"A human, worthy of teaching me what to do?"
"Hahaha, Ayato's acting up again."
"Go, Ayato, let this human witness the power of ghouls!"
"That's right, let him witness the power of the Kirishima family!"
The boy named Kirishima jumped out, immediately causing the remaining ghouls to cheer excitedly. Clearly, they enjoyed joining in on the fun, and this boy named Kirishima liked to show off.
"Oh? You think I'm not worthy of teaching you what to do?"
"That's right. What abilities do you have? Can you even beat me? And you dare to call yourself our instructor?"
"Hmm, so you're saying that as long as I can beat you, you'll acknowledge me as your instructor?"
"That's right!"
The boy flicked his purplish-blue hair, raising his chin with a smug look.
"Then, let's start with introductions. What's your name?"
"Kirishima Ayato! That's my name!"
Kirishima Ayato, oh, that name. I remember now, he's the younger brother of the female lead, Kirishima Touka. Essentially a tsundere, always shouting and yelling, but actually very concerned about his sister.
His current arrogant appearance reminded Wang Xiaoming of Mr. Burt back then.
However, Mr. Burt was quite interesting. He forcefully used the Asura Kick, which Wang Xiaoming appreciated. But this Kirishima Ayato...
"Come on, come try. Let me see what you're capable of."
Wang Xiaoming loosened the tie he had specially bought to look impressive, then twisted his neck and slowly walked up to Kirishima Ayato.
"Alright, tell me, how do you want to compete?"
"Hmph, if you touch me, you win!"
Kirishima Ayato is an A-level ghoul, not considered strong, but to ordinary humans, he's definitely an unmatched powerhouse. "I can give you a heads up. My kagune is Ukaku."
Ghouls have four types of kagune: Ukaku, Koukaku, Bikaku, and Rinkaku.
The Koukaku kagune is located below the shoulder blades, a metallic kagune made of highly dense Rc cells. It usually appears as a sword or shield, possessing extremely high defensive power, but this also leads to its own weight being heavy, thus reducing its flexibility.
The Rinkaku kagune is located at the waist, the surface of the kagune covered in scales, shaped like tentacles. The kagune has strong regenerative abilities, and ghouls with Rinkaku are physically stronger and heal faster from injuries. Due to the unique surface structure of the kagune, it can produce powerful attacks in battle, and Rinkaku is also positioned as an offensive kagune. However, due to the regenerative characteristics caused by Rc cells easily combining, this process is accompanied by the defect of weaker binding force, making Rinkaku more fragile compared to other kagune.
The Bikaku kagune is located near the tailbone, extending from the skin like a tail. Its abilities are very balanced, suitable for mid-range combat. It has a certain level of attack, defense, and speed, without decisive weaknesses, making it the most comprehensively capable. At the same time, the problem it brings is that Bikaku also lacks the decisive ability for a fatal blow.
However, due to its good balance, many Ghoul Investigators use it as a material for creating Quinques.
The Ukaku kagune is located near the shoulders, generally shaped like wings. When released, it's like gas being released, light in weight, and belongs to the speed type kagune. It has advantages in speed and flexibility during battle, can glide in the air or fly for a short time, and can also release some Rc cells to launch ranged attacks.
What does this mean? This means that Ukaku can become an aerial unit!
Currently, powerful ghouls basically don't have Ukaku. Those SS-level ghouls are either Koukaku or Bikaku, and there are also Rinkaku, but relatively few.
Because their fighting style has almost no technique, they all rely on brute force, which seriously skews the style of the entire ghoul world. Ghoul battles don't rely on tools at all, only on their own kagune, and they don't know how to utilize them.
On the contrary, the human investigators use various tools to fight against ghouls.
"Do you need me to let you make the first move?"
Without even unfolding his kagune, Kirishima Ayato stood with his arms crossed, preparing to let Wang Xiaoming make a move first.
"Are you sure you want me to go first?"
Wang Xiaoming looked at Kirishima Ayato in surprise. He knew this guy was arrogant, but this is a bit too much.
"That's right, go first, because once I make a move, you will..."
"I will what?"
In front of Kirishima Ayato, Wang Xiaoming smiled, lowered his head, and looked down at him, his left hand also holding a pistol, aiming at his brow.
