Ye Shijie nodded at Gu Shanjun and said firmly, "Director Gu, that's exactly what happened. I originally planned to wait before making a move, but our team members hate evil and couldn't stand the human traffickers' atrocities, so after informing me, they opened fire early. But it was also with my permission that we changed the plan."
In truth, they had not gotten his approval. He simply did not want Xia Chujian to seem too unruly and headstrong before someone as important as Gu Shanjun.
Though they were a civilian organization, the Association's management system was militarized.
They placed great emphasis on following orders during operations.
Yet Gu Shanjun did not care about such details in the slightest.
He merely stared at the photograph, his feelings extremely complicated.
After a long while, he finally shut off the photo's projection and said to Ye Shijie, "If what you're saying is true, then something we don't know about must have happened between the time you left and the Regular Army stepped in."
Ye Shijie still looked incredulous. "...Those victims all died? They really all died?"
"They did indeed all die. Their families have already identified the Corpses." Gu Shanjun briefly explained what had happened afterward.
Although Xia Chujian did not understand all the intricacies involved, she keenly sensed that the Dark Night Hunter Association had connections with the so-called "Regular Army."
It seemed they even shared information.
Otherwise, how could they have obtained photos from the "Regular Army"? Xia Chujian's eyes flickered slightly as she silently shifted her gaze toward the entrance.
What she did not say was that although the missing Victim in Ye Shijie's photo had not shown her face,
when Xia Chujian rescued her, she had still caught a glimpse of her features through her Sniper Rifle's Scope.
Though