Luo Xingyou grabbed the woman's waist tightly from the side, while Gu Wan struggled to grab her arm. The two of them worked together to barely stop her. The huge inertia caused all three of them to stagger and crash into the wall with a dull thud.
The woman was subdued and stopped struggling. Instead, she slid down the wall to the ground, knelt on both knees, and began to kowtow repeatedly, her forehead hitting the cold cement floor with dull thuds.
A muffled sound came from her throat, and the pain contained in that sound instantly brought tears to Wen Qing's eyes.
Yu Wei's face turned deathly pale in an instant.
She turned to Lu Nange: "Miss Lu... she's begging us to kill her. She's begging us to give her a quick death..."
The room was deathly silent. Xie Linlin and her group, left in the corridor, felt as if an invisible hand was gripping their hearts.
Giving death to the desperate is sometimes the only mercy.
But they came to rescue people...
Lu Nange looked at the woman who kept kowtowing, her forehead covered in blood and flesh, and at the utter stillness in her eyes, devoid of even a glimmer of light.
The silence that lasted a few seconds was so heavy it was suffocating.
She closed her eyes very slowly, and when she opened them again, only a cold determination remained in her eyes.
She didn't say anything, but simply flipped her hand and took out a pistol with a silencer from her spatial storage, then walked towards the woman.
Yu Wei's lips trembled as she looked at the woman kowtowing, then at Lu Nange, her eyes filled with struggle.
"Miss Lu, could you... let me do it?" Yu Wei's voice was so soft it sounded like it was about to break.
Lu Nange glanced at her: "Do you know how to use it?"
Yu Wei nodded, and Lu Nange handed her the gun. She took the heavy gun, her fingers icy cold.
She walked up to the woman and squatted down.
The woman seemed to sense something, lifting her face, soaked with tears, blood, and sweat, from Luo Xingyou's embrace and looking at Yu Wei.
What's heartbreaking is that there was no fear in those eyes, only an almost devout...gratitude and relief.
Yu Wei's tears welled up.
She reached out her free hand and, with utmost gentleness, smoothed the woman's blood-stuck hair from her forehead, her voice choked with sobs, almost inaudible: "...Sleep...the pain will subside when you're asleep..."
The woman took Yu Wei's unarmed hand and wrote on Yu Wei's palm with her finger: "My name is Shi Ya, thank you!"
Yu Wei: "Shi Ya?"
Shi Ya nodded, and Yu Wei raised her hand holding the gun, the muzzle of which was firmly pressed against Shi Ya's temple.
"puff--"
A sound so faint it was like a sigh.
Shi Ya's body trembled violently, then collapsed completely.
The contorted pain on her face miraculously eased, and a faint, relieved smile even appeared at the corners of her mouth.
Yu Wei remained crouched, the gun slipping from her hand and falling to the ground with a clatter.
She bent down and gently hugged the still-warm body, her shoulders shaking violently, and the silent sobs made her curl up.
After doing all this, Yu Wei felt as if all her strength had been drained away. She slid down the wall and sat on the ground, burying her face in her knees, letting out suppressed, broken sobs.
Lu Nange walked to her side, said nothing, but placed a hand heavily on her shoulder.
"Remember their faces, remember the helplessness of today, remember this pain. Then, transform all of this into the power to shatter the rock!"
She raised her head, her gaze sweeping over the grief-stricken yet resolute faces of each team member: "Now is not the time for sorrow. We need to hurry!"
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