dkrc Chapter 22 The Redeemers
Chapter 22 The Redeemers
On the way to the hunt,
Yeyue's little face was filled with novelty and excitement, and the whiskers inside her dress couldn't help but sway lightly in the air.
"Onii-chan, how did you find this place?" She leaned closer to Bai Yuze, her voice filled with the excitement of discovering a mysterious treasure.
"There's so much delicious food here, and... it smells so much better than anything I've ever had before!"
Bai Yuzhe stopped, reached out and gently patted her restless head, his tone becoming serious:
"Okasan, remember, this place is dangerous. You can go and mess with magical girls if you want in the future, but you'd better stay away from the people here."
"Why?" Yeyue tilted her head, her cute eyes full of confusion. "They don't seem that powerful."
"They might not be that good individually."
Bai Yuze patiently explained,
"But they like to stick together. Once you mess with one of them, it's like stirring up a hornet's nest; the whole group will keep a close eye on you, and you can't shake them off. More importantly, messing with them can easily attract the attention of the humans."
"Why didn't I feel this way before..."
"Because most of the pseudo-humans you encountered before were just wandering ghosts, struggling to survive. But a small portion of them are organized. They've even become part of human society..."
Bai Yuzhe paused and then said:
"You don't need to worry about any of that. Just remember that their scent is different. Like you said before, these fake people smell sweeter. When you encounter these fake people, either don't take action or eliminate them completely. You absolutely cannot let any of them escape."
"Ugh... this is so troublesome."
Yeyue puffed out her cheeks, and her previously restless whiskers immediately drooped down listlessly.
"no way……"
Bai Yuzhe gently ruffled her hair, gazed at the towering spire of the Cloud Top District in the distance, and softly said:
"Well, humans are still the masters of this planet. But that's alright. If we can't defeat humans, can't we at least live among the light?"
Yeyue clearly didn't care about these words.
Bai Yuze didn't say much.
The reason he was able to get in touch with Professor Mu was...
The Redeemers also played a role in this, so he didn't want to offend the so-called Redeemers unless absolutely necessary.
After half an hour,
Bai Yuze led Ye Yue through a maze of streets and alleys until they arrived at a gathering place for fake humans in the Parrot District.
The environment here isn't exactly great, but it's much better than most human habitats; at least there aren't zombies lying around or foul-smelling excrement on the streets.
With the arrival of Bai Yuze,
Suddenly, the number of crimson gazes around them increased.
at this time,
A beautiful woman emerged from the shadows. Whether she sensed the unusual aura emanating from Bai Yuze or recognized him as someone from the Viper Gang, she said coldly:
"Pretty boy, this is not a place for you. Please leave immediately."
Bai Yuze narrowed his eyes slightly, glancing around in the nearby shadows.
Tsk,
These fake humans weren't as strong as he thought; at most, they were only at the larval stage of a calamity beast. It was a good thing he brought Okasan along just in case.
Bai Yuzhe raised his head, looked at the gray area beside him, and slowly said:
"My request is simple: hand over those four people to me, and I'll leave right now."
In an instant,
Bai Yuze's arrogant attitude immediately angered those around him.
"Pretty boy, who do you think you are?!"
"..."
Bai Yuze didn't waste any more words.
He closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, his pupils were a deep, inhuman blue.
A black exoskeleton quietly emerged from beneath the skin, with metal claws extending from its fingertips, and four arthropod-like bone spikes on its back instantly pierced through its clothing, opening up like a bow.
The woman's expression changed drastically, her body suddenly swelled, her skin tore open, revealing the rapidly proliferating pale flesh and bone spurs beneath, her head elongated, and her mouthparts split open to her ears...
in the blink of an eye,
She instantly abandoned her human form and transformed into a monster nearly three meters tall, resembling a skinned spider pieced together with human bones, roaring as she lunged at Bai Yuze in front of her!
However, in Bai Yuze's eyes, her actions...
too slow.
He didn't even move his feet; instead, a segmented limb shot out from behind him like lightning.
"Pfft!"
The bone spurs pierced the monster's chest cavity, which was still in the process of transforming, and emerged from behind, bringing with them a spray of tissue fluid mixed with fluorescent green and dark red.
The monster's charge came to an abrupt halt, and it looked down in disbelief at its chest.
Bai Yuze moved his wrist slightly.
The monster's limbs suddenly ripped horizontally!
Sizzle—!
