I was invincible in the dungeon with a funny character skill

“The weather is really bad today, don't you think, Amon?”

On the streets of the 20th ward, Wang Xiaoming, clad in armor, held Ester's hand with his right hand. Each of them had an ice cream, and they ate as they walked, while he spoke to the young man following him.

Upon hearing Wang Xiaoming's words, the young man beside him looked up at the sky, which was covered in dark clouds, with even a few raindrops beginning to fall.

“Indeed, it's going to rain, Mr. Arthur. We didn't bring an umbrella. Should we find a place to take shelter?”

Amon Koutarou, the young man's name, is a formal investigator of the CCG and also one of the outstanding rookies of this term. However, immediately after joining the CCG, he was ordered to accompany Wang Xiaoming, this American geezer.

Amon was not very satisfied with this arrangement. He joined the CCG to subjugate ghouls, not to serve this American geezer. But this was an order from his superiors, and he had no choice but to obey.

But now, looking at Wang Xiaoming and Ester, each with an ice cream, strolling and eating, he really felt frustrated.

Didn't you say you wanted to join to help the CCG subjugate ghouls? Do you look like you want to subjugate ghouls now? You're clearly just taking your sister on a trip!

In his heart, he was angry, but on the surface, Amon suppressed his anger, following behind Wang Xiaoming with a blank expression. There was no way around it; this was an American, and he couldn't afford to offend him.

“Oh, there happens to be a coffee shop ahead. Let's go in and sit for a while. This rain shouldn't be too heavy. After it passes, we can continue to look around elsewhere.”

Wang Xiaoming didn't know what Amon was thinking. He only had eyes for the coffee shop ahead.

“Anteiku, what a nice name.”

Wang Xiaoming said with a smile, while holding Ester's hand and walking towards the coffee shop.

Amon didn't say anything, just silently carried his white briefcase, following behind Wang Xiaoming.

The three of them, two in front and one behind, entered the coffee shop named Anteiku.

“Welcome...”

The moment the door was pushed open, a purple-haired female waitress inside the coffee shop reflexively greeted the door, but stopped halfway, freezing in place. She looked at Amon behind Wang Xiaoming, or rather, the white briefcase in Amon's hand.

That was standard equipment for ghoul investigators: a white briefcase. On the surface, it looked like a box, but in reality, it was the investigator's weapon.

The reason she was surprised by Amon's arrival was because she was the ghoul the investigators were searching for everywhere. Or rather, everyone in this coffee shop was a ghoul.

From the owner to the waitresses to the customers, basically all of them were ghouls. Occasionally, a few ordinary people would mistakenly enter, and then those ordinary people would become the prey targeted by the ghoul customers in the shop.

Wang Xiaoming naturally knew that everyone here was a ghoul, but he didn't seem to care at all. After entering the coffee shop, he directly found a window seat and sat down. Ester also sat directly on Wang Xiaoming's lap after he sat down, while Amon sat opposite him, placing the briefcase at his feet.

“Waiter!”

Wang Xiaoming quickly finished his ice cream in a few bites, then raised his hand and snapped his fingers.

The purple-haired girl waitress was still a little dazed. Her gaze was always on Amon, completely unaware of Wang Xiaoming's actions.

“Touka.”

The old man behind the counter reminded her, and she finally reacted, quickly taking a deep breath and walking to Wang Xiaoming's side.

“Sir, what do you need?”

“Please get her a parfait. You should have that here, right? If not, a dessert for children will also do. Then, get me and him an Americano.”

Wang Xiaoming said, looking at Amon opposite him.

“Amon, are you used to Americano? We Americans have a cup of coffee every morning. I'm used to it; I don't know if you are.”

Wang Xiaoming constantly emphasized his high-class status. Drinking a cup of coffee every morning, how high-class was that? It looked like a foreign aristocrat's life at first glance.

“It's okay, I'm fine with anything.”

Amon was still expressionless. It didn't matter whether he drank it or not; he was just here to protect Wang Xiaoming's safety.

Amon agreed, so that was fine. Wang Xiaoming looked up at the purple-haired girl.

“Okay, then one dessert and two Americanos, thank you.”

“Okay, please wait a moment.”

The purple-haired girl nodded, wrote down the order, then turned and left, returning to the counter and handing the menu to the old man behind the counter.

