Opening his eyes again, bloodshot.
Kazuma had already appeared on the mountain.
"How was it?" Keli looked at Kazuma.
"They reached me, that monster was as fast as ever, I almost didn't have time to commit suicide."
Kazuma wasn't entirely accurate; in truth, he himself hadn't had time to act.
Even after dying so many times, the act of stabbing himself with a knife still made him hesitate.
Just one moment of hesitation, and he almost got close-quarters again by that so-called Hiten Mitsurugi-ryu.
Fortunately, he hardened his heart at the last moment and successfully avoided the fate of having his limbs chopped off, bandaged, and dragged back.
"Good!"
Keli nodded upon hearing that this could even lure people away, and handed a gun to Kazuma.
"Once inside, there's no need to conserve bullets."
Saying that, Keli took the lead, rushing out with a gun in one hand!
He shot and destroyed the lock of the door that couldn't be opened from this side, then reached in with his fingernail, hooked into the keyhole with force, and the door, visibly several years old, instantly swung open, accompanied by a gasp from inside!
"What's going on? Didn't Boss Qi Ren go down the mountain to find someone?"
Several people who had picked up their guns because they noticed someone on surveillance looked blankly at the open door and at Keli, who unhesitatingly pulled the trigger.
"Bang! Bang!"
"Bang!"
With two gunshots, the two people who had just picked up their guns while sitting in front of the surveillance fell to the ground.
Keli half-knelt, then quickly stood up again, not even bothering to look at where he'd been shot.
"Clang!" The bullet casings that had entered Keli's body were squeezed out by his healing flesh, and at this moment, the entire mountain building erupted into chaos.
"Someone's entered! Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"
While they couldn't outside, this was inside the building! The villagers, who had been chased like wild dogs by Keli because the sun had risen, immediately became excited upon hearing the enemy attack, converging from every corridor in the building.
The crowded ghoul horde even prevented several people with guns from coming out of their rooms.
Upon seeing the human heads scurrying like a train station in the tunnel ahead, and smelling the pungent odor, Keli couldn't help but gasp.
"The inside of this mountain isn't hollowed out, is it?"
Unless these ghouls were all crammed into one room, otherwise, to accommodate these things, the actual scale would probably be more than a few hundred square meters. If they all had to live inside, it would be unrealistic without thousands of square meters. This wasn't some small base; this was purely a dwarf mountain city often seen in Western fantasy worldviews!
Looking at the tide-like rush of people, almost filling the entire narrow tunnel, Keli was not afraid in the slightest. He stepped on a shotgun and immediately began emptying the magazine.
As gunshots rang out and blood splattered, this seemed to wake up the villagers who were temporarily hiding here.
"Ahhh!"
"Wait! This isn't that kid who keeps coming; it's that monster from last night!"
The villagers came here not just to hide from the sun, but also to hide from this unkillable monster!
"So what if it's a monster! We have strength in numbers, and this place is narrow!"
"Wait! Don't push me!"
The people at the front, who were directly facing Keli and already had holes in their bodies, desperately tried to stop, but the people behind them pushed them forward with all their might.
Keli, unhurried, slid the shotgun under his foot backward.
Then he opened the door and retreated to a spot outside the entrance, shaded by trees but still with some dappled sunlight, and began reloading.
The ghoul tide, pushing forward, stopped just before rushing out the door, the first few screaming like madmen.
But now, Keli had already reloaded, the space was wide enough, and Kazuma, holding an unfamiliar shotgun, began to rack the slide and fire.
"Bang!"
Keli's first shot hit the first ghoul's heart. Keli thought that if he had the chance, he would definitely join a shooting club, or go find a middle-aged man named Nobi Nobita, who should be an adult by now.
"Run!"
With a hoarse cry, the human tide that had just surged forward began to retreat, but now they were living targets.
Keli deliberately raised his pistol and fired randomly into the crowd.
Screams of agony erupted from the crowd retreating and hiding in various rooms. Many people fell to the ground in pain after being shot, but those behind them continued to rush forward regardless, leading to a tunnel stampede.
And Keli took the opportunity to rush in.
At this moment, Qi Ren, who was still wandering in confusion at the fireworks ignition point, a twenty-minute journey for an ordinary person, received news of the attack on the mountain.
"No! My base!"
...
At this time, in Mount Amado, Goto Naoki lay dazed beside a cage.
Hours earlier, he, his wife, and his young daughter had been captured by retreating villagers.
His wife and daughter were locked in a cage, while he was chained outside.
The middle-aged man's face streamed with tears of humiliation. Those devils had told him various ways they would torment his family, just waiting to implement them. If it weren't for hearing the people in charge say they would save his wife and daughter for some ritual, for the son of the richest man Yamada, to be x-ed and eaten, it would probably be over by now.
But clearly, he had no value to be kept. He was beaten severely.
He also witnessed the horrifying scene of people drinking human blood. Those villagers seemed to be saying something like, "In this situation, we're just healing. This child sacrificed herself just to help us heal, and accidentally completed her transformation. The richest man can't just ignore this..." and so on.
Before, they seemed to have caused a commotion, and everyone shouted something and rushed out.
But it all seemed irrelevant now.
According to Goto Naoki's observation, this place could not be explained by any ordinary human trafficking organization or compound.
Firstly, there was the supernatural act of people consuming human blood. He watched as that old man, who had been on the verge of death, seemed to recover his arm, which had been broken during a stampede, after a mouthful of blood.
Then there was the structure of this place. Goto Naoki was dragged down several layers. He speculated that the mountain seemed to have been constructed with an ant-nest-like structure, meaning there were countless chambers within this mountain, connected by pathways leading up and down. The total area was probably unimaginable, perhaps even extending underground.
And here, each chamber was a workshop, and there were also detention cells like the one he was currently in.
Besides his family, there were several other people here, their minds dazed, as if they had been tortured into losing the ability to speak.
Given the scale of this place, and the fact that calling the police earlier had been useless, his heart had completely despaired.
Honestly, if he weren't unwilling to leave his wife and daughter alone in this hell, he would have long since smashed his head to die, rather than suffer here.
Just as he was despairingly looking at the "ceiling" where only a single light bulb hung, suddenly a series of gunshots rang out from outside.
He turned his gaze, hearing successive screams and wails. He was at the entrance of this "chamber." Through the mottled, seemingly blood-stained iron door, he saw a constant stream of people dodging and fleeing, occasionally firing a shot backward, but not daring to stop.
And soon after, he also saw the thing pursuing the crowd.
His eyes widened little by little.
It! It was those two people! How… how could it be!
"Hey! Listen up, people in the rooms! If you want to live, make a sound, and come with us to kill all those monsters!"
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