Chapter 76: First Appearance

Su Xiao walked into the pitch-black hole, and the rapid airflow with a slight fishy smell brushed across his cheeks.

The hole was downhill and gradually led to the underground.

After going deep for a distance, the tunnel became narrower, but it was at least five meters high and seven or eight meters wide. I don't know how long the ghouls had dug to form such a tunnel.

After walking into the tunnel, he found that although this was underground, it was not pitch black.

At the top of the tunnel, a plant with gray branches clung to it. This plant had dense roots and would produce a strange flower.

The flowers hung on the top wall of the tunnel, emitting faint white light, making the tunnel not dark.

"Drip, drip~."

Water droplets dripped from the top of the tunnel, and Arima Kishou and Yuna immediately dodged far away.

"Don't touch those liquids, that is the juice secreted by the 'light flower', it is highly toxic."

Yuna immediately reminded Su Xiao, and Su Xiao nodded.

"Don't be careless, more than 50 investigators have died under the poison of 'light flower'."

Finding that Su Xiao didn't care, Yuna reminded him again.

"Well, thank you."

Although Yuna was a bit neurotic, she was a good teammate.

After walking for hundreds of meters in the tunnel, a metal door appeared in front of the three.

"Here."

Arima Kishou reached into his collar, took out a necklace, and a golden key was worn on the necklace.

The key was inserted into the metal door, and the metal door opened with a bang.

"Every time I enter this broken door, I have a feeling of not being able to get out. Which retard built this thing, damn it."

Yuna cursed in a low voice, then muttered silently for a while.

This was a checkpoint built by the CCG very early to prevent ghouls in the 24th Ward from leaving the 24th Ward. There were only two keys, one in the hands of Arima Kishou and one in the hands of Washuu Yoshitoki (CCG Bureau Chief).

The metal door opened, and a fishy smell rushed towards them.

Appearing behind the metal door were two fork roads.

Inside and outside the metal door were two completely different worlds.

The walls inside the metal door were no longer soil, but a kind of dark red meat wall.

Su Xiao took out Checking Zhan Long Shan, the tip of the sword stabbed into the meat wall, the meat wall texture was hard, and had strong toughness.

"Puff."

Checking Zhan Long Shan stabbed into the meat wall for a distance, and the meat wall actually began to lock tightly, trying to clamp Checking Zhan Long Shan.

"Arima, which way do we go this time."

Yuna and Arima Kishou were very familiar, and the two were partners who had cooperated for a long time.

"You decide."

Arima Kishou held a quinque in each hand, which were "Narukami" and "IXA".

Yuna took out a coin and tossed it.

"Heads, then the right side."

Arima Kishou nodded.

Su Xiao looked at this scene with some confusion. Wasn't there a prescribed route?

"Very strange, right? This way of choosing the road."

Yuna looked at Su Xiao with a smile.

"No fixed route?"

"No, and it's impossible."

Yuna's words made Su Xiao even more confused.

"These meat walls are not fixed. They often change. For example, the fork road in front of us, sometimes it's two, sometimes three, or even five.

This is also why the 24th Ward cannot be thoroughly explored. This whole area is 'alive'."

Listening to Yuna's explanation, Su Xiao frowned.

"How to get out after going deep into the 24th Ward? With the current situation, it's not impossible to be trapped to death."

"Of course there is a way. With this thing, it's not a problem for us to leave."

Yuna tossed a compass.

Arima Kishou on the side opened his mouth.

"The exploration time this time is set for two days. If there is no harvest after two days, return to the ground and return to the temporary branch to repair."

Arima Kishou thought for a while and continued:

"Superior Investigator Bai Ye, what are you best at."

Arima Kishou wanted to understand Su Xiao's information.

"Frontal assault, perception, attack."

"Very good."

Arima Kishou pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose.

"I'll lead the charge, Yuna in the middle, Bai Ye in the rear."

Su Xiao had no opinion on this formation, but Yuna pouted.

"I'm not a newcomer, why should I be in the middle, really unhappy."

Yuna looked at Su Xiao, feeling that she was not Su Xiao's opponent, and could only choose to be in the middle.

The three-person squad began to advance into the interior of the 24th Ward.

"Roar!"

Not long after walking, a roar came from the front.

"Damn, don't be so unlucky!"

Yuna cursed in a low voice, turned and ran.

Arima Kishou had the same reaction, running back without hesitation.

"Run quickly, something is coming soon."

Without Arima Kishou shouting, Su Xiao also turned and ran when he found the two fleeing, his position vaguely exceeding Yuna's.

"What is that."

While running, Su Xiao asked Yuna.

"That is a 'monster'. The 24th Ward is different from the 14th Ward. There are more than just ghouls here."

Soon, the three ran back to the fork road.

Although the terrain of the 24th Ward would change, this change had a cycle. Generally, it would have a big change in seven or eight days, and there were only subtle changes usually.

"The right side is impassable, the blood eye is on the right."

Yuna breathed rapidly, looking at the tunnel on the right with lingering fear.

Su Xiao couldn't help frowning. What kind of monster was it that even Arima Kishou had to run away?

"Arima. The blood eye is active, should we give up."

Yuna vaguely had the intention to retreat.

"No need, the blood eye's range of action is not wide, explore the left tunnel."

Arima Kishou led the charge, and the three walked into the left tunnel.

Before seeing any ghouls, the 24th Ward had already given Su Xiao two warnings.

The poison that dripped at any time, and the monster that was so powerful that even Arima Kishou had to run away.

The three went deep into the 24th Ward this time very smoothly. They walked for several hours without any movement, and not even a ghoul appeared, which made Su Xiao a little puzzled. Weren't there many ghouls in the 24th Ward?

"Boom."

A loud noise came, the tunnel shook, and dust fell.

"The blood eye is going crazy again."

Yuna's face was a bit ugly, seemingly very wary of the creature called "Blood Eye".

"It has entered the molting period. I fought with it last week."

Arima Kishou's words were shocking. He had actually fought with that unknown monster.

After continuing to advance into the 24th Ward for an hour, Su Xiao had entered a state of getting lost. 【7

The 24th Ward truly deserves its reputation as a labyrinth; the number of side paths taken along this journey adds up to at least several dozen.

Another corner appeared ahead.

"Wait."

Su Xiao spoke suddenly, causing Yuna and Arima Kisho to look at him.

"What is it?"

Yuna's entire body tensed up.

"There's a scent of blood, and it's very fresh, right behind the corner."

Yuna looked at Su Xiao with half-belief, approached the corner on tiptoe, and poked her head out.

Yuna turned her head and nodded at the two of them.

Arima Kisho glanced at Su Xiao, and the two of them approached the corner with light, slow steps.

After Su Xiao leaned past the corner, he discovered two ghouls behind it, gnawing on a corpse.

Judging by the red eyes on the corpse, it was also a ghoul.

This was Su Xiao's first time seeing ghouls in the 24th Ward; the ghouls here were vastly different from those on the outside.

It wasn't their appearance, but their attire.

These two ghouls in the 24th Ward were actually wearing grass skirts, and one of them even had a necklace made of bone teeth hanging around its neck.

Su Xiao was petrified; had he encountered primitive ghouls?

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