Chapter 229 Are You Leaving Again
Li Xianxian’s expression changed but she did not move for some time. The development of these events was quite different from what she had expected.
From her point of view, Chu Tianjiao should punish Tang Xia severely after he arrived and then commend her for her timely discovery and report about Tang Xia’s strangeness. How could he leave when he had just arrived?
“Tianjiao, she…” Li Xianxian glared at Tang Xia furiously. She pouted her lips and behaved coquettishly around Chu Tianjiao, even though she wanted to complain about what Tang Xia had done earlier and encourage Chu Tianjiao to punish her.
However, before she could finish speaking, Chu Tianjiao interrupted her harshly. “Don’t bother with her. Hurry up and leave with me. We’re running out of time!”
As Chu Tianjiao spoke, he merely followed Li Xianxian’s gaze and took one glance at Tang Xia before he shifted his eyes away. He did not even care about the peculiarity of the maid beside him.
After he said this, Chu Tianjiao pulled Li Xianxian and left quickly. Although Li Xianxian was reluctant, when she saw how Chu Tianjiao looked, she could only follow him and leave first.
As Tang Xia watched the unusual behavior of Chu Tianjiao, she could not help but wonder. After a brief pause, she secretly followed them.
Chu Tianjiao seemed to be in a flurry. He was looking around while he pulled Li Xianxian and walked hurriedly. He seemed to be worried about someone.
The more Tang Xia looked, the stranger she felt. Chu Tianjiao had always acted as he pleased and abused his power in the Garden of Eden. Who could make him worry like this?
However, something even more shocking for Tang Xia was in store. Chu Tianjiao pulled Li Xianxian all the way to the big auditorium. Tang Xia only managed to react when she heard the whirring sound of the helicopter.
Chu Tianjiao actually wanted to escape with Li Xianxian!
Before Tang Xia could think this through, another group of people rushed over from the other side. It turned out to be Chu Tiankuo, who had even brought a group of men in black. It seemed like they had forced Chu Tianjiao to escape.
When Chu Tiankuo saw Tang Xia, he nodded at her but did not say much. Instead, he charged straight at Chu Tianjiao. Tang Xia knew that Chu Tiankuo wanted to stop Chu Tianjiao from running away, so she followed him.
Chu Tianjiao had just entered the big auditorium, yet before he could get onto the helicopter, he saw Chu Tiankuo rush over with a group of men in black. His face changed and he hurriedly called for his maids.
However, Tang Xia had already fed most of the maids the antidote and they had regained their consciousness. Therefore, why would they still obey Chu Tianjiao’s instructions?
As a result, Chu Tianjiao only managed to summon over a dozen maids. It was obvious that he would not be able to compete against Chu Tiankuo’s men in black with so few people.
Chu Tianjiao’s face turned white and a look of shock appeared in his eyes for the first time. “How could this be?”
Li Xianxian associated this with the previous events and realized that Tang Xia was behind it. She stared at Tang Xia with so much resentment that it seemed as if blood would flow. However, the situation had already reached this state. This would be good enough if she could save herself. How would she get the strength to take revenge against Tang Xia?
Previously, when she had followed Chu Tianjiao, she had still been slightly reluctant and thought that she would deal with Tang Xia when she had the chance to do so in the future. She had definitely not realized how severe matters were. Now that she had seen Chu Tiankuo and the men in black appear, her expression finally changed.
In any case, although there were only a dozen maids, they could temporarily protect Chu Tianjiao and Li Xianxian. Because they had no consciousness, Chu Tianjiao ordered them to risk their lives to stop the men in black, which made the situation very tricky.
Chu Tiankuo frowned. He was about to instruct the men in black to deal with the maids by using tough means, when Tang Xia quickly stopped him. “No! These maids merely lost their consciousness. It will be alright after they consume the antidote.”
Even though these maids were temporarily under the control of drugs and had lost their consciousness, they were all living girls. Tang Xia really could not bear to see them get injured or even die for Chu Tianjiao.
When Chu Tianjiao heard what Tang Xia had said, he also hesitated for a moment. He then instructed the men in black not to hurt the maids and merely control them.
However, this greatly increased the amount of time spent. Tang Xia, who was grateful to Chu Tiankuo for his understanding, gave him a meaningful look before she quickly joined the battle.
Whenever the men in black controlled a maid, she would feed the maid the medicine and they would cooperate with chemistry. Most importantly, this would not hurt the maids.
When Chu Tianjiao saw the decreasing number of maids around him, his expression changed. At this rate, he would undoubtedly be defeated!
Chu Tianjiao decisively gave Li Xianxian a look. He wanted to board the helicopter and flee while Chu Tiankuo and Tang Xia were busy dealing with the maids.
By then, Li Xianxian had also realized the severity of the matter and she did not dare stay for long. She quickly followed Chu Tianjiao and silently shifted next to the window sill, where Chu Tianjiao’s helicopter was waiting.
Chu Tianjiao moved fast and climbed onto the helicopter first before he got ready to pull Li Xianxian up. When Li Xianxian saw the cliff below the window sill, she instantly appeared shocked and hesitated to go up.
“Give me your hand,” Chu Tianjiao urged anxiously when he saw this. The number of maids in the room was also decreasing.
Li Xianxian turned back and took one look. She knew that there was no time to hesitate now. She gritted her teeth and began to climb onto the window sill, but her movements were still not very agile.
At that moment, Tang Xia caught sight of this from the corner of her eye and her expression turned cold. If she allowed Li Xianxian to leave, there would be many variables in the subsequent plot and things would not end.
