Alhan hid in the smoking brush until nightfall, then they hurriedly set off under the cover of darkness, heading south in an attempt to carve out a path to survival.
The wilderness at night was not easy to traverse, but these Chadian mercenaries all had feet of iron; within 6 hours, they had forcefully covered nearly 15 kilometers, managing to avoid the battlefield established by P·B.
Along the way, Alhan unexpectedly encountered several other teams that had made the same choice as his.
Driven by the desire to stick together for warmth, Alhan found a way to contact these scattered fighters and was surprised to discover among them a few locals from Central Africa, the ones who were incited by Setaka to plunder their own kind in hopes of changing their fate.
