Chapter 1069 — A Heavy Promise — Yet at the Very Instant the Land Rover Was About to Ram the Audi TT, Wei Zhao Released the Brake Again and the Audi TT Slid Forward Once More! And Thus He Planted an Illusion in the Land Rover Driver's Mind!
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Because the Audi TT's taillights had been completely smashed by the Land Rover, the bald man in sunglasses assumed Wei Zhao's car had never moved at all. In truth, Wei Zhao's car was slowly sliding forward — sliding down toward the ravine below! Only the motion was so slow that at the speed the bald man in sunglasses was driving, he never noticed it.
All of this happened in the space of a spark's flash, and Wei Zhao had done nothing more than exploit a difference in perception.
So by the time the Land Rover struck the Audi TT, the Audi TT was already almost over the edge of the ravine.
Wei Zhao stamped on the accelerator; the Audi TT shot forward and plunged down into the ravine. The Land Rover behind him, plainly unaware of the danger, kept its foot on the gas, still trying to shove Wei Zhao's car over the brink.
The result: the Audi TT flew off, and by the time the bald man in sunglasses realized something was wrong, his two front wheels were already off the mountain road. It was too late to react — and so his car flew off the winding road as well.
"Ah—!" Feng Xiaoxiao screamed as the Audi TT tumbled down into the ravine.
After several rolls, though every airbag had deployed, had Wei Zhao not shielded Feng Xiaoxiao with his true qi, the two of them would surely have died. Under such violent tumbling the car had been utterly deformed; no safety measure could do much good now. And the car had caught fire — if they did not jump out soon, the danger would only grow.
Wei Zhao paid no heed to Feng Xiaoxiao's screaming. He burst the airbag, kicked the door open with all his strength, gathered Feng Xiaoxiao in his arms, and leapt out into the air.
"Whoosh—" Wei Zhao patted Feng Xiaoxiao on the back, let out a breath of relief, and said with a smile, "There. It's all right now, Xiaoxiao."
"Ah!" Feng Xiaoxiao opened her eyes. A moment before, she had thought she was going to die, so she was still a little muddled. "Hubby Wei Zhao, are we dead already?"
"Not dead," Wei Zhao said with a smile. "I won't let you die."
"Really?" Feng Xiaoxiao was startled, then thought of the matter of her body, and her face fell again.
Wei Zhao seemed to sense that shadow in her, and sighed softly. He nodded. "Really."
It was a heavy promise. Wei Zhao was perhaps guilty of boasting, and yet he truly did not want Feng Xiaoxiao to die. Unawares, he had truly fallen in love with this somewhat elfin, odd little girl. If he could, Wei Zhao would have wished to spend his whole life with her — but that was only a beautiful illusion...
"Pinky swear!" Feng Xiaoxiao held out her hand, as though she wanted to prove something.
At this somewhat stubborn gesture of hers, Wei Zhao's heart grew heavier still. It seemed Feng Xiaoxiao was deceiving herself a little, trying by this sort of psychological suggestion to resist the unfairness of fate.
"All right." Wei Zhao extended his little finger and hooked it with hers, and Feng Xiaoxiao looked rather pleased.
It was a long while before she came back to herself, and cried out in astonishment: "We're not dead... then that was just too thrilling! Hubby Wei Zhao, you're amazing — that feeling just now, it was like bungee jumping, like being at the very instant of life and death all at once..."
"Your car..." Wei Zhao pointed into the distance, at the Audi TT, already ablaze and exploding...
"Right — where did that Land Rover guy go? How rotten! He actually dared smash my beloved car like that? This girl's going to gouge out his eyeballs and pop them under her feet, hubby Wei Zhao, you help me!" The sight of her beloved car turned into a ball of flame sent Feng Xiaoxiao's anger surging up from nowhere.
She had saved up pocket money for years to buy that car — and now it was scrapped, just like that?