Chapter 270 — Something Has Gone Wrong
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"It's fine. You can open your eyes now." Wei Zhao said this aloud, but inwardly he was calculating that Xiao Ma would surely have tampered with the cord, and that he and Shen Yushu were bound to fall into the sea.
Wei Zhao had originally intended to find a foothold on the cliff face, but unfortunately the cliff wall was very smooth—no doubt the edges and protrusions had been deliberately ground flat for this bungee attraction, to prevent bungee-jumping tourists from being injured.
Gu Mengyao stared blankly at the empty bungee platform... yet in her mind, Wei Zhao's earlier words echoed over and over...
"Uncle Qing will be here any moment. If anything happens to me and Xiaoshu shortly, don't panic. Whatever you do, don't move. Just wait here for Uncle Qing."
Would something happen to him? Why had he said something would happen to him and Xiaoshu? Did he know something? Could it be he was just trying to frighten her, deliberately joking? Gu Mengyao grew restless and confused—when suddenly she heard a burst of exclamations from the tourists nearby!
"The cord snapped!"
"Something's happened!"
"That man and that woman fell into the sea!"
Gu Mengyao was startled. She was just about to ask what had happened when she saw more and more tourists surging toward her, crowding around the edge of the cliff! Gu Mengyao hurriedly stood up and looked in the direction of the crowd—and was frozen in shock!
The cord that had bound Wei Zhao and Xiaoshu had broken clean through, with only half of it dangling in midair, and Wei Zhao and Xiaoshu were long since nowhere to be seen! For a moment, Gu Mengyao's head went blank with a ringing buzz, and she was struck dumb!
Something had happened to Wei Zhao and Shen Yushu? Just like that, something had gone wrong?
"Xiaoshu! Wei Zhao!" Gu Mengyao pushed through the crowd, trying to squeeze her way over, screaming herself hoarse with the names of Shen Yushu and Wei Zhao...
"Miss, are you a friend of the two who fell?" An older woman in the crowd looked at Gu Mengyao with sympathy. "Miss, accept your loss and move on. I heard that after they fell, they didn't even surface once before the seawater swept them away..."
Gu Mengyao suddenly felt drained of all strength. Hearing the old woman's words, it was as though every ounce of energy in her body had been sucked away, and she stared foolishly at the surging waves below the cliff...
"Tsk tsk, what's going on with this amusement park? How is it so unsafe? It's been ages since those people fell in, and there's not even a rescue team. Who would dare come bungee jumping next time?"
"Exactly. I just bought my ticket—lucky I hadn't started jumping yet, or who knows if I'd have fallen too?"
Though the crowd was discussing the misfortune of Wei Zhao and Shen Yushu, not a single person was willing to jump into the sea to save them. It was not that human hearts were too cold, but that jumping from here, one might well die before rescuing anyone at all.
Thinking of the inexplicable words Wei Zhao had said to her before jumping, Gu Mengyao suddenly understood... Wei Zhao—had he already sensed the danger?
Otherwise, why would he have said that if anything happened to him and Xiaoshu shortly, she must not panic?
That bastard—knowing full well something would happen, why did he still jump? And what was even more infuriating, he had dragged Shen Yushu down with him!
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