Deep in the Living-Chapter 514 - 500: Under the Mist

[Ten minutes ago]

Wenslim City, Miller Park, Famous People Memorial Hall.

The explosion blew off the roof of the memorial hall, and Luo Di was hit by the shockwave at close range. His back was blasted open with a huge bloody hole, his spine shattered, and he fell into a deep coma.

His whole body stuck to the corner of the wall like a pile of mud, the situation was not optimistic.

Lebeite managed to fend off the majority of the explosion’s damage through his inner monster. He glanced at the severely injured Luo Di in the corner, then assumed the starting stance he learned from him.

Chasing after the aura of the carcass at maximum speed, the aura suddenly disappeared when he reached a sewer entrance.

The death lurking in the depths of the sewer completely devoured the aura.

Lebeite was also very wary of the death inside the sewer and did not dare to go down recklessly.

He could only wait for the opponent to emerge from below. He knew very well that the opponent would never absorb the carcass in such a dangerous place as the sewer; the death stored below would never allow the mist to spread.

As soon as the opponent’s aura surfaces, he would chase after it relentlessly.

With everyone leaving due to Joker Joke’s "theft."

Luo Di suddenly opened his eyes in the memorial hall; the seemingly broken spine was completely unharmed.

The injuries from the explosion were partly real and partly a disguise helped by Wu Wen.

The first thing Luo Di did upon standing was to check the state of his teammate Mia. After confirming that flies were still buzzing over several chunks of rotten flesh, he was no longer worried.

He directly came to the twenty-meter-deep pit and looked towards the bottom. Although there was seemingly nothing below, Luo Di seemed to see something.

Suddenly, he pulled out the chainsaw and cut off a piece of flesh from his body.

"Wu Wen, please."

A woman’s arm grew out from his back, using the piece of flesh as a base to directly create a fake body of Luo Di, similar to the fake body used in previous battles with Lebeite.

The fake body was in a wounded, unconscious state, tossed into the corner to prevent Lebeite from prematurely reclaiming the carcass or for other reasons returning.

Everything ready, Luo Di leaped into the deep pit.

Next, he would begin the most important action of this event, and the "hidden clues" he risked his life for on the Wenslim University campus.

§The mist is just a safe, used to store internal secrets§

Something is hidden under the mist, requiring a whole mist system to conceal, cover, suppress, and seal.

Grasping the knife handle, pure Hell bone marrow infused into it.

This time, the structure growing from the knife handle end was not a blade, but purely a bone shovel.

Begin excavation.

During the process, the spine protruded, steam escaped, and the speed of excavation accelerated, the shovel even began to smoke. Luo Di knew time was limited.

Regardless of whether the Joker successfully avoids tracking and absorbs the carcass or Lebeite reclaims the carcass, the time left for him is no more than ten minutes.

Originally planning to wait until the event ended, Wu Wen also came to help, growing two special-structured arms to assist in excavation.

Fifty meters,

One hundred meters,

Two hundred meters,

Suddenly!

A strong, primal fear was released from the soil below, forcing Wu Wen to immediately withdraw her arms and stop excavating. Even though she was fused within Luo Di’s body, she couldn’t stop trembling, cold sweat sliding down her thighs.

"What is this!"

Luo Di’s performance was relatively calm, halting the excavation and starting to perform a bizarre action, one he had done before.

He shoved his palm into his mouth, biting off all his fingers, while communicating with Wu Wen.

"We’re close, Wu Wen hurry up and eliminate any structures related to fingers from your body... or Wu Wen, you can leave here directly, thanks for your help.

I’ve already completed initial adaptation to this thing that night, you are contacting it for the first time and might be deeply affected."

"Damn!"

Wu Wen cursed directly because just as she attempted to handle the "finger issue," she found that the blood and flesh structure of her whole body was gradually losing control, fingerprint-like patterns already appearing on the surface.

She decisively separated from Luo Di’s body but didn’t leave immediately, instead, she looked at the young man preparing to continue digging.

"The night at the campus when you completed the confrontation with Fog Man you obtained this hidden intelligence and started your personal plan.

