Deep in the Living
Chapter 308 - 296: The Secret Room in the Sewer

Chapter 308: Chapter 296: The Secret Room in the Sewer

The concentration of mud fungus in the Deep Swamp is extremely high, yet it had no effect on Luo Di who was rapidly descending; all the pathogenic plagues could only stop at the periphery of his body.

Not only that,

the epidemic mud even coordinated with Luo Di’s bodily movements, giving him a sense like a fish in water, allowing him to dive swiftly.

This was not a function of clothing, the key reason came from the back of Luo Di.

A closer observation would reveal a layer of luminescent green light enveloping Luo Di’s body, and a burlap bag containing "goods" on his back.

After diving to a depth of fifty meters in the Deep Swamp.

Luo Di, using the metal camera embedded in his eye socket, rapidly captured the bottom of the mud, which was not rocky but a special tumor layer with signs of human manipulation.

At this moment, a voice came from the "goods" in the backpack:

"Mr. Di, this is a coastal sewer, an engineering project by the tumor citizens. Just find a way to cut it open directly; the pipe works are created by higher tumor citizens and have a very high self-healing capacity."

Luo Di immediately approached the pipeline, placed his palm on the surface, and a serrated tentacle quickly cut a slit and drilled inside.

Snap!

His foot touched the smooth ground,

only a small amount of mud dripping down with him, and when he looked up, the cut slit had already been repaired.

As Calen said, Luo Di had arrived at a sewer, an engineering area for ocean purification, stretching along the entire coastline, complex and intricate, easy to get completely lost without careful attention.

Moreover,

This sewer used for purification was a very important project; any problem could potentially cause the Dead Ash Sea to solidify and block up, preventing True Hell from properly discharging waste.

Any individual daring to damage the sewer and affect ocean purification would directly have a Hell’s Warrant issued from the Great Monastery, a red warrant oblivious to rank differences, allowing high demons to deal with it directly.

Of course,

Luo Di was merely cutting open the pipe wall to use this place for hiding, which does not count as damage.

This place has certain similarities with the sewers of the Human World.

The core sewage flows mainly in the central channel, with flat walkable grounds on both sides.

Luo Di temporarily leaned against the moss-and-fungus-covered wall, with blood continuously flowing from his neck and palms, the blood immediately greedily absorbed by the fungi growing from the ground, blooming flowers resembling cauliflower.

The nearly halved neck was slowly healing,

while the hand injury was due to weapon collision,

not to mention the Pig Slaughter Knife was broken, Luo Di’s palm was completely torn, almost split into two.

Just recalling what had happened, Luo Di felt a sense of dread. Had he been slightly slower, his head would have been separated from his body. All talks of Hell’s pathways or Corner agreements would no longer exist.

"This guy’s killing skills are very high... and that beheading sensation was very strange. If it happens again, I might really die, hopefully, Sister Agatha can find me soon."

During the descent, Luo Di had struck the metal Iron Pillar, using the thick mud to mask the sound, and presumably, Sister Agatha has already received the message.

The voice of Calen, disguised as goods in the backpack, came calm, even sounding as if he just woke up.

"Mr. Di, I can sense the direction of the lighthouse and can point out the shortest route out of this sewer for you."

Calen seemed to have concluded that regardless of the killing skills or spine level, the wanted criminal was above Luo Di, and staying here didn’t seem like a good idea.

However, Luo Di had his own ideas,

"The person acts very cautiously. Once I truly run away, he will decisively give up on me as a target, and it would be difficult to find him again afterwards.

Moreover, this sewer retains his ’colors’."

I think I know why this guy was able to kill so many Evil Plays without being discovered. His home must be set somewhere in the sewer, a secret chamber unknown to others.

After all, he is an Exile, so living in such a place is also plausible."

Luo Di would not just endure this slash for nothing.

While blocking the opponent’s beheading, the close contact allowed that color to also be released, lightly staining to achieve a ’mark’.

