Honkai Summoning.

"Of course they're amazing. A special agency, licensed killers, specializing in handling things that ordinary people can't handle. They're dressed in black and walk with a swagger. Any one of them would be a top soldier in the city. If they traveled back to ancient times, they could fight their way from the Yellow River basin to the Scandinavian Peninsula, making it a reality that there's only one China in the world. If they traveled to a fantasy world, they could control the sky with a flick of their finger. Isn't that amazing?" Su Mo started talking nonsense again.

Jin Shanshan looked at this guy with a cold expression. She decided to take back her previous thoughts. This person was nothing like her!

Not at all like it!

Chapter 83 Fuyuki Apocalypse (Part 1)

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"Never mind..." Gilgamesh downed the red wine in one gulp, revealing an expression of enjoyment. A faint blush rose on her face, which, combined with her beautiful features, instantly gave her an amazing charm.

Fortunately, Su Mo was also a well-traveled and knowledgeable person. He only glanced at it casually and remained calm as always.

At that moment, there was a knock on the door. Li Yunlong's loud voice became faint through the well-insulated door, but Su Mo and Jin Shanshan could still clearly hear what he said: "Old Wang, let's have a war meeting."

"Is Kiritsugu Emiya awake?" Su Mo stood up, opened the door, and asked.

"Hmm." Kiritsugu Emiya's deadpan face emerged from behind Li Yunlong, and he turned his head slightly, gesturing for Su Mo to follow him.

"Let's go, time to get to work," Su Mo said to Jin Shanshan.

"Don't order me around." Gilgamesh put down his wine glass with displeasure, but still stood up.

The group left the hotel in two cars. Kiritsugu Emiya and Li Yunlong were in the same car, which led the way. Gilgamesh was in the other car with Su Mo, sitting in the back seat with an expression that said, "This car is barely big enough for me."

"Do you have any plans?" Gilgamesh asked suddenly, looking at the scenery receding outside the window.

"I don't know," Su Mo said. With the Holy Grail War having progressed to this point, his "foresight" had completely become useless. "I'll ask Emiya Kiritsugu later. He's a local, unlike us."

Kiritsugu Emiya is certainly not from Fuyuki City, but he is a magician killer. Having been around this world for so long, even without the Einzbern family, he still has his own connections and channels.

To Su Mo and his group, he was a complete local.

Unfortunately, Kirei Kotomine and Tokiomi Tohsaka are more "local" than Kiritsugu Emiya. If Irisviel could really revive them, it would definitely not be good news for Kiritsugu Emiya.

"I hope you won't disappoint me. I don't want my partners to be a bunch of useless people," Gilgamesh said.

The two cars drove through Fuyuki City and arrived near a dock warehouse. Kiritsugu Emiya opened the car door, got out, and went to a secluded warehouse, where he opened the door.

“This will be our base from now on,” Kiritsugu Emiya said.

Before me was the interior of a slightly more luxurious RV, much larger, with the extra space used to store weapons and other high-tech tools of this era.

At the very back are bunk beds, similar to those in a student dormitory.

Its shabby state was not even comparable to the luxurious mansion of Tokiomi Tohsaka, nor could it compare to the small inns in Fuyuki City.

"Are you planning to make me live in a place like this?" Upon seeing such a place, Gilgamesh was immediately displeased.

"No."

Fortunately, Kiritsugu Emiya shook his head with a deadpan expression. "This is just my residence. You have other things to do. Come in."

The group entered the warehouse. Kiritsugu Emiya closed the door and turned on the dim overhead light, the power cord of which was apparently pulled from somewhere.

"You were injured by me, yet you were able to move freely the very next day. That's quite impressive." Gilgamesh praised Kiritsugu Emiya in his own way.

For an ordinary person, such "praise" would definitely lead to a fight. But Kiritsugu Emiya was already heartbroken and showed no reaction to Gilgamesh's praise. He simply walked to the table and opened a map of Fuyuki City.

“Come and take a look,” Kiritsugu Emiya said.

"Me?" Seeing that neither Su Mo nor Li Yunlong reacted, Gilgamesh realized that Kiritsugu Emiya was talking to him.

Kiritsugu Emiya nodded.

