Time flies, and the siblings have been in the Doomsday Bunker for six years. Ronnie was a little annoyed that Laurent kept asking him when he could leave. One day he came home from work and whispered to Alice, "Sister, let's get ready tonight and leave at midnight.”
"Ah! so urgent?" Alice was a little surprised.
"Laurent has been bugging me lately, and I'm afraid if we don't leave, he'll spill the beans."
"All right, I'll listen to you," the two discussed the details and began their preparations. First, they exchanged all their points for food, enough for three days, and then applied the Meta-skin, a super material, to their clothes. To be completely invisible, they also had to shave their hair. Alice heard that they had to shave all of their hair and was reluctant to do so, "Can't I just not shave it?" she asked.
"Sister, you're going to run for your life, come on, you're beautiful even shaved," Ronnie comforted.
"Okay!" Alice nodded helplessly. She closed her eyes, her long lashes flickering, her mouth pursed, her cheeks slightly flushed, obviously ready.
Ronnie was amused by her expression. He stepped forward and called softly, "Sister, shall I begin?"
"OK!" she didn't open her eyes, just nodded slightly.
The hair was shaved with a pair of scissors brought back from the lab, which were very awkward to use. It took Ronnie over an hour to finish the cut. Looking at his bald sister in front of him, he somehow wanted to laugh, but held himself back. "Isn't it ugly?" Alice asked, rubbing her head.
"No, you are still as beautiful as ever," Ronnie lied.
The duo applied Meta-skin to their exposed skin and then put on their coated clothes, disappearing out of sight at the same time. They held hands the whole time, afraid of being separated. They hid food in their clothes and waited quietly. In the middle of the night, they left the door and went to room 94. They wanted to give Laurent a note that said, "Laurent, we will go first, but don't worry, we will soon inform the City-state to come and get you, we hope you will be patient.”
Ronnie originally wanted to give him the secret material formula, but he changed his mind because he was afraid that the formula would fall into the hands of the enemy. At that moment, they reached room 94 and threw the note through the small opening in the door. Then they both came to the elevator entrance and waited quietly, afraid of being exposed and not daring to take the elevator, they wanted to quietly follow the people and go up together. Inside the bunker there is no day and night, but there is a work schedule. By eight o'clock in the morning, the number of people gradually increased. The siblings were more careful, afraid to make any noise. Laurent woke up and found the note Ronnie had left and was furious, he immediately reported this to the bearded man. Ronnie didn't think Laurent would be stupid enough to make a big deal out of it. As the siblings quietly waited for the elevator, the alarm sounded. Ronnie yelled that it was bad, he knew that this time Laurent had betrayed him again. He grabbed Alice's hand and ran for the hallway, the two of them panicking and running as fast as they could. The entire Doomsday Bunker tensed as the alarm sounded, it hadn't been sounded in a long time. The doors were open and everyone had a blank look on their faces, no one knew what was going on. The bearded man said through the radio, "Two people have escaped, they are hiding among you, now nobody is allowed to go out, we will search from room to room.
Five minutes later, more than twenty armed men descended from the elevator and entered the bunker. Two men guarded the elevator entrance while the others began searching room by room. The siblings had also heard the broadcast and had wanted to quietly enter room 25, where they had originally stayed, but now they didn't dare go there either. The duo cautiously made their way to the utility room. When they arrived, they noticed that there was another door next to the utility room that they had been in too much of a hurry to notice last time. Pushing the door open, they found a different scene inside. It was the size of two ball fields, filled with all kinds of vegetables and fruits, while on the other side were turkeys. Ronnie thought in his heart, "This must be the orchard of the 'Doomsday Bunker'.”
When the duo entered, there were only four people in the orchard, and they were busy picking fruit. Although the siblings were stealthy, they didn't dare make any noise. They went to the far right corner and sat down, Ronnie whispered, "Sister, if we ever get separated, come back here.”
Alice whispered, "OK!"
They had been sitting there for several hours and were getting a little hungry. When they saw that the orchard pickers had left, they took out their food and started to eat. After Alice finished eating, she swallowed and said, "Ronnie, I'm a little pee-ish, what should I do?"
Ronnie laughed and said, "Then you can pee! I can't see it anyway."