“We can’t let Li Xianxian leave!” When this thought crossed her mind, Tang Xia shouted out anxiously without thinking it through.
When Li Xianxian heard Tang Xia’s voice, she became even more anxious. Not daring to stop, she quickly climbed onto the window sill. At the same moment, Chu Tianjiao, who was on the helicopter, had already caught hold of Li Xianxian’s hand and could now pull her up in a matter of seconds.
By that time, if the helicopter flew away, it would be too late for even Chu Tiankuo to chase after them.
Chu Tiankuo, who had also heard Tang Xia’s voice, saw her anxious expression and noticed that Chu Tianjiao was already on the helicopter. After a moment of thought, he yelled at Chu Tianjiao in a deep voice, “Leave the girl behind and I will let you go!”
Chu Tianjiao’s stopped abruptly and gazed at Li Xianxian with a hesitant look in his eyes.
By then, Li Xianxian was already suspended in mid-air. There was a cliff below, and her face was already pale from fear. When she saw Chu Tianjiao’s hesitation at that moment, she trembled even harder out of fear.
She forced a smile, even though her voice was shaking. “Tianjiao, you surely wouldn’t listen to him?”
Chu Tianjiao did not answer, but his expression was hesitant as he gazed at Li Xianxian.
“As long as we’re on the plane, he will not be able to catch up. Don’t listen to his threats,” Li Xianxian added hurriedly. There was already the hint of a plea in her voice.
When he heard this, Chu Tianjiao seemed slightly moved. Upon seeing Li Xianxian’s pitiful look, his heart became firm and he increased the force in his hands to prepare to pull her up.
When he saw this, Chu Tiankuo snorted coldly and gestured at the men in black behind him to direct the sniper at Chu Tianjiao.
At this distance, Chu Tianjiao would be shot before his helicopter could fly away.
Although Chu Tiankuo would not harm Chu Tianjiao’s life because of the fact that Chu Tianjiao was his younger brother, it would not be too difficult for the well-trained men in black to shoot other non-vital areas.
When Chu Tianjiao saw the red dot on his body, he knew that Chu Tiankuo was not joking and his expression changed completely. His hand trembled as he held onto Li Xianxian’s hand. Before he could react, he heard a blood-curdling scream and Li Xianxian fell off the cliff.
Right up until the moment when Li Xianxian fell off, she had still been looking at Chu Tianjiao with a hopeful, pleading look in her eyes. However, a moment later, all that was left was a hopeless howl that echoed in the cliff and made one feel shocked.
When Tang Xia saw this, she quickly ran over to the window just in time to see Li Xianxian fall into the sea as she shrieked.
At the same time, Tang Xia could hear the sound of the system prompt in her ear. Her challenge was deemed a success. Tang Xia had won this round’s attempt to escape from the Garden of Eden in the novel world as well as her confrontation with Li Xianxian.
Tang Xia turned her head aside, many complicated emotions flooding her heart.
From the very beginning, when she had entered the Garden of Eden, Li Xianxian had chosen to please Chu Tianjiao. On the contrary, she had constantly been pitting herself against Chu Tianjiao right from the start.
They had chosen completely different paths and, most of the time, Li Xianxian seemed to have made a more sensible choice.
Chu Tianjiao backed her up, so one could say that Li Xianxian led a prosperous life in the Garden of Eden. In contrast, Tang Xia had been repeatedly exposed to danger and had almost jumped off the cliff because she could not bear the torture.
After she had been captured and taken back, she had been subjected to even more torture. She almost hadn’t made it in the dungeon and had been even further tortured subsequently when she had been punished and brought to hell.
At the time, not many people had placed their faith in Tang Xia. Most of the people in the broadcast room had taunted and jeered at her. However, the current result had delivered a vicious slap across their faces.
Even until the last moment, Li Xianxian perhaps still did not understand what she had done wrong. Actually, since the very beginning, she had wrongly chosen to rely on Chu Tianjiao.
How could a person like Chu Tianjiao, who treated girls like toys, have genuine feelings for Li Xianxian?
Therefore, in the end, Chu Tianjiao had hesitated when caught between the choice of taking a risk and bringing Li Xianxian with him versus leaving alone. That was why he had released his hand subconsciously and caused Li Xianxian to fall down the cliff.
After Li Xianxian fell, Chu Tianjiao actually only hesitated for a brief moment before he ordered the helicopter to leave. This showed that Li Xianxian did not hold much weight in his heart. However, Li Xianxian had not understood this.
Tang Xia sighed by the window for a while before she turned her head. However, she had not expected to meet Chu Tiankuo’s eyes upon turning around. His eyes were as deep as a lake that would make one sink inside if one was not careful.
Had Chu Tiankuo been watching her all along when she had been in a daze earlier? As this thought crossed Tang Xia’s mind, her cheeks felt slightly warm and she hurriedly shifted her eyes away.
That was when she discovered that she and Chu Tiankuo were the only two people left in the entire auditorium. It seemed that after they had finished handling the maids, Chu Tiankuo had asked the men in black to take them out.
Both of them thought about the things that weighed on their minds, yet they did not know what to say as they looked at each other. Meanwhile, the wind blew through the window and played with the tips of their hair from time to time, creating a faintly-discernible suggestive atmosphere.
Tang Xia lowered her head and stared at her toes while Chu Tianjiao watched her deeply with a shred of dullness in his eyes. “Are you leaving again?”