Deep in the Living
Chapter 137 - 131: Corpse, Pig’s Head, and Demon

Chapter 137: Chapter 131: Corpse, Pig’s Head, and Demon

[Mingwang City. Research Bureau]

Due to the fact that all major psychiatric hospitals in the country are built in this coastal city, the corresponding scope of the City Research Bureau is equally huge, and every psychiatric hospital has its own branch of the Research Bureau, especially in charge of patient case records for severe cases.

On the surface, the initial Pseudo-Persons housed in the severe cases area of psychiatric hospitals receive six months of treatment and are then sent to the Research Bureau for further research.

In reality, after Luo Di went to the Underground Eden, he discovered that this matter was far from being as straightforward as it appeared, and within Mingwang City, there should be a complete "Pseudo-Person digestion chain."

Luo Di arrived at the headquarters of the City Research Bureau.

A futuristic-styled building, primarily pure white and arc-shaped, is located right next to the City Investigation Bureau to provide immediate assistance in case of any internal issues.

Luo Di’s hands held a document stamped with an official seal, clearly stating one thing - "Retrieving Zhu Bo’s corpse."

Zhu Bo’s corpse had already been stored here for three years and nine months, retaining high research value although recent research on this body had diminished, however, there was still one project following up on it.

The project director immediately recognized the document in Luo Di’s hand as coming from the top authorities, perhaps even representing the intentions of the heads of both bureaus, and though reluctant, had no choice but to hand over the items

Taking an indoor maglev train to the "Pseudo-Person Corpse Storage Room," rather than calling it a morgue, it is more like a fully sealed museum.

Valuable and noteworthy Pseudo-Persons’ bodies are preserved here.

Even though all these corpses had their pituitary removed, they still pose potential risks. Each corpse has different storage methods and strict access requirements.

Zhu Bo’s body, however, is stored in a huge freezer over five meters tall.

Before opening the freezer, the manager routinely introduces the dangers.

"Even though deprived of the pituitary, his body still retains basic vital functions, capable of not only ingesting but also performing dangerous gnawing behaviors.

If the storage temperature exceeds -27.4°C, the body will indifferently gnaw at organic materials within a two-meter radius, prioritizing humans.

To ensure the body’s vitality, we have maintained weekly feeding of over 200kg, primarily meat.

Currently, the freezer temperature is at -40°C, and the body is in a dormant state."

"Let’s open it and see."

Luo Di had already smelled a similar scent; his fingertips resting by the seams of his trousers began to twitch lightly.

The director unlocked it using a series of complex passwords.

Hiss~ A large amount of cold air diffused outward as the cabinet opened.

A huge, no-longer-humanoid, and terrifying creature filled with savage fear was revealed.

Zhu Bo’s true form far exceeded Luo Di’s imagination; he’d thought the other might be like the pig butcher from movies, but what he saw was a purely pig-headed variant.

It roughly still possessed a head, torso, and limbs.

However, there was an additional section to this body’s torso, between the navel and the lower body, a circle of greasy, dangerous, and proliferative parts.

[Pig Head Belly]

Many fierce-looking, fanged pig heads were embedded below the navel, above the legs.

Forming a unique "pig head belly," wrapping around entirely, making it appear tremendously bloated.

Not only was the belly composed of pig heads,

The creature’s back was also covered in pig heads, not wrapped around like the abdomen but neatly arranged across the back like niches.

Zhu Bo’s arms and legs were filled with fatty tissues, thick and bloated.

The palms and soles also featured mouth-like openings with pig tongues sticking out from them.

Even though the whole body was covered in numerous pig heads and pig-head-like structures,

Luo Di’s gaze was drawn to the real pig head located at the very top, on the greasy neck.

Huge, insane, packed with fangs, still showing ferocity even in death.

Stitch marks were evident on both sides of the pig’s head’s mouth, scars left when he committed suicide.

"This body weighs over a ton, Mr. Luo, how do you plan to take it away?"

Luo Di seemed to have no intention of taking away the body but instead posed another question: "From now on, does this body entirely belong to me?"

"Yes, according to this document, all rights to the body have been transferred to your personal ownership."

"Could you then do me a favor? I need to borrow some space here to perform initial processing on this body before taking it away.

Furthermore, I request that the processing be completely confidential, no recording by any devices whatsoever."

"This..."

Considering Luo Di’s unique status, the manager nodded in agreement, "We have a completely enclosed corpse processing room with no cameras right next to here, how long will you approximately need?"

"I’ll inform you when it’s done."

[Corpse Processing Room]

Cold white lights embedded in every seam of the bricks.

One man, one freezer entered within.

The hydraulic structured door was already sealed, with nobody aware of what was happening inside.

The freezer had been turned off, and the temperature was gradually rising.

Snap!

Luo Di threw his backpack on the ground, pulling out the Pig Slaughter Knife wrapped in a shroud.

