108 Great Retrea (1/2)

How did the Deadeye Spiders find their way to the surface? He did not have a good experience with Deadeye Spiders. The situation back then could have been avoided, but he didn't. Now that they arrived at the surface, he wanted to avoid them, but he can't.

The appearance of Deadeye Spiders was startling, and their numbers were terrifying, but he did not fret.

The Deadeye Spiders were busy jumping into the flames of the burning buildings and didn't bother them. They had some time to evacuate the area.

However, once flames are all gone, they would turn their hungry blind eyes on the tens of thousands of commoners in the lower district.

”Oh my god! What are those things! They look so grotesque!”

”T-They have so many legs! Ahhh! And eyes too! That's so disgusting.”

The crowd felt a shiver run up their spines when they looked at the giant creepy crawlers in the distance devouring flames. They had never seen anything like these creatures nor learnt anything about them.

Five hundred years was a long time and the common masses have already forgotten what insects were, especially when these giant insects weren't the same as their old kind from before the cataclysm.

Leon frowned at the growing disorder. It would be difficult to command their retreat in a steady manner if they could not be calmed.

”BE QUIET!” Leon amplified his voice and roared like thunder.

The crowd were stunned by the magnitude of his volume. All eyes focus on Leon and he used that short period of attention to issue his orders at once.

”Golden Lion Gang, heed my command!” Leon called out. The gang members all stood erected and perked their ears.

”You are to lead the others to the Upper District in a neat and orderly manner. There will be no pushing and shoving! If anyone tries to selfishly get ahead of the others, throw them to the back of line!” Leon issued his command coldly.

”Yes, boss!”

”Beckett, you are take charge of this operation. The others are to follow your orders. Don't disappoint me.” Leon spotted Beckett among the members present and placed him in command of the group.

”Yes, boss!” Beckett  answered with pride. He felt honored that the boss remembered his name and placed him in charge of such an important role.

Little did he know, it was because Leon ONLY knew his name from among the gang members present that he was assigned a higher role.

When some people among the crowd heard Leon's cold command, they were stunned then furious.

Throw them to the back of the line!? Seeing such terrifying creatures within plain sight, which one of them didn't want to be the first run!? They ones at the back would be the first to die!

These were the people who had stepped on others and ran when the explosion of the city walls happened. Because of the chaos at the time, the injured ones did not recognized them when they were trampled on by others.

”Who are you to tell us what to do!?”

”Yeah, what right do have to order us around?”

Their complaints however were met with harsh scolding from the others.

”Idiot, didn't you hear what the Golden Lion Gang members just call him? They called him boss!”

”Hmph! The divine doctor is doing it for our own good! Did you want people to be trampled on by others again?” Some people who recognized Leon as the divine doctor also chimed in.

”Yeah! Maybe you people were the ones that trampled on us before!” The other injured people also joined into the fray.

”I… I… We didn't.”

These people didn't expect to be scolded by others. They had expected the others to join their protests instead, but it was clear that they were dead wrong. They tried to deny, but their hesitation was taken as admitting by the others.

”Enough! Start moving now! The able ones should help carry the injured ones. Do not rush and only take what you can hold.” Beckett interjected. Boss assigned this role to him. He had to do it right.

The crowd soon started shuffling out of the square and moved towards the Upper District western entrance. Some people still took their chances to rush ahead, but they were immediately caught by gang members and thrown to the back like they were warned. They instantly regretted their actions.

The square was a gathering point to tend to the injured and held a lot of people, but they numbered less than three thousand. This was only a fraction of the total population residing in the Lower West District.

There were about fourteen thousands of other commoners scattered about. Some still hid in their homes, while others went to smaller gathering points.

Regardless of their location, the lower district soon descended into greater chaos at the emergence of the arachnids. Tens of thousands of commoners from across the four lower districts began retreating madly towards the Upper Districts.

Hundreds of people are bound to die in another frenzy stampede. Leon could only save so much.

…

Upper District walls, western entrance,

”Open up!”

”Please let us in!”

”Why did you all shut the gates?!”

”Please let my child enter at least, he is just a boy!”

The commoners shouted and pleaded at the gates, but despite their cries, the city guards, nobles and aristocrat families watching the scene of the Lower District atop the upper wall looked on coldly and didn't have any intentions of opening the gate.