Deep in the Living-Chapter 480 - 466: Divinity and Fear

Luo Di stared at the girl among the iron buckets, unable to tear his gaze away even with the willpower of a murderer.

"Even while still asleep, she could completely drain the butcher. What a terrifying creature.

Luckily, she harbors no hostility towards me, or else I would’ve been used as fertilizer during our previous interactions.

I wonder what her attitude will be when she wakes up? I hope our relationship in reality is not hostile."

Luo Di gently touched the girl’s skin, noticing that the girl who absorbed the butcher’s flesh and blood seemed even more delicate and youthful than before.

He could even feel the flower pistil churning beneath her skin, as if merely cutting it open would reveal countless tiny girl heads smiling at him from inside.

A strong desire from deep within his flesh urged Luo Di to engage in deeper touching and exploration.

Whew!

But Luo Di abruptly shook his head, took a deep breath, and stood up to leave, using gray tentacles to reset and clear his brain, erasing the influence brought by the girl.

Jingle, jingle!

The bell at the slaughterhouse rang incessantly.

Luo Di knew that he didn’t have much time left, nor were his belongings nearby.

In his current bare state, he at least needed to find some clothes to wear.

The villagers hanging in the slaughterhouse were also completely naked. The only available clothes were the butcher’s outfit.

"Black leather apron," "Blood-stained shirt," "Leather pants," "Tall rain boots."

These garments had to be divided among him, Mia, and the girl, obviously not enough.

Luo Di had no choice but to abandon clothing the girl, reasoning she could be carried out curled inside the tin bucket, so clothes weren’t necessary.

Luo Di put on the butcher’s apron,

then cut a piece off the leather pants before wearing them,

while considering the size 50-plus rain boots, he decided against them as they’d hinder movement.

Luo Di took the blood-stained shirt to where Mia was hanging.

Skillfully, he took her down from the hook, vaguely feeling he’d done this frequently somewhere before.

Dressing,

However, he hadn’t fully put on the oversized blood-stained shirt before Mia opened her eyes, burying her face into Luo Di’s chin, softly whispering:

"You’re the first man who’s cared for me even in a dangerous moment, and even thought about dressing me...will you marry me?"

"This is purely an act of mutual assistance between comrades."

"If you don’t refuse, I’ll take it as your tacit consent."

Luo Di didn’t really want to refuse; he knew a neurotic woman like her might do anything drastic if rejected, potentially adding unnecessary risks.

As Luo Di was about to find an excuse, she boldly moved closer with her lips.

Something soft emerging from her lips aimed like an axe to chop into Luo Di’s mouth... But at the critical moment, the axe blade halted.

A drop of cold sweat appeared on Mia’s forehead, forcing her to turn her head and look at the tin bucket inside the slaughter room.

In a flash,

she seemed to see the girl already awake, staring at her.

Though Mia was mad, in moments of imminent danger, her first thought was for herself.

Quickly pulling away from Luo Di’s embrace, she instinctively reached for the axe at her waist but found nothing, leaving her to adopt a hand-chopping stance.

"Hey! Mia, what are you doing~"

Luo Di’s voice brought her back to normal,

The girl in the tin bucket was still sleeping, never even looking over.

"I just sensed danger, the girl looked at me... she seems different than before."

Footsteps began echoing from above at that moment, as someone came to check why the butcher hadn’t brought up the meat yet.

Mia immediately stopped worrying about marriage and the girl, focusing instead on her favorite pastime—slaughter.

"Luo Di, should we take them on?

If we’re going to do it, we must kill them all before the villagers self-destruct. But we currently lack handy weapons... No, there’s one that’s barely usable."

Mia, wearing the butcher’s blood-stained shirt, ran as if in a dress, swiftly reaching the slaughter area and grabbing the wide-blade slaughter knife there.

Pituitary activation, malice overflowed.

A corrupt substance could be seen flowing from Mia’s body, encircling the slaughter knife.

After absorbing this substance, the ordinary slaughter knife’s blade turned dark gray, with tattered notches appearing, even surrounded by a few flies.

"This weapon is mine to use, Luo Di, find yourself something else, and if you can’t, leave it to me to handle."

Mia was about to flaunt the slaughter knife she found when she saw Luo Di disassembling hooks in the slaughterhouse and holding them in his hand.

