Deep in the Living
Chapter 258 - 247: The Gift

Chapter 258: Chapter 247: The Gift

[Supervisory Group]

Luo Di had never heard of such an organization, and it hadn’t been mentioned when he reported at the Investigation Bureau Headquarters before. However, judging from their style and investigation-like attire, they seemed legitimate.

Moreover, he remembered encountering similar personnel when visiting Wendy at Border City Prison.

They all shared similar characteristics:

"Taller than the average person," "silver suits like those of investigators," "oppressive presence," "strong pituitary scent."

Especially the last point.

These so-called supervisors, apart from acquiring the Corner system through brain marrow injections, must have also installed Seed Demons in various parts of their body, carrying more than two Cornered Tools.

Even Mingwang City, rich in pituitary glands, wouldn’t be so extravagant.

Moreover, Wendy never mentioned the [Supervisory Group] in her information.

All her intelligence pointed towards the orphanage and the Venerable behind it... Though suspicious, Luo Di currently had no time to interact deeply with these people; he needed to hurry and find Wendy, to verify the situation with her.

Additionally, at least ten Murderers were actively pursuing Wendy.

Securing the business card of the Supervisory Group, Luo Di hailed a taxi and quickly left the area.

According to the color positioning, Wendy was no longer moving, her location being in a recently relocated rental house.

Strangely,

the closer Luo Di got, the weaker the color connection he had established with Wendy became.

There were three possibilities:

1. Wendy was trapped in a Corner-like Space with special shielding effects, cut off from external contact.

2. Wendy was using some method to eliminate the color embedded between the brains.

3. Wendy was dying.

As the taxi approached the street where the complex was located, Luo Di himself opened the car door and rushed out, his burst of speed surpassing that of the taxi itself, heading straight for the newly rented villa area.

The occupancy rate here was very low, quiet and clean.

But this time, before even entering the complex, Luo Di smelled a strong scent of blood. The security guard who should have been working here was nowhere to be seen.

Luo Di subconsciously touched the pig head, holding the Pig Slaughter Knife in his hand.

Standing in front of the first-floor rental house.

Not only were the doors and windows damaged, but there was also a large amount of blood scattered around, and a headless corpse lay at the front door, used as a doormat.

Its head seemed as if it had been blown open, with balloon fragments scattered around.

Luo Di kicked the corpse at the door aside and kicked open the already damaged door.

The thick scent of blood was even thick enough to form phlegm in the throat.

Many corpses lay scattered inside the house, their heads either blown up or their pituitaries cut out with a blade.

The entire house was also filled with balloons hanging with nooses, but they did not attack Luo Di.

"Is it over? Did Wendy alone counter-murder all the pursuers... Why choose to rent a house deliberately instead of somewhere else?

An open space would suit her combat style better, wouldn’t it?"

Luo Di activated his color sensing again.

A shade of gray drew his eyes towards the entrance to the basement, which was the only place where Wendy was allowed to move about in the rental house.

Creak~ He pushed open the wooden door to the basement.

Wham! A corpse fell heavily down, giving a sense of a jump scare.

Compared to the messy interior of the rental house, the basement was instead clean, with only the headless corpse at the door meant to startle visitors.

With the faint light illuminating the space below.

In the center of the basement was a square table with an unfolded [Gift Box] placed on top, which had no gift inside yet.

Additionally, two stools were positioned at the front and back of the square table.

There was no sign of Wendy yet, but flushing sounds and a faint humming from the bathroom could be heard.

The falling of the corpse caused by Luo Di opening the basement door let Wendy in the bathroom know he had arrived.

Her voice followed:

"Master, wait for a moment... I’ll be ready soon."

As Luo Di puzzledly stepped down the stairs, the bathroom door opened.

Wendy had just finished her makeup and came out.

Her body bore severe cuts, her bones exposed, some even shattered beyond repair.

The most severe injury was her horizontally cut mouth, almost splitting her skull in two, currently temporarily glued together to keep up appearances.

