"Of course we're going to set up an ambush here!" Chu Sheng said unapologetically.
"If we don't catch them, we just leave. We'll be a little more careful, that's all. What's there to agonize over?!"
Zhu Qing chimed in from the side. "Chu Sheng's right. We can try ambushing them here. If it doesn't work, we leave."
Captain Hui fell silent. How had he missed that option?
Only children chose one or the other. Adults, of course, took both.
Although Chu Sheng had opened his eyes, he still turned to An Xi and Old Man Li. "What about you two?"
A Xin wasn't included in his question. An Xi would tell her herself.
An Xi thought for a moment, then agreed with Chu Sheng. "I also think we'd be better off making some extra preparations here."
Although she was confident in her fighting ability, she didn't know who the other convoy's members were or what Sequences they possessed.
So she didn't dare get overconfident.
Who knew whether their Sequences had some bizarre ability that could kill them?
It was better to prepare.
Old Man Li yawned and shook his head. "I'm fine either way. It's up to you."
When it came to decisions, Old Man Li never opposed their ideas. Or rather, he didn't care about these things at all.
Although he was part of the convoy, he seemed more like a Sequence Adept who remained apart from it.
Captain Hui said nothing. Instead, he began making calculations with the fingers of his right hand while taking a palm-sized tortoise shell from his pocket with his left.
As he calculated, the Eight Trigrams engraved on the shell's back began to glow faintly, and a phantom image of the Eight Trigrams rose above it.
Seeing what he was doing, Chu Sheng