Twenty-four minutes before Min Zimo's team broke through.
Li Wei took the hemostatic spray from the emergency medical kit issued before the operation.
The silver spray can felt ice-cold in her hand.
She pressed the nozzle against the gruesome tear on the web of her right hand.
Hiss—
"Agh—!"
The sharp, burning pain made her scalp tingle; the feeling was not far off from dousing a wound with alcohol.
Frowning tightly, she aimed the spray at the long, bloody scratch slashed across her ribs by a tentacle.
Hiss—
"Ouch~"
The searing pain made her tense almost every muscle in her body.
After enduring the initial few seconds, she breathed a slight sigh of relief, watching the blood at the wound rapidly coagulate.
Following that, she took the toothpaste-like regeneration gel from the medical kit, spread it evenly over the wound, and wrapped it with a bandage.
Done!
She moved her right hand a little and gently twisted her waist, a look of surprise appearing on her face.
The pain in the web of her hand and her ribs had all but vanished, replaced by a tingling itch and a lingering sensation of coolness.
After treating her wounds and casting one glance at the withered, shrunken corpse of the tier-3 Octopus Monster on the ground, she wasted no more time, turned around, and charged once again into the deep stairwell.
Twenty-three minutes before Min Zimo's team broke through.
At the rift exit plaza, in front of the temporarily erected field hospital.
Space rippled in a distortion, and a young man stumbled out, crashing heavily onto the ground.
His entire body was soaked in dark red blood, his right shoulder was empty and ragged, the fracture jagged, and blood was still spurting out in gushes.
"Quick! A stretcher!" a paramedic screamed.
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