Lindo was starting to panic as he couldn't find anything that resembled even one bit of Felix, was he truly annihilated by the explosion?
Lindo couldn't believe it, he felt entirely responsible for what happened as he didn't make sure every upper echelon was truly dead before sending the troops in.
He tried to dig into the bottom of the crater thinking that somehow Felix might have been trapped there only to realize that the bottom was crystallized and so hard he couldn't do anything to it... maybe Landers could but he was really weakened at the moment and thus unavailable.
He wasn't really sure what to do in this situation, could he even go back and show his face to Landers and Manitola without Felix? The troops were surely dead but Felix's disappearance was a mystery.
Standing in the crater won't help him anymore and he already searched wherever was possible for him so all he could do was go up and give them the news...