Change
With the additional variable of "Saint" Jaharlal Choudhury, the original lightning strike plan was delayed.
After all, plans could never keep up with changes. If they launched a forced attack, the Canada operation team's opponents would likely be more than just those defectors. They would also have to deal with the people from the "Saint's Association." There were at least thirty of them, and none were amateurs. Anyone who dared come deep into the Rocky Mountains to conduct a deal was certainly no harmless person.
This meant the operation team would suffer some unnecessary casualties and give Institute 507 an enemy for no reason.
They might not necessarily fear the "Saint's Association," but there was no need to make enemies without cause, was there?
Besides, if the operation team charged in without a care, the bewildered people from the "Saint's Association" would be caught in a dilemma: they could neither fight back unexpectedly nor simply refuse to fight.
As long as the defectors from the Nine Provinces Xuan Association had even a little sense, they would definitely drag the "Saint's Association" into the mess without hesitation. They would not hesitate to use any underhanded or deceitful scheme.
After waiting for more than an hour, the operation team's main force arrived ahead of schedule, even detouring around a patrol squad along the way.
From this, they could also determine that the ordinary human patrol squads wandering outside the terrain barrier were spaced roughly an hour and a half apart. There were probably about ten squads in total. This was likely the most manpower those defectors could produce.
There might be more than a thousand people, but many of them were family members—the old and the young. The number of able-bodied adults they could deploy was ultimately limited, especially with such