Chapter 435: Strength to Lift Mountains, the Great Sage Equal to Heaven
The deserters from the blockade and the civilians who had fled New Obbo City numbered in the hundreds of thousands altogether.
They were nothing compared with the millions of soldiers and civilians still in New Obbo City, but out here in the wilderness, they were an enormous tide of humanity.
It was just as the general commanding the defensive perimeter had anticipated.
The demons would not focus solely on Obo City. With so little time and so few vehicles, how far could most people get on foot?
They had not even gotten far enough for New Obbo City's outline to disappear from view. Their fate was all too easy to imagine.
Although there were deserters among the crowds, and even many civilians had weapons such as AK rifles, those weapons were few in number. They had no heavy weapons at all, and lacked explosives, incendiaries, and other means of dealing with specialized demons.
While the defensive battle continued in New Obbo City, the fleeing crowds were already filled with screams.
Some deserters raised their guns and fired behind them when the demons caught up. But most of those who deserted were raw recruits. Even the training of Niger's veterans was questionable, let alone theirs.
In their panic, many missed their targets or simply fired wildly out of fear. They inflicted little damage, and the noise instead drew the demons' attention, bringing even more monsters charging toward them.
Perhaps that was the only help these deserters could offer the civilians around them.
Panic bred chaos. The trampling and shouting throughout the crowd threw everyone into even greater disorder, and the refugees, already slow, were reduced to sluggish prey.
The ravenous demons of Kasluopa would not waste a single morsel