A few moments later he heard the sound of "gurgling" water ten paces away, and the floor immediately became wet. By evening, the armed men outside had not been able to find the siblings and began searching for them in remote areas. When they reached the orchard, Ronnie was startled. He pulled Alice sharply, and they both stood up quietly. The armed men already knew that they were looking for the invisible man, so they kept an eye on the footprints on the ground. It was just that there were so many footprints in the orchard that they couldn't distinguish them for a while. The men lined up, hand in hand, and began moving forward from the left. Ronnie knew that at this rate they would catch up with them sooner or later. He wanted to get out so badly, but the door was locked and there were two men standing in the doorway. He was so nervous at this point that he shuddered at the thought of the one-eyed Farett. He could imagine how terribly tragic it would be if he and Alice were caught. He even made the worst plan: if they really were caught, he would have to kill Alice first to prevent her from falling into One-Eye's hands. Alice didn't know that he had so much on his mind at that moment, when she looked at the team slowly moving over, she couldn't help but see a bright light in front of her eyes when she saw the bearded man, and she knew that he must not really want to capture her. Alice guessed right, as soon as the bearded man entered the orchard, he sensed that Alice must be here. Since he had two relationships with this woman, he had fallen deeply in love with her, and he had tried to pursue her over the years, but was rejected by Alice. He didn't complain, he just watched Alice quietly behind her back and helped her as much as he could. When he heard about Alice's escape in the morning, he immediately began to send word, in fact, his purpose was to make Alice hide somewhere else beforehand. This time he chose to lean to the side, and as the group moved forward, he leaned over with one hand raised high and gestured softly. This action was seen by Alice, who pulled Ronnie close and whispered in his ear, "You follow me.”
Ronnie had run out of ideas and could only follow Alice. Alice pulled him aside and then leaned against the wall. The group walked from left to right without a sign when someone shouted from the right wall, "Why does it smell like urine in here?”
The bearded man walked over, "What does that tell you? maybe someone left it here."
The man who shouted was quite serious, he examined the ground more closely and shouted under his breath, "These should be a woman's footprints.”
Alice was sorry to hear this and was afraid that a pee would expose her. The bearded man was the leader this time, he was afraid the others would get suspicious, so he could only say, "Then let's take another walk,” he took the leaning position again, and when the line was a third of the way through, he touched the siblings' backs. Ronnie almost screamed when he was touched. Fortunately, Alice warned him by pushing his hand down hard. More than twenty people walked in vain again, and the bearded man said, "Maybe the two people ran away a long time ago, let's look somewhere else.”
After a short time, Ronnie's siblings were back in the orchard. They went back to the original corner. This time, Ronnie was so scared that he calmed down and remembered the bearded man's move and asked, "Sister, why did the bearded man help us?"
Alice didn't say anything, she was most afraid of Ronnie asking that question. Ronnie waited for half a day and didn't get an answer, so he asked again, "Sister, are you still there?"
"Maybe he's a good person and that's why he's helping us," Alice said something even she didn't believe.
Ronnie didn't think about it, he was thinking about his next step. The duo stayed here until midnight. When things calmed down around them, the duo talked about going out to look around. They left the orchard and headed for the elevator, turning two corners, at an intersection, Ronnie felt his feet go limp and stepped right on a trap, he pulled his leg out with force and the alarm sounded immediately. He let go of Alice's hand and yelled at her, "You run."
Alice heard his voice and turned to run, thinking that Ronnie would run separately from her. Ronnie tried desperately to pull his legs out, but it didn't help, in no time a person was running that way, and he knew he had caught one as soon as he looked at the trap. The bearded man heard the alarm and also came quickly, thinking it was Alice who had been caught. When he saw that a man was already in front of him, he said to him, "Did you catch him?”
The man was about to respond when the bearded man punched and stunned him, then the bearded man quickly deactivated the alarm and said again to the empty intersection, "Alice, get out of here! I want you to run." Ronnie's feet were free as the alarm was disarmed, but he dared not speak for fear of exposing himself. He looked in the right direction and ran out the door. Alice remembered what he had said about meeting in the orchard if they dispersed, and she arrived only to find the orchard door locked. She had to retreat to the utility room, also in the corner. Ronnie's way back to the orchard was blocked by several men when the alarm went off. He had nowhere to go for a while, but suddenly remembered his old quarter, Room 25, and rushed over there, where he hid until four o'clock in the morning, when he dared to come out. These people had been busy all day, had not caught anyone, were sleepy. Ronnie carefully avoided them, to the orchard, he saw that the orchard door was locked, he also retreated to the utility room, he did not dare to open his mouth to call his sister, he could only reach all the way from the wall until he touched a soft thing, Alice's face was red, grabbed his hand, whispered, "Why did you just come?"
Ronnie told her what happened first, and finally he said gratefully, "The bearded man saved me again, and he thought I was you, and he said he hoped you'd escape, what a smitten man."
Alice was also touched to hear these words, but she did not answer him. At eight o'clock in the morning, when One Eye saw that a large group of people had searched for a whole day without finding anyone, he stormed out and personally ordered a carpet search.