Deep in the Living
Chapter 136 - 130 Identity

Chapter 136: Chapter 130 Identity

Luo Di is not a nocturnal animal at heart, having adhered to an early-to-bed, early-to-rise principle all his life, with practically no experience of staying up late.

This was his first foray outdoors in the early hours, a confluence of accumulated weariness, extreme excitement from combat, and a disrupted biological clock.

He was in deep sleep.

And it was the kind of dreamless sleep he hadn’t had in a long time, a completely unguarded, burden-free rest.

He didn’t know how long he had slept.

The ample sleep stimulated his brain into lucidity, prompting his fingers to rub his eyes and clear the blur from his vision.

He was no longer in the massage parlour permeated with pink light.

He was lying on a two-meter-wide king-sized bed, where a light purple duvet emitted a familiar fragrance, a body scent Luo Di had smelled before.

A cloud-shaped ceiling light hung overhead.

A pale-yellow wooden desk,

A pricey standing lamp designed for eye protection,

A transparent bookshelf filled with various books,

A solid wood wardrobe with a mirror,

And a wide-angle camera installed in the top corner,

This was a bedroom, a high school girl’s bedroom.

The duvet covering him was gently tugged, prompting Luo Di to look to his side.

This scene seemed familiar, as if from a dream.

The mounded duvet took a human form, and a stretch of white shoulder peeked out from it, while silky black hair partially obscured the curves of the back.

Luo Di instinctively reached out, but his fingers, just before touching the shoulder, retreated, and he turned and got out of the bed as silently as possible.

The sunlight coming through the window fell on him, highlighting his abs and the scars from combat on his abdomen, wearing only boxer shorts.

Unable to find clothes, his gaze naturally fell on the room’s single wardrobe.

Indeed,

His clothes were neatly stacked inside, not the leather outfit from last night at Underground Eden, but his casual wear, even the box for the investigator uniform was kept in the wardrobe.

Using the wardrobe mirror, he looked behind him at the unchanged sleeping figure on the bed.

Then,

Just as Luo Di was putting on a gray knitted sweater, the scene reflected in the mirror shifted.

The class president was now looking his way, smiling broadly.

It was no longer Isabella’s disguise, but the familiar high school-era look of Wu Wen, complete with her characteristic class president smile.

"Luo Di, can you guess where this is?"

"It should be what used to be your home in Jupiter City, but essentially, it’s a corner-like space linked to the nursing home."

"How did you figure it out?"

"It’s clearly a high school student’s bedroom, the mirror integrated in the wardrobe and the camera installed in the corner match your previous description exactly.

The sunlight streaming through the window is strong, but the warmth it casts on me lacks the intensity of real sunlight, so it must be fabricated."

"Hehe~ Isabella was indeed the best choice, I never imagined we would be so compatible, allowing the nursing home space to be completely inherited through the mother’s gestation.

Due to the malleability of the corner-like space, I’ve transformed the nursing home into my own home.

We can rest here anytime."

She slid her long, white legs skilled in running from under the duvet and stepped barefoot on the wooden floor, clad in a thin summer sleeping gown bearing a bunny pattern.

She stood by the window stretching her limbs as far as possible,

The intense sunlight highlighted nearly perfect body contours beneath her nightgown,

"Change your clothes, I’ll wait for you outside."

Luo Di, carrying the suitcase containing his investigator uniform, was ready to leave the current bedroom,

Click!

But he paused as he pushed the door open, seeing the same bedroom outside, with the class president still at the window.

It was as if the space had symmetrically duplicated itself around the door as the central axis.

"This is a completely sealed space, let’s leave together after I change," she said.

The class president walked towards the wardrobe, her sleeping gown naturally slipping off her.

She didn’t rush to open the wardrobe but admired her own body in the mirror instead.

There was no disgust or aversion like before; instead, she seemed to have accepted the body known as Wu Wen to a certain extent, her thoughts undergoing a peculiar transformation.

Of course,

Luo Di maintained his decorum, facing the wall and waiting quietly.

"Luo Di, do you want to see?

This innate ability of mine, affirmed and magnified by the corner, admired by the Sisterhood, the ability known as ’Disguise.’

On the night of the admissions I showed you a part of it, but not in full."

The class president, having already shed her nightgown and now bare, continued to perform the same stripping action, her nails digging deeply into her skin.

Swipe!

The skin on her upper body was peeled off like removing clothing, without a single drop of blood, as if her skin had fundamentally transformed, no longer like bodily tissue but like a garment of disguise.

He then peeled off the skin of his lower half just like he would casually take off his pants.

The bloody semi-transparent body that was revealed displayed clearly patterned blood vessels akin to marble textures; one could even observe each organ’s existence and the heart vigorously pumping.

Luo Di first smelled a familiar scent, then saw the skin on the ground before slowly turning his head around.

This was indeed the class leader’s true form, which he had seen before, so he was not surprised.

