"Let go of me!"
A sharp female scream erupted.
Keli and Kazuma, who were rushing ahead, paused.
Keli turned back; the direction of the sound was from where they had already broken through.
"Is someone being handsy with the women who were rescued?" Kazuma frowned.
Keli also frowned. He felt that such a thing was very possible, after all, let alone these people had poor quality before being captured, even the most well-behaved person would be lucky not to have mental problems after two weeks in such an environment. He turned around and rushed several big steps towards the crowded direction.
"What's going on?"
Keli approached with an accusing tone, and the crowd immediately parted.
Keli held an unimaginable status in the hearts of these rescued people; everyone regarded him as the hero who led them to resist these monsters.
When the crowd dispersed, Keli saw several men holding a woman. And beside that woman, a man was clutching his bleeding face.
Seeing Keli approach, someone immediately came to explain.
"Little brother! Because those monsters need to maintain the brothels and some idols down the mountain to make money, some good-looking women, after being captured, are locked in rooms and trained. Also, some people with status here can choose a few women to play with before they are sent for training."
"And then?" Keli's tone was a bit heavy because he didn't hear what he wanted to hear.
"Then we just came to save her, but she said she didn't want us to save her, and she even said we… we traitors would all be purged… Ota-kun tried to help her unlock her shackles, but she scratched him…"
The old man who explained to Keli spoke as tactfully as possible.
Before the old man could finish, the woman started screaming hysterically again.
"Let go of me! You guys! You betrayed! And you still want to trick me! Yamashita-kun said! He likes me! He will marry me! I can also become one of them! I'm not a slave like you! I eat pickled roe in Yamashita-kun's room every day! Take your dirty hands off me! Otherwise, when Yamashita-kun comes back! You'll all be skinned! Ah ah ah ah! Let…"
Keli went up and punched the woman in the face, interrupting the banshee's screaming spell, then waved his hand.
"In this situation, just give her a punch and she'll be quiet.
If you encounter someone like this, just kill them. If you don't want to kill them, then ignore her. We still have to go out after we kill all those beasts!"
Keli didn't want to waste time and turned to continue pursuing them to the next level.
Ever since they entered the mountain, Kazuma had basically been running in front, because there were always some surprises.
Turning a corner down a staircase, sure enough, the enemy had set up a gun at the corner. Keli rushed out, shooting down two, and the rest started fighting and retreating again.
Then Kazuma squeezed past Keli and rushed over, but the next moment, someone with a dagger jumped down from the slightly higher ceiling, directly performing a shinobi kill, stabbing towards Kazuma's forehead.
"Bang!"
Keli shot down that precious thing, then rushed to the front, and someone immediately came up from behind to finish it off.
"Damn it! Who did they learn all this from! Setting up guns at corners! People falling from the ceiling, a dark side with a hidden opening for people, and suddenly someone with a chainsaw rushing out."
Keli was speechless. Why did these ghouls have such good imaginations?
However, the resistance along the way was indeed getting smaller and smaller.
At first, there was a round of gunfire at every corner.
But ever since they discovered that Keli wouldn't die no matter how they shot him, and Kazuma would die and come back to life, their current shooting was basically just buying time to escape.
Along the way, many white light points flew out. After the people behind finished off the enemies, those light points would automatically fly over, seemingly just like Dark Souls; even if the monster wasn't killed by them, as long as they stood nearby, they could absorb it.
This time, Kazuma and Keli could confirm that others couldn't see this thing; it seemed only they could.
Not only that, as they went further down, Keli's team also gradually grew stronger. Now, there were about 80 people following behind, so many that a single tunnel couldn't accommodate them. However, there were also many old, weak, sick, and disabled people who couldn't run out, so everyone implicitly protected them in the middle of the group to avoid any pursuers from the rear.
Finally, Keli and Kazuma chased those guys all the way to the bottom level of this nest structure.
Actually, Keli had one thing wrong: as more and more people joined them, it wasn't that the resistance weakened and the enemy was scared off. Instead, those humans who could immune the daytime debuff and run took the opportunity to escape to the surface through the intricate tunnels of this underground structure.
Only those "light-sensitive" ghouls, who could only stay in the mountain during the day and couldn't go out at all, could only be chased or hide in corners, begging not to be discovered.
However, Keli basically treated those who hid as ambushes, because as long as they weren't rushing too fast, they could know where they were hiding just by carefully sensing, just like having x-ray vision; cabinets and blind spots were useless.
Not closed means open?
Keli looked at the mine tracks in front of him, which reminded him of MC's fast-moving tracks, somewhat speechless. Those who had run here first seemed to have already driven away the few minecarts available, leaving only the remaining ones frantically running along the tunnel.
Fortunately, the tunnel was much wider, not as narrow as the nest, which was only wide enough for one and a half people to pass. It was probably designed initially to prevent captured food from escaping, and to allow invaders to fully utilize the terrain and the ghouls' advantage of being immune to bullets except in the heart, to engage in gunfights.
As a result, Keli and Kazuma used this to their advantage; as long as Keli blocked in front, the people behind would basically not get injured.
It can only be said that the map was designed for the rapid recovery mechanism, but Keli and Kazuma's immortality was superior to the enemy's.
However, only they knew how many times they wanted to scream and roll on the ground in pain along the way.
"Chase!" Keli shouted behind him.
"Chase!" A chaotic but loud shout came from behind.
They succeeded! They succeeded!
By this time, many people were in tears; they had actually succeeded in resisting, and they had a chance to leave this demon's den alive!
Staying here, every few days, someone next to them would be taken away. Some would disappear completely, while others would return in a daze, as if hypnotized, only possibly waking up if someone explained the situation to them again.
And on the day someone was taken away, the cave would echo with the sound of some machine roaring.
A part of the people responsible for transportation knew that it was a corpse shredder.
Even if those people had been turned into their own kind, what those devils would do was throw them in.
That feeling of not knowing when one would be chosen as food, of not knowing when one would have to go into that shredder, was a deeper fear than the environment here.
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