I flew straight toward the roadside in the distance.
"Squeak, squeak, squeak~"
Maybe the bugs had received orders? The moment I flew beyond the electric grid, all the land bugs, including the exploding flying bugs in the sky and the flying bugs capable of close combat,
turned their attention to me.
To explain, the western gate of the military district now had a rectangular electromagnetic grid extending outward along the highway. It was twelve kilometers long and about
three hundred meters wide.
Since the electromagnetic grid didn't harm humans, half of the teams installing the electric towers were now outside its effective range, while the other half were
within it.
These vanguard troops... I'd call them that for now.
They were positioned at the very front of the extended grid.
Behind them, at the western gate, a large army and the first group, made up of the younger people, were moving forward quickly
to clear a path for the second group behind them, which consisted mainly of the elderly, women, and children.
By now, more than half of the first group had made it out, but the rest were still stuck inside the gate. The exit had never
been built very wide—it was only just
wide enough for five tanks to pass side by side, about twenty meters across. That was usually plenty for the city wall, but now,
compared with the massive crowd, that narrow passage was like the neck of an hourglass, choking off the flow of people!
I gritted my teeth and glanced back, then beat my wings and quickly flew to the spot I'd picked out. I rose a little higher,
then plunged down and slammed the electric tower into the ground!
"Whumm~"
In that instant, the second tower in the twelfth row was installed. The