Ke-style law enforcement officers

Chapter 116 The Real Cruelty

"It's a bit complicated, the kind that can't be explained in a short time."

Milo rubbed his temples.

He himself was also somewhat confused, with memories from the undead perspective mixed with his own memories. In addition, some things were missing from Karl's undead perspective, so he didn't know what exactly happened in the underground cave after Karl fainted.

For now, we can only put those doubts aside.

Milo said to Rebecca:
"Let's get Kai to a safe place first, then we'll go find the other kids."

But no sooner had he finished speaking than a very hoarse voice came from the jungle ahead:

"keep the change."

Click! !
Milo and Rebecca simultaneously raised their guns and pointed them in the direction from which the sound came.

It was later discovered that the speaker was Mogot.

The old man looked disheveled, carrying that old-fashioned rifle, his body covered in obvious bloodstains.

Only after seeing that it was Mogot did Milo lower his gun.

"what happened?"

"It's a miracle you're still alive. Did you blow up the mine? Never mind, come with me." Mogot glanced at the thick smoke billowing from the collapsed mine behind him, shook his head, slung his rifle over his shoulder, and turned to leave.

Mogot's tone was complex, with a clear sense of dejection.

Milo and Rebecca exchanged a glance, somewhat puzzled, but still followed.

After navigating through a thicket, the group arrived at the mouth of a mountain stream.

……

...

Here, Milo saw three corpses.

It was the bodies of the other three boys besides Kai. They were covered in mud and blood, and each of them had a bloody bullet hole between their eyebrows.

The three corpses lay peacefully on the grass, devoid of any life.

...

"You'd better explain the deaths of these three people."

Rebecca stared at Mogot with bloodshot eyes.

If Milo hadn't deliberately stopped her, she probably would have attacked Mogot the moment she saw the three children's bodies.

Mogot sat dejectedly on a nearby rock, took out a match, lit a cigarette, and said helplessly:
"To be precise, a total of four people died here."

Milo kept holding Rebecca's wrist, but didn't say a word.

Because he had already noticed from the beginning that, in addition to the bodies of the three boys, there were also some broken limbs on the blood-stained ground.

Those severed limbs did not belong to the three boys.

Among the remains, Milo saw a rusty dagger and a flintlock pistol, as well as a large backpack containing Walker's belongings, including the enormous metal lunchbox...

In addition, all of those children had swollen bellies.

Walker was eaten.

……

Rebecca buried Kai's face in the crook of her neck to prevent her from seeing any of this.

She wasn't planning on asking any more questions, but Moggot, of all people, added:
"When I found them, they had almost finished eating. Actually, they wouldn't have survived if I hadn't shot them. These guys not only ate the meat, they even swallowed the bones. Their stomachs were already bursting..."

“Shut up!!”

Rebecca rebuked.

Mogot shut his mouth sullenly and stopped talking, focusing intently on smoking.

Milo shook his head.

He didn't know what to say. Perhaps it was lucky that Kai entered the underground cave, but overall, she was the most unfortunate one tonight.

She's in a semi-comatose state right now; hopefully, she won't remember these things when she wakes up.

Anyway, Milo didn't know how to tell her all of this.

Her three closest children divided Walker up and ate him.

"You two are law enforcement officers, you figure out how to clean this up. I, for one, have no way to explain it." Mogot took a deep drag on his cigarette and muttered:

"I told you long ago, there are demons in these desolate mountains, man-eating demons!"

Rebecca carried Kay away from the blood-soaked meadow.

Milo carefully circled the edge of the bloodstains and approached to examine the mangled body parts.

He found no trace of fungal growth in the pool of blood.

This made Milo even more confused.

Pilgrims only have an appetite for humans infected with mycelium.

These children, who are descendants of indigenous people, suffer from daily spells that trigger their madness, but over the years, they have never committed cannibalism. At most, they have only run into the depths of the wilderness. Why would they suddenly do something so horrific?

If the curse itself is this effective, then Walker should have died long ago, since he has been taking care of these four children all along.

When the children were in Ikham, they didn't have the desire to eat when they went berserk.

It appeared when you got to the desolate mountains.

why?
Could it be the distance?
The closer you get to underground caves, the stronger your hunger becomes?

Milo couldn't understand it.

He encountered so many strange and inexplicable things after entering the town of Ikham that he couldn't understand what the so-called remnants of the ancient god deep underground wanted to do.

Or, as the raven suggests, the old god has become corrupt and now only possesses bestiality, which is why the worshippers it leads have committed these crazy and bizarre acts.

Then how do we explain the white monster that was born?
It is clearly intelligent, not just a beast; it has its own thoughts and plans, and even shares some closely related secrets with Kai.

“I’m from out of town, so you can’t ask me about things here.”

Milo picked up Walker's blood-stained backpack with two fingers, glanced at it, thought for a moment, and then simply put Walker's dagger and unfired flintlock pistol into the backpack.

"A law enforcement officer has an obligation to retrieve the weapons of his fallen comrades. This is the only law enforcement oath I can remember... At least he was the most reliable law enforcement officer I've ever met in Galid."

Milo muttered to himself as he slung Walker's backpack over his shoulder.

"Tch." Mogot, hearing Milo's barbed words, disdainfully exhaled a puff of smoke into the air:
“Nobody cares whether Galid lives or dies.”

“That girl cares.” Milo shrugged, then added:
"There will always be someone who cares, someone has to care, otherwise, what have you been doing all these years messing around in the wilderness, right?"

Mogot fell silent after hearing this.

……

Just as the atmosphere at the scene was becoming somewhat tense, some subtle noises suddenly came from the direction of the mining area.

It was the sound of someone howling.

"That's it."

Milo's gaze immediately turned serious.

He knew very well whose voice it was.

The collapsed mining area buried the thing underground, and it came out.

It was filled with anger, Milo could hear it in the howl.

"Take Kai away!"

As soon as Milo shouted those words to Rebecca, a whooshing sound immediately came from the dense jungle ahead, rushing towards them!

Extremely fast!