Chapter 88: Playing Along

The CCG and the ghouls began mid-range shooting.

Those ghouls in the Aogiri Tree stronghold clearly had the advantage. The ghouls' kagune were shield-shaped, and there were small holes in the kagune shields, which neither affected shooting nor prevented bullets.

The CCG's casualties began to expand. In less than five minutes of exchange, dozens of combat personnel were killed or injured.

Marude Itsuki in the command vehicle saw this scene through the display screen, his expression somewhat displeased.

"Why don't we have the advantage in shooting?"

An adjutant on the side hurriedly replied.

"The enemy has kagune shields; they are very difficult to deal with."

Marude Itsuki snorted coldly and stood up to walk out of the command vehicle.

"Bang."

Marude Itsuki kicked open the rear door of the vehicle, not caring about the hail of bullets around him, snatched a gun from the hands of an investigator beside him, and fired a few shots toward the Aogiri Tree stronghold.

"Rat, rat-tat..."

Every time Marude Itsuki fired three bullets, a ghoul in the Aogiri Tree stronghold lost their life.

This terrifying marksmanship made those ghouls subconsciously shrink back into cover, and the firepower weakened significantly.

"Little ones, give me..."

Just as Marude Itsuki was about to shout, he heard a familiar roaring sound from not far away.

Marude Itsuki turned his head stiffly, looking in the direction of the roar.

Suzuya Juuzou was riding on a brand-new motorcycle, revving the throttle hard.

"Hey, what are you doing to my motorcycle?"

Marude Itsuki's tone was very urgent.

Suzuya Juuzou revealed a pleased smile, his eyes squinting with laughter.

"Borrowing it."

After speaking, little angel Juuzou twisted the throttle, and the motorcycle whistled out.

"Stop!!"

Juuzou didn't care about Marude Itsuki's wailing and rode the motorcycle toward the Aogiri Tree stronghold.

"Hey, that, wait, hey hey~."

Marude Itsuki was already incoherent, his face distorted. Su Xiao on the side even saw tears flashing in Marude Itsuki's eyes~.

Su Xiao was very puzzled. Why did Marude Itsuki bring a motorcycle when going on a mission? For emergency escape? Given Marude Itsuki's personality, it wasn't impossible.

Juuzou rode the motorcycle and charged up a high slope.

"Boom!"

An explosion came. Marude Itsuki's motorcycle was sacrificed. Juuzou used the inertia to ferociously charge into the Aogiri Tree stronghold. After a round of strafing, all the firepower points in the stronghold were cleared.

The wreckage of the motorcycle splattered. Su Xiao clearly saw Marude Itsuki's tears flowing uncontrollably.

"My limited-edition motorcycle."

Marude Itsuki sniffed and wiped the tears off his face.

Although Suzuya Juuzou destroyed his motorcycle, he also opened the outer defense of Aogiri Tree.

"Assault!"

After the hoarse roar, Marude Itsuki collapsed to the ground, exhausted.

A large group of CCG combat personnel rushed into the Aogiri Tree stronghold.

"Marude, I'll go to the designated position first."

Su Xiao walked past Marude Itsuki.

Marude Itsuki, who had already knelt on the ground, raised his head and looked at Su Xiao.

"I'll leave the rear to you. Don't let the ghouls escape in the chaos. I've already arranged the bomb disposal squad you mentioned earlier, and they are currently searching for possible explosives under the cover of the main force."

Before setting out, Su Xiao had mentioned to Marude Itsuki that the Aogiri Tree stronghold might have a large amount of explosives buried. After luring the CCG into the stronghold, the Aogiri Tree ghouls would retreat through the back door and then detonate the explosives.

After hearing this "guess" from Su Xiao, Marude Itsuki didn't consider it much and applied to headquarters for a bomb disposal squad.

As a battlefield commander, Marude Itsuki would attach importance to any possible danger, let alone such a feasible plan.

Aogiri Tree had indeed buried bombs in the original work. Su Xiao could know this, and the contractors in the ghoul faction could also guess that the plan to bury bombs had been exposed.

