Chapter 326 – The Great North Manchurian Oil Field (3)

“It looks like these attackers were decoys.”

“So it would seem. Perhaps their plan to pin us between these fallen men and another force collapsed. Even so, the fact that there has been no additional movement means we should assume there are no reinforcements. An ambush is impossible out on the plains as well. And the men at the base have already been informed by radio. They should be moving by now.

Now then, Hime, will you flee this time?”

Even as he convinced me with his precise reasoning, he finished with those words. He kept calling me Hime, but his eyes were completely serious.

The fact that he had not told me to run during the earlier attack, yet was telling me to escape now, meant the situation was bad.

“Is it impossible to intercept them like this?”

“Even while