Gong Yin above suddenly took another breath, then swung his arm with full force.
“Bang!” This distant swing actually produced a thunderous sound. The energy force Gong Yin released struck the stone beam, and Jing Hengbo seemed to feel the entire stone beam vibrating with a buzz.
Due to the resistance, their bodies paused briefly, their momentum slightly slowing.
Jing Hengbo’s heart jumped to her throat.
Taking advantage of this pause, Gong Yin continuously swung his arms, “boom boom boom boom boom” striking the stone beam without cease.
The rebounding force sent raindrops flying and mud splashing. Gong Yin suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood with a “puff,” the bright red blood spreading like a bloody path in the yellow rainwater.
A long angular piece was shaken loose and flew out, striking Gong Yin’s elbow. Jing Hengbo clearly heard a cracking sound.
Their rolling speed slowed down, but at this point Jing Hengbo’s head was only about a meter from the stone beam. The last bit of momentum was enough to send her head onto that protruding sharp stone, smashing her skull to pieces!
“Ahhhhhhh!” Jing Hengbo was going crazy.
Facing despair again after hope had been raised, her mind had no thoughts except to roar and wail, to want to move rocks to smash the heavens, even to smash the desperately self-rescuing Gong Yin onto that stone beam.
“Ahhhhhhh!” She thought this and acted on it. Her overwhelming rage made her wave her hands uncontrollably, aiming at a stone that had been split off by Gong Yin.
The potential unleashed under extreme crisis brought her telekinetic object control to perfection. That sizeable stone suddenly flew up through the air and smashed into the bottom of the stone beam with a whoosh!
“Swoosh—” Jing Hengbo watched wide-eyed as the stone passed through a large mass of vines and green leaves on the beam and disappeared.
A flash of inspiration struck her mind, and she suddenly awakened!
Just as she was about to shout, her vision went dark. Her entire head was tightly covered, and a familiar, clear, elegant scent filled her nostrils.
Jing Hengbo didn’t have time to think about the meaning of this action. Fearing her mouth would be covered, in great urgency she shouted desperately: “Three feet to the left!”
She felt the body holding her pause slightly, then make a rapid large movement.
“Swoosh.” The feared sound of impact didn’t come. Instead, there was a great sound of breaking branches and leaves. Rustling leaves continuously swept across her face and body, countless tiny leaves with hooked teeth left fine scratches on her skin. Before Jing Hengbo’s eyes was a chaotic green light and shadow, cutting through a black space overhead. The next instant, her vision brightened and her body felt cold. “Splash.”
She fell into water.
The ice-cold river water shocked her entire body with pain. All the wounds cut by grass leaves flared up simultaneously. The pain made her mind even clearer. She struggled to open her eyes in the river water and saw a large white mass floating in the water. Looking carefully, it was the net and Gong Yin inside it.
Gong Yin seemed to have fainted, his face snow white.
Jing Hengbo let out a long breath in her heart.
She had guessed correctly.
In her desperate situation, she had used telekinesis to move a stone to hit the beam, accidentally discovering that three feet to the left wasn’t stone. There should be a hollow space there, with a gap large enough for one or two people to pass through, probably caused by water erosion. It had just been densely covered by water plants and vines growing on the stone beam for years. If the stone hadn’t been smashed through there, how could they have discovered it in such haste?
Heaven never blocks all paths, haha.
The river wasn’t deep. After entering the water, the net naturally loosened and no longer bound the two tightly. Jing Hengbo swam to Gong Yin’s side in a few strokes, grabbed him and was about to swim upward, when she suddenly stopped.
Why save him?
Save him so he could use her again?
Speaking of saving, she had already saved him once just now. If she hadn’t smashed that stone and discovered the gap in the beam, wouldn’t Gong Yin also be Gong meat pie right now?
She hadn’t yet repaid the debt for him bullying and using her. What reason was there to save him?
With a splash, Jing Hengbo surfaced, thought about it, and pushed Gong Yin back down.
Go die, scum!
Jing Hengbo breathed in a beautiful breath of fresh air at the surface, looked around at the calm water, and suddenly felt a bit uneasy.
