Deep in the Living
Chapter 412 - 400 Hanging VS Joke

Chapter 412: Chapter 400 Hanging VS Joke

The knocking on the door made Luo Di stand up abruptly, his moving body slowly edging closer,

but Yu Lu, hanging in the middle of the hall, was even nearer, drifting over quickly, just as she was about to look through the peephole on the door.

"Miss Yu Lu, wait a moment."

Yu Lu’s head, which was just about to be placed on the door, slowly turned 180° to look at Luo Di following behind.

"Why?"

"I’ve mentioned the [clown] to Hua Yuan before, you should know, right?

Since I entered the corner, he has been targeting me for unknown reasons, and now there’s a considerable chance he’s followed us to the real death game site.

There’s even a chance that the person knocking is him.

His ’curse’ can be achieved through observation, just a glance can affect your thinking, and even transfer your consciousness to another object."

"Oh... I know about this.

Hua Yuan told me about it when we were at the sushi shop, don’t worry, there’s a reason my grandmother arranged for me to act with you."

Yu Lu’s head slowly turned back, sticking against the peephole.

At first glance, there was no one visible, outside remained the pitch-black neighborhood, streetlights, weeds, and rows of completely sealed villa buildings.

But as Yu Lu carefully swept over a second time, she actually found something, an unremarkable splash of red slowly faded out in the darkness.

It was right under the discarded streetlight,

partially obscured by the lamp post, with only half a balloon exposed outside, with a smiley face painted on the balloon’s surface.

In a flash, it seemed a smiling clown really stood by the lamp post, smiling at her.

As Yu Lu entertained this notion, her vision trembled... the balloon behind the lamp post disappeared, morphing into a clown almost melded with the environment, unclothed.

Maintaining a smile,

and waved in greeting.

Upon seeing this scene... suddenly!

A rope descended within the room, instantly tightening around Yu Lu’s neck.

Death arrived, forced suicide.

The rope vanished, Yu Lu’s specimen-like body fell to the ground, breathless, even Luo Di thought something happened, ready to step forward.

Yet, in the next second,

a faint pulse emerged once more, she slowly crawled up and floated in the air again.

Crack~ the neck once again turned to look behind, gazing at Luo Di.

"You guessed right, that clown really followed us.

No wonder they are one of the ’Eight Evil People’, even across such villas they can still influence me through observation, almost letting the balloon membrane cover my head."

Listening to this news, Luo Di’s nerves tightened, he suspected the clown would follow but hadn’t imagined the other party truly would, and even actively come to knock on the door.

"Miss Yu Lu, are you alright?"

"Nothing can adhere to death, as long as I die once I can reset the state, whereas the clown might find it quite difficult.

Trying to invade my consciousness, naturally will be roped.

Let’s go out and take a look, temporarily seal off your eyes. If we have the chance, let’s kill him directly, and our subsequent food will be taken care of."

"Okay."

Luo Di ran to the door, his eyes already sealed shut.

Pushing the door open,

yet beneath the recent streetlamp only a hanging knot remained, the clown supposed to hang there was nowhere to be seen.

Although Luo Di’s vision was sealed, he could roughly gauge the surrounding situation through breath, a stream of gray breath flowed outward from underfoot, returning the structure within a ten-meter radius to his brain.

Arriving at the streetlamp front,

Yu Lu reached out to touch the hemp rope hanging here, ring-shaped knot retained some skin and flesh tissue, bizarrely being absorbed by the rope.

Just like the rope itself was a form of life.

After absorption completed, Yu Lu opened her mouth wide, swallowing the entire rope knot completely.

"Mark completed, as long as the clown leaves his villa within a hundred meters of us, the hanging effect will automatically trigger, there will always be a rope suspended over his head.

This way, we can ensure the upcoming game flow won’t be disturbed by him.

Due to hunger factors, the goal is temporarily not to kill him. The monster able to escape from my rope knot would take considerable effort to kill, under such game conditions it’s easy for other groups to take advantage of it.

Luo Di~ proceed to normal foraging."

"Alright."

Luo Di also breathed a small sigh of relief, he actually did worry about Yu Lu killing the clown.

...

A certain standalone villa, second-floor bathroom.

A naked clown, painted entirely in white paint, with a slightly exposed belly pouch, stood at the washbasin.

Due to hunger, his belly was wrinkled like deflated skin hanging outside.

Also due to hunger, unable to find blood to smear on red lips, he could only cut the balloon and affix it around his mouth.

Currently,

he fully pressed his head towards the mirror’s surface, meticulously examining the injury on his neck.

A hanging mark encircled the neck, skin entirely torn and stripped away, grass strands from the hemp rope were embedded among the flesh now requiring removal one by one.

The whole process the clown kept a smile, yet this smile appeared different from usual, sinister and eerie.

When finished cleaning, the wound still couldn’t heal.

The clown even felt a cold deathly aura crowding around, recoiling when he glanced at the mirror, fleetingly seeing a hanged female corpse stuck behind, vanished in an instant.

Yet this fear failed to penetrate his balloon, instead leaving him elated.

Gurgle~

The belly pouch emitted the sound of hunger, even he couldn’t help but clutch his belly pouch enduring this intense hunger sensation.

Due to failing actions against Luo Di, he not only failed to obtain food but also expended much energy, now utterly famished, urgently needing to forage.

Pushing open the bathroom door, within the master bedroom floated numerous balloons.

His servant was being suspended by balloon strings in the master bedroom’s center, balloon membranes transmitting through the strings slowly integrating into his body, seemingly undergoing deeper transformation.

Clearly,

The clown didn’t intend to take this servant out with him but rather leveraged the three-day second stage to thoroughly modify the servant, possibly useful later.

Foraging alone suffices, bringing the servant might instead result in servant’s death and elimination.

Change into regular overall outfit,

touched the unremovable hanging mark on his neck,

he temporarily relinquished Luo Di as a target at this stage, heading in the opposite direction. The further away, the more that cold death feeling faded.

The clown knocked on doors one by one, constantly holding a candy box, as long as someone opened the door then candy would be rewarded.

After knocking on three consecutive doors,

Clang!

The lock finally reacted.

Once opened, time didn’t permit candy offering, a steel fork pierced the clown’s body, tugging him entirely inside drowning out any response within three seconds.

Two hours elapsed.

The villa door finally opened again,

Buuurp~ a satisfied burp nearly accompanying the opening sound.

The clown’s overall suit was completely tattered, stepping out with a fully bulging belly pouch, no longer deflated as before.

Not a bit hungry, even somewhat stuffed.

Despite the hunger virus’s impact, the stored quantity within the belly pouch estimates supporting a whole day of intense activity.

Additionally, the clown’s hanging marks on the neck fully vanished, no traces left.

Moving the view towards indoors,

two forcibly torn apart heads casually thrown onto the ground, remnants of the bodies already gone.

On the neck of one head remained deep hanging marks, identical to the clown’s previous marks...