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In the control room, a man was on the phone. Once the call connected, he asked, "Are the people trapped in the elevator now? What should we do?"

"Create an accident and kill them," came an icy voice from the phone.

"I know what to do." Hanging up the phone, the man said, "Cut the power and let the elevator plummet."

As the man uttered this cold command while staring at the screen, at that moment, he suddenly saw Li Xiaoyao in the elevator, staring at the surveillance camera with eyes cold to the bone.

Facing those eyes, the man couldn't help but shiver, then he immediately pulled the plug on the power.

Right at that moment, Li Xiaoyao had already put Lan Cai on his back and escaped from the elevator.

After the power was cut off, there were a few dozen seconds of transitional buffering time. During this interval, Li Xiaoyao, carrying Lan Cai on his back, jumped on top of the elevator.

But just as he had steadied himself, the elevator beneath his feet began to shake violently. The cable fixed at the top of the elevator suddenly loosened, and the entire lift plummeted downward in an instant.

"Ah!"

Lan Cai couldn't help but scream, her hands slipping at that moment, and she was on the verge of tumbling off Li Xiaoyao's back.

In the nick of time, Li Xiaoyao hooked his left hand around her arm, steadying her securely against his back.

Li Xiaoyao's body was bent slightly, squatting on the rapidly falling elevator, and the wind generated by the descent howled past him.

12 floors high, the elevator plunged. In at most ten seconds, it would crash to the ground.

Lan Cai clung tightly to Li Xiaoyao's neck, and due to her nervousness and fear, she didn't even care about Li Xiaoyao's hand on her bottom.

"Are we going to die?" Lan Cai's voice didn't seem particularly scared, and Li Xiaoyao even detected a hint of relief in it.

Li Xiaoyao frowned and said, "With me here, we won't die."

Lan Cai let out a light snort and said, "Actually, death isn't so bad; then there'd be nothing to worry about."

"Shut up, if I say we won't die, we won't die," Li Xiaoyao suddenly roared, startling Lan Cai with his outburst.

Carrying her on his back, Li Xiaoyao slowly stood up and said, "Hold on to me tight."

As his words fell, Li Xiaoyao's feet pushed hard against the top of the elevator, and like a cheetah, he leaped towards the protruding ledge on the opposite wall.

Li Xiaoyao's left hand supported Lan Cai's bottom to prevent her from falling off, while his right hand grasped the ledge. He hung there, like a huge gorilla, one-armed on the wall.

If it were just Li Xiaoyao alone, he could have relied on his Cultivation Level to fly through the air.

But not now, because Lan Cai was with him, and he couldn't reveal his abilities, so he had to resort to this most foolish method.

Li Xiaoyao was physically strong; even if he hung there for a day and a night, it wouldn't be a problem.

But to Lan Cai, it looked like a desperate struggle, an act of sheer willpower. She felt like a burden, and without her, Li Xiaoyao would definitely be able to escape more easily.

Lan Cai whispered into Li Xiaoyao's ear, "I'm sorry."

Li Xiaoyao was taken aback, wondering what was getting into this girl. Why apologize at this time?

Thinking Li Xiaoyao was angry because he didn't respond, Lan Cai whispered, "I'm sorry. If I hadn't asked you to drive for me, you wouldn't have been trapped in this elevator. I'm sorry, it's all because of me."

"Cough, cough, Director Lan, this incident is not related to you. To be honest, the one who should be saying sorry is me. If I hadn't offended Long Feiyang, none of this would have happened; I've dragged you into this mess," Li Xiaoyao said with a wry smile.

Lan Cai shook her head and said, "No matter what, you saved me. If we can get out of here alive, I will definitely repay you."

In Lan Cai's view, both she and Li Xiaoyao were responsible for what happened today.

"Repay me? How? Don't tell me, Director Lan, you're thinking of offering your hand in marriage?" The rascal started to blabber again.

Director Lan's cheeks blushed, and for some reason, she suddenly thought of the time she and Lin Yuanyuan played a game in the hotel yesterday, and the first person she thought of was Li Xiaoyao.

"What do you mean by offering my hand in marriage? Don't spout nonsense," Director Lan said with a hint of annoyance.

Li Xiaoyao laughed twice, finding himself to be a chatterbox who spoke for momentary pleasure, and then he felt slightly regretful after. Lan Cai was the chairman, and he was merely her employee; how could he tease her like that.

"Bang!"

Suddenly, a thunderous noise came from the bottom of the elevator shaft. It was the sound of the elevator crashing to the ground.

Lan Cai turned her head to look down, watching as a cloud of dust rose from the darkness below. Her cheeks turned slightly pale as a wave of fear washed over her.

If it weren't for Li Xiaoyao's timely jump, two more bodies would be buried in the rubble below.

Lan Cai asked softly, "What do we do now?"

"Hold on to me tightly," Li Xiaoyao just said these words.

Lan Cai didn't know what he was going to do, but still obediently clung to him.

Although the elevator had crashed, the cable was still intact. Li Xiaoyao tightened his grip on the edge of the wall with his right hand, his waist taut, and with a gentle push of his legs against the wall, he used the recoil to leap nimbly backward.

Li Xiaoyao's eyes were fixed on the cable as his right hand accurately grabbed onto it.

Even though he caught the cable, Li Xiaoyao still swayed a bit from the momentum before finally steadying himself after a while.

Lan Cai had remained still throughout, afraid that even the slightest movement might affect Li Xiaoyao.

After stabilizing himself on the cable, Li Xiaoyao said, "Hold on to me tightly, I'll go down slowly."

"Mhm." Lan Cai hugged him tightly and obediently hummed in response.

At this moment, in this confined and narrow elevator shaft, only Li Xiaoyao could provide her with enough sense of security. Watching him move with celestial grace in what seemed like a certain death trap, Lan Cai was incredibly amazed.

Li Xiaoyao felt Lan Cai's hands around his neck tighten. He slowly and carefully withdrew his left hand that was supporting her, making sure she wouldn't slip off his back, and then began carefully gripping the cable with both hands, sliding downward bit by bit.

They were now at the height of the sixth floor, which wasn't considered high for Li Xiaoyao.

Li Xiaoyao's hands were steady, but carrying a person on his back, and even though Lan Cai wasn't heavy at nearly a hundred pounds, meant his hands meeting the cable, which was riddled with burrs, soon showed bloodstains from the friction.

Lan Cai's head rested on Li Xiaoyao's shoulder, and she could clearly see the bloodstains on his hands and the blood that seeped out.

Lan Cai turned her head to view Li Xiaoyao's sharply defined face, his eyes full of unyielding determination, and his lips firm like a blade's edge. Each feature made her heart race a little faster.

[I slept in a bit more this weekend. Dear readers, cast your recommendation votes for the diligent writer who still persists in writing over the weekend.]