"Oh, it's a landslide, the road is gone..."
At the base on the mountainside, villagers, wearing raincoats, watched the landslide occur on the back mountain, revealing a cliff-like mountainside. They were filled with anxiety.
Wan Yunting and Wang Meng, who had also come up in the rain, were even more anxious upon seeing this scene. "Did Wang Lin and the others go down the mountain?"
"No," the village woman shouted.
"Quick, quick, call the village and ask for people to come up and rescue them."
Wang Meng yelled anxiously, but when he turned around, he saw Wan Yunting, also in a raincoat, already running up the mountain.
"Boss Wan, wait for me..."
Wang Meng quickly called out to two young men and chased after Wan Yunting up the mountain, while the heavy rain continued to fall...
At this time, local news was reporting that this was the first major torrential rain in several years...
At this moment, Wan Yunting, worried about Fang Yanxi's safety, ran towards the mountain with all his might in the heavy rain. The slippery mountain path did not affect his speed at all, and he quickly left Wang Meng and the others far behind.
A moment later, he arrived at the landslide site. The road up the mountain was gone, and a large amount of earth had appeared below the mountain. The accumulated rainwater was rushing down with a roar...
Wan Yunting observed the situation, his heart growing more nervous and worried. Then, he continued to move quickly up from another direction of the mountain, shouting loudly, "Yanxi..."
The villagers below, hearing about the landslide and that two people were trapped on the mountain, also quickly gathered people to help on the mountain...
"Yanxi..."
Wan Yunting, anxious, gathered his strength in his dantian and shouted as he climbed, but the downpour did not stop. Fang Yanxi, who had followed Wang Lin's directions and climbed to the side of the east cliff, was squatting under a tree. Without an umbrella, she was soaked through. She could only hug herself and huddle there, her heart filled with tension as she constantly looked down the mountain, hoping for the man to appear...
"Boss Wan, I'm here..."
Hearing Wan Yunting's calls for Yanxi getting closer, Wang Lin shouted.
Wan Yunting's heart leaped with joy. He quickly moved towards Wang Lin's direction and soon saw Wang Lin lying on the ground, holding his injured left thigh with both hands. However, Fang Yanxi was nowhere to be seen. This made Wan Yunting's heart sink. He hurried over and asked, "Where is Yanxi? Where did she go?"
"Boss Fang is up the mountain in that direction."
Wang Lin pointed towards the east. Wan Yunting's heart immediately relaxed. He had thought Fang Yanxi had perished in the landslide...
"Hang in there for a bit, Boss Wang and the others are coming up."
Seeing that Wang Lin only had an injured thigh and was not in serious danger, and with Wang Meng and the others approaching, Wan Yunting did not hesitate and continued towards the eastern mountain, shouting, "Yanxi..."
Fang Yanxi, squatting under a large tree at the cliff, perfectly embodied the image of a helpless drowned rat. Moreover, after two hours of continuous rain, she was shivering from the cold.
"Yanxi, where are you..."
Soon, Wan Yunting arrived, shouting loudly.
Fang Yanxi, finally hearing the voice, was overjoyed. She immediately stood up, vaguely seeing the figure of the man below, and shouted excitedly, "Yunting, I'm here..."
"Yanxi..."
Hearing the woman's voice, Wan Yunting immediately looked up at her, his heart filled with joy. He quickly moved forward, "Don't move, I'll come up to get you."
"Okay..."
Seeing the man she had been waiting for, Fang Yanxi was incredibly excited.
However, the soil beneath her feet showed a crack. Under the erosion of the heavy rain, the mud and rocks on the cliff face had become loose...
The ground beneath her feet trembled, and Fang Yanxi's heart quivered. Her previously ecstatic face froze instantly. She stared blankly at the crack in front of her feet, which was slowly sinking and breaking apart...
"Yunting..."
At this moment, Fang Yanxi felt death beckoning to her. She looked up at Wan Yunting, who was rushing towards her with all his might, and she also stretched out her delicate hand, trying to lunge towards the man...
But the force of her leap only accelerated the cracking of the mud and rocks on the cliff face. Instantly, Fang Yanxi, along with the crumbling earth, slid down the cliff...
"Yanxi..."
Wan Yunting suddenly lunged forward and grabbed Fang Yanxi's right hand, but he also slid down. The two of them then plunged down the hundreds of meters high cliff...
Wan Yunting tightly embraced Fang Yanxi. In that instant, their eyes met, as if they were saying, "Even if we die, we'll die together..."
But at the critical moment, seeing a tree growing out of the cliff face with exposed roots, Wan Yunting's hand grabbed them. Driven by the desire to survive, he firmly grasped the protruding tree roots. They slammed against the cliff wall. He held the woman's waist tightly with his left hand, while Fang Yanxi's hands also held the man, pressing herself against Wan Yunting's chest. Seeing the man protecting her, his back hitting the cliff wall, Fang Yanxi's face turned pale, her eyes full of worry...
Wan Yunting held his breath, his hands firmly gripping the tree roots and embracing Fang Yanxi. He quickly surveyed the surroundings but saw a protruding rock on the cliff face below, covered in lush vegetation...
Looking at the tree roots in his hand, which could not bear their weight, Wan Yunting, holding Fang Yanxi, gritted his teeth and said, "Yanxi, get ready. I'm going to let go and land on the rock below."
"Mmm."
Fang Yanxi's pretty face turned pale, and she bit her red lips in firm agreement. She had already made the worst decision in her heart. Even if she died, she would die with the man she loved...
"Don't worry, we'll get back alive."
Wan Yunting looked at her and smiled, then let go. They instantly fell, landing directly on the protruding rock surface below. Wan Yunting, holding Fang Yanxi, tried to lean towards the cliff wall. As a result, they rolled into the grass, and the next moment they tumbled down a set of stairs. Startled, Wan Yunting's eyes widened. He never expected that there was more within the cliff wall...
"Ah..."
Finally stopping, Fang Yanxi cried out in fear and pain. Her back seemed to have hit something.
"Are you alright?"
Wan Yunting held her up. With the faint light from outside, it was pitch black inside, and he couldn't see his hand in front of his face. Wan Yunting immediately became vigilant.
Rolling down the stairs just now confirmed that this was not a natural cave.
He quickly took out the lighter from his pocket, shook off the water, and after a few attempts, managed to ignite it. The faint light illuminated about a meter around them.
Wan Yunting held the shivering Fang Yanxi and raised the lighter to look. He saw a wooden workbench with several ancient books on it, and an ancient oil lamp covered in a thick layer of dust...
It seemed this was a cave with signs of life. Wan Yunting released Fang Yanxi, picked up the oil lamp from the table, blew off the dust, and lit it with the lighter. It actually lit up.
The flickering flame immediately illuminated about two meters around them. Fang Yanxi, who was frightened, tightly hugged Wan Yunting's arm, nervously looking at the surroundings. Seemingly noticing something, she shrieked, "A ghost!"
The woman's sudden scream also startled Wan Yunting. He immediately raised the oil lamp to shine over, and saw a stone bed next to the workbench. On the stone bed sat a skeleton in a cross-legged position, clad in a black Taoist robe, also covered in a thick layer of dust. No wonder Fang Yanxi screamed about a ghost...