Fortunately, with the headquarters' latest disguise technology and the help of spies within the Pokémon League, Lance was confident that his disguise had no flaws whatsoever.
Moreover, over this period, he had repeatedly confirmed that there were no informants sent by the Kanto Alliance in the hospital. If they were going to make a move, it would be within the next few days.
He would have the disposable pawns below stir up some trouble to draw the Vermilion City police's attention, then take advantage of the chaos to directly abduct that person whose brain might be a little defective.
After the failure of Project Rainstorm, coupled with Boss Sakaki's true identity being exposed within the Pokémon League, the headquarters could only choose to temporarily scale back its operations, recuperate, and wait for a chance to rise again.
Just like the Modified Poké Ball Project that Lance was managing.
They provided certain Trainers who liked taking shortcuts with Modified Poké Balls that were "high-performance," had "high capture rates," and could make Pokémon "obedient regardless of level."
Then, they would gradually spread those Modified Poké Balls implanted with Team Rocket's specially made signal devices into every corner of Kanto, Johto, and even other regions, laying the groundwork. This was one of the plans personally issued by Boss Sakaki.
This plan had been explicitly assigned to Lance.
Boss Sakaki had paid a huge price, sacrificing several deeply embedded pieces within the Kanto Alliance to get the three of them out.
If he still failed to produce any results, Lance's position as an executive would likely be over.
The same went for Apollo and Athena. They were each handling their own respective assignments as well.
Lance would never allow unexpected variables to appear in the plan under his charge.
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