Wendy’s brain was damaged, and her pituitary was injured, which was why the gray sensing had weakened.

Even so.

She had finished applying makeup, a typical lady’s makeup.

Lipstick, foundation, eyelashes... making her look as good as possible.

She had just used the toilet’s water to wash off the blood stained on her body.

"Master, I opened the water supply in the basement without permission, I hope you won’t blame me~ because my body was really dirty. And what’s coming is important, I don’t want to leave a bad impression.

Please sit here, I have a gift I want to give you."

Luo Di could not only see that Wendy’s state was strange, but he could also sense through the gray that there were oddities on the level of thought, yet he did not perceive any danger.

He first followed Wendy’s suggestion to take a seat, simultaneously transmitting to her the scene of him hunting the Venerable in the Hall through their mental connection, to verify the identity of the Venerable.

"What exactly the Venerable looks like, I don’t know, no one in the orphanage does. Nobody dares to lift the curtain; at most, they’ve been touched by the hand of the Venerable.

Even though I became an elite of the murderer group and gained some freedom, I was unable to investigate anything related to the Venerable. As you know, Master, trying to investigate also counts as a violation, and my brain would explode directly.

The only thing I know is that the Venerable seems to like cracking walnuts; we could always hear that sound when we were on stage.

It turns out to be two walnut-like pituitaries colliding in the brain~ thanks, Master, for clearing up my confusion.

Whether she is really the Venerable does not matter to me.

As for those balloon heads, I really am sorry~ but people from the orphanage cannot stay in this world.

Their essence is as vile as mine, scum just like me, and they also bother you, Master.

Of course, I have my own selfish reasons for doing this; after all, I am a bad person too.

This is my wish.

I initially wanted to lead Master to investigate the orphanage, and unexpectedly, I was able to participate personally and accomplish it all. The resurgence from Hell gave me more power; otherwise, it would have been difficult to achieve this step.

Thank you very much, Master!

And I am really sorry!

For letting you and I, a despicable, untrustworthy scum stay together, also living in the same dormitory. Every day, you must bear the stench coming from my body and endure it.

I hope that Master can go to the Corner sooner and reunite with that class leader sooner.

I imagine that when that day comes, you will probably show a smile, Master.

Although I also really want to see what the [class leader] looks like, and what kind of angelic face must he have to be so memorable to you, unfortunately, there’s no chance now.

In the end.

This is the only thing I can give you, Master. If you find it disgusting, just throw it away directly. If it ends up being useful, then so much the better.

I have now reached the limit of a Pseudo-Person, and I have received a notification about the seam assessment... My pituitary should still hold quite high value."

The voice ended.

With her lips painted red, Wendy showed a completely relieved smile, without sadness, full of gratitude.

From her mouth full of rotten teeth, she spat out a thin line with a looped end.

The other end of the line seemed to be connected inside the brain...

A finger passed through the loop, pulled hard!

Snap!

A faint sound of physical rupture was heard,

The severely injured Wendy’s pupils immediately lost focus, fixed in her proper sitting posture by the glue on the chair.

The other end of the line was entangled with the pituitary,

Pulled out with just the right amount of force by Wendy, removed from her mouth and dropped onto the table, inside the gift box.

The falling of the pituitary also simultaneously activated a triggered mechanism, causing the unfolded package box to start folding.

A square, black and white striped gift box appeared in front of them.

Luo Di just sat in his position throughout, silently watching all this unfold.

Even though the person who died was an extremely vile criminal, a murderer who could kill civilians without a second thought.

But looking at the gift box in front of him made him very uncomfortable,

There was something in his heart being suppressed,

An indescribable feeling,

It was like a pair of hands twisting his stomach.

Suddenly,

Luo Di’s nose twitched, he smelled a strong scent, a scent that could cover the bloody smell of the rental house, a scent wafting over Moon City.

He had smelled this scent before at the class leader’s funeral,

It was the scent of "evil" radiating from a human body.