ling and turned right instead, they would’ve run straight into these guys. Even if he turned left, they would still see him.

There were many alleyways near Gu Fan’s house. Although they weren’t too confusing, these alleys provided Gu Fan with perfect conditions for escape, especially because of Gu Ling’s intuitive abilities that helped them discern the dangerous from the safe routes.

Both siblings had relied on Gu Ling’s abilities and narrowly escaped enemies several times. However, each encounter was more dangerous than the last, leaving Gu Fan and Gu Ling feeling the pressure.

It was true that Gu Ling’s intuitive abilities were strong, but with enemies all around, the siblings were often forced to turn back and cover the same ground again. Several times now, they couldn’t break through the enemy blockade and escape.

"We can’t go this way, brother. We can’t go that way either. We can only go back." Gu Ling’s words brought a lot of pressure on Gu Fan, but he had no choice but to double back, which was frustrating him because there didn’t seem to be a way to get out of this situation.

Meanwhile, Hai, Leng Le, Qian Xue, Ning Qi, and several others controlled by Qian Ying, were wandering nearby, making several rounds without finding a trace of Gu Ling and Gu Fan, silently lamenting that perhaps the siblings had already fled far away.

If Leng Le and the others kept spreading out in their search and moving forward, their search area would keep expanding. As the number of streets increased, it would be more favorable for Gu Fan and Gu Ling to escape.

Leng Le thought that mindlessly moving forward would likely lead them further in the wrong direction. Instead, she planned around the old house in the center, defined an area, and had people rush to all the possible exits from this area first. Then they started narrowing down the search area.

Generally speaking, Leng Le’s method would have been very effective, and they could capture Gu Fan and Gu Ling. However, Gu Ling’s intuition was always one step ahead. She knew where the danger was and was able to change the escape route in time.

But the path Gu Ling chose wasn’t necessarily a move forward. Sometimes they had to retreat, especially because Leng Le had people move in front earlier to narrow down the searching space.

Leng Le’s party wouldn’t have expected that after they moved forward and then circled back, the carefully planned strategy only ended up restricting the actions of Gu Fan and Gu Ling.

After ten minutes of a cat-and-mouse game where the cat failed to even get a glimpse of the mouse, the cat remained patient. Leng Le was confident in her strategy, believing that Gu Fan and Gu Ling absolutely didn’t escape.

With the advantage of more people, Leng Le marked out the area and, apart from having people rush to all the exits, also ordered others to guard the area in secret while narrowing down the search area, gradually closing in on Gu Fan and Gu Ling’s space for survival.

Seeing Leng Le’s strategy, Qian Ying controlled her people to do the same.

After twenty minutes, the search area had significantly shrunken. There were guards at each intersection, but still, there was no sight of Gu Fan and Gu Ling, which was inconceivable.

Leng Le couldn’t believe that Gu Fan had managed to evade capture under her meticulous planning. It was a real blow.

However, Leng Le believed that with Gu Fan’s ability, he might have indeed found a way to escape the area. But this was only a guess. Leng Le ordered her people to continue shrinking the search area and leave someone at each intersection.

Of course, Gu Fan and Gu Ling didn’t manage to escape. No matter how powerful Gu Ling’s intuition was, it could not create a route out of thin air.

"We can’t go here, brother. We can’t go there either. We can only go back..." Gu Ling’s words undoubtedly gave Gu Fan a feeling of being trapped. They were already retracing their steps, and if they went back again, they would be caught red-handed at their old house.

"Calm down, calm down..." Gu Fan knew that they couldn’t panic in a critical situation. He had to analyze the current situation. He opened his phone and looked at the map. There were so many alleyways near his house. Why were his escape routes getting fewer and fewer?

Gu Fan still trusted Gu Ling’s intuition, believing that she had truly sensed that they couldn’t go in that direction, or else they wouldn’t have avoided all enemies till now. However, the question was how the opponents had deployed their strategy, forcing Gu Fan and Gu Ling to keep turning back.

Gu Fan started thinking in the opponents’ shoes, wondering how he would catch a person among so many alleyways so they couldn’t escape.

"In the beginning, we moved into this area. However, as we moved further, we found we couldn’t continue and had to turn left. Then we couldn’t move forward, so we had to turn back..." Gu Fan began to analyze the problems with their escape route based on his familiarity with the alleyways near his house.

The question remained why they could initially move forward and then only forced to retreat. It seemed possible that the enemy knew their location and converged there. However, if that were true, Gu Fan and Gu Ling would likely have been captured already, regardless of her powerful intuition.