Deep in the Living
Chapter 406 - 394: Monster VS Monster

Chapter 406: Chapter 394: Monster VS Monster

The body conditioned by Hell was also projected to a certain extent onto the human side. Luo Di’s physical strength is extremely high; even resisting a regular 9mm bullet wouldn’t be a big problem.

But before his eyes, his ankle was severed in an instant.

At the moment of losing his right foot,

Luo Di’s spine straightened as he made a dangerous dodge, leveraging the left foot still inside the vehicle he kicked forcefully, jumping more than ten meters on one leg.

As he jumped, he conveniently grabbed the severed foot flying through the air.

A perfect roll to the ground, simultaneously reattaching the broken right foot to the wound.

The traits of the Hell Monk manifested, iron wires growing inside the wound, reconnecting the severed limb, including nerves, muscles, and blood vessels.

And Luo Di’s gaze fixated on the van, focusing on the assailant hidden underneath the chassis.

Obviously, the opponent was also a game participant... just that his body was faintly discernible, made unclear by the pitch-black environment under the car.

A semi-transparent scythe had already pierced into the cabin. Had Luo Di been a second slower in jumping out, another part of his body would have been sliced open.

The "Old Spine" integrates with the brain, iron, and spine, forming a Trinity.

For effective observation, adaptive visual enhancement was immediately processed, attempting to spy on the existence hiding beneath the car.

Besides the scythe and the semi-transparent pale arm, Luo Di finally saw a face, one resembling a skeletal visage.

"A White Gate Monster? Same type as Miss Yu Lu... Spiritual Body Attribute, then my blade will need to change its form."

This was Luo Di’s first true one-on-one encounter with a monster.

Due to the participation requirements of the real death game, all slave participants were rank-limited, with pituitary development not surpassing the budding stage.

This belonged to the lowest-tier monster,

Just freshly selected through interstice screening and sent to the Corner,

Even with rank disparity, it seemed to Luo Di that it could be killed head-on.

He held firm the confidence in slaughter,

Tightly gripping the hilt,

And as he proactively took a step forward... Click!

The body’s center of gravity suddenly dropped, a sharp pain erupted from his leg.

Looking down,

The right foot, which was clearly repaired with iron wire, had inexplicably separated again,

It wasn’t cut,

It detached on its own,

The surface incredibly smooth,

The wires used for connection were completely severed.

Luo Di quickly realized,

"This monster’s ’Calamity’ relates to cutting... Limbs that are cut will never regenerate or reattach, at least during the duration of this battle, they will remain severed.

Even the lowest-tier monster poses such threats?

Still, it’s good that I identified the issue with Calamity from the start, it reduces the variables ahead."

Luo Di bent down to pick up the severed foot, hanging it from his waist with a chain.

When he looked up again, he found the target no longer under the car, a chilling sensation swept over him.

A transparent body shaped like a skeleton now hovered behind him, as if merely a layer of clear skin stretched over the bones.

Sensing the aura of danger, Luo Di hastily hopped away on one leg.

But jumping requires gathering force,

Gathering force takes time,

When his calf powered him forward,

Buzz!

The lower half of his left leg was completely severed, below the knee.

Soaring forward, both of Luo Di’s legs were cut off, leaving him without the ability to land... Thud! He crashed heavily to the ground, covered in dust, appearing utterly defeated.

However, he finally clearly saw the opponent’s true form this time,

A skin-and-bones skeleton floating like a ghost, holding a grass-cutting-sized small scythe, specifically targeting limbs for cutting.

"Slender," "Transparent," "Invisible," "Cutting."

A few keywords suffice to describe the monster before him.

Moreover, the opponent was extremely cautious, even though Luo Di’s legs were severed, he didn’t attack recklessly but continued to float backward, retreating into darkness.

Huff... Huff...

With his legs lost, stripped of mobility, Luo Di panted heavily,

He could only rely on his remaining hands to crawl, one of which grasped the hilt, ready to slash at the monster anytime.

Oddly enough,

The hilt never constructed the blade, seeming utterly non-threatening.

He hadn’t crawled for long when that chilly sensation assailed him from behind once more.

Luo Di, leveraging the core strength from his waist, twisted his body sharply, swinging the hilt in his hand... but the opponent was faster, even more precise.

