Bearded Man looked troubled. Irritably, he scratched his head.
"Let them go? So many of our men went to all that trouble and spent so much time capturing them, and you think we can just let them go? Even if we did, how would we do it? That's a huge problem on its own. We could end up losing our own people when we release them."
"Then what do you think we should do? We're already in trouble. If we don't let them go, China could get serious about this, and then we'll be in even deeper trouble."
M said.
Bearded Man waved his hand. "All right, all right, all right. Just go. You're making me angrier by the minute."
The girl pouted and turned to leave.
After she was gone, Bearded Man asked the big man, "What do you think we should do?"
The big man said:
"Boss, I also think we should let him go. But we need to give our men an explanation. We can't just release him like that. Every person here was captured by our brothers, who risked their lives to get them. Each one is worth at least five hundred thousand dollars. If we just let them go, we'd have no way to explain it to our men."
Bearded Man scratched his head again, looking thoroughly troubled.
He leaned back in his chair. "This is such a damn headache."
After a moment, he waved a hand. "Go on. Let me think about it."
Meanwhile, in China.
At a certain army group's Special Operations Brigade, the Wolf Warriors Special Operations Team was celebrating.
Squad leader Yuan Hong was attending the victory banquet with the soldiers who had just won the exercise.
The cooks had prepared a feast, and the soldiers had brought over box