Deep in the Living-Chapter 494 - 480 Faceless Corpse

"Is it a bit cramped in here? Can you squeeze in?"

Wu Wen had already crawled into the ventilation duct, the tiny sound of her voice dropping along with the water droplets between her toes.

"Shouldn’t be a problem."

As the Hell System gradually recovered, Luo Di’s control over his body reached its peak. Under the activity of the Old Spine, all the bones contracted, and even muscles compressed and shrank.

This made his body just able to fit into the duct, crawling normally.

Even if the duct were half its size, Luo Di felt he could still move. He could even amputate his limbs and crawl using the gray tentacles growing from his flesh.

But that scene seemed beyond the realm of humanity.

Due to the order of entering the duct, there was a problem here.

Luo Di couldn’t look forward,

Whenever he lifted his head, the only thing he saw was Wu Wen’s wet long legs and shorts, maintaining eye contact long enough even vaguely glimpsed some details within those drenched shorts.

To not be disrespectful,

Luo Di barely lifted his head during the entire crawl, simply following without unnecessary chatter.

Wu Wen crawling in front naturally felt the situation behind her, clearly noticing that he moved his gaze away, not even sneaking an extra glance.

This made Wu Wen very curious,

She couldn’t quite understand how such an opposite gender could exist in such a corner, increasing her interest in Luo Di.

[Half an hour later]

The vent cover was quietly unscrewed from the inside,

Two figures silently landed.

"So we couldn’t go directly to the morgue? Speaking of which, it’s really cold here..."

Where they arrived wasn’t the morgue but still a men’s restroom. However, the temperature here was much lower, dropping below minus thirty degrees.

Luo Di watched the cold air escaping his mouth, always feeling it resembled thick fog, perhaps forming a psychological shadow, quickly reducing his breathing rate to minimize the exhaled cloud.

The spine kept supplying heat to the body. Even with normal body temperature, Luo Di could still feel the extreme cold, a chill from the corpses.

"Let’s go out and check."

Judging by the crawling distance, this men’s restroom should already be deep underground, not far from the destination.

When they walked past the sink together, something caught their peripheral vision.

There seemed to be an extra person, or rather a corpse, floating behind them in the mirror.

Stopping and turning their head,

When their gaze met the mirror, nothing was seen, only their reflection and the constant cold breath from their mouths.

Suddenly,

Luo Di felt a sensation, a warm touch on his palm.

Always appearing strong and independent, Wu Wen, who took the lead upon joining the group, now proactively took his hand.

This touch was entirely different from Mia’s,

Softer, more moist, somewhat familiar...as if he had experienced it before. freewёbn૦νeɭ.com

At the same time, Wu Wen pressed her lips to his ear.

"There’s something strange here, let’s maintain direct contact.

The extreme cold causes us to keep exhaling cold breath, whether this breath belongs to ’fog’ or not, our brains subconsciously will form related thoughts.

What we just glimpsed might be due to this reason.

To avoid mental influence, keeping contact should be better, at least ensuring we won’t get separated."

"Alright."

Exiting the men’s restroom,

The corridor outside was just as cold,

And for now, there were no hospital personnel in sight.

The end of this underground corridor was not far away, the iron gate shut, a red light glowing, a paper with red writing stuck to it.

[Dangerous Corpse Storage Area]

≮All corpse transporters handling dangerous corpses, please note: once the electronic door opens, you have only two minutes to store the corpse.

If you’re not out when time’s up, the electronic door will automatically lock.

Each transporter can enter at most once per day.

Additionally, during storage,

If you hear any noise,

See any image,

Feel any touch,

Do not respond,

Leave immediately!≯

If Luo Di were still a high school student, he might have been scared. In his eyes, the red warning text was instead a positive thing.

1. It indicates there are no hospital guards inside, meaning no need for further disguise.

2. The unnatural eeriness signifies they found the right place, and the corpses within might hold key clues related to the mist and remains.

Luo Di had no intention of lingering, ready to enter directly. Yet, a tug on his hand stopped him.

"What’s wrong?"

"Shouldn’t we consider the two-minute limit? If the door closes, it might be hard to open again."

"Let’s see how it goes. We’ll act quickly, and if we find what we’re looking for, we’ll leave immediately. If not, we’ll keep searching, as there’s only one chance a day."

"Alright."

Luo Di stepped forward, using a corpse transporter’s badge for identification to open the door.

Clack!

The two-minute countdown synchronized with the door opening.

As soon as they stepped through the door, they paused briefly, the temperature reaching minus fifty degrees, requiring even Luo Di to drive more Hell heat to fend off the cold.

It wasn’t a singular morgue but a straight-extending ’zone corridor.’

The morgues [1-10] were evenly spaced on the right side.

Due to the absence of mandatory storage requirements, many corpse-laden carts weren’t delivered to the morgue but left haphazardly in the corridor, some even interlocking to block the road.

On the carts,

White cloth covering most of the corpses,

Exposed toes hung with red tags, emblazoned with prominent [Danger] signs.

Luo Di quickly stepped forward, reaching the nearest corpse, likely delivered today.

The first task was verification, confirming whether these so-called dangerous corpses resembled the jumper he saw.

Of course, Luo Di was also mentally prepared.

The Jaw Splitter set on his head, tentacles tightly wrapping his brain inside.

Swish!

Pulled off the white cloth.

The deceased was indeed the jumping girl Luo Di saw that morning, with the corpse condition similar yet somewhat different from what he imagined.

The girl hit the ground face-first during the fall, leading to a bloodied face and fractured skull.

However, as Luo Di held the girl’s head for closer examination, he quickly confirmed she indeed had no face.

No facial features at all,

Even eye sockets, nasal bones, ear canals, and oral structures had all regressed.

Crackling~ As Luo Di used the tentacles to pry open the broken facial bones and flesh, a misshapen brain was revealed.

Completely atrophied,

In a strip structure,

Resembling a finger in shape and outline.

Just as Luo Di concluded that both the brain and facial features had suffered the same nature of degeneration, the brain exposed to the air unexpectedly moved.

Bending like a finger,

Curling together,

The brain groove creased, developing a larger gap structure and commencing "autonomous breathing."

The whole brain seemed alive, exhaling plumes of pure white breath... or rather, fog!

As this happened, swish!

A swift blade severed the brain, with a strange liquid further dissolving the shattered brain tissue.

Only a minimal amount of white fog was released into the environment, not causing significant influences.

Having just taken out the metal bat, Luo Di looked at Wu Wen in surprise, not expecting her speed to be this fast.

She instead focused on the faceless corpse, softly sharing all the information she obtained:

"The corpse label doesn’t even have a name, making it impossible to confirm exact details. It seems these recent corpses being sent, the hospital has not been handling them seriously internally.

Let’s check the deepest early corpses, there might be some specific personal information left, potentially leading to clues.

By the way, twenty seconds have already passed..."

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