They Hated Me in My First Life, But Now I Have the Love System

Chapter 329

Chapter 329: So Close to the Edge

“Now, pull!” Nnenna shouted.

All three of them pulled, muscles straining, feet digging into the forest floor. The quicksand gurgled angrily, refusing to let go.

Then pop!

Karen’s shoulder broke free. They kept pulling.

Another heave, and finally, with one last desperate tug, Karen slid out of the muck and collapsed on solid ground, coughing and gasping for air.

“You saved us again,” John said, his voice rough from exhaustion.

They all stood there, panting, coated in sweat and mud. Even Nnenna could barely speak. Her knees trembled beneath her, but not from fatigue, from what almost happened.

She had nearly lost all of them.

After everything they had endured for almost a month in the Black Forest, after countless trials, it would have ended here? So close to the edge?

She clenched her fists. She wouldn’t let that happen.

Once she caught her breath, she turned to Abuchi, who was still staring at the place Karen had almost sunk.

“We need to move,” she said quietly.

“But… how?” Abuchi asked, his voice strained. “How do we get past that?”

turned to

patch, it was a sprawling stretch of sludge stretching out before

sparse here, the canopy cracked open above, letting in more sunlight than they had seen in

the border?” Ekene asked, narrowing his eyes.

ridge,” Karen said, coughing. “We would have to

up toward the slope that angled gently to the left. “If we climb a bit further north, we might find a narrower path, or even a fallen tree to cross

at one another,

stared at the endless spread of deadly sand,

be a faster way

enough time for that. Who knows what’s happened to Ruth and her family in the past, what, almost a month now? We can’t delay anymore. We have to

eyes tense with urgency. “Every second we lose might be the second something happens

“And what do you plan to do?

cold stones, harsh and unnecessary. Karen hadn’t always been like this, but the forest, the fear, the hunger, the exhaustion,

trying to fix it.

Nnenna didn’t flinch. She had learned not

like they had a hundred times in the past weeks. Look, adapt, survive. She had gotten good at it, at seeing options no one else

she spotted

sturdy trees stretching high above the

she said quietly, then more firmly. “Look, those trees. The vines are strong. We can make our way across without

tall, old, and deeply rooted, stable enough. The vines… it could

lifted.

than getting sucked

snap?” Karen blurted out, arms folded, voice sharper

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