Something Fell from the Sky
Perhaps the fighting in the west of the city had drawn the attention of most of the demons. Or perhaps those Psyker hunter units were simply unused to, and unsuited for, large-scale frontal assaults.
In any case, the fighting in the eastern part of Guixu City was relatively subdued. Only the occasional gunfire and the demons' roars proved that battles were taking place there at all. But neither the gunfire nor the demons' roars made as much noise as the aircraft and transports that sometimes roared overhead, carrying out various bombing runs.
Likewise, the Warp Daemons didn't seem to take the few Psyker hunter units very seriously. There weren't many large groups of demons anywhere in the east of the city; it seemed most of their forces were concentrated in the central area or, more importantly, the west. The demons left in the east were merely engaging in low-intensity skirmishes and territorial disputes with the lightly armed Psyker hunters, the remnants of the old planetary government's routed forces they had gathered, and the civilians who had taken up arms.
That was right!
At any rate, when Annie led her six little followers all the way to the east of the city, then helped a group of Psyker hunters capture an apartment complex and rescue dozens, perhaps even hundreds, of survivors, that was the relatively "peaceful" and bizarre scene of battle she and Wang Qing's six-person team found themselves witnessing.
Naturally, the others, puzzled by what they saw, took the opportunity to ask about it as they followed the retreating group.
"Haha!"
"That's actually not strange at all!"
"You probably don't know, do you?"
"In these few blocks in the east of the city, both the Warp Daemons and we have long since reached a sort