Bai Ye continued, "What about the people you had the Scyther tail later?"
"A man and a woman. Although only the man appeared, I know there were two of them," Jin Sha said. "Qin and Alex. They are both Chosen from my world, a famous couple and very powerful. Both participated in the Hoenn League Pokémon Master Competition and reached the top sixteen."
"People from the Pokémon world?" Bai Ye asked.
"Yes," Jin Sha replied. "At that time, Alex's Pokémon ambushed the target and abducted Alex. By the time I chased out of the church, it was too late to stop them. I could only dispatch the Scyther to pursue from the air, but they parked their car at the entrance of a mall in the northwest district and took Alex into the mall. The Scyther couldn't determine their location anymore."
Bai Ye nodded and began to piece together the current situation.
So, it meant...
Alex had already passed through the hands of four groups.
Bai Ye and Jin Sha were the first group, then the ninja and Locke were the second group, the third group was the Pokémon Master couple Jin Sha knew, and then...
It was the Cang Long Association!
Bai Ye pondered for a moment. The man and woman should have had the same idea as Jin Sha.
Abandoning the car and entering a densely populated building complex like a mall made it difficult to track them. Therefore, their intention was indeed to stall for time and then find an opportunity to take Alex away.
However, an accident occurred midway, which was that they were targeted by people from the Cang Long Association!
Bai Ye suddenly had a flash of inspiration and said to Jin Sha, "You said before that this mission failed to activate twice?"
Jin Sha replied, "Yes, both times a hundred people were gathered, but when it was time to teleport, people suddenly went missing. I don't know if someone refused or died."
"How many people were missing?" Bai Ye asked.
"One person the first time, two people the second time!" Jin Sha said.
"But I remember when you gave me the item, the mission count showed 88/100?" Bai Ye said.
"What's strange about that?" Jin Sha asked. "Did someone destroy the item, or die?"
"It's not that simple," Bai Ye said, observing the battle through his scope. "Someone is deliberately hunting people who possess the item."
Jin Sha was stunned for a moment. "Ah?"
Bai Ye continued, "When a hundred people are gathered, the forbidden zone will open. If someone suddenly dies during the opening process, it will lead to an insufficient number of people, and the forbidden zone cannot be opened. But after the number reached a hundred, how long did it take for everyone to confirm teleportation into the forbidden zone? At most three to five minutes. How could it be such a coincidence that twice, just as the count reached a hundred and they were about to teleport into the forbidden zone, people suddenly died."
Jin Sha thought for a moment. "You mean, both times the activation failed because someone deliberately refused to teleport?"
Bai Ye nodded. "Yes."
Jin Sha said, "But why? They went to great lengths to get the item, and refusing to teleport means it's directly destroyed."
"So, as I said, someone is deliberately hunting people who possess the item, and as the numbers continuously decrease, they seize the opportunity to obtain the item and fill in the reduced numbers. Until their numbers occupy a significant proportion of the hundred people, they will have an absolute advantage. To ensure this, when the numbers are insufficient, they make those who have already obtained the item refuse to teleport to delay the opening of the forbidden zone." Bai Ye observed again through the scope and said, "Conservatively, there are nearly twenty Chosen escorting Alex away right now, accounting for one-fifth of the total number of Chosen."
Jin Sha exclaimed in shock, "Are they crazy? Five million per person?"
For a hundred million, cooperation was understandable. In fact, many people chose this option.
But there was a reasonable number of people who cooperated.
Twenty people, five million each...
This seemed too much of a loss to Jin Sha, and it was indeed quite a loss. But Bai Ye didn't know how to explain it to Jin Sha.
Because they were the Cang Long Association!
The Cang Long Association members all came from the same world. Their calculation of gains and losses was not limited to a particular forbidden zone but concerned the overall situation. As long as they captured enough forbidden zones, all members of the Cang Long Association could take a step ahead of others.
However, the world battlefield had only been open for a little over two months. Although the Cang Long Association had taken action, few people knew about them, let alone understood their organizational structure and their terrifying nature. Therefore, Jin Sha's reaction was normal.
Since it was difficult to explain, Bai Ye didn't bother. He directly said, "Anyway, there are that many people, and these people are definitely planning to force their way through the Red Gate Bridge."
The latter half was redundant. Even with twenty people, Bai Ye would force his way through the Red Gate Bridge. The police roadblocks couldn't stop them, nor could the city's gangs and villains. Only other Chosen could stop them, but the small groups of Chosen couldn't defeat them, and it was difficult to establish trust among them temporarily.
Moreover, the Cang Long Association was accompanied by a large group of cannon fodder, which, barring any accidents, Bai Ye believed were Alex's subordinates.
In this situation, not forcing their way through would be foolish!
However...
Bai Ye quickly searched for Alex's whereabouts through his scope.
The Cang Long Association was acting shamelessly, controlling the mission to enter the forbidden zone together. Now that Alex was in their hands, it was indeed not easy to snatch him back, but...
Bai Ye licked his lips. If he couldn't get Alex, then they shouldn't expect to take him away easily either!
Bai Ye had made up his mind. If he didn't have a chance to snatch Alex away, he would kill Alex!
Everyone would lose, and no one would gain anything!
As Bai Ye thought, he adjusted the angle of his scope and soon found Alex's location.
The guy was still wearing a prisoner's uniform, guarded by five or six people in the middle.
The surrounding streets were already blocked, so they could only escort Alex on foot towards the Red Gate Bridge.
Bai Ye curved his lips, aimed the muzzle at Alex's head, and slowly moved with Alex.
But at this moment...
On the chaotic street!
The Cang Long Association members covered Alex as they moved forward. After everyone had passed, the sewer entrance by the street suddenly made "gurgling" sounds.
Slowly, one by one, purple bubbles emerged from the sewer. Immediately after, countless purple mud gushed out of the sewer, flowing rapidly along the ground and quickly catching up to the Cang Long Association members.
The next moment, the mud condensed into a mass, actually transforming into a Pokémon. The cracked mud formed a huge mouth, and a pair of eyes appeared above the mouth!