Chapter 84: Ghouls and Investigators
After resting for a few hours, Su Xiao opened his eyes.
— Let's continue on our way.
This room was not a good place to stay for a long time, it was only suitable for temporary rest, as the environment inside was too bad and could lead to various infections in their wounds.
Yuna leaned on Su Xiao's shoulder and snored lightly as she slept.
Su Xiao pushed her, and Yuna woke up and jumped.
— What happened, the ghouls found us?
— Su Xiao stood up, walked to the crack in the meat wall, and walked through it.
Yuna hesitated for a while, but in the end, she gritted her teeth and crawled through the gap.
The passageway was very quiet.
After entering the ghoul world, it was the first time Su Xiao had encountered such a dangerous experience. The battles in District 14 were like kindergarten compared to the battles in District 24.
Su Xiao used his hand-drawn map to determine the direction, and like this, they moved forward.
Sometimes he left placemarks, but he always wrote down the route on a notepad.
Su Xiao stopped after two hours of traveling through the intricate corridors.
— Why did you stop?
— Looking down at the ground, Su Xiao saw an arrow.
They were heading in the wrong direction right now. They were not moving towards the surface, but deeper into the 24th district.
Without clear signs, getting lost in such a place was quite common.
But Su Xiao wasn't depressed. They had plenty of time and could continue trying to find a way out of the 24th district.
*Boom!*
Behind the meat wall, a muffled sound suddenly rang out — someone was fighting there.
— This is Arima. I heard the crackle of electricity." This meant that Kisho Arima wasn't dead.
Su Xiao didn't make a sound. He knew it himself. If they can reunite with Kisho Arima, it will greatly help them in the future. If he hadn't blocked the ghouls, they would have already died in these underground mazes.
— Su Xiao sped up and started running.
As Su Xiao walked through the passageways that formed a veritable maze, he became faster and faster, and gradually a huge map of the area appeared in his mind.
The sounds of battle were getting closer and closer. After another turn, they saw Kisho Arima.
But he didn't look elegant anymore. Naked upper body, white hair smeared with blood, no glasses...
— Why, why don't you talk to us, are you ashamed of us? The old ghoul with white hair looked at Kisho Arima sadly.
— Don't waste your time talking, he's not on anymore... An old ghoul started to say something, but Kisho Arima raised his kuinke.
*BOOM*
The two electric balls were supposed to hit them, but the two old ghouls calmly dodged them.
Immediately after, Kisho Arima activated "IXA" with his left hand.
*Poof-poof!*
Two ghouls were impaled on a quink that had burst out of the ground.
— Why, why... The old ghoul looked at Kisho Arima blankly and wanted to say something, but his life ended faster.
Kisho Arima's mouth opened and closed as he said something softly.
Su Xiao saw the sadness on Kisho Arima's face.
He was sad that he had killed those two ghouls?
Su Xiao frowned.
The two old ghouls seemed to know and respect Kisho Arima?
Yes, it was definitely respect, as if Kisho Arima had been their leader before.
The strongest investigator of the Ghoul Control Department was once a ghoul leader? It sounded ridiculous.
— Arima! Yuna shouted, even though she could see that the situation was a bit strange.
Kisho Arima turned around and looked at the two of them with one of his eyes — his right eye was closed for some reason.
— You survived, and this is where our research came to an end.
The atmosphere became a bit strange, but Su Xiao didn't say anything even though he had a lot of thoughts on his mind.
He still wanted to get the gene strengthening liquid and that gun first.
He needed to collect 28,000 contribution points from the Ghoul Control Department.
Although the 24th district was very dangerous, judging from Kisho Arima's demeanor, he didn't seem to even think about betraying them.
At least after Kisho Arima entered the 24th district, he killed ghouls and showed no signs of hesitation.
If Kisho Arima wanted to betray the Ghoul Control Department, he wouldn't have helped Su Xiao.
— Arima, who are these two ghouls? Yuna didn't have any extraneous intentions and directly asked about it.
— My former friends. They used to pretend to be human. I was very young at the time. I didn't know anything about it. This happened many years ago. I didn't think I'd meet them today — " Kisho Arima revealed a bitter smile as blood dripped from his chin.
— It's clear. I also had a friend like that. It was my classmate. I personally killed him.
Ghouls hid among people, and sometimes it happened that the investigator and the ghoul became friends.
Investigators worked among ordinary people and mostly dressed like ordinary people, while ghouls hid among people and looked for ways to get deeper into human society..
It wasn't uncommon for an investigator and a ghoul to become friends.
Yuna believed what Kisho Arima said, after all, they had been working together for half a year and this incident couldn't affect their friendship.
But was it really that simple? Su Xiao didn't believe it, but he didn't show it. Everyone had their own secrets. Everyone who tried to unearth other people's secrets ended up being left alone.
Su Xiao walked forward with the map, while Kisho Arima and Yuna followed.
The map was very precious in their situation.
Su Xiao wrote down each section of the route, and the map he drew by hand became better and better.
— Su Xiao stopped walking and looked at the dim passage in front of him.
— Come on, it's the white reaper!" "there are more than a dozen ghouls on the other side. When they saw Kisho Arima, they turned and ran.
They remained standing in their place. They had to avoid fighting as much as possible.
In the 24th district, most ghouls would immediately run away when they saw Arima.
This greatly helped their advancement. An hour later, Su Xiao saw a metal gate.
Kisho Arima opened the gate, and they calmly passed through it, then closed it.
This gate was placed in this place for the sake of deterring the ghouls of the 24th district. As for whether they were effective or not, that was a good question.
Soon they saw the light...
It was normal sunlight, but since Su Xiao had stayed underground for too long, he felt a little uneasy.
After getting used to such a bright light, Su Xiao got out of the hole and found himself in the world of ordinary people.
Although they hadn't been in the 24th district for long, it felt like they'd been there forever.
Taking a deep breath, he could feel the exceptionally fresh, pleasant air, without the faint smell of blood and rot.
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