Chapter 181 Tomorrow's Bloom

The stairwell is not a good place for a gunfight, but the mercenaries who had been lying in ambush in the corridor and wanted to attack them while they were on the stairs did not get much benefit.

Kasugawa Shugo snorted slightly from his nose, pinched the man's neck with some annoyance and threw the unconscious guy to the ground. His movements were much heavier than usual because of the vague anger in his heart. The unconscious mercenary hit the ground with a small muffled sound.

Iwama was recharging the ammunition in his gun. Hearing this sound, he felt a little bit of pain in his teeth and kept looking at his friend who always had no expression.

Officer Li Fa didn't notice the strange expression of the man behind him. He stepped on the fallen people and looked up. The exit to the rooftop had collapsed in half, turning the originally flat rooftop into a randomly built fortress. This provided him with good cover.

It was not difficult to get onto the rooftop.

"Hey." After seeing that Kasugawa Shugo's full attention was on the situation outside the rooftop, Iwama finally found an opportunity and grabbed Ikawa, the policeman who was almost half a floor behind, and said in a low voice, "Why do I feel that this little policeman looks like the type who would sacrifice his relatives for the sake of justice... No, maybe he didn't intend to sacrifice his relatives for the sake of justice, but now he just wants you to go to jail after being provoked by you."

After saying that, he leaned his head to look at the little policeman who seemed to still have some of his own emotions and had not turned back, and added what he hadn't said just now, "We'll leave after we send the people out."

Ikawa nodded slightly and put his pistol on his waist.

After the two men finished their conversation, Kasugawa Shugo, who had put his arm on the collapsed bricks, seemed to sense something and turned his head to look at the two people who had been following him like ghosts without saying a word. After meeting Ichikawa's eyes, he immediately looked away, moving his gaze away from the other's eyes and down to a position a little lower.

"You know I will definitely not let anyone go easily." The chestnut-haired police officer said, as if he wanted to express his dissatisfaction with the two of them discussing an escape plan in front of him.

"You can't beat me now." Even if there is no injury on the body, you can't beat me. Ikawa added in his heart. He looked at the bandages vaguely showing around his chest and the gauze on his arm, and estimated that he could probably subdue him within ten rounds.

"Okay." Kasugawa Shugo muttered unsatisfiedly. He turned around and used his injured arm to hold on to the rooftop with some difficulty. "If I still had the strength, I would definitely put you in jail."

Most of the places outside were surrounded by people from the General Affairs Office. Whether they could get out depended on their luck. This could not be considered as letting him go. Even if he really wanted to capture the man, he couldn't do so with his current physical condition.

Thinking of this, the chestnut-haired man nodded in relief. As the last words before parting ways, he paused for a moment and said to the man behind him in a barely audible voice, "Thank you."

Iwama gave his friend a look that said, "I guess I was right." Because of the awkward atmosphere, he shook his head in the direction of the two of them. He thought that Oikawa would say something to the child who became a righteous little police officer after being sent out, but who knew that he just said "hmm" and was really ready to part ways.

"Ah?" After Kasugawa Shugo had reached the rooftop within the visible range of the General Affairs Office, and had half stepped into the safe zone, Iwama, who had not yet gone up, could not help but turn his head to look at Ikawa, with a speechless expression as if he had watched a bad family ethics drama, "I say to you, you finally meet each other and you don't say anything?"

"There's nothing to say." Ikawa said, he glanced at the situation on the rooftop, took the other mercenary to the shadows outside where the police could not see him, and gestured to leave from here.

"Okay, you are awesome." Iwama shook his head, and looked down again. There was no road below, only a landslide formed by the collapse, which stopped abruptly at the fourth floor. The only place that could be called a road below was the tall trees. He twitched his lips and said, "You really know how to choose a place. If I go on a mission with you, I will live at least several decades less."