The old man took the menu and quietly comforted the girl.

“Relax, Touka. They just happened to be passing by and came in for a cup of coffee.”

“Yeah, I know.”

The girl named Touka nodded slightly.

Just as she relaxed a little, the door of the coffee shop was pushed open again.

“Welcome.”

Touka reflexively turned again to greet the door. This time, the one who pushed open the door was a girl with green hair all over her head. Behind her was a man wearing a black coat, incredibly tall.

“Please give me two espressos.”

The green-haired girl ordered an espresso from the old man behind the counter, then walked directly to the window seat, which happened to be behind Wang Xiaoming, and sat down. The tall man behind her sat opposite her.

This time, Touka wasn't dazed; it was the old man behind the counter who was.

Hearing the sound behind him, Wang Xiaoming couldn't help but look back. Coincidentally, the green-haired girl was also a little curious about Wang Xiaoming, this man in armor. After all, she was a ghoul, and Wang Xiaoming was dressed strangely, and there was even a ghoul investigator sitting across from him.

The two happened to turn their heads at the same time, then smiled and nodded at the same time, before turning back.

Good grief, Wang Xiaoming almost laughed out loud.

He just came to Anteiku Coffee to have some fun, but he ran into an early-stage small BOSS. Several main characters were here. This was interesting.

Wang Xiaoming's lips curled up, and he thought of a good idea. He held Ester in his left arm, touched Ester's little head with his right hand, leaned back in his chair, and opened his mouth to Amon in a voice that everyone in the shop could hear.

“Amon, what do you think of ghouls?”

284. The so-called ghoul is a human who eats humans.

Discussing ghouls in the ghouls' territory, and without any concealment, clearly attracted the attention of everyone in the coffee shop.

Whether it was the customers or the owner, everyone's attention was focused on Wang Xiaoming.

Wang Xiaoming looked at Amon opposite him with a smile, waiting for his answer.

The asked Amon finally didn't have a blank expression anymore, but showed hatred.

“Ghouls are the culprits that distort the world and should be eliminated!”

A very standard investigator-style answer. When training investigators, the people of the CCG would always instill such ideas in these investigators. After all, what they needed were tool-like people to fight against ghouls, not people with their own thoughts.

Amon's answer made everyone else in the coffee shop angry, especially Touka. Her eyes, hidden by her hair, stared at Amon intently, but because of the angle, Amon couldn't see or feel it.

“Hmm, a very academic and formulaic answer.”

Wang Xiaoming nodded, expressing his agreement with Amon's answer.

“Then Amon, do you know how I view ghouls?”

“Mr. Arthur, please tell me.”

Wang Xiaoming didn't rush to answer but began his speech.

“Before answering your question about ghouls, I need to first give you some basic information about what a ghoul is.”

“I think you should have learned about it in the Investigator Academy. The so-called ghouls are some guys who can use special abilities, that is, the kagune, to fight and hunt humans. They kill and eat people everywhere, and have very distinctive blood-red pupils. Depending on the kagune, they have different fighting styles.”

“And the source of the ghoul's power is the high-density RC cells in their bodies. RC cells are a magical thing. They are stored in the ghoul's kakuhou, and can be transformed into kagune of various shapes during battle.”

“But in fact, even ordinary people have RC cells in their bodies, but the concentration of cells is relatively low. For ordinary people, it does not have any qualitative effect. The reason why ghouls eat people is to absorb the RC cells in ordinary people's bodies to supplement their own RC cells, make their RC cells more numerous, and also maintain activity through eating.”

“In addition to this, the most important point is that ghouls and ordinary people do not have reproductive isolation. That is to say, ghouls and ordinary people can also have children.”

What Wang Xiaoming said surprised everyone present, especially Amon, who widened his eyes in surprise. These were things he had never heard of before.

At this time, Wang Xiaoming knocked on the table and said his opinion.

“So, in my opinion, the so-called ghouls are just humans who have more RC cells in their bodies and have learned to master the power evolved from the RC cells in their bodies!”

“Ghouls... are humans?”

“That's right, ghouls are humans, and you can even say they are evolved humans.”

“Can eating people be considered evolution!”

Amon punched the table, very angry at Wang Xiaoming's point of view.

“Don't worry.”

Wang Xiaoming leaned back in his chair, looking calm.

“Do you know what it means to become a ghoul?”

