Deep in the Living-Chapter 198 - 190 Restless Night

[Mingwang City - Fifth Hospital]

Dean Hawkins has no intention of going home tonight and stays in the hospital.

Already blessed with children and grandchildren, he has no need to worry about household affairs; instead, it is his family that often worries about his health.

Nowadays, seeing the old man more vigorous with each passing day, his family feels relieved to let him stay in the hospital, unconcerned whether he goes home or not, with occasional video chats sufficing.

The drawers in his office are filled with wires that he personally bent, all shaped into a standard Hook structure.

After completing the additional work tonight, Dean Hawkins, as usual, stands up and performs a set of Tai Chi Fist.

Suddenly, a strong craving hits.

Although he tried to suppress it, this craving was stronger than ever, forcing him to interrupt his Tai Chi exercise and unable to resist, he approached his desk.

He took out a wire, inserting the Hook into the back of his hand’s skin and then hooked it out from the other side.

It wasn’t just a simple piercing,

The Dean also grasped the tail of the Hook and gently lifted this piece of skin, even slowly pulling hard, feeling as though he was about to tear the skin off.

This act brought him an immense pleasure that was intensely invigorating, even late into the night.

As he lifted the Hook higher and higher, when the pain reached its limit, a voice whispered in his ear.

"Hawkins..."

At the sound of the voice, the office in front of the Dean seemed to turn into a gloomy Preaching Room, but he was not repelled; rather, he began to wander around here.

It seemed he had visited this dreamlike place many times, not at all afraid, but feeling rather like returning home.

During Dean Hawkins’s wandering in the Preaching Room.

His real body,

that in the office blinked once, and then a dark membrane covered the entire eyeball, radiating an aura that made the Hooks in the drawers shake and come alive with a painful essence.

"Huh..."

Hawkins has once again arrived in this world, though his time won’t last long, roughly just enough to watch a movie.

As he was about to watch the unfinished "Saw."

Buzz~

A sharp pain transmitted from his left hand.

Realizing something, he took the elevator to the top floor of the hospital.

Standing on the edge of the rooftop, he looked towards the direction from which the pain emanated, seemingly able to directly gaze out at the ocean beyond the city, spying on that peculiar island shrouded among the stars.

"Luo Di, have you really gotten into trouble?

Such a small world, yet it can accommodate such strange things... Although it’s just an Avatar, it’s too bizarre. Ah! This is a disciple I rarely come across, can’t let you disappear on me."

The Dean leaped straight down from the rooftop, landing firmly on the ground level lawn, and quickly headed towards the hospital’s main entrance.

The security guard, who was dozing off, immediately saw it was the Dean and hurriedly got up to greet him: "Dean, you’re working so late, take care of your health~ Do you need me to take you home?"

The Dean didn’t glance at him, simply walked straight towards the door.

But just as he was about to step out of the door, his foot paused in mid-air, and ultimately, he retreated.

"It’s alright, continue your shift, I still have things to handle."

"Yes, Dean."

Hawkins can only move about in this hospital area, highly similar to the Punishment Room; once he tries to leave, his Consciousness Projection is snapped back to his original world.

"In Hell, a Spine, even in death, continues to slash through the battlefield... survive, you stubborn kid."

...

[Ten minutes ago]

Eye, who was deeply merged with Luo Di, was forcibly separated while passing through the hotel’s main door, causing her eyeball to be squeezed out separately.

It seemed this was indeed the real function of the door.

Splat!

A moist eyeball squeezed through the flesh-gap, landing on the cold hotel floor.

The surface of the eyeball rapidly grew hair, and once the hair spread as wide as a lotus leaf, Eye’s body swiftly stood upright, returning to her usual appearance.

What she saw was completely inside a giant creature.

More than half of the floor tiles were covered with a certain mucous membrane, which had white blood vessels embedded within, oozing luminance belonging to the color [White], a danger level surpassing the previous green.

"Di..."

Sister Eye’s black hair sprouted over a dozen eyes, providing her with a panoramic view. However, no matter how hard she observed, she could not find any trace of Luo Di, not even a hint of his aura.

At that moment,

three dark figures swiftly approached from one direction of the hall, but Sister Eye wasn’t alert because she had already recognized the faces in the shadows.

The figures were Hua Yuan, Shea, and Isabella.

Hua Yuan looked puzzled, "Where is Mr. Di?"

"I came in with him... he’s gone. It seems like we were separated in the crevices. Sister Hua Yuan, your suspicion was right, Mr. Di’s brain contains subtle colors.

I followed your advice and did not tell him about it, planning to discuss it once we reunited, but..."

Sister Eye also worried about Luo Di’s condition, even her speech became much clearer.

Hua Yuan’s expression suddenly turned somber, showing a strong sense of invasion.

She attempted to contact Luo Di using "Thought Transfer" just like the previous disappearance incident in the cave.

But now she couldn’t reach him at all, something beyond ’thought’ completely blocked Hua Yuan out.

However, Hua Yuan wasn’t surprised,

it seemed that she had already anticipated this worst-case scenario.

"Just as I feared, Mr. Di has been specially attended to since he arrived on the island. The entity hidden behind this island, that concealed Monster Avatar, seems very interested in Mr. Di.

Both nightmares and the encounters in the cave prove this point.

Maybe the Monster Avatar saw through Mr. Di’s Connector identity from the start and intended to target him,

or perhaps Mr. Di has some special attraction to it,

or maybe they have known each other from before.

This so-called experiment or game is fundamentally about luring Mr. Di.

Having him walk from the cave back to the hotel is akin to crossing the entire island, during which he would encounter various kinds of stardust colors to taint his brain.

And this pure white pervading the hotel is the final piece of the color puzzle.

If my guess is correct, the reason why the Monster Avatar lurks here is because its nature when descending to the human world is not perfect.

It wants to use this island, through carefully arranged experiments to select the most suitable container to carry it, a vessel to complete its imperfect Avatar.

Initially, it only wanted to attract outstanding Pseudo-Persons who took up the ’Corner Warrant’, but it did not expect a better Connector vessel like Mr. Di to arrive on the island.

Enough talk! Hurry and find Mr. Di’s location, and we will surely find the Monster Avatar."

"Sister Hua, why didn’t you let me tell Di earlier..."

"It’s useless, it was already too late the moment we stepped onto this island.

The catastrophe is rooted in his brain, and to eradicate it we must kill the Monster Avatar!

Rather than alarming the enemy prematurely, we should use this calculated plan. Using Mr. Di as an anchor to pinpoint the Monster Avatar might still give us a chance.

I just never thought we’d be forced to separate right upon entering the hotel, I assumed it would happen after reaching a certain floor..."

"Can he still survive?" Sister Eye seemed very worried about this situation.

Hua Yuan’s tone turned utterly cold, "Once it’s confirmed that Mr. Di has been completely possessed by the Monster Avatar with no chance of separation, I will personally kill him myself."

The four sisters were just about to act,

when the entire hotel lobby started to stir,

one after another, faces writhing with tentacles and bodies that had morphed beyond human limits as hotel employees and guests emerged from the flesh walls, blocking their path. fɾeeweɓnѳveɭ.com

...

The same night.

On a night bus traveling from Earth City to Mingwang City.

A young man who was asleep suddenly woke up from a dream, and after calculating something with his fingers, his expression turned grim.

After showing his ID to the driver, he got off midway.

What followed was a scene the bus passengers would never forget in their lives.

The young man pulled a string of Copper Coins from his waist and scattered them into the air.

With a flash of golden light,

the Copper Coins turned into swords,

and the young man stepped onto the blade, disappearing into the night sky with a speed far exceeding the bus.

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