Paranoid curled his lip when he heard that. "Even if you'd known back then, Ironhide Snake, you might not have dared to get involved!"
He knew perfectly well that Digital Phantom had not yet made a name for itself at the time. As a Guardian Supreme, the other party would have been more likely to act to capture fugitives!
But he could not be bothered to spell it out and merely replied casually, "That's why you're someone without fate. Once some opportunities are missed, they're simply gone!"
Ironhide Snake did not press the matter further, because he also knew very clearly just how vast the gap in strength between the two sides was.
He merely asked seriously, "Can we return safely?"
"We have no need to target you," Paranoid said lazily. "As long as you don't get too greedy."
Ironhide Snake's eyes lit up. "Then the gains from the expedition..."
"That's not something you can covet," Paranoid answered without hesitation. "Unless you can enter the expedition area yourselves..."
"Then... all right," Ironhide Snake nodded, and the heavy stone in his heart finally dropped.
His question had not come from greed clouding his judgment. He mainly wanted to use it to test the other side's attitude indirectly.
Now he could be certain that they truly had no interest in doing them harm. Otherwise, why would they have spoken so bluntly?
After twenty days of rest and recovery, the group finally began to act.
Qu Jianlei deployed two Alliance Division Level Ships and launched Main Gun attacks at the Light Orb from a distance of five to six hundred kilometers.
The attacks landed in the Light Orb without causing any reaction.
But immediately afterward, two beams of black light shot out and precisely enveloped the two Division Level Ships.
Strictly speaking, black