Buzz!

The hilt flew out,

Along with it, a severed forearm flew away.

Luo Di’s means of attack were completely erased,

He had only one left arm remaining, still struggling, gritting his teeth as he crawled forward, the survival instinct of a creature fully displayed.

Until... swoosh!

The last remaining left arm was also severed.

However, this time, the slash paused slightly.

Even the thin-skinned skull tilted slightly, looking at Luo Di’s left arm with some confusion, as if there was some kind of metal inside, nearly dulling his scythe.

All limbs severed,

Luo Di had no ability to resist anymore.

The monster finally relaxed a bit,

Swoosh! The scythe in his hand pierced into Luo Di’s back, while his body floated in front, dragging the nearly limbless prey forward.

He chose not to kill Luo Di, intending to use him as ’bait’; such bait could help escape the underground garage and get through the first level.

In the monster’s eyes, Luo Di was clearly the weakest among the participants, unable even to make the pituitary bud, completely just a lamb waiting to be slaughtered.

As he dragged Luo Di forward,

A severed hand blocked the way, it was the last piece cut off, the hardest part to sever... because of the excessive force, it flew far away, landing right in the middle of the garage road.

One could see the metallic sheen on the severed arm.

However,

When the monster saw this grey metallic sheen, a hard-to-shake feeling of "concern" arose, heightening his curiosity, wanting to see what kind of structure was so hard to cut.

Floating forward,

Close to the severed arm,

Merely approaching without touching yet triggering a certain mechanism.

The seemingly normal left arm unexpectedly split open, instantly turning into a bloody beast trap, snapping shut fiercely! Gripping the floating monster tightly, even the spiritual body structure was no exception.

Hell Iron Wires quickly entwined, agony invaded.

However,

The monster’s endurance was strong and immediately began slashing, severing many of the wires, affecting the structure of the beast trap.

The beast trap wouldn’t bind for long.

And the monster himself was unperturbed, knowing that Luo Di, with all limbs severed, couldn’t repair himself under his harmful influence, having no combat strength.

Just as he had such thoughts,

A bit of moonlight replaced the garage lights falling upon his face.

The monster realized something, glancing towards where the knife handle had fallen before, shockingly, the handle was gone, the ground still retaining the dragging marks left by some tentacle-like substance.

Crackling sounds~

A strange sound came from behind,

Something stood up,

Tall, oppressive, grey, slaughtering...

The monster couldn’t understand, clearly, the severed legs were not far away, how could it stand up? And how did it stand up?

Moreover, why was the opponent just standing behind without making the next move?

The sense of oppression carried the unknown, jointly impacting the monster’s psyche, forcing him to accelerate the severing of the iron wires, even tearing off his own leg bones to escape prematurely.

Finally freed,

The monster eagerly turned its skull to look behind,

A fear immediately soaked into his cranial cavity, affecting the equally transparent pituitary.

Previously the victor’s stance, the monster now tasted the fear of impending execution, and a fear named grey unknown.

In his eyes, this was no low-level being yet to bud, this was no human.

This was the true monster.

Tentacles grew among the severed legs providing body support,

The opponent’s hands still maintained the severed arm state,

The handle held in the mouth, clenched tight by the teeth.

A grotesque blade made purely of tentacles and chaotic assembly had already formed.

The cervical vertebrae moved the neck,

Twisting,

Mouth slash!

Luo Di showed no mercy, diagonally slicing the monster’s body in two, the slash effect brought by pure tentacles could completely tear, infuse, and destroy the spiritual body.

Looking at the ruined white door monster on the ground, Luo Di with a mask murmured:

"If you had thought from the start about cutting off my head, putting me to death, perhaps you truly would have killed me..."

As the words fell, the skull was sliced open.

The moment of killing the opponent,

Calamity lifted,

Luo Di quickly gathered his severed limbs and reattached them, returning to normal.

Stepping back to the monster’s corpse with size 45 shoes, retrieving the pituitary from the shattered skull... the already budded pituitary.

The pituitary’s surface slightly cracked, growing a translucent, skeletal-like new sprout.

"Is this the monster’s pituitary? The budded pituitary..."

Luo Di did not devour it directly, instead creating a Miniature Iron Maiden to collect it.