Annie was, of course, perfectly fine in the end, and so were Li Kui and the others.
In fact, aside from the powerful flare still stubbornly flashing on the ground and emitting a blinding light, they hadn't fired even a single bullet or beam of light!
That was because there weren't any mechanical monsters in that warehouse-like place at all!
What had been hiding in the darkness there were merely groups of humans dressed in combat uniforms and wearing night-vision goggles.
Yes, they were humans!
After charging in and realizing that their opponents were living people rather than the vicious mechanical monsters they had imagined, Li Kui and the others naturally lowered their gun barrels and refrained from firing, despite their shock and surprise.
The same went for the other side!
When that group saw that the people who had breached the temporary passage gate and broken in were also humans rather than the mechanical monsters they had expected, they naturally didn't open fire either. They lowered their weapons in unison and emerged from the makeshift barricades assembled from miscellaneous objects.
In the end, once the warehouse lights were switched on, and the guides from both sides—that is, the two so-called "local" experts and engineers—recognized each other and excitedly embraced while weeping tears of joy, the armed forces from the two different human factions, who had been on the verge of conflict, naturally lowered their guard and sat down together.
After all, the humans of this world were still relatively united, because they had a common enemy: the Mechanical Race!
When two human factions encountered each other, unless one side consisted of deranged, lawless, chaotic, cruel, and bloodthirsty madmen, they generally wouldn't end up fighting.
Since there was no fight, there was nothing more to say. Aside from the guides