The instructor's mecha followed slowly behind, allowing Bai E, who had arrived at the town's ruins ahead of everyone else, sufficient time to go over the details that needed to be explained with all the acquaintances.
This was commonly known as "corroborating testimonies."
Bai E leapt down from the mecha's cockpit, tens of meters above the ground, to those like Kuang Xin who had been waiting for a while. He glanced back at his own blue and white mecha, and said curtly, "To cut a long story short, the mecha I drove here is in violation of the military's discipline, and the military will definitely send a commissioner to investigate my reasons for departure. Remember this, I met you all after you had deserted Grey Iron City during a field operation, because your disillusionment with Grey Iron City made you unwilling to have anything to do with any city. So after rescuing you from the grasp of mechanical intelligence, I covered your tracks and brought you to this little town's ruins."