The monster was forcibly torn in two from its chest, and before the remains even hit the ground, Bai Yuze's figure had already vanished from the spot.
next moment,
He had already plunged into the crowd of fake people surging in from all directions.
With a sweep of his left claws, a burst of eerie blue electricity erupted, and three heads that had not yet fully mutated shot into the sky.
The right-side segment rotates like a sickle.
The two fake men were cut in half at the waist, their cuts charred black and emitting a foul stench of burning protein.
His movements were precise, each claw strike and stab landing precisely on the weak points or energy core of the pseudo-human transformation.
A fake humanoid, its entire body covered in rock-like armor, roared and charged forward.
Bai Yuzhe neither dodged nor yielded. A flash of blue light appeared on the energy core in his chest, and he unleashed a powerful right punch. The opponent's carapace shattered like fragile glass, and the force of his fist, still strong, pierced straight into the opponent's body, crushing the pulsating core.
Another fake person transformed into a flowing shadow and attacked along the ground.
The two arthropod-like bone spurs on Bai Yuze's back suddenly pierced the ground, vibrating at a high frequency and releasing invisible, azure-blue electric light.
The shadow screamed, solidified, shattered, and turned into twitching black fragments scattered across the ground.
Highly efficient killing
Like a precision instrument cleaning up faulty parts.
in the blink of an eye,
Only two or three fake humans remained in this gathering place. They maintained their human-shaped outlines, but their faces were completely torn apart from the corners of their mouths to the roots of their ears, revealing three layers of ring-shaped sharp teeth that made a metallic grinding sound when they bit.
It looks terrifying.
Right now,
Their bloodshot eyes held anger, fear, and even more so, a deep sense of bewilderment:
"We are all of the same origin, why are we so eager to harm each other! Our hunting range has always been strictly defined according to the Redeemers' Association, and we have never crossed the line in the slightest."
Bai Yuze remained silent.
We just move forward step by step.
The other fake human seemed to remember something, and its bone claws suddenly pointed at Bai Yuze, its voice distorted with excitement and anger:
"I remember now, isn't it that family on Kumu Street? I've seen you go in there many times, but you never eat their food. Since you won't eat it, what's wrong with us eating it?!"
Bai Yuze made his move.
The loud crashes and screams of agony echoed through the narrow street.
"You cold-blooded monster!" the dying fake man screamed in his final moments, "You would actually kill your own kind for the sake of those humans from the old era!"
"Tsk~!"
Bai Yuze flicked the sticky liquid off his claws.
He was called a monster by the fake man.
He was really struggling to hold back, but it was clear that Yeyue was enjoying her meal, her tentacles devouring the food with gusto.
"Okasan, are you finished eating? If you're done, we'll get ready to hunt!"
"it is good."
Ye Yue licked her lips and patted her little belly.
"I'm done eating."
"Okasan, do you want to eat more fake humans, or do you want to eat abyssal monsters?"
"Let's have a balanced diet of meat and vegetables."
"Then let's go to the alleyway area."
......
Dongqing City has ten districts.
The parrot area appears to be the most dangerous area.
But in fact,
The most dangerous areas are the Luoshan District and dark alleyways near the Parrot District.
Because no matter what, Parrot District is still a human city that maintains the most basic human social order, while beyond Parrot District, it is almost entirely a region ravaged by abyssal miasma.
It's not that there are no people living there.
But almost all of them
That area is a survival world of battle royale where social scum, hypocrites, and abyssal monsters coexist.
Anything that can be seen with the naked eye,
They are all enemies.
There was no order whatsoever.
basically,
Every one or two months
Bai Yuze would go out once a day to bring back food for Okasan, and the dark alley area was his usual hunting ground.
There are a lot of fake humans and abyssal monsters here.
Bai Yuzhe had specifically searched online to find out what had happened here, but he couldn't find anything. He couldn't find any information through the internet, newspapers, books, or any other means.
It is very mysterious.
It stands to reason,
The area from Parrot District to Luoshan District and the alleyways should be relatively less guarded, but in fact, the border defenses are the most formidable and tightly secured.
In the sky,
The drone swarm patrols 24 hours a day, scanning for heat sources and abnormal movements.
on the ground,
A several-hundred-meter-long isolation zone was cleared directly from the area.
Looking from the top of the defensive line
Clearly.
The outer layer is guarded by the Security Bureau's threshold troops, equipped with heavy artillery weapons, while the inner layer is guarded by magical girls from the Judgment Bureau on 24-hour shifts. Without special passes, no one is allowed to leave or enter.
