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Du Xiaoyu stood by the well, silently counting the seconds. He kept a firm grip on the pulley, ready to reel in the rope at the first sign of trouble.
‘Qi Si, you have to make it back,’ he thought frantically. ‘I’ve already pissed off that Shang Qingbei kid. If it’s just the two of us, God knows what he’ll try to pull...’
As he fretted, he estimated that enough time had passed. Without hesitation, he began turning the crank, pulling the rope up coil by coil, all the while murmuring a silent prayer: ‘Please, for the love of all that’s holy, don’t let me pull up a corpse or some monster.’
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