War brought pain, but it also took away some of people's emotions and reason.
After the defenses around the shantytown where the kidnappers were stationed were torn open, these former warlord fighters, who had in fact received little formal military training, began to collapse.
The people from Peng Joe and its subordinate country had never considered organizing a counterattack. Once they realized they could not hold the line, they ran faster than anyone else.
The emperor of Peng Joe had already spoken with them before they came.
They had not come here to offer up their lives for the empire's future. They had come only to tie up as much of the Federal forces' attention as possible and keep them from devoting themselves entirely to the war abroad!
So once these people could no longer cause trouble for the Federal Government, they would be the first to leave.
They would not die here, nor did they need to.
A rout often began with the first deserter.
That was why deserters on the battlefield had always been executed by firing squad during wartime.
Once those foreigners fled, the lower-ranking people left behind, who had never been the ones making decisions in the first place, ran even faster.
Soon, the entire shantytown was engulfed in flames, while the Blackstone Security teams led the survivors away at speed.
This was Maliro. This was not Nagaril.
Here, if some people heard that there were Federal soldiers nearby, they certainly would not think, I should go ask whether they have any work for me. More likely, they would think, I have to kill them!
Some soldiers' bodies had still been left behind at the scene because there had not been enough time to carry them away.
The army would deal with it. They would come