Removing the threat of the bombs, both sides were fighting with real strength. The outcome would depend on their own abilities.

Su Xiao walked slowly into the Aogiri Tree stronghold. He didn't go to the crowded upper floors but came to the back door of the Aogiri Tree stronghold.

He was going to intercept the retreating ghouls here.

The night wind blew, and a faint smell of blood drifted over. Gunshots and screams merged into one in the stronghold, but the back door was quiet.

Su Xiao jumped onto a three-meter-high concrete beam and sat on top, waiting silently.

With his current physical fitness, three meters high was just a small matter, but saying it was a small matter was a bit too arrogant; let's call it a medium matter.

There wouldn't be too many ghouls at the back door for the time being, and the surroundings were quiet.

Faint footsteps came; ghouls were coming.

"Oh my~, I seem to have encountered a tricky enemy."

A ghoul wearing a pink top and gold-rimmed sunglasses walked out of the darkness.

The person was dressed neither like a man nor a woman, with a flamboyant pace, looking like a transvestite.

"Didn't expect an unexpected harvest."

Su Xiao leaped down from the beam, loosened his shoulders, and walked toward the person holding Checking Zhan Long Shan.

"If I remember correctly, you should be called Nico, an SS-class ghoul, a member of the Clowns."

Hearing Su Xiao's words, the transvestite Nico's face changed, and that relaxed demeanor disappeared.

"You actually know the Clowns. I didn't want to fight you, but now I have no choice but to kill you."

Nico's red eyes emerged, and a kagune appeared at the end of his spine, a Rinkaku.

According to the intelligence learned from the original work, Nico's strength was not weak. Although defined by the CCG as an SS-class ghoul, his strength was definitely more than just an SS-class ghoul.

This guy's recovery ability was very perverted; he had once been stabbed through the abdomen by Yamori with one hand, yet could recover extremely quickly.

Nico kicked off his high heels and rushed toward Su Xiao.

Su Xiao held Checking Zhan Long Shan horizontally in front of him, staring fixedly at Nico.

After running a few steps to Su Xiao, Nico flew up and kicked toward Su Xiao's head. Su Xiao tilted his head to dodge this strike and turned to kick Nico in the lower abdomen.

Su Xiao didn't use his blade; he wanted to use the blade to defend against Nico's kagune.

Except for a very few ghouls, most ghouls' melee capabilities were very trashy.

When fighting ghouls, one must focus on guarding against the ghoul's kagune; those kagune didn't necessarily have any abilities.

The facts were indeed so. After being kicked back two steps by Su Xiao, Nico's kagune rolled and whipped toward Su Xiao's neck.

Gripping Checking Zhan Long Shan tightly with both hands, Su Xiao took a deep breath and slashed at Nico's kagune with all his might.

"Puchi."

Nico's kagune snapped in response, and a large portion of the kagune flew far away.

"Ah~." Nico let out a painful cry with a tremor, his face full of an expression as if he were about to climax.

"This is truly~, so good!"

Nico didn't look injured at all; instead, he pounced on Su Xiao, not caring about the injury at all.

Su Xiao ignored Nico's strange screams and slashed at Nico twice with Checking Zhan Long Shan.

"Puchi, puchi."

One of Nico's arms and most of his shoulder were slashed off, but Su Xiao's brows locked tight; he didn't feel like he had slashed a solid object, as if he had slashed into liquid.

Nico retreated two steps, and the severed kagune had already recovered. The kagune rolled, wrapping around the severed arm and most of the shoulder.

Reconnecting the severed arm and shoulder to the wound, gurgle~, dark red liquid surged, and Nico's injuries recovered.

Nico's recovery ability was actually not inferior to that pervert Nora.

"Come again."

Su Xiao lowered his eyelids; ordinary slashes couldn't hurt Nico.

Pale blue electric arcs appeared on the surface of Checking Zhan Long Shan; Qing Gang Ying was activated.

Since ordinary slashes couldn't hurt the other party, then burn the energy in the other party's body and use true damage to crush the enemy.

PS: (Haven't begged for tickets for several days, begging for recommendation tickets, ha.) ===== CHAPTER 89 =====