Ancient bows have a simple construction, just the bow itself plus a bowstring.
Modern bows, however, no matter how cheaply you buy one, co equipped with auxiliary add-ons like eccentric pulley systems, sights, stabilizer rods, and the like.
With ancient bows, whether you can draw them and how many tis you can do so depends entirely on your innate, god-given strength.
Modern bows, on the other hand, have power-saving chanisms that can reduce the required draw force by sixty to eighty percent.
Not only that, modern bows also have adjustable draw weight, and their shooting distance and speed are far beyond what ancient bows can achieve.
Of course, the most important thing is that devilish accuracy; modern bows far surpass ancient bows in this regard.
From that position, Yang Kang felt that even if he were holding a modern bow, he couldn't have accomplished what had just been done.
Yet Jiang Ran could do it easily with an ancient bow.
This was definitely impossible without years of arduous practice.
"Jiang Ran probably thought all four of us were going out to hide, and didn't know that actually only Hu Yan was going out."
"Also, even if we did go out, we could only stay for an hour. Of course, Jiang Ran doesn't know that, which is why this situation occurred."
Wang Zhong adjusted his glasses and spoke quietly.
Regarding the threat of that arrow, all three of them—Yang Kang and the others—were clear: Jiang Ran would truly kill.
As for Hu Yan, although she was terrified out of her wits,
after that initial shock, she beca exceptionally furious.
She actually pulled out her phone again and dialed the police.
She wanted the police to co and punish that guy who recklessly shot arrows at people!
That really, almost hit soone!!!!
Soon, the police Hu Yan called arrived again, four of them this ti.
After the four officers briefly spoke with Hu Yan, who had reported the incident at the main gate, they imdiately ran towards Building No. 1 to apprehend Jiang Ran.
At this mont, Hu Yan could clearly see, in that hallway window, the figure of Jiang Ran who had just disappeared.
The four police officers ran into Building No. 1.
They leisurely walked up the stairs from the first floor to the third floor, stayed on the third floor for a while, then returned to the first floor.
Then they exited Building No. 1, ca over to Hu Yan and the others at the main gate, and said:
"We're very sorry, the suspect has already fled to avoid punishnt. We didn't catch him."
Hearing this familiar line,
Hu Yan's eyes widened to an incredible size.
She pointed at Building No. 1 with extre disbelief: "Are you kidding ? He was right there at the window when you arrived. How could he have 'fled to avoid punishnt' again?"
The four officers didn't answer her, just drove off on their own.
Hu Yan wanted to chase after them and argue.
But she was stopped by a sharp reprimand from Yang Kang.
"Hu Yan, haven't you caused enough trouble?"
"Don't you realize yet that many of the things you've encountered today have sothing off about them?"
Reprimanded, Hu Yan's brain was still frozen: "What's off?"
Yang Kang originally didn't want to say, but if they continued wasting ti like this, they'd be wasting their future lives.
"Both waves of police, the ones before and now, were impostors."
"The first ti, dealing with a rape case like that, shouldn't they have taken you for an examination to preserve evidence of the rape? They didn't do that. As for the second ti, it was just a casual brush-off."
Hu Yan felt this seed sowhat reasonable.
Yang Kang: "Also, in a high-end apartnt like this, for sothing like kidnapping, threatening, and rape to happen, don't you think the probability of you running into it is a bit too high?"
"Furthermore, the people here, don't you feel that besides us few, everyone else is a bit strange?"
"I won't waste any more ti."
"Telling you the truth doesn't matter much."
"This place, Alice Apartnt, is a live-action ga venue. The kind where people die."
"All of us were forced to participate."
"We originally had five people, but two have already died."
"You're the unlucky one. It originally had nothing to do with you, but you got dragged in."
"So, whether you believe what I'm saying, whether you leave or not, it's entirely up to you."
"The few of us still need to find that person, so we won't waste ti here anymore."
Yang Kang signaled for the other two to leave with him.
Wang Zhong turned and left without the slightest hesitation.
In contrast, Kong Haoxia looked back several tis before leaving.
Hu Yan was dumbfounded, feeling only that her brain was about to explode.
A live-action ga?
Where people die?
And she was dragged into it?
"Ahhh..."
She covered both sides of her head with her hands.
If all of this was true,
then everything that happened today could be explained.
Including her own curiosity about why Kong Haoxia, coming to Nancheng City, stayed in an apartnt instead of a hotel.
After all, his family wasn't here, and his reason was tourism.
That made tourism even more suspicious.
It was all her fault for not thinking more about it at the ti.
So now, to leave or not to leave?
She wanted to leave. She had just taken a step towards the gate when she saw Jiang Ran reappear at the sixth-floor hallway window...
Jiang Ran just stood there, squinting and smiling as he stared at her, watching her until goosebumps erupted all over her body, leaving her utterly horrified...
...
Surveillance Room, first floor, Building No. 2, Alice Apartnt.
A computer screen filled with garbled code left Yang Kang and the others utterly dumbfounded.
Especially Yang Kang.
After returning from the main gate to Building No. 2, they had headed straight for the surveillance room, wanting to check who the person responsible for the high-altitude object throwing was.
So, after he turned on the computer in the surveillance room, a page popped up on the monitor that couldn't be closed no matter how many tis he clicked.
The page content was as follows:
[You are a 20-year-old man. At this mont, two won stand before you, offering you a choice.]
[The first, a Hua Country beauty, long straight black hair, fair skin, beautiful features, long legs.]
[The second, an Arican beauty, long straight blonde hair, fair skin, beautiful features, long legs.]
[Which one do you choose as your partner?]
Both the first and second options had pictures for additional clarification.
Yang Kang, after all, was a Hua Country person, and Asian features were more capable of capturing his heart.
So, between the two options, he chose the first one, the Hua Country beauty.
Imdiately, the page jumped to display another line of text:
[With two great beauties, as a man, of course you want them both! So your answer is wrong!]
After this sentence, the entire computer screen turned to complete gibberish.
And thus, the scene of several people standing there dumbfounded was created.
"There were only two options given, completely no option for 'wanting both.' This is deliberately ssing with people, right?"
Yang Kang was sowhat indignant.
Wang Zhong stared at the computer and asked the others, "Does anyone here know computers?"
Yang Kang certainly didn't. Kong Haoxia and Hu Yan both shook their heads.
Kong Haoxia felt that if you asked him which type of woman could bring you ultimate enjoynt in bed, he might be considered an expert.
As for computers... forget it, forget it...
And Hu Yan understood even less.
The only things she knew were TikTok livestreaming, shooting videos, editing videos...
Speaking of Hu Yan, after seeing Jiang Ran again at that ti, she imdiately dismissed the thought of leaving and caught up with Kong Haoxia.
She fiercely engaged in a war of words with him, and finally, Kong Haoxia agreed to increase the compensation for her ntal distress, adding more money to settle her down.
"If it weren't for the fact that we can't use money or personal connections, I could easily find a computer expert to co, remove this virus, and then check the surveillance footage!!!"
Yang Kang was at a loss.
"The reason Jiang Ran wants us to find the person is definitely because he himself can't find that person either."
"The likely situation for not being able to find them is the surveillance being garbled."
"In that case... how are we supposed to find out who exactly was the person responsible for the high-altitude object throwing, the one who dropped the red fire extinguisher?!"
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