He Yi was both shocked and overjoyed to see me. She tried wiping her tears, but they just wouldn’t stop flowing out of her tear ducts. Her eyes looked very misty as a result.

“Is that really you?”

I was still kneeling on the floor when He Yi staggered toward me. Suddenly, she shivered, closed her eyes and broke into tears. “I thought you were gone forever, I thought…”

“Boss, I… you…”

Suddenly, I noticed that her shoulder was hurt. Something had cut through the fabric of her black uniform, and a dangerous amount of blood was gushing out of the wound. Moreover, her right arm was hanging in a way that suggested that it was broken. In fact, now that I got a good look at it, the white sleeve covering her arm was completely drenched in blood.

“Uuuu…”

He Yi looked up and closed her eyes. Tears kept pouring down her cheeks and dripping on my shoulder when suddenly, she suddenly turned limp and collapsed into my arms. Did she… faint?

“Boss?”

Holding He Yi, I glanced at the spot she had climbed out of earlier and saw something frightening. Apparently, she had been held down by a concrete slab with rebars...