Yeah really. I bet something else happened. They struck a deal. Like, hey, butcher hold up! Let us live and we will go find some crazy reality show to come here with their massive crew and you can have all the blood you want. Boom, then they can have legend spread from there and have all sorts of lookyloo blood for all of eternity.
Also wtf was up with that historian character?? She sounded like a bored kid who got chosen to read aloud in class. It took me right out of the story.