Chapter 176 Perhaps, Xiao Meng is alright.
"Didn't you want a share too? I'll grant your wish!" With her last bit of consciousness, Su Meng sent the person out of the space as well.
His heavy eyelids snapped shut, his fingers relaxed, his arms fell to his sides, and he collapsed limply beneath the stone tablet, his body oozing with blood.
Unbeknownst to her, chaos had erupted on the cliff.
When she called out "Ah Da", Ah Da didn't actually appear.
With her exceptional hearing, she could only vaguely hear the crunching of dry branches and fallen leaves underfoot, as well as the deliberately suppressed breathing of several people.
The visitor was neither friend nor foe.
Su Meng decided to make use of it first.
Perhaps Cheng Wangshu was completely immersed in the excitement of about to obtain the space, feeling confident of victory, but with some slight concerns.
Su Meng's shout hit him right on his most sensitive nerve.
He was jolted awake; his conditioned reflex was to fire first.
From that moment on, everyone's nerves were on edge.
Su Meng fell off the cliff in that instant.
What she didn't see was that Huo Zhenhua and A'da rushed out of the woods at the same time.
Ah Da's first reaction was to fire a gun and run.
Huo Zhenhua, however, saw the top of Su Meng's head where she had disappeared.
Like a mad bull, he charged recklessly toward the cliff with bloodshot eyes.
Ah Da and the people behind him couldn't stop him.
Like a moth drawn to a flame, he jumped off the cliff, his eyes wide with fury as he stared at Su Meng disappearing into the thick fog.
The word "Su Meng" was stuck in his throat like a cotton ball, and he couldn't shout it out.
He tried to catch up with Su Meng.
No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't catch up with Su Meng.
The resolute soldier, his Adam's apple bobbing beneath his skin, wept tears of despair.
Fortunately, Wang Qinglin and others arrived in time.
Ah Da snatched the emergency rope from them, swung it around a few times, and with a "whoosh," the rope, as if it had eyes, precisely bound Huo Zhenhua.
"Pull it now!" he commanded.
Together with Wang Qinglin and several other soldiers, they shouted and pulled the person up the cliff.
"Commander, are you... alright?" Wang Qinglin asked with concern as he saw Huo Zhenhua lying on the ground, silent and like a wooden puppet.
"Commander, say something!"
"Commander, are you scared?"
Wang Qinglin didn't see Su Meng fall off the cliff; he just assumed that Huo Zhenhua accidentally fell off the cliff while trying to capture Cheng Wangshu.
He sighed worriedly, turned to look at Ah Da, who looked completely exhausted, and asked respectfully, "Uncle, do you think the commander has been scared out of his wits?"
"Perhaps! Let's take him back." A-Xiao cautiously walked to the edge of the cliff, peered over, and asked, "Are there any other paths to the bottom?"
Wang Qinglin, puzzled, honestly replied, "There shouldn't be any left! Uncle, do you want to go to the bottom of the cliff?"
Then, he remembered hearing someone call "Su Meng" from afar, and a bad feeling rose in his heart. He glanced at Huo Zhenhua and A Da, his face turning pale.
He stammered, "Uncle, where is Su, Su Meng?"
Ah Da's face was ashen, and his eyes seemed to be filled with venom as he looked at Cheng Wangshu. "He knocked me off a cliff."
"Fell off a cliff?"
Everyone stared in disbelief at the bottom of the cliff, then turned to Cheng Wangshu, who lay riddled with bloody holes and beyond dead, and sighed with sorrow.
"Quick! Go collect vines to make rope. I've heard that there are several protruding stone platforms at the bottom of the cliff."
Perhaps Comrade Su Meng is waiting for us on the stone platform.
Wang Qinglin relayed the order, and the soldiers behind him either tied ropes or searched for vines.
"It's so cold, we need to hurry. Otherwise, Xiaomeng might get frostbite," A-Da muttered in frustration.
Although his kung fu was impressive, he didn't possess extraordinary abilities.
It's unclear which sentence or word provoked Huo Zhenhua.