The mist and finger transformation have no direct correlation.

Even from another perspective, the mist is protecting this city, protecting us... suppressing and covering what’s down here, ensuring that the influence of finger structures doesn’t overflow.

It’s precisely because the carcass was moved that people in this city began to experience facial structure disappearance and brain finger transformation mutations.

This kind of thing is likely beyond our current control, are you sure you want to contact it?"

Luo Di had already bitten off the last finger, responding in a low voice:

"What do you think?"

"No wonder you care nothing about the carcass, no wonder you were happy after losing to Lebeite... did you calculate it all from day one? That’s why you deliberately took that sleeping girl."

"My brain isn’t that agile, I took her simply because among all the participants, she seemed more familiar.

Also, because I was with her from day one, no one knows her [status] better than me.

As the third day arrived, when the mist’s influence on us intensified, I vaguely sensed signs of her awakening, then deliberately left the iron barrel in the memorial hall targeting the Joker who might come to steal something.

Luck was good, everyone was lured away... as for you Wu Wen, from cooperating for so long, you are likely trustworthy."

"Bah! When I leave the videotape, I’m definitely going to beat you up once!"

"Understood, hurry up, you’ve already grown a sixth finger."

Wu Wen looked at the additional finger that had grown and directly activated the pituitary trait. By exercising absolute control over her flesh, she forcibly suppressed the sixth finger back.

After giving an international gesture of farewell, she stepped barefoot on Luo Di’s face as a stepping stone and quickly leaped away from here.

Luo Di didn’t delay at all. With no fingers left, he directly plunged a bone trowel into his palm, merging it with the internal bones, and continued digging.

Not long after... Boom!

A distant explosion sound came, and even here one could feel the intense tremor.

≮ The event has ended, the videotape will stop playing in 10 seconds ≯

The city’s notification voice resonated simultaneously.

Upon hearing this notification, Luo Di forced himself into the Great Demon Form regardless of whether he would collapse. Constructing a metal excavation device onto his left arm, he alternated both hands.

Luo Di felt his current digging speed was even faster than when battling Lebeite, with smoke rising from the soil he was digging.

5...

The soil beneath him was directly dug through by Luo Di, causing him to fall downward.

The sensation was the same as when his entire consciousness was absorbed into the facial pit of the Fog Man before.

However,

this time it was a real pit.

Even though Luo Di had bitten off all his fingers in advance, he was still affected.

His teeth and eyeballs began to fall out, replaced by a dense cluster of fingers.

New fingers began to grow from the stumps of his hands.

Clearly, whatever was beneath wanted to assimilate Luo Di,

wanted him to fully embrace the fingers,

wanted him to completely evolve in this direction,

but Luo Di’s choice remained [rejection].

He had his own path, his own ultimate dream.

He fought through everything, found this place based on hidden clues, solely to reach his dream faster. No matter what kind of entity it was, it was just a stepping stone on his path forward.

To think he’d change his course, stop dreaming about it.

Firmly stepping on the cave floor made entirely of fingers, his whole body was undergoing transformation toward a cluster of fingers yet still barely retained a human shape. The heat from Hell fortified his determination.

Only three seconds remained.

3,

Luo Di didn’t think of anything else,

simply focused on hunting, sniffing out the densest scent here.

Locate!

2,

Not far away,

right beneath his feet!

1...

A sound of the tape demagnetizing echoed in his eardrums.

In the blink of an eye,

everyone returned to the basement of the amusement park, or rather everyone was freed from the viewing state,

in front of them only an old TV full of static, and a malfunctioning, smoking videotape device.

While other participants contemplated further killing, quick escape, physical recovery, and memory recognition,

Luo Di sat next to a coffin, head deeply buried,

hands tightly cupped in his arms,

thin smoke seeped through the seams of his fingers,

without blinking,

paused breathing,

completely focused,

he slowly opened his hands, revealing what they held within.

This was a deep crimson Iron Maiden almost completely consuming all of Luo Di’s Hell Energy, pre-modeled in his thoughts.

Inside it was suppressing a very unruly thing.

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