Chapter 1697: Don't Say Sorry to Me

Su Xiao knocked on the Ghoul's facial bone on the ground; the texture was hard. If he knocked with his bare hands, Su Xiao couldn't break this kind of exoskeleton.

Checking Zhan Long Shan appeared in Su Xiao's hand. A blade light flashed, and three slash marks appeared on the Ghoul's abdomen.

This dead Ghoul was gutted by Su Xiao. He wanted to check the Ghoul's feeding status. If it wasn't starving, then this matter was very unusual.

Su Xiao looked at the Ghoul's stomach. He didn't see food residue, but a lump of meat.

"This is..."

Su Xiao examined the lump of meat. Just then, a mutation occurred. The lump of meat actually deformed rapidly, turning into a human shape in an instant, leaping out of the Ghoul's abdomen and pouncing toward Su Xiao's face.

With a slap, Su Xiao grabbed the lump of meat with his bare hands. A light blue crystal layer wrapped around his hand, making it look like a crystal sculpture. This was a new form of Aoge he had developed. This crystal layer, transformed from Qing Gang Ying energy, possessed strong defensive and insulating properties.

The bright red lump of meat twisted in Su Xiao's hand. Through observation, he felt that this thing wasn't a living organism, but more like some kind of pre-set biological mechanism.

Gurgle, gurgle, gurgle...

The lump of meat expanded in Su Xiao's hand. Although he wanted to study the composition of this thing, for the sake of safety, he could only throw it away.

Pfft~

The lump of meat shattered. It didn't explode but sprayed out a miserable green gas, causing a nearby street lamp to hiss as it corroded.

Clearly, this Ghoul that killed people on the street wasn't doing it of its own volition. Ghouls were intelligent creatures; they could disguise themselves as humans, and secretly eating people was the way to go, just like Ghouls in the Ghoul world. No, they were much higher-level than Ghouls; even the lowest-level Ghoul would be invincible in the Ghoul world.

If it weren't for professionals, one couldn't find Ghouls hidden among ordinary people. Even if found, whether they could be cleared was unknown. If not cleared at once, the Ghoul would become more cunning, disguise itself more realistically, and even have conscious counter-reconnaissance.

"Deputy Legion Commander Kuku Lin, do you have any suggestions for this matter?"

The female officer's brow was furrowed. Today's event was definitely a great achievement for her, but she keenly sensed that Ghouls seemed more troublesome than she had imagined. As the saying goes, "pretending to understand when you don't leads to a bad death." Achievements were good, but the current situation was very clear: her troops were not professionals, and continuing to take on this matter wasn't wise.

"No suggestions. After all, this matter is the responsibility of your security forces."

"..."

The female officer was suddenly speechless. She just didn't want her achievements to be snatched away before. Her subordinates had died over a dozen, and she couldn't let them die in vain, only to make wedding clothes for others.

"Legion Commander Kuku Lin, what I meant by 'responsible' was responsible for handling these corpses, not investigating subsequent events."

"Is that so."

Su Xiao glanced at the female officer. If that mother venomous snake in the Execution Agency had half the breadth of mind of this female officer, things would be much simpler.

"No suggestions. This Ghoul is already dead, so... it's over."

"Huh?"

The female officer was a bit dazed. So many people died, and it just ends like this?

Su Xiao walked out of the crowd. He still didn't know much about this world. As for the Ghost Ring faction, the attack just now might be related to them, but it couldn't be confirmed yet.

Gus, who had been gutted by the Ghoul, had already gone to the hospital for treatment. Because of his performance today, Su Xiao told him to come to the office after his injuries healed. With an Awakened's constitution, Gus would recover in two or three days.

Gus entered the operating room with a smile. Clearly, his immediate superior was going to promote him.

The late-night street began to quiet down. Su Xiao walked in the direction of his memory. That was the residence of the former Deputy Legion Commander, a three-story villa. Amu was already in the villa, and Beini had gone treasure hunting.

