Deep in the Living
Chapter 37 - 37 33 Going Downstairs

37: Chapter 33 Going Downstairs 37: Chapter 33 Going Downstairs Clearly,

The opened window on the balcony was deliberately left by the intruder, the goal being to lure Luo Di over, with his back facing [it].

Even with quick reflexes, it was already too late.

“Wu…”

Not a single word could be shouted out before

the cold, soft, and moist hair had already crept up Luo Di’s neck, promptly sealing his mouth shut, ensuring silence.

The noise inside the room would never exceed the white noise of the torrential rain.

The hair entwined around his face was eerily flexible, simply impossible to tear off with fingers alone.

All Luo Di could do was to try his best to turn around and,

just as he completed the turn, a few more strands of hair swiftly attacked, binding his limbs and pushing him towards the wall behind him.

The hair even had a sticky quality to it, much like spider silk.

Luo Di was spread-eagled and stuck to the wall, unable to move, as the excess hair retracted.

Luo Di managed to get a good look at the “intruder”, that Pseudo-Person hiding in the shadows on the ceiling.

An extremely ugly human-shaped spider, female judging from the body shape and the length of some strands of hair.

[Limbs]: What should have been human limbs had grotesquely elongated, the palms able to adhesively cling to walls, enabling crawling in various forms.

[Head]: Ferocious, hideous, and wrinkled, also suffering from severe hair loss, with the entire scalp full of rotting pits.

[Torso]: This part had not changed much anomalously, covered in a black garment soaked by rainwater.

[Tail]: At the end of the torso, or where a normal person’s buttocks would be, there grew a special organ that even made Luo Di feel physically uncomfortable.

The coccyx mutated and bifurcated at the end, connecting to two young girls’ heads serving as the so-called “Spider’s butt”, and also this woman’s trophies.

The face of one of the girls immediately reminded Luo Di of a deceased’s portrait he saw in the Spirit Hall on the first day of winter vacation.

Looking back, the chill he felt at that time was probably a warning issued by the deceased girl.

These two girls’ heads, fixed at the tail, both had lovely faces and smooth black hair; they even seemed alive, blinking and moving their lips, though their eyes were already cloudy.

The girls’ heads could be activated, allowing their hair to rapidly grow in a short time and to possess a degree of control.

It was their hair that completely bound Luo Di in silence.

The ring he used to communicate with the outside was also taken away by the hair first thing.

Luo Di didn’t panic; instead, he thought and analyzed as best as he could,

“This is the Lurking Pseudo-Person the investigators are hunting, the source of the lockdown in the residential area…

She has already killed two people, her monsterization proficiency is very high, I estimate the Corner-like Space has been forming for nearly a year.

More difficult to deal with than zombies, she is a genuine anomaly.

After the resettlement area was locked down, she should have left here, but did she stay behind in the dark waiting for an opportunity because she accidentally saw the class president knocking at the door on the eve of escape, her face, age, and hair even better than her first two targets?

Was she willing to take the risk due to the strong temptation?”

Even with all his might, Luo Di couldn’t break free, his mouth completely sealed, he could only watch helplessly as the creature crawled towards the bedroom, towards the class president who was sleeping soundly.

Having no way to get out of the current predicament, he could only close his eyes and recall that complex Hell Symbol.

However, just as he closed his eyes, a shout came through.

“Luo Di!”

He suddenly opened his eyes to see something flying straight out of the bedroom.

Even the Pseudo-Person herself didn’t react in time, unable to intercept.

Swoosh!

It accurately sliced through the hair binding Luo Di’s right hand, and the knife, wrapped in white cloth, firmly stabbed into the wall.

The person who had thrown the weapon was the class president.

She had undergone sleep-related training; the slightest disturbance would wake her.

She had opened her eyes and noticed the anomaly outside when Luo Di got out of bed in the middle of the night.

But there was still a problem now.

The class president still stood inside the bedroom, with the very dangerous Pseudo-Person standing between them.

Even if Luo Di had a weapon, it would still take time to free himself from the restraints on his limbs and neck.

Since the woman on the ceiling had been exposed, she no longer concealed herself and directly lurched toward Wu Wen at the bedroom doorway.

Her fully spread limbs were almost sealing off any escape route.

Whoosh~

The class president was completely unruffled, even prepared in advance.

With a sudden flick of her left hand, she tossed out the bedding used for sleeping, blocking the view in front of her.

Just as the bedding obscured the other party’s vision, the class president’s leg muscles swelled and she burst forward with a super-fast fish-leap roll.

She rolled out of the monster’s attack range with a very low stance and smoothly met up with Luo Di in the living room area.

Tick tock tick tock~

However, as the class president got up from the roll, blood flowed down her left arm, leaving a clear scratch extending from her elbow to the back of her hand,

which, despite being a superficial wound, severed the communication bracelet.

Now, both of their tools for contacting the outside world had been stripped away.

Strands of cobweb-like hair scattered on the ground, Luo Di had regained freedom, and the two of them exchanged glances immediately, without needing any verbal communication.

They both knew all too well that as students, they could not contend with a Pseudo-Person that had realized a “Fear Embodiment,” let alone the fact that the class president didn’t even have a decent piece of self-defense equipment.

What they needed to do now, what they could do, was only one thing.

[Run]

As long as they could break out of this building, they would be able to call out loudly for help, and surely a resident would dial emergency services immediately.

Moreover, it was highly likely that just by the two of them breaking the blockade line of the containment unit building, some sensor would activate, and the investigators not far away would arrive at the scene in no time.

Charge!

With their physical education grades ranking among the top, the two dashed towards the doorway.

They raced down the stairs at top speed,

with Luo Di even using one hand to brace against the railing, descending the stairwell rapidly like hurdling.

Even though the two did not look back throughout the escape, they were acutely aware that the thing was right behind them, and they could even faintly feel wet hair touching the back of their heads.

However, this chase did not last.

[Third floor]

Luo Di, who was in the lead, suddenly stopped and quickly looked back,

Upon seeing this, the class president shouted anxiously, “Why wait for me?

Run!”

“No… it’s not chasing anymore.”

“Huh?”

The class president also slowed down and glanced towards the top of the stairs, confirming that there was indeed no sign of pursuit.

The class president made a terrifying conjecture, “That thing might have climbed into someone else’s house and then jumped out the window, planning to enter from the bottom floor and pursue us from below in a reverse chase.”

“Is that so?”

Luo Di peeked through the gap between the handrails down to the bottom floor,

and after waiting a while, he saw no suspicious figures entering from below.

The class president continued, “It’s also possible that the thing is lurking at the exit of the stairwell, waiting to deliver a fatal ambush the moment we go out.

Since there’s no one in the stairwell now, we can seek help from the residents of the building to contact the outside world.

I remember when knocking door-to-door upwards, there was a very kind-looking old man living on the second floor.

Let’s hurry to his house and call the investigators.”

Luo Di nodded.

The two of them walked back to back in the stairwell, with Luo Di keeping an eye on the bottom, and the class president watching above, ready to run in the opposite direction at any sign of anomaly.

They stepped down the stairs, successfully descending one floor.

Just as they were about to knock on the door of a resident on the second floor, the class president suddenly froze, staring incredulously at the somewhat blurred floor marker on the wall.

[Three].

They were on the third floor just before, and after going down one floor, they were still on the third floor.

The class president had a terrible premonition and pulled Luo Di to continue down another floor.

Sure enough, the floor marker was still [Three], and the structure of the doors and the degree of paint peeling on the handrails were all identical.

“Damn it!

This is the ‘Corner-like Space’ mentioned in the textbooks.”