Tales of Aegiceras: Cave in

25. The Little Boy (6)

Translator: Superbomb

He couldn’t help but shiver. It was Sun Zheng who was calling his name!

What happened to him?!!

He turned around and walked to the door on that chair leg. However, after taking a few steps forward, he suddenly stopped.

Was it really Sun Zheng? Sun Zheng had just disappeared at the door. How come…

Suddenly, there was a loud bang as if a door had been slammed shut.

Lu Xia had no time to think that much. For no reason, he suddenly regained his strength and his injured foot seemed to heal a lot in an instant. Though he still walked with a limp, he was moving forward fast. He really wished his foot had completely healed so that he could run.

With a thump, the door of the archives room was pulled open. Lu Xia scanned around anxiously. Where was Zheng? Where did his voice come from?

Suddenly, he saw a dim light flashing on the other end of the corridor. It was the light from a torch!

When he shone the torch in his hand down the corridor, he saw a figure like Sun Zheng desperately clutching the doorknob with one hand. His other hand seemed to have been caught by something that was pulling him out of the room.

“Zheng!!!”

Lu Xia shouted and tried his best to rush over. His injured foot seemed to have lost the sense of pain. All he wanted now was to quicken his pace!

Hearing him shouting, Sun Zheng turned his head, his face terribly pale and his brows knitting in horror and shock. Just as he was about to speak, he seemed to be pulled by something and loosened his grip on the doorknob. Then he lost his balance and fell forward.

At this critical moment, he hooked his finger around the doorknob, gritting his teeth.

What was pulling Sun Zheng? Lu Xia wondered as he tore along in haste, dragging his injured foot.

Was that the thing crawling on the floor just now?

No… Impossible…

The torch shook violently as he sped forward and the light couldn’t be focused on one place, so he couldn’t tell what that powerful thing that was pulling Sun Zheng was.

“Zheng, wait a moment!”

Sun Zheng watched Lu Xia stumble over to him. His finger had been around the doorknob for so long that it had become numb, so he was just instinctively trying not to let his finger leave the doorknob.

He opened his mouth and tried to say something, but only found that he couldn’t make a sound.

They were just a corridor apart, but for the first time, it felt so far away. Sun Zheng seemed to try to say something to him, but Lu Xia couldn’t hear him at all.

He could only judge what he was speaking by the shape of his mouth.

Be… Be careful?

Distracted, Sun Zheng could no longer hold on under a tremendous tug of force, and he fell to the floor.

At the same time, Lu Xia saw what was dragging Sun Zheng.

Nothing! There was nothing at all!

He couldn’t see anything tugging at Sun Zheng, but there seemed to be an invisible force that was pulling Sun Zheng to the staircase, grabbing his hand holding the torch.

“Zheng!!!”

Lu Xia shouted anxiously while watching Sun Zheng being dragged away. There was still some distance between them and at the pace he was walking, he was unlikely to catch up with him.

What if…

He suddenly thought of something.

“Zheng, take it!!!”

A small thing flashed into a white arc in the darkness and rushed towards Sun Zheng.

Sun Zheng felt a burning pain on the side of his body from being dragged on the floor along the corridor. When he saw something shining coming towards him, he instinctively reached out to catch it, which was obviously a life-saving straw for him.

It was something small and cool.

Without even thinking about it, he stabbed it at that thing that was holding his wrist tightly.

The force disappeared in an instant.

As if he had used up all his strength as well, Sun Zheng fell to the floor and lay still there.

That small thing in his hand glowed pearly in the darkness. Actually, it was a key!

Lu Xia finally walked over. Sun Zheng lay on the floor on his side, panting slightly as if he could no longer stand up.

Lu Xia put his temporary walking stick aside and carefully placed his hand under Sun Zheng’s shoulder, trying to help him up. He felt that Sun Zheng seemed to move a little, and the next second, he was suddenly in a hug.

This guy held him tightly, his hand firmly clutching his back, his head leaning against his shoulder while gasping weakly.

He could feel Sun Zheng’s heart beating fast. His shirt was wet from the sweat running down his face.

At a loss, Lu Xia didn’t even know where to put his stiff hand. He turned his head, but after a single glance at Sun Zheng’s profile, he immediately turned aside awkwardly as if he had seen something he shouldn’t have seen.

“Zheng… Come on, it’s alright…” After freezing for a while, Lu Xia patted Sun Zheng on the back with his free hand as if he were coaxing a child.