Deep in the Living
Chapter 185 - 179: Invasion

Chapter 185: Chapter 179: Invasion

Hua Yuan’s abilities are closely related to [Thought],

whether it’s leaving a lasting impression in someone else’s memory, creating love and yearning, or crafting formidable invader Spiritual Bodies for combat, all involve the ultimate application of the mind.

To some extent, she can achieve ’Mind Reading’.

Not to mention Mr. Di, with whom she has spent a long time and had multiple physical contacts.

In Hua Yuan’s perception,

Mr. Di is an exceptionally unique human; among hundreds of thousands or even millions of humans, there would be only one such unique Murderer. His proficiency with the pig’s head or the implanted Seed Demon reached the pinnacle.

The labels she attached to Mr. Di were:

’Innate Killer’, ’Pituitary Adaptation’, ’High-Quality Male’

However,

Now that she was rescued by Luo Di at a critical moment and was sprinting through the forest,

feeling the dry heat waves continuously emanating from his body and smelling the pungent sulfur-like odor, the Mr. Di she had discerned had completely changed.

Hua Yuan also found it odd how he could disguise himself to such a degree that even her psychic search was fooled—something even Pseudo-Persons might not be able to achieve.

It was as if there was a layer of ’Disguise Film’ within Luo Di’s body.

Now, as Luo Di voluntarily exposed his disguised nature, Hua Yuan’s definition of him underwent a related change, necessitating a new label to be placed in the foremost position.

’Hell Demon’

When Hua Yuan was living in the orphanage as a child, she watched a movie related to Hell (horror literature education for toddlers in United Nations starts at the age of three).

The young her was terrified by the image of the demon in the movie, and although the demon looked very different from Luo Di now, their eyes were exactly the same.

Black eye membranes,

with only a tiny white dot in the center as the pupil.

Moreover, the Hell depicted in the movie also featured high temperatures and the pungent smell of sulfur.

"You!"

"Hua Yuan, first find a way to survive or completely escape before explaining my questions. I’ll try to run quickly for a while to see if I can shake this guy off.

If we can’t get rid of him, we’ll join forces to kill him.

Stay on my back for now and check the injury. If it doesn’t affect your combat, then think about how to kill this thing."

Luo Di’s tone of speech underwent a change, seemingly taking a dominant role between them.

Although Hua Yuan didn’t like being spoken to in a commanding tone, these words also contained concern for her, which made her rather uncomfortable.

"Just a severed arm, it’s not a big deal.

Plus, carrying me on your back would affect your speed, right? I used to get myself torn to pieces pretty often, it’s not a big deal, let me down."

Against Hua Yuan’s request, Luo Di made no move to let her down.

"That black color on the wound isn’t something that can be simply removed.

I can feel something like the stench of death lingering on you, let’s handle it first~ And besides, you can also help me watch from behind, to see if that thing has caught up."

Indeed, as Luo Di said, her arm’s injury location continued to give off a stinging pain, unlike any injury she had received before.

Regeneration was something Hua Yuan could easily achieve,

but now, not only was the wound not healing, it was festering and turning black, with a dark color on the surface.

If not handled properly, the dark color could spread throughout her body. Left with no other choice, she took out a syringe. It was indeed the syringe from Isabella’s nursing home, filled with a fluid that opposed aging.

Injected into her shoulder.

The medicinal effect was quickly depleted, and the necrotic tissue at the break of her arm also completely fell off, leaving a normal scar.

Looking at the black luster neutralized by the medicine, Hua Yuan was slightly startled.

"Isabella’s injections are really effective; had I known, I would’ve asked her for a few more... Can’t get chopped again after this, if I get hit in a vital area, I might really die."

Hua Yuan cast her gaze behind her, and there was no chasing figure in the pitch-black woods, no footsteps other than the sound of Luo Di’s running.

"It seems that thing has not..."

Ha ha ha he~

A laugh that seemed to creep out from the throat of the dead abruptly interrupted Hua Yuan’s speech.

The voice actually came from directly ahead, and that pitch-black figure also stepped out from behind a tree trunk more than twenty meters away.

Watching the two of them running towards it with eyes filled with silver coins.

"Space teleportation? How did he do it?"

