Although the location of my rebirth was terrible, and there was a possibility of just starving to death in this hole, since I had chosen to live well, of course I needed to make every effort to get myself rescued.
If it were not for the fact that Lin Anjing had twisted her right foot when she fell, she wouldn't need to shout at all. Instead, she could directly use branches to chisel out small notches in the hole's walls that could be used for footholds and handholds, and then climb up step by step.
She was, after all, a modern special forces soldier, with top-notch wilderness survival skills.
"Hiss—" An Jing gently prodded her swollen right ankle, and it really hurt.
She considered whether she should try to stand up and chisel notches to climb up, but as soon as she felt the pain from her ankle, it was clear that she couldn't exert force on her right foot; if she did force it, she would surely ruin it, so An Jing immediately gave up and started shouting towards the hole again, "Help... Someone save me please... Help..."
"Hey, Changyi, there really is someone who fell down here."
An Jing was looking up with her eyes closed, shouting with all her might, when suddenly she heard a voice coming from above her head, and she immediately opened her eyes in surprise.
Two men stood at the mouth of the hole, backlit, so An Jing couldn't see their faces clearly, only that one had a broad and stocky build, and the other was tall and rangy.
Despite that, An Jing still called out loudly, "Could you please rescue me?"
As she spoke, An Jing also struggled to her feet, her small face full of hope.
"So, it's Lin Anjing." It was still that rough male voice, seemingly coming from the broad and stocky man.
An Jing frowned, "You are...?"
The broad and stocky man immediately said, "I'm Niu Er."
An Jing thought for a moment and confirmed that Lin Anjing's memories contained a Niu Er, and then she laughed heartily, "So, it's Brother Niu Er. Uhm, Brother Niu Er, could you please help me out? I've been down here for quite a while."
"You..." Niu Er looked at An Jing in the hole with a complex expression for a while before turning his head and speaking in a lowered voice to the man beside him, "Changyi, Lin Anjing is acting kind of strange today. Maybe we shouldn't save her?"
Xiao Changyi hadn't answered yet when An Jing's face darkened, "Niu Er, we're from the same village, aren't we? Do you really have the heart to stand by and watch me die?"
Niu Er didn't expect An Jing to have heard him, and he scratched his nose awkwardly, but he couldn't help grumbling, "Normally, you avoid people whenever you see them, or you just keep your head down and never talk to us. I almost didn't recognize you just now. You're acting so out of the ordinary today that this trap might have been set by you, purposely to lure us bachelors in... Who in the village doesn't know that you can't get married off, and that your mother is advising you, hoping you can snag a man to marry..."
Niu Er's voice got quieter and quieter towards the end, almost inaudible, but who was An Jing? Her ears had been sharper than anyone else's since she was a child, and she heard each word clearly and distinctly.
Although she knew that Niu Er was talking about Lin Anjing and not her, An Jing still felt very annoyed.
And the more annoyed she felt, the calmer she became, even laughing, a smile blooming like a flower, "Rest assured, even if I wanted to depend on a pig, I wouldn't depend on you."
"You—!" Niu Er's eyes widened in anger.
Shhlah.
Suddenly, a thick hemp rope was thrown down, swaying in front of An Jing's eyes.
An Jing paused, then looked up along the hemp rope and saw that it was the tall and rangy man beside Niu Er who had thrown it down.
"Changyi, why did you throw the rope down? Do you really want to save her? What if she hangs onto you after being saved? I think we should not—"
Niu Er yelled, trying to dissuade Xiao Changyi from rescuing her, but one cold look from Xiao Changyi instantly silenced Niu Er.