Xiao Ran gave El-Elf three days to prepare, but in doing so, he made what had originally been a simple Armed Reconnaissance mission extremely complicated. Within those three days, El-Elf had to select the members who would carry out the mission and draw up a reasonable plan.
Though it was called Armed Reconnaissance and appeared to be an investigation into the former territory of Jior, the true direction of the mission lay within the territory of the Dolcia Military State. Even if they went to old Jior territory, it would only be a feint before they turned directly toward the Dolcia Military State.
Only after arriving in the Dolcia Military State would this team's real mission begin. They had to rescue Lizerlute, find where the Technicians were being held, locate one of the Magius Breeding Ships that Xiao Ran was after, and then escape from the Dolcia Military State with all those people. No matter how one looked at it, none of that would be easy.
The first task was to locate where the Technicians were being detained. The search had to be carried out in secret and could not alert the Dolcia Military State. Otherwise, it was highly likely that Dolcia would hide the Technicians even more thoroughly, to the point where they could no longer be found.
Xiao Ran could cooperate with the Royalist Faction of the Dolcia Military State and obtain the intelligence he wanted from them. At that moment, a representative of Dolcia's Royalist Faction had secretly arrived in Module 77 and was waiting to meet Xiao Ran. They presumably hoped to use the power in his hands to achieve some of their own goals, so the two sides did have a basis for cooperation.
Even if they cooperated with the Royalist Faction, obtained accurate intelligence,