Before Zhang Qiling and the others arrived at Tian Jinzhong's courtyard, most of the Quanxing members had already been eliminated by the squad brought by Wu Xie and a large force from the Company, and the clearance of remaining enemies across the mountain had already begun.
Wu Xie and his squad's retreat from the Lunan coast back to the inland marked the failure of the operation by Nagetong's highest combat agency, the Archives Management Office. To be precise, it could not entirely be called a failure; rather, it simply failed to fully achieve its objectives.
As for Zhang Haike, he had been invited by Company Chairman Zhao Fangxu from Hong Kong after the operation failed, though his specific purpose remained unknown. Zhang Haixing and Zhang Jiuri had accompanied him as his assistants, and the three of them had come to Mount Longhu merely to drop by and visit Zhang Qiling, while lending a hand along the way.
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