"What do you want to do."
The male ghoul resignedly lowered his head, but his eyes were sowhat dangerous.
"If needed, I will co find you."
Su Xiao sidestepped, indicating for this ghoul family to pass through.
The couple looked puzzled, staring at Su Xiao. They thought Su Xiao would use so kind of control tactic on them, such as making them take a slow-acting poison.
"Heh~, you’ve been living underground for a long ti, haven’t you? The world above now is different from what you imagine."
Su Xiao had already seen the faces of this family. If they lived above ground, it wouldn’t be hard to find them.
In the current age, surveillance caras are everywhere, and with the power of CCG, finding soone is simple.
The couple didn’t speak, leading their daughter past Su Xiao with their backs pressed against the wall.
The cute little girl looked at Su Xiao, her eyes seeming to say ’you bad person’.
Perhaps the couple was still relieved that Su Xiao let them go just like that.
This couple wasn’t without combat strength nor were they afraid of fighting; they were just lugging a ’little burden’, one they could never abandon.
Fighting represents danger, and no parents would put their child in danger, whether they are human or ghouls.
Watching the family in the distance, Su Xiao didn’t feel any regret. He wasn’t acting out of kindness, as that feeling had long been crushed out of him. Compared to the secrets of the 24th Ward, the Heko of this family seed worthless.
As for the potential treasure chests from the two SS-level ghouls, Su Xiao wasn’t hopeful.
He now seriously doubted that killing a black market rchant in the Pirate World would yield a treasure chest because Pirate World was far beyond his level of difficulty.
The difficulty of the Ghoul World was similar to his level, so there was no such good fortune.
Su Xiao continued guarding the entrance of the 24th to prevent ghouls from escaping.
There were constant rumblings and strange sounds coming from the 24th Ward, but fortunately, no ghouls approached the entrance.
An hour later, a screeching of brakes was heard outside the entrance, and a large group of investigators rushed in.
Headquarters acted quickly this ti; it seed they were highly concerned about the situation in the 24th Ward.
"Special Agent Bai Ye, what is the current situation?"
A stern-looking investigator with a pale face and no beard, whose eyes were small, walked into the entrance, followed by a dozen investigators.
Su Xiao recognized the newcor; it was the quasi-special investigator Fashi Xiang Jie.
Trailing behind Fashi Xiang Jie was a rookie investigator nad Long Ze Zheng Dao, who was quite a promising newcor.
After graduating from the Ghoul Investigator Academy, so of the top-ranking rookie investigators are assigned to learn from First-Class or quasi-special investigators.
There were also other investigators behind them, but Su Xiao did not know them.
"No developnts yet. A major change has occurred deep in the 24th Ward, but the specific reason is unknown."
Su Xiao did not disclose other information he knew, such as Arima Kishou already venturing deep into the 24th, or those primitive ghouls occupying the ’Central City’ of the 24th Ward, even though he wasn’t certain what that ’Central City’ looked like.
"Hello, Special Agent Bai Ye, I am Second-level Investigator Long Ze Zheng Dao."
Long Ze Zheng Dao looked very young and appeared a bit nervous.
"Hello."
After greeting, Su Xiao continued to keep a vigilant eye on the situation inside the passageway.
Speaking of Long Ze Zheng Dao, he gave off an impression of being a goody-two-shoes.
Yet, this was rely how Long Ze Zheng Dao presented himself to the outside world. Su Xiao once browsed forums and saw so introductions about Long Ze Zheng Dao.
In the early stages of the storyline, Long Ze Zheng Dao was not a strong investigator but was very brave.
During the CCG’s action to expel the manager, Long Ze Zheng Dao was bitten and had his arm severed by Ye Lu with a Heko and was captured alive.
After that, Long Ze Zheng Dao was forced to have the manager’s Heko transplanted, becoming a posthumous one-eyed ghoul, taking the alias of Owl.
After becoming a ghoul, Long Ze Zheng Dao quickly ca to terms with his ghoul identity, and the darkness in his heart gradually surfaced.
This guy treated human heads like ’pineapples,’ and used ’brains’ as jam.
Even among the ghouls, Long Ze Zheng Dao was extrely perverse.
