Alice Interrupted

Yan Yang reacted like lightning! The instant he tossed An Ke a "I'm leaving first! Lie down!" he swiftly pulled the door shut behind him!

But Little York's piercing alarm had already been fully raised!

"Woof! Woof woof woof—!" The penetrating barking echoed wildly through the deathly silent corridor!

"Who's there?"

"What was that?"

"York's barking! Something's happening!"

The administrators' shouts and heavy footsteps erupted from both ends of the corridor almost simultaneously.

He'd been exposed!

Yan Yang did not hesitate for even a second. He instantly pushed his speed to the limit, no longer bothering to hide himself as he sprinted in one direction.

Behind him, heavy footsteps boomed like war drums. Pokémon barks and the administrators' furious roars intertwined into a deadly net that clung tightly to his back.

"Stop! You brat! Why are you running around in the middle of the night instead of sleeping?"

"No, that speed... something's wrong! He's not one of our school's kids!"

"It's an intruder! Don't let him get away!"

"Quick! Cut him off! Don't let him discover..."

A corner lay ahead.

Yan Yang suddenly drove his feet into the ground and executed a sharp, extreme drift around the turn, his boots scraping against the smooth floor with a piercing screech.

Relying on the information Andrew had provided and his own exceptional sense of direction, he charged left and right through the maze-like corridors.

However, not only were the pursuers rapidly increasing in number, they were also far more familiar with the terrain than he was.

Footsteps and shouts clung to him like maggots on a bone, closing in from every direction as an invisible encirclement rapidly tightened.

Bang—!

A scorching orange-red streak of fire, carrying an aura of destruction, whistled past Yan Yang's ear and slammed into the wall less than