The wind, which had been fairly tame until now, suddenly blew wildly, and a loud boom swept the area a moment before a mushroom cloud rose in the distance.
"What is happening?"
It was such a huge explosion that for a moment he could not help thinking it was a nuclear one. But there was no such thing in the city, and if it had indeed been a nuclear bomb, he would have been turned to ashes by now.
If so...
"It's an explosion from the ammunition depot."
The mushroom cloud had come up in the same direction as the army base. Someone fighting over the depot must have set off the shells stored inside, and the chain of explosions had taken the entire depot with it.
"If I had gone to the base, I would have been blown to smithereens."
With a sigh of relief, Jude entered the boarding house and teleported to the hills. The half loaf he had placed on the rock was still unblemished, and there was no sign that the virus had touched it.
"Good."
