Prepared for Any Event

Xiao Moshan's worries were a little unnecessary. Setting up an ambush ahead of time really would not have been easy.

The main problem was that no one knew which direction You You would flee after being rescued.

Moreover, only a tiny handful of people in the military were involved in this, and they did not dare make it public. Where would they find that many people? Over an hour later, the off-road vehicle came to a stop. Ten minutes after that, a figure appeared strangely—it was Paranoid.

Old Lady Jia's nose twitched, and she frowned slightly. "You didn't even know to clean yourselves up after acting?"

"Don't mention it." Paranoid shook his head and replied resentfully, "There was actually an A-rank Poison Attribute user..."

When they had first devised the rescue plan, Qu Jianlei had suggested that someone stay behind to provide covert protection.

It would certainly have been fine for the three Supremes to travel together. If anyone still refused to give up, they could conveniently scare them away.

However, Qu Jianlei believed that scaring off pursuers was the inferior option.

If the other side truly were the sort of disgusting people who went back on their word, realizing they could not achieve their goal might very well make them lash out in anger and take other actions.

For example, they might anonymously notify other members of the military. If that happened, escaping Planet Three would become much more difficult for them.

So it would be better to leave someone behind in ambush. If pursuers appeared, they could decisively kill them.

Paranoid had volunteered for the rearguard duty. He followed the off-road vehicle and protected it in secret, and he had indeed waited for pursuers.

There had only been three pursuers: one peak A-rank Earth Attribute user, one B-rank