Deep in the Living-Chapter 210 - 200: The Sixth Person

Watching the Slaughter Knife being swung incessantly,

Watching a variety of beast traps being placed on the ground,

Watching the Butcher Hook Chain being thrown out and pulled back constantly,

Hua Yuan simply couldn’t understand.

She had already confirmed with Luo Di that those colors, no matter how destroyed, could coalesce again; the current methods simply couldn’t kill the adversary.

Why was Luo Di fighting so desperately?

With his talent, as long as he could survive, perhaps in a few years he could single-handedly kill such beings, or even start exploring the Corner under a human guise.

Why squander his bright future here?

The Warrant had nothing to do with Luo Di. Without the possibility of profit, what was the real purpose of his coming to the island?

Hua Yuan returned to the original question and at the same time stopped pondering it.

"Ah~ I’m really fed up with you, die if you want. Rarely do I wish to live a good life, dying together with you isn’t so bad either."

Hua Yuan didn’t waste much time on thinking and caught up with Luo Di’s pace again, cooperating with him in this "futile" slaughter, even though she had already concluded the inevitable outcome in her heart.

Recreating the perfect kill from before was no longer possible.

The Monster Avatar, after just contacting Hell, temporarily gave up on snatching Luo Di’s body.

It wouldn’t dare to intrude into the dangerously unfathomable brain area, maintaining a distance of more than three meters from Luo Di the whole time, and would decisively abandon its corresponding limb if it accidentally stepped into a trap.

[Adaptation]

It was becoming more accustomed to Luo Di and Hua Yuan’s combat frequency.

[Focusing]

It was focusing more and more on Luo Di, who posed the greatest threat.

The village chief was already familiar with the situation at hand,

It was a problem for Luo Di to even strike the chief’s body, not to mention killing him. The only things he could cut were the nearly endless Color Tentacles.

If they continued to drag it on,

death was certain.

Yet Luo Di’s expression did not show any change, it was even more resolute... as if the moment he was waiting for was about to arrive.

Suddenly,

A twitching sensation from his Spine made his movements stiffen for a moment, and a tentacle barely grazed his forehead, a close call with no harm done.

Luo Di was very aware that he didn’t have much time left. If the battle dragged on, even his well-fed Spine would reach its limit, and there wasn’t much time left for the Open Spine.

"Hua Yuan!"

The sudden shout made Hua Yuan quickly turn her head to look over.

The two had an extremely high level of unity, and just by looking at each other, the exchange of information was completed... The message Hua Yuan received was just a keyword.

[Burst Acceleration]

She was already in her optimal state, and if she were to Burst Accelerate, her body might fall into a period of weakness afterward.

Although she highly doubted the efficacy of such a desperate gamble, she chose to believe in Luo Di.

At the moment their eye contact ended,

Both, at the cost of draining their bodies, Burst simultaneously, further increasing their speed on top of their current state to the point where their bodies visibly distorted and fractured.

Once again, they came into close range for slaughter.

This opportunity might be the only one, the last one.

[Joint Slaughter]

The very same move as last time.

Luo Di swung the Pig Slaughter Knife while extending his Punishment Room Arm, and Hua Yuan released the densest flower pistils in an attempt to tear the person apart.

However, a streak of bizarre colors instantly flashed over the village chief’s body.

It adapted to their Burst immediately.

Crack!

The village chief’s arms moved in unison,

One hand firmly caught Luo Di’s wrist, wielding the Pig Slaughter Knife,

The other hand dismantled into tentacles, deftly entangling Luo Di’s dangerous Punishment Room Arm, attempting to crush his head.

At the same time, many Color Tentacles grew from its back, intertwining with the flower pistils released by Hua Yuan. They were superior in strength and erosive ability.

Perfectly parrying the attack from the two.

The current situation nearly signified a complete failure of their battle plan,

Their almost exhausted "Burst" had been fully blocked, resulting in a stalemate. In just waiting a few more seconds, both would be depleted of strength.

At that moment, Hua Yuan saw her own death,

But she did not blame Luo Di at all,

It was her own choice.

Before death, she looked at Luo Di, trying to gain a response from his gaze, so they could die together.

But,

The expected eye contact wasn’t achieved, Luo Di still stared straight ahead, still focused on his opponent...

That’s wrong!

Hua Yuan took a closer look at Luo Di’s pupils through the vision provided by her Eye Sisters and noticed while he was gazing straight ahead, there was a slight deviation.

His eyes were on the village chief, but the focal point was behind the chief.

"What is that?"

Hua Yuan didn’t deliberately turn her head to look, but observed the scene that reflected in Luo Di’s pupils, which might be his real battle plan.

"This is..."

Without a sound,

A person stepped out from the woodland area behind them.

Hua Yuan had seen him in the hotel before but didn’t remember much, just vaguely recalling that he was responsible for delivering meals.

As the person drew nearer, Hua Yuan could make out his appearance through Luo Di’s pupils.

