Sisi washed up and then went to bed to sleep. This past month, her nerves had been tightly wound, never having slept a full night's rest, so as soon as she lay down, she drifted into dreamland.
Sisi lay prone on the hillside alone, waiting for Shangguan Qing's orders, and also waiting for Tian Xinhua to come to retrieve her. But after firing her last bullet, and still no sign of them, it was not until Sisi could no longer wait and began descending the slope that she discovered the entire company had sacrificed themselves. Intestines, severed hands, severed feet, skulls, blood everywhere—the hillside was strewn with limbs and remains. Sisi, weeping, turned over corpse after corpse.
"Feifei, Zhang Jie, Brother Gangzi, Brother Qinghua, Brother He, Mianhua... sob sob, what's happened to you all? Brother Xin Hua, where are you? Didn't you say you were coming to get me? Brother Xin Hua...."