"Why would I look at something like this?" Gilgamesh perfectly demonstrated what it means to say one thing but do another. He said no, but his body obediently went over and started looking at it with great interest.

"These places," Kiritsugu Emiya said, taking out a pen and drawing circles on the ground, "are all outposts that Irisviel knows about; it's best to stay away from them—"

"Old Wei, can you tell me what you're going to do after the Holy Grail merges with your wife?" Li Yunlong interrupted Emiya Kiritsugu.

He remembered that this guy's dream was world peace, and now that his wife and the Holy Grail were one, wouldn't that make it even easier to achieve that dream? Why did it suddenly feel like he was an enemy?

“It should be about destroying the world, or at least killing most of the world’s population,” Kiritsugu Emiya said. “The Holy Grail has inexplicably acted in a malicious manner, so we must destroy it.”

"..." Li Yunlong was speechless. He was only summoned because of his strong desire to fight, but it turned into a mission to stop the destruction of the world. Suddenly it became a high-level mission. The leap was a bit too big.

“We don’t know how the Holy Grail will destroy the world, nor do we know where they are right now. If we install these things on the communication tower in Fuyuki City, we can obtain all the information we want.” Kiritsugu Emiya took out some small boxes, presumably for information interception, and placed them on the table.

"Leave it to me," Li Yunlong said, summoning several members of the Independent Regiment.

The heroic spirits picked up the items on the table, saluted, and said, "We guarantee to complete the mission." Then they disappeared.

"Your independent group can act independently?" Su Mo was somewhat surprised.

“Of course, the army needs mobility. Isn’t that a basic attribute?” Li Yunlong muttered.

"Old Li, please look me in the eye when you speak," Su Mo said, looking at Li Yunlong.

"Old Wang, don't worry about such a small matter," Li Yunlong said, waving his hand.

“Okay, I can probably guess that,” Su Mo said. Li Yunlong was never one to follow the rules, and he was known for his “mobility.” It wasn’t a big deal that his independent regiment members could act independently.

"Take these things with you so we can stay in touch at any time."

Kiritsugu Emiya then took out an earpiece and a miniature communicator, which Li Yunlong and Su Mo skillfully took and put on. Gilgamesh, of course, refused, saying that it would "affect my beauty."

"Judging from last night's events, even the Holy Grail can't destroy the world in one fell swoop; it needs to be done slowly. They're in the shadows now, so we shouldn't expose ourselves. Let's wait and see who lacks patience and reveals their weaknesses first," Kiritsugu Emiya continued.

"I, the King, will not hide like a rat on the ground," Gilgamesh said with a cold snort.

This made Su Mo immediately understand how Tokiomi Tohsaka had been feeling these past few days.

“Okay.” Kiritsugu Emiya seemed to have anticipated Gilgamesh’s reaction, and said with a look of utter despair, “I won’t restrict any of your actions.”

"Are you using me as bait?" Gilgamesh was arrogant but not stupid.

Everyone else was hiding, but she swaggered out like that; what else could she be but bait?

"With your strength, you shouldn't be bait, but rather a deterrent and a warning." Kiritsugu Emiya's words, spoken with a deadpan expression, were particularly persuasive.

At least Jin Shanshan was quite pleased with what he heard, and nodded slightly: "You have good taste."

"This tsundere attribute is too obvious. Could it be because she's been gender-swapped?" Su Mo glanced at Jin Shanshan. Judging from her behavior from morning until now, it seems that not only has Jin Shanshan's body been gender-swapped, but her personality has also begun to change... It's terrifying to think about.

"What if they all hide? Should we then play hide-and-seek?" Li Yunlong said.

“They won’t hide forever,” Kiritsugu Emiya calmly analyzed. “You’re all still here, so the Holy Grail is probably not completely finished. It’s just that for some unknown reason, or because of Irisviel, it can continue to appear in the mortal world. If they want to finish it, I think the King of Heroes will definitely be one of their targets.”

"Furthermore, the commotion you caused last night was a bit too much. The Einzbern family has asked me about the situation multiple times, and I managed to gloss over it, but I certainly can't keep it a secret for long. I think that in a few days, the Mage's Association and the Church of Sanctuary will get involved in this matter."

