Huo Jingrui scanned the people in the cave. "Once the personnel from the Armed Forces Department have transported all those boxes away, we'll leave a team here to protect the experts and ensure their safety. Only then can we go after those people in the mountains."
Yunyi understood his meaning. It wasn't about fearing every eventuality, but the 'what if'—the unexpected. National interests and the experts' safety came first.
Huo Jingrui was also worried about the hostages' safety, but he knew that whether his team went sooner or later, the hostages would face the same predicament. Besides, his men had been tailing them all along. If an emergency arose, they wouldn't ignore it. Therefore, he had to arrange everything here first before he could leave with peace of mind.
His guess was correct. Those people had taken hostages as an extra precaution, especially since none of the men they'd sent out had returned to report, which greatly unsettled them.
