"Chris... you..." Mike looked at the ends of Zhang Surou's hair, which had turned white. Even without knowing why, he knew she must have paid a terrible price to kill those Titans.
"Shut up! Don't turn around!" Zhang Surou took off her cropped Survey Corps jacket, tore half of it off, and wrapped it around the wound on Mike's back, tying a tight knot. Then she took off her undershirt and knotted it tightly around her own waist to restrict circulation and reduce the bleeding.
Zhang Surou wore short shorts and hadn't had much fabric covering her to begin with. Even her jacket had been cut down and altered by her own hands. Now she was practically naked, wearing only a breast wrap.
"Oh, okay!" With his back to Zhang Surou, Mike realized she had taken off her clothes to stop his bleeding. He felt both embarrassed and touched.
"All right, let's just sit here and wait to die," Zhang Surou said, sitting down on the ground too.
Just then, hoofbeats rang out.
"Miss Chris!" Sasha's startled voice reached Zhang Surou's ears.
"Sasha!" Zhang Surou was overjoyed.
"Oh? Have all the Titans over there been cleared out?" Zeke looked toward the Tower several hundred meters away, where clouds of Titan steam were drifting through the air.
"Ugh, what a pain." Zeke extended his enormous furry hand and plunged all five fingers into the earth. The ground shattered instantly, breaking into chunks of stone that he gathered in his palm. Thick dust slowly spilled between the Beast Titan's fingers.
Several hundred meters away, Chen Si saw this and immediately shouted, "Quick! Everyone get inside the Tower, find cover, and get down!"
The members of the 104th Cadet Corps and the residents who had just narrowly escaped death immediately ducked inside