Deep in the Living
Chapter 336 - 324 Intervention

Chapter 336: Chapter 324 Intervention

Upon the sticky ashen ocean,

a special boat speeds along, much faster than the majority of cruise ships, yet not violating the standards of a cruise ship, resembling more a fully sealed speedboat.

The actual capacity does not exceed ten people.

It looks like a metallic, elongated container, with the Hell Symbol representing the Great Monastery etched on its surface.

There is completely no illumination from any lighthouse, yet it maintains a straight course, seemingly indifferent to the threats of ancestors.

This is specifically a vessel used by the Great Monastery to capture those who hide in Hell’s Dark Side, capable of achieving super-fast ocean crossings to greatly enhance the efficiency of the chase.

However, the metal ship crossing the sea now has another purpose.

In just ten hours, it successfully crosses the ocean.

The metal ship did not head towards any port on the Dark Side, but instead arrived at the "Stranding Place".

The Golden Skull Cruise Ship, which was devoured by the Door Ancestor and severely corroded, is stranded in this secluded, uninhabited area of the Beach Area.

Personnel from Hell’s Commerce are coming on another rescue cruise ship, estimated to take another half day.

The metal ship is the first to arrive from the known realms,

The ship docks,

its metallic surface spirally opens immediately,

Before the passengers even disembark, the surrounding Beach Area begins to transform.

First, cold, sharp spikes burst from the sand’s base, covering an area of over a hundred meters. Any organism stepping into this area might trigger the trap, causing their bodies to be impaled by the spikes and subsequently hoisted up high like ingredients.

Following that,

the small creatures moving about on the sandy beach, various types of crabs, snakes, and terrestrial fish with proliferative structures, all begin to molt or shed their skin.

Under the skin or shell layer sprouts new eyeballs, looking all around.

However, such a bizarre phenomenon lasts only a few minutes. Without confirmation of a conscious life approaching, it retreats and vanishes, returning the sand and the creatures to their normal state.

Inside the boat cabin,

The passengers begin to disembark one by one.

Two footprints of different colors and sizes land on the sand.

One person’s foot is covered in damaged skin and hole-like structures, and all toenails being removed, with small holes in between where something seems to have replaced the toenails before.

The other person’s foot exhibits a clear deficiency in nutrients, skinny and pale,

only the foot soles, backs, and ankles feature numerous different lengths of stitch-like structures, seemingly capable of opening like Eyes.

One of them reaches out to touch the metal ship, directly absorbing the entire vessel into his body by metallurgic recycling, with no alteration in his stature during the process, only slightly gaining weight.

Both of them are wrapped in thick clothing, dissimilar to the fashion of Hell, leaning more towards human attire, resembling an Investigator’s Coat.

The garments appear new like hastily crafted replicas, covering the body extensively, only leaving their hands and feet exposed, with faces concealed through hoodies.

Any attempt to peek under the hoods is blocked by strange beams of light or results in intense pinching pain.

If one genuinely manages to look inside, they would only see two faces that had undergone extreme facelifting, muscle restructuring, and skeletal sculpting, resembling humans more than demons, akin to Luo Di.

One of them looks exactly like Hawkins from the Fifth Hospital.

The other is a young man wearing glasses.

It is indeed Hook and Oculus, who have disguised themselves as humans to investigate the shipwreck and seek the whereabouts of Luo Di.

The pair enters the Golden Skull through a corrosion-created passage, the ancient aroma still thick inside, forcing them to wear a sort of mask, a concept learned from humans, albeit from different material.

The young man leans close to a cabin door, carefully examining the ancient patterns on the door, which momentarily causes some dust to rise, seemingly outlining the door’s pattern on the surface of his eyes.

Buzz!

A strong beam of light shoots out from between his eyes, incinerating the dust completely.

The young man adjusts his glasses and comments, "So many years have passed, and the Door Ancestor has not weakened but has grown bigger, stronger~ more accurately, more archaic, more remote.

Time seems to precipitate Its essence.

"These old things are truly terrifying... Even just their remains can become stronger."

However, Hook seemed unconcerned about the Door Ancestor’s condition, "Hurry and search for Luo Di and the others’ whereabouts to see if they have survived."

