The Federal Field Hospital was attacked, and the soldiers and doctors were taken hostage. In just twenty-four hours, a considerable portion of the hostages had been rescued.
Some others, however, had been brutally killed by local militants.
From a military standpoint, it had been a successful operation. The rescue had been completed at a speed beyond anyone's imagination.
But that did not mean the matter ended there.
On the square outside the Presidential Palace in Bu Peien, some people held up banners proclaiming "Restore the Heroes' Good Name" and others reading things like "Hatred Must Be Washed Away with Blood."
With rampant revanchism, people valued neither restraint nor tolerance, but revenge!
This also aligned perfectly with what the Federal Government intended to do in Maliro next. Strict administration would certainly overstep certain boundaries in some respects...
But if all of this had the people's support, then it was not a violation! The incident had caused a tremendous uproar not only in the Federation, but also within Maliro.
"These idiots!"
Inside a house in a small city in Maliro, a bearded man in his thirties cursed as he had someone apply shaving foam to his beard.
He was going to shave it off.
In Maliro, beards were a symbol of adult manhood.
They could be mustaches or full beards. In this ancient country, only adult men were entitled to grow facial hair, signifying that they had come of age and begun shouldering responsibility.
Most locals only kept mustaches, or short beards with a little styling.
It was hard to imagine that in a poor place like Maliro, where those men could barely afford to eat, they still cared about their beards with extraordinary intensity! They could go hungry for a meal, but they would always set aside some money to have