Ye Ruan reached into his pocket, and his expression suddenly changed.
He Zhou understood almost instantly. "The Rabbit Recorder?"
"I put it in my jacket." Ignoring his injuries, Ye Ruan took off his jacket and searched through it.
It wasn't there.
He had lost it in the melee.
Lou Yu asked groggily, "The recorder? That piano piece?"
"Yeah." Drained of strength, Ye Ruan leaned against Yang Xiaomian.
"Forget it... It was just a delusion to begin with. I couldn't hold on to it."
He Zhou struggled to get up. "They should have left by now. I'll go look for it for you."
Ye Ruan had kept that thing with him for decades. He Zhou didn't understand that piano piece he had listened to ten thousand times, or perhaps even more.
Why had Ye Ruan never grown tired of it?
Whenever he was injured or in a bad mood, he would always take it out.
But He Zhou knew it meant a great deal to his captain.
"No. You're not going back there and risking your life."
Despite what he said, Ye Ruan was clearly devastated. He buried his face in his arms without another word.
Delusion.
That word pierced Lu Yao's heart, too.
Fox lay unconscious before him after losing too much blood.
He was a delusion, too.
After taking a moment to compose himself, Ye Ruan switched on his Communicator and reported their situation as captain.
As luck would have it, half of the First Team was also in D Country. Upon receiving the distress call, all ten members stationed there rushed over.
The Off-Road Vehicles charged in as a convoy and picked up every member of both teams.
Lu Yao hoisted the unconscious Fox onto his back and was the first to be escorted out.
They reached the