He said this without any hesitation. He put the gun back on his waist, held the side with his hands, and jumped down. He followed the steep slope and reached the fourth floor steadily. After taking advantage of the force, he jumped. As he fell, his hands rose and touched the sturdy crown of the old tree. The whole person fell on the sturdy branch in the middle along the arc of the trunk.

This set of movements made his hands sore from friction even though they were covered by gloves. Iwama held onto the branch and looked back under the cover of the branches. The factory they were in was close to the forest behind them. Behind this old tree was a lush jungle, which was convenient for hiding himself.

He was about to turn his head to look at Ikawa who was a few steps behind him, but before he turned his head, he heard a huge explosion. It was very close, and his ears were still ringing after the sound disappeared. The man held onto the shaking branch with an ugly face, and looked towards the source of the sound. He found that the source of the explosion was a row of tall chimneys in front and a factory not far away.

The explosion affected the nearby electric wires. The long wires that looked extremely dangerous after being broken slid down along the surface of the building, and the crackling electric current flashed through the broken parts.

"What are you doing?! Hurry up..." Iwama hurriedly stepped back two steps and shouted at Ikawa, who had not yet had time to get from the factory to the old tree. The latter stared at the location of the explosion, then suddenly turned around, climbed up the steep building next to him with his bare hands,

and rushed towards the rooftop. "Hey, you?!" Ikawa, who was almost at the top, turned around and looked at the mercenary with an anxious face. He only said "You go first" and hurried back to where the two of them came from.

When he turned his head, the amulet that was hidden between his clothes slipped out and fell in midair. The metal surface reflected a dazzling light under the sun. In addition to the long strip of decoration that was said to hold the blessed amulet, there was also a small oval sign with some words engraved on it, which was not clear under the reflection of the sun.

"You..." Iwama looked into the man's shining eyes and was unable to speak a word. He waited until he really disappeared from his sight before he came to his senses. He gritted his teeth and cursed, muttering, "Didn't you just say you didn't want to talk to him?

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Kasugawa Shugo had just reached the edge of the rooftop and placed his hand on the chimney that was between the two factory rooftops and could be used as a connecting bridge. Before he could confirm whether it was stable, he felt the ground shake.

It shook violently, but the factory where he was located did not collapse. The explosion point was located in a factory building not far away, and affected a row of tall chimneys nearby. The outermost chimneys began to crack a little bit below and were about to lose their support.

The direction it was falling was not good...

If it fell, it would surely knock down all the wires on the ground. If those unsafe wires came into contact with the saturated area of ​​explosive gas on the lower level, it would cause a chain explosion that would raze the entire factory to the ground and would also inevitably affect the surrounding area and the mountain.

Thinking of this, Kasugawa Shugo instantly became alert. He quickly looked around for something that could stop the huge thing, and finally locked onto a row of supporting poles not far away that were not affected. It seemed that they were built to support the building after the accident. Because of the dangerous situation inside, the construction team would not stay for a long time, so they were built very perfunctorily and almost collapsed under the impact of the explosion.

The fixed ropes on it are now very useful.

The man was about to step onto the chimney leading to another rooftop when he paused. He turned around and backed away while looking for an angle that would allow the support pole to fall to the position he had planned. When he returned to the middle of the empty rooftop, the back of the pole finally came into view.

This is it.

The chestnut-haired officer finally showed a little smile in his eyes. He reluctantly raised his injured arm, held the gun steadily, and aimed at the target position.

The next second, the man's face changed.

With a duller explosion than before, the ground beneath his feet began to shake again. The completely different frequency from before made Kasugawa Shugo understand instantly. His expression was extremely ugly. He could only quickly lower his center of gravity and half-crouch on the violently shaking surface.

The wires affected by the first explosion slid down along the surface of the building in a direction that the police officer could not see. The fire from the broken part brushed across the outer wall of the factory where he was, and slightly penetrated from the neatly arranged ventilation windows, instantly igniting the entire floor.