But the class leader, feeling his gaze, grew slightly excited,

Her hands began gliding over the body surface, pressing and pulling at corresponding spots, orchestrating changes in the body’s shape.

By pulling on the spine and leg bones, she increased her height to 1.8 meters.

Then by gently patting the thighs, she made the legs fleshier and appropriately massaged them into shape.

Her fingers then moved up the body, gently tugging at areas of the upper body that needed to gain mass.

Finally gliding up to the neck, she reshaped the facial features, plumping the lips, broadening the nose, even inserting her nails into the eyeballs to inject certain pigments to change the eye color.

As for the hair, a light twist was all it took to turn it into curly hair.

All was done in less than five minutes.

With a deep breath from the class leader,

The flesh between patches of Caucasian skin tissue emerged, rapidly spreading to cover her entire body.

Thus, the transformation from Wu Wen to Isabella was completed.

"How about that? Impressive, right?"

"The change in appearance could probably be done quicker, the truly impressive part is that you can perfectly disguise even the demeanor, temperament, and even the breath of the other person... Hurry up and dress, let’s go."

"Don’t rush, I have something nice to give you."

The class leader nonchalantly approached the desk, where a document folder had appeared at some unknown time.

Luo Di quickly guessed what it was and hurriedly sat down.

"You’re really lucky, managing to pick out a treasure from a pile of junk. This document, I managed to procure from the Fighting Hall last night for you, it might help you understand this Pig Slaughter Knife better."

He opened the document folder, hastily perusing the information.

He found out that the pituitary merged with the Pig Slaughter Knife also came from a Pseudo-Person from the Fighting Hall.

Named Zhu Bo,

He was a severe Pseudo-Person once detained at First Hospital, capable of becoming the Fear Embodiment known as ’Pig Head Butcher’, and due to his unique shape and high flesh density, he was sent to the Fighting Hall.

In one and a half years, he secured thirteen victories.

Zhu Bo completely matured through this process, earning the qualifications to participate in investigations at the ’Seams’, leading the Investigation Bureau to decide to remove his pituitary.

However,

When investigators found Zhu Bo deeply inside the Fighting Hall, it seemed he had already sensed their presence and guessed his fate.

He decapitated himself with the Pig Slaughter Knife in advance.

Suicide, nearly unheard of among Pseudo-People, was completely unexpected by the investigators.

Yet, this act allowed for a perfect Fusion into an ’unstable prop’ with the Pig Slaughter Knife, very unstable, seemingly incorporating Zhu Bo’s strong obsessions and emotions just before he killed himself.

It was assessed as an indivisible fusion.

This Pig Slaughter Knife was initially sent to the Investigation Bureau, but no investigators were skilled in such weapons, and the knife itself had far worse side effects than other props, leading several to give up.

It was later sent to Eden as an ’unstable prop’, not until two years later was it taken by Luo Di.

...

Luo Di was very interested in the so-called Pig Head Butcher, nodding continuously in satisfaction.

"No wonder it’s so hard to control... I have a feeling that to fully harness this knife, I’d probably have to find this guy’s body."

The class leader replied, "Since it’s handled by investigators, and it’s a mature and flesh-related Pseudo-Person, his body has likely been kept at the City Research Bureau."

"I can find out using an investigator’s authority, but..."

As Luo Di flashed his ring and fell into thought,

"Even if my disguise is perfect, last night adopting the persona of [Mr. D] to take such a special Pig Slaughter Knife, and now inquiring about Zhu Bo’s information under my own identity.

The Investigation Bureau will be able to link me with Mr. D as the same person soon enough.

Even when I chose this special Pig Slaughter Knife, the Investigation Bureau’s spies must have already spread over, it’s only a matter of time before my identity is exposed.

Once my identity is widely known in the Underground region, the Sisterhood will certainly find out, right?"

But the class leader replied nonchalantly,

"If the entire Investigation Bureau knows you are Mr. D, so will the Sisterhood, and I’ll be implicated too, and the murder of Isabella will be exposed.

But..."

Dragging her words and cocking her head toward Luo Di, she continued:

"If only a very few at the top of the Investigation Bureau know about this, know that you intentionally posed as Mr. D to secretly make contact with the Sisterhood, then the whole thing becomes simpler.

They might even actively help you disguise your identity, and even complete Mr. D’s profile in advance.

By then, even if the Sisterhood tries to probe your identity, they’ll only unearth a murderer’s profile that the Investigation Bureau has prepared in advance for you.

I believe the high echelons of the Investigation Bureau will definitely support you, support your investigation of the Sisterhood.

Especially since you just recently killed a core member of the Sisterhood—[Isabella]."

With that, the class leader got up from the desk and walked towards the bedroom door.

Closed the door, then reopened it.

This action completely changed the situation outside the door, turning it into a deserted alley and conveniently situated in a blind spot of the camera.

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