Though merely iron hooks, in Luo Di’s hands they appeared heated and glowing red.

Not only did Mia find it strange, but Luo Di also felt strange.

This burning sensation wasn’t from his pituitary ability, but another unknown force within him, especially prominent when he held the hook in his left hand.

The villagers arrived at that moment, ready to self-destruct again upon seeing the escaped outsiders.

Mia charged forward... Whoosh!

The blazing hook already pierced the person’s skull, the high temperature evaporating the internal blood as muscle fibers shriveled and shrank.

He then threw two more hooks, which steadied into the heads of two more villagers behind.

Although it wouldn’t kill them directly, it could effectively curb their self-destructive behavior.

Mia was quick to step in, slicing them all up with a few swift cuts... Compared to the interest in slaughter, Mia seemed more fascinated by Luo Di’s displayed abilities.

"This is unlike Corner’s abilities. What is it?"

Luo Di’s body temperature also reached 50°C, with his Spine being the hottest; he had already taken down ten whole Hooks to use as slaughter tools.

"I don’t know either... Anyway, let’s get out first."

Luo Di "hooked" the excess Hooks onto his left arm,

The pain of having his flesh pierced by the Hooks not only thrilled him to the point of ecstasy but also stimulated fragments of memories.

Clang!

A hand lifted a metal bucket, taking the girl inside it out of this slaughterhouse cellar.

Thought that the outside would be crowded with villagers, expecting a very tense and exciting mass slaughter.

Luo Di was ready to welcome the new moon, Mia also leaped into a strange dance, her whole body exuding a rotten stench.

However,

aside from villagers seeking the butcher, there wasn’t a single person outside.

"What’s that?"

At Mia’s reminder, Luo Di looked over towards the central square of the village.

All the villagers were summoned, surrounding three large circles, numbering in the hundreds.

They knelt on the ground,

lifting their faces full of blood holes.

Wisker-like flesh protruded from their faces, extending upwards, almost draining all their blood to reach the desired length.

These whiskers interwoven together, ultimately forming a giant, three-dimensional bloody symbol, exactly like the one Luo Di had seen earlier in the villa.

The symbol formed,

a bloody light shone,

BOOM!

An explosion, taking with it all the villagers’ bodies as they burst open!

Luo Di and Mia instinctively retreated, unwilling to repeat past mistakes.

Yet, the exploding blood mist didn’t spread, nor did it attack them, but rather followed the symbol upwards into the sky.

Some evil ceremony had been completed... prematurely.

Drizzle!

It began to rain,

but the rain carried a stench.

Each drop of blood rain poured down, dispersing the mist between the village.

With the expanded view,

Luo Di saw a presence that sent chills down his Spine, standing in the center of all the villagers, orchestrating this ceremony.

During a previous assassination of villagers, Luo Di had accidentally glimpsed through a window, but hadn’t clearly seen then.

This was a lifeform with skin and muscles completely degenerated, constructed purely of blood.

The entire face was filled with writhing blood vessels, with no discernible facial structure, leaning towards a female shape from the body type.

Most likely, it was she who brought the blood plague to the entire village and town.

Due to Luo Di and Mia’s intervention,

she was forced to advance the ceremony.

Crack~crack!

Her facial veins abruptly began to collapse, forming pits.

As the first drop of blood rain fell onto her face, there was a faint sound of something growing.

Under the constant downpour of blood rain,

a blood lotus pod gradually grew between the pits, serving as her new face.

Resembling the presence Luo Di had seen while offering a Blood Stone, but different.

The being within the Blood Pool was a high-level Projection, purely a lotus head.

The person before them had simply grown a lotus-like structure atop a human head... It was an imitation, a Disguise.

It possessed some Divinity, though not at all complete.

Yet even so,

when Luo Di and Mia saw such a lotus structure, they were immediately afflicted with "Blood Phobia", trembling under this bloody rain, every cell in their body resisting the raindrops.

Luo Di was still trying to use gray to resist, suppressing this fear.

Swoosh!

Mia swung a Slaughter Knife into her own head, inserting it halfway in. Then she twisted her neck 180° to gaze at Luo Di behind her.

"How embarrassing!

Even as a Murderer, I’m fearing blood... I can’t disgrace myself like this before you, Luo Di. Let’s kill it, shall we?"

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