Deep in the Living
Chapter 545 - 527: The Door

Chapter 545: Chapter 527: The Door

The "asymmetry" demonstrated by Luo Di, although a great surprise to his father,

made him more concerned about the disappearance of another human before his eyes,

truly curious about how such a young lad managed to disappear right under his nose and avoid misfortune.

As the father prepared to employ more means to search for the missing fourth person,

on the ground,

Luo Di’s corpse suddenly twitched.

Yet, with just this simple movement, the rain, previously harmless to Luo Di, instantly transformed into a perilous substance capable of penetrating all.

Blood spattered,

Luo Di’s body was instantly covered with dense tiny holes, with bright red spreading beneath him.

However, in these rain-pierced tiny holes, there seemed to be some subtle anomaly, as something not belonging to Luo Di was reconstructing.

Bzz!

A pig squeal was heard.

Out of nowhere, a frenzied wild boar dashed from the forest, coincidentally charging towards Luo Di’s corpse.

Just before the boar arrived,

a large quantity of flower pistils swiftly sprouted from Luo Di’s small holes, and the deceased Hua Yuan astonishingly reconstructed rapidly with Luo Di’s corpse, even acquiring his "Undead" and "tentacles" traits, making the pistils dark and more agile.

Moreover,

This time Hua Yuan’s target was not the father but the butler responsible for carrying the father.

[Misfortune Diffusion]

With the onset of rain,

although it could still destroy the pistils, the precision and power seemed somewhat reduced, and one layered pistil successfully invaded the butler’s body.

At the same moment,

not far away, Lebeite took action,

no longer rushing forward recklessly, but with a strange smile, said, "Father, beware of that human! He has come close to your side."

The son’s words quickly had an impact on the father,

and Lebeite seized the moment of distraction, once again assuming a 90° running posture.

Of course,

The same trick that failed the first time naturally wouldn’t work the second time.

Lebeite had barely taken a few steps when the rain removed one of his arms, and he stepped on slippery substance, tumbling forward.

Before completely losing balance, before the act of falling occurred,

Lebeite swung with all his might!

This strike was not aimed at the father, but at himself... slap! A full-force slap struck himself, fundamentally disrupting his physical structure.

Slap!

The slap shattered his upper body into blood mist.

[Drop] This behavior, under the effect of misfortune, still forcibly occurred, causing the blood mist to accelerate toward the father’s location.

Just as it was about to make contact... snap! (tree breaking)

A tree beside them, broken by the residual force of Lebeite’s strike, fell right between the two, its dense leaves blocking all the splattering blood.

Yet the father was not relaxed one bit, Lebeite’s warning still echoed in his ears, the mysterious fourth person had not yet appeared, and he decisively focused all his attention on searching for hidden objects around.

At this moment,

a soft touch was felt in the palm of his hand.

Between the woven straps formed by the butler, at some point, a tree-structured woman’s arm grew.

[Complete Contact]

Hua Yuan’s face emerged from behind the butler’s head, smiling as he looked at him: "Father, we did it."

"... Good teamwork."

The father involuntarily started clapping, and as the applause rang through the forest, his hands, due to [subjective behavior], attracted misfortune, with fingers breaking and wrists suffering severe fractures.

At the same time,

Yu Ze, who hadn’t moved the whole time and had remained hidden, also tore off his Invisibility Talisman.

He had never intended to take action from the start.

From the moment he saw the father, Yu Ze had calculated certain things and devised an action plan.

Under the joint effect of the Silence Talisman and Invisibility Talisman, he initiated a high-level meditation, existing in a [void] state.

This is Yu Ze’s most utilized meditation method in his Connect World, integrating with nature, completely emptying himself, even letting his breathing align with the flow of the surrounding space.

He didn’t need to do anything,

he only needed to play the role of the mysterious fourth person to add weight to the father’s heart.

As long as he existed as an uncertain factor and was unaffected by misfortune, the father’s attention was inevitably drawn.

Yu Ze ignored the severely crushed and still being devoured Luo Di, just as he paid no heed to Lebeite’s situation.

