"Shh-"
Hua Shi raised a finger and put it to her lips, indicating that Xie Mingchi could talk later.
The more important thing right now is to appease this tiger...
Hua Shi gathered his attention, which had just been distracted, and in the blink of an eye, fixed his eyes on the tiger in front of him.
The tiger seemed to be immersed in the special smell of the spring, breathing heavily, and its eyes, which originally glowed green and were filled with murderous intent, gradually returned to their normal brown-yellow color, and its manic mood seemed to have calmed down.
Hua Shi raised her hand and gestured to sit down. The tiger's eyes, which were very close to her, fluttered along with her gesture. Then, under her fixed gaze, the tiger's tail curled back and sat on the ground.
Hua Shi breathed a sigh of relief, raised his hand slightly, and touched its head with black stripes.
The tiger showed no resistance. She stood so close that she could even hear the vibrating purring sound coming from its chest as it exhaled, like the sound a large cat would make when it relaxed.
Xie Mingchi, standing by, breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Tiger slowly calm down under Hua Shi's comfort, even showing signs of affection and dependence on Hua Shi. He couldn't help but feel a little puzzled...
This harmonious scene did not last long. Soon, a rustling and noisy sound of footsteps came from the other side of a corridor and a wall.
From a distance, I could hear a large group of people coming over to look for the tiger after they learned that the tiger had broken through the railings of the ring and escaped.
"Ashi, someone is coming."
Xie Mingchi turned his head and looked in the direction where the footsteps came from.
Hua Shi subconsciously retracted his hand from Tiger's forehead.
The hand was retracted so quickly that it even brought up a gust of wind. The tiger raised its head and followed the direction of Hua Shi's retracted hand, sniffing the faint fragrance in the air.
The smell...seems to be coming from the palm of my hand...
"Let's go first."
Sensing the approaching urgent footsteps, Hua Shi realized that they could not stay there any longer. If they were discovered, the two of them could live with the tiger without any harm, but who knows what would happen next.
Hua Shi grabbed Xie Mingchi's sleeve without thinking and ran towards the exit behind him.
The tiger, still immersed in the lingering scent in the air, was stunned for a moment. When he turned around, he only saw the backs of the two people running away...
“Roar, roar, roar!!”
The tiger roared at the two men's backs, and its emotions, which had originally calmed down, suddenly became manic again.
It was like a piece of fat meat that was about to be in my mouth flew away right before my eyes...
"The sound came from this side! Hurry up!"
The rustling sound of footsteps and noisy voices approached.
This is the city lord's pet that he has raised for five or six years. If they lose it, their lives will be in danger...
“Hurry up, hurry up!!”
The leader shouted anxiously and impatiently.
"Sir! I see it, it's right there!"
The person running in front noticed the black stripes mixed in the brown hair at the corner with his sharp eyes, and immediately identified it as the madly running tiger.
"Where's the cage? Hurry and bring it over. It's just right for the narrow opening of this passage. The people coming from the other passage should be here by now..."
As the leader spoke, he heard a noisy sound coming from the opposite direction. He knew that the troops had split into two groups and were coming from the other side...
…
On the other side, under Xie Mingchi's familiar guidance, the two quickly ran out of the exit of the black market.
At this moment, at the exit, there were about ten frightened people gathered in groups of three or four, looking inside with curiosity and fear.
Hua Shi and Xie Mingchi were delayed inside for a while and ran out now. They seemed to be the last two to run out.
One man, unable to resist his curiosity, stopped the two men and said, "Hey, hey, hey, don't leave yet. You're out so late. What's going on in there?"
Hua Shi held Xie Mingchi's arm, his face expressionless as he shook his head and said, "We don't know either. It's our first time here, and we walked around for a long time before we finally found the way out."
"No..." The man was staring at the two of them with a quiet and cheerful look, waiting to hear what was going on. He was a little dissatisfied with such a perfunctory sentence, and frowned.
"Did you see the tiger break through the fence and escape? I heard it even ate a person...?"
Perhaps because there were so many people around and everyone was watching, the man, although he was gossipy, knew to lower his voice before asking this question.
Hua Shi shook his head. "We were standing far away and didn't see anything. We just saw a group of people running out, so we followed them. But you said it was a tiger that broke through the guardrail. You saw it. What happened?"
Her question caught the man off guard, and he choked and instantly lost the desire to talk. He waved his hand and became a little impatient.
Really, I don't know what to say.
After the man ran to the other side where the crowd gathered and started gossiping again, Hua Shi pulled Xie Mingchi and walked into the chaotic crowd, breathing a sigh of relief.
"Mingchi, look around. Can you see Huasong and Huazhu?"
The two of them walked along the intersection and onto the spacious street. They were surrounded by groups of people, some of whom were ordinary people, and some of whom were people who had just escaped from the black market.
There were quite a lot of people gathered around, and she couldn't see clearly even when she was standing on tiptoe, so she had to ask Xie Mingchi to help her take a look.
When they were escaping just now, Xie Mingchi held her hand and ran so fast that his vision was limited by a few afterimages, and he had no time to take care of the other two people following behind.
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