The fighting continued past noon.
The infected around Ironford still numbered in the hundreds of thousands, but the movements Hans watched through his Virtual Radar had changed completely.
Groups continued toward gunfire.
Others wandered through the industrial blocks or followed infected moving in different directions. Concentrations that would have shifted together only minutes earlier now separated at intersections and entered different roads without correcting themselves afterward.
Matilda kept the First Mobile Company where it was.
"Hold the current sectors. Clear the immediate approaches only."
Anton and Sabine acknowledged.
Third and Fourth Platoons did the same along the sides, while Fifth remained around the support route and the Armored Command Truck.
Nobody chased the deeper contacts. There was no reason to. The nearest groups were already coming toward them.
