Deep in the Living-Chapter 199 - 191: The Girl

Early morning.

Sunlight squeezed through the curtains that weren’t completely closed, forming a beam of light that landed right on Luo Di’s forehead.

Maybe because he hadn’t slept enough,

Or maybe for some other reason,

Luo Di just felt it wasn’t time to get up yet, his entire head was heavy, and his consciousness was also in a fuzzy state.

Yet this beam of sunlight felt unusually piercing, forcing him to gradually open his eyes.

Through his blurry vision, it seemed like he saw a crowd of villagers standing at the front and back of the bed, and the so-called sunlight wasn’t really coming from outside the window, but seemed to be from a multitude of lit human fat candles.

The scene, although blurry, jolted Luo Di’s nerves.

His foggy consciousness instantly cleared, and he sat up in shock.

There was no one in front of him, the sunlight indeed penetrated in.

At the same time, he felt a soft touch at his side, and the squad leader sat up as well, her body pressed tightly against his, her hand lightly resting on his shoulder.

"Having a nightmare?"

Her gentle whisper soothed the irritations inside Luo Di’s heart.

"Yeah, maybe it’s because we participated in those primitive activities, it seemed like I saw villagers performing some kind of mysterious ritual in our room."

"Haha~That means the money you spent was really worth it, just one day and it left such a deep impression on you. It’s still early, stay with me a little longer in bed... or we could do some morning exercises."

The squad leader’s soft and strong legs were already pressing up, gently sliding on his body.

"Let’s get up instead."

Just as Luo Di was about to get up, he was instead pushed back down onto the bed by the squad leader.

The hundred-pound body completely pressed down on him, black hair draping over Luo Di’s face, breaths from her lips touching like fingers.

"Di, you’re acting odd today. Our two families have already confirmed our relationship, and you used to love doing morning exercises... I don’t care, we must do it this morning."

An hour passed.

The two who came out of the bathroom together were squeezing in front of a sink rinsing their mouths.

The reflection of Luo Di in the mirror showed the youthful characteristic of vitality and health, with slightly upturned corners of his mouth always radiating a sense of happiness.

During a pause in rinsing,

Luo Di looked at himself in the mirror, looking at the body muscles carved like by a craftsman, always feeling like something was missing.

It seems like there are fewer scars and injuries, less evidence of struggles with Pseudo-Persons that should have left a mark.

It seems that every encounter with anomalies could always be safely resolved, risks were always kept very low.

"What are you thinking about?" The squad leader pressed her face against his, both appearing together in the mirror.

"Nothing... Let’s change and go downstairs! They’re probably waiting for us already."

"Not at all~ They all became lazy since coming out for vacation, only Gao Yuxuan is somewhat diligent."

Just as the squad leader said, when they had changed into casual clothes and arrived on the first floor of the suite, Anna was still holding Xiao Ying and sleeping. As for Gao Yuxuan, he had already started his physical training in the balcony swimming pool.

For some reason,

Luo Di felt an indescribable sensation upon seeing Gao Yuxuan, even though they met frequently in his memory. As long as they didn’t work overtime at night, they would even plan to run in the park and occasionally relax by having some skewers and beer.

But now there was a strange feeling of not having seen him for a long time. fɾeeweɓnѳveɭ.com

Luo Di had thought about getting into the water to compete with Gao Yuxuan, but his gaze accidentally glanced towards the sea beyond the balcony, a strong repulsion rising from within.

This made Luo Di instinctively touch his spine as if his body was extremely fearful of the ocean.

He tried to shift his gaze back, performed a perfect dive into the pool, and swam back and forth with Gao Yuxuan for a kilometer.

Perhaps because of the morning exercise, Luo Di felt defeated in this swimming competition, his feet treading water felt somewhat powerless.

"Vice Squad."

"Hmm?" Gao Yuxuan just slapped Luo Di’s back heavily, "What’s with this nickname? Did your brain break from visiting the primitive village for just one day?"

In Luo Di’s memory, he often used "Xiao Gao" and "Brother Xuan" in different situations for nicknames. Yet he did not know why he called out this former nickname used in his student days, which was already abandoned.

Gao Yuxuan suddenly shifted his gaze towards the interior of the suite: "We planned to go to the amusement park this afternoon, and it’s almost noon. Those two still haven’t woken up.

Luo Di, let the squad leader try to wake them up. Then let’s order food and eat in the suite, and I’ll continue swimming for a while."

"Okay."

Very soon, Luo Di ordered a five-person lunch without even asking his companions’ preferences, but according to some memory in his brain, it seemed like he had ordered like this a few times before, the memory being very vivid.

