Ke-style law enforcement officers

Chapter 825 Biology
"What's your name?"

The disheveled old man became somewhat interested in the young man before him.

He took the initiative to ask the boy a question.

However, the boy looked surprised and shook his head blankly: "Name...we don't have names."

"What do they call you?" the old man asked.

“Scarface, that’s what they call me,” the boy replied.

He then asked the old man, "And you? Do you have a name?"

The old man suddenly became dazed for a long time, as if he was thinking and recalling something seriously.

Just when the boy thought he had fallen asleep, the old man suddenly spoke: "Kang."

"My name is Kang."

……

“Keep it for yourself,” Kang said, pushing the rat pellets Scarface had given him back. “I don’t need them.”

"Okay." Scarface hesitated for a moment, then carefully wrapped up the rat fragments and put them away.

"Do you have any cigarettes?" Kang suddenly asked.

"What cigarette?" Scarface blinked.

"cigarette."

"what is that?"

"Okay, it's nothing."

……

Two people from different worlds had a brief but ineffective exchange.

Scarface warned Kang not to wander off, because other tribes wouldn't be as easy to talk to as they were; if they encountered someone from outside their tribe, they would simply capture them and use them as winter prey.

Despite the unfriendly and hostile gazes still lingering in the tribal cave, Scarface clearly manages to keep his hungry comrades in check.

...

"Other tribes often try to invade and plunder, stealing our food and newborns. But don't worry, as long as you don't wander off, you'll be safe here. You must have seen it when you came; there's a cliff right outside our cave, so they don't dare to come in..."

Just as the two were about to end their conversation, a series of hurried running sounds suddenly came from outside the cave entrance.

Scarface's eyes instantly sharpened.

He smelled blood, so he immediately drew the bone blade and stone axe from his waist.

...

The intruders who broke into the cave were not invaders from other tribes, but members of Scarface's own tribe.

The man rushed in, supporting himself against the stone wall, and then staggered and fell to the ground the next second.

His body was covered in wounds, his left arm was torn off at the shoulder, and the intense running accelerated the loss of blood, so he was already beyond saving.

With his last breath, he shouted intermittently to Scarface and the others:

"Run...that thing...it's climbed up!"

...

These words turned the faces of everyone in the cave ashen.

The few able-bodied men immediately carried the toddler to the deepest part of the cave, then prepared weapons such as bone blades and bows and arrows, and stared intently at the dark cave entrance that the firelight could not fully illuminate.

Scarface also joined the team guarding the cave.

Kang watched all of this with a cold eye.

Just now, while Scarface and his people were hastily preparing their weapons, the body of the one-armed tribesman who had broken into the cave earlier had vanished without a trace.

Only Kang could see clearly that some strange creature took advantage of the chaos to drag the corpse out...

...

A series of chewing and swallowing sounds came from outside the dark cave entrance.

However, the people inside the cave were eerily calm.

Most of them still had childish faces, and some were even younger than teenagers. Their weak strength was not enough to maintain the bow-drawing posture for a long time, but even so, there was no fear in their eyes.

……

It's unclear when it started, but the threats to the survivors within the restricted area were no longer limited to the bitter cold, hunger, and infighting. Powerful and terrifying creatures began to emerge from the deeper eastern canyons.

Their limbs have insect-like segmental structures, yet they are enormous in size.

Resource-scarce restricted areas absolutely cannot "support" this kind of creature.

For countless years, the only species the survivors had ever seen were the rodents that had lost their eyes underground, which were the raw materials for making rat tablets.

What happened in the outside world has affected even the forbidden zone that has remained unchanged for millions of years.

...

soon.

The chewing sounds gradually stopped.

More than a dozen sharp forelimbs began to emerge from the edge of the dark cave.

In the darkness, a dozen pairs of eyes on the same head scrutinize the humans who stand guard around the cave campfire...

...

laugh!
Scarface launched the first attack.

He took the bow and arrow from his companion, drew the bowstring taut, and shot the arrow, hitting the huge creature blocking the cave entrance with perfect accuracy.

A hissing sound followed.

Spears, stone axes, and bone blades were all hurled at the creature.

However, what immediately followed was the sound of hard objects colliding, even tearing apart and sparking.

The survivors' weapons were completely ineffective; instead, the strange creature's forelimbs were much sharper, and their claw-like structures easily pierced and hooked the limbs of the two survivors closest to the cave entrance, dragging them out.

