Abyss crawling part 17: The city of darkness 3

" No! Don't!"

Ilirielth couldn't control her left hand as it pressed the button and the alarm rang through the place. She never had such thought of pressing it at least not at that moment. How could she escape if it turned out to be like this? A voice suddenly came to her ears.

" Don't even think about escaping, with your current ability it's just a matter of time before you get caught or worse, killed as an intruder."

Ilirielh panicking slammed her left hand into the floor when she saw a human face on it.

" Please stop doing that. I'm your only chance to get out of here."

Hearing that Ilirielth calmly took a look at the face, remembering something.

" 105? Is that you?"

" Yes."

The info on her right-hand displayed as "Test subject 105.", the titan. There was a part of the titan's body that Iliriendil carried inside of his space inventory.

" What the hell have you done with my hand!"

" I ate it."

" You did what!"

" Don't make a fuss. I'm just borrowing it for the time being. With your regeneration, it'll grow back in no time. Now listen carefully, the thing inside your neck, as long as it's still there, wherever you go they'll always know your location and can kill you at any moment."

" Then how can I remove it?"

" Removing the chip is not actually the hard part. The hard part is doing so without being detected. I can remove it now but they will know it right away. Luckily it doesn't seem to be that updated since the last time. I need some time, 2 days at least."

" 2 days? That's too long…"

Ilirielth couldn't wait that long, they must have needed something from Iliriendil and there was only one thing that could be, the price on his head. How could she sit still at the thought that Iliriendil could be killed at any moment?

" He's still safe, trust me. I'll explain to you later but they will probably do nothing to him at the current moment. There's something I want you to do right now. "

" What is it?"

The hand pointed to the unconscious Morla.

" Do not let them take you to the lab. For now, I suggest you should —"

The hand suddenly became silent at the sound of someone entering the house. A group of people wearing white shirts and black hakama.

" Grandmother! You! What did you do?"

" I did nothing. I'm just checking on her, it was the intruder. She is injured and unconscious, I need hel—"

Ilirielth said as she intended to let go of the staff but notice something strange from the group. There was a sign of relief on their faces as they heard about Morla's condition. They were armed took out knives and a guy came to the room bringing 115 a species' weapon, a gun. The gunman's hands was trembling. Ilirielth was not a professional gun user but she could tell the way he held it was extremely clumsy, he must have stolen it. The expression in their eyes, she saw them sometimes. Fear, anger, and guilt mixed with killing intent. Those were expressions of the people who prepared to kill someone for the first time in their life. Ilirielth just got here, she didn't think these people could have any grudge against her.

" Move aside!"

The man holding gun shouted, apparently the one they want to get rid of was Morla. Ilirielth got nothing to do with this. She just met Morla and could already tell that there was a high chance this old woman was not an ally but she seemed to be a very important person. Should she stand aside and let them resolve their own business or should she try to stop this?

" Ok, Listen, I know nothing about this. But what will you do after you kill her?"

" …"

" The guards will come soon and what're you gonna do after that?"

Ilirielth swept through the people. Their levels were terrible even compare to a normal human. She didn't know what was the humans' position on mutated humans - the 115 species, she doubted they have any power. Her assumption was right when she saw the faces of the group become bitter.

" Don't be cowards! Who cared about getting out of here? As long as we can kill that witch! These low-class creatures won't dare to touch any of us!"

A young girl wearing an all-white dress shouted. She looked just as young as Sally maybe 1-2 age older. Her eyes were bloodshot as she stared at Ilirielth.

" Step asides! Or we'll kill you too!"

" Please, think about—"

" Step asides! This is my last warning!"

The group seemed to listen to the young girl's words. Knowing that whatever she said would be pointless. Ilirielth took the first move, pretending to step aside. She grasped the staff and swung it at the gun guy but unluckily he was already about to shoot. The force from the firing was very strong and the guy didn't have a good hold on it. The result was that the bullet went astray into a person standing next to him creating a hole in her body.

" No!! Sister!"

Ilirielth bit her lips when she heard the young girl shout in agony. Although she didn't want that to happen, she would be in great danger if she got distracted because of the guilt, she quickly hit the gun guy in his crotch, making him fall flat on the floor, she tried to take the gun but it was too heavy. The group charged at her with their knives but she deflected the first wave of attacks with ease. Her level was the same as theirs at the current moment but there was a clear difference between a trained warrior that used to battle and a regular person. Their mind process couldn't compare to hers at all. There was only one problem, Ilirielth wasn't used to her new strength yet, she tried to make them unconscious but her blows were too light. Her mistakes made her lose the initiative and then was surrounded by many attackers. They attacked her from many angles. Some tried to stab her in the back, some tried to grasp her body. Ilirielth evaded them but her joints were in pain because she accidentally made her body perform moves that she shouldn't and her breath also became more and more unstable although the fight just broke out in a few seconds. Ilirielth also noticed something was wrong. She was sure that she didn't get hit but there were some scratches on her body and they were bleeding. Those were minor scratches, she should have felt itchy as best but they were abnormally painful that she lost her focus for a moment and a knife instantly plunged at her, the attacker was the little girl.

" Diee!"

Although Ilirielth already saw the attack, her body was too sluggish to avoid it. The little girl screamed as the knife dug deeply into Ilirielth's chest. Her face was drenched in blood as it gushed out from Ilirielth's wound. While crying, the corner of the girl's mouth raised to a smile, she avenged her sister but that smile disappeared just a second after that. The woman she stabbed didn't fall, Ilirielth pulled the young girl to her side and took the knife out of her chest, placing it on the young girl's neck.

" Get… back... or I kill her."

Ilirielth voice tried to escape her mouth. She couldn't feel her chest and her vision became blurry. The angry voices came from the group Ilirielth's ears were too heavy to hear them. The group seemed to know that she would soon lose her sense, instead of getting back off, they slowly approach her. Ilirielth painted a red line on the young girl's neck as she screamed painfully. The group swallowed their split and hesitated. Ilirielth strangled the young girl with her arm making the girl suffocate for air.

" She… She will die at this rate if you all don't fck off!"

The group finally gave up and left the house. Ilirielth dropped to her knee, her wound was bleeding too much, she looked painfully at the unconscious young girl and check on her neck.

" Forgive me…" - Ilirielth whispered, she tried to stay awake but her eyes were too heavy. The last thing she heard was the sound of footsteps rushing into the room.