Gao Guang finally held Laura's hand.
Laura was too weak. She had undergone a six-hour surgery, even longer than the operation for Patrick, who had been shot twice.
That damned shooter used a damned SKS with a damned tri-edged bayonet.
The tri-edged bayonet isn't as powerful as the legends claim—like poison-tipped blades or guarantees of death upon injury—all of those are just myths.
But what's true is that wounds caused by the tri-edged bayonet are hard to stitch together, difficult to treat, and when it pierces straight through a person, perforating multiple layers of intestines, it becomes nearly impossible to repair.
That's why Laura required six hours of surgery, followed by another six hours in a hospital in Minsk after being transported there by plane.
Now Gao Guang and his crew were all in Belarus, the nearest place with relatively good medical facilities—Minsk to be specific.
