Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
"Ahhhhh, ghost!"
Instantly, all the girls' shrieks rose. Lu Xinyan even almost fainted as the blood drained from her face from fright. It was chaos.
"Hey...what ghost...?" At that moment, there was another hand on the rock of the edge of the cliff. What followed next was a swoosh as a dark figure rolled over from the edge and fell on the ground before them...
"Wh-what is this?!"
"What just crawled up? Ahhhhh!"
"Jesus!"
"It's...Ning Xi! It looks like Ning Xi! Aah!!!"
Oh my God! What did they just see? Argh!
Ning Xi!?
It was really Ning Xi!
What was happening?
Could she have climbed back up by herself???
Ning Xi's hair was in a mess and her white sports outfit was dirty beyond recognition. Underneath her fingers were a gritty mix of mud and moss. She was bending down and gasping for air. After she crawled up and caught her breath, the first thing she nervously asked them was, "Hey...you didn't tell Lu Tingxiao, did you?"
As they watched this scene unfold, everyone looked as if they had seen a ghost.
Lu Xinyan had forgotten about crying as she stood there, stunned, while Mo Lingtian had fallen to the ground looking dumbfounded...
"Hey, I'm asking you guys! Why are all of you looking so shocked?" Ning Xi asked again.
"No! I haven't had the chance to tell him!" Mo Lingtian answered blankly.
"Good...don't ever let him know about this..." Ning Xi breathed a sigh of relief and sat back down.
Jesus! She was really crazy!
The first thing she said after crawling back from the brink of death was not "Thank God I didn't die" or crying and wailing; instead, she pleaded them not to tell Lu Tingxiao about this incident! Was she alright?
Was Lu Tingxiao scarier than falling off a cliff?
Mo Lingtian looked like he was having an anxiety attack. "How did you get back up here?"
"Duh, I climbed back up!" Ning Xi answered sarcastically.
Mo Lingtian questioned again, "Climb? How did you do that?"
"With my hands."
Mo Lingtian painfully swallowed his saliva and said, "Li-little bunny...no...heroine! How is your body even structured? Didn't you die?"
Ning Xi wiped off the sweat on her brow and rolled her eyes at Mo Lingtian. "Have you never heard of the cliff-diving law of survival?"
Mo Lingtian's mouth twitched. "I have, but this is my first time hearing of anyone climbing back up with bare hands. You're a monster!"
After everyone had regained their senses from their nervousness and shock, they started to ask Ning Xi one question after another.
"What actually happened? Xiao Xi, did you really climb back up by yourself? That's crazy magical!"
"This doesn't make any scientific sense. Do you know lightweight kungfu?"
"The last time I met you at the shooting range, I knew you weren't normal! You wouldn't have any special abilities, would you?"
"I told you that Master Xiao has unique taste! Miss Ning is definitely not a normal person!"
Pfft! You lot are the abnormal ones!
When she heard them start to exaggerate beyond comprehension, Ning Xi started to get annoyed. "You guys think too much. I'm a normal person and I don't know lightweight kungfu. In fact, I didn't even fall off. If I really did, how could I climb back up unless I had wing?!"
"Then, what happened? Heroine, stop keeping us in suspense! Quickly tell us!" Zhao Haisheng wanted to get to the heart of the matter and the others nodded in agreement too. The way they stared at Ning Xi was as if she was the most popular storyteller in ancient teahouses.
Chapter 995: Show Me How You Fell!Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Ning Xi slowed down her breath and simply explained, "When I couldn't control my body, I did my best to roll down with the help of shrubs to slow me down and the fact that this cliff isn't entirely flat; there was about a 70-degree slope. I did my best to slide down the cliff while maximising my body surface area that rolled on the slope. Thankfully, I only slid for a while before I finally got a grip on a rock that was sticking out.
"Unfortunately, I was stuck in an awkward position and you guys couldn't hear me when I shouted for you. My phone fell off, so all I could do was to climb up! I'm dead tired. I shouldn't have been lazy and let Lu Tingxiao piggyback me. Life sure comes back at you quickly..."
When they heard Ning Xi's explanation, everyone was even more speechless.
Jeez, she actually had the time to adjust the angle and her way of rolling down when falling off the cliff?
This was insane! Indeed, she was no normal person!
"Couldn't you just have stayed put and wait for us to save you? What if you missed a footing and really fell down? What do we do then?" Mo Lingtian asked anxiously.
When Ning Xi heard this, she did not say anything. She just looked indistinctly at Lu Xinyan's direction.
What Lu Xinyan decided to cover up after her fall?
It was not that she was being pessimistic. She just had to consider such a possibility since, after all, Lu Xinyan and her were at loggerheads. In that situation, if Lu Xinyan did not say anything, she would not even know how she died.
Plus, she was not sure how long the rock beneath her feet could hold up, so she quickly climbed back up by herself. There was no way that she would leave her life in the hands of others.
Lu Xinyan felt ashamed under Ning Xi's gaze. Her lower lip trembled and she was tongue-tied.
In that instant, because of panic and fear of suffering the consequences, she had really thought of not letting anyone know or just say that Ning Xi had fallen off herself...
"Okay, okay! All that you wanted to know has been answered. Now, stop surrounding this place. If Lu Tingxiao notices, I'll be dead! I've to quickly rush back to change my clothes and destroy the evidence. Bye-bye everyone..." Ning Xi said as she got to her feet.
Seeing that she did not mention saving Lu Xinyan and had even wanted to hide this incident from Lu Tingxiao, everyone looked at each other in astonishment...
"Hey, wait up, Miss Ning Xi, don't move! We don't know if you're seriously hurt. You should go and get checked at the hospital!"
"Exactly! Just to be safe, you must get checked!"
"In fact, it's such a huge thing. We shouldn't hide this from Bro Xiao."
Just as the crowd was getting in Ning Xi's way and throwing her advice, a man's cold voice cut through from the back, "What are you lot doing?"
When she heard the voice, Ning Xi jumped and in a panic, she almost snatched someone else's clothes to wear.
Unfortunately Lu Tingxiao's eagle eyes had already acurrately pinpointed Ning Xi who was hidden in the crowd and he walked right up to her. "What's happening?"
Ning Xi scratched her head and pretended to be calm. "I....tripped over..."
"Would tripping look like this? Show me how you fell!" Lu Tingxiao's eyes skimmed Ning Xi's grimy body like an X-ray and he saw the collapsed cliff behind her, including Lu Xinyan's guilty expression that was becoming increasingly miserable.
Show him?
"Th-that wouldn't be nice..."
The devil was so mean!