On the other side, after hanging up the magical communication, the Pegasus captain, who had been dead, got up again, let out a long sigh of relief, and shouted to the Pegasus mercenary members lying all over the ground: "Alright, everyone get up."
As the commander finished speaking, the corpses that were on the ground got up one by one, and the half-corpses also crawled out of the ground. It turned out that these half-corpses were just what they looked like, and the rest of the bodies were buried in the soil.
"What a waste of these clothes." The mangled limbs on the ground were also picked up; they turned out to be just some damaged clothes, filled with mud and splattered with blood.
"Phew... I was suffocating." The corpse, which appeared to be only half a body, was dug out by his companions. He let out a long sigh and then asked the Pegasus leader in confusion, "Leapfrog, why did we do this? Fatty Lai must be heartbroken. He's a veteran of the mercenary group. Why did we abandon him?"
Following the mercenary's question, everyone else turned to the Pegasus Captain, awaiting his explanation.
"There's no other way, we have to make it look convincing. After a monster rampage, there are always intact corpses." Bot shook his head helplessly as he answered the mercenary's previous question.
"Sigh!" Looking at everyone's expectant gazes, the Pegasus Guild Leader sighed and said helplessly, "First of all, thank you all for your unconditional trust in me. I have no choice but to choose between abandoning Fatty Lai and everyone's lives. Do you know who that dual-class leader named Wang Han that Fatty Lai brought in is?"
Upon hearing this, everyone shook their heads.
“That person is the god-level powerhouse who appeared in Dawn City,” said the Pegasus Guild Leader. “I saw him on the fifth floor of the Mercenary Guild, and Bot also saw him in the market. I just never expected that Fatty Lai would bring him in.”
Upon hearing this, everyone looked at each other in bewilderment.
"Captain, having a deity traveling with you is a good thing," a mercenary said, puzzled. Having a deity traveling with you is an incredibly rare and desirable thing.
“Having a deity traveling with us is indeed a good thing.” Upon hearing this, the Pegasus Captain shook his head helplessly and said, “But it also depends on what mission that deity has taken on. He has taken on the mission of clearing out the bandits of the Ten Thousand Mountains and annihilating the Luo Lie family. If we don’t leave, we might be implicated. Moreover, if we get involved in the battle of the deities, there will be no way out. So I have no choice. I hope Fatty Lai can survive.”
"Ah!" Upon hearing this, many people exclaimed in surprise, and they all understood why. Having been involved in the mercenary industry for many years, they were familiar with most of the top-level missions of the Adventurers' Guild. Several gods existed in the Ten Thousand Mountains, and the Luo Lie family was a powerful family with two gods. They finally understood the guild leader's actions. A god wouldn't accept a mission to clear out bandits in the Ten Thousand Mountains just to kill a few small bandits.
If Wang Han wins, all will be well. But if he loses, both the bandits of the Ten Thousand Mountains and the Luo family might take their anger out on the merchant caravan traveling with him. Even if they don't, many people might still cause trouble for the Pegasus Mercenary Group in order to curry favor with the gods. Of course, this is all on the premise that they are lucky and the battle doesn't involve them.
So they had to run, and they had no choice but to abandon Fatty Lai. After all, if the entire mercenary group ran away, leaving behind that god named Wang Han and those scattered adventurers, it would be hard for the god not to suspect them. What if the god thought they didn't have faith in him and annihilated them in anger? It would be the same as wiping out the whole group. Although Wang Han might not necessarily kill them, they didn't dare to gamble even if there was only a one-in-three chance of being wiped out. So, in order to avoid suspicion, they had to abandon Fatty Lai. They could only hope that Fatty Lai would understand the meaning of the leader's last words and get away as soon as possible.
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