Deep in the Living-Chapter 523 - 505: Descent into Hell

Luo Di had already finished reading the information on the road.

The incident occurred at the newly established Saint St. Hospital, located in the new district, less than six months old.

The establishment of an important institution like a hospital requires approval from the Capital City, and the local Investigation Bureau oversees every aspect, so there should be no issues with the hospital itself.

The hypersomnia cases that appeared inside the hospital started a month ago,

when a man named Dormo was admitted for severe hypersomnia.

Strangely, no matter what equipment the hospital used for examination, they couldn’t find the problem, so they only kept the patient under observation, administering some brain-related medication daily.

One week later during the morning rounds,

Dormo vanished.

The surveillance in his ward malfunctioned precisely one hour before, and other hospital monitors found no trace of him.

Faced with such a strange situation, the hospital promptly reported it to the Investigation Bureau.

The City Bureau didn’t delay and sent two investigators the same day, but ultimately found nothing and nothing happened; they thought it would just pass.

Little did they know, during a subsequent operation to capture a Pseudo-Person, the two investigators unexpectedly became drowsy under extreme danger, with one even falling asleep.

Fortunately, the Pseudo-Person did not kill the two but took the opportunity to escape.

This incident immediately caught the attention of the City Bureau and was swiftly linked to the hospital’s disappearance case.

Further investigation revealed that most people who entered Dormo’s ward developed hypersomnia to varying degrees.

One doctor fell asleep during a critical surgery stage, but fortunately, another doctor came in time to complete the operation.

The hospital even let a patient with severe insomnia stay, only to have the person sleep through the night, with the insomnia symptoms entirely disappearing.

Once the City Bureau confirmed the problem, they decisively sealed off the ward where Dormo stayed, quarantined all suspected hypersomnia victims, and temporarily housed them in the City Research Institute to prevent potential spread.

As these people’s conditions worsened, and without any progress in the investigation, the Investigation Bureau suspected that hypersomnia might be linked to some Monster Avatar.

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"Hypersomnia... shouldn’t the Mingwang City Investigation Bureau have many elites? How can they not find the cause? I’ll take a look after I come out of Hell.

According to the description, the issue only arises in one ward, and there’s no person-to-person transmission.

Otherwise, if there were a large-scale hypersomnia spread, those three old fellows would intervene, and I wouldn’t be needed.

It’s rare to return; experiencing an investigation seems interesting enough."

Luo Di returned to his former ward, also the place most closely connected to Hell’s Torture Room.

He now needed no medication,

just a single ash breath to switch worlds, reaching the Torture Room.

Before Luo Di could think about completing the so-called Demon Ascension certification, the ground beneath him split, descending into the depths of Hell.

The entire falling process was quite lengthy,

with crimson, skull-covered gorge walls on both sides. These skulls belonged to various creatures, most non-human, embedded there like trophies.

All skulls emitted a red glow from their eye sockets, seemingly observing Luo Di, the Hell Great Demon, undergoing his certification.

In the deep valley, a distant voice began to echo.

≮Great Demon Luo Di (Lo’di) certified, individual information updated≯

"Prison Rank": Great Demon (Undefined*)

*Although the individual originated from the Spine, through further development, it achieved a Trinity (Spine, Monk, and Evil Play), and fusion with an Otherworld system, with the current demon type undefined.

"Gate and individual compatibility and situation": 100% compatibility.

A unique Gate of Demon Ascension, composed of corpses of Great Demon-level creatures from the Otherworld, which is also another system source for Great Demon Luo Di.

This gate perfectly achieves dual-system promotion and integration.

"Inherent Hell Item and Demon Ascension Quality": Ancient Old Spine*, S-Class*.

*Inherited from the Hell ancestor’s spine system.

*Compared with existing True Hell Demon information, your Great Demon completeness, power, system, and development potential place you at the highest of five tiers.

"Specialty*"- Domain, Dual Form Switching.

*Different from ordinary Hell Great Demons’ exclusive attributes.

Domain: Harness the Otherworld’s system architecture to deploy a special domain named "Hell Evil Sun," projecting an extreme Hell environment onto the battlefield.

The individual gains various ability enhancements within the domain, with excellent effect on non-Hell creatures.

