Mo Chen's eyes were filled with confusion and disbelief...
His expression was captured by Luo Xiaole.
She was also very curious what he had seen to make Mo Chen wear such an expression.
"What's wrong?" she rushed over.
Mo Chen pressed his temples with some pain, "Nothing, the plan continues."
Luo Xiaole was a little worried, but this was not the time to worry.
She watched as Wang Biao and Lin Xia tied up the incapacitated ability users after knocking them out.
She quickly pulled out the two Level 2 reinforced daggers from her pocket and nodded at Zhou He, who had just run out from behind the wooden frame.
"I'll rescue them. You help them stop the bleeding first. We'll talk about the rest of the injuries back at the base. Be sure to manage your energy and don't over-consume your abilities. We have many people to save!" Luo Xiaole quickly instructed.
Zhou He didn't say much. Although Luo Xiaole's strategy was reasonable, she still felt uncomfortable. She didn't think anyone could boss her around.
However, if she completed the task well, Mo Chen would surely look at her differently. This was a good opportunity to showcase her abilities.
"Then let's start," Luo Xiaole said without hesitation, rushing to the nearest cross.
She carefully angled her small knife and chopped down, slicing off a large portion of the hook on the ability user's chest and the entire rear half of the hook attached to the person's body.
Then, she supported the ability user with her left hand and with a flip of her right hand, directly cut through the chain binding the person.
The person collapsed towards her in a sorry state.
Luo Xiaole used all her strength to catch him, then used a leverage technique to gently place him on the ground.
Miss Zhou He walked over with light steps, unwilling to even bend her waist. She directly extended her hand, emanating a condescending aura and using her healing ability.
She stopped the blood that was still seeping from the person's chest.
Then she cast a proud glance at Luo Xiaole beside her.
Luo Xiaole, meanwhile, had already followed suit and rescued the second ability user.
But as the person fell, their entire weight landed on her wrist.
Luo Xiaole let out a muffled groan of pain, then made no further sound, placing the person on the ground as if nothing had happened.
Zhou He snorted, "So slow." She continued to provide healing.
At this point, Lin Xia and the others had also dealt with the remaining less capable members of the stronghold guarding the entrance, tying them all up and forcing them to hand over their communicators.
By delaying them, no one could get out to spread the word, allowing them to gain more time for rescue inside the cave.
After doing all this, Lin Xia and the others also hurried over, each receiving a dagger reinforced with Luo Xiaole's "Blade of the World."
They all followed Luo Xiaole's example and rescued all the bound ability users.
This time, Zhou He was a bit overwhelmed. Stopping bleeding was much less difficult for a healing ability user than actual healing.
However, seeing more and more ability users being rescued and realizing so many people were waiting for her to stop their bleeding, she became nervous, and her rescue speed slowed down.
This time, it was Wang Biao who urged her, "So slow! Hurry up, Miss."
"You!" Zhou He was somewhat angry, but she glanced at Mo Chen, who seemed to be watching, and reluctantly bit her lip, continuing to stop the bleeding for others.
A crisp bone-cracking sound suddenly echoed.
Zhou He looked up and saw Luo Xiaole walking over, her face pale and her strength waning.
"Please heal my wrist," Luo Xiaole managed to say, as if squeezing the words through her teeth.
"Why are you speaking so sarcastically?" Zhou He pouted. "I'm busy. I still have so many people to stop bleeding for. I'll heal you later!"
Luo Xiaole supported her right hand with her left and held it up for Zhou He to see. "Sorry, please heal it first. This is affecting the rescue."
"Xiaole!" Wang Biao's loud voice boomed. He looked at Luo Xiaole's right hand dangling in the air, seemingly completely out of control. "My god, what happened to your hand!"
A figure silently landed beside Luo Xiaole in an instant. He carefully cupped her wrist, his brows deeply furrowed. "It's broken," Mo Chen's voice amplified in the empty cave.
"Zhou He, quickly!" His voice was surprisingly anxious.
"Zhou He, don't just stand there, hurry up and heal her!" Lin Xia also called out anxiously.
Only then did Zhou He reluctantly step forward, giving Mo Chen a resentful look. It was the first time he had called her name so directly, and it was because of this Luo Xiaole!
Under everyone's watchful eyes, she had no choice but to heal the injury.
"There. Your hand won't break again, and I've added a protective layer," Zhou He's voice came out muffled.
Luo Xiaole rotated her wrist and felt a supporting force. The broken bones and tendons in her wrist seemed to have reconnected.
However, for some reason, there was still a dull ache.
But this was likely an old injury. She was used to the pain anyway, as long as it didn't affect her rescue efforts.
Luo Xiaole, appearing as if lightly injured but unwilling to leave the front lines, wiped the sweat from her brow and plunged back into the rescue efforts.
Behind her, Zhou He showed a smile of unknown origin.
She had indeed reconnected Luo Xiaole's bones and added a protective layer, but no one else knew that she had not fully restored Luo Xiaole's hand to its normal state of bone and flesh connection.
She had stopped just before the healing was complete.
Now, at the fracture site of Luo Xiaole's bone, there were still countless tiny cracks. The protective layer was merely to create a false impression, temporarily supporting these cracks.
What Luo Xiaole would face next was an impending, bone-deep pain. And as Luo Xiaole used this hand more frequently in the future, those cracks would gradually tear open and expand.
If no further treatment was sought, this hand would eventually become completely useless over time!
Zhou He's smile faded, and she looked at Luo Xiaole dismissively. She hadn't actually intended to kill Luo Xiaole; she just wanted her to suffer!
At worst, she could remind her to seek treatment after the mission was over.
Soon, the group had rescued all the ability users hanging on the crosses.
Luo Xiaole touched her aching wrist and finally let out a sigh of relief through gritted teeth.
She looked up at the rescued ability users and quickly went to help up the young lady with brown hair from the residential area earlier.
"Big sister! Woo woo woo, I knew you'd come save me!" A voice next to her suddenly wailed.
Luo Xiaole turned and saw it was Xiao Zhen...
No wonder he hadn't answered her calls back then. So he had been captured and brought here too.
"It's okay now, everyone take a breather. We need to leave this place quickly," Luo Xiaole's quiet voice was a solace to many.
"Hoo... hoo..." An ability user Luo Xiaole didn't recognize beside her suddenly began to pant heavily.
The sound was very wrong.
"Hh... Damn it... So... painful... They all... deserve to die!!!" The person's eyes were filled with rage.
At this moment, the flames in his eyes seemed ready to burn everyone else to ashes!
Ignoring the pain from the hook on his chest, his condition took a sudden turn.
Luo Xiaole watched in horror as the white vortex above his head rapidly turned black!
"Fall back!" Luo Xiaole shouted.
Everyone had almost forgotten that excessive anger, to a certain extent, could lead to...
Reanimation!