Chapter 49.2
Tang Mianmian clung to him as if he were driftwood in the sea, like a ma.s.s of aquatic plants that stuck to him and dragged him under the water.
Xiao Tangqiu subconsciously wanted to push Tang Mianmian away, but as soon as this idea emerged, he immediately restrained himself, thinking that he couldn’t push Tang Mianmian away no matter what! He couldn’t let go! Worse comes to worst, they would just die together!
He gritted his teeth. No matter what, he couldn’t let go even if he died!
But…
“Don’t… strangle… my neck…” His face flushed a bright red, squeezing out those few words from his throat with difficulty. “Move your hands down a little…”
As the wind roared, Tang Mianmian missed what Xiao Tangqiu was saying and shouted, “What?”
“Move your hands down! I’m about to be strangled to death by you!”
As soon as Tang Mianmian spoke, Xiao Tangqiu finally gasped for air. However, he couldn’t help but bark at him, “Why were you strangling me? I was almost strangled to death by you! “
Tang Mianmian cried, “I didn’t strangle you!”
Xiao Tangqiu said angrily, “Who else is there but you? You used so much strength to strangle me! I almost pushed you out just now!”
Tang Mianmian’s voice trembled, “But Qiuqiu… my hands have been around your chest…”
Xiao Tangqiu paused, subconsciously reached out and looked. Sure enough, Tang Mianmian’s hands were tightly clasped around his chest; both hands were there!
The arms that were around his neck just now…
Xiao Tangqiu felt a shiver crawl up his spine. Tang Mianmian opened his eyes and they stared at each other for a while. Suddenly, Tang Mianmian screamed, “Qiuqiu! You… you… you have a black handprint around your neck!”
Xiao Tangqiu couldn’t help stiffening but before he could react, a shrill scream suddenly came from the front row.
The two of them had no time to carefully explore the black handprint on Xiao Tangqiu’s neck. They quickly looked in front and saw one of the two people sitting in the first row being thrown off!
Xiao Tangqiu didn’t know why the person in front had been thrown off because when they looked over, the person was already falling. He screamed and waved his limbs wildly in mid-air, but couldn’t resist gravity and fell to the ground.
Xiao Tangqiu couldn’t bear to see the man’s fate but he couldn’t help turning his head after all. After a loud noise, the shrieks ended.
All that was left on the ground was a mangled body, a pool of splattered blood and glistening brains. His head had caved in and it looked like the man had died in an instant.
Tang Mianmian’s face was pale. If he wasn’t holding onto Xiao Tangqiu just now, this was probably his fate!
Xiao Tangqiu also looked terrible. They were still on the roller coaster and it might be their turn to fall off and spill their brains any time soon!
He didn’t know how the person sitting beside the one who had just fallen out was feeling but his ears were filled with the screams from the people sitting behind them. It was like a 3-D surround sound system on both sides of his ears. Suddenly, Tang Mianmian started screaming as well.
“What the h.e.l.l are you screaming for!”
Xiao Tangqiu grumpily asked Tang Mianmian.
“Look in front! Look in front! ” Tang Mianmian was so scared his face looked distorted.
Xiao Tangqiu looked up and saw that the roller coaster was climbing upwards again. This time, the slope seemed to be the highest one of all, with a height of 100 meters. This height was more than enough to put fear in them. However, when he looked carefully, he immediately found something that made him terrified.
This slope not only had an incline of nearly 90 degrees, but was also missing a section of the track in the middle of the highest point. In other words, it wasn’t a whole track, but two broken tracks. The roller coaster would derail at the highest point, be thrown into mid-air at 90 degrees, then fall onto the second track directly from mid-air.
Xiao Tangqiu couldn’t help blurting out, “…f.u.c.k!”
Tang Mianmian’s eyes were blank. “It’s over, it’s over. We’re going to die…”
Xiao Tangqiu gritted his teeth. “It’s fine! We’ll sit tight!”
Tang Mianmian looked like he was about to cry. “…What if the roller coaster doesn’t land on the second track?”
Xiao Tangqiu said dryly, “We can only pray…”
Tang Mianmian was scared to death. “Let me down! I want to get off!”
The two people sitting behind Xiao Tangqiu and Tang Mianmian were screaming frantically. Even if they were brave, they would be frightened by such a situation. How could there be such a roller coaster in the world with a track that was broken in two? This wasn’t a roller coaster ride, but a mountain boat slide!
As they screamed, the roller coaster continued to climb higher and higher and would soon reach the end of the broken track. Xiao Tangqiu quickly shouted, “Hold on!”
Tang Mianmian subconsciously closed his eyes and grabbed Xiao Tangqiu while the latter grabbed the guardrail.
At this moment, the roller coaster finally reached the peak and in an instant flew off the tracks due to inertia.
At this moment, the entire roller coaster was thrown into the air!
