He Zhao searched around and eventually found a length of rope. If he remembered correctly, this thing was exactly the same as the one that had been used to tie up Jansen, the top student from Quinnhaam University.
First, he tied up his own feet, then used his teeth to bind his wrists tightly. If conditions had allowed, he would have loved to wrap his whole body up like a rice dumpling.
"This should do it."
As soon as he finished speaking, the title skill in the upper-left corner of his vision, the words [escape], instantly changed from gray to bright, going from unselectable to activatable.
Almost subconsciously, he tapped it lightly.
"Whoosh—"
He felt nothing at all, only a little dizziness in his head. Then he discovered that at some point, the ropes around his hands and feet had all fallen off.
"???"
No, seriously, how had he escaped?
He squatted there, rubbing his chin and thinking for a long time.
In the end, he got up and walked to the storage cabinet. After rummaging around for a while, he found an ancient digital camera. He had picked the thing up from the Second-hand Market. When buying second-hand goods, he had displayed the grace of a haggling king, cutting the stall owner's price until the man was left completely dazed.
In the end, the man had been so annoyed that he simply gave him the antique and waved him away.
He adjusted the settings and aimed it at himself.
Immediately after that, he once again tied his hands and feet up tightly.
The gray [escape] skill lit up once more.
"Whoosh—"
The instant it activated, a faint wave of dizziness hit him.
In a blink, the ropes that had been tightly tied around his hands and feet all came