"That's right."
Li Hu nodded in acknowledgment. Looking at the boy before him, he remembered that their first meeting had also been in the desert.
Back then, although Ye Qing had been powerful, he had not yet been beyond Li Hu's ability to defeat.
But now, the gap between them was truly enormous, so vast that he was not even qualified to trail behind him.
Seeing the tense atmosphere between them, Xie Yu stepped forward to explain. "Brother Ye Qing, don't misunderstand. We only managed to escape thanks to Li Hu's help."
"You helped them escape?"
That did surprise Ye Qing, but why had Li Hu helped Xie Yu and the others escape?
And Wang Yao had also been in Team R before. What was his relationship with Li Hu?
Most importantly, because of his eldest brother, Team R should have taken a series of measures against him by now. Could Li Hu be an undercover agent they had sent?
After all, Team R was well versed in such matters. Even the massive Pokémon League had been thoroughly infiltrated.
All these factors forced Ye Qing to think these questions through, because Wang Yao's killing of Luo Moyun back then had been rather inexplicable.
Could someone with Wang Yao's meager skills really have sneaked into the heavily guarded residential compound for the Pokémon League's immediate family members?
And what sort of place was Team R?
Xie Yu and the others' escape alone made that clear. Even with all six of them together, they had barely survived.
Then how had Wang Yao escaped from the heavily guarded Team R before?
Could Team R have deliberately arranged it?
Faced with so many suspicious points, Ye Qing had no choice but to consider them.
"In that case, I'll leave first."
Li Hu knew what