862 Determined

Rui sighed. The situation was far from desirable, but still quite salvageable. The leader may not have pieced all of it together, but Chairman Deacon certainly would. He had eavesdropped on the conversation that they'd had, coming to learn exactly what the patrol guard had seen, and what else they knew.

Thankfully, it seemed that the part of Rui's plan that aimed to ensure that the raiding team never once got to confirm the existence of the gigantic esoteric ore deposit at the center of the floor below the trunk of the tree was a complete success.

Although there was some speculation that the hole in the ground may have hosted some esoteric ore deposits, not a single person could fathom that there had been a huge deposit sitting there just seconds before they destroyed the last wave of branches of the tree. This gave Rui some breathing space as far as what they could infer from this, but it wasn't enough.