The Legend of Situ Shankong.

Summary

The passage describes a tense prisoner scenario where the narrator, through clever manipulation and strategy, manages to escape captivity. By convincing his guard to find a chamber pot and creating a distraction, he secretly cuts his restraints using a glass shard. When the guard returns, the narrator waits for the perfect moment to strike him with a wooden stool, strategically targeting a vulnerable nerve point to incapacitate him without killing him. After tying and gagging the unconscious guard, he prepares to escape through a window with his companion Da Mao and a seemingly naive girl, but is unexpectedly caught just as he is about to exit.

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