Chapter 508
"Sis', how long can you still hold on?"
His fear of heights had impeded the grand prize from looking down . All he could do now was hug Lin Sanjiu's leg with all his might as if his life was depended on it . His neck ached, for he had maintained such an anti-ergonomic posture for a long while .
The two of them were now hanging off a cliff nearly thousand meters in the air, swaying in the strong wind . Whenever a gust of wind hit them, their legs swung, and Lin Sanjiu would hear a sharp whimper as if from a choked hamster beneath her .
Their chances of survival depended on how long Lin Sanjiu could hold onto the cliff . Even though the grand prize was light, it still put a lot of strain on her arms . Her muscles throbbed with pain, and her face and arms were covered with wounds and lacerations . There was even sand embedded in some of her injuries, and the pain was unbearable .
"Can I kick you down the cliff?" She asked loudly, "That wouldn't kill you, right? As long as you're not unwrapped . "
"NO!" Ji Shanqing yelled out loud, "If you kick me down, I will die!"
"Why?"
"Falling from such a great height, even a stone will be smashed into pieces, let alone me!" The grand prize cried . His grip on Lin Sanjiu's leg tightened .
"What should I do?" Biting her lip, Lin Sanjiu could feel the pulsation of her veins, and the sound of her blood rushing through her body was getting clearer with every ticking second .
There wasn't much room for her to twist her neck freely . After she struggled to turn her head, her heart sank .
Dangling over a cliff thousand meters away from the ground, she finally had a rough picture of their current location .
There wasn't any sky here .
No matter how hard she looked, straining her eyes against the distance and the lowering light, she could see only a thick fog that covered the entire world with its whiteness . There were hardly any woodlands, but there was a plethora of deep ravines and a mess of flattened mountains scattered across the vast copperish-red land, in the large "bowl," and along the proximity of the human city that resembled an ant nest . The terrain was utterly unruly; it was as if it had been indiscriminately destroyed by a child .
While in the center—according to Lin Sanjiu's speculation—of the swathe of vast land, a rocky mountain had risen steeply from the ground . It seemed about 1,000 meters high, and its peak was very close to the mist . Then, roughly three to four meters below the fog was the sandy area where Lin Sanjiu had fallen .
Having a loose structure, the sand did not provide much for Lin Sanjiu to hold on to . The reason she could hold for so long without falling was all thanks to Mrs . Manas' quick response of using her Higher Consciousness to hold Lin Sanjiu in place . However, it was also due to this constant consumption that she couldn't muster up enough Higher Consciousness to pull them out of the predicament .
Of course, Lin Sanjiu was not bold enough to climb up either .
Compared to being crushed to death by the "God's" finger, she was more than willing to push her luck and think of a way to go down to the human city below . After all, there were so many survivors down there . She was certain that they must have a method to counter God .
"Do you think the [Tornado Whip] can offset the momentum of falling?" Lin Sanjiu huffed . With every syllable she spoke, she felt her body became denser .
Her grand prize emitted an incoherent grunt of disagreement . Apparently, he did not favor this idea very much, " . . . Getting thrown into the air before falling straight down to our death? That's not a good idea, sis' . " He paused for a moment before asking hesitantly, " . . . The [Battle Item] can only imitate Special Items? Can't it mimic a parachute?"
"No, it can't . "
"Then, how about a Special Item with a parachute—"
"I have no idea which Special Item has that ability or looks like that," The vein stood out in Lin Sanjiu's temples, " . . . Besides, without a reference, I couldn't activate the [Battle Item] . "
The grand prize fell silent . He was caught in between a devil and the deep blue sea .
"Or perhaps I could extend a bone hook from my limbs," Lin Sanjiu muttered dubiously, " . . . Then we can make use of the hook to climb down the cliff, but…"
The last bone whip had taken her half a month before she could completely retract it into her body . If she makes changes to her body again this time, she might not be able to undo the transformation anymore, just like her height . However, now wasn't the right time to be indecisive . Her Higher Consciousness was being consumed at an alarming rate and that was, by far, the best possible way that she could think of right now .
In order to realize her plan, Ji Shanqing had to crawl from her leg to her back first .
Her grand prize was tired; his limbs were aching, and he had been holding onto her with his fingers so tightly that he couldn't stretch them . He was now so terrified even to open his eyes, let alone to perform such a challenging acrobatic move . Lin Sanjiu had to both threaten and encourage him for a long time before her grand prize finally agreed to allow her to raise the leg that he was clutching on .
"Are you ready? I'll now bend my leg . When you see the chance, let go of your hand immediately and jump onto my waist . You copy?" Lin Sanjiu ran through the thing with her grand prize again, " . . . Throw away your fear . Remember, you have only one shot . "
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