He went straight to the father,

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"Thank you, Father, for not fully unleashing misfortune, allowing me to escape calamity by emptying my mind."

"You’re very clever, it’s rare to see a human like you, but..."

Crack, crack!

The branches above Yu Ze’s head, and the surrounding animal bones, all shook in unison. It seemed that once true misfortune is released, it would descend directly without any touch or action.

Warning words pierced the soul:

"Don’t use this cleverness on Lebeite or your friends."

"I won’t."

The invisible realm of misfortune had been lifted, and everyone’s regeneration ability was no longer restricted.

A wild boar’s head flew high, Luo Di adjusted his body state and returned to the team, Lebeite and Hua Yuan also replenished their bodies one after another.

Father looked approvingly at his son, very satisfied with his performance tonight.

"I didn’t expect that just by letting you, Lebeite, go out for a few activities, you could find such excellent companions and even achieve this level of coordination.

You also know how to achieve victory through non-conventional means,

This is the result I’ve always wanted to see as a father.

The reason for letting you face misfortune was to see how well you could cooperate.

As it stands, not only do you qualify to touch the entrance, but perhaps you can also attempt the dungeon’s initial experience."

"Father, you!?"

Lebeite’s eyes widened, unable to believe that the normally strict father with prohibitive restrictions was now willing to let him bear such risks prematurely.

"It was because you weren’t prepared before,

now you’re not only prepared, but you also have companions. Naturally, I won’t restrict your growth... However, you’re only allowed to touch once, just to have the initial experience.

You’re absolutely forbidden from continuing after the first touch."

"Does the dungeon come by the number of times?" Luo Di posed the question.

"You’ll know once you experience it, follow me."

The father, carried by the butler, reached the manhole cover. The screws fixed above spontaneously popped out, and the whole thing became a normal manhole cover.

The manhole cover opened,

A scent wafted out, sensitive to Luo Di like the smell of a brain.

Climbing down the vertical ladder,

When everyone reached below, even Lebeite, a family member himself, was astonished. Yu Ze furrowed his brows, the Copper Coin at his waist trembling with intensity.

This below corresponded to a straight rectangular passage,

The passage’s sides and the top were full of densely packed heads, such that you could no longer see any other concrete structure.

Every head bore an expression of fear,

The tops of most heads were broken, their pituitaries had already mutated, madly growing like plants, transforming into some kind of animal.

Luo Di asked, "Are all these... dungeon failures?"

Father replied, "More or less."

"With the manhole cover closed, how did they get out?"

"Every once in a while, the lady comes to release them actively. It’s one of our jobs living here. We can’t let the heads accumulate below for too long, or the entire entrance will collapse."

"Oh, the entrance is further ahead, right?"

"Keep going, you’ll reach it soon."

The team remained silent,

They could all sense a deep-seated fear pervading from within, and these heads hanging around seemed to be their destined end.

Lebeite walked the fastest, already intimately connected, eagerly wanting to taste the experience.

Luo Di remained at the team’s rear; although eager for the dungeon, he hadn’t expected it to come so quickly. He needed to discuss some matters clearly with his father.

Unexpectedly, before finding the opportunity to speak, a tree branch grew from the butler’s shoulder, conveniently touching Luo Di’s ear.

Father suddenly communicated:

"Your ’Asymmetry,’ did you learn it today?"

"Yes."

"My wife rarely treats outsiders this way; for her to teach you to such an extent means she’s treating you as family.

She values Lebeite too much. Perhaps she noticed your strong relationship with Lebeite, thus decided this way.

This dungeon, you just need to touch once! If you successfully pass, knowing Lebeite’s character, he will definitely want to continue deeper.

You’ll need to, potentially with your friends’ help, pull Lebeite out."

"No problem."

"Just about this... With your level, touching once shouldn’t pose a major issue. Just maintain decent cooperation."

"Okay."

Soon the team reached the end, where the so-called ’entrance’ was.

A door simultaneously painted in six colors, tightly embedded in the wall at the end, corresponding to the six fear systems of Connect World.