Those who achieve great things must not be constrained by others.
Capturing Xia Heng and the others was actually an order from a high-ranking member of the Emperor Penguin. They themselves wouldn't deign to do such things, thinking it beneath them.
You have to know, even the Tiger Whale doesn't personally do this kind of dirty work; they have Fujihara Tomohiro handle it instead...
That's why neither Adam nor the Eagle King said anything like 'your partner is in my hands' at the moment, but rather had the general of the Holy War Army speak for them.
Who made him the weakest among the four big bosses?
And even he only said things like 'your friends are waiting for you in the sky' or 'some cyborgs have been melted into iron', speaking in such vague terms.
No one expected that these hostages would truly matter so much to Gao Xin.
He stated that for every one person who died, he would take their life in exchange, which meant Gao Xin was truly threatened.
