Chapter 38: The Purge Begins!
At this moment, personnel working inside the Executive Building saw this scene and couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.
"What's going on? Did someone launch a coup?"
As they discussed among themselves, the building's broadcast sounded.
"An important broadcast is now being issued, please listen carefully. I am Mizushima from the Higashi-Fukuyama Police Criminal Affairs Division. A man carrying a hunting rifle has broken into the Executive Building and is currently hiding near the building's rooftop... All personnel inside the building are to gather on the first floor of the Main Building."
While the Police repeatedly played the broadcast, they also dispatched various Mobile Units to seal off all exits of the building, preventing anyone from escaping.
Under the command of Chief Hirama, the well-equipped special teams began to gradually take over the various floors of the building.
Soon, a large number of civilians came down to the first floor by elevator.
Seeing the fully armed Security Team, those who had initially been complaining immediately fell silent.
"Now is the most crucial moment."
In the Monitoring Room, Fujita stood beside Shinichi Izumi and Xia Shang. "The disguised fox will eventually be brought to the hunting ground and forced to drop its final disguise."
Fujita looked confident, but Shinichi Izumi, standing beside him, had a highly solemn expression. These elite Mobile Units should be more than sufficient to deal with ordinary Parasytes, but his only concern now was Goto, the Five-in-one monster.
He had fought Goto before and knew how terrifying the opponent was.
"I can't see anything just from the surveillance footage. Speaking of which, the scale of this operation is really huge, it's just like a war." The Criminals Uragami was currently sitting in a chair. His face was gaunt, his eyes narrow, and he had severe dark circles under his eyes. As he spoke, there was a hint of wickedness.
Then, he glanced at Shinichi Izumi and Xia Shang behind him and said sarcastically, "Not only are you using the military, but you're also mobilizing murderers and minors. Truly remarkable."
"Detective Fujita, if he's just going to spout nonsense, why not just shoot him? It would save me time," Xia Shang said expressionlessly.
Fujita grabbed the back of Uragami's collar, yanked him back fiercely, and warned, "Shut up, stop talking nonsense."
Next, they had Shinichi Izumi and Xia Shang look at the surveillance footage.
"How is it? Are they inside?" Fujita asked.
Xia Shang shook his head. "Can't tell."
Inside the building, groups of seven, led by the Security Team, walked past the detection instrument.
Soon, Fujita discovered that one woman's head was abnormal.
"Found it, it's this one."
As Fujita's command was issued, several special police officers led the woman away from the crowd. The woman looked at the situation around her and immediately felt uneasy. Just as she was about to make a move, a special police officer pulled the trigger on her. What he was using was not a pistol, but an AA12 fully automatic recoil-less shotgun.
With almost a single shot, it penetrated the woman's heart, and the blood flowing out quickly stained her clothes.
The woman looked down at the wound on her chest, her head twisted and deformed, and she lunged at the special police officer. Unfortunately, because her heart was destroyed, the tentacles she transformed into had no strength. A large amount of blood gushed from her mouth, and her body swayed, unable to stand steady.
Bang! Another special police officer pulled the trigger, shooting the woman in the head and killing her instantly.
"Took it down." The man in the tactical command room for this operation smiled. He had a scar on his forehead and was the overall commander of this Fox Hunting Operation. His authority was above Fujita's, and he could directly control the Security Team and Mobile Units.
"They are not dead, but machines controlled by devils. To stop the machine, you only need to destroy the motor. To completely destroy the heart, large-area killing power is more important than single-point penetration." The man calmly analyzed the Parasyte's weakness. For this purpose, he equipped the special police officers with special lead bullets.
"As for toxin or anything like that, it's too slow."
He had not adopted the suggestion Xia Shang had made earlier.
As the guidance work continued, more and more people passed through the detection instrument. Unfortunately, there were no Parasytes among them.
"Are they all hiding?" Fujita narrowed his eyes.
"Let's investigate Mr. Hirokawa," Shinichi Izumi suddenly said. Because Reiko Tamura had mentioned him, he was likely also a Parasyte.
"Is the information accurate?"
Shinichi Izumi shook his head. Instead, Uragami, who was beside him, chimed in, "He's definitely a Parasyte. A normal human's expression couldn't be that calm."
"I will report this information immediately."
Soon, several special police officers came before Mitsuo Goto, wanting to take him away.
Mitsuo Goto refused their request. This action, on the contrary, proved that something was wrong with him.
"Hold them there, don't let them leave." The man raised his mobile phone and called Fujita, asking him to bring Uragami.
Uragami, with his hands in handcuffs, was escorted by Fujita and others to the detection instrument at the entrance of the Executive Building.
Suddenly, he pointed at several people in the crowd and roared loudly, "There are several there!"
Hearing his voice, one person fled from the crowd.
But before they had gone two steps, they were shot dead.
"This guy..." Xia Shang could indeed sense the presence of Parasytes in the crowd, but the person who had just been shot was not a Parasyte.
"Hey, hey, looks like you killed the wrong person. Seems they're 100% dead," Uragami said gleefully.
At this moment, a middle-aged man stepped forward to accuse the special police officers.
"Kill him," Shinichi Izumi gritted his teeth.
Due to the previous mistaken killing, the special police officer at the instrument hesitated.
Unexpectedly, the middle-aged man's head quickly whipped out a tentacle, slashing across the special police officer's neck and destroying the detection instrument.
"Damn it! Kill him!"
The man in the command room roared in anger.
The Parasyte was immediately blasted away by a shot, shattering the glass outside the building and falling in front of the crowd.
This instantly caused panic among everyone. Screams erupted everywhere, and the Parasytes hidden in the crowd began to act.
They first had a portion of the Parasytes attack the crowd to attract the attention of the special police officers, while they themselves headed towards the second floor.
Bang bang bang!!! The Mobile Units rushing in fired at the ceiling.
"Humans, get down!"
After a furious shout, all humans instinctively lay down on the ground. The Parasytes in the crowd didn't even have time to react before they were shot into sieves.
"Listen up, if you consider yourselves human, then honestly follow our command," the scarred man said loudly, holding up a submachine gun.
(End of chapter)