"Trying to run?"
Drake immediately saw through Ye Li's diversionary tactic.
A smile full of "approval" appeared on his face.
"Interesting."
Rather than chase Ye Li, he focused all his attention on the Team Rocket elites covering the retreat before him.
"If you want to play, I'll give you a proper game."
He ordered Dragonite, who had likewise been trapped by Mean Look and temporarily could not leave the battlefield, and another Charizard to launch even fiercer attacks on the rear guard before him.
He intended to use overwhelming strength to dispose of these "little nuisances" as quickly as possible, then catch the others like rats in a trap.
Meanwhile, Ye Li led the assault squad onward without obstruction and finally reached the prison's lowest level.
The conditions here were far worse than above.
The air was thick with a nauseating stench of mildew and rot.
Rows of completely enclosed solitary cells built from special materials lined both sides of the corridor.
"Lin Feng, which cell is the target in?"
"The third on the left, the one with the weakest life signs."
The assault squad immediately stepped forward and used specially made high-energy cutting torches to burn a huge hole through the heavy cell door.
Inside, the cell was dark and damp.
An old man in ragged clothes, his body covered in hideous scars and tortured beyond recognition, lay curled up motionless in a corner, like a long-dead corpse.
His limbs were secured tightly to the wall with thick chains.
If not for the extremely faint rise and fall of his chest, the squad members would almost have thought he was dead.
"Quick! Get him!"
Two squad members immediately stepped forward, cut the chains with bolt cutters, and lifted the old Gym Leader from the floor. He had long since