Chapter 172

Corinne escaped from the warehouse and wandered in the wild alone without her phone. Her kidnappers must have thrown it away when they took her.

It was pitch-black, and the clouds obstructed any sliver of moonlight from reaching the land, making it difficult to tell the direction. Corinne thus tried to find a place to hide until daylight would come to find a way back.

This place was even worse than an actual jungle. She could have found a cave in one, but this wasteland had nowhere she could go to take shelter. Other than bramble weed, there was not even a tree that she could take cover in!

Raindrops started to fall from the sky. Without a place to take cover, she could only let the rain fall on her.

All of a sudden, she heard footsteps from behind her, as well as a flashlight beam moving at random.

Only the accomplices of the kidnappers were out here in the wild.

Corinne held her breath and crawled into the bush to hide.

The footsteps sounded as though they were getting closer as a tall man standing about a meter away shone his flashlight on her, its beam awfully bright.

“Come out!” rang the man’s voice, cold and threatening.

her hand and, leaping out, flung the mud at the man’s face in an attempt to blur his vision.

defeat the silver-haired man because he was armed with a pistol, she had to obstruct his

reaction was faster as he side-stepped, avoiding

failed, Corinne struggled to break free and swung her

the man’s voice,

other that Corinne could hear the voice very clearly. This familiar

sound…startled her.

pulled into a warm hug as

back of Corinne’s head and

It’s fine now.”

off at this moment. “Mister, why are you…”

“Are you hurt?”

did not seem to be his usual calm self. His deep voice hinted he was slightly nervous as he carefully pushed her away with both of

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flashlight, he used his eagle-sharp eyes to check for any injuries.

and blinked in

He did not even bother asking for the ransom amount and

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