Chapter 179 Her Blood Stained Red
"Boss! Boss! Are you alright? What happened?"
"Boss! Did you hear me? Boss!"
"Wen Ni! Wen Ni? Can you hear me? It's me, Lu Jinye! Wen Ni!"
No matter whose call it was, there was no response whatsoever.
"Huff... huff..."
In the ruins, Wen Ni was panting heavily. She used all her strength to kneel and arch her body, while Li Shu was protected beneath her!
The headlamp was also knocked down by the secondary collapse, spinning twice on the dusty ground before finally coming to a stop, its faint light flickering twice before going out completely.
Like the last flicker of hope, it was suddenly extinguished!
"Coach Wen? Are you alright, Coach Wen?"
Li Shu lay on the ground, her heart pounding in her chest!
She didn't know exactly what happened, but she knew that at the moment the ruins shook, Wen Ni shielded her with her body!
I didn't get a reply for a long time.
Li Shu trembled as she raised her head. It was pitch black and she couldn't see anything. Suddenly, she felt a drop of liquid fall and hit her face, warm and wet...
"It's alright." Wen Ni finally spoke, pressing the communicator, her voice deep, "We're alright."
"It's good that you're alright!" The people on the other end of the communicator finally breathed a sigh of relief. "We're at the entrance, ready to provide backup at any time! Come out now!"
"Um."
Wen Ni released the communicator and asked Li Shu, "How are you? Can you keep climbing?"
"Yes, I can! Is it really okay for President Wen to teach you?" Li Shu felt something was off.
Before she could finish speaking, a few more drops of sticky liquid splattered onto Li Shu's face. The faint fishy smell instantly terrified Li Shu, making her burst into tears!
"Chief Wen! Chief Wen! Don't scare me! Are you alright! Are you really alright? Are you injured? Are you bleeding...?"
"I told you I'm fine, don't cry. Save your energy, crawl out of here as fast as you can." Wen Ni's voice was a little weak. "Just keep crawling forward, you'll see light when you get close!"
"Premier Wen! Let's go out together!"
"no……"
Wen Ni said in a deep voice, then smiled silently, trying to keep her breathing steady. "Li Shu, if you don't get out, I won't get out either. We'll both be trapped here to die."
"I'll go first, and you'll follow?" Li Shu asked uncertainly, her heart pounding.
"Um."
"Really? You're not lying to me?"
"Really." Wen Ni said with slight impatience, "If you keep dawdling, I'm not going to bother with you anymore."
"Okay! I'll crawl ahead, you have to follow me and we'll get out together!"
"good."
Li Shu gritted her teeth and desperately crawled outwards.
This time, even though her fingers were bleeding and her nails were broken, she didn't care. She wanted to live, she wanted to survive!
Unbeknownst to Li Shu, Wen Ni remained in the same place.
Listen to Li Shu slowly crawl away.
Wen Ni's breathing became increasingly erratic.
In the endless darkness and silence, her two arms, like two sticks, were stretched straight on the ground, with veins bulging as if she was exerting enough force!
Her back was pressed firmly against a collapsed stone slab, and a long nail fixed to the slab had pierced through her left shoulder, staining half of her clothes with blood...
If she hadn't reacted quickly, she and Li Shu would probably be pinned down by the stone slab and unable to move!
"I've faced death so many times during missions and survived them all. Is this time going to be another day where I succumb to fate?"
She murmured self-deprecatingly, and despite the excruciating pain in her shoulder, she still laughed arrogantly in a low voice, "Don't even think about it, don't even think about it...!"
"One, two! One, two!!"
At the entrance, everyone worked together, chanting slogans, and pulled Li Shu, who had struggled to climb over, out!
The pale dawn sky reflected in Li Shu's eyes. She had just barely escaped death and managed a forced smile when she suddenly remembered something. She quickly pointed behind her and cried, "Chief Instructor Wen! Chief Instructor Wen is right behind me! Quickly pull her out too!"
"Boss!?" Leng Feng immediately shone a powerful flashlight toward the entrance, but he couldn't see Wen Ni anywhere!
"No? How could that be? She said she would come out with me!" Li Shu clung to the ground in terror, trying to crawl back. "No, she said she would come out..."
"Li Shu, Li Shu! Calm down. President Wen is a very good teacher, she'll be alright!" Xi Wen ran forward, hugged Li Shu's upper body, her eyes red-rimmed. "Li Shu... why is your face covered in blood? Are you hurt anywhere on your head?"
"Blood……"
Li Shu trembled as she touched her face, finding a glaring red stain on her palm. She immediately broke down, wailing, "This isn't my blood! This is all the blood that General Wen taught us! She's injured, and she lied to me that she was fine! She said she would come out with me, but she didn't. She left herself there! Please save her! Please save her!!"
The piercing cry, and the words it carried, made everyone's heart clench, and their heads go numb as if struck by lightning!
Lu Jinye, kneeling on the ruins, froze.
"Boss... Boss!!" Leng Feng froze for a second, then frantically pressed the communicator. He even tried to jump down to find her, but everyone held him back!
"Captain Leng! Don't be impulsive! The situation under the rubble is unclear. If you go down rashly, it might cause a secondary collapse! If that happens, Commander Wen really won't be able to get out!"
"Boss, boss, say something..." Leng Feng's hand holding the communicator trembled slightly.
"Wen Ni, Wen Ni..."
Amidst the ruins, Lu Jinye, his body stiff, bent down once more. His face was expressionless, like a lost machine, as he frantically shoved through the steel and concrete, digging faster and faster, as if he felt no pain, as if doing so would somehow unearth Wen Ni…
"Dig..." Leng Feng suddenly jumped up. "Dig! Everyone! Dig, dig, and dig out the boss! Quick! Keep digging!"
"Wen Ni! Wen Ni! Wen Ni!!"
Each cry was heart-wrenching!
Beneath the ruins, Wen Ni, bearing the heavy weight of the stone slabs, slowly raised her head.
Even though the communicator was broken, her chapped lips kept murmuring, "I heard it, I heard it..."
"I will definitely... get out of here alive..."
Although the heat in her body was gradually dissipating, the warmth in her heart was burning ever brighter!
She used the arm that was pierced by the nail to support herself on the ground, trembling.
With his other hand behind his back, he tentatively braced himself against the heavy stone slab behind him!
She clenched her teeth, slowly bending downwards, gradually increasing the speed until finally she jerked back, forcefully pulling her body away from the long nail!
"ah……"
The excruciating pain at that moment made Wen Ni tremble uncontrollably!
Her hands, which were supporting her on the stone slab, trembled uncontrollably. Losing her strength, she collapsed to the ground.
The stone slabs, along with other sand and gravel from the ruins, rained down on her...
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