Deep in the Living
Chapter 289 - 277: The Door

Chapter 289: Chapter 277: The Door

Luo Di stared at the Gate of Demon Ascension before him, feeling the abyss he was currently in. This strange spatial disturbance reminded him of a scene from his memories.

"Rift?"

The odd term uttered by Luo Di made the white-haired girl slightly tilt her head,

"What rift? This is a Subspace... The [Gate] has already been constructed! The information was incorrect... We must find a way to leave this place! Standing before the gate, we don’t stand a chance.

No matter the method, we must leave this subspace.

We just arrived here by ’falling,’ try to find a wall, perhaps climbing up could take us out."

The white-haired girl quickly surveyed her surroundings.

Oddly, the previously boundless pitch-black abyss now unexpectedly revealed an edge. A wall full of rat holes was about a hundred meters away; it seemed all they needed to do was climb upwards to leave this place.

Absolutely contradictory,

yet, the girl appeared resolute,

she stirred the mire with brute force, moving over as quickly as possible.

Upon seeing the Gate of Demon Ascension, she abandoned the plan to fight head-on. A "Rift" appeared deep within her seemingly impregnable body.

Squeak, squeak, squeak~

Sounds of rats echoed.

But this time, the sound came not from the outside but from within her body.

Underneath the skin of the white-haired girl, prominent bumps and movements could be seen, and a rat’s tail even burrowed out from between her eye sockets before retreating.

The walls she wanted to touch, the walls she wanted to climb, the walls she wanted to escape the abyss with, remained perpetually out of reach... as if the wall always maintained the same distance from her.

Gradually, she began to run out of strength,

her body finally sunk, submerging in the filth.

As the mire drowned her body, some fluid entered through a steel pipe stuck in her neck, obstructing her basic respiratory system and invading her body.

This life-threatening danger seemed to activate a special restriction within the girl.

...

On Luo Di’s side.

He merely felt the current space resembled a rift, but upon closer inspection, it contained something more.

This piece of abyssal land indeed belonged to an independent space.

But those who constructed this place were not the four Pseudo-People, but the [Gate of Demon Ascension] standing not far in front of him—it wasn’t his gate.

Luo Di was not scared; instead, he felt excited seeing the Gate of Demon Ascension for the first time.

He had just set foot on the path to the ’Gate of Demon Ascension,’ not understanding what the gate was, what it looked like, nor knowing how to reach it.

Being able to see someone else’s gate so soon,

was an invaluable experience for his future Demon Ascension.

Even though the current space continuously squeezed Luo Di, the "invader,"

Even though the filthy mire below gave off an offensive odor,

Even though the gate formed by countless demon corpses kept exerting mental pressure on him.

Luo Di showed no signs of fear, even though the white-haired girl beside him had already disappeared, leaving him to proceed alone.

He didn’t flee, instead, he moved his body, swimming towards the shore, proactively approaching the direction of the gate.

He wished to closely observe the so-called ’Gate of Demon Ascension,’ to explore what lay beyond the gate, to get a glimpse of that higher-tier scenery in advance.

A certain ambition and desire were continuously aroused during this process,

even the corpses on the Gate of Demon Ascension seemed to be beckoning to him.

Step, step, step!

His shoes constantly pressing closer on the sticky mud.

The tightly shut gate began to open slowly with Luo Di’s arrival,

The light and shadow filtering through the crevice of the door seemed to be precisely what Luo Di was pursuing.

He clearly knew this wasn’t his gate, yet he still wanted to explore and pass through it.

All his attention was captivated by this gate.

What Luo Di didn’t know was that a hidden entity had also silently emerged from the mire, following him and stepping onto the shore.

Eight dark, robust rat tails spread out like wings on its back, undulating rhythmically.

Each rat tail’s surface was covered with a dense layer of brain tissue, continuously releasing some sort of mental influence.

Its body hovered in the air, silently floating behind Luo Di.

Those eyes, glowing green, were sizing up the young man from the Otherworld, even feeling that this young man’s "quality" was superior to the girl from the Monastery.

If used to complete the Gate of Demon Ascension, it could make the scenery beyond the gate even more spectacular.

But it was in no hurry,

It was waiting for the grey-haired young man in front to sink deeper—to ideally let him touch the Gate of Demon Ascension voluntarily and be absorbed by the gate while alive for the best effect.

