That night, after Chen Na waited for her mother Wang Yan to fall asleep, she secretly slipped out.
At nine o'clock, the car arrived as promised.
"Get in, Chen Na," the short-haired woman said, lowering the window.
"Mm."
Chen Na sat in the back seat. Once the car started moving, she asked nervously, "Sister, where are we going?"
"To a factory in the suburbs."
"A factory?"
"Mm. Put this on."
The short-haired woman handed her a round mask that exposed only her eyes.
Chen Na did not know why she had to wear a mask, but she obediently put it on anyway.
Soon, the car arrived at a factory in the suburbs. It seemed to have been abandoned long ago; it did not even have a gate.
Chen Na followed the short-haired woman into a hall inside the factory and saw that quite a few people had already arrived.
Some wore masks like hers that exposed only their eyes. Two rings of people wearing black hoods and carrying guns stood around them. They looked like terrifying bandits from a movie, which frightened her a little.
When the short-haired woman arrived, the masked people were all surprised to see Chen Na with her.
"The last one is a child?"
"What the hell? A child is here for the selection too?"
"There is no distinction between adults and children in the selection," the short-haired woman said flatly. "There are only participants. I will now explain the selection process."
"Do you see those armed people around you? Your selection task is to use this factory as your range of activity and evade their pursuit. As long as you have not been caught after three hours, you pass the selection."
Everyone nodded. The rules were clear and easy to understand.
The short-haired woman specifically