"The problem shouldn’t be too big... It’s the first time I’ve seen the Door Ancestor spit out something it has swallowed. With the swallowing time within six hours, and protected by the commerce ship itself, they are likely to survive.

Let me see where they stayed before."

The youth’s pupils dilated, seeming to directly see all the footsteps inside the cruise ship, clearly identifying which individual each footprint belonged to, and quickly locating Luo Di and others’ guest room.

When he focused his vision on this guest room,

He re-read scenes from a few hours ago, including how Luo Di and others dealt with the opening of the door, and being attracted by the knocking sound in the bathroom.

He could even see the scene after they were swallowed by the ancestor,

The conditions of Agatha and Calen were relatively normal; once they realized the issue with "opening the door," they were no longer digested.

They each relied on the nun’s physical strength and special tumors to resist the ancient digestive erosion. Though they sustained serious injuries, they were all within treatable limits, leaving no sequelae.

But Luo Di’s condition was different.

"Hmm? What is this guy doing! Is he courting death?"

When the youth witnessed Luo Di’s experience on the cruise ship, he found that after recognizing the essential problem of "opening equals digestion," he still chose to delve deeper deliberately.

Diving deeper meant actively feeding himself; his body suffered extremely severe "ancient digestion," even his metal spine was corroded, and his skull penetrated, with a large amount of ancient substance sedimented inside his body.

Such severe injuries would have killed even a Demon-riser,

but Luo Di was still alive and reached a very deep area through the creeping of tentacles, a dangerous zone even to peep into.

The peeping scene was severely disturbed at this point.

When Door Ancestor’s entity appeared,

The youth suddenly felt a rain of ancient dust fall on the surface of his eyeball, causing heart-wrenching pain, forcing him to interrupt the peeping scene. He hurriedly dug out his eyeball with his right hand and threw it aside.

The eyeball that fell to the ground turned into dust and ashes in a short period of time.

Hook was slightly surprised, "What did you see? It actually backfired on your eyeball, that’s rare."

The youth transformed by Oculus gently rubbed his eye socket, quickly squeezing out a brand-new eyeball, which gleamed with excitement and appreciation.

"I knew there was a reason why the commerce ship was spat out. I thought it was because the President on board had inscribed a high-level seal, but it turns out it was because of Luo Di.

No wonder the Tyrant took a fancy to him; this fearlessness really resembles him.

Luo Di met with the actual body of the Door Ancestor! The Door Ancestor must have intended to spare his life; otherwise, this guy would have died long ago! The ancient substance sedimented in his body was stopped by the Door Ancestor from further corrosion.

His mangled body was likely taken away by the Evil Play afterward.

Whether he’s dead or alive is unclear... Assuming he’s still alive, it’ll be troublesome. Those pleasure-pursuing insects will definitely peep into Luo Di’s brain and discover such an interesting sea-crossing experience, possibly using this opportunity to repair his body while trying to transform his essence.

After all, their medical level, especially in neurosurgery, ranks in the top three in True Hell.

Even if Luo Di is special, he is susceptible to being transformed into one of them without realizing it."

After hearing about Luo Di’s experience, Hook immediately made up his mind: "He has not even opened the door yet but has met the Door Ancestor... There don’t seem to be many in Hell who have such experiences, which will greatly help him in his subsequent opening of the door.

It seems we have come at the right time. With Luo Di in such a state under the hands of Evil Play, it’s more likely bad than good; we must intervene actively."

However, Oculus seemed worried, his fingers nervously rubbing on the surface of his eyeball:

"Intervene~ but the boss said no intervention.

If we are discovered, Hook, you will be fine, but I will be in big trouble~~ With my current strength, I definitely can’t win against the boss. He might turn me into eyeball ice cream and eat me in one gulp."

But Hook’s right hand gently rested upon his.

"You don’t want our recently flourishing Corner connection to be forcibly interrupted, right?"

Oculus helplessly flicked his eyeball, "Then let’s perform a secret intervention under our current disguise identities without revealing ourselves!"

"Staying covert is essential. Your eyes should allow us to infiltrate deep into the Insect Nest. Let’s go; it’s been a long time since we’ve been here, just the right time to see what those insects have turned into."

"Let’s go~ Besides, one of my students was also captured there. Without him working at the lighthouse, I am quite bored."