Song Lan brushed past the crowd as he crossed the street and entered the cake shop. The customers who had been inside were now swarming out, rushing toward the opposite side of the street where the sound of the explosion had come from.
It turned out that, in any era, watching the excitement was a human instinct.
The onlookers weren't busy with putting out the fire but instead took out their phones to capture the explosion. They had a hunch that this explosion, happening opposite Kolo Film Industry, would become today's headline news for the United Government.
Most of them didn't care whether there were any casualties in the café; they were more concerned about how much new attention this firsthand material would bring to their social media accounts. They hoped the phones of other onlookers would malfunction, making them the exclusive witnesses on the scene.
The cake shop emptied out just as Song Lan entered, and he immediately spotted three familiar figures.
