Many people very easily got antsy and impatient, saying mean things to them for dragging them into this—as if they didn't beg for Atlas to take them with him.
"Shut up or I will stab you," he snapped, looking at the ungrateful people with dark eyes. He didn't really mean it, but he would certainly do something to keep the bastards quiet.
They fortunately shut their mouth in the end, grumbling under their breaths.
Eventually, they heard noises in a direction—heavy rustles and the sound of humans—and they immediately ran there.
They tried to do it as quietly as they could, though it was harder than they thought after they saw what the array actually looked like.
They gasped when they saw the light, and they had to pull in a lot of people who carelessly got too close. Interestingly, some ran in another direction when they saw the number of enemies pouring out. Those people, they let be. They didn't need any more noisy burdens.