The two crowds merged together, and everyone was searching for the whereabouts of their family members.
"Dad, Dad, I'm here!"
"Oh God, it's so good that you're okay, it's so good that you're okay..."
"Marian, are you alright?!"
"Ah... our house was bombed and collapsed, these people rushed into the fire to rescue me, if it weren't for them, I might have..."
Amidst the rising and falling sounds of relief, many people found their family members, reuniting and embracing each other, tears flowing with expressions of having narrowly escaped death.
But not everyone was so lucky.
Many soldiers had already perished in the previous battles; those running civilians couldn't find them no matter how hard they looked, or they learned of their family's deaths from other soldiers, each one collapsing to the ground, wailing.
