"...They're a pack of beasts that deserve to go to hell."
"Meow? Kill them, meow!"
"Animals. So many animals."
The intelligence sent by the military was all the latest local information.
The east was still all right. After all, there had been at least some order there before. But the small countries in the southwest revealed humanity's lower limits all the more clearly.
"Most of the small countries have already collapsed. Combined with the rising floods, most transportation routes have been cut off. The region has become countless divided stretches of unclaimed land."
Looking at the atrocities committed by all kinds of humanoid creatures, even Lu PingAn, who had seen the humanoid stars, had to marvel at the sight. He truly had never seen anything like this.
"Moral boundaries? They have that kind of thing? They're just a pack of beasts—beasts who'll do anything to survive."
With food in short supply, the taboo against eating one's own kind was the first to be broken. Not only had they done it, they had turned it into all sorts of variations, even holding large banquets and cooking competitions.
As for pillaging and murder, those had become everyday occurrences.
The intelligence officer writing these reports had even said, "Honestly, I hope they hold more harems and seize more women or something. At least then some people might survive, instead of being treated as toys and food." It was hard to judge the mental state of the person writing the intelligence, but it probably proved that the place had become a living hell.
"What does the higher command say?"
"...Just consolidate it. Put together some kind of shell organization. Anyone stained with human flesh and blood doesn't need to be spared."
After giving it some thought, Lu PingAn declined the commission to go to