His eyes darted around, and his dull, lifeless eyes welled up with tears, as sadness and despair surged forth.
His stiff facial muscles twitched, and his pale, cracked lips trembled uncontrollably.
He raised his tearful eyes to look at Ah Da, his lips moving but unable to speak.
"What's the use of crying? If you want to save Xiaomeng, hurry up and think of a way."
Ah Da couldn't bear to see his dejected and desperate state, so he shouted coldly.
Huo Zhenhua struggled to get up from the ground.
He tried to prop himself up with his elbows three or five times, but couldn't get up.
Wang Qinglin, choking back tears, helped him up. "Commander, you should rest first. We will do our best to save Comrade Su Meng."
Huo Zhenhua nodded almost imperceptibly, then rubbed his cheeks vigorously with trembling hands.
After burying his head in his hands for a while, when he raised his head, he had regained his usual aloof, self-possessed, and cold demeanor as Commander Huo.
"Uncle, I remember once when we were chasing enemy agents here, the enemy agent jumped off a cliff and disappeared."
I think that person was very familiar with the terrain of the back mountain and would not have been unaware that this was a cliff.
He couldn't have died just like that; there must be other mysteries below the cliff.
However, no matter how thoroughly we investigated, we couldn't find anything suspicious.
He finished speaking in one breath, exhaled a heavy breath, and a glimmer of hope ignited in his eyes, "Perhaps, Xiaomeng is alright."
Ah Da glanced at him a few times and nodded silently, "Maybe!"
He threw the rope down the cliff with all his might, gripped it tightly with both hands, and was about to slide down the cliff.
Seeing this, Huo Zhenhua grabbed the rope first, stubbornly looking at Ah Da, "Uncle, I'll go!"
Ah Da frowned, stared at him for two seconds, then stepped aside slightly. "If anything happens, pull the rope."
He planned to wait ten minutes after Huo Zhenhua went down before chasing after him.
Although he can't scale walls, with the help of ropes, he might not be any worse than the "King of Soldiers".
At the same time, Su Meng slowly woke up.
She glanced blankly at the dazzling space, inhaling the fishy stench, and fanned herself with her hand in disgust.
Memories suddenly flooded back.
He realized that he had entered the space from mid-air after falling off a cliff.
She looked out through the spatial barrier.
Thick fog, as deep as a pool of water, blocked out all light, and only the black cliff face in the distance could be vaguely seen.
She rubbed her ears, as if she could still hear the familiar "Xiao Meng" echoing in them.
She thought that if the old man saw her fall off the cliff, he would definitely come down to look for her without hesitation.
She's going out!
Su Meng quickly bandaged her wound, glanced at her blood-stained clothes, sighed, and left the space.
The next second, the familiar feeling of falling swept over me.
Suddenly, I was given a breath of cold air.
She clenched her fists, focusing intently on the cliff beside her and the ground beneath her feet, hoping to spot an old tree or platform jutting out at an angle.
Just as she was about to retreat into the space to catch her breath in disappointment, her sharp eyes spotted a stone platform that looked like a python's tongue, lying across her feet.
She was overjoyed and, just before falling heavily, entered the space to cushion her fall.
The stone platform was covered with moss.
But inside that abrupt opening in the cliff face, the ground was as dry as an autumn threshing floor, flat and spacious.
Such as a house waiting for its owner to return home.
Su Meng nervously curled her fingers together as she cautiously approached.
Suddenly, a blue ball of light spun and flew toward her.
Before Su Meng could dodge, the ball of light entered her brow.
She touched her slightly feverish brow in bewilderment, staring blankly at the empty cave, her heartstrings trembling.
I can't figure out why the last blue bead was hidden halfway up the mountain.
How could such a rare and precious treasure, found in such a remote place, be...?
Before the thought was even finished, he saw a wooden box placed on a stone platform in the corner of the cave.
Su Meng picked it up and was so shocked that all the color drained from her face, and she trembled so much that she could barely hold the wooden box...
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
