Chapter 160 (1/2)
Noah answered skeptically, “I know how to float. I learned a little bit when I was a kid.”
“Well, you shouldn’t come up. We’re going to dive down. How many minutes can you hold your breath?” asked Kyle. Noah narrowed her eyes and said, “I haven’t measured it… But would a minute be okay?”
“One minute. Not bad. Do you like the waters? Or do you have a trauma?” Kyle inquired further.
“Nothing like that.”
“That’s fine, then.”
“What’s going on…?”
Before she even felt an ominous foreboding, Kyle lifted the Muell, who was looking down the lake from the side, and in an instant, the little child disappeared. A very faint splash echoed throughout the cave.
Noah almost fainted at the sight, frozen on her spot with her mouth agape as Kyle followed suit, casually jumping down the hole. This time, there was no sound of splashing. Noah let out a nervous chuckle. “You’re kidding me, aren’t you?”
As she stood alone, she heard a voice calmly answering from under the hole on the floor.
“Hurry up. It’s only scary if you drag it for a while,” Kyle said.
This woman had jumped from a running train, descended to a dangerous place underneath a ship, stood at the court as a defendant, and was now on the verge of diving into a lake, which depth was unknown.
“Why are you doing this to me?”
“I don’t remember doing anything bad enough to hear that. It’s alright, so come quickly.”
Noah approached the hole where Kyle and Muell had disappeared into with an extremely hateful look on her face. Still, she wasn’t frightened enough to chicken out given she had been through all sorts of things that made her braver. But as she glanced under the hole, she was startled. The distance from the lake was farther than she assumed, and the two, who had already settled on the dark waters, surprised her.
She had imagined that Kyle and Muell would be floating with their necks above the water, but instead, Kyle stood against something black with smooth scales. She squinted her eyes, looking closely, and realized it was none other than Muell’s back.