Everyone was retreating as they walked, but they found the mountaintop even more difficult to navigate. If not for their numerical advantage over the housekeeper, they would have probably been surrounded and captured.
"An, we've got nowhere to retreat," Jin Enxi said, looking at the cliff behind them. Below the cliff, the waves were striking the sea surface, and from this height, estimated to be over a hundred meters, falling would mean certain death without a proper burial.
Everyone's expressions were grim, particularly Allen, whose failure to have the helicopter arrive on time was the main reason they were trapped by the housekeeper.
"Since there's nowhere to retreat, let's fight to the death," said Shen Qinglan calmly, unable to just stand there waiting to die.
