At this moment, Ma brought his men back to greet the hostages at the valley exit ahead of Dawei and Yao Ye, who seemed unaware and hadn't arrived yet. Ma gleefully had the hostages board the truck he had snatched from the Blue Army. But after his adjutant counted the hostages twice, he could only turn pale and say to Ma, "Captain Ma, the number of hostages is incorrect."
"What's incorrect?"
"The intel reported twenty, but there are only eighteen here."
Ma's face turned pale as he pushed aside the special forces to inspect and found that those from Yao Ye's team had all run away.
Yao Ye stood on the cliff, watching Gao Dashuai and his men arduously carrying two severely injured hostages up. Following that, Li Juntao and Feng Yongzhuo also reached the top. With that, everyone was safe.
