Chapter 398 Life on the Line
“Jolly, where are you going?” Rachel chased Jolly all the way through an alley and ran into the parking lot at the entrance of the town.
Jolly looked anxiously at the distant hills, turning her head and saying, “Leroy called me and said that he got into a car accident on the mountain. My calls can’t get through now.”
Rachel was shocked, but she quickly soothed Jolly’s ruffled feathers. “Don’t worry. Call the police and the fire department first.”
“I want to find him.”
“Okay. I’ll go with you. Wait for me. I’ll go back and get the car keys.”
“I’ll drive you.”
Justin’s voice came from behind. He hadn’t even taken off his apron before hurrying after them.
He drove here on his own, and the car was parked right next to them.
Jolly froze when she opened the car door.
Rachel gave a nudge and reminded her. “Let’s go! Leroy is waiting for you.”
Only then did Jolly recover. At this moment, she couldn’t care less about anything else as she hurriedly climbed into Justin’s car.
They drove out of the town and onto the winding road.
Along the way, Rachel called the fire department.
“Don’t worry. The police have already been dispatched.”
It was completely dark. There was no one on the mountain road, and there was even fog.
They were driving fast, and the lights in the car were dim. Only the street lights on the mountain road outside flickered as they passed, shining on Jolly’s pale face.
“It’s foggy.” Jolly stared out the window, her face turning for the worse.
Accidents were prone to happen when it was foggy, and it also meant that it would be harder for the fire department to rescue him.
Where the hell is Leroy?
Rachel reminded Justin, “Drive slower. Safety first.”
“Don’t worry.”
He said those two words in a concise manner to reassure them.
Rachel held Jolly’s hand tightly. It was useless to say anything comforting at this moment.
After driving for half an hour, Jolly suddenly exclaimed, “Stop!”
Rachel hadn’t figured out what was going on yet, but Jolly pointed to a place outside the window. “I see him! Right there!”
Justin parked the car on the side of the road immediately, and the three of them got out of the vehicle.
Due to the heavy fog, they didn’t see the accident on the roadside when they got out of the car. So it wasn’t until they followed Jolly and ran closer that Rachel’s expression changed, and her knees softened.
Justin reacted quickly and held her up by the shoulders.
At this moment, a silver sedan was shaking as it hung off the cliff’s edge. The driver’s seat was hanging in the air. Below that was an abyss, and a figure could be faintly seen in the driver’s seat.
Jolly was so terrified that her soul nearly left her body.
“Leroy!” She dared not shout loudly or even touch the car for fear that it would lose its balance and fall off the cliff if she even laid a single finger on it.
A faint male voice sounded from the car, penetrating the mist. “Jolly, is that you?”
“It’s me! Leroy, you can hear me!”
Jolly’s voice was trembling, and her eyes were red-rimmed. “Are you okay?”
“I’m okay. Don’t be afraid. I’m sorry, baby. My phone fell, so I couldn’t contact you. I made you worried.”
“Why are you still thinking about your phone?!” Jolly was about to burst into tears.
“You said that I have to be on call 24 hours a day and that I can’t not answer your calls…”
“Stop talking! Stop talking!”
Jolly was almost about to break down as she turned back and shouted, “Why isn’t the fire department here yet?!”
At this moment, Justin ran over with a rope. “Stop yelling. Tie this to his car.”
The other end of the rope was already fastened to Justin’s car.
Justin stopped talking to her and did it himself, after sensing that Jolly would be of no help in her petrified state, and tied the rope to the car’s rear.
“What should we do now?” Rachel asked him.
“Let’s see if we can drag the car up.”
“What if it flips over?” Jolly hurriedly stopped Justin. “What if you can’t pull it, or the rope isn’t strong enough?”
That was indeed a possibility.
Justin looked around. “It may take a while for the fire department to arrive. How about this? I’ll call them and ask when they’ll arrive. Wait here.”
“It’s too late.”
Rachel suddenly saw that the road on the cliff’s edge was beginning to split, and Leroy’s rear tires had started to slide toward the cliff’s edge.
Jolly was instantly frightened. “Leroy!”
Rachel grew anxious. “What should we do now?”
Justin immediately got into the car without responding to them, started the engine, and drove in the opposite direction of the cliff.
There was a loud screeching noise, accompanied by Jolly’s screams. Leroy’s car tilted slightly, and the front wheel that had been floating sideways hit the cliff, creating a loud noise. Earth and rocks fell, making the scene all the more terrifying to watch.
The rope pulling the car was taut.
However, Justin’s car was obviously not as heavy as Leroy’s Jeep, so he was dragged a little and slid toward the cliff.
“No! This won’t work!”
Rachel’s face paled. “It’s not heavy enough. Both cars will go down!”
Jolly suddenly recovered to her senses and opened Justin’s car door before getting in without hesitation.
“What are you doing?” Justin glanced at her. “Go down.”
“The car isn’t heavy enough, right?”
“Do you think your weight is enough? Hurry up and go down. Don’t create trouble!”
Jolly gritted her teeth and fastened her seat belt, “No!”
“I think the both of you are crazy!”
Rachel became an outsider in the end. She felt extremely anxious as she watched Justin’s car dragging toward the cliff little by little. “You guys! Come down quickly! It won’t hold anymore! It’s too dangerous!”
Jolly watched through the rearview mirror as the distance between them and the cliff gradually shortened, so she gritted her teeth. “Justin, this has nothing to do with you. Get down. I’ll drive!”
Justin frowned and glanced at her. “Okay. You get out of the car, and we’ll change seats.”
Jolly immediately got out of the car.
However, she found that she couldn’t open the door when she got to the driver’s seat. “Justin! Open the door!”
Justin glanced at her through the car window, his eyes set with determination.
How could he let a woman die?
Jolly was Rachel’s best sister. In the past, he had indirectly killed Hans and Nancy. Today, he couldn’t just stand by and watch Rachel’s best friend die, right?
Jolly suddenly understood Justin’s intentions, so she frantically slammed the car door. “Are you crazy? What does this have to do with you? B*stard! Come out right now! I don’t want to owe you this!”
Justin was unperturbed as he stepped on the accelerator all the way to the end, and it barely controlled the speed of the car’s descent.
At this moment, the rope connecting the two cars was extremely taut, and it was possible that it would break apart at any moment. The rear tires of Leroy’s car were nearly leaving the cliff, so this rope was completely supporting the whole vehicle.
Rachel’s heart almost jumped out of her throat as she called the fire department in a frenzy.
“Sorry, the number you’ve dialed is temporarily unavailable. Please call again later!”
“Justin, don’t let go of the gas! The fire department is almost here!”
She shouted in anxiety, fearing that both cars would fall off the cliff in the next second.
