Commander Li had stopped believing in getting rescued three days ago.
Maybe even longer, considering how hard it was to tell the passing of time in this hellhole of a basement. Here a second felt like an hour and and hour felt like a week.
But he absolutely refused to even entertain the idea of giving up.
In fact, Commander Li Wenqiang didn't know how to give up. He had spent too many years clawing himself upward through the military ranks for something as simple as exhaustion or fear to break him now.
But there was a difference between continuing to fight and believing reinforcements were coming.
The only thing he regretted was not realizing that the hotel had become a graveyard long before he and his men took their first step inside.
At first, it had looked like salvation.
