Ke-style law enforcement officers

Chapter 115 Buried Alive
The monster was stunned when the plantation was destroyed.

The dozens of eyes on that head trembled in the intense firelight, their pupils reflecting shock, anger, and grief.

Milo now understood that this was indeed an intelligent creature with thinking abilities that lower animals did not possess, but its mind was still immature, and all its actions were easily controlled and interfered with by its emotions.

After all, if you count on your fingers, it should only be three years old now.

Milo didn't know what kind of gene could make a creature grow into such a monstrous form in just three years. If it already possessed such terrifying power in its immature state, then who could control it after it grew up?
……

The mournful howls of monsters echoed from behind.

To be precise, it was the sound of crying.

It weeps for its people, weeps for the destroyed plantations.

This plantation was built by it, and it tried everything to perpetuate the race and provide food for the worshippers, but now all its efforts have been destroyed.

The monster's cries were terrifying and chilling, but what was most frightening was not the sound itself, but the overwhelming sadness within its sobs, which indicated that it was a creature with a high degree of human-like qualities.

Humans are the only highly intelligent beings on this planet, which is what makes us noble and also provides a sense of security.

However, when another similar highly intelligent species appears, this sense of security disappears.

This is how Milo feels right now.

He could clearly sense the grievance and sorrow in the monster's sobbing, which was extremely awkward and bizarre.

But he had no time to think about these things. While the monster was trying to save its plantation, Milo scrambled and stumbled toward the cliff steps.

He saw Rebecca carrying Kay had climbed to the middle of the stone steps. After the explosion, Rebecca stopped and frantically scanned the cave, searching for Milo.

"Keep going up, I'll catch up soon."

Milo shouted from below.

He swiftly passed the pilgrims crowding below the stone steps, his Bowie knife mercilessly reaping the lives of these bewitched humans.

The pilgrims had been hiding in the underground cave for more than ten years. They were no longer human. No matter why the things underground drove them to devour the fungi, it turned out that the fungi could not provide enough nutrition for their bodies. The pilgrims had lost the ability to move when they were normal humans. Their limbs and joints were stiff and their strength was weak.

The worshippers' siege was ineffective against Milo, this enhanced version of a human spy.

Milo charged straight ahead, shoving pilgrims across the stone steps, leaving flying limbs in his wake wherever Boy's blade passed.

He quickly caught up with Rebecca.

Rebecca gasped for breath, "I only found her, the other children aren't here..."

"Stop talking nonsense, whether we can find it or not, we have to run first."

Milo grabbed Rebecca by the collar, pulled her close, and carefully examined her pupils to confirm that the woman had no infectious hyphae.

"move!"

As he spoke, he turned back and fired a few more shots, repelling the nearest worshippers.

……

...

The two of them successfully led Kai out of the cave.

After navigating the complex tunnels of the underground caverns and climbing out of the collapsed mining site, they finally breathed a sigh of relief once they were exposed on the ground where they could see the sky.

But Milo did not let his guard down.

He threw a glass bottle into the mine behind him, and after withdrawing Rebecca from the mining area, he changed the revolver and accurately shot the glass bottle.

boom! ! !
Buzz! ! ! ! !
Flames erupted from the mine shaft.

The internal framework of the entire mining site was completely destroyed, large areas of mountain rock collapsed, and the entire hillside collapsed.

Rebecca, who was holding Kai, was speechless.

She stared blankly at the collapsed mine for a long time before suddenly snapping out of it and looking at Milo in shock:

"The explosives in that glass bottle!"

“It’s a family secret recipe, I’ll explain it to you later.” Milo knew, of course, that Rebecca had already connected Emma’s glass bottle with the Rose Restaurant bombing, but this was not the time to discuss such things.

"I knew it had something to do with you!" Rebecca cursed under her breath.

But just then, Kai, who was unconscious in her arms, suddenly spoke incoherently:

"I...I remember this place..."

She half-opened her eyes, staring at the collapsed mine, and slowly reached out her hand in that direction, as if trying to touch something. "What does this mean?" Rebecca gently stroked Kai's forehead.

“I’ve been here…I’ve seen those people…I’ve seen that thing…it’s it…its voice is exactly like my mother’s…” Kai kept murmuring:

"Did you kill...kill it?...Don't kill it, please? Please..."

Her tone was complex, containing doubt, confusion, and a hint of frustration or sadness, making it impossible to understand what she wanted to express at that moment.

“What is she doing…” Rebecca looked at Milo in confusion.

Milo kept his eyes on the collapsed mine, and after the broken rock layers stopped rolling, he waited patiently for any movement that might appear behind the billowing smoke.

He didn't think the monster would be buried alive so easily.

"Never mind that for now, let's get her away from here."

After confirming that there was no further movement, Milo decided it would be best to leave first.

……

The two carried Kai and moved quickly through the jungle and mountain streams.

Kai cried the whole way.

Her frail body trembled in Rebecca's arms as she murmured strange words, begging Milo not to kill "it".

It wasn't until the two of them escaped the abandoned mining area and entered the edge of the barren mountains that they remained there.

Looking at Kai's haggard face, Milo suddenly realized what was going on.

"Could it be her?"

"What?" Rebecca was still in a daze.

"Is she the girl from before?" Milo reached out and stroked Kai's long, gray hair.

The face of Kai before him slowly overlapped with the innocent face of the child who had been chained and led into the underground cave by the raven from Karl's perspective.

Both have the same facial proportions, except that Kai is now a bit older and his hair color has changed from black to gray-white...

"No wonder she said her hair wasn't this color before."

Milo remembered what Kai had told him before.

Everything matches up perfectly.

Walker said that Kay had gone missing before, and that she had gone into the wilderness while under the influence of the curse, but was eventually found.

She is the child from the perspective of the dead.

Three years ago, the sacrificial ritual that Raven wanted to perform was to have Karl and Kay, who were infected with the mycelium, give birth to new life together, as the cradle of the so-called Old Gods underground.

Kay is the child that Carl risked his life to protect.

In Karl's last moments of vision before he collapsed, Milo only saw a strange white shadow standing beside Kay, and what happened after that remains completely unknown.

That white shadow must be the monster that's currently buried underground.

Three years ago, it wasn't this big.

……

When Milo was lost, he twice saw the old woman searching for her child in Icam Alley, who must have been Freya three years ago.

"So it turns out I wasn't completely unfamiliar with Grandma Freya after all."

Milo rubbed his head.

His brain is a little overloaded right now.

Because he was quickly sorting out all his experiences over the past two days, distinguishing which belonged to Karl and which belonged to himself, and then matching the events of three years ago with the events of the present moment.

"Kay escaped the cave in the end. What happened to her? Was it related to that monster?"

Why were they able to leave the underground cave alive instead of becoming pilgrims?
How did her hair turn gray and white?
Milo looked at Kai's tear-streaked face and fell into deep thought.

Rebecca, still completely bewildered, asked, "What on earth are you babbling about?"

She felt that the two people next to her were not normal; Milo and Kai were saying things she couldn't understand at all.

(End of this chapter)