Carry him back?
At the thought of a certain possibility, Gu Jinzhi shuddered, hurriedly unscrewed the cap of the "toothpaste tube," squeezed it out, and drank it down in one gulp.
Seeing him drink it, Li Wei immediately wore a benevolent expression of "the child is teachable."
"I'm telling you..." Her voice was low and earnest, "In the future, you need to be smarter about this kind of thing."
"Look at you, who else would be foolish enough to rush to the Ninth Layer to save people?"
"If you can't beat them, you should run and plan for the future."
At this, she looked at Gu Jinzhi's heart-stoppingly handsome profile, suppressed the envy in her heart, and asked, "You didn't come down alone, did you?"
"With the second batch." Gu Jinzhi's answer was concise.
Perhaps because he drank the nutrient, his throat wasn't as dry, but it was still raspy.
"What about the second batch of people?" Li Wei asked again.
Gu Jinzhi was silent for a long moment. "Either they died in battle, or they retreated."
Li Wei asked again, "Then why didn't you retreat with them?"
Gu Jinzhi: "..."
Li Wei turned her head back, gazing into the gray-white, endless void half a meter away, gasping intermittently. "I never would've imagined that a pampered young master from a prominent lineage would be so devoted to his duty..."
As she spoke, she laboriously raised her lotus-like arm, extended her bandage-wrapped right hand toward Gu Jinzhi, and gave him a thumbs-up.
Gu Jinzhi's dark eyes stared intently at the bandages on Li Wei's fair hand, as well as the blood that had seeped through the surface of the bandages and dried into a dark stain.
He wanted to take her hand and check how severe her injuries were.
Just as