"You shouldn't have done that..."
As they walked out of the unfinished building, the Squad Leader raised a hand and tugged at Ryan. "You went soft. That could be fatal for us."
Ryan was actually somewhat annoyed as well. He thought his Squad Leader was too ruthless, not even sparing some innocent girls.
He had even planned to go back and write a report accusing his Squad Leader of slaughtering innocents. So at that moment, he was extremely disdainful of what his Squad Leader had said, and his eyes held a hint of hostility.
"Do you think I'm a psychopath and a murderer?"
Ryan turned his head away from him. "No, I don't think that."
"Then why didn't you shoot?"
"If you encounter the same problem next time, will you still choose not to shoot?"
Ryan did not want to answer. He thought the question was shameless, so he turned and continued walking, but the Squad Leader grabbed him again.
"Your way of thinking will get you killed, and it will get all of us killed. We've encountered things in the Amelia Region far more brutal than what you saw."
"Have you ever seen a girl in her teens walk into our midst with a bomb strapped beneath her skirt?"
"Have you ever seen a mother carrying a small child approach us under the pretense of asking for food?"
"You haven't seen anything. This is a battlefield. What you need to do isn't show mercy, but eliminate the enemy!"
The Squad Leader spoke loudly. Looking at Ryan's unconvinced face, he fell silent for a moment. "I used to be just like you. You need to understand that I only want all of us to make it back alive."
"This isn't a military exercise for the Federal Army. This is a