Chapter 112

Tap, tap, tap~.

Unhurried footsteps approached, and Arima Kishou walked out from a tunnel.

Wiping the blood from the corner of his mouth, Su Xiao looked at Arima Kishou.

"Arima, do you know what you're doing?"

Just a few seconds ago, Arima Kishou had actually used his Quinque to ambush him; that was clearly to protect Eto Yoshimura.

"If you hadn't come, I would have been killed by this guy."

Eto Yoshimura walked toward Arima Kishou. A ghoul was actually standing side-by-side with an investigator.

"Bai Ye, I originally wanted to discuss this with you after returning to the surface. Now it seems it can only be done in advance."

Arima Kishou stood beside Eto Yoshimura without any vigilance, as if the two were well-acquainted.

"What, are you planning to deal with me together with Eto Yoshimura?"

Su Xiao gripped Zhan Long Shan, ready to run at any time.

With Eto Yoshimura's current state, he had a 90% chance of winning, but with Arima Kishou added, he could only strategically retreat.

"No need to be so vigilant. I don't want to fight you; that has no meaning."

Arima Kishou put away his Quinque and signaled Eto Yoshimura not to attack either.

"Tch, this bastard tried to cut off my head several times, and that's it?"

Eto Yoshimura was clearly unwilling, staring at Su Xiao with hatred.

"We started cooperating thirteen years ago, but that doesn't mean we will continue to cooperate now. Kaneki Ken is dead."

Arima Kishou's words shocked Eto Yoshimura.

"Understood."

Eto Yoshimura gritted her teeth, turning her head away from Su Xiao and Arima Kishou.

"You're planning to cooperate with this guy? He killed many of my subordinates."

"I have also killed many Aogiri Tree members."

Arima Kishou looked at Eto Yoshimura indifferently, and Eto Yoshimura rolled her eyes.

Su Xiao looked at the two in surprise. Their personalities were somewhat different from the original work; could that be their disguise?

"Hoo~."

Arima Kishou exhaled a long breath, gently touching the glasses on the bridge of his nose with one hand.

"No need to be so vigilant, come closer."

"Speak if you have something to say; this distance is fine."

Su Xiao wouldn't get close to Arima Kishou and Eto Yoshimura; the two were clearly in a cooperative relationship.

From their conversation, it could be heard that the two had actually started cooperating 13 years ago.

The CCG's strongest investigator cooperating with the One-Eyed Owl—no matter how you thought about it, there was a huge secret hidden within, as well as very tempting benefits.

Exploring the deep secrets of a derived world yielded high returns; otherwise, Su Xiao would have flashed away long ago.

"Bai Ye, what kind of organization do you think the CCG is?"

Arima Kishou's expression was solemn, a hint of hatred vaguely appearing in his eyes.

"Exterminating ghouls? Protecting humans?"

Su Xiao didn't know the CCG's goal either, so he answered casually.

"Pfft~, protecting humans? The CCG will protect humans? That's the funniest thing I've ever heard. Investigators do protect humans, but the CCG never will."

Eto Yoshimura combed the hair messed up by the previous battle, seemingly very disdainful of the CCG.

"No, the CCG isn't protecting humans at all. They are farming humans, 'controlling' humans..."

After gathering his thoughts, Arima Kishou began to tell Su Xiao the secret of the CCG.

Commission of Counter Ghoul (CCG).

Chairman: Washuu Tsuneyoshi.

Bureau Chief: Washuu Yoshitoki.

The CCG handled ghoul-related events worldwide. All matters related to ghouls were resolved by the CCG, which held immense power.

On the surface, the CCG was protecting ordinary citizens and exterminating ghouls, but was that really the case?

Su Xiao had a doubt long ago: why didn't the CCG use high-power thermal weapons to deal with ghouls? Out of concern for civilian safety? In Su Xiao's view, that wasn't the case at all.

Some high-power heavy machine guns could completely pierce a ghoul's skin. Take the battle at the entrance of the 24th Ward earlier; they only needed to set up a few high-power heavy machine guns and fire wildly. In that narrow terrain, even thousands of ghouls could be slaughtered within half an hour.

Even if the heavy machine guns weren't powerful enough, the power of heavy sniper rifles would surely be enough.