Under normal circumstances,
Bai Yuze is mostly near the border; he can lure some abyssal beasts over to fill their stomachs.
But now, because he needs to complete Professor Mu's assignment, he decides to go to the dark alley area so that Yeyue can hunt and eat her fill, while also collecting personal report data to improve the assignment.
Since we've decided to latch onto Professor Mu's coattails, we must be fully committed and dedicated, without the slightest carelessness.
The boundary line near the parrot area,
Ye Yue's delicate nostrils twitched slightly as she took a deep breath, her large eyes instantly lighting up:
"Wow, it smells like food! Onii-chan, let's hurry up and go!"
"No!"
Bai Yuzhe's gaze, however, bypassed her and landed on the fully armed field crew members at the border checkpoint. He said softly:
"Even if we had a pass, once we leave the parrot area, our identification code will turn yellow instead of green. If we want to go home, we would have to undergo at least seven days of inspection and only after confirming that there are no problems can the green code be restored and we can return to the parrot area."
"Ugh... the human world is so troublesome..."
Yeyue's face immediately fell, and her lips pouted.
Bai Yuze remained silent.
He led Yeyue down the steep riverbank.
On the back of the bridge pier, several meters above the water, a semi-circular drainage pipe entrance, covered by weeds and rust, is clearly visible.
Just as they got close,
A strong smell of rust and decaying matter hit the air, mixed with the distinctive smell of the puppet regime's rations.
"We'll go through from here."
His discovery of this route was purely accidental.
He initially came here mainly to wait for trouble, thinking that the miasma here was plentiful and there might be a slightly higher number of abyssal beasts and pseudo-humans.
To the end,
The fake man didn't arrive.
Instead, they bumped into a chubby man carrying large and small bags as he crawled out of the pipe.
Who is Bai Yuze?
A model citizen of Dongqing City!
How could Bai Yuze sit idly by and watch someone escape the Security Bureau's quarantine? What if this fat man was carrying some terrifying virus?
Therefore,
He asked a few questions.
You wouldn't know unless you asked.
I was shocked when I asked.
This guy was practically in the same line of work as him; he was also a smuggler.
However, his smuggling operations were different from Bai Yuze's small-scale activities; the other party's business was much broader:
Furniture, electronic devices, jewelry, and even living people from the dark alleyways were smuggled into the parrot district; children and women abducted from the parrot district were sent to the dark alleyways...
For this kind of person
Bai Yuzhe naturally wouldn't be polite, and the fat man was also very tough, even threatening Bai Yuzhe to let him go, or else he would suffer the consequences.
Regarding threats,
Bai Yuzhe, of course, didn't care.
He knocked the other party unconscious on the spot, which then attracted several abyssal beasts to give them a delicious meal.
"Let's go, the food here might not taste good, just bear with it."
Bai Yuze was the first to bend down and crawl in.
Yeyue followed closely behind.
The pipe was pitch black, with only the occasional dripping sound from afar and a faint rustling or crawling noise.
In just a few seconds,
Their figures were swallowed up by the bottomless darkness, as if they were completely devoured by the city's greedy digestive system.
This smuggler was very boastful.
However, the other party's eye for smuggling channels is indeed quite good. This place should be a complex maze of wartime civil defense projects and municipal drainage networks.
The residual miasma in the parrot area severely interferes with electronic signals, making it a blind spot for regulatory oversight.
It stands to reason,
With such a good smuggling route, it shouldn't be long before it's taken over by other smugglers after that fat smuggler's death.
But now...
There was no trace of human presence in the pipes; instead, the miasma from the abyssal beasts was extremely dense.
Indistinctly
You can also hear some rustling crawling sounds.
Ok,
Because of Bai Yuze,
This place seems to have become the lair of those abyssal beasts from back then.
Just started,
These abyssal beasts are no match for Bai Yuze.
The two sides remained at peace.
They go their separate ways, each minding their own business.
But as this family of abyssal beasts ate more and more, their bodies grew stronger and stronger.
When Bai Yuze realized what was happening and prepared to deal with the situation, he found that he was fine in a one-on-one fight, but when his opponent called on his friends, his strength became insufficient.
obviously,
This family of abyssal monsters has made this sewer their home.
Bai Yuze is not allowed to go there.
Because of this,
This week,
Bai Yuze had been starving for several days, and since Ye Yue was insisting on going hunting, he simply brought his old lady along to support him.
after all,
It's just calling the parents, anyone can do that!