She pressed hard against her chest, breathing with difficulty, as though she wanted to do something.
But the intense pain in her chest and the steadily draining warmth from her body made Lis's mind grow increasingly muddled and hazy.
"No!! Mother!!" The girl's grief-stricken scream rang out again.
Hearing that familiar cry, Lis seemed to wake from a dream and unconsciously moved her lips.
"...Rita... Mr. Ren..."
Two figures flashed through her mind.
Then, with a thunderous boom!
The fuel tank of the car pierced by the laser beam finally exploded.
An orange-red fireball erupted in an instant, swallowing Lis and everything inside the vehicle.
"Mother... Mother..." Rita dropped to her knees with a thud, crystalline tears rolling down her face without end.
She covered her mouth, sobbing so hard she could not speak, lowering her head as though refusing to accept reality.
Mother had actually...
No, she could not accept it!
When Ren Yu arrived, all he saw was the blazing fireball produced by the car's exploding fuel tank.
After sensing the life fluctuations within it, his expression turned extremely grim.
This was...
Ms. Lis!
Lis was inside that car! But the car had already exploded!
"How could this happen..."
Ren Yu's expression was cold and severe. He held his palm toward the scene and lightly clenched his fist, and the burning vehicle quickly died down.
Then his figure flickered, and he arrived beside the car, pulling Lis out from inside.
Seeing the terrible state of this woman, Ren Yu furrowed his brow tightly.
The bones in vital parts of her body had all fractured to varying degrees, and large areas of her delicate skin had been badly burned.
Those were not the important part.
The crucial thing was that the left side of Lis's chest, where her heart