Dual Form Switching: Besides the Great Demon form, the individual can switch to a Fear Form corresponding to the Otherworld system, specialized in different aspects, adaptable to different environments and enemies.

"Temporary Residence": Chaos Nest City - Central Nest, Fourth Lumbar Vertebra, Hot Sulfur Street 1901B, Fifth Floor*

"Post Demon Ascension": Continue to explore the road behind the gate, find your capital city location.

"Special Reminder":

Given your successful special Demon Ascension, extremely high form completion rate, and departure from existing demon types, you will receive a one-time "Hell Opportunity."

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The relevant certification was completed, but Luo Di did not stop descending, sinking ever deeper, to the point he felt unable to connect with his earthbound body.

"Where will this descent take me?"

After falling for a while, Luo Di began to hear a sound, one he was all too familiar with. fɾeeweɓnѳveɭ.com

The sound of meat being cut,

except magnified hundreds, even thousands of times compared to cutting meat at home with a kitchen knife.

As he felt he was about to fall to the bottommost layer, Luo Di hurriedly activated his Great Demon Form, condensing ash around his spine to form wings, slowing his descent to land smoothly.

He initially thought the depths of Hell would be an underground cave, yet the scale below exceeded imagination, resembling a fully developed underground world.

The place where Luo Di currently stood looked like an enormous open-air slaughterhouse.

The first impression was "huge."

Colossal giants, each towering more than a hundred meters and even approaching a thousand, without facial features, their entire heads covered with gray-white hair.

Each wielded a slaughter knife that matched their size, continually swinging it downwards.

In front of them lay piles upon piles of corpses.

Mostly entities from other worlds invaded by True Hell, a small number being wanted criminals thrown down from among Hells.

The ground was formed from massive faces pieced together, mouths agape, awaiting the giants’ feed.

Luo Di was shocked by the scene before him,

and deeply understood the true nature of True Hell, realizing why this world constantly invades others.

The "spoils of war" gained through war, slaughter, invasion, and deprivation,

could be used as energy to propel the world’s movement, and transmitted through Hell’s soil to female demons ready to spawn offspring, enabling them to produce large numbers at once.

Even if the newly birthed offspring were abandoned in the wilderness, they could acquire basic nutrition from the soil.

Suddenly,

from the ground full of remains, arms emerged to peel open Luo Di’s back, extracting something hidden within.

"Egg of the Crow Colt"

The Crow Colt receiving a makeover in the Corner always remained an egg, now directly claimed by Hell, seemingly to aid in incubation.

This was a fortunate event, and Luo Di did not interfere unnecessarily.

As he considered where to go and what to do next.

A voice arose from underground,

"Special Angel Envoy, Outsider’s Angel Envoy... You are the first to perfectly integrate the outsider system with Hell as a Great Demon.

Your Hell concentration hasn’t diminished due to impurities but is continuously purifying.

I can sense that before certification, you engaged in a perfect battle in your Great Demon Form.

Your essence now is completely different from any force within True Hell."

When the voice ended,

skeleton skulls scattered across the ground began to gather, forming [Spine], [Metal Cross], [Brain], [Tumor], [Mouth].

These correspond to the existing five major forces in True Hell.

The voice came once more: "If it were you... what would you bring?"

Luo Di did not answer directly but directed his gaze to the giants "working" deep in Hell.

"Can I experience this kind of work here?"

"Is that your answer?"

"I suppose so. I think using specific actions and forms to provide an answer would be better."

"Alright."

Whoosh!

A pile of foul-smelling carcasses from different worlds poured down directly, piling up before Luo Di.

Meanwhile, a ten-meter-sized slaughter knife slowly rose from the ground.

This was already the smallest of slaughter knives,

If Luo Di couldn’t wield it and slaughter like those giants, it would mean he couldn’t handle this task.

In the beginning, it was indeed difficult to adapt,

Luo Di needed to exert full force, continuously taking off and landing to achieve even the basic effect of chopping meat, yet his power felt insufficient, and his stamina was greatly depleted.

But as Luo Di put on a ring,

gradually, the slaughter knife became easier in his hands. He even had the leisure to observe nearby giants, learning their techniques and operations, blending in slowly.

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