Chapter 270 — Something's Gone Wrong
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"It's fine—you can open your eyes now." Wei Zhao spoke the words aloud, but inwardly he was calculating: Xiao Ma would surely have tampered with the rope, and he and Shen Yushu were bound to end up plunging into the sea.
He had originally meant to find a foothold on the cliff face, but unfortunately the rock was utterly smooth—no doubt the jagged edges had been deliberately ground down for this bungee attraction, to keep jumping tourists from injuring themselves.
Gu Mengyao stared blankly at the empty bungee platform... yet in her mind those few sentences Wei Zhao had spoken kept echoing over and over...
"Uncle Qing will be here any moment. If anything happens to me and Xiaoshu in a bit, don't panic. Whatever you do, don't move—just wait here for Uncle Qing."
Would something happen to him? Why had he said something would happen to him and Xiaoshu? Did he know something? Or was he only trying to frighten her, joking on purpose? Gu Mengyao's thoughts were growing restless and tangled—when suddenly she heard a burst of cries from the tourists nearby!
"The rope snapped!"
"Something's happened!"
"That man and that woman fell into the sea!"
Gu Mengyao started. She was just about to ask what on earth was going on when she saw more and more tourists surging toward her side, crowding around the edge of the cliff! Gu Mengyao hurried to her feet and looked in the direction the crowd was facing, and she was struck dumb!
The cord that had bound Wei Zhao and Xiao Shu had broken, leaving only half of it dangling in midair, and Wei Zhao and Xiao Shu were long since nowhere to be seen! For an instant, Gu Mengyao's head filled with a buzzing noise, and she went numb with shock!
Something had happened to Wei Zhao and Shen Yushu? Just like that, something had happened to them?
"Xiao Shu! Wei Zhao!" Gu Mengyao pushed through the crowd, trying to squeeze her way over, screaming herself hoarse with the names of Shen Yushu and Wei Zhao...
"Miss, are you a friend of the two who fell?" An older woman in the crowd looked at Gu Mengyao with sympathy. "Miss, you must accept what has happened and find some peace. I heard that after they fell, they didn't even come back up to the surface—the seawater swept them right away."
In that instant Gu Mengyao felt all the strength drain out of her. At those awful words, every ounce of energy in her body seemed to be sucked away, and she stared dumbly at the churning waves below the cliff...
"Tsk, tsk, what's going on with this amusement park? How is it this unsafe? People fell in ages ago and there's not even a rescuer. Who would dare come bungee jumping next time?"
"Exactly. I just bought my ticket—thank goodness I hadn't started jumping yet, or who knows whether I'd have fallen too?"
Though the crowd was all gossiping about the bad luck of Wei Zhao and Shen Yushu, not a single person was willing to jump into the sea to rescue them. It was not that people's hearts were too cold, but that jumping from here meant very likely dying yourself before you could save anyone.
Thinking of the baffling thing Wei Zhao had said to her before he jumped, Gu Mengyao suddenly understood... Wei Zhao—had he already sensed the danger?
Otherwise, why would he have said that if anything happened to him and Xiao Shu in a little while, she must not panic?
That bastard—if he knew something would happen, then why did he jump anyway? What was even more infuriating was that he had dragged Shen Yushu down with him!