The Beauty CEO's Personal Expert

Chapter 1535 - 1840: Jumping Off the Building

Watching the raging flames closing in behind them, Ling Chen swept his gaze around, strode quickly to the corner of the office, and found a steel pipe more than two meters long. This steel pipe must have been blown out of the wall in the recent explosion; it was covered in concrete.

Steel pipe in hand, Ling Chen quickly returned to Nanrong Wanqing’s side, jammed the pipe under the big boulder, and used it as a lever, straining to pry the stone up.

"Wanqing, hurry... hurry and get out."

Hearing Ling Chen’s urging, Nanrong Wanqing scrambled forward on hands and knees with difficulty. Very soon, her legs slid free from under the boulder.

Bang! Seeing Nanrong Wanqing freed safely, Ling Chen loosened his hands, and the boulder crashed heavily to the floor with a dull thud.

Huff... huff... Ling Chen panted hard, and despite his severely overdrawn body, he rushed to Nanrong Wanqing, helping her up from the ground.

"How is it, can you still walk?"

Nanrong Wanqing shook her head. "The exoskeleton armor seems to have been crushed." As she said this, she turned back to look at the flames surging quickly toward them, her expression couldn’t help but change. With deep worry on her face she asked, "Ling Chen, what... what do we do now?"

Ling Chen glanced at the office building across the street; there was still no sign of Tang Yuan and the others. In such a short time it would be almost impossible for them to get a zipline ready. No time left! Ling Chen frowned, thinking to himself. If they waited for Tang Yuan and the others to come save them, it would be too late. At a moment this critical, they could only rely on themselves.

Driven by the flames, in no time Ling Chen and Nanrong Wanqing were already standing at the edge of the window; one more step forward and the two of them would fall from there.

At this moment, the cameramen around the building all pointed their lenses at Ling Chen and Nanrong Wanqing, who had no way out. Everyone knew in their hearts that there were only two possible endings for these two: either be devoured by the flames, or jump and die. From over twenty floors up, a jump from such a height meant certain death.

What was worse, stones kept falling from the top of the building, so the rescue firefighters had no way to approach, let alone set up an air cushion.

"Ling Chen! Ling Chen!" Seeing this, Leng Feifei in the office building panicked, shouting Ling Chen’s name at the top of her lungs. Unfortunately, Ling Chen’s attention was entirely on Nanrong Wanqing right now, and he didn’t hear her cries at all.

Feeling the scorching heat at his back, Ling Chen let out a silent sigh, turned his head to look at Nanrong Wanqing’s delicately beautiful face, now a shade pale, and couldn’t help raising his hand to gently wipe away the grime on her cheeks.

"Are you scared?"

Nanrong Wanqing lightly bit her lips, nodded, then shook her head.

Ling Chen smiled slightly and said, "A few days ago you asked me why I never brought up ’marriage’ with you. What I wanted to say is..."

"Don’t say it." Before Ling Chen could finish, Nanrong Wanqing had already raised her hand to press against his lips, cutting him off.

Gazing into Ling Chen’s eyes, dark and deep as ink, Nanrong Wanqing suddenly smiled brightly. "To me, nothing else matters anymore. When there’s a man willing to live and die with you, what more could I possibly ask for?"

Hearing this, Ling Chen couldn’t help but smile, his whole body seeming to relax, his expression slowly returning to calm.

"Are you ready?"

Nanrong Wanqing answered softly with a hum, not saying another word, just wrapping her arms tightly around Ling Chen’s body.

"Let’s go!" Ling Chen took a deep breath and, without the slightest hesitation, leaped out, jumping straight into the open air. Seeing them do this, Leng Feifei, Tang Yuan, Xia Mutong, and Pang Jiulin all cried out in shock, their faces going ashen. Leng Feifei even covered her eyes, not daring to look.

Feeling his body plummeting, Ling Chen clenched his teeth, holding Nanrong Wanqing’s soft body in a death grip. In that instant, the intense sense of danger and the presence of death closing in made both of them feel as if they were suffocating. Other than shutting their eyes, they didn’t know what else they could do.

However, at that very instant, Ling Chen seemed to sense something. His eyes snapped open, a sharp gleam flashing through them.

Power... surged into every part of his body like a rising tide, sweeping away his earlier weakness in an instant. Not only that, his previously numb Dantian suddenly felt like an inflating balloon, swelling as if it might explode at any moment.

Bang!

When the energy in his Dantian reached a bottleneck, Ling Chen seemed to hear an explosion inside his body. A fierce surge of Inner Strength erupted from his Dantian, flooding through his entire body, coursing a full circuit with incredible speed, blasting open all the blocked meridians. The next moment, that mighty Inner Strength gathered back into his Dantian again.

Feeling that surging power, Ling Chen couldn’t help but let out a roar, venting the exhilaration in his chest. Nanrong Wanqing beside him had no idea what was happening, and was almost scared out of her wits by his sudden shout.

At this moment, while still falling rapidly, Ling Chen suddenly twisted his body, spinning as he closed in on the outer wall of the building. Then he kicked hard off the wall with both feet, using it to spring away. Right where he had been, a chunk of stone dropped past from above.

Seizing his chance, just as that stone was about to fall past his eyes, Ling Chen tapped lightly on it with one foot. Their plummeting bodies paused for a split second, then continued to fall. Though their speed was still fast, the inertia of their fall had been greatly reduced.

By now the two of them were less than ten meters above the ground. Below them were several trees four to five meters tall. Holding Nanrong Wanqing with one arm, Ling Chen stretched out his other hand and grabbed a thick branch, using it to bleed off more of their downward momentum.

Bang!

With a muffled crack, the branch snapped, and Ling Chen and Nanrong Wanqing’s bodies dropped the rest of the way to the ground. Puff! He spat out a mouthful of fresh blood; pain racked Ling Chen from head to toe, as if all his internal organs had been knocked out of place.

But seeing Nanrong Wanqing lying on top of him safe and sound, Ling Chen’s lips curled up slightly; he felt that everything had been worth it. If it hadn’t been for that series of moves just now to lessen the force of their fall, the two of them would probably be dead already.

So although he was injured, this outcome was already very good. As for the changes in his own body, Ling Chen had no time to think about them. In this moment, nothing was more worth celebrating than surviving the jaws of death.

"Ling Chen, Ling Chen!"

By now, Tang Yuan, Xia Mutong and the others had already rushed over from the office building opposite. Seeing that the two of them were basically fine, everyone’s faces lit up with joy.

"You little bastard, I thought you were done for." Tang Yuan grinned from ear to ear, unable to hide the wild delight inside.

"A miracle, this is a miracle. Falling from that height and actually surviving." Pang Jiulin at the side couldn’t help sighing in admiration. Standing next to Ling Chen, Leng Feifei held his arm for support; aside from shedding tears, she didn’t know what words could possibly express the joy in her heart. The moment Ling Chen jumped down with Nanrong Wanqing in his arms, all hope had drained out of her; her mind had gone blank.

In less than a minute, she had tasted the soaring joy and crushing sorrow of a lifetime.