"You...."
Kirishima Ayato's eyes widened. He had only spoken halfway when Wang Xiaoming suddenly appeared beside him and pointed a gun at his brow. He didn't even have time to react. If the other party fired at this moment, even if he didn't die, he would become an ordinary person from being hit by the bullet.
"Once I make a move, you will no longer have a chance."
Taking advantage of his height advantage, Wang Xiaoming lowered his head, looked down at Kirishima Ayato, and said the words Kirishima Ayato wanted to say, then turned around, stepped back, and created distance between himself and Kirishima Ayato.
"Go ahead, I'll give you one more chance."
Wang Xiaoming stood about five meters away from Kirishima Ayato with a gun in his hand, signaling Kirishima Ayato to make a move.
Kirishima Ayato looked at the calm Wang Xiaoming, frowned, and remembered Wang Xiaoming's speed just now. He decided to first create distance, and after carefully thinking for a few seconds, he started to act.
The clothes on his back suddenly burst open, and the blood-red kagune unfolded, turning into glass-like blood-red wings, violently flapping at Wang Xiaoming, scattering a large number of red fragments, stabbing fiercely towards Wang Xiaoming. At the same time, he used this flap to quickly retreat backwards.
Create distance to prevent him from rushing in! Then kite him, using ranged attacks to whittle him down... disappeared!
Kirishima Ayato was still brainstorming when he found that Wang Xiaoming was gone from his sight.
"You lost."
Wang Xiaoming's voice came from behind, and at the same time, a gun barrel was pressed against the back of his head.
294. Modern Warfare: Tokyo Ghoul War
4th Ward, once one of the most chaotic wards in Tokyo. Among Tokyo's twenty-four wards, the 1st to 4th Wards were once the most difficult areas for humans to live in, because it could be described as ghouls everywhere. Even the most basic survival was a problem for humans here.
Many ghoul organizations are hidden here.
From large ghoul organizations to small ghoul organizations to lone ghouls, all kinds exist. It's just that the lives of lone ghouls are much more difficult. They just live at the bottom, picking up leftovers from others.
This is also where Aogiri Tree and other ghoul organizations fight for territory.
And today, Aogiri Tree intends to directly purge this area!
Either join them, or be purged!
Two box trucks, without headlights on, entered the 4th Ward.
After entering the 4th Ward, the two trucks found an ordinary roadside to stop, turned off the engine and lights, just like ordinary trucks stopping.
But inside the cargo boxes of the box trucks, there was a group of people gathered.
Inside the two cargo containers, there were a full twenty people. Each of these twenty was fully armed, wearing bulletproof vests, helmets, and goggles over their eyes. Some even had night vision goggles. Their faces were covered with masks, making it seem like they had taken their defenses to the extreme.
Besides protection, they were also loaded with weapons. They had grenades hanging from their waists, magazines full of bullets, AKs in their hands, and pistols strapped to their legs.
"Are you ready?"
At the center of these people was Wang Xiaoming, dressed in casual clothes. He leaned against the container with his arms crossed, looking at the ten fully armed people in front of him.
"Ready!"
The ten people answered in unison.
"Good. Tonight is your first battle after so long training. You need to fight beautifully for me, or I'll double your training when we get back, understand?"
"Understood!"
The ten people nodded heavily. Double the training? No way, bro. People will die.
Since taking them over, Wang Xiaoming had been training them for a full week, adhering to the principle of 'train them to death if they don't die in training.' Wang Xiaoming didn't treat them like humans at all. The twenty of them were put through a devilish training regimen, mainly because they were ghouls. As long as they were injured or exhausted, they could just eat some human flesh.
As for where the human flesh they ate came from, Wang Xiaoming had already told Eto to find a crematorium, take it over, and they could get countless amounts of human flesh.
So, Aogiri Tree was not short of human flesh at all now. Various kinds of human flesh were delivered directly from the crematorium.
After a week of this crazy torment, these guys finally had some ability, knowing how to skillfully use hot weapons and how to cooperate as a team.
"Good. Today's mission is to clear out the ghouls of other gangs within the entire 4th ward. Everyone understand?"
"Understood!"
"Now, move out!"
