"First, they gain trust, and then suddenly launch an attack... No wonder the advance team with equipment advantage was caught off guard," Bai Lingqiu said in a low voice. "If they had attacked the outpost outright, the advance team should have been able to defend themselves with the equipment they brought for some time."
"Even if they couldn't hold out, they could at least flee," Zuo Jun said. "The dune outpost has its own power system, and if they fully engaged the engines, the nomads' sand boats couldn't catch them."
"They were too careless," Candle Dragon said.
"It's my fault. I didn't inform them that I had killed the Priest of the Nuer settlement," Sun Hang sighed. "After they found out I had come out of the Desert Sea nomads' settlement unscathed, they might have mistaken this group of Desert Sea nomads for a naturally honest and friendly tribe. Coupled with the pretense these guys put on at the beginning, it was hard not to fall for it."
