"Where the hell did these monsters come from!?"
"I—I don't know either, sir!"
The commander of the settlement turned deathly pale as he watched Duanmu Huai approach, murderously intent.
"I can assure you, we had no idea there were such terrifying monsters in this city. If we had known, we would have left long ago!"
"You're saying that you've been here this long and never seen these guys?"
"Yes..."
Watching the commander nod frantically, Duanmu Huai frowned. He had to admit that this was rather beyond his expectations. But thinking about it carefully, it made sense. If people knew there was a group of lunatics next to their settlement throwing Miniature Nuclear Bombs around, they would have fled long ago.
"Then, do you have any idea where these guys came from?"
"An idea... Well..."
Hearing Duanmu Huai's question, the commander furrowed his brow and racked his brains. Then his eyes suddenly lit up.
"Now that you mention it, it's not that we have no leads at all! We once commissioned a group of wanderers to gather information about this city, but only one of them returned, and he was gravely wounded... Before that wanderer died, he told us there were demons south of the city..."
"Demons?"
Duanmu Huai thought about it. Those mutants were pitch-black all over, with red eyes. Calling them demons didn't seem entirely wrong.
"That's all? Didn't you send anyone to investigate?"
"Our settlement doesn't have that kind of strength."
The commander gritted his teeth and shook his head.
"Besides, the southern part of the city is too far from us, so we didn't pay much attention to it. We just assumed the demons they mentioned were some kind of zombie mutants. Normally, zombies are distributed by region and rarely cross into other areas. So logically, as