West 47th District's Hollow Disaster spread to an uncontrollable level within an hour after landing.
Three Gillians and hundreds of Ordinary Hollows poured out of Gargantas. The landing point was a deserted wilderness, but Xu would not stop moving just because there were no human settlements. They headed towards the direction where Reiatsus were thickest, that direction. Xiang happened to pass through the densest residential area of West 47th District. It was not intentional, but instinctive. Wherever the smell of Reiatsu came from, they went there. The wandering spirits of Rukongai felt it the moment Hollow Disaster landed.
The virtual Reiatsu made the wandering spirits possessing Reiatsu sense the danger first. They rushed out of the house and fled in all directions.
Those Reiatsu weaker people sensed it slower, but when they saw their neighbors running, heard roars in the distance, or felt the ground shaking, they ran too
Others don't want to run at all; they're too old, too tired or just feel like they "can't run anymore."
But they were caught in the crowd of people fleeing and were pushed away involuntarily.
Some people are crying, some are shouting, some are burying their heads in the road without saying a word. The expression on their faces is not fear, but a kind of numbness.
Armed groups mobilized less than half an hour after Hollow Disaster landed
The armed groups deep in Rukongai have formed their own early warning and response mechanism in the seven years after the war. Some people are responsible for lookouts, some are responsible for communications, and some are responsible for fighting. After Hollow Disaster landed, the lookout people saw the three black mountains on the horizon. The news spread to all the armed groups around West 47th District within half an hour.
They are not here to protect the wandering souls. They have no concept of "protection". They just know that if the ghosts eat up all the wandering souls in this area, they will have no place to stand. A Rukongai without wandering souls is no better than a ruin.
So they went up to kill
Of course it's not to die, it's to contain them. Ordinary Hollow they can deal with a few, a dozen, or even twenty, and they can eat them if they cooperate well, but Gillian is not something they can deal with. What they can do is to contain the direction of the virtual group, so that the wandering souls have more time to escape, and at the same time clean up as many Ordinary Hollow as possible to reduce threats other than Gillian.
The first to engage the enemy was a local hunting team of West 47th District, with less than twenty people. They ran into the vanguard of the virtual group at the edge of the wilderness. Their captain used a Reishi short spear. He led his men to lure the first group of virtual hunters into a rocky field, and used trip wires and traps arranged in advance to slow down the virtual group. The tactic worked for less than ten minutes, and then a Gillian turned towards them.
Seven people from the Void Hunting Team died, and the remaining 12 people regrouped on the north side of the rocky field and did not retreat.
After night fell, the Reiatsus on the battlefield were as chaotic as a pot of boiling water. The position of Gillians was no longer clearly discernible. They dispersed, and each of the three of them led a group of virtual flocks to wander in the wilderness. The armed groups lost their unified goal and could only fight on their own. Some people climbed up the abandoned watchtower, used oil-soaked rags to make torches and threw them into the distance. Trying to use firelight to attract the attention of the virtual group. Someone built a simple weir on the upper reaches of the river, poured water into the low-lying areas, trapped a few Steel-Skinned Hollow in the mud, and then threw them from high places with sharpened wooden stakes. In every small-scale battle, some people were injured, some fell down, and some were dragged back to the temporary bunker by their companions. Blood gushed out from the wounds and solidified into black marks on the soil.
The momentum of Hollow Disaster began to weaken before dawn, not because the armed groups were killing so fast, they had already lost nearly one-third of their manpower, but because the source of Reiatsu that attracted the virtual suddenly stabilized in the early morning and no longer spread outwards.
Reiatsu is still there, but it no longer fluctuates as violently as before. The basis for judging the virtual group has shifted from "Reiatsu concentration" to "Reiatsu direction", and the precise position in that direction is still Covered by the thick fog-like Reiatsu area, the three Gillian wandered in the wilderness for most of the night, but could not find the coordinates. They began to become agitated, began to scatter, and began to attack each other. The formation of the virtual group was completely chaotic.
However, the momentum of Hollow Disaster began to weaken before dawn, not because they killed quickly, but because the Reiatsu source that attracted the virtual group suddenly stabilized in the early morning and stopped spreading outward. Reiatsu is still there, but it no longer fluctuates as violently as before. The basis for judging the virtual group is from "Reiatsu concentration" turned to the "Reiatsu direction", but the precise position in that direction was still covered by the dense fog-like Reiatsu area. The three Gillians wandered in the wilderness for most of the night, but never found the coordinates. They began to be agitated, began to scatter, and began to attack each other. The formation of the virtual group was completely messed up.
The patrol team of Tenth Division arrived at West 47th District early the next morning after the incident, led by Tenth Division Fourth Seat
He led five team members and walked all the way from 46th District in the east to the west. On the way, he encountered more and more wandering souls fleeing. He stopped a person and asked what was wrong. The person said, "There is a void in the west, a big void, and many people are dead."
Fourth Seat did not ask any more questions and continued to the west with his team members.
The patrol stopped next to a trampled well and looked around. Xu's spiritual pressure was still there, as well as the spiritual pressure of many wandering Shinigami.
"Hollow Disaster It's been a while" said Fourth Seat
"Fourth Seat, do you want to go deeper?" a team member asked.
Fourth Seat was silent for a moment. "Let's go, at least confirm the source of Hollow Disaster."
They continued to dig deeper, but could not find the source
"Use Hell Butterfly" he said.
A team member called Hell Butterfly. The butterfly wing glowed with a faint blue light in the morning light. Fourth Seat took Hell Butterfly and injected Reiatsu into the butterfly wing. The message was transmitted silently in the Reishi channel.
One, two... six in total
These Hell Butterfly notified the Hollow Disaster of West 47th District of the 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 10th and 11th divisions respectively.
When Seireitei received the message, the captains of each division were handling their daily affairs. Hell Butterfly came in through the window and landed on the captains' fingers. The content of the message was the same, short and clear: West 47th District Hollow Disaster
The captains who received the news almost immediately put down what they were doing and headed in the direction of the Shin'ō Hall Shunpo
Inside the Shin'ō Hall, the six captains stood in sequence, with Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto standing in the center, his eyes sweeping over their faces.
"Tenth Division and Eleventh Division"
Yamamoto's voice was not loud. "Let's set out immediately to eliminate West 47th District Hollow Disaster."
"Tenth Division understands" Shiba Ichisegawa answered calmly and then Shunpo left to gather the team members.
Unohana Yachi nodded in the same way, and then Shunpo left
"Third Division, Fourth Division, Fifth Division are ready for support." Yamamoto looked at the remaining three captains
Three people nodded