[ No... both doesn't make sense. There's another things that's been bothering Broca this entire time too. ]

Neither makes much sense. When people evacuate a city in a hurry, they don't leave it looking clean or lived in.

[ Even when told to leave stuff behind, people grab things in a panic, they knock things over in their scramble to get out, and he's never heard of a place actually being cleared out in a calm and orderly fashion. ]