Sigh, that action just now—did it count as murder?
She thought about it, then dove headfirst back into the water.
Jing Hengbo was an excellent swimmer. In the modern world, the research institute had a swimming pool, and the swimming pool was Jing Hengbo’s favorite place, summer her favorite season, because the summer swimming pool was the wonderful place where she showed off her beautiful figure and harvested the most eyeballs.
She dove down like a fish and saw Gong Yin still floating quietly in the water.
Jing Hengbo swam close to him, somewhat puzzled why he didn’t suffocate or sink but also didn’t wake up. Perhaps this was related to his martial arts? But regardless, staying at the bottom of the water too long would kill anyone.
Getting closer to look at him, she increasingly felt this person was like beautiful jade, like snow-covered green pines. His snow-white long robe had come undone at the belt and floated in the blue water, taking on the grace of a startled swan and elegance of a swimming dragon. His dense black eyelashes drooped slightly, with fine water droplets floating on them like pearls.
As Jing Hengbo looked, she became reluctant to let go.
Sigh, such beauty was rare in the world. To just let him drown in the water and turn to white bones seemed somewhat wasteful.
Jing Hengbo loved all beautiful things, including herself. She felt that not cherishing and destroying all beautiful things was a sin.
She didn’t want to commit a sin and couldn’t bear to commit one.
“So beautiful, so beautiful…” she muttered in her heart while huffing and puffing to carry Gong Yin back up.
With a splash, she broke the surface again. Because of her effort, she accidentally bumped the wounds that were everywhere on her body. Jing Hengbo hissed.
After this hiss, looking back at the quiet and seemingly innocent Gong Yin, the fury in Jing Hengbo’s small universe flared up again.
Damn it, I must have had eight lifetimes of bad luck to meet you!
What kind of cursed empress—I never wanted to be one. It was all because you people forced me! Forced me!
Why save him? Are you stupid? Save him so he can put a sword to your neck again and make you be that puppet empress living day to day?
Jing Hengbo, you can’t stop the medicine!
“Splash!” With fury rising to her head, Jing Hengbo pushed Gong Yin back down again…
After completing this murderous deed, the killer felt relaxed and looked around, humming a little tune.
She saw the stone beam by the river. The gap at the bottom of the beam they had passed through was now broken and torn, then blocked by the mudslide that had surged over.
Looking at the stone beam, Jing Hengbo suddenly remembered that in the final moment, Gong Yin seemed to have embraced her, using his body to protect her head and face.
Jing Hengbo was stunned.
That action…
Could he have wanted to sacrifice himself for her in that most critical moment?
The more Jing Hengbo thought about it, the more likely it seemed. After being dazed for a while, then…
With a splash, she dove underwater again.
In the pale green water waves, Gong Yin still floated, white and quiet as a water lily.
This time Jing Hengbo looked at his body and only then noticed his clothes were stained with blood, and one right hand was twisted in a somewhat strange position.
It looked like a fracture.
Jing Hengbo remembered the final series of fierce bombardments against the stone beam. The hard stone beam sent stone fragments flying with impressive force. He must have exhausted all his strength—no wonder he couldn’t even dodge a stone at the end.
So in the end, when he had no other options, he could only sacrifice himself for her?
Jing Hengbo’s expression was somewhat strange. She had always been narcissistic, but she hadn’t dared to be narcissistic enough to think Gong Yin would trade his life for hers.
But regardless, without his series of bombardments delaying their downward momentum, she wouldn’t have had time to use telekinesis to grab a stone and smash the beam to discover that gap, and they couldn’t have escaped.
Speaking of it, in this heart-stopping crisis, it was really unclear who saved whom more.
Bubbles around them suddenly became dense. Jing Hengbo noticed Gong Yin’s complexion was wrong and he was starting to struggle. She hurriedly stepped forward to grab him, preparing to drag him up.
In her urgency, she forgot one principle: drowning people, when they encounter someone coming to rescue them, often drag the rescuer down.
In the splashing sound of water, Gong Yin suddenly half-opened his eyes and embraced her!