Deep in the Living
Chapter 58 - 58 54 Rescue

58: Chapter 54 Rescue 58: Chapter 54 Rescue Time: 45 minutes before the physical assessment

Location: Fourth Middle School Entrance

Students who left the school to eat or get stimulant injections were gradually returning to the campus.

The entrance of the school adopted a security check method similar to that of airports,

requiring verification of the ring device information, fingerprint identification, blood sampling for verification, followed by visual inspection by security personnel at each passageway.

A female student with light makeup and without parental accompaniment also followed the crowd,

and when she successfully passed all the checks and entered the campus, the corners of her mouth lifted to an unbelievable angle, and the wrinkles beneath her skin emerged as her expression exaggerated.

She did not head toward the athletic field but quickly turned towards a grove at a fork, heading straight to the northwest corner of Fourth Middle School.

Zzt—Electromagnetic interference

As she approached, a nearby street lamp gradually dimmed as if affected by something.

But the electricity did not cut out, and no alarm was triggered inside the school.

The female student stood erect, and her make-up ladened skin on her face flaked off, eventually revealing the wrinkled face of a middle-aged woman.

Perhaps it was the success of entering her daughter’s school and reaching the “designated location,”

or perhaps it was the scent of long-lost youth she smelled,

she began to laugh uncontrollably, her laughter seeming to emanate from deep within her skull.

“Let mommy start the Admissions test for you.”

Hiss—

A clear crack from the center of her forehead to her lips appeared, forming a vertical [Z-axis].

Then tearing at the left and right corners of her mouth, splitting along the chin line to form [X-axis] and [Y-axis].

The “Blood Flesh Corner” was thus formed.

However, it seemed that the anomaly within the entire campus was not limited to this one…

…

Time goes back to the present,

[Girls’ Dormitory Building]

Luo Di and Li Xiaoying were descending along the ‘non-existent’ corridor.

Two dormitory managers intertwined and curled together,

the extra dormitory rooms,

the stairs descending beyond the dormitory building’s specifications,

all these signs had already indicated that the entire dormitory was impacted by the “Corner-like Space,” but it seemed somewhat different, at least on a larger scale than any Luo Di had encountered before.

Moreover, the windows inside the dorm rooms were not sealed and could be exited from; they were not trapped in any specific fixed space.

The overall dimness of the campus and the spiral looming in the sky were conveying another message to Luo Di,

but he didn’t have time to think now, finding the class representative was his top priority.

“Luo Di, I feel like we’ve gone deeper than five floors already…”

Having been in the tight, dark staircase for a long time, the seeds of Fear were taking root and sprouting in Xiao Ying’s brain.

The response she got was a sound of [Hmm] from Luo Di that seemed devoid of any emotion.

After delving about ten floors’ depth into such a staircase, the flashlight in hand finally illuminated the end of the staircase,

and the [door] at the end, a door painted with black lacquer.

“Give me your hand…”

Luo Di’s palm, rougher and coarser than the average person’s, stretched out, blocking in front of Xiao Ying as if her refusal was not an option.

“Okay.”

Just as Xiao Ying was slowly placing her hand, which was thinner and smaller than the class representative’s, onto the center of Luo Di’s palm.

A loop of white cloth also fell and quickly wrapped around their clasped hands, and this mottled white cloth even smelled kind of musty.

“Luo Di, what is this?”

“Shroud, we are in a special space, a moment of carelessness could separate us.

We’ll untie it when we face a Pseudo-Person attack or after we find our class representative.”

“Oh~ Okay!”

Though it was just a safety measure, the fear growing in Xiao Ying’s mind was inhibited by such contact.

Luo Di then displayed his true style, no longer silent and stealthy, he kicked heavily at the black wooden door, Bang!

The door swung open violently, slamming against the wall.

Basement.

Dim and damp,

in the curved corner, the class representative was bound by ropes to a steel pipe, deeply unconscious.

“Class Representative!”

Xiao Ying was very excited but didn’t rush over immediately, instead, she and Luo Di first inspected the basement.

Only after fully confirming that there were no dormitory managers or other threats in the basement did the shroud that bound their hands untie rapidly.

Just as Xiao Ying was about to move forward, Luo Di cut through the ropes with greater speed using his blade.

