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Li Jingang was perhaps too pessimistic.
Because by the time the sky began to brighten, no pursuers from the Sanitation Worker had appeared, and by then, Gao Yuan and his team had already put fifteen kilometers between themselves and the riverbank.
For a full four hours, it would have been impossible to run the whole way. Towards the end, it turned into a brisk walk, but even brisk walking was utterly exhausting given the heavy load they carried.
So Spark Squad had no choice but to rest. It wasn't that they had run out of the strength to keep walking, but if they completely drained their energy to the point where moving was difficult, should the enemy truly appear, they wouldn't even have had the strength to run.
It had been a long time since Gao Yuan had felt tired, but when Yu Shunzhou leaned on a tree beside him and then slowly slid down to sit on the ground, gasping for air, Gao Yuan knew he had reached his limit.
"Can you keep going?"
