Deep in the Living
Chapter 173 - 167: Falling Asleep

Chapter 173: Chapter 167: Falling Asleep

The paid event officially begins.

The so-called "Nightfire Beach" is a high-level bonfire party arranged by the travel agency,

The strangest part of the whole process was Luo Di and his companions,

Whether it is touching the beach, touching the seawater, etc., they all need to play rock-paper-scissors first. Of course, to outsiders, this may just seem like a small team’s game.

There were other troubles as well.

Hua Yuan’s appearance and the class leader’s physique always attracted quite a bit of attention in such public places, even those males who could usually restrain themselves couldn’t at this time.

However, the hotel security responsible for beach safety was always monitoring in secret, and would immediately intervene if they saw someone causing trouble. Once they mentioned the name of Mercury Group, these people immediately backed down.

During the enjoyment of the bonfire party, Luo Di even had a moment where he forgot the purpose of coming to the island, feeling almost as if he was becoming one with his sisters.

However, that feeling was fleeting, because Luo Di also quickly realized that the sisters who seemed to be immersed in it each had their own agendas.

Sister Eye sat by the bonfire all along, hugging her knees and observing everything, finding no anomalies or dangers.

The other sisters at the beach dance occasionally had moments of change in their gaze, or looked towards a certain direction smoothly.

The joyful time passed quickly.

Everyone returned to the hotel after the bonfire party ended.

Hua Yuan walked in the middle, with an arm around each sister, "Then Mr. Di and Sister Eye can go up and rest~ we will continue to the ghost house for the night talk event. Let me experience the so-called human atmosphere of terror, la la la~ Recalling the past in the orphanage, I often listened to the Dean narrating horror stories at night, truly beautiful memories indeed."

The class leader also gave Luo Di a meaningful look, signalling him to be more vigilant about his surroundings during the time he and Sister Eye went back to their room.

The team split up.

Luo Di followed Mu Mu, who was also from Huaxia, back to the hotel,

silently all the way.

When they returned to the suite, Luo Di intended to ask whether the other party preferred sleeping downstairs or upstairs.

But Sister Eye who had just entered the door was already standing at the balcony entrance, also continuously waving quickly towards Luo Di.

This was Luo Di’s first time seeing her make such proactive gestures, so he immediately followed.

Sister Eye pointed towards the night sky, "Stars... so bright..."

Due to the high density of lighting throughout the vacation area, including street lamps and bright bonfires even in the beach area, Luo Di hadn’t paid much attention to the brightness of the stars in the night sky.

Standing on the balcony, following Sister Eye’s guide, he looked up.

The night sky was indeed very bright, it could still feel bright even with the room lights turned off, and the number of stars seemed to have increased somewhat.

Of course,

it might be the geographical issue of the overseas island, as well as the result of being at the highest part of the hotel.

The cautious Luo Di still proposed a hypothesis, "Could the night sky and stars possibly act as carriers of calamity?"

Mu Mu shook her head, "...I haven’t seen it."

"Well, if the night sky and stars really are carriers of calamity, then from tonight when we step out of the hotel we’re completely exposed, and it’s impossible to avoid,"

Suddenly, Mu Mu looked at Luo Di with her big eyes, throwing out the question she most wanted to know, "You and the real Isabella... are..."

Unable to express the words that followed, she could only awkwardly shape her slender fingers into a heart shape.

"Sort of, otherwise I wouldn’t be here."

"Thank..."

"There’s nothing to thank for."

"She really hates... this..."

Mu Mu said, pointing at her own body, "But now...she doesn’t hate...this. So...thank you."

For some reason,

Luo Di found it impossible to see the girl before him as just a product of Thought Corner, she felt to him like a real person, flesh and blood and warm like the class leader, and this also aroused additional curiosity.

"How did you come to form Thought Corner?"

Mu Mu quickly pointed to her eyes, "Congenital illness... can’t see... nobody wants... so hungry..."

Though it was just a few words, Luo Di heard the story behind them, and instinctively wanted to reach out to touch her head, but then questioningly looked at his own arm.

This was clearly not an action he was supposed to take, but something the class leader might do.

The hand about to touch was timely retracted and pocketed.

"Hmm, it’s getting late, let’s sleep. Are you sleeping upstairs or just downstairs?"

This time Sister Eye didn’t speak but pointed toward the swimming pool nearby.

It seemed that her daytime floating was testing whether the pool could serve as a [bed] to use, quiet and hydrating for her eyes, which was simply the perfect sleeping area for her.

