Deep in the Living-Chapter 197 - 189: Vacation

The entire hotel has completely transformed under the influence of color.

Becoming huge, becoming mysterious, becoming substantial, becoming vibrant.

The floor area has expanded about threefold, while the height remained unchanged.

The outer walls seemed wrapped in a layer of biological carapace, saving the main entrance, all other doors and windows had been sealed.

The entire hotel was airtight, not even the "green" that shrouded the vacation resort could penetrate it in the slightest.

It effectively blocked Sister Eye’s x-ray vision, rendering the inside of the hotel completely obscure.

However, Luo Di could still see the underground structure through the vision provided by Sister Eye.

The hotel was not secured by foundation, but by several pure white and gigantic octopus tentacles, rooting into it like plant roots.

From the number and size of the tentacles, they could even carry the entire hotel and move it.

"This..."

The scene before him had surpassed Luo Di’s understanding; he could scarcely imagine such a massive engineering transformation being secretly completed in just three short months.

But his inner resolve quickly steadied,

Luo Di’s consciousness projection had been to the Hell Battlefield, where flesh-and-blood creatures of this scale, even more terrifying and enormous, could be found.

And as long as the world’s restrictions existed, they would have a chance to win; even if the enemy was powerful, they would ultimately not transcend these ordinary limits.

From his observations along the way, this Monster Avatar seemed more adept at creating and influencing; if they could find the real body, they might have a chance to take it down.

A hot breath of sulfur was exhaled as Luo Di officially walked toward the hotel’s main entrance.

The closer he got,

The more he could feel the massive oppressive and vibrant presence emanating from the hotel.

It didn’t feel like entering a vacation hotel at all,

It felt more like entering the innards of a massive creature.

Strangely, Luo Di felt no repulsion, but rather a sense of familiarity, much like the warmth of coming home after school.

His shoes stepped on the welcome mat, and the sensor doors opened to both sides.

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A strong heartbeat came from the front.

The interior of the door was covered with a thick layer of biological tissue, akin to the outer wall of a hotel’s heart, visibly pulsating to the naked eye.

Upon seeing such biological structures, Luo Di too felt a sense of familiarity, his heart firm in the belief that his "target" must be concealed within this hotel.

When Luo Di took out the Passport he obtained from the Ghost House,

His desire to enter the hotel intensified,

The Passport was placed against the pulsating flesh, and the mucous surface immediately reacted, rapidly growing two tentacles with suction cups that engulfed the card into the body.

Luo Di followed suit and reached out to touch it.

Crack-crack~

A vertical slit in the flesh opened up where he touched, revealing clearly flowing tissues inside, squeezing Luo Di’s body in and transporting him into the hotel.

His body felt like it was moving through warm flesh,

But the thickness of these walls was beyond imagination,

Ten meters,

Twenty meters,

Thirty meters,

After an indeterminate amount of time, he finally saw the exit, an exit overflowing with pure white light.

Hum!

Upon formally entering the hotel from the layer of tissue.

A strong burst of white light penetrated his eye sockets, infiltrating his skull, the ringing in his ears enveloping his brain.

As his pupils gradually adjusted and his brain calmed down, an oversized crystal chandelier came into view.

He had thought the inside of the hotel would also turn into the innards of an organism, but it was still the same as before.

The entire hotel lobby was unchanged, whether it was in size or furnishings, all were the same.

The only difference was that it was now night, with fewer people in the lobby, but there were still many around.

"Wait... What am I doing?"

Luo Di suddenly felt a heaviness in his brain, as if he had forgotten something important, but his attention was swiftly drawn to a stand-up mirror beside the main door.

The mirror drew him closer.

Reflected was a sunny young man, indeed Luo Di’s appearance.

Only his attire had changed to a very ordinary black windbreaker, and his shoes to sports shoes suitable for movement.

But Luo Di didn’t feel anything wrong with his clothing; it was just that something seemed to be missing from his face.

He touched his face with his hand,

Barely feeling traces as though left by a metal helmet, suggesting he might have been wearing something on his head.

Then touching his forehead, it seemed as if something was missing there, too. But on second thought, there shouldn’t be anything on that part of the forehead.

"Could it be that I’ve been influenced by the Pseudo-Person?"

Luo Di subconsciously reached for his backpack, finding a Zombie Blade exuding the stench of decay. Gazing at the sinister black hair growing on the back of the blade, his heart gradually settled.

"Right, I came to this island for a vacation, and I’ve already booked a room. I should go check out the room first."

Luo Di remembered that his room was located on the 101st floor and that his wristband also had detailed accommodation information.

Stepping into the elevator alone, he quietly waited for the numbers to ascend.

Click!

A faint tongue-clicking sound came from his mouth.

As the clicking sound emerged, the red digits on the elevator panel started to gleam with other colors, but quickly returned to normal.

However, Luo Di’s focus was on his own mouth. He reached out and covered his cheek,

"Hmm? Since when did I have a habit of clicking my tongue?"

Ding dong!

The elevator arrived as confusion took hold.

The familiar floor corridor felt extraordinarily comfortable to Luo Di; he didn’t even need to look at the room numbers to find his own suite door.

A strong urge compelled Luo Di to open the door as if what he was looking for was inside.