The ground collapsed with the explosion, and the plane where he was located became a broken slope. The chestnut-haired police officer slid down uncontrollably due to gravity, and the building standing beside the factory collapsed, casting a shadow with dust and the breath of death.

People will instinctively feel fear when facing a huge monster that is almost covering them. Kasugawa Shugo subconsciously dodged backwards the moment the building fell.

It would be too late if he didn't shoot.

He bit his tongue hard and relied on the pain to calm down in this situation. The chestnut-haired police officer forced himself to go against his instinct to survive, stopped dodging backwards in the collapsing building, raised his gun again with slightly trembling hands, aimed at the target and fired several bullets in succession.

The tall support frame and the building fell almost synchronously. In the flying smoke, Kasugawa Shugo saw the ropes that blocked the collapsed chimney layer by layer, and the electric poles that seemed to be shaking but did not continue to fall down despite being hit a little. He breathed a sigh of relief and evacuated to the back in a hurry.

He didn't have time to evacuate far to the back before he felt the pressure from behind. He almost ran forward with all his strength, but still couldn't escape the shadow cast by the collapsed building.

The chestnut-haired man couldn't help but let out a terrible roar.

It hurts.

Apart from the word pain, his mind was almost blank.

The steel bar that pierced out of the collapsed building fell down with the pressure of gravity. As he dodged in time, it did not directly penetrate the man's chest, but pierced his calf from the side at a tricky angle and then sank deep into the gap of the ruins.

Because of the dodging action, he turned around and fell to the ground. The steel bar that pierced his calf fell down little by little with the gravity. The rough surface rubbed the most sensitive flesh and blood. When it finally stopped on the ground, Kasugawa Shugo was already trembling with pain.

Now it has become a skewer.

The chestnut-haired man tried to pull the corners of his mouth. The smile that he originally wanted to draw because of the clever description of skewer became particularly distorted because of the pain.

His lips were trembling with pain, and he waited until he got used to the slow pain before he moved his body slightly. When he sat up by supporting the floor, his calf could not help but move slightly, pulling the flesh connected to the steel bar and rubbing it against the rough surface. He paused stiffly for a while before he really sat up.

The front end of the long steel bar was still fixed in the half-collapsed concrete wall, and the remaining half was slanted into the ground, making it impossible to move easily. Kasugawa Shugo tentatively touched the cold iron and found that it could not be moved at all. If

he couldn't move the other person, he could only move himself.

Thinking of this only solution, the chestnut-haired police officer couldn't help but smile bitterly. He wiped the cold sweat off his forehead with his dusty hands, and then looked down at the penetration wound that could be mosaiced.

This angle was too tricky. It didn't hurt the bone, but it pierced the calf muscle a little below the bone. If he really wanted to escape, he would have to tear the flesh of his entire leg apart.

Following this method, Kasugawa Shugo thought of some overly bloody scenes, and he really couldn't bring himself to tear his leg out directly.

It will definitely hurt like hell...

He was shaking with pain all over, and for the first time he experienced what it meant to be in so much pain that he wanted to die. Without the painkillers he always carried with him on previous missions, the pain spread throughout his body along the ground flesh, making the nerves in his brain throb.

Before he could even move, he felt the pain that had been numb start to surge again. He didn't know when it started, but the steel bars began to tremble slightly again.

The amplitude of the tremor was too small. If it weren't for the fact that the surface was connected to the flesh and blood of the chestnut-haired police officer, any slight movement would cause hundreds or thousands of times the pain, and he wouldn't have noticed this detail at all.

Kasugawa Shugo suddenly realized something from the shaking, and he looked up hesitantly. The concrete wall that fixed the steel bar began to crack from the bottom and cracked upward at a very fast speed.

At the same time, the ground began to shake slightly.

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. The amulet did not fall off. That paragraph may not be clearly expressed. It was originally placed in the collar of the clothes, but because of the movement, it slipped out of the collar and fell outside the clothes.