"Crash..."
After the thunder came howling winds and a torrential downpour.
But the rain came fast and left just as fast. Just as the people in the high-rises had gotten ready to set off after the rain, the downpour stopped right on cue. The clouds scattered, the rain ceased, and clear skies emerged.
The people in the high-rises cautiously poked their heads out, while keeping watch on the other buildings and the industrial parks.
Then, they saw other groups of people being just as cautious.
"You..."
"Your supervisors were all..."
"And those th-thugs?"
Every person's eyes brimmed with utter disbelief.
"Weather weapons?"
"The Insight Plan?"
Not everyone who had been tricked into coming here—or had come voluntarily to make a fortune—was illiterate. On the contrary, quite a few of them were highly educated.
The lightning just now had clearly not been an ordinary natural phenomenon.
During a normal thunderstorm, lightning striking even one person would make local headlines. Yet looking at the people who emerged from the other high-rises, how could the number of those struck dead by lightning have been fewer than a hundred? "Did you get your passports?"
"Got them, got them!"
"Move! Watch out for the local armed forces!"
"I looked out the window just now. The military camp outside seems to have been struck by lightning too."
"..."
Groups of people left under the complicated gazes of the locals. A few bold ones even went over to the military camp for a look.
"There are several places on fire in the camp."
"It's total chaos inside. They definitely don't have time to stop us."
"It feels like Thor just stopped by."
"Bullshit. Why would the Norse god of thunder bother with you when he had nothing better to do? Even if it really was a thunder