As Maitreya apologized to Zhang Heng, two more police cars pulled up at the entrance to the amusement park. Besides two squads of heavily armed Federal Police, three people dressed exactly like those beneath the Ferris wheel stepped out. Needless to say, they were also members of the Emergency Response Squad.
Seeing the three of them, Maitreya finally breathed a sigh of relief.
His mission tonight was no light one. He needed to use Zhang Heng to draw the Emergency Response Squad's main force away from the station, creating the conditions for the cargo to be transported back to the First Layer. To cooperate with him, another courier had already made a sacrifice. Maitreya had received word twenty minutes earlier that the latter had been discovered and shot dead by the Emergency Response Squad while infiltrating the station.
That left only Zhang Heng and himself among the ten couriers. The Emergency Response Squad had no reason not to commit their forces in full.
But in truth, the so-called nine decoys and one real courier had been nothing more than a lie spread by Mr. G. Of the ten couriers, only Maitreya had truly met with the trader and completed the transaction, but he had only been responsible for the exchange itself. Once it was completed, the cargo was no longer on him.
In other words, all ten couriers had merely been expendable bait. Someone else was responsible for transporting the cargo back to the First Layer.
And Maitreya's final task was to clear the way for the real delivery person.
"I'm sorry, friend." Maitreya apologized to Zhang Heng again. "Everything that happened tonight was never Mr. G's or my intention. We were simply forced into it by the circumstances. Shen Tang Morgan's influence in New Shanghai 0297 is simply too