With this mark, Luo Di could track the whereabouts of the other party.

Currently, this wanted criminal hadn’t directly jumped into the Mud Swamp to chase after him but was heading towards a farther sewer entrance.

Not only that,

The gray mark also allowed Luo Di to accidentally glimpse the traces of life the other left in the sewer, which might help find the residence of the wanted criminal within the sewer.

The voice from Calen on his back continued:

"The ocean sewers are under strict surveillance by the tumor citizens, and each area has its patrollers. Moreover, this treated water is the ultimate waste digested and rejected by Hell, without any nutritional value."

"Not only is there no food here, but it’s also full of disease-causing fungi. Even the tumor residents would find it difficult to survive here for a week, let alone outsiders."

"Doesn’t he have food?"

Upon hearing this from Luo Di, Calen also realized, "Indeed, there is... Mr. Di, feel free to follow your plan. I will assist you to the best of my abilities, and try to hold on until Sister Agatha arrives."

Compared to the dangerous and excited emotions emerging from Luo Di’s body, Calen, disguised as a crystalline product inside his backpack, remained very relaxed with no emotional fluctuations.

It seems that facing such a wanted criminal, he felt no danger whatsoever.

"Yes."

Luo Di quickly ran through the dirty and rotten sewers, splashing various stains all over his body as he moved.

He soon stopped in front of a wall that was visibly less covered with fungi, where the gray traces converged.

He put his hand on the wall and pushed hard,

Boom! The wall actually moved.

A dark, pitch-black staircase appeared, and a scent wafted out—a scent not of the sewers, but one which was very familiar to Luo Di.

The smell was from something Luo Di used to eat out of hunger while cultivating the pituitary gland in Moon City.

"Calen, do you know what this place below is?"

"During the sewer construction, many tumor residents were brought here to work, so there were some temporary underground rest rooms. This is probably one of those rest rooms, abandoned after the project ended."

"It looks like we’ve found the right place..."

"Yes."

"Calen, do you have any handy weapons? Something like knives or axes would do."

"I’m just a lighthouse keeper, I don’t have those things. However, if Mr. Di needs it, I might be able to make one for you temporarily, just wait a moment."

As Luo Di descended the stairs, he felt something hard growing on his back.

As he reached back into his backpack, a crystal-structured slaughter knife was pulled out.

Although the knife’s body was slightly imbalanced with a weight discrepancy between the front and back, the overall shape was there.

Moreover, Luo Di could feel that the knife had a high hardness, starkly different from the crystals he used to eat. The other person wasn’t a blacksmith, but creating such a temporary tool in a short time was already quite good.

"So hard... Maybe this can work..."

Descending the last step,

a vagrant’s spot filled with the smell of brains appeared in front of him,

As it was a former rest area for tumor residents, the space was quite large.

Many abandoned beds were placed here, one of which showed recent signs of being slept in, and the bedding was sewn from fresh skin.

There was also a trench dug for physiological excretion, leading directly to other areas of the sewer.

However,

what attracted Luo Di the most was something at the deepest part of the room... and it was also the source of that familiar scent.

Luo Di didn’t see the door made of corpses from before in the deep abyss of rats, but instead saw something aberrantly eerie, spine-chilling.

"What is this...?"

This special item reminded him of the descriptions on the warrant.

All the killed insects had their heads decapitated, and all these heads disappeared.

In front of him,

skulls of many Evil Play members were lined up like centipedes, their brains serving as connectors between each skull, jointly forming some sort of biological instrument.

Gazing at this skull instrument, Luo Di could even hear echoes of wailing, as if the killed insects weren’t completely dead and were still connected to it.

Just as he stepped forward slowly to inspect the instrument more closely.

Click!

The sound of a snapped tongue!

"They’re here! So fast!"

Perhaps sensing that his secret chamber had been discovered,

Luo Di’s gray sensor detected the "wanted criminal" approaching at an unimaginable speed, even faster than his electric spine-opener.