Chapter 78

The section of the underground tunnel where Su Xiao was located was not very wide, only about three meters or so, allowing at most four ghouls to pounce at once, which greatly reduced the pressure on him.

Four ghouls pounced on Su Xiao, claws and fangs bared; strangely, they didn't use their kagune.

Su Xiao couldn't afford to consider that much now; even if these ghouls didn't use kagune, they were still difficult to deal with.

Su Xiao gripped Checking Zhan Long Shan with both hands and slashed out several white lines.

"Squish, squish."

Several arms were severed, and the ghouls in front of Su Xiao let out successive screams.

Grip the blade, horizontal slash!

A single slash swept past, and the throats of all the ghouls in front of him were severed, blood spraying out. The timing of this slash was extremely precise.

The four ghouls in front fell, but the ghouls behind them instantly filled the gap, not giving him a moment to catch his breath.

Su Xiao's focus was at its peak, and his long blade immediately slashed at the newly arrived ghouls.

Flesh and blood splattered, severed limbs flew; in less than two minutes, Su Xiao had already created a pile of corpses in front of him.

Upon discovering this, Su Xiao immediately jumped onto the pile of corpses.

Although the pile was somewhat soft and would cause his footing to be unstable, if he didn't stand on it, the ghouls would attack from above.

By standing on the pile, he held the high ground and had the advantage.

The sounds of battle and the roars of the ghouls merged into one within the tunnel.

Five minutes had passed since the start of the battle, and Su Xiao hadn't seen a single ghoul use a kagune.

These ghouls seemed unable to use kagune, or rather, they didn't have them at all.

Conversely, these ghouls were all very strong and had high physical defense; the durability of Checking Zhan Long Shan had dropped by 3 points in a very short time.

Checking Zhan Long Shan's durability was now 28/40; if this battle continued for more than two hours, its durability might be depleted.

With no other choice, Su Xiao could only activate Qing Gang Ying. He currently had 253 points of mana, and Qing Gang Ying could last for two hours.

Pale blue electric arcs permeated the surface of Checking Zhan Long Shan, and the resistance when slashing into the enemies' flesh became significantly smaller.

Just as Su Xiao slashed a ghoul in half, a ghoul in the distance leaped into the air and pounced on him like a tiger.

Su Xiao kicked away a ghoul in front of him, his long blade slashing from bottom to top.

The ghoul pouncing in mid-air had half its head sliced off by him, and he stopped paying attention to it.

Just as he was preparing to kill a ghoul in front of him, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his lower leg.

Looking down, he saw it was the ghoul that had half its head sliced off, biting into his lower leg.

Previously, these ghouls had given Su Xiao the impression of having great strength and tough bodies.

Now he had to add another point: tenacious vitality.

Su Xiao jerked his lower leg up, and several rotten teeth were ripped out of the ghoul biting him.

He stepped on the ghoul's head without mercy, and a white liquid splattered out; the skull that had already been sliced open was crushed directly.

In this extremely short time, another ghoul had already rushed in front of him.

Su Xiao's expression changed; it was too close.

This didn't stump him; one must adapt during battle. He spun Checking Zhan Long Shan in his hand, hilt forward.

The hilt hammered hard into the ghoul's face, causing it to let out a strange cry and stumble back a few steps.

A straight slash with Checking Zhan Long Shan, and the ghoul was killed.

"Bang."

A gunshot rang out from behind him, and a ghoul about to approach Su Xiao was shot directly in the head.

Su Xiao glanced to the side; Yuna was holding a long, slender firearm with both hands—that was Yuna's quinque, "G-Contribution points," and that wasn't even counting the kagune sacs of those ghouls.

He no longer thought about those kagune sacs; if more ghouls appeared, he would die there.

At the location of the previous battle, after Su Xiao and Arima Kisho left, several ghouls slowly approached.

"Who is that new guy? He's truly too strong; he's almost on par with the White Reaper."

"I don't know, but we must be careful from now on. Tell the children when we get back: don't leave the 'Central City' recently."

These ghouls were different from the primitive ones; they wore normal clothing, though it was a bit old, and they could speak human language.

A ghoul looked at the large pile of corpses with a grim expression and said:

"These beasts that haven't fully evolved—a breach has appeared there again, otherwise these guys wouldn't have been able to get out."

"What should we do? The 'Leader' isn't in Central City right now; she's on the surface fighting against the CCG."

The ghouls fell silent, and in the end, they chose to leave and head deeper into the 24th Ward.

PS: (Requesting recommendation votes. There are a few too few votes today, ha, it's heartbreaking.)