At the moment the countdown hit zero, beneath the car repair shop, five hundred kilos of military explosives and two tons of homemade charges detonated simultaneously.
The explosion started underground.
It wasn't a single blast, but a series of layered detonations.
The first wave sheared off the main load‑bearing pillars, the second wave destroyed the foundation, the third wave…
The third wave lifted the entire building off the ground.
Old Man saw the horrifying scene right in front of him—
First the ground bulged, as if something enormous was trying to force its way up from beneath the earth.
Then chunks of concrete were hurled into the air, some as big as cars, some as small as fists, tracing tens of thousands of arcs in the first light of dawn.
Then came the shockwave.
It was like a transparent wall, spreading out from the blast center in all directions. Everything in its path was flattened.
The fifteen‑ton M‑ATV armored vehicles were flipped, tumbling like toys.
