79: Chapter 79 Unexpected Strong Winds

That steel cable suspended in mid-air suddenly shook violently without any warning.

Like an infuriated giant python, it suddenly thrashed its body in the dark night.

"Screeech—"

The tooth-aching sound of metal friction rang out abruptly in the silent night.

The suppressed ecstasy that had just ignited in the warehouse was instantly doused with a bucket of ice water.

Everyone's movements froze.

"What's going on?"

Shangguan Zhibiao was the first to react, rushing to the window and looking toward the Zipline.

The night was too dark.

He couldn't see anything clearly.

He could only see that steel cable, which served as a lifeline, shaking violently with a terrifying amplitude.

[What happened? What's going on?]

[The Zipline is shaking! It's shaking so hard!]

[Holy crap! It's the wind! Look at the streamer's camera, the wind is so loud!]

In the Livestream room, the viewers who were just cheering because over half of the people had evacuated felt their hearts tighten once again.

Chen Xi's expression became incredibly grim at this moment.

He didn't need to look to feel it.

That sudden, violent crosswind was like an invisible giant hand, frantically lashing at that fragile lifeline.

"Stop the evacuation!"

He exhausted all his strength to roar out those four words.

The Soldier who had already stepped onto the platform, ready to depart, immediately stopped in his tracks.

Everyone's eyes were cast toward that bottomless darkness.

At this moment.

A young Soldier was suspended right in the middle of the Zipline.

His name was Li Wazi, from Hubei Province, and he was not yet twenty years old.

Just a few seconds ago, his heart was still filled with the joy of survival and the longing to go home.

He was even thinking that once he got back, he would definitely eat three large bowls of the Hot Dry Noodles his mother made.

But now, all his thoughts were replaced by fear.

A bone-chilling fear that went deep into his marrow.

The gale lashed his body like a whip.

Suspended in mid-air, he was like an out-of-control Pendulum, swinging violently back and forth.

Every swing made him feel as if his internal organs were about to be flung out.

He gripped the pulley tightly, his knuckles turning white from the exertion.

The cold steel cable and the howling wind were the only things he could feel in his entire world at that moment.

"Hold on! Wazi! Hold on!"

On the opposite bank, his comrades who had already arrived safely were shouting at him with all their might.

But the wind was too strong.

Their voices were blown to pieces as soon as they left their mouths.

Li Wazi couldn't hear anything.

He could only grit his teeth and use all his strength to try and control his body.

But human strength was so insignificant in the face of nature's wrath.

"Creeeak—"

Another ear-piercing sound.

During a violent swing, the pulley device beneath him, unable to withstand the massive force from the side, was forcibly jammed and became stuck on the steel cable.

He was left hanging there, unable to go up or down, suspended in the most desperate position, over a hundred meters from either bank.

"This is bad!"

Chen Xi's heart sank to the bottom.

On the System interface in his mind, the red dot representing Li Wazi's life signal stopped moving.

Meanwhile, the wind speed monitoring data next to it was soaring upward in a frenzied manner.

[He's stuck! He's stuck in the middle!]

[The wind is too strong! What should we do? He can't go forward or backward!]

[Quick, think of something, Master Xi! He's about to lose his grip!]

[Dammit! God, are you blind? Victory was right before our eyes!]

In the Livestream room, there was a chorus of wails.

In the warehouse, there was also a dead silence.

Xie Jinyuan held up his binoculars, his palms drenched in sweat.

Through the lenses, he could only vaguely see that tiny black dot, like an ant, shaking violently on the Zipline amidst the gale.

Every Soldier's heart felt as if it were being tightly strangled by that steel cable.

It hurt so much they couldn't breathe.

They had finally managed to crawl out of hell with great difficulty.

Were they really going to watch their brother fall into another, even more desperate hell?

High in the air.

Li Wazi's physical strength was rapidly draining away.

The gale poured into his lungs, cold and painful.

His arms had already begun to go numb.

He could feel his fingers losing their strength bit by bit.

He glanced down.

Beneath his feet was the pitch-black, churning river water.

Like the wide-open, bloody maw of a monster.

He didn't want to die.

He really didn't want to die.

He hadn't eaten the Hot Dry Noodles his mother made yet.

He hadn't even said a word to the girl he liked.

His life had only just begun.

"Ah—!"

He let out an unwilling, desperate roar.

But the sound of the wind instantly swallowed his voice.

Just then.

An even more violent gust of wind struck without warning!

Li Wazi's body was suddenly lifted upward.

He could no longer hold on.

The hand that was gripping the pulley tightly loosened.

His entire body plummeted instantly!

But he didn't fall.

At the last moment, his other hand instinctively and desperately grabbed onto the cold steel cable.

Just like that, using the strength of one arm, he hung his entire body from this precarious lifeline.

"Wazi!"

In the warehouse, someone let out a shrill, mournful cry.

Everyone's hearts shattered at this moment.