The raised rear courtyard wall was nearly four meters high, and its cement surface was smooth enough that an ordinary person could not climb over it. Xia had not come in by scaling the wall. In her entire life, aside from the time she had been chased by a dog at eleven and climbed over one in tears, she had never done anything like this again. This was related to the traditional education she had received.
At this moment, Xia's outlook on life was being tested. She had come through the back door mainly because she did not want outsiders to know, lest it cause unnecessary trouble.
She felt as though she had stepped on a land mine. She had never stepped on one in a mission world, yet she had done so here. Just like in the movies, there had been a click beneath her foot, and a small iron rod had pressed against the sole of her shoe. Fortunately, she never wore high heels.
"Junior, I think I stepped on a land mine."
Xia spoke, while the friend behind her was once her junior.
"What kind of nonsense are you talking about? You probably stepped on a soda can buried in the dirt. I saw a movie where a soldier stepped on a soda can in the desert and thought he'd stepped on a mine..."
Click~
Her junior had not finished speaking when she felt something beneath her foot activate. One more Lucky Victim forced to stand still.
In fact, Xia and her junior did not know enough about this. The tripwire-activated mines they had stepped on were old-fashioned bounding mines, mainly intended for warning. Modern mines were pressure-activated; once stepped on, whether the foot was lifted or not, they went BOOM~
Five minutes later, inside the Accessory