“Eating people!”

“No, it means you have a stronger body, unparalleled special powers, and terrifying self-healing abilities. As long as it's not a fatal injury, as long as the supply is timely, you basically don't have to worry about dying. If these things were placed on you, how would you feel?”

“Just these things, without considering eating people.”

Amon frowned, but still gave his answer.

“If you don't need to eat people, then this is indeed a very good thing.”

“That's right, even lifespan will be improved after becoming a ghoul, and to get so many things, you only need to pay one price, and that is you can only eat human flesh!”

“Can this kind of thing be called a price!”

Amon still disagreed with Wang Xiaoming's point of view.

However, Wang Xiaoming's next words were extremely cruel.

“Don't deny it, this is the price. If the higher-ups of this country were given a chance to become ghouls, even if they didn't need anything else, just a longer lifespan, do you believe that a bunch of people would immediately jump out and say they were willing!”

“For people at the bottom, it may be difficult to become a ghoul. Even if they become ghouls and have all the powers mentioned above, their status makes it impossible for them to stand tall. At least, how to eat human flesh is a problem.”

“But for people at the top, they lack nothing in terms of resources. Becoming a ghoul just means that the resources they control need one more thing called human flesh, and they don't have to worry about whether they can get this resource at all.”

“The simplest way is to control a crematorium. As long as you control a crematorium, you can sit there and wait for a steady stream of human flesh to be delivered, and they don't need to go out hunting at all.”

“During the day, they can live a glamorous life in human society like normal people, and at night, they can enjoy the delivered meals in their 고급 mansions, completely different from those wild ghouls who hide everywhere like mice in the corners of the city, searching for investigators, and then looking for opportunities to kill people.”

“They would call this kind of life enjoyment.”

Amon was silent, and everyone else in the coffee shop was stunned. They had never considered that there was such a possibility.

Of course, there were also two people who were a little more active in their minds, one was the owner of the coffee shop, the old man behind the counter, and the other was the green-haired girl sitting behind Wang Xiaoming. These two people knew more, but they were also surprised by what Wang Xiaoming said.

“So, Amon, what you are considering are just those ghouls hiding in the alleys wearing masks, but you haven't considered whether there are some ghouls who have never worn masks from beginning to end. They even usually hang around in front of you, but you don't even know it.”

“This kind of thing is impossible...”

Cold sweat began to appear on Amon's forehead. He already believed Wang Xiaoming's words a little in his heart, but he still said he didn't believe it.

“Is that so? Since you don't believe it, Amon, then let me ask you another question.”

As soon as Wang Xiaoming said this, everyone in the coffee shop became suspicious again. They really wanted to know what Wang Xiaoming was going to ask.

“Where do you think ghouls come from?”

“I don't know, where ghouls come from, I don't know at all.”

Amon directly gave up, answering directly without even thinking.

“Indeed, most people don't know where ghouls come from, and they are too lazy or don't bother to know, because all their attention is focused on fighting ghouls.”

“And the ghouls, basically the ghouls outside, are all thinking about how to fill their stomachs, how to become stronger, and prevent being swallowed by their own kind, after all, swallowing their own kind can make ghouls stronger.”

“Especially a very interesting point.”

Wang Xiaoming said here, and directly laughed.

“When the CCG was targeting ghouls, it introduced a ranking system. According to the strength of the ghouls, they were divided into different levels of ghouls, from low to high, with SSS being the highest. After this system was introduced, those ghouls actually started fighting each other for their own ranks.”

This was also something that Wang Xiaoming found very funny. The ghouls were full of idiots, thinking that the CCG's evaluation of them was too low, and the evaluation of others was too high, and then in order to prove their strength, they would run to fight the CCG people, or directly fight internally, in order to show their strength and get a higher level of evaluation.

Just like the pirates in the One Piece world, TMD, the ghouls in this world actually take pride in the evaluation level.

“Whether it's the ghoul investigators who are looking for ghouls everywhere, or the ghouls who are being chased by the investigators, they are all only concerned with the battle in front of them, but they haven't thought about why they are fighting.”

“Why are they fighting? Isn't it because ghouls kill and eat people?”

Amon said his thoughts. He joined the CCG because ghouls killed and ate people, so he joined the CCG and wanted to drive all the ghouls out, without leaving a single one.

“This is one reason, but the real reason is not this.”