Blonde hair,

Freckled face,

A pair of sea-blue eyes,

Indeed, it was a hotel meal delivery staffer.

But this staffer, maintaining absolute silence, blended seamlessly into the environment with an exquisite Disguise.

Moving through the woods, his skin turned to bark,

Upon stepping onto the beach, his feet became grains of sand.

Her breathing was as normal as the flow of air.

Step by step, she approached from behind the village.

This time, she wasn’t pushing a dining cart,

but rather holding a parasol to block the starlight in one hand and making a silencing gesture with her finger to her lips, a gesture remarkably similar to Luo Di’s previous one.

Suddenly,

Hua Yuan was reminded of a former sister, a girl deeply favored by the grandmother, whose position in the sisterhood she had fiercely rejected due to the threat she posed.

A girl innately skilled in Disguise, who after losing her core sister status died completely in a seamstress Admissions assessment.

"Wu Wen..."

The golden-haired girl’s Disguise had reached perfection.

Since arriving on the island, she had never been bathed in the starlight, untouched by any calamity, not forming any connection with the Monster Avatar.

She had stayed in the hotel all along, secretly conducting personnel checks.

Most importantly,

in the Monster Avatar’s perception, the Pseudo-Person squad accepting the Warrant consisted of one male and four females.

Isabella had been killed,

the Zombie merely a piece of rotting flesh stuffed in Hua Yuan’s pocket.

The remaining personnel were right in front of him, just a few seconds away from breaking the stalemate and being killed.

The inherent cognition was already branded into the Monster Avatar’s brain.

And his attention was completely absorbed by Luo Di and Hua Yuan, who were fighting to the death.

All the groundwork was in place.

Whether on a physical level,

perceptual level,

or psychological level,

the Monster Avatar noticed not the approach of this "sixth person" behind him, nor did he even consider the existence of this "sixth person".

By the time the golden-haired girl was completely close,

Buzz!

The tongue in Hua Yuan’s mouth spat out uncontrollably, hanging outside her lips.

The Eye that grew on the surface of her tongue, the core eye of the Eye sister, shed tears of blood through the pupil.

The observance and prying of the Eye sister had reached its peak,

peeking out from the well to find the ultimate answer.

She fulfilled her promise to Wu Wen,

sharing the elusive, star-cosmos-hued-shifting ’pituitary’ location, emergence timing, and more, sharing it with the "sixth person" behind her.

There was only one chance, miss it and it’s lost forever.

However,

the girl showed no hesitation or tension, as if she was facing the Admissions exam with absolute composure.

She had been waiting for this moment for far too long; she knew this was the opportunity Luo Di had fought for with his life, and she would neither relinquish nor miss it.

Timing it precisely,

her claws sprung out,

these were Wu Wen’s very own claws, her ’Hands of Makeup’ used to refine her body, perfect her Disguise.

Her precision surpassed everyone present.

Only her index finger and thumb thrust forward,

piercing the skin on the back of the mayor,

inserting into the color-laden flesh inside,

touching the ’pituitary’ that was in its "Manifestation Period" and rapidly flowing with the cosmic tides within.

The force and precision used were just right,

neither too light nor too heavy,

preventing the pituitary from slipping away and avoiding any harm to it.

It was as if two chopsticks had steadily grasped a peach pit.

This process was completed in less than 0.1s, not giving the Monster Avatar any chance to react... She pulled it out, extracting it.

Swish!

The juice of color splashed onto the umbrella,

and the ethereal pituitary was pinched in the air by the girl.

She indulged not in her greed, nor did her expression change.

She slightly parted her lips and effortlessly called out a name:

"Luo Di."

The instant she called out, she moved with a blink-step dance to Luo Di’s side, hand to hand to complete the pituitary handover.

The latter, with his Punishment Room representative hand, firmly grasped it, as iron wires emerged in his palm, wrapping around the pituitary and starting the special Torture Device Construction.

It seemed as if he had long envisioned the construction of the torture device in his mind.

A miniature Iron Maiden-style iron coffin was crafted, sealing the pituitary within.

[Pituitary Retrieval]

This was a retrieval targeting the Monster Avatar.

A rarity across the whole country.

With the seal complete, it signified the end of everything.

Logically, once the pituitary was detached, the monster would lose the [medium] within the Projected world, and its Avatar would swiftly dissipate within a short period, with the original body also incurring some damage.

What was strange,

though the colors were slowly fading, the mayor in front of us was maintaining a surprising degree of stability.

Everyone still didn’t dare to relax their caution; it was entirely possible they could face a desperate, all-out attack.

Who knew,

Applause came from the front with a series of claps.

Above the neck of this vessel for the mayor, a colorful head constructed through tentacles, suddenly grew two small hands in its mouth and started clapping.

Its pupils displayed colors of joy.

Clapping finished, a voice came from within, in perfect American English:

"Teacher Guo’s judgment was indeed impeccable. You two are truly the best students of ’Zhong 4’; congratulations on successfully completing the Admissions assessment that was initially postponed."

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