Deer Luhan, With Love

76

Chapter 76 – In Which Kris Finds Us

Deer Luhan,

Fun fact: the last sense you lose is your hearing, apparently.

Leigh

We still ended up with a plan of action without too much thought.  It wasn’t a good plan, but then we weren’t in a good situation, so it was going to have to make do, and I could only hope that it wasn’t going to go wrong.  Plans always go wrong.

“It’ll save time if Baekhyun goes down the fire escape while we’re getting the girls out,” Lay pointed out.  “I mean, if he can convince the taxi drivers to make a human conveyor belt on the fire escape stairs, getting them down is going to be so much easier.  They should be here by now.  Or very soon, if they aren’t already.”

“Remind me why I’m doing the part with all the important communication when I’m the only one who can’t speak Chinese?” Baekhyun grumbled as he hooked his arms under the armpits and knees of the first girl.  “God.  Why do I have Disney music in my head at a time like this?”

I didn’t think it would be totally appropriate to make quips about princesses.  Or Prince Charming, for that matter.  So I shoved the handwritten note for the taxi drivers to explain the situation at him.  He took it between his teeth.

“Because you’re the one best able to defend himself out of the three of us,” I said.  And also the one least likely to be recognised, though I’d be surprised if there were fans out at this time.  “Just give them the note.  It’ll all be fine.  I hope.”

Rolling his eyes, Baekhyun strode off, leaving me and Lay to survey the mass of unconscious bodies.

“Where do we even start?” Lay breathed out, shaking his head.  “One each like Baekhyun’s going to be quickest, right?”

I nodded.  One between us would be easier on the arms, but it would take double the time.  And we still had another forty-six of them to move.

The girl I picked up was a total deadweight, and I blamed the chloroform.  As I left the apartment and started down the stairs for the landing half a floor below, I found myself wondering exactly what kind of effects chloroform would have on the body.  We probably wanted to get them checked into the nearest hospital just to be on the safe side, but if they were all dead to the world through chloroform in the small hours of the morning rather than just asleep, it suggested they were chloroformed for most of the sociable hours of the day, and that had to be bad for them.  Especially since it had been a couple of days now.

I set the girl down beside the window, making sure that Baekhyun wouldn’t step on her when she got back in, and then carefully arranged her in the recovery position before returning to the apartment, passing Lay on the way.

“This is going to take all night,” he grumbled.

Fifteen minutes later, Baekhyun still wasn’t back and we’d made reasonable progress.  That was the first of our problems.

“It feels like we’re laying them out for mass burial,” Lay observed, gently putting down the twentieth girl and rolling her into the recovery position.  He was kind of right: two rows of them stretching away from the wall by the window, each girl utterly motionless.  And we somehow had to get them down another twenty-nine and a half floors.

“Do you reckon something’s happened to Baekhyun?” I asked Lay with concern as I passed him two girls later.  He just shrugged helplessly.

“Not much we can do about it if it has.”