Chapter 179: She disappeared Part3
Chapter 179: She disappeared Part3
Tang Yue hesitated. She was unable to take another step forward.
Her mind and body froze unexpectedly, as huge rocks crumbled around her and were slowly and gradually closing off that tunnel.
If she didn’t make a decision and move away from that spot, she would soon be crushed and inevitably buried underneath the rocks.
Her single path of escape would also be shut off.
She turned around slightly and saw the small hole through which she could potentially still enter the underground opening again and reach the lake area.
Everything was not completely cut off just yet.
But the question remained… should she?
Who was Charlotte? She was not her friend, not her sister, not even an acquaintance.
In fact, she could be categorized as one of her main enemies, having tried to get her killed on more than one occasion.
This being the case, why should she have to risk her own life and try to save her dire enemy?
Earlier they were in an entirely different situation.
At that time, helping Charlotte did not mean that Tang Yue would be putting herself in more danger, but now, it did.
This was clearly a fork in her path, something that could change the flow of her entire life, even end it instantly.
“Ahh” Tang Yue screamed. Her body was hurting everywhere from the injuries littered on her.
It was so difficult to think about anything now. She couldn’t think clearly at all.
“Damn it all.” She bit her lips and decided to do whatever her intuition was screaming at her to do.
She turned around and ran back to the underground opening entrance.
At the bottom of her heart, she knew that this was the right thing to do and there was no other way to go about it.
Her ‘Lucky sticker’ was a heavenly treasure. She had no clue how it functioned.
She didn’t know if it altered fate itself to be more favorable to her or if the old man used whatever was left of his strength to manipulate everything in her favor.
But one thing was for sure. She knew that she wouldn’t be harmed as long as it was active.
So she had to try and go back.
Without her, Charlotte had absolutely no hope.
Tang Yue might as well be the one slitting her throat since she would be abandoning her completely.
With her there as well, there was not much guarantee of anything. Saving them both was near impossible, but she at least had to try.
Maybe the ‘Lucky sticker’ was strong enough to rescue them both!
She had to believe in this. There was no other way.
Tang Yue bit her lips and ran helter-skelter towards the small opening before that also got completely shut off.
She quickly morphed herself into her serpentine form and weaved through the rubble on the cave floor, winding in and out of the smallest of holes.
“Gah… cough… cough…”
She spat out dark black blood and finally slipped through the small opening, back into the zone of terror.
Tang Yue shuddered at the sight of the utter destruction in front of her.
Everything in front of her had collapsed.
The blissful serene lake and the starry night sky of the cave that made it look as if someone had painted it, were now completely demolished.
The whole place resembled land that had suffered multiple earthquakes.
But surprisingly, the gigantic glow-worm which was throwing a tantrum still remained within the lake.
Tang Yue couldn’t help but wonder if there was some sort of spellbinding the Epic-grade beast to the waters of the lake.
She ducked into the rubble covering the banks of the lake and crawled underneath slowly, making sure to thoroughly hide.
But how could that simple strategy work when her opponent was an Epic-grade beast?
It sensed her in an instant and opened its mouth to let out a massive roar in her direction.
CRASH!
The stalactites covering the ceiling crumbled and fell down crashing into the rubble on the cave floor.
Dust flew everywhere and rocks were flying everywhere, but luckily the snake alone was not affected.
Not even a single scratch fell on her body. Not that it mattered, she was already injured beyond her limits.
Tang Yue gulped nervously and hurried towards her right. She could see Charlotte’s platinum blond hair sprawled across a rock.
She wasn’t exactly dead yet but her body was wedged between two rocks and it looked like she had lost a lot of blood.
Tang Yue couldn’t help but turn and take a look at that gigantic worm. What a sadistic beast!
If it had intended to, it could have killed both of them a long time ago. They were literally nothing in front of it.
But the damned beast was toying with them and torturing them without actually killing them in a single blow.
She felt a wave of anger that she had never experienced before surging within her.
She wanted to tear its huge pimple-covered azure head and split it into two.
Tang Yue’s emerald eyes flickered as she quickly slithered her way to the spot where the wounded elf was buried.
But just as she reached her, another loud roar echoed in the midst of the huge underground clearing and another round of rocks mixed with stalactite spears fell down around her, covering the duo in a dome of sorts.
Hissss…
The snake’s long forked tongue flickered in and out.
This gave Tang Yue the chance to quickly change back to her human figure without exposing herself too much.
Though the beast knew exactly where both of them were, it still helped not to be completely exposed out in the open, at least offering some protection against the rocks constantly being hurled at them.
She knew that she didn’t have much time left, so she quickly took out several potions that were left and dunked them in one after the other.
The wounds covering her body slowly started disappearing and the blood that was gushing out of her legs clotted and healed.
Tang Yue then tried pouring some of the recovery potions down Charlotte’s throat, but the elf gurgled everything out as if she couldn’t swallow it.