Leaving a few police officers behind to evacuate the hostages, Xia You, Erika, and Looker led the remaining officers onward toward the top of the tower.
After losing the TV station's main building, all those people had retreated to the tower's summit, continuing to fight like cornered beasts.
In truth, Xia You had never been able to understand what Team Rocket hoped to achieve with this operation.
This high-profile operation undoubtedly invited trouble, exposing them to the public without any cover. It was certain to cause panic and resistance, and for Team Rocket, the harm would definitely outweigh the drawbacks!
Was it merely for that declaration just now?
But what then?
Unable to make sense of it no matter how he thought about it, Xia You could only guess that something must have gone wrong within Team Rocket, causing the executives and Giovanni to temporarily lose contact for some reason. Or, to venture a bolder guess, Giovanni had deliberately abandoned these people in exchange for some strategic objective unknown to them.
Lost and uncertain, these people could only resort to this desperate measure, banding together for support and using it to search for Giovanni.
As these thoughts ran through his mind, they retraced their steps and reached the passage connecting to the top of the tower.
A staircase spiraled upward here. Originally, two elevators provided direct access to the top floor, but Team Rocket had long since taken control of them and locked them down. Now, the only way up was to climb this long flight of stairs.
At the same time, Team Rocket's resistance here was exceptionally fierce. All kinds of moves poured down the narrow staircase from above, so densely that it was impossible to advance another step.
The unrelenting attacks even made the entire tower tremble slightly,