Outside the Southern Front Headquarters of Peng Joe, a sudden riot quickly drew the attention of the Gefrans.
Soon, some exceptionally clear photographs surfaced. Seeing Peng Joe soldiers shoot and kill the local natives, every Gefran in the Amelia Region felt...
An indescribable exhilaration!
A chill rose from the soles of their feet, slipped in through their backsides, and shot straight to the crown of their heads. It was refreshing, exhilarating, and utterly invigorating! Compared with the Gefrans' schadenfreude, however, the locals grew somewhat puzzled.
Some believed this had to be fake news. Those people had not been locals, but Gefrans disguised as locals.
Those despicable, shameless Gefrans had tried to disguise themselves as locals and attack the Southern Front Headquarters, but the Peng Joe People had seen through them at a glance and killed them.
The Gefrans were too shameless!
It had to be that way!
But... some people began to calm down at this point, because it was not only the Gefrans spreading these rumors. Their own people—the locals they acknowledged—were spreading them too.
In a certain sense, the Gefrans indeed could not be considered human—they had burned cities and supplies, leaving countless people without shelter, food, or medicine, struggling to survive in the wilderness.
But!
They had not killed these people!
It was the Peng Joe People who had shot and killed these locals, no matter what the reason! The enemy had not killed us, yet our "own people" had opened fire on the locals...
There were always some people who would calmly think things through, and they began to sense something different in all this.
Whether or not they would think about it that way, at least for now, the effect was better than the Gefrans and the Federal people had imagined! Just as the Peng