"Fine, then I’ll head back to my room first."

As Luo Di turned to walk back into the room, he found that Sister Eye was still following him and had not gone to sleep in the pool.

"Did I misunderstand? Aren’t you going to sleep?"

Sister Eye tiptoed and poked Luo Di’s head with her finger, "Sleep... check..."

"Right, sleep as an action might also be a medium of calamity."

After a simple wash-up, Luo Di lay down on the large bed on the second floor of the suite. Eye, like a shadow, followed him and stood by the bed, bending at 90 degrees almost touching Luo Di’s body with her enormous eyes.

For most people, sleep would certainly be elusive.

As long as Luo Di didn’t feel any malice, he could fall asleep as soon as he closed his eyes.

He didn’t know for how long he had slept.

The sound of the door opening and footsteps came simultaneously, it must be the team leader and the others returning. Luo Di’s sleep was deep, with no intention of waking up, and his eyelids heavily pressed upon his eyeballs.

Strangely enough,

despite being asleep, he could hear footsteps, and he could hear them exceptionally clearly.

Judging by the light and heavy sounds of footsteps, it should be the team leader who was stepping on the suite’s floors and stairs coming up to the second floor, approaching the bed where Luo Di was asleep.

The footsteps stopped not at the other end of the bed, but on the side where Luo Di was sleeping.

A chill and damp sensation came from in front,

accompanied by a hint of color emerging in the darkness,

forcing Luo Di to slowly open his heavy eyelids.

The dawn was not yet breaking, and it was still pitch dark inside the room.

There was a person standing at the head of the bed, enshrouded in a hood, the face under the hood vaguely visible as the team leader’s, but the light and shadows on the face were oddly distorted.

Before Luo Di could react,

the team leader’s raised arm had already swung down, her nails like a guillotine blade, landing on Luo Di’s neck.

Cutting through the skin, chopping into the flesh, severing the cervical vertebra, tearing apart the blood vessels.

One slash after another,

the scene was eerily reminiscent of something he had seen in school, only this time the team leader’s cutting object was Luo Di himself.

The sheets were gradually stained red,

with the breaking of the cervical vertebra, Luo Di’s head eventually detached from his body.

Perhaps due to the incredible vitality of Spine,

or perhaps it’s because a severed head can indeed survive for a period,

Luo Di’s head, left alone on the pillow, continued to stare at the team leader in front of him,

sensing that the team leader had become bizarre, resembling something he had seen before.

However, the team leader’s actions were not yet over.

She continued to extend her soft boneless fingers, attempting to insert them into Luo Di’s eye sockets, reach into his nostrils, trying to touch the deep brain tissues.

Click!

The tongue snapped, and the vision dissolved.

Luo Di suddenly awoke with open eyes.

The day was beginning to brighten, and there was no one at the head of the bed.

Turning over, he saw Isabella, transformed from the team leader, sleeping next to him, her faint snoring sounds indicating she had just returned.

"A dream... or..."

As Luo Di recalled the incredibly realistic dream he just had, a hand slowly extended towards him, startling him.

This hand did not sever his head, but gently wrapped around his waist, also transmitting a large area of soft touch and inner warmth.

"Did you dream of anything?" the team leader’s voice came.

"You haven’t slept?"

"I can talk while I sleep."

"Dreamt of you beheading me, very realistic, felt very wrong. Finally, relying on a tongue snap interrupted the entire dream, I might be affected by the island."

"Do you feel anything wrong with your body or brain?"

"Everything’s normal."

"If you feel anything wrong with your body, let us know anytime, we sisters haven’t found any issues with this island yet."

"You sleep first... I’m going to take a shower to wake myself up."

Luo Di got up from the bed, planning to use a cold shower to clear his mind as much as possible for a new day.

The suite’s second floor also has a separate bathroom, located on the other side of the bed.

Luo Di shook his somewhat heavy head and walked over, reached out to the bathroom door lock, only to find it unexpectedly locked, and it seemed that someone was taking a shower inside.

Not waiting for long,

the door unlocked from inside, and the team leader wrapped in a bath towel walked out, "Luo Di, you’re awake? I deliberately kept my voice down to avoid waking you."

The scene in front of him left Luo Di completely stunned.

If the team leader was here taking a shower, then who was in the bed? The hugging touch and the whispering voice were definitely from a living person.

"Am I still dreaming? Is there really something wrong with [sleep]? Have I been irradiated by misfortune?"

Luo Di suddenly twisted his head, looking back at the big bed, looking at the woman lying on it with her back facing him.

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