The mechanism exit beneath the city wall was not very large, but that was not a problem. They could simply dispatch several large engineering vehicles, hoist the Taotie corpses onto the wall, then lower them down from the other side.
One thing did put Jiang Yan Hai and the others at ease: these Taotie did not play dead. As long as they could move, they would obey the Beast King's orders. Thus, none of those left behind were alive; every one of them was dead.
Although not many Taotie corpses had remained intact under the barrage of bullets, they had still killed several thousand Taotie. Finding a few complete corpses among them was easy enough.
Some Taotie corpses that Commander Lin and the others had transported back earlier had only just been handed over to the rear medical team. But those were no different from animal carcasses. With the temperature so high, they were already beginning to decay, and there was not much that could be studied from them.
These corpses, however, were different. They were complete, fresh bodies—perfect specimens for biologists.
Once the corpses had been dragged back, they were immediately loaded onto vehicles and transported to the rear. After an initial dissection, they would likely obtain some useful answers right away.
Up on the wall, Jiang Yan Hai stood with Commander Lin and the others. Commander Lin looked at Jiang Yan Hai, her expression complicated.
She was deeply conflicted. Someone more sanctimonious might have directly asked, "Since you possess such overwhelming strength, why didn't you tell us sooner? If you had, not only would so many brothers of the Shadowless Imperial Guard not have died, but tens of thousands of civilians and soldiers in Bianliang would not have died either."
They could all have survived.
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