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"Do you think what we did was enough?" Benedict asked Erik.

"Probably not. If they could find us the first time, it means they can do it even now..." Erik said.

"Then why send Anderson and make Amber release her gas?" Floyd asked.

Erik kept looking at his surroundings, hoping not to spot any thaid on their way to the main gate, and then replied.

"First of all, we don't know how they can track us. It could be because of the footprints, smell, or even a tracking device. In the last case, there is nothing we could do, but in the other two, we could have at least made it hard for them to find us. The explosion took care of the smell and the footprints, while the gas at least covered the latter. Besides, the gas will either make them take a roundabout way to reach us, wasting their time, or injure them a bit," the young man added.

"I get it," Floyd said.