Chapter 177

At that moment, time moved so slow that I couldn’t understand what was happening even as Kan Jian jumped off of the cliff.

I really wanted to kill Jiang Zi Suan from the bottom of my heart. In retrospect, if I had a way to kill him from this distance, I would’ve really done it.

Jiang Zi Suan wasn’t crazy and instantly returned to the forest and disappeared. As we slid down the tree, it was like my brain wasn’t registering my emotions. I couldn’t feel anything. I wasn’t afraid, I didn’t panic, nor did I collapse. But my mind wasn’t clear, either. Instead of immediately rushing over, we carefully but quickly walked past tree by tree.

I was confident that Jiang Zi Suan’s eyes would never recover, but I was afraid that his ears were strong enough to compensate for the loss. After taking a few steps, Liu Sang began to run, but I quickly grabbed him.

“He ran away,” he said to me. “He just used this to delay us. Take a look.” Liu Sang could tell that I didn’t believe him and added, “Then just use me as a shield, ok?”

I didn’t have any objections to this, so I picked him up and dragged him all the way to the edge of the cliff. After looking down, I realized why Kan Jian had jumped after Bai Haotian.

He had put the paraglider in his bag earlier and pulled it out at this time. He hadn’t been able to fold the paraglider’s sail earlier, so it didn’t open completely, but when he jumped down from the cliff, the rope and sail he’d pulled out hung directly on the edge of the rock. Liu Sang wanted to shout, but I stopped him. I had already seen Kan Jian below. He had actually fallen quite far, but I could still make him out from this distance. He was holding something in his hand that looked to be a person.

I still didn’t dare relax. The edges of the cliff protrusions here were very sharp, so even if Bai Haotian had been caught, she might have still been killed long ago.

Kan Jian didn’t say a word. This boy may look silly, but in fact, his mind is clear. He doesn’t know what the situation above is like, so he’d rather keep quiet, I thought to myself.

I whispered to Baishe, “The plan remains unchanged. We’ll go down now.”

I tied the rope to a nearby tree, threw it down, and then pushed Liu Sang, who raised his hands and said, “I can’t climb ropes.”

“You don’t need to climb when you’re going down,” I said as I fastened the safety buckle for him, did it for myself, and then dragged him over and slid down the rope.

We quietly slid towards the paraglider’s position on the cliff. I whistled a few times and saw Kan Jian move below, so I slid to his position and saw him holding Bai Haotian with one hand. She wasn’t moving, and I didn’t know whether she was alive or dead.

I looked at Kan Jian and noticed that his face was full of tears, his mouth was set in a crooked line, and his nose was runny. He must’ve been so terrified that he started crying. “Boss, I can’t do this job. It’s too fucking scary. I promised my aunt that I’d get a girlfriend this year.”

“You did better than me. I’ll find you a girlfriend.” I saw that half of Kan Jian’s body was covered in blood, which was a result of all of his festering wounds from before getting scraped open on the cliff when he jumped down. The cliff was covered in fungi, so foam started appearing on his wounds.

I went down and tied a safety rope to Bai Haotian before buckling it to my own safety rope and then going up again. I then took out the clean mud and re-applied it to Kan Jian’s skin. He clenched his jaw in pain and his whole body twitched. He immediately let go of Bai Haotian and the three of us hung on the rope, which caused it to tighten instantaneously.

I took Bai Haotian’s pulse and was relieved to find that she was still alive.

I also put mud on her, by which time the mud in my bag was almost depleted. Kan Jian said, “Boss, who are you kidding? You’re still a bachelor.”

I asked him to find a foothold so Baishe could drop the rope down as planned.

After a short two-minute rest, I took Liu Sang and Bai Haotian and continued down. The rope wasn’t long enough, so I found a few footholds and put Bai Haotian on my back. I then unfastened my safety buckle, jumped quickly with my bare hands, and fell to the bottom of the valley. As soon as I landed, I immediately felt suffocated.

I tried to slow my breathing down, but found that I couldn’t. My throat hurt so much that it felt like it was on fire.

Liu Sang followed me down and instantly choked as well.

Then, I found that it was hard to open my eyes and I couldn’t see anything at all. Even my eyes felt like they were in severe pain.

At this time, my mind seemed to stutter as a thought immediately popped into my head.

I had originally thought that the poisonous gas below was strong, but we could at least climb a tree within a minute or two. What I didn’t realize was that the poisonous gas below was directly fatal. We fell to the ground as soon as we landed.

This was a huge miscalculation. I clenched my teeth, got up, and took two steps towards the nearest tree. My nose, mouth, ears, eyes, and lips all felt like they were beginning to melt. I wanted to laugh bitterly, but my mouth was full of blood.

At the moment my vision started to go dark, I saw two wild men covered in fur rushing out of the fog. They were carrying something like sacks, which they used to cover us.

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Oh ho, I think we all know who these mysterious men are. Here are some pics of cute, baby Max and the lake to tide you over until tomorrow (Sidenote, I suck at fishing. I literally caught everything but fish. Rocks, trees, twigs, you name it. What can I say? It’s a gift ahahahaha)