A dozen well-trained snipers using heavy sniper rifles, as long as they maintained a good distance, could turn Eto Yoshimura into a pile of rotten meat within five minutes.

In the original plot, Kamishiro Rize was half-killed by steel beams falling from a high altitude, showing that a ghoul's skin was far from as hard as imagined.

Even if the above weapons didn't work, humans had a land hegemon: tanks!

Under the charge of those steel behemoths, ghouls had no chance to fight back.

Could humans really not completely exterminate ghouls? Don't joke around. Humans were the strongest creatures on Earth; this was a fact verified over millions of years.

But why, to this day, did humans still live under the threat of ghouls? Take some dangerous areas in Tokyo; the humans there lived in constant fear, frequently encountering ghoul attacks.

The mastermind behind this situation was the CCG.

"Bai Ye, there isn't a single human among the CCG's high-ups. They are all ghouls, ghouls of the Washuu family."

"Or rather, a ghoul organization called V controls the CCG. Of course, ghouls won't completely exterminate ghouls."

The intelligence Arima Kishou revealed made everything clear to Su Xiao.

So that was it. No wonder the CCG never used high-power thermal weapons to exterminate ghouls. He had previously applied to the CCG headquarters for a few high-explosive grenades, but it was very difficult; after reviewing it for several days, the headquarters only gave him one, and its power was pathetic—it didn't even kill an S-rank ghoul.

If Su Xiao hadn't seen the power of high-explosive grenades, he might have really believed that thermal weapons were ineffective against ghouls.

The CCG high-ups were all ghouls, and ghouls would not completely exterminate ghouls.

If this was the case, then not only were the CCG high-ups all ghouls, but government agencies and even military high-ups might have ghouls. It was terrifying to think about.

Ghouls looked too much like humans in their daily appearance, and the Washuu family controlled power departments like the CCG. Under the cover of the Washuu family, it wasn't difficult for ghouls to mix into those agencies.

The CCG had always instilled a thought into investigators: thermal weapons were not suitable for dealing with ghouls. This thought was a form of brainwashing, starting from the 'Ghoul Investigator Training School.' This thought accompanied investigators as they grew up. Lies eventually became truth, so the CCG invented the Quinque, letting humans use Quinque to deal with ghouls.

In that case, a new problem arose: since the CCG high-ups were all ghouls, why did they let human investigators exterminate ghouls and kill their own kind?

This was actually a very simple question. With human high-level power under the control of ghouls, ghouls were like natural predators to humans.

So the CCG, or the V organization's ghouls, thought of a way: use humans to exterminate ghouls on a small scale, thereby controlling the number of ghouls so that humans wouldn't go extinct.

This also gave humans a glimmer of hope, preventing them from despairing and leading to the emergence of organizations like resistance armies.

As the main food source for ghouls, if humans went extinct, ghouls wouldn't be far from extinction either.

Although ghouls could survive by cannibalizing each other, the extinction of humans would lead to the collapse of the entire society. At that point, only ghouls would be left on Earth, killing each other, and civilization would be severed, even risking a return to primitive society.

The CCG didn't want this situation to happen, nor did they want ghouls to go extinct, because they were ghouls themselves. Thus, investigators using Quinque to fight were born.

Investigators were like diligent 'janitors,' controlling the number of ghouls.

Su Xiao had previously cleared out the 14th Ward; this behavior was of great help to humans. If the CCG fought for humans, why didn't they let Su Xiao clear out ghouls in other areas, instead transferring him to the 24th Ward, a place where no humans lived, to kill ghouls? Even if he killed all the ghouls in the 24th Ward, could humans live underground? Obviously not.

The ghouls in the 24th Ward might be ghouls who knew the CCG's secrets; the CCG was eliminating dissidents.

The confrontation between Aogiri Tree and the CCG was not a war between ghouls and humans at all, but a civil war among ghouls.

Aogiri Tree gathered a large number of ghouls and occupied a certain area. In the eyes of the CCG high-ups, this was challenging their authority.

If the CCG hadn't already spread the idea that thermal weapons were not suitable for dealing with ghouls, and if this idea hadn't taken root in people's hearts, the ghouls in the CCG high-ups would have long ago sent planes and artillery to bomb Aogiri Tree.