The rat tails swayed,

it almost touched Luo Di’s back,

with fingers structured like brain folds, it floated beside Luo Di, soothing all his body’s Perception cells, even forcing his Spine to cool down and lock down.

Slowly,

under the drive of ambition, Luo Di got closer and closer to the Gate of Demon Ascension.

The mysterious entity behind also revealed a pristine white smile, anticipating the imminent Fusion of living bodies.

meters,

meters,

meter.

The door is right in front of him,

As the crack in the door is too small, Luo Di needs to push the door with his hand in order to enter.

A desire drove his arms to gradually lift, his strong and powerful palm was about to touch the door.

Click!

A crisp and loud snapping sound spread, not only echoing in Luo Di’s skull but also permeating the special space around him.

The sound made his followers’ hairs stand on end, their first instinct was to retreat.

Whoosh!

Moonlight filled with killing intent flashed by.

All the rats between the abyss seemed to have seen the moon at that moment.

A gray spherical moon.

Accompanied by a swift slashing attack!

Crack!

Something extremely sturdy and crucial was sliced by the moonlight,

A Demon Horn with patterns similar to a rat’s tail was severed and caught in Luo Di’s hand.

"Hm? Not decapitated... quite fast."

The mask woven from tentacles was already on Luo Di’s face,

The slash just now was done in one go, at his full strength. It was swung the instant the snap was heard, without any delay.

Unexpectedly, it was still dodged by the opponent, only cutting off a horn.

Looking up,

The target had already leaped back dozens of meters away, about to fall back into that filthy sludge.

Of course, Luo Di could see the opponent’s exact form clearly.

It was a slender pure black demon.

Six tails swayed behind him, able to disturb the mind and also assist in movement.

The facial features were similar to human—or in Luo Di’s mental perception classified as [Human], like a cunning, malnourished Black man with messy hair falling over his shoulders.

His upper body was uncovered, the surface of his skin full of small holes structures, just like the rat holes on the walls, sometimes with rat heads poking out from these holes, sometimes with fur moving inside, other times newborn offspring were produced inside.

His lower body was covered by a cloth skirt printed with strange runes.

His outstretched arms were also etched with Hell Runes, and each of his six fingers had brain-like ridges.

Two Demon Horns grew on his forehead, one of which was completely severed, causing him foundational damage, black blood with hairs seeping from the corner of his eyes.

Luo Di was very dissatisfied with "cutting the Demon Horn."

But the opponent could not accept it, could not believe it.

There was a significant disparity between them in terms of hierarchy,

He was close to Demon Ascension, just one step away from perfecting the [Door]. While the young man before him, from any angle, was merely at the start of the path of Demon Ascension.

"How did he do it... How could he break my [Drama]? Does the mask on his face induce fear within me?

This guy is strange, don’t be hasty! I need to slowly devour him, to savor properly! Just now, I was too eager."

He prepared to dive back into the sludge, to bring out his real capabilities against the gray-haired youth.

Just as he focused all his attention on this odd youth,

The water beneath bubbled... Whoosh!

Suddenly a vertical iron rod rose, perfectly targeting his lower body!

Piercing vertically.

The iron rod pierced into the demon’s lower rear and out through the mouth,

A surge of pain related to beating and crushing spread rapidly throughout his body, preventing him from dismantling himself and from morphing into a swarm of rats or filth.

No screams,

He actually relied on his willpower, forcibly suppressing the pain, trying to extricate his body from the iron rod with the strength of his tails and arms.

As long as he could return to the filth, he couldn’t be killed.

But...

Buzz!

The sound of a chainsaw spread through the space.

Again, a sound he had never experienced, accompanied by extreme danger.

The moment he heard the sound,

The rapidly spinning metallic spine was already in front of him,

The gray mask full of tentacles was now face to face with him.

For some reason,

He seemed to see the Moon,

The moon filled with craters was right in front of him, along with the slicing sounds emanating from the moon’s surface.

Szzzz!

The surface of the Pig Slaughter Knife was inexplicably covered with a layer of metallic sawtooth, which could spin rapidly like a spine.

The reflected metallic luster from the sawtooth shared the same gray color as the mask.

It landed on his neck,

Cutting through consciousness along with it!