Seeing Ye Xunzhi leave so decisively, the three men froze for a moment. Then their leader recovered and turned back with a vicious grin.
"Heh, still trying to get help? I think you..." wouldn't give up until she was staring death in the face.
But before he could finish, Zhan Tang suddenly brought out the hand she had hidden behind her back.
"Pssht!" Clear liquid sprayed from the bottle.
The searing pepper spray hit the two closest men square in the face.
"Aaaah!!!" Both men screamed at once, clutching their eyes as they fell to the ground.
Zhan Tang didn't linger to fight. She turned and sprinted away. The lackey who had been standing farther away escaped the spray, and at the sight, he finally realized what had happened.
The girl hadn't been asking for help at all. She had been using Ye Xunzhi to distract them.
Because she knew perfectly well that trying to escape right under their noses would never work.
His expression instantly twisted. "You fucking bitch! You think you can run?"
The man had long arms and legs, and Zhan Tang couldn't outrun him at all. He caught her left wrist in an instant, practically lifting her entire body off the ground.
She pressed down on the spray with her right hand and was just about to raise it when he slapped it away, already prepared. The man sneered.
"You think I'd fall for the same trick twice?"
Zhan Tang's face flushed red as she struggled desperately. "Let go of me, you scumbag!"
"Oh, still pretty lively, huh? Hope you're just as lively in a minute." The man's face grew larger and larger in the girl's dark pupils.
Zhan Tang gritted her teeth, her back rigid. The hand above her head held her like an iron