They rushed to the room at the further end of the corridor, where Lei Yan was looking at something at her feet.
Seeing this, Bai Meiyue heaved a sigh of relief. She thought that Lu Yin caught hold of Lei Yan. fortunately, that wasn’t the case.
She walked over and looked down at the woman who was lying next to Lei Yan’s feet. Her clothes were tattered and there was a hideous injury on the side of her stomach.
"Sister Yue, she-she is dying." Lei Yan turned to look at Bai Meiyue and spoke with reddened eyes. Throughout her life, she had lived like a little princess; Lei Yan had never seen someone die in front of her. At least she had never felt this helpless before.
"I wanted to see what was inside the closet and I pulled it open, and this woman fell out. Now she is pleading with me and I don’t know what to do."
"Sav–Save me," the woman groaned weakly; her cloudy eyes lit up when she saw Bai Meiyue and she exclaimed, "Benefactor, it is you."
Bai Meiyue looked down and turned the torch towards the woman; she carefully recalled the appearance of the woman and tentatively called out, "Tong Huan?"
"He..Hey, it is me.."
Lei Yan was confused when she saw the two of them greeting one another. She turned and asked, "Sister, do you know her?"
"I met with her when I was looking for supplies."
Tong Huan raised her head slightly and took a good look at Bai Meiyue before sliding up and taking out a ball of rubber from the bag that she was clutching in her hands. She handed the ball to Bai Meiyue and said,
"I–I will return this to you, benefactor."
Only then did Bai Meiyue realise that Tong Huan was actually returning the inflatable rubbed boat that she had given to her.
"Its a bit broken but if you patch it up, you can still use it," Tong Huan said to Bai Meiyue. "I have no use for it anymore." She added with a sad smile.
Though she was pleading with Lei Yan, Tong Huan knew that her chances of survival were not good.
"You can keep it," Bai Meiyue crouched down and studied her wound carefully. "Let me take a look at your wounds first."
"There is no point," Tong Huan sighed. She pulled her clothes and showed her wounds to Bai Meiyue and the rest.
The wound on her abdomen was not simple. It seemed like someone had chopped and then scooped the flesh out; there were countless bite marks around the wound and her ribs could be seen vaguely.
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