"Citizens, please calm down. We're also very concerned about your safety, which is why we spent money to hire the Skywing Mercenary Group to help you."
It would have been better if they had not said that. The moment they did, the citizens' anger surged to its peak.
One citizen directly cursed, "You spent money hiring the Skywing Mercenary Group to save us? We ordinary people pay taxes to you every year, so where did all that money go? Our own country's soldiers can't protect us, and we're the ones suffering. Did our taxes just raise a bunch of useless trash?"
This left not only the politicians, but even the Wanluo Federation soldiers at the scene, looking utterly embarrassed and ashamed.
In the end, the politicians were driven back onto their airship by the citizens and fled the scene in disgrace.
The Sky Wing Mercenaries at the scene merely watched it unfold as though enjoying a show. None of it had anything to do with them anyway; they were simply doing a job for money.
Afterward, some returning citizens waited for a long time but never saw their relatives come to pick them up. They later learned from others that the family members they had left behind had already died in the fighting some time ago.
Before long, cries and wails began to rise throughout the scene. Losing their loved ones made them weep in heart-wrenching grief.
The Sky Wing Mercenaries merely watched coldly. They had seen such scenes so often that they had become numb to them.
Once the final batch of citizens had been brought back, the Sky Wing Mercenaries handed all order-maintenance duties over to the Wanluo Army and left the scene.
The situation on many of the recovered Colony Satellites was similar to that of Colony