"Quick! Pull them up!" Thorne ordered immediately.
The three mercenaries hauled hand over hand, steadily drawing the hemp ropes upward.
For anyone else, with an adult hanging from the other end and the weight of several thousand meters of thumb-thick hemp rope, pulling it up would have been out of the question. Simply holding it steady would have been impressive enough.
But these three mercenaries were no ordinary people.
Not only had they taken the Level 1 Gene-Enhancement Drug, they had also completed the first set of the Body-Strengthening Exercise. With over a thousand jin of strength in their hands, hauling someone up was a breeze.
A little over ten minutes later, the three people were pulled out one after another.
Shen Bing looked them over, his eyes filled with curiosity and a measure of surprise.
Three living people! Well, that was to be expected. They could not have tugged on the ropes if they were dead—even though Shen Bing and the others had already prepared themselves for the possibility that all three had died on the other side.
Still, the three looked thoroughly bedraggled. Apart from being utterly exhausted, they were covered in dust and grime, as though they had just walked off a battlefield.
"I'm very happy to see you!" Shen Bing said with a broad smile.
There was nothing false about that. He genuinely was happy.
The three were happy too, because they had made it back alive.
"Now you've earned the right to tell us your names," Shen Bing said. "Although your past crimes were enough to warrant death by a thousand cuts, what you're doing now can atone for some of them. You aren't idiots. I'm sure you understand what your work means to humanity."
"Yes! We understand!" one of them hurriedly replied, fighting through