Chapter 1111: 1111 fell off a cliff 2 Chapter 1111: 1111 fell off a cliff 2 Fortunately, Su Qingyue knew how to swim, and her swimming skills were excellent.
She struggled to swim upwards in the pond water, but the herbs soaked in her back basket were heavy, making her ascent to the surface particularly burdenso.
The water was incredibly cold, as if it could freeze a person to ice in the cold weather.
She had no choice but to throw away her back basket to lighten the load.
Though it was a pity to lose most of the herbs, survival was of utmost importance.
As she made her way to shore, she realized that in such cold weather, with her whole body wet, she would need not only to stay warm but also to eat sothing to regain her strength.
Lost in thought, she took off her back basket and turned it upside down in the water, and the heavy items like the hoe, hatchet, and other tal tools, along with the herbs, all scattered in the water.
She hastily stuffed the ginseng she had dug up into her sleeve pocket and swam to the surface unburdened.
The pool was deeper than she had imagined.
As she swam upward, gasping for air, she thought she might drown, but finally surfaced, gasping for fresh air.
At that mont, she couldn’t help feeling relieved that discarding the back basket had been a wise decision; otherwise, reluctant to part with it and burdened by its waterlogged weight, she would never have reached the surface and would have drowned.
Just as she looked up, she saw an indistinct black dot falling straight toward her from the high space above the pool.
As a killer, she didn’t freeze in the face of danger; instead, she reflexively swam to the side with a stroke.
If it had been an ordinary person, a slower reaction might have resulted in being struck dead.
Bang!
A loud noise.
Sothing fell into the water, less than half a ter from Su Qingyue, almost hitting her directly.
Not only had she dodged it, but she also made out that the falling object was actually a person.
And it was none other than the third brother she had just rescued!
Damn it!
She cursed in her heart, wondering how he could have fallen after she had just saved his life.
Luckily, she was quick to act; with them being so close, as he hit the water, she imdiately grabbed onto his clothes, mitigating the possibility that he would sink down dozens of ters.
But he had fallen from such a great height that, even as she held on to him, he still dragged her down about ten ters deep into the pool.
Fortunately, she had held her breath in advance; with one arm wrapped around his underarm from behind, she swam powerfully toward the surface of the pool.
However, due to the heavy injury he had already sustained and the impact of falling from a great height, he had long been knocked unconscious by the strike of the water.
Su Qingyue had also been dazed by the impact of the fall but had quickly adapted.
After bringing him to the surface, Su Qingyue looked around and saw that the pool was surrounded by mountain rocks and vertical cliffs with no shore in sight.
Scattered trees grew horizontally from the stone wall but offered no foothold.
This was maddening; any longer in the cold water and they would soon freeze to death.
She already felt her limbs were not as nimble as before, stiff with the cold.
They needed to get to land imdiately, even if it ant climbing the nearby mountain rocks or hanging onto one of the horizontal trees, which would still be better than staying imrsed in the cold water.
But that also ant they couldn’t start a fire or dry their clothes, and in the long run, they would still freeze to death.
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It got dark early in winter, and nightfall was gradually descending.
It was obviously much colder than before.
If this continued, the cold air would penetrate their bodies, easily leading to severe illness.
There was no other way; they had to leave the water first.
Su Qingyue, with Xiao Yuchuan unconscious, desperately swam to the nearest cliff edge with horizontally growing trees, which was more than twenty ters away.
Swimming there nearly turned her rigid from cold; yet, driven by her exceptional willpower, she finally reached the edge of the cliff.
However, the cliff was steep and offered no footing, with only a few trees stretching out from above the water.
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