All conjectures were confirmed with the break of dawn, and all the worries materialized into reality.
The first victim was not a PMC, but the chef who cooked in the canteen.
While preparing breakfast, the chef, dressed in his uniform, entered the kitchen from his dormitory and was then struck in the back by a bullet, killed instantly.
"Sniper!"
The person monitoring the surroundings from the rooftop yelled into the walkie-talkie, but though someone witnessed the chef being shot down, they failed to see where the gunshots came from. Although they heard the noise, the sound was too distant.
A single bullet shattered all the joy of victory.
And when they tried to move the chef's body to a safe location, one of the three people hastily heading there got hit in the left chest. Despite wearing a bulletproof vest, the bullet still blew up the entire chest cavity of a factory security guard.