"The Mage's Association," Su Mo muttered. This thing should be an organization within the "Type-Moon world" setting of the Holy Grail War. Although in the Holy Grail War, it's just a background character, not even a minor one.

But in reality, it must be a rather high-level and powerful organization.

Unfortunately, Su Mo had only watched two episodes of the Fate/stay night anime and had no understanding of the complex world view it had developed.

Whatever Kiritsugu Emiya says goes.

"What is the Mage's Association?" Gilgamesh said unhappily, quite dissatisfied with the possibility of a troublemaker suddenly appearing.

"They should be an asset to us," Kiritsugu Emiya said uncertainly.

The members of the Mage's Association aren't exactly paragons of justice, but rather a group of people who are new to magic research and are indifferent to most things. They only step in to stop magic when it's made public, like now that the Holy Grail is going to destroy the world; if things get out of hand, the Mage's Association will probably intervene.

But it's only a possibility.

It is more likely that the Holy Church, as one of the two major forces, will take action. The Holy Grail supervisor and cheater, Kirei Kotomine, and his son, Kirei Kotomine, are both members of the Eighth Secret Society of the Holy Church.

Before Kiritsugu Emiya could say anything more, the small radio next to him suddenly started playing a news report. The news was simple: a biting incident had occurred somewhere in Fuyuki City—and the biter wasn't some random cat or dog, but rather some other people.

Judging from the tone of the radio reporter's live report, the scene was not under control; on the contrary, it was quite heated.

Chapter 84 Fuyuki Apocalypse (Part 2)

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"What's going on?" Kiritsugu Emiya stopped speaking and listened carefully to the static coming from the radio.

This news segment was likely broadcast live. Before it stopped, in addition to the reporter's somewhat nervous and flustered voice, the shouts of the crowd were also recorded and broadcast directly.

Listening to the occasional sounds coming from the radio, Kiritsugu Emiya, whose face had been indifferent and like a playing card, finally showed some expression—his brows furrowed.

I listened for several minutes until the broadcast abruptly stopped. Then, the broadcast switched to an indoor setting, where the announcer said some trivial things, such as telling everyone to stay calm, trust the government, and to stay home as much as possible during this time, before ending the broadcast.

Su Mo looked at Li Yunlong, who shrugged, indicating that he knew nothing.

As for Gilgamesh, you don't even need to look to know that she definitely doesn't know anything.

"That voice."

Kiritsugu Emiya lit a cigarette and, watching it burn slowly in his hand, said, "It sounds very similar to the voice I heard before."

"What voice did you hear before?" Gilgamesh was dissatisfied with Kiritsugu Emiya's ambiguous and half-finished statement.

"Ghoul?" Su Mo frowned and uttered a word.

"Ghoul." Kiritsugu Emiya stubbed out his cigarette—on the back of his hand, as if to calm himself down.

"...Did Madam make this?" Su Mo asked.

He knew that Kiritsugu Emiya had once personally shot down a plane with 300 passengers using a surface-to-air missile, one of whom was Kiritsugu Emiya's adoptive mother and mentor.

Kiritsugu Emiya did this not because he was a perverted master-killer like Kirei Kotomine, but because everyone on that plane except his foster mother had turned into ghouls.

To prevent the tragedy from escalating, this man ended it all with his own hands.

The voice that came from the ghoul during the call was one that Kiritsugu Emiya would never forget.

“In that case, it is indeed a means to destroy the world,” Su Mo said.

“Yes.” Kiritsugu Emiya sat down, his face regaining its usual composure.

"Are you saying that woman is turning other people into disgusting ghoul monsters?" Gilgamesh asked from the side.

Su Mo nodded: "Yes, and I think that ghoul is also contagious. In the best case, it would spread through biting bodily fluids, in the worst case, through black mud, and in the worst case, through airborne transmission of a virus. Can magic do that?"

The last question was directed at Kiritsugu Emiya, since of the four of them, only Kiritsugu Emiya knew magic.

"I don't know. The power of the Holy Grail is unpredictable. I only know that if the Holy Grail absorbs all of you and becomes complete, its power will be even greater."

"Hmph, how could I possibly be absorbed by my own collection?" Gilgamesh immediately protested.

"That would be best." Kiritsugu Emiya fell silent, staring at the map before him, lost in thought.