As Hua Yuan was shocked by the opponent’s method of movement, Luo Di had already reacted in the first instance.

Click!

Luo Di’s tongue snapped crisply, taking action before the other could strike a blow.

"Torture Device Construction"

A scorching chain with a pig’s head attribute was forcefully swung out from the palm of a hand — not as an attack, but to drive the hook deep into the thick trunk of a tree several meters away.

With a forceful pull!

Taking advantage of the force generated by the chain’s pull, the direction of the run was changed, turning 90°.

The whole process was more fluid than forcefully changing direction using just legs, and there was little loss in speed.

The special dead, just having drawn out its black knife, was forced to put it back and tilted its head to look towards the strange living being, with a protruding spine still carrying a young lady.

It didn’t chase after,

Instead, it walked at a normal pace to the nearby "coffin" and leisurely lay down inside.

The lid of the coffin closed, and darkness spread.

When he rose from the coffin again, he appeared right on the escape route of the others.

As he saw fresh living beings approaching, his body emitted a weird laugh of the dead on its own.

Ha ha he~

Of course,

The living changed direction once again after hearing the sound, quickly slipping away.

The special dead seemed quite patient, heading back to the same coffin again. It seemed to have determined that the others could not leave the forest, and that such a chase would inevitably exhaust the living first.

...

"The dead can teleport to any coffin within the forest as "anchors" and precisely target our location; it might be one with this pitch-dark forest.

No matter how we run, we can’t escape, only meaninglessly deplete our energy.

We can only choose to confront it head-on. Hua Yuan, do you have any suggestions?"

"This is also my first encounter with such a corpse; I only know it’s associated with death and darkness.

Its attack range can be extended by darkness, and once hit, limbs can be severed almost instantly. Additionally, it can block regeneration and seep death into the wounds.

As long as we don’t get cut, everything else is manageable.

With my current frail body, perfectly avoiding it is almost impossible, so I’ll need to change my physical state a little. Mr. Di, please don’t be frightened or hold any bad opinions of me.

Men who have seen me in such a state have all been killed afterward, to prevent my unfavorable image from spreading."

As soon as she finished speaking,

Luo Di felt Hua Yuan on his back grow heavier and heavier, from an initial body weight of less than 90 pounds, she slowly grew to 140 pounds.

Not only that,

Since he was carrying her, their bodies were completely pressed together, making the body contact very noticeable.

Initially, there was only a soft sensation protruding around the shoulder blades,

Now a protrusion at the coccyx has been added, contrasting with the softness, it feels much harder, becoming more pronounced as time goes on.

Such a sensation made Luo Di very uncomfortable.

They happened to arrive at a forest clearing devoid of coffins, Luo Di no longer ran but quickly set down Hua Yuan from his back.

When he looked at Hua Yuan again, Luo Di was startled.

Hua Yuan had grown from her original height of about 1.6 meters to around 1.75 meters.

No longer that weak-looking female body, but having quite obvious muscle outlines, similar in some ways to the physique of a high school sports team captain, notably stronger in the torso and limbs.

Her face and hairstyle hadn’t changed much,

but on top of her original beauty, there was an added aggressiveness. The gaze from her blood-red eyes was no longer flirtatious, but more like a visual invasion.

Even Hua Yuan’s clothing had slightly changed.

From a girl’s school uniform to a boy’s, the uniform remained the same, but the skirt had turned into tight-fitting trousers.

There was a noticeable bulge below the waistband, which was the very abnormality Luo Di had felt.

It wasn’t just an unusual sensation to the touch, but a direct feeling of being invaded, which was why Luo Di was so eager to drop her off.

The alien spiritual body that had enveloped Hua Yuan was now nowhere to be seen, or rather, it had merged into her body.

Hua Yuan’s face bore an extremely diabolical expression, as she twisted her shoulder joints and cervical spine, warming up in a peculiar manner.

The missing right arm was filled by an invisible spiritual body.

"I rarely show myself in such a manner, Mr. Di, after this you must completely forget, lest it tarnish the beautiful image I have in your brain.

As you can see,

The concretization of the invader is no longer a projection of the spiritual body, but is presented physically through a match on the mental level... This is the most aggressive posture I can express.

Let’s go invade that corpse together!"