The ten people stood up, pushed open the cargo door of the van, and jumped out of the carriage one by one.
After jumping down, they immediately half-squatted and hid in the shadows of the corners. The people in another car also opened the cargo door at the same time and came out of the carriage. There was also someone directing in that carriage. The person in charge of directing was none other than their old brother, Koutarou Amon.
Amon felt that his experience during this period was really magical, from hating ghouls to cooperating with ghouls, selling arms to ghouls, and then betraying the other party, letting the ghouls fight among themselves. Now, he has become the captain of the ghouls, responsible for directing the actions of the ghoul squad.
This feeling is quite subtle.
Of course, his orders were synchronized from Wang Xiaoming.
After all twenty people got out of the car, the door of the carriage closed again. Wang Xiaoming turned on the computer inside the carriage and released the drone that had been parked on the roof to start directing the scene.
"Aim north. 200 meters away in your 2 o'clock direction, there is a group of people, four in number, all ghouls, belonging to an unknown gang. Eliminate them!"
"Yes!"
Among the twenty people, the leader was none other than Ayato Kirishima, who had been taught a lesson by Wang Xiaoming before. Relying on the mobility of his Ukaku, Wang Xiaoming chose him to be the squad leader and focused on training him.
This was a material for being an air force member. Instead of being a good aerial assassin, he ran to fight people in close combat. Wasn't this just courting death? Wang Xiaoming corrected him properly. He is now a very loyal ranged player.
After all, with guns and ammunition that can directly scrap ghouls, why would he rush up to fight people in close combat? Just kill them with a gun from a distance.
"First squad, go eliminate those four people."
Ayato Kirishima issued an order, and the four people next to him immediately set off, hiding in the darkness, using night vision to explore the road and constantly approaching. They quickly arrived around the four ghouls. One squad of four people approached the ghoul squad from four different directions. When approaching the ghoul squad, they pulled out their daggers and directly touched them from behind, cutting their throats.
The four ghouls wanted to struggle instantly, but they found that their bodies were rapidly losing strength, and soon they had no strength at all. The kagune also couldn't be used at all, and then they fell down, falling to the ground with their throats cut.
"Return to the team."
The four people estimated, and then immediately turned around and went back, leaving four corpses behind.
"4 o'clock direction, ten ghouls."
Wang Xiaoming issued instructions again. This time there were more people.
Ayato Kirishima immediately issued a new order.
"Second and third squads face them head-on, first squad, attack from the side with me."
"Latest information, behind those ten people, there are thirty-six more people. It looks like it should be the other party's main force."
Wang Xiaoming's message came again, and Ayato Kirishima quickly stopped his actions.
"A total of forty-six people? It seems we have to charge head-on."
"Everyone move out, second, third, and fourth squads, charge head-on, first squad, attack from the side, fifth squad, move from above with me!"
All twenty people moved.
Twelve people sneaked over to the front, and the four people in the first squad detoured to the side. As for the first squad, they were all the Ukaku members among the twenty people. They had the highest mobility, and Ayato Kirishima was also in this fifth squad.
Twenty people touched over from three directions, surrounding all forty-six ghouls.
But no one acted without authorization, but prepared one by one, waiting for Ayato Kirishima's order.
Ayato Kirishima watched everyone take their positions before issuing the order.
"Go!"
The moment the order was issued on the squad's radio, the second, third, and fourth squads that were charging head-on launched an attack.
"Fireinthehole!"
A grenade was thrown into the ghoul group and exploded under the stunned gaze of the ghouls.
"Fire!"
The twelve-man squad poured bullets frantically. The 4th ward purge war officially began.
The Aogiri Tree squad acted very much in the American style, preferring to suppress firepower rather than engage in close combat.
Each person had an AK47, and the ammunition was sufficient. They also had full sets of protection, and even wore masks to prevent inhaling the suppressant scattered in the air after the grenade exploded. As long as their clothes were not penetrated, they basically didn't have to worry about being hit by suppressant bullets.
The side being besieged was different. Although they had more people, their weapons were weaker. Most of them had pistols. Although there were also AKs, they were ultimately limited, and the bullets were also limited. They had snatched the arms from Aogiri Tree, not bought them from Wang Xiaoming, so the quantity was really limited.
