The wind swept in from the far end of the snowfield, scattering fine ice pellets against her face.
Luo Jiuge leaned on her sword for quite a while before the churning blood in her chest slowly settled.
She had actually taken in everything Vivienne had said just now.
When the mine collapsed, she truly had not considered whether she would be able to get back out after entering. It had been much the same at Grey Dove Monastery.
Whenever she saw something going wrong, her first thought was always to do something first. As for whether she could handle it herself, she always felt she could think about that after everything was over.
It was not a good habit, but she could not help it. It was an occupational hazard left over from Blue Star.
Luo Jiuge raised a hand to wipe the blood from the corner of her mouth. "Maybe you're right. I really did trust my luck a little too much before."
"But if you mean that whenever something like this happens in the future, I should just stand outside and watch, then I still can't do that."
Vivienne's brows drew together slightly. She had not expected that even now, Luo Jiuge's thinking would remain unchanged.
Luo Jiuge continued, "The people who are truly trapped don't know how many times those outside have failed before. They don't know how much danger the people coming to save them have to face either. They only know that they want to live."
"At times like that, they will always hope that someone like me appears before them. Even if all I can do in the end is give them a hand, that is still better than being alone in the dark."
The wind lifted the messy hair before her forehead. Her