How had a perfectly good arrest operation ended up looking like a division of spoils?
Xia Chong, Scalpel, and the others could not help but feel this strange way about it.
In the end, however, they tacitly divided things up with Lu Xin. Escorting the fourteen remaining armed personnel required at least five vehicles, so Lu Xin generously let them choose first. He took the remaining three, along with the large truck.
Although ownership of the vehicles had been settled, figuring out how to drive them back became a problem.
Lu Xin had originally planned to drive one back himself if necessary, then call Gecko, Han Bing, and Red Snake—or, failing that, find a few more good drivers in Black Marsh City—and have them follow him back to drive the others. But making that trip would take quite a bit of time.
Yet leaving so many vehicles here did not feel particularly safe.
Scalpel of Central City noticed Lu Xin's dilemma and thoughtfully solved the problem for him.
He pulled out four of the armed personnel captured from the Kindling Group and had them temporarily help Lu Xin drive.
They would be taken into custody once they reached Black Marsh City.
Lu Xin gratefully agreed, without feeling that there was anything improper about it.
Central City had said it themselves just now: after taking these armed personnel back, they would have to notify Kindling to come redeem them.
How was that any different from kidnapping?
At least he had not done anything illegal, right?
...He had only picked up a few vehicles along the road!
Thus, several resigned Kindling Group soldiers soon climbed into the four modified off-road vehicles in front, heads hanging as they prepared to drive their own cars into Black Marsh City. It felt like prisoners driving