The familiarity of what they saw on the streets turned Zemin's blood to ice. Other people running in all directions, with weapons and without, and flashes of distant gunfire and pyrokinesis on the backdrop of the night sky. No one was fighting there, though—not yet, at least.
The fighting came from one side, and this was where the squad went.
When they got there, Zemin saw that the defense force was fighting for their lives. Demons have used a powerful directed explosion to make a breach in the 30-centimeters-thick steel wall of the base, at the stretch that was the least protected by watchtowers and anti-air turrets.
The floodlights affixed to the wall lit the scene in every ugly detail.