Yet some subconscious part of him insisted on taking the Zombie Blade, just in case there was an emergency inside.

Beep beep!

As the bracelet verified identity for door access,

Click~ the clicking sound came from his mouth again, only slightly quieter than before in the elevator.

The clicking sound brought a momentary flash of alertness, allowing Luo Di to see a rather eerie scene as he pushed the door open.

A group of villagers were standing inside the suite, making strange hand gestures,

Whether on the first floor or the second, there were people everywhere,

Ten, twenty, even more than thirty people.

All of them were naked, with strange patterns painted in various colors on their bodies.

The villagers’ eyes were all fixed on Luo Di, who was opening the door as if welcoming his arrival.

The path to enter was cleared, with candles laid out on both sides, seemingly guiding Luo Di towards the depths of the suite, towards a place that seemed to have been prepared for him.

But this image flashed before Luo Di’s eyes for less than two frames before being interrupted by a familiar voice.

The voice was quiet, as if fearful of disturbing others.

"Luo Di, how was your experience in the Primitive Forest? Those islanders didn’t sacrifice you, did they... You’re the brave one, going alone to participate.

You have no idea how much fun we had today. I’ll take you surfing tomorrow."

Wu Wen’s voice came from beside the ear,

along with a gentle touch that came through the sleeping gown.

Two delicate arms wrapped around his neck, and soft lips pressed against his ear, "Come up to sleep~ everyone’s asleep."

Feeling the warmth and whisper,

and looking at the darkness outside the window, sleepiness rapidly devoured his mind.

Luo Di, somewhat sleepy, entered the suite. First, he looked at Gao Yuxuan asleep on the sofa, still wearing glasses even in sleep.

Then he saw two girls sleeping on the large bed on the ground floor, Anna and Xiao Ying, whose physical disparity was so significant that Xiao Ying was being hugged like a doll in Anna’s arms as they slept.

After that,

Luo Di turned his gaze toward the girl he was holding hands with, a girl named Wu Wen.

Suddenly, a flood of memories quickly surged into his brain, and he gradually remembered everything...

He remembered their first meeting, when Wu Wen took the initiative to speak to him in the classroom and invited him to participate in the Simulation Practice.

At Luo Di’s suggestion, they all went to the mountains together, only found objects that could activate zombies, successfully completed the mission without any injuries, and were afterward awarded a pituitary to make the Zombie Blade.

In the time thereafter, everyone gradually became familiar, and Xiao Ying also joined.

The winter holiday of their senior year.

Under Wu Wen’s organization, they all gathered at her home to do homework and enjoy a dinner. And though Wu Wen’s parents were influential, they were not at all pretentious; in fact, they thought very highly of Luo Di, the top student in his class and among the top three in his grade.

Their relationship gradually warmed in the subsequent period of studying together.

The admissions exam came as expected,

and Luo Di, as the top student in the school, was accepted by the Jupiter City Investigation Bureau as an "outstanding graduate" and would receive additional training resources.

Wu Wen ranked the tenth in the school and got close to the Investigation Bureau normally, and Anna from the same school did as well.

Gao Yuxuan went to the City Research Bureau, while Xiao Ying was temporarily rejected by the Investigation Bureau, but she was also recommended to a local high-end office.

Luo Di, having obtained such results, naturally also received a national arrangement for an investigator’s residence and was allocated a large flat in a modern neighborhood according to the number of his family members.

His father, mother, and sister moved there at the first opportunity.

After joining his job, Luo Di also lived up to expectations, handling multiple anomaly events within a short three-month period and already attracting attention from the Capital City, with a promising future.

Three days ago.

Since the events in the Jupiter City Investigation Bureau were basically cleaned up, everyone was forced to take a vacation.

Wu Wen took the opportunity to organize a trip for everyone to Saiwei Vacation Island, a place where they didn’t need to worry about Corner threats and could completely relax.

Not seeing each other for three months, everyone had changed somewhat.

Although Gao Yuxuan worked at the Research Bureau, he had encountered anomaly events through his assistant status and even acquired a special Zombie pituitary.

He had integrated it into his body through staged injections, and the special virus not only increased his physical abilities but also enhanced his brain’s effectiveness.

Xiao Ying unexpectedly encountered a Mature Pseudo-Person during a tracking incident arranged by the firm, causing damage to one of her eyes. However, she managed to complete the final kill with perseverance and her colleague’s help, and got a pituitary related to the Eye.

Afterward, by combining it with staged injections, she activated her system, not only regrowing the damaged eye but also acquiring an additional field of vision.

Anna, through processing anomaly events time and again, gradually activated her latent genes, making her more aggressive – but this aggression was limited to Pseudo-People.

The old companions gathered for a trip, and there were endless stories to share.

Shortly after arriving on the island, Luo Di saw many interesting paid experience activities; he was particularly interested in going to the "Mysterious Island Village."

But he was the only one interested, and nobody else went with him.

That evening was the end of the experience; he rode back to the hotel alone, and except for Wu Wen, everyone else had already gone to sleep.

With the memories refilled, all doubts and suspicions in his mind completely disappeared.

Stepping onto the stairs leading to the second floor of the suite and lying on the soft big bed.

Their bodies squeezed together, with no clothing in between.

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