Chapter 190: Making My Escape

There was a window next to the bed. I saw armed soldiers patrolling the ship’s deck next door as I looked out the window.

‘I have to think of a way to escape. I’ll wait for the soldiers to be at their most exhausted, then think of a way to escape through this window.’

As I was thinking, I raised my leg and intended to use my heel to kick against the window forcefully. But my leg felt soft when I raised it. It was as if I was stepping on cotton and could not muster any strength to raise it.

I suddenly thought of the pin-prick sensation I had felt before passing out. I was most likely injected with an anesthetic, and right now, the anesthetic hadn’t fully worn off.

‘If I follow the usual time needed for anesthetic recovery, I might still need a few more hours to recover my strength. But I couldn’t possibly wait that long. Who knows when Gary could return!’

To make the anesthetic fade more quickly, I had to quicken my body’s metabolism either by excreting urine or sweating out.

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