Scanning around, not seeing Jingxin, Keli shifted his gaze to Yamada Yasuo, who was closest to him.
"Where's that monk of yours?"
However, perhaps due to excessive fear, Yamada Yasuo didn't answer his question at all; instead, he shook his head and crawled backward.
"No! You can't kill this old man, you should join us!
You don't understand yet. Only when you reach that age where you can't eat what you love because you want to live, and your body doesn't allow you to do what you like, will you understand!
That feeling of not being able to know what it's like after death, or even whether the afterlife still exists!
Do you know, this old man has always believed that the short lifespan given to humans by heaven is a test, a test to see if people can find a way to extend their lives in this brief existence. Those who pass can live on; those who fail will die.
Now, the opportunity to pass the test is right before your eyes!
Even if you occupy this place, without this old man's connections, you won't find so many suppliers. You can't kill this old man! And the Kaigen-gumi will be here soon! If you kill this old man, you will all die!
Even if you don't die now, you will face the same outcome someday in the future. Not achieving eternal life is the ultimate ending!
After you become like us, you will also be caught and tortured for research by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department someday because you lack stable supply channels and connections! And if you don't change, when you get old, in those nights where you feel life slowly fading away, you will all feel pain, you will all regret! Once, in a mountain, you had the chance for eternal life!
Look! In 300 years, will people have replaced heavy labor with machines? In 500 years, will people have harnessed stars as fuel for engines? We…
"Bang!"
Keli frowned and shot Yamada Yasuo through the heart.
"Forget it, ask someone else. Sometimes it's really strange, these kinds of lunatics shouldn't be locked in hospital rooms with oxygen tubes, why are they locking me and those pure-hearted patients?"
...
While Keli was interrogating the powerful figures in the hall without success and began searching for Jingxin by scent.
Kazuma, on the other hand, encountered a huge difficulty.
As mentioned before, the mountain's weapon reserves were very rich, which was also the main reason why the rebels were able to quickly take two small hills in a few hours.
Currently, the rebels each had a hunting rifle and held an absolute numerical advantage.
However, they were completely helpless against one person.
Yamashita Qi Ren, he moved his mouth away from the neck of a minion who hadn't died on the ground and scanned the rebels surrounding him.
"How about it? I told you, since that old ghost Yamada's power is gone, I don't want to fight you.
Just step aside and let me leave, that's all. If I accidentally offended you before, I'm also very willing to apologize to you.
But if you keep pestering me, you'll end up like these guys."
At this moment, Yamashita Qi Ren was holding a steel riot shield, found from who knows where, in one hand, and a katana in the other.
And around him, several overly aggressive rebels had already fallen in pools of blood.
Unlike that incompetent Jingxin, Yamashita Qi Ren's Werewolf physique combined with his training in kendo and sufficient combat experience meant that with a shield protecting his vital points, the group of people holding guns truly felt a sense of helplessness against him.
His words didn't stop either.
"Think about it, it's true that with your numbers, no matter how strong I am, if you all come at me, I'm no match.
But how many of you will die? How many of you want to be the one who dies? How rare is it to escape this place? Do you want to waste your lives entangled with me, or return to your original lives?"
He didn't even deny his disadvantage, but Yamashita Qi Ren's words truly affected the morale of the rebels.
That's right, Yamashita Qi Ren was originally ordered to guard this place, but when he discovered the number of rebels, he immediately gave up.
He was different from those old folks who would lose their supply if they left this place. He stayed here simply because he could do many things here that he couldn't do outside.
And now that this place was definitely finished, he wouldn't really uphold any samurai spirit. Everyone was in a relationship where you pay and I do the work for you. To talk about loyalty between lord and retainer would just be laughable.
He was not a Ghoul. A Werewolf wouldn't be unable to hold on after a few days without blood meals; in fact, it was fine even if he didn't drink blood for a long time, he just couldn't unleash his superhuman strength.
And with his abilities, he could develop anywhere and didn't need to worry about not having people to eat.
So what he was thinking now was to retreat completely.
He didn't want to face this group of slaves looking at him with guns, nor did he want to face the kid leading them, who he had killed twice but was still alive and kicking in front of him.
Sato Kazuma also looked at the person who had twice brought him to the brink of death, gritting his teeth.
He knew very well that the other party's words would definitely be effective in the current situation. Kazuma had already noticed some people showing signs of backing down.
These rebels, after all, were not anyone's army, nor did they have a clear leader. They followed Kazuma simply because Kazuma was one of the first to lead them in rebellion, and he had shown some miraculous resurrection power.
Kazuma quickly thought it over. With the abilities that guy had shown, if they really wanted to kill him, at least a quarter of the people here would die.
And that was if everyone worked together. If people scattered and fled after one or two were killed, then it would be over.
But Kazuma also knew that letting one such creature go was almost the same as letting a whole group go. Perhaps in some other place, decades later, there would be another base like this.
Kazuma thought it over. Maybe he could first have people retreat, pretend to let him go, and then shoot him from behind.
But if he reacted, the people near him might be in trouble.
Although Kazuma was very reluctant to admit it, he didn't want anyone here to die.
And he also saw that if he didn't do something, this group of people might just stand there stupidly and let this guy escape.
"Everyone step back."
Kazuma gritted his teeth, and after some thought, came up with a final plan.
Hearing his words, the already nervous crowd retreated.
Yamashita Qi Ren's eyes lit up at the sight.
This kid is quite sensible.
However, he immediately heard Kazuma's words.
"Alright, as you know, I'll keep finding you again. We'll fight one-on-one. If you can kill me three times, we'll let you leave."
What Kazuma was thinking in his heart was:
"Excellent! I'll fight this guy first, then use his desire to escape completely to trap him here. If I just get killed once and find Keli, I can explain everything to him, and then let that crazy Keli deal with him!"
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