Would the enemy really spare Gao Yuan? What a joke.
Gao Yuan never felt that the enemy would show him mercy because it seemed that a body was all they needed to study him.
Yet Gao Yuan still played the hero, first because he really couldn't coordinate effectively with his comrades, and second, he didn't want to watch the people around him get surrounded, chased down, and killed off one by one by the Sanitation Worker.
But what really compelled Gao Yuan to take this action was that he didn't want to be protected anymore. He was quite capable, alright, but he could only be like a chick shielded under a hen's wings, and everyone wanted to be that hen, protecting him, the chick that had just hatched.
Zhao Qiang felt that way, as did Li Yang, Panxin, and Li Jingang, and now even Yu Shunzhou wanted to persuade him to flee for his life first.