Chapter 204
A falling sensation was enough to wake someone up from a nightmare . It could cause the heart to constrict, the limbs to go numb, and the person to scream . The strange thing was, when the two fell, only Laughing Soul was screaming…
Xiao Tan, the fellow who was easily spooked normally, was unusually calm in this moment . In the blink of an eye, he twisted his wrist to grab Laughing Soul . Then, with a pull in midair, he yanked the girl above him . In that desperate moment, his first instinct was to protect his teammate . He would use his body as shield to cushion the fall, this proved that he was a good guy . Of course, if this was a great fall, his movement would be pointless, and it would just be a difference of dying on top or below . Thankfully, the fall only lasted several seconds . Then, there was a splash as they landed in water .
In the dark, the falling stopped . Xiao Tan felt a chill from his back, followed by the intense pain and oppressive feeling . However, he was glad that they had hit water . It meant that they were alive for now . The two faced a large impact as they landed on water . They started to submerge after breaking through the surface . Xiao Tan knew that they had not escaped danger . He held his breath and gathered his strength . Then he started to kick . He had not let go of Laughing Soul . When they moved upward, he used his left arm to hug Laughing Soul and his right arm to push them toward the surface . Not long after that, their heads burst through the water, and instantly, they sucked in deep breaths .
"I know how to swim!" This was the first thing Laughing Soul said after she got a few gulps of air .
"You should have told me that soon . I'm so tired . " Xiao Tan then let go of Laughing Soul to put some distance between them and used both of his hands to swim .
"Tell your head!" She whacked him on his head again . "Did you give me a chance to speak?"
"Ouch…" Xiao Tan yelped from pain . "Why didn't you struggle or move when I grabbed you and swam to the surface?"
"You were volunteering as the lifeguard, so I was merely playing along," Laughing Soul replied . "If I struggled and increased the weight on you, wouldn't we both drown?"
"Oh, oh…" Xiao Tan nodded . "By the way, are you okay?"
"Not okay," Laughing Soul replied . "I want to punch you . "
Xiao Tan thought that she was blaming him, so he said, "You can't really fault me on this . How could I have known the beam would split and the floor would crack?"
"Haha…" Laughing Soul chuckled drily as a response . There was nothing she could argue about . After all, she was the one who grabbed Xiao Tan's wrist, and that was why they both fell . If her first reaction was to jump backward, perhaps she would still be up there . Then she could have gone to look for a rope or something to save Xiao Tan . It would have been better than having both of them trapped in this godforsaken place .
At that moment, there was no light source near Xiao Tan and Laughing Soul . There was just a bit of light coming from above them, from the hole that they had fallen through . Unfortunately, the hole was indoors, so that bit of light was unable to shine so deep underground . Even though they were conversing, the darkness was such that they could not see each other . With the sound of paddling, they could not tell where the other was either . Laughing Soul had only aimed roughly at the place where she thought Xiao Tan's head would be earlier .
"Damn, my flashlight in the previous scenario…" Xiao Tan was about to say that his light source had been destroyed when he felt something placed on the top of his head . With a click, a light source appeared . A yellow miner's hat appeared on Xiao Tan's head .
"Huh? You still have this?" Xiao Tan asked . He remembered that Laughing Soul wanted to trade this with his flashlight when they first met .
"Yes," Laughing Soul replied . "I remember wanting to exchange this for your flashlight, but you chose to give me one to me and told me something like… 'wearing this looks funny, so you keep it' . "
"Then why did you keep it until now? This kind of equipment is not worth much, right?" Xiao Tan asked .
"I dislike being rejected by others," Laughing Soul said as she tapped on the miner's hat . "Look at you, wearing this kind of silly equipment . It matches perfectly…"
"I miss the you from when we first met . " Xiao Tan revealed a vengeful face . "The Laughing Soul who called me Brother Xiao Tan and politely traded item with me has long disappeared…"
Laughing Soul felt like she was being mocked, so she quickly changed the topic from shame . "Stop grumbling! Quick, turn around and see if there's any land . Do you wish to exhaust our Stamina Points in the water?"
Xiao Tan curled his neck back and stopped talking . He slowly turned in the water to shine around and above them . No matter what, miner's hat was quite useful in that situation . At least it was something that he did not need to constantly hold .
As the light moved, the two could see around them clearer . The underground pool was not big . There was a rocky shore was about ten meters away . There was a vertical, circular tunnel above them . It was what they had fallen through . The entrance was the hole at the empty house's kitchen, and the bottom of the tunnel widened up .
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