Deep in the Living
Chapter 145 - 139: Unstable Projection

Chapter 145: Chapter 139: Unstable Projection

[Underground Eden]

Due to many high-risk facilities such as the Fighting Hall,

there are seven areas where life is literally on the line, and injuries occur frequently.

Therefore, this underground area is equipped with a medical department on par with the top medical facilities in Mingwang City, with some doctors even directly transferred from Melli University Affiliated Comprehensive Hospital.

The owner of the Fighting Hall had contacted the medical department before the end of the match, arranging for top-tier personnel to be on standby at the scene. After the match ended, Luo Di was immediately taken for top-level surgery.

The most severe injury was the skull damage, including a lateral penetration and a perforation at the top.

Even the operating surgeon felt uncomfortable looking at it; such a skull trauma could easily have been deeper or slightly off, damaging the brain and resulting in immediate death.

It’s hard to imagine what kind of maniac would fight to such an extent.

Due to the existence of the Sisterhood, Luo Di temporarily could not use the Hell’s Spine to aid his recovery and had to undergo surgery with a normal human body.

The Skull Repair Surgery took a full four hours.

Due to the special nature of the underground city, Luo Di maintained his mask during surgery to keep his identity a mystery, as strictly required by Isabella.

As for that pig-headed figure, it did not take advantage of the vulnerability but rather honestly peeled itself away.

Once the surgery was confirmed successful and Mr. D’s condition stable, the owner finally left at ease.

Back in his office, the owner immediately sent the footage of tonight’s match to the City Investigation Bureau and the personnel department at Mercury Group, believing such a talent deserved focused cultivation.

Mr. D’s future will be boundless; once he gets the right pituitary and absorbs it to activate the [System], he could surpass 90% of the investigators, even potentially going to the Capital City.

Oddly enough,

neither the Investigation Bureau nor Mercury Group were excited by the footage and indicated that they would handle it as a ’normal recruitment’ process.

...

In the hospital room.

Luo Di, who was injected with general anesthesia, was still unconscious.

The three sisters were gathered around the hospital bed.

Technically, the assessment of Luo Di had already ended. He reached the ’Preparatory Partner’ level and confirmed his identity as a [Human].

After all, he did not show any extra abilities at this life-and-death juncture.

He neither absorbed a pituitary nor was he a World Connector, and the identity the Sisterhood found from other sources was also completely fine.

But there was still one thing left.

That was to conduct a detailed examination of Luo Di, not with equipment, but directly through physical touch examination.

Originally, this task was to be handled by Shea, who would share the examination report with her sisters through their mental connection, preparing for heading to the gathering.

With the arrival of Eye Sister, this tactile examination was switched to a more thorough visual scan.

In front of the hospital bed,

Eye Sister was almost bending 90 degrees, her black hair hanging on Luo Di as she conducted a careful scan with her single front-facing eye over nearly every area of the body.

The related inspection report was also gradually generated in her mind.

The monitor stood at the back, quietly waiting for this examination to end. The arrival of Eye Sister was completely unexpected, but her expression hidden under the rubber clothes was unusually relaxed, lacking the tension she had while watching the match in the private room previously, as if she had already confirmed something very important.

Finally,

Eye Sister’s eye scanned across the mask,

getting detailed information about Mr. D’s facial features.

However, this facial information did not match Luo Di at all, presenting a young face with scratch marks on the right side, looking fierce and daunting, unmistakably distinct.

At the end of the examination, Eye Sister straightened her back and made an OK gesture.

Shea gently placed her arm on the monitor’s shoulder, "You really did find a partner in the last moment, bring him over to the gathering next week, the other sisters might want to see him too."

"Okay, see you in a week."

"Aye, let’s go."

As the two left the hospital room, an eyeball emerged between the back of Eye Sister’s head, blinking twice at the monitor to signal goodbye.

After ensuring the two sisters had completely left the hospital,

The monitor hurriedly took off the full-body rubber clothes, releasing the pent-up heat immediately; the sweat absorption capacity of the rubber clothes had long been saturated.