In the process of unraveling the shroud,

Waves of pork stench emanated from the blade’s surface, soaking into the frozen body in between. Even though still in a frozen state, the body already started responding, all the pig heads on the body began to struggle to open their mouths.

Luo Di once again gripped the handle of the knife, establishing a communicative connection with the internal pituitary.

"Your corpse has been found, and we have a Fighting Match here as agreed. If I win, from now on you’ll obediently become my Pig Slaughter Knife and follow me."

Humph Humph!!

Series of pig squeals came through,

To others, these pig squeals were incomprehensible, but as the knife-holder, Luo Di understood their meaning.

"Throw the knife in..."

Without hesitation,

He threw the Pig Slaughter Knife; its sharp blade perfectly plunging into the belly region of the corpse.

Instantly, the temperature on the freezer display began to rapidly rise, soon breaking past zero degrees.

And that wasn’t all.

Crack, crack~

The belly of the corpse, where it was chopped by the Pig Slaughter Knife, began to split open, cracking vertically like a huge mouth running through the body, completely swallowing the Pig Slaughter Knife.

The temperature in the freezer also reached the normal human body temperature of 37℃.

Accompanied by the deafening pig squeals, the alloy structure of the freezer was deformed by compression, and heavy breathing reverberated through the secret room.

A nearly four-meter-tall monster, nearly three meters wide as well, appeared before them.

Nearly twenty pig heads all over its body were grunting, as if celebrating a rebirth.

This sense of oppression was far beyond what the werewolves in the Fighting Hall could compare to.

The central monitoring room of the City Research Bureau.

Although the surveillance of the Corpse Processing Room was turned off, they could still capture the anomaly values inside, which had already exceeded the limit and were flashing red.

This was an alarm of Pseudo-Person activity.

Even though the documents Luo Di brought were personally approved by the bureau chief, they could only wait for five minutes at most.

...

Corpse Processing Room

Zhu Bo, through some special regeneration ability, unexpectedly used the Pig Slaughter Knife as a core and combined it into his brain, achieving a sort of peculiar revival.

Above his neck, the huge pig head had already awakened,

Blades grew out along the central line of the face,

Only the eyes on both sides looked intelligent, seeming that such revival also brought some damage to the brain, causing some intellectual issues.

However, reviving through the corpse even after the pituitary had been removed for years also sufficiently demonstrated the pig’s uniqueness, which Luo Di was quite satisfied with.

Snap!

Greasy palms forcefully slapped on the belly, fat ripples spreading across its surface.

"Humph humph~ Little Bo watched your match, you did really well.

But I didn’t expect your brain to be even stupider than my pig’s brain, humph humph!

Knowing full well that Little Bo is dangerous, knowing that Little Bo is far more formidable than the useless werewolf you killed, yet still choosing to bring the Pig Slaughter Knife and wanting to fight with Little Bo.

To repay you for finding the body, Little Bo won’t subject you to a slow slaughter, I will let you die as fast as possible.

Humph humph~ Little Bo’s head is uncomfortable, Little Bo is a bit hungry, Little Bo is going to make a move."

In Zhu Bo’s not-so-smart brain, Luo Di’s strength had been assessed, probably about the level of three consecutive victories. Yet he was a formidable contestant who had claimed more than a dozen victories, easily capable of killing the opponent.

Although he was indeed grateful to Luo Di, eating seemed to be more important.

All over the body, pig heads began frantically secreting saliva, urging Zhu Bo to move his elephant-like thick legs forward.

Due to just being thawed, his movements were clearly stiff and slow.

Just as Zhu Bo took a step forward,

Crack!

A metallic sound came from beneath his foot.

Looking down, a pig’s foot was caught in a suitably-sized animal trap; the spikes had completely penetrated the flesh, and strands of iron wire were entwined around his entire leg.

Zhu Bo first felt a burst of intense heat, a heat capable of dispelling all the chill inside him.

This was followed by intense pain, received by the brain along with the heat.

"Little Bo hurts so much!!"

All the pig heads on the body started to scream in agony at the same time, the pig tongues stretched out in pain.

Snap!

The next moment,

Zhu Bo felt his neck being tightly grasped by something, a colossal force beyond imagination pushing him back, his tonnage body completely flattened to the ground.

Following that, twisted iron wires wrapped around his grasped neck, piercing the skin and spreading to the entire pig head, ready to penetrate the brain tissue at any moment.

Huff... Ah...

Dry and hot breath carrying ashes was blown in Zhu Bo’s face, forcing his gaze forward, towards the youth pressing down on him.

This was not Mr. D from the Fighting Hall,

But a pure Hell Demon,

Black pupils stared closely at Zhu Bo’s eyes, a gaze from hell seemingly about to drag him into the scorching furnace for crispy skin roasting.

"Big brother, I was wrong! Don’t kill me!"