After confirming that the class representative’s breathing was normal and there were no apparent injuries on her body, Luo Di hoisted her onto his back.

Just then,

A noise came from the entrance of the basement,

The kicked-open wooden door was shut again by something and even reinforced with chains, completely blocking the retreat.

The thing that had been tailing the two of them had followed them in,

And was more “well-prepared” than last time.

The two dormitory managers’ bodies were twisted together in a spiral, unlike their previous crawling, now maintaining a stance with all fours as their support.

Their four arms were holding deadly tools found in the toolbox,

A hand saw, hammer, metal crowbar, and a battery-powered nail gun,

Among them, the most bizarre was the dormitory manager’s head,

The heads of two middle-aged women were almost glued together, with the older dormitory manager almost being absorbed by the other’s permed auntie-like head.

Furthermore, the auntie continuously stuck out a tongue far longer than that of a normal person, constantly curling outside her body and drooling saliva profusely.

Li Xiaoying was seeing a real Pseudo-Person for the first time, and it was a face she had been quite familiar with in the past.

Recalling how the dormitory auntie had greeted her with a smile, Xiao Ying couldn’t help trembling slightly.

At that moment,

A hand gently patted her on the shoulder, and a low voice pierced her brain like a hammer, an undeniable command: “Take good care of the class representative!”

The unconscious class representative had been laid down again in the semi-circular corner,

Luo Di pressed one hand on the right shoulder, moving his shoulder joint while walking straight towards the dormitory manager blocking the door,

The corridor leading to the dormitory stretched ten floors in length, cramped and lengthy, making it impossible to escape carrying the class representative.

The only way out was to kill the threat in front of them.

“Ah!”

Due to being previously wounded by Luo Di,

Upon seeing him again, the dormitory manager immediately let out a piercing scream, with a voice that fluctuated up and down like a vortex, filled with hatred.

The twisted body approached rapidly like a reptile,

The high-pressure nail gun aimed at Luo Di’s head in advance,

Trigger pulled!

Slim metal nails shot out from the barrel,

It wasn’t as lethal as a firearm, but a shot within five meters was enough to cause significant damage to the human body, with the potential of being fatal if struck in the head.

Ding ding ding!

A series of metallic collision sounds emitted,

One after another, metal nails fell to the ground with bent tips.

Luo Di didn’t move, merely lifting his right arm in front of him, his right arm beneath his clothing already covered with a layer of ghastly skin full of black veins.

“Zombie Hardening”

When he lowered his defensive arm,

The frenzied dormitory manager had already closed in,

Hand saw, hammer, metal crowbar attacking from three directions at the same time,

Luo Di still had no change in expression, cold and stiff as if wearing a mask, like a murderer in a movie about to judge his prey.

But Luo Di felt a tinge of confusion,

The dormitory manager twisted and combined in front of him, whether in speed, rationality or sense of oppression, didn’t quite match up to the lady named Wu Huazhen he had encountered before.

Watching his prey charge at him,

Luo Di, who was accustomed to wielding the blade with one hand, now switched to both hands,

Ignoring the attacks swinging from different directions,

Step forward and slash horizontally!

Buzz!

The dormitory manager’s twisted body had no skeletal protection,

A black line swept across horizontally,

Snap!

The body was cleaved in two, the lower half even flung out by the friction of the blade,

The hammer, hand saw, and crowbar that had hit Luo Di failed to inflict any effective damage, and now all fell to the ground.

The upper half of the dormitory manager’s body fell in front of him, still wriggling, madly waving its arms.

Luo Di, however, knelt on one knee,

The Zombie Blade in his hand changed from an overhand to an underhand grip,

Stab!

It pierced accurately and straight into the dormitory manager’s head, destroying the brain tissue and the mutated, spiral pituitary inside.

Pseudo-Person kill!

Xiao Ying was stunned behind him,

But Luo Di felt no excitement, no joy of victory.

Observing the blood spattered on the floor swirling in a spiral, he sensed only weirdness.

This didn’t feel like a mature Pseudo-Person at all, the strength was far from it.

Just as Luo Di was carefully examining the corpse in front of him, trying to touch the blood on the floor with the blade of the Zombie Blade, the unconscious class representative was already standing up in the dark Corner-like Space.