Deep in the Living-Chapter 438 - 426: The Secret of the Question Mark

Waiting area.

From the audience’s perspective, there are only three contestants remaining.

Luo Di and Lebeite are together, while the other monster is alone.

All eyes naturally focus on the innate monster and Luo Di, this special human, but oddly, the image silent.

It seems the room’s audio system is broken.

As everyone anticipates this ultimate showdown, the two are merely chatting, without any intention of stopping, until there are only ten minutes left in the room’s time.

After Lebeite took out an envelope, the development became unexpectedly.

The two chose cooperation to clear the level, without any rejection.

Even the four sisters in the Sisterhood hadn’t anticipated this situation.

Even the Squad Leader, who knew Luo Di deeply, merely guessed that Luo Di would likely choose to forfeit to conceal his advanced power.

And the most incomprehensible was [Lebeite].

Luo Di, as a participant, did not know Lebeite’s performance in the previous rooms, but the four sisters could see clearly.

Any monster that stayed with Lebeite either voluntarily forfeited or was killed with overwhelming force right on spot.

It absolutely wouldn’t be like now, chatting with Luo Di, and even cooperating after chatting.

As everyone pondered without a solution, Hua Yuan, resting amongst the flowers, gave an answer, "Oh my god! Could this monster fancy Luo Di?"

The seemingly absurd answer seems to make some sense upon careful consideration.

Even the Squad Leader was slightly moved, looking at the monitoring screen with a slightly hostile glance.

At this moment, the two girls seemed to stand on the same line.

...

[The Fifth Room - Infirmary]

Participants - Luo Di, Noosh Lebeite.

Envelope requirement - "Use the two syringes on the table. Once the potion is injected completedly, the detector connected to the end of the syringe will emit a signal, opening the door to the next room."

Two ordinary transparent syringes lay on the table, containing a light green liquid,

similar to the liquid in the container when Luo Di reached for the key before, with question mark structure bubbles intermittently coalescing and breaking within.

A line extended from the end of the syringe, reaching within the tabletop, corresponding to the so-called detector.

Luo Di quickly found the problem:

"The letter doesn’t specify how we inject, nor asks us to inject into the body, we can totally just shoot the liquid to the ground or find a container to store it."

Lebeite didn’t respond,

he was up at the first instance, taking the syringe for a close observation, observing the internal bubble structure, then throwing another question:

"Luo Di, have you experienced any events in the previous rooms?

I came through by slaughtering before, this is the first time completing a cooperation task given by Mr. Question Mark. Perhaps the key lies with the question mark structure."

"Experienced three times,

once was eating, once was retrieving a key in strongly corrosive solution... and the other was the freezer, you’ve seen the frozen arm shattered on the ground."

"Three times! Great, in previous events there should have been question mark structures appearing, can you describe in detail, or directly share the memory?"

"Sure."

A gray tentacle grew directly from Luo Di’s brain gate, Lebeite showed no alertness, actively approached for the tentacle to connect, obtaining detailed memories of the previous levels.

After pondering half the night, Lebeite scratched his head.

"The question marks in each level show no change, regardless of direction, length, or line thickness - all fixed proportions... The difference in color might be used to distinguish different material states.

Where is the problem?

If we can’t understand the essence of the question mark, indeed as you estimated, Luo Di, we’d be able to hold up for up to three rooms.

Oh, we talked too long just now, leaving us less time to think, any thoughts?"

Luo Di actually had some guesses for a while, but personally didn’t want to risk trials based on guesses, consequences would be too dire.

"Just observing the question mark may not show anything, analysis and deciphering can only be done once the question mark contacts our flesh.

After all, each level’s question mark, once in contact with flesh, destroys flesh in different ways,

including internal nurturing, dissolving, frostbite, etc...

Once the question mark contacts flesh, the destruction effect appears quickly, in this time, the essence of the question mark might reveal itself, but the time is very brief for us to feel and think.

Of course, all this is my speculation.

These events might simply be unsolvable, just a display of Mr. Question Mark’s abilities, to pass each room we must sacrifice part of the flesh."

Lebeite shook his head, "No~ Mr. Question Mark wouldn’t set a dead end like this, that kind of game would be too boring!

Luo Di, your guess is reasonable, we can give it a try.

The question mark itself shows no difference, need to wait until it touches our flesh for the hidden matters behind it to reveal. We only have the short time before flesh is destroyed for the puzzle analysis!

Luo Di, you’ve lost an arm, let me go first then!"

There’s less than five minutes left.

Lebeite picked up one of the syringes, looking at the sharp needle and floating question mark bubble liquid without hesitation, and injected it directly.

Moreover, the injection site wasn’t a body part like the hand or foot,

but the head.

The needle directly inserted into the temple, injecting the liquid into the brain area.

Such behavior startled Luo Di a lot, eyes widened, retreated slightly, even imagining the opponent’s brain exploding, liquid splattering everywhere.

"This guy..."

In Luo Di’s initial impression, the opponent was a polite monster, now it seems an addition of the keyword "frenzy" might be necessary.

Although the result wasn’t a direct explosion, it wasn’t much different.

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Lebeite’s entire head started corroding from the inside, the part above the mouth completely turned into rotten liquid, dripping down as bubbling rotten meat, forming a question mark shape.

But he himself didn’t show much reaction, the mouth left even had a smile.

"Luo Di, really correct!

The key is in the moment of contact between the question mark and flesh, the secret hides within. If successfully deciphered, forget ten rooms... even passing a hundred rooms would be at ease.

However, don’t imitate me by injecting the brain,

I just thought to draw closer contact between the brain and the question mark, practically it’s unnecessary.

Any part of the flesh contacting the question mark is the same, forget thinking about pain, bodily destruction, etc.

Focus on the question mark itself, when the flesh gets destroyed, ponder the essence of the question mark, that should be the ultimate trial of the final level."

"You..."

Luo Di looked at Lebeite, whose half a head left and still smoking, although curious about his abilities, didn’t directly ask.

Through observing the wounds, one could find, inside Lebeite’s flesh seems to hide something, which is the key to his undead state.

"Don’t mind my injury, my body differs from humans... there’s one syringe left, Luo Di, give it a try."

"Okay."

Luo Di picked up the syringe, did not target the only left arm. If he lost the arm further in the challenge, many tasks would become troublesome.

Target the left leg, and fiercely jabbed into the calf area.

Pain itself doesn’t matter for Luo Di, the only thing he needs to shield is the fact that his left leg is vanishing.

Cease considering those matters already occurred,

focus on the sensation of the liquid injecting and contacting flesh, the Game Brain starts working! Making Luo Di directly feel the sensation of the question mark bubble sticking on muscles, bones, and blood vessels.

Just as Lebeite said,

something hides within the question mark.

If we can crack this secret, it might lead to truly clearing the level.

Following Luo Di into an advanced state after the Game Brain structure fully functioning, it even concretized into a huge, green, three-dimensional question mark.

What Luo Di needs to do is to peel off the sticker film on the surface of the question mark and see the real structure inside.

However,

just when he used the Game Brain to tear off part of it, the process was forcibly interrupted.

Because the erosion of the liquid ended, Luo Di’s left calf, including the knee, was all gone, and the door to the next room had already opened.

"Luo Di, are you alright? Wanna continue or forfeit?"

Torture Device Construction.

A scorching hot iron rod appeared from the palm, used as a crutch to support the body.

"Continue."

"Good!"

Lebeite also appeared extremely excited, this seemed to be his first time cooperating with others, furthermore the first time acting together with a human. He could see this human named Luo Di seemed to have a similarity with him in some aspect.

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