On the sheer rock face, three people were climbing up at a slow pace; however, Roger’s shoes slipped on a smooth stone, and he started plummeting downwards.
Yucheng, who had just been handed over to Tang Shu, cried out in fright immediately. The former’s eyes narrowed sharply as she quickly made a decision, unfastening the rope from her waist and hooking it onto the other person.
"Hold on tight, climb up yourself!"
"But, what about you?"
"I’m going to save someone."
Without the Discover more novels on NovelHub - your gateway to endless stories. Her right hand reached for a dagger at her waist, releasing the rock she was holding with her left hand, and she plunged towards the ground below. Fortunately, Roger reacted quickly, grabbing the rope around his waist to steady the fall, though he could only temporarily slow the descent due to inertia.
For a moment, two figures fell rapidly one after the other down the steep slope, kicking up numerous pebbles plunging down towards the valley, with dust filling the air.
Tang Shu soon tumbled close to Roger, grabbing the rope with one hand while jamming the dagger into a crevice in the rock with the other to steady herself. From a distance, the two fast-falling silhouettes looked as if they were hanging on the rock face, the situation extraordinarily perilous.
When Yucheng finally accepted the fact that she was alone at the original spot, she looked down and witnessed this scene. Before she could scream out, she saw the two narrowly stabilize their positions.
Was this girl who had just saved her some kind of superhero, and she even resembled a celebrity? She’s so much prettier than me!
Roger below was equally shocked. He never thought that Tang Shu, with whom he had the worst relationship, would dive down from above, risking her own life, and even catch him!
"What about me? Aren’t you going to grab the rope? Get on with it if you don’t want to die!"
Right now, Tang Shu felt like cursing. Although she had inner strength, the force of the fall had still drained a lot of her energy, and now she was dealing with an incredibly heavy bruiser, which was anything but comfortable.
So, what exactly do foreigners grow up eating? It’s bad enough they’re big and burly, but they’re also so tough!
Roger flushed with embarrassment upon hearing this. He could never have imagined that he would one day be held by Tang Shu. It felt like a major social death scene.
He quickly tightened his grip on the rope around him, allowing Tang Shu to slowly let go as he used the rope’s tension to climb upwards, though much more cautiously this time.
By the time Captain Cheng arrived with his team, the three were only a step away from the guardrail above.
"Give me your hands, I’ll pull you up!"
Tang Shu grabbed Lin Yi’s extended hand and, with a strong push with her legs, flipped over the guardrail and safely reached the road.
"Well done, is everyone okay?"
"We’re fine, Yucheng has multiple cuts, but Roger hit his back on a rock earlier; he might have broken a couple of ribs."
With such understatement, Tang Shu alarmed the following doctor, who hurriedly placed Roger on a stretcher for a full body check.
After such intense exertion, even Roger felt drained. When he was lifted onto the stretcher and looked towards Tang Shu, he hesitated.
"Since when did you pick up this habit of hemming and hawing?"
"I’m not dithering! I just want to say... thank you."
Tang Shu raised her eyebrows in surprise, looking at him like one would a rare animal. This reaction made him even more irritated, so he shut his eyes, adopting an out of sight, out of mind attitude.