Many of the apes in the first wave were vaporized and burned by the blast.After the dust cleared, the humans rushed forward to beat and kill the surviving apes.General Thade ordered another wave of troops to attack, and joined the fray himself.The two great gorillas, Krull and Attar, also viciously confronted each other, and Krull was killed.Gaining the upper hand, Thade fought fiercely against Leo, when hostilities were abruptly paused with the loud sound of a sonic boom and a rocket approaching.The story also focused on the conflict and struggle between two major father figures, his two superiors, as their platoon conducted search-and-destroy patrols and missions, and battled over the soul of the innocent, young recruit.On his next visit to Lecter, Graham asked about the tree carving, identified as a Chinese character ("zhong") that appeared on a Mah-Jongg piece - the center piece translated in English as "the Red Dragon.At his old homestead near a marsh, the group found zombies allowed to be alive but chained up.They endlessly and mindlessly performed their previous occupations using their sense-memories - a mailman was delivering mail, a farmworker was pushing a wheelbarrow, and a wood-chopper was using an axe.