Su Xiao had a cigarette in his mouth. As he walked under a street lamp, the lamp flickered.

"Come out."

Su Xiao exhaled a puff of blue smoke, and Checking Zhan Long Shan appeared in his hand.

A figure in a black robe walked out from the alley beside the street. No, this should be wearing black smoke; the other party's clothing seemed to be composed of smoke, twisting from time to time, and the hood was fluttering with the night wind.

Su Xiao flicked the cigarette in his hand. Clearly, the visitor was not well-intentioned. There were two possibilities: first, the enemy hiding in the dark had lost patience and sent someone to manually destroy Su Xiao; second, it was revenge from Ghouls or demons. There were many Ghouls and demons who died directly or indirectly in the hands of the Deputy Legion Commander, so revenge was normal.

The Apostle's Eye floated up. Su Xiao needed to determine which side this person belonged to.

【Detecting...】

【Detection failed due to unknown energy interference.】

【Tier judgment in progress... Judgment successful, you have obtained the following data.】

Name: Lucas

Category: Human/Awakened (93% awakened).

"Lucas?"

Su Xiao looked at the newcomer with burning eyes. This was someone from the Execution Agency. In his memory images, this was a somewhat reclusive man, but very reliable. If he were still a member of the Execution Agency, then with Su Xiao's order, Lucas would travel thousands of miles to the border to fight Ghouls to the death.

Hearing Su Xiao's words, Lucas, wearing surging black smoke, took a step back.

"Legion Commander..."

Lucas's voice was very hoarse, like sandpaper rubbing.

"Did Madam Nancy send you?"

"Not her. This is the last thing I can do for you. As for who it is, I cannot say. Thank you for your promotion in the past. Sorry."

Lucas lowered his head to Su Xiao. It could be seen that he respected Su Xiao, this Legion Commander, very much.

"You will tell me who it is."

A smile appeared on Su Xiao's face. For some reason, seeing his smile, Lucas suddenly felt very strange. His inner thought was: 'Is this really the Deputy Legion Commander of the Execution Agency?'

"Who... are... you."

Lucas swallowed his saliva, his eyes fixed on Su Xiao.

Su Xiao ignored the other party. This was an Awakened, not a Ghoul. However, Lucas's awakening degree was as high as 93%. This kind of awakening degree was definitely artificially suppressed.

As Awakened fought Ghouls or killed them, their awakening degree would gradually increase, and their strength would become stronger. But an increase in awakening degree was definitely not a good thing. If the awakening degree exceeded 65%, it would lead to unstable emotions in the Awakened, and the Empire would not continue to employ such Awakened.

If the awakening degree exceeded 70%, then they would enter the transformation period, which was the transformation from human to demon. If it exceeded 80%, becoming a demon was only a matter of time. 85% meant they could become a demon at any time. As for Awakened with an awakening degree over 90%, they were very rare.

Clang.

The long sword in Su Xiao's hand was unsheathed. He still didn't know the enemy's true strength and needed to respond cautiously.

"Sorry, Legion Commander."

Lucas clenched his hands, and the black smoke turned into two pitch-black curved blades.

With a boom, gravel flew under Su Xiao's feet. He disappeared from the spot in an instant. Black smoke surged around Lucas, and he also disappeared from the spot.

One minute later.

Bang!

A figure crashed through the wall and fell to the ground, unable to rise. Blood gradually spread on the ground.

Lucas was almost killed by Su Xiao in one encounter. It wasn't that Lucas was weak, but he actually used a weapon made of energy to fight Su Xiao. Qing Gang Ying was best at devouring energy, so the result was predictable. If it weren't for Su Xiao wanting to keep a living witness, Lucas's head would have been chopped off in the first round of the exchange.

Su Xiao flicked the blood off his blade and squatted in front of Lucas.

"Don't say sorry to me. You're the one who's going to die." ===== CHAPTER 1698 =====