Chapter 441 - 420: Second Update
"Don’t move, trust me—" Ju Nanyi said with effort, feeling a piercing pain in his shoulder blade. As they were falling, Ju Nanyi had already figured out where on Weixing Mountain they were; beneath them was half stream and half very tall shrubbery. If they were to land in the shrubbery...
However, the speed of the fall didn’t allow for a perfect decision. With a thud, Ju Nanyi instinctively pressed the cloth bag and himself against the softest part of the horse’s belly. Then came a massive impact, but the man didn’t wait for the collision to stop before he grabbed hold of the thick branch.
"Ah—" A girl’s piercing scream rang in his ear, its shrillness somehow comforting to Ju Nanyi in this moment.
"Don’t move. We’ve landed on a tree. If we move, falling would mean certain death." Ju Nanyi wasn’t exaggerating. Only then did he realize that they were still some distance above the ground, the stream was far away, and it was impossible for them to fall into it. Ju Nanyi turned his head and saw a line of several thick and large trees on the cliff. Because of their fall, one of the trees was already leaning.
Ju Nanyi, ignoring the pain in his body, painstakingly moved Zheng Nianru in the bag toward another tree trunk. Nianru, who didn’t dare to move even a bit, waited until Ju Nanyi finally freed his other hand and untied the bag. Only then did Zheng Nianru get a clear view of the situation.
They...
Indeed, Ju Nanyi hadn’t lied. They were hanging in mid-air, at least a dozen meters from the ground atop a cliff. Three large tree trunks had roots sticking out with soil because of their fall, and that doomed horse kept kicking, ready to fall at any moment.
Ju Nanyi gestured with his eyes toward the safest tree. Zheng Nianru nodded, crawling carefully and slowly towards the tree’s roots. Ju Nanyi took a deep breath and followed Zheng Nianru’s lead.
However, before they could reach the tree’s roots, the horse kicked, and two trees were uprooted, sending a cloud of dust and noise plummeting down.