As their guide, Anna's usefulness had been very obvious. Xiao Lin and the others had greatly benefited from her, taking more shortcuts and avoiding a lot of beasts. Anna understood the forest very well, but Xiao Lin had never let his guard down toward her.
What Anna did not know was, when Xiao Lin decided on guard duty every night, he would quietly tell them to monitor Anna's movements. If that girl acted abnormally at all, he was to be woken up, even if he was in deep sleep. If Anna did anything dangerous, she could even be killed immediately.
Xiao Lin's precautions were natural. Even if the colonists had yet to descend and their animosity had not been established yet, after half a semester, they had fostered a basic defensiveness.