Ke-style law enforcement officers

Chapter 211 Servants
……

The fighting in the warehouse lasted for quite some time.

Basically, the seven members of the Exiled Shadows are invincible, but it will indeed take some time to completely defeat Hodley and the others.

After all, they are a group of weirdos who can continue fighting even after being shot in the head.

Just like the Shroud Monster that Milo encountered before.

Unlike the zombies in movies and TV shows that die instantly from a bullet to the head, the only way to completely subdue these monsters is to dismantle their limbs.

Now, what controls their muscles and joints is no longer electrical signals transmitted from the brain, but something else entirely.

Moreover, Milo was quite certain that it was some kind of liquid injected into their bodies through long needles.

...

The battle lasted for nearly 30 minutes.

To be precise, it should be 20 minutes of combat time plus 10 minutes of cleanup time at the end.

In the end, the ground was covered with a jumble of corpses and broken limbs.

The strange people's joints were all broken, making them completely unrecognizable as human beings.

To prevent the scene from looking like a gruesome crime scene, the seven-person group stuffed the remains of the victims into a box.

"Gentlemen, I don't think that's necessary."

Milo simply couldn't understand the point of wasting those 10 minutes.

But Eric gestured to him in sign language, saying, "Has someone who's been standing around with his hands in his pockets finally remembered to command the battle?"

“Hey, that’s really hurtful.” Milo shrugged.

"No, I wasn't saying anything."

This is Eric's response.

……

Jones and Lane dragged the box containing Hodley to a corner and covered it with a wooden board.

Milo watched the box move past him, and for a moment, his gaze seemed to meet that of Hodley inside the box.

Keep in mind that Hodley's head had already been sliced ​​off his shoulder by Eric.

But his pupils, as if still alive, remained focused on Milo.

Furthermore, Milo could clearly feel that his heartbeat did not calm down after the six monsters fell.

Plop, plop...

His heart was still pounding.

This indicates that the underlying crisis has not been resolved.

……

"Wait a minute."

Milo stopped Jones, who was carrying boxes.

He moved the wooden board covering the box and tilted his head to look at Hodley inside.

Milo realized that the guy was indeed staring at him.

Hodley's shoulder, elbow, and knee joints were shattered, but the fingers of his severed hand were still struggling desperately, throbbing wildly like an eel that had just been caught and brought ashore.

"Hehe, that scary little look."

Milo wasn't frightened by the horrifying scene. He had seen far more disgusting and gruesome things, and what he saw before him was nothing compared to that.

He stared at the face in the box and grinned.
"You're not Hodley anymore, are you? Let me guess who you are? Raven? No, no, no, you don't have that manic and stubborn quality in your eyes, so who are you...?" "Are you the perpetrator of the hanging corpse case? Did you carve the runes on that poor woman's skin? No? That was..."

"They say something traveled down the river from the Seven River Valley to Nanwei City. So, you must be that thing?"

Milo leaned closer to the hideous face inside the box, carefully observing the subtle changes in the other person's expression.

He saw anger in Hodley's eyes, but even more so indifference.

It looked at Milo as if he were an ant.

Milo is now almost certain that the crisis he senses comes from the soul behind that face.

The group of seven only killed the bodies of these crew members, but their souls had long since perished. In their place, another unfamiliar being walks the earth.

It tried to disguise itself, but Milo saw through it.

It was the cause of the massacre on the banks of the Severn River.

They are the dead people Charles was referring to—those who have returned to the world of the living.

……

"Dude, I don't recommend you get too close to that thing."

Eric's shadow appeared beside Milo, gesturing towards him.

"fine."

Milo remained in that position.

He was looking down at the guy hiding behind Hodley's body inside the box.

"Look, although you're all high and mighty, you're the one lying in the box right now, while I can even pee on your face and you can't do anything about it, you know what I mean? I think I need to explain to you, I don't know how people in your civilization view peeing, but here, having someone pee on your face is a great disgrace."

As he spoke, Milo began to unbuckle his belt.

"Damn, this guy even said he's addicted to it." Henry made a gesture in response.

Milo chuckled: "Well done, Henry! You're starting to use sign language too. Everyone should learn from Henry!"

……

Just as everyone was joking around, a hoarse, deep voice suddenly came from inside the box—

"You lowly human, you will pay the price for your arrogance."

"Wow, you've finally said something." Milo grinned and moved closer to the box, looking at Hodley's face inside.
"I thought Eric had your vocal cords cut off, but it seems he didn't."

Hodley stared straight at Milo without blinking.

Any normal person would feel creeped out by being stared at like that by a head, but Milo didn’t feel any discomfort other than his heart racing.

"Hmm~ I'm pretty sure now that you came here specifically for me. That's really strange."

Milo touched his chin.

“I’m pretty sure I haven’t messed with any monsters or demons lately. Could it be that you have some connection with that rotten guy in Ickham? But that doesn’t make sense… one’s in the north, and the other’s in the far south. It doesn’t make sense.”

"Hehehe... You will become my servant, I swear in the name of Azathoth."

A strange laugh suddenly came from Hodley's head.

Blood and foam kept gushing from its mouth and nose, bubbling and eventually drowning out its voice.

"Is this why you tricked me into going to the canal?"

Milo raised the corner of his mouth.

"It seems that you, who are called the Old Gods, are not very smart."

(End of this chapter)