She changed into a loose, breathable hospital uniform, moved the chair next to the bed, and leaned against the head of the bed.

Her palm gently touched Luo Di’s forehead,

injecting streams of vitality purified from the nursing home, just like last time. Due to Luo Di’s superior constitution, he required more nutrients than a normal person.

During this process, the monitor grew increasingly tired and slowly fell asleep.

...

Luo Di.

The fighting had provided a significant amount of nutrition to the spine, bringing the saturation level to 50%.

The saturation level reached half.

Perhaps due to the injection of general anesthesia, the drug acted on the brain.

Under the combined effect of the spinal nerves and the dormant brain, Luo Di’s consciousness was projected into a distant huge world—a world filled with sweltering heat and dryness—in an unstable state.

The environment he was currently in had the following three characteristics:

1. "Red Earth Plain"

The soil itself was not red but was soaked with blood.

2. "Scattered Corpses"

These were not human corpses but rather humanoid beings of varying sizes, most of whom were over three meters tall.

They were clothed, clinging, and growing Hell Armor similar to knight armor, wild in style and full of strife.

They all shared one common feature— a protruding and highly visible spine structure on their back, varied in style but lifeless.

They looked so powerful, yet they were all dead now.

3. "Obscured Sky"

The sky was obscured by some dark specks, with darkness enveloping the earth.

Due to the unstable nature of the consciousness projection, Luo Di seemed to have not fully come through, far from the stability he had when going to the Punishment Room.

The images Luo Di saw were intermittent, and all he heard was noise.

He looked down at himself and was surprised to see that he was also wearing blood-red armor, with rotting skulls hanging around his waist that he couldn’t clearly make out, and tightly holding a chainsaw-like long-handled weapon in his hand.

[War]

Luo Di roughly figured out the current situation; he was in the middle of a battlefield.

When he realized this, large groups of fully armed Spine beings passed by him, even including giants over ten meters tall, continuously banging their scalp-sewn huge war drums with their hammer-shaped arms, boosting morale.

Strangely enough,

Luo Di only saw the Spine beings but couldn’t see where the enemies were.

Suddenly, he thought of something and abruptly looked up.

The dark specks obscuring the sky were not dust but some kind of creature.

They were flies smelling bugs with black wings, carrying bloated bodies and constantly oozing pus.

They grew twisted soft limbs similar to intestines from the extremely rotten parts of their bodies, wielding a type of living long gun capable of firing plagues.

The ammo of the guns was connected inside their bodies,

with bullets carrying live fly eggs shooting downward.

Luo Di instinctively raised his hand to block,

The bullets struck on the armor were deflected, either bursting or falling on the red earth to eventually hatch larvae.

However, the bullets that penetrated the gaps in the armor and fell on his body surface immediately burrowed in.

At that moment, Luo Di only felt countless flies breeding within him, crazily drilling out from his eyes, nose, and mouth, and he could even hear them chewing on organs and sucking on his brain.

Death!

Buzz!

Luo Di woke up with nausea and a heavy brain.

No longer before him was the blood-red battlefield but a cold hospital room and Isabella, who was sleeping beside him.

Seeing Isabella sleeping soundly, Luo Di did not wake her up.

As it was uncertain whether his sisters were still monitoring, he did not use the power of his spine to expedite his recovery, just quietly lying down, reminiscing about the previous vague and unstable Hell Projection.

"That is... the situation of the Spine forces as Mr. Hook mentioned? Some kind of war? It seems I was projected into the body of a certain soldier.

What are those rotten living flies anyway?"

Luo Di was not frightened by the death of rotting and breeding worms, but he was looking forward to the fullness of the spine, longing for his consciousness to be perfectly projected there

to understand the so-called Spine beings,

to clarify his own growth path and the hierarchy of Hell,

to participate in this abnormal war and slaughter,

Luo Di firmly believed that such war and slaughter would further grow his spine, further refine the image of the Murderer,

and enable him to more rapidly possess the true strength to explore and even confront the Corner.