The Barrier

"You took part in it personally?" Alex asked with a serious face.

"All 10 of us did, along with many others," Qiu Jianhong said. "We're not proud of it, but yeah, we did what we thought we needed to do."

"You thought you needed to kill people from another continent?" Alex asked. He remembered about Puma and the others talking about how they had lost their parents to the attack by the rest of the continent.

"We only killed to protect ourselves," the man said. "Yes, we were there to steal things and were in the wrong. We understood this, so there was one thing we made sure to do, and that is to never kill another person unless it was in self-defense. Even then, we would hurt them at most and let them live."

"Many still died, both from that side and our own," the man said with a saddened tone in his voice.