Now that the three factions had formed an alliance, asking for help and sending support were only to be expected. Otherwise, what was the point of an alliance? How was it any different from each faction fighting on its own?
When Xiao Wei and Xiao Tong went to deliver the message, Jiang Ying didn't linger there either. She quietly left with them.
She could tell, of course, that Master Bo had sent the two of them to get reinforcements. Jiang Ying also had a rough understanding of the delicate relationship between the three factions.
They had only formed their alliance earlier that day, which made it all but certain that they had joined forces after learning what had happened to Xie Chun Base. The fate of Xie Chun Base had frightened them. Only that kind of fear could have driven them to form an alliance.
Otherwise, how could three factions that had each fought alone and kept one another at arm's length have formed an alliance so quickly? Without any preliminary steps at all?
The one who had proposed the alliance was the leader of the Cloud Valley Faction. Jiang Ying surmised that Old Wang of the Cloud Valley Faction had been the first to learn of Xie Chun Base's destruction.
So Jiang Ying stayed alert and followed Xiao Wei, who was heading to Cloud Valley to ask for help, keeping well out of sight along the way.
Jiang Ying and the others had gained plenty of experience at Xie Chun Base. They knew that the Bizarre Tree wasn't cultivating agents as indiscriminately as before. Generally, each base had only one Top Agent. That agent was responsible for recruiting all the other talented people.
That showed the Bizarre Tree's trust in the agent, while also saving it a great deal