Chapter 302: Taking sides and a sudden knock at the door
Upon hearing the latest intelligence, the people at the Extraordinary Turmoil Investigation Group headquarters sighed helplessly, even though they knew the soldiers on the scene had acted on instinct.
After the monster fell, helicopters immediately descended after it.
Once its exact landing site had been confirmed, soldiers disembarked from several helicopters, established a rudimentary cordon, and called for ground reinforcements.
Meanwhile, beside Lauch Park in Munich, a huge cordon had already been established through the efforts of the police and the troops who arrived afterward.
The area around Lauch Park relied entirely on the lights inside the park for illumination, which was hardly adequate. With many of those lights pierced by steel spikes, the surroundings were very dark.
One hour after the incident.
Now, searchlights on distant rooftops, nearby vehicles, and newly erected elevated platforms were all switched on, flooding the entire area with light and providing a much clearer view of the battlefield.
Road foundations upheaved and shattered, a damaged bronze statue, wrecked phone booths, crashed vehicles, and devastation everywhere...
The research vehicles had arrived, and command of the scene had now been transferred entirely to the Extraordinary Turmoil Investigation Group.
Outside the cordon, several reporters invoked freedom of the press and demanded to be allowed inside to conduct interviews.
They gave the police guarding the cordon quite a headache, but things changed once the soldiers and investigation group personnel arrived. These people refused to indulge the reporters at all, and their methods were efficient-to the reporters, even brutal.
They told the reporters bluntly that the area was now under military control. Not only was everything inside off-limits to interviews, but related material could not be broadcast without authorization either.
In private, several Munich police officers quietly "revealed"