"How strange. We tried every means of examining the cliff face before and found nothing amiss, yet now a cave has appeared on its own?" Jiang Liuli stared up at the cave and murmured.
It was already late at night. The bright moon had long since sunk westward, leaving the area dim and gloomy. The cave was pitch-black inside, enough to make their skin crawl.
"Jiang Liuli, stay here and look after Senior Brother Huang. I'll go in and investigate," Zhangsun Youyue said.
"Zhangsun Youyue, don't you fight me for this. I'll go. You stay," Jiang Liuli retorted.
"You stay!" Zhangsun Youyue said, glaring at Jiang Liuli.
"What? Are you trying to keep all the benefits inside for yourself?" Jiang Liuli said coldly. "In any case, I won't let you go in. You're still holding Huang Xiao, so you're not suited to it. I'm the only suitable one."
"Hmph, don't even think about going in," Zhangsun Youyue said.
The two women seemed to be stopping each other from entering, but Huang Xiao knew that they were worried about the dangers inside. Neither wanted the other to take the risk, which was why each wanted to enter herself.
The two women had fought since childhood, always saying they would defeat each other, even talking of killing each other.
But Huang Xiao knew very well that they had instead forged a deep friendship. Both understood these things perfectly well in their hearts; they were merely stubborn and refused to admit it aloud.
"Let's go in together. Take me along too!" Huang Xiao spoke up.
"No!" the two women said in unison.
"Why not? If anything happened to either of you, I wouldn't be able to forgive myself. Rather than that, we might as well all go in together and advance or retreat