Chapter 413 - 406 Like an Apple
The bombing had ceased, but formations were completely scattered, and so were people’s hearts.
The commander of the Sanitation Worker was still confused; he didn’t know what had happened. According to his experience, he thought that the explosion had been a grenade, but his experience also told him a grenade couldn’t explode like that—it wasn’t scientific.
It was like a person seeing a fire; his experience and common sense told him it was indeed a fire; he wouldn’t need to put his hand into it to know. However, this fire was burning on the water surface, and experience told him water couldn’t catch fire, so naturally, he felt confused.
Perhaps there was some scientific reason that could explain how fire could burn on water, whether it was marsh gas or oil floating on the surface. The problem was whether the person about to be burned by this fire had the inclination to investigate.
"Retreat! Everyone, retreat! Fuck! Move it..."
The commander’s voice was hoarse from shouting. At this point, he certainly knew a disorderly retreat would lead to many deaths, but they were already disoriented and incapable of mounting an effective resistance, so what else to do but retreat rather than wait to die?
Surely saving whoever you could was the priority. Even if that meant pulling back some distance, reorganizing the formations, figuring out what had happened, and then attacking again—anything but staying put and continuing to take indiscriminate fire.
The commander jumped off the vehicle, and as he shouted, he was also speaking through a walkie-talkie, so everyone who heard his order turned and began running. A few tried to retreat while fighting back, but such brave souls were immediately targeted, and bullets would precisely take down everyone attempting an orderly retreat.