Moreover, after transforming into a ghoul, Long Ze Zheng Dao still couldn’t forget about Maniwa Haruo.
Overall, Long Ze Zheng Dao was always oscillating between good and evil, being heroic and courageous at tis, and horrifyingly sinister at others.
Over a dozen investigators set up a defensive line at the entrance, with so even attempting to repair the tal door.
But the tal door was too damaged to be repaired.
Among these dozen or so people, only Fashi Xiang Jie possessed combat capability; the rest didn’t seem reliable to Su Xiao.
There was one First-Class Investigator who appeared very anxious, seemingly having a shadow about the 24th Ward.
At this mont, Su Xiao’s eyes suddenly turned sharp.
"They’re here."
Su Xiao looked up at the dark and narrow passageway, which was eerily silent.
"What’s the matter, Special Agent Bai Ye?"
Fashi Xiang Jie spoke at a steady pace, as though nothing ever fazed him.
"Prepare for battle; there are about two hundred enemies."
Su Xiao’s Intelligence Attribute wasn’t low, at least 12 points.
Intelligence Attribute doesn’t equate to IQ, as IQ is influenced by innate and nurous external factors. Even enhancing Intelligence Attribute won’t aid if one is cognitively impaired.
The Intelligence Attribute increases the degree of control over spells and represents the strength of magic skills.
Not only that, but the Intelligence Attribute also determines mana value, and more crucially, as it increases, one’s perception of the surroundings becos sharper.
This ability is used by mages to perceive surrounding elents and mobilize those elents.
Su Xiao’s path of developnt was different; due to the "Absolute Demon Physique," he couldn’t perceive the existence of elents at all, so he pioneered another way to sense nearby enemies.
Mages could also achieve this, but due to the influence of various attribute elents, with equal Intelligence Attributes, their scope and sensitivity of perception were far inferior to Su Xiao’s.
The Absolute Demon Physique was like an innate filter, directly disregarding the elents dispersed in the air to achieve better perception.
This instance showed that the skills of Shadow of Annihilation Law aren’t set in stone, and with a broad enough mindset, they can be developed deeply.
The Shadow of Annihilation Law profession, including Su Xiao, had only seven people acquire it in total, so future developnt paths had to be carved out by oneself.
As for unlocking skills, they should be developed by those six statues inherited during the profession transfer.
Su Xiao had a vague feeling that the Blue Steel Shadow ability might not be the core ability of the Shadow of Annihilation Law.
Now was obviously not the ti to think about such matters; a rapid sound of footsteps was gradually approaching from the passageway.
Fortunately, there were over a dozen investigators around Su Xiao, able to provide him with fire cover.
"Boss, there are investigators ahead. What do we do?"
"Fight through them. I prefer battling investigators over encountering those ’wild beasts’."
Densely packed ghouls surged forward, filling the entire passageway.
Su Xiao let out a long breath. Since he entered the Ghoul World, he had encountered this sort of scene many tis already; he was now calm and composed.
Su Xiao was very calm, but the investigators around him couldn’t remain composed.
Long Ze Zheng Dao held a cylindrical Kuingke in his hands, which looked like a gun, but was very crude.
At that mont, Long Ze Zheng Dao stood dazed, staring blankly at the ’ghoul army’ ahead, his body trembling like a leaf.
"Special Agent Bai Ye, I’ll cover while you retreat first."
Fashi Xiang Jie gripped a long-handled broadsword, an SS-level Kuingke nad Red Tongue, manufactured from Duduo Liang’s brother’s Kuingke.
Fashi Xiang Jie surprisingly showed a resolve, looking as if ready to hold the line.
"Mr. Fashi, you can’t do that; you’ll die."
Despite trembling, Long Ze Zheng Dao still ran to stand behind Fashi Xiang Jie.
It seed such a scale of ghouls was already a disaster level for Fashi Xiang Jie and the others.
Su Xiao unbuttoned the top two buttons of his windbreaker and walked over to Fashi Xiang Jie.
"Mr. Fashi, if you can use long-range weapons to support , it would be enough to deal with these ghouls in half an hour."
Fashi Xiang Jie and Long Ze Zheng Dao, along with others, looked at Su Xiao in surprise.
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