Ding dong!

The doorbell rang sooner than expected.

Luo Di quickly approached the suite door,

As the door opened, a young female wait staff with golden short hair stood outside pushing a cart, shy and restrained.

Some freckles adorned her ordinary face, her sea-blue eyes strikingly noticeable.

"Esteemed member, your meal has been delivered, the heat-preserving cart is placed in your room, and will be automatically collected when housekeeping cleans the room tomorrow."

"Thank you."

"You’re welcome."

As he received the service cart and was preparing to head back to his room,

Luo Di’s subconscious made him pause, his gaze flitting towards the blonde girl heading toward the elevator, watching her light, dance-like steps, seemingly very happy.

Half walking and half skipping,

her silhouette felt eerily familiar.

Buried deep in his subconscious, there was a pull on Luo Di’s mind, urging him to call out to her, to ask for her name.

His lips parted slightly, just as the sound was about to escape.

A warm hand rested on his shoulder.

"Luo Di, can’t take your eyes off the foreign girl, huh?"

"No, she just seems to be alone... just like you."

"Tsk~ Even if you’re making excuses, could you find a more believable one? Come on, let’s eat."

Drawn back into the room by Wu Wen, everyone gathered together for the meal.

This familiar feeling was just like returning to the hotpot restaurant they used to visit, Luo Di naturally immersed himself and happily chatted with everyone about amusing life stories.

After their afternoon trip to the amusement park, they sang in the mall at night.

With no corner pressure, no mental burden, pure play kept Luo Di smiling even on the way back to the hotel, he hadn’t felt this relaxed in a long time, nor had he experienced such joy that could only be described as happiness.

Returning to the large bed on the second floor of their suite, Wu Wen, while taking off her coat, said, "Luo Di, you seemed especially happy today."

"Really?"

"Shouldn’t you know that yourself? Come on, take a shower and scrub my back for me."

Seeing Luo Di hesitating, Wu Wen took the initiative to take his hand, "Come on, you’ve been weird today, usually you’re quicker than anyone else when it’s bath time. By the way, when we become Official Investigators, how about we consider getting engaged?"

"...Okay."

"Eh~ You hesitated there. I’ll let it slide today because you’ve been weird, let’s go!"

Perhaps the notion of engagement was too heavy for Luo Di; he got distracted momentarily and didn’t pay attention to the height of the doorway threshold as he walked into the bathroom, tripping over it.

His head hit hard against the toilet lid, and blood immediately began flowing from his forehead.

Wu Wen was also startled and quickly grabbed the first aid kit.

Strangely,

As blood flowed down from his forehead and as he felt the pain, Luo Di didn’t feel any discomfort. Instead, he found the pain quite comforting, and it even seemed to clear his mind considerably.

He even recalled a sequence that shouldn’t exist in his memory.

The Preaching Room, Hook, and a bald man.

It was because the images were so vivid that they came back to him with the pain. But as Wu Wen applied iodine on the wound, the images quickly faded.

A day passed like a dreamy vacation.

Perhaps due to extreme exhaustion,

By the time Luo Di woke up the next day, it was almost noon, and he had to order room service again. Wu Wen was still asleep, and Luo Di alone opened the door to receive the food.

Outside stood the same blonde girl as yesterday, repeating the same lines.

As he watched her turn to leave, Luo Di instinctively called out to her, "Hey, what’s your name?"

The girl turned around in a dance-like motion, lightly touching her nose with a finger, looking surprised:

"Me?"

"Yes."

"You have such a beautiful girlfriend and still hit on me?"

"I just think you resemble someone."

"That’s a pretty cliché pickup line~ I won’t tell you my name for now, but I can give you my contact. If you ever break up with your girlfriend, give me a call."

The girl wrote a phone number on a piece of notepaper she was carrying, tiptoed, and gently stuffed it into Luo Di’s shirt pocket.

"Goodbye, Mr. Heartbreaker."

Watching her departing figure, Luo Di pulled the piece of paper from his chest pocket.

It was just an ordinary phone number with nothing special written on it, Luo Di didn’t even save it in his contacts; he was just genuinely curious about her name.

Just as he was about to throw the paper away... tsk~

His tongue unconsciously clicked lightly.

In an instant,

The numbers on the paper changed to a string of meaningful characters.

[Hotel Area scan completed, no monsters found]

In just a moment, the text changed back to the phone number, everything normal.

Luo Di did not throw away the paper, but chose to fold it neatly and put it back in his pocket.

New novel 𝓬hapters are published on (f)re𝒆web(n)ovel.com