Right then, Xiao Tangqiu felt that he was flying. He seemed to be floating on a cloud. As long as he let go, he could leave the world and fly into the clouds.
In his trance, Tang Mianmian suddenly shouted and snapped him out of it.
“f.u.c.k! We’re really flying! Is this a f.u.c.king roller coaster or a mountain boat slide!”
Xiao Tangqiu suddenly regained his senses, only to find that he had released one of his hands and immediately broke out in cold sweat. He stiffly grabbed the guardrail. If he had released both hands just now, he most definitely would fly out with Tang Mianmian and probably reach to the top of the clouds… and then fall through.
Just like the person who fell out earlier.
Although everyone’s heart was jumping out of their chests at this moment, fearing that the roller coaster would crash, in the next second, the roller coaster actually fell back onto the track and after a harsh sound from friction, it continued to rush forwards.
The next obstacle was a 90-degree vertical dive. However, Xiao Tangqiu was no longer be frightened by the weightlessness at this point. The series of encounters just now had numbed him to the thrills of an ordinary roller coaster.
But before he could breathe a sigh of relief, he suddenly found something even more terrifying. Not far away was the end of the roller coaster, but the roller coaster didn’t end on the ground, but on a cliff.
Yes, a cliff!
The roller coaster was built on a mountain. They couldn’t see anything until they came to the top of the roller coaster and looked down, only to find that the end of the roller coaster turned out to be a cliff and the end of the track was on top of the cliff. Below the cliff was the abyss.
If they rode the roller coaster all the way to the end, there was no doubt that they would fall into the abyss and be mangled into a thousand pieces!
Roller coaster of death – worthy of its name.
The end of it was death!
Xiao Tangqiu seemed to see the Grim Reaper in a black cloak standing at the end of the track with its huge sickle ready to harvest their lives!
Everyone else had also noticed the cliff. Screams rang out, one after another. In the face of death, everyone was terrified.
They all fell into despair under the shadow of their oncoming deaths. They knew that once the roller coaster reached the end, their lives should also be at an end!
“Ahhh! Stop! Stop now!”
“Let me down! Let me down!”
Tang Mianmian’s shrill screams made him sound like a shrieking chicken.
The noise was so distracting that Xiao Tangqiu wished he could choke Tang Mianmian, but right now, he was also terrified. Although the roller coaster was still some distance away from the cliff, at the current speed of the roller coaster, they probably only had a few seconds left!
Tang Mianmian began to dig through his belongings again. “Low-level exorcism talismans? Cross? …Backscratcher?” He didn’t know when he had taken the old man backscratcher that Xiao Tangqiu had just received.
Xiao Tangqiu looked at it and couldn’t help bursting into rage. That person claimed to be sending help in his time of need. But why did he feel as if that person was delivering ice when he was caught in snow?
What was the use of his skill?!
An unknown fire arose in his heart. Xiao Tangqiu grabbed the backscratcher and wanted to throw it down. But when he looked down, he found that the roller coaster was gradually getting closer to the ground. Although it was still tens of meters away from the ground, the track ahead was getting lower and lower, and the part near the cliff was only five or six meters from the ground!
Five or six meters was about the height of two floors. Although falling from this height was also really dangerous, it was better than falling into the abyss.
He immediately made his decision and turned to Tang Mianmian, shouting, “We’ll jump down!”
Tang Mianmian got a fright. “Jump down? Are you crazy? There’s more than ten meters to the ground! We’ll be dead if we fall.”
“Jump in front!” Xiao Tangqiu said decisively, “It’s only five or six meters away from the ground when we get close to the cliff!”
He thought for a moment, turned to the two newbies sitting behind them and shouted, “Wait a minute, I’ll count to 1 and we’ll jump together! This is our only chance!”
Before the sporty student could speak, the girl screamed and shook her head frantically. “No! I’m afraid! I’m afraid to jump! It’s too high!”
Because of her extreme fear, her voice was very sharp and harsh, but Xiao Tangqiu still patiently persuaded, “Although we may end up half dead jumping down from there, it’s better than not living at all! If you jump down, you may still survive. If you don’t jump, you will surely die!”
“No! I won’t jump!”
The girl was still screaming and shaking her head.
Xiao Tangqiu grit his teeth reluctantly, but he also knew that it was normal to be afraid at this time. Normal people were afraid when standing on a diving platform five or six meters high. Fear of heights was the nature of most people and he, himself, was also afraid of heights. What’s more, the roller coaster was still diving straight down, so jumping at this speed was no different from jumping off a moving car.
If they jumped from this height and speed, even if they weren’t half dead, they would probably be heavily wounded. But now, they had no other choice!
Xiao Tangqiu was frustrated that she wouldn’t listen but he couldn’t force anyone to jump. Furthermore, he was also in danger. He felt that he had done everything he could by saying all that. Whether they accepted it or not had nothing to do with him.