A painful scream immediately followed.

This time, the creature didn't patiently begin to devour its prey; instead, it abandoned the two corpses and squeezed back into the cave.

It is greedy.

...

As it wriggled its countless sharp limbs into the cave entrance, the group finally saw its true form in the firelight.

It was a creature covered in sharp thorns and bristles, like a spider but with twice as many legs as a spider, like a scorpion but without pincers.

The arrows and spears fired by the remnants struck its body with a clanging sound, but failed to pierce its hard outer shell.

The giant insect blatantly barged in, leisurely surveying its prey as if selecting lambs for slaughter.

Its body completely blocked the cave's exit.

The survivors seemed to know that they had no way to harm the creature in front of them, but they had no intention of surrendering and continued to resist stubbornly.

...

Kang noticed that the entire tribe's defensive formation had a purpose.

The spearman at the very front must be the oldest, and from him onwards, the ages decrease sharply.

It is unclear whether this is a rule unique to this tribe or if it is the same for all the survivors of the forbidden zone. All the struggles for survival are centered on protecting young lives. At this moment, the newborn baby is hiding in the deepest part of the cave.

For the survivors, their average lifespan was probably less than thirty years. Adulthood meant decline, not only in physical strength and various potential illnesses, but also in the fact that the amount of food consumed by an adult would be difficult for the tribe to bear.

Therefore, death is never something to be afraid of.

Over millions of years of evolution, death has become a pursuit for the remnant races.

They would choose the most valuable way to die, including but not limited to making their bodies food for newborns when the harshest winter arrives.

Of course, those desperate people who have nowhere else to turn also have this mentality when they sacrifice themselves to summon evil gods.

...

So, although the scene before Kang was bloody, it was not tragic. What he felt most deeply was the eerie indifference.

That was something he couldn't understand.

...

One by one, the adults of the tribe fell into pools of blood.

They were going to their deaths in an orderly fashion.

The threat of death did not break their spirits, but the frailty of their bodies rendered their spiritual strength utterly useless.

...

It was a one-sided massacre.

The strength and weapons of the remnants were simply insufficient to stop the advance of that enormous creature.

One after another, bloody bodies were torn apart.

Soon it was Scarface's turn.

……

After the bone blade broke and the stone axe shattered.

Scarface pulled out a unique weapon from his pocket.

A curved, broken blade with barbs.

That was a weapon that did not belong to the forbidden zone, because it was made of metal, and it was filled with a deathly black aura, and was engraved with ancient black blade runes.

He had retrieved it from the battlefield the last time he encountered the Shadows and the Apostates.

...

The boy charged headlong into the enormous creature without hesitation.

It seemed that the creature had become accustomed to the feeling of the weak weapons of the remnants shattering against its shell, neither dodging nor avoiding, and it did not even intend to kill the boy immediately.

The result was that the unassuming broken black blade pierced straight through the creature's shell.

...

A sharp roar instantly filled the entire cave.

Scarface gripped the hilt of the broken black knife, hanging on the terrifying creature's body, refusing to let go no matter how much it struggled and thrashed.

The thorns on the other person tore large chunks of flesh and blood from Scarface's body.

……

Just as the monster's forelimbs were about to pierce through Scarface's chest.

A thin, hunched figure suddenly rushed out of the cave.

He ripped the scarred face away and went straight to the monster.

It's Kang.

Its sharp forelimbs pierced his torso.

But that didn't stop him.

...

Under the astonished gazes of the survivors, the frail old man, with the monster's forelimbs piercing his body, forcefully pushed the terrifying creature out of the cave entrance!
That force was unstoppable.

He actually knocked the creature out of the cave.

They both fell off the cliff.

...

The muffled thud of the fall from the cliff didn't return for quite some time.

Inside the cave, the survivors sat slumped in pools of blood, utterly dejected...

...

……

For a long time, they were still not recovered from the disaster.

The tribe's population has been reduced by half.

The strong smell of blood would attract even more strange creatures. There was no time to mourn the strange old man; Scarface and his companions had to pack their bags and leave immediately.

...

Just as they dragged their wounded bodies out of the cave and along the mountain path to the plains...

But what they saw shocked them.

The old man who had fallen off the cliff with the monster was now standing at the foot of the mountain, carrying many severed limbs from the monster's corpse on his back, as if he were searching for a way back to the cave...

...

"I can use these things to make some better weapons for you."

Kang said this.

(End of this chapter)