Silver Fox glanced at Jiang Yan Hai but said nothing. Sometimes, he did not know where Academician Jiang Ling got her confidence from. Or did she truly believe they could not take her out of China?
Could there be some other possibility?
With that thought, Silver Fox considered it for a moment. Safety came first, so he verified every piece of information from their entire journey again. He also logged into social media sites like Weibo on an unrelated phone and checked the news from the Guangdong and Guangxi region.
After confirming that there was no news about provinces being locked down on the trending lists—only reports of military exercises near the strait—he knew without thinking that the exercises were merely a pretext for searching for them. Of that, Silver Fox was certain.
The government could indeed conceal certain information, but major news with widespread impact could not be hidden. For example, if two provinces were locked down, there was no way such news could be suppressed. It would inevitably trend online. No matter what excuse they eventually gave, people like them would know the real reason.
But none of that was happening now. That meant the other side probably did not know about their operation. Once they left the docks in Beihai, catching them would become even more impossible.
After leaving here, they would enter Vietnam's territorial waters before long. Given China's usual approach, it would not do anything too excessive. That also meant their chances of shaking off pursuit from that side would increase greatly.
Of course, given the current international situation, they could not act recklessly even in Vietnam, nor could they seek help from official channels. If the other side discovered them, Vietnam's authorities would definitely comply with China's request to search for and arrest them.