Chapter 174: The light within the darkness Part8

THUD

Tang Yue fell down on the hard ground, landing roughly on her back.

The snake scrambled back onto her feet and turned left and right, looking around in vigilance.

Earlier, the moment the cave floor had collapsed, she had tried to activate the Lucky Sticker, but unfortunately, she couldn't communicate with the system.

So much for an all-powerful trump card!

But somehow, it looked like nothing disastrous had happened… yet…

Tang Yue sighed in relief and quickly tried to access the system again. This time she did not have any issues.

"What happened old man?" She asked the system in confusion, hoping that he would know something.

The nasal voice, however, did not respond to her.

Hmmm… Tang Yue couldn't help but feel slightly nervous.

"Ok. If there is anything dangerous, then let's just avoid that and head in a different direction." 

She consoled herself and decided to proceed cautiously.

She had already stepped inside this labyrinth. It was too late to regret things now.

Maybe if she tried her best and progressed slowly, she could run into some other group on the way and join them.

"Ok. Let's do this." Tang Yue patted her chest and cheered herself up.

There was just a single path from where she had fallen, so Tang Yue decided to slowly walk in that direction.

She had only barely taken two steps when a slight coughing sound echoed a few meters ahead of her.

"Oh, someone else is here?" Tang Yue quickened her pace and walked over to see if it was a friend or a foe.

But as she moved closer and closer to the source of the coughing sound, an uneasiness crept up in her heart.

For some reason, the silhouette of the person was very familiar to her.

"Fuck." Tang Yue gasped in surprise. 

The elf lying down a few meters ahead of her on the cave tunnel's floor, almost unconsciously, was none other than Charlotte!

Tang Yue quickened her pace and rushed to the wounded elf.

Even from afar, she could see a few gushing wounds on the elf's body.

Tang Yue stood beside her and observed the elf silently. Charlotte was an Emperor realm expert.

So what could have possibly harmed her to this extent? She wondered.

Charlotte appeared very pale, paler than her usual self and her breath was heavily uneven.

The elf's long eyelashes fluttered as she weakly opened her eyes and gazed at the blurry image standing near her.

"Oh ha ha. How the mighty have fallen?!" Tang Yue smirked.

"It's you…?" Charlotte mumbled weakly.

She coughed up some more, spitting out blood from her mouth.

"Are you poisoned?" Tang Yue asked. 

Since most of the undead beasts that had attacked them so far sprayed the green toxin everywhere, this is the only conclusion that she could draw at the moment.

The elf turned her head refusing to answer her question.

"Hmph. Whatever. Suit yourself." 

Tang Yue shrugged and lifted her right leg to cross the elf's fallen body and she continued walking forward.

Her actions might seem a bit cold but this same elf had repeatedly tried to kill her time and again.

If she helped her today, she would probably again try to kill her in the future.

Showing kindness to one's enemy sometimes was pure foolishness.

Tang Yue did not look back and continued walking. 

She will not personally kill her and end her life and that in itself was a kindness that she spared for her enemy.

But before she could take the next step, a faint voice sounded behind her.

"You must think that I am so weak. Heh." Charlotte chuckled wryly. Her voice sounded delirious.

"I am indeed weak. My life has been nothing but pathetic. I deserve to die here."

"Ptui." She spat out some blood from her mouth.

"All my life I ran around like a headless chicken, that too behind a man who couldn't care less about me."

"Even our engagement was a farce." 

"That damned Empress was only treating me like a baby-making machine with a rare body physique."

"How is that love? What a joke…"

"I was not always like this you know. That man… I unknowingly got addicted to him."

"My entire life's purpose was him. I was groomed and brought up to be his mate."

"I just needed him to see me once, to at least acknowledge me once. I wanted to exist for him."

"Heh. You probably don't know how that feels huh?"

"Have you ever wanted something so badly that you have lost all reason and logic?"

"Someone like you couldn't possibly understand me."

"So don't you dare judge me. I might be weak and pathetic but I am still your enemy."

Charlotte coughed roughly spitting out more blood. 

It had taken a lot out of her to talk, but she didn't want the last thing she remembered before her death to be the snake's condescending eyes.

But unexpectedly, Tang Yue's footsteps stopped. 

Her emerald eyes looked at the beautiful elf folded on the corner, waiting for her inevitable death.

Her random rant hadn't exactly moved her. But the desperation in her voice made her stop.

She knew what it was to be abandoned by someone you love so much. Her own father had treated her so cruelly.

Tang Yue had lost her mother at a very young age and her father too suddenly turned cold towards her.

She no longer existed for that man, who loved and cherished her until the day before.

As a small child, she didn't even care about her crippled meridians and her weak plight. 

But that man's coldness and indifference affected her a lot. So she knew the pain which Charlotte was struggling with.

Tang Yue slowly turned around. 

Even without her mind completely agreeing to her decision, she had already started walking back.

She squatted in front of Charlotte and gazed at the elf's grief-stricken eyes. "I am not leaving you."

Charlotte didn't say anything. 

She looked at the snake wordlessly. A small self-deprecating smile emerged on her lips and she turned her head away.