Deep in the Living

Chapter 149 Arrival
United States,
This country, built with the combined power of the entire world, is based on the solar system and has a total of nine major cities*.

All immigrants and subsequent humans born here live in concentrated urban areas.

*As the country gradually stabilizes, the nine major cities will be expanded to ensure security, and even satellite cities will be built around the cities, such as the Moon City next to the capital.

Even though the city is large enough, it occupies no more than 20% of the country's land area, and most of the area still belongs to the [suburbs].

Although the country has spent a lot of effort to lay a "full coverage circuit" and planted a large number of genetically modified luminous plants to greatly increase the visible light in the suburbs, it is still difficult to achieve visible light standards across the country.

Due to the emergence of psychological corners and the increasing number of pseudo-people year by year, people are paying more attention to the safety issues in the city.

If the problems within the city cannot be solved, let alone those in the suburbs.

Therefore, supervision in the suburbs is very weak. Only some forest rangers who risk their lives for "high salaries" are responsible for the most basic work, repairing some faulty circuit equipment and reporting any possible abnormalities to nearby cities.

Most of the things that happen deep in the suburbs, unless they are particularly bad or involve pseudo-human organizations, the Investigation Bureau is not willing to expend manpower to investigate.

According to the Corner Law,
Every citizen leaving the city must submit a psychological examination and fill in the city they are going to.

The time of leaving and entering the city will be recorded. If someone does not arrive at the destination city or arrives late, there will be relevant records in the personal file.

Each city’s bus station also has strict management requirements. The cabin is closed during the journey, and the driver is under full inspection and is not allowed to stop.

If a pseudo-human intercepts the vehicle during driving, the vehicle will immediately send an alarm to the adjacent urban area and activate defense mode. An ultra-high-strength electric grid will be formed on the surface of the vehicle. The material of the vehicle itself is also very strong and can generally hold up until the arrival of investigators.

The same was true of the bus that Rody and his companion were riding on.

Five hours had passed in the car and it was now [20:10] in the evening.

The vehicle is traveling in the middle section of the highway, reaching the farthest distance from the two cities in front and behind.

The car, which should have been driving at high speed throughout the entire journey, suddenly broke down and the red light came on.

Fortunately,

Not far ahead is the forest ranger's rest station, which is equipped with various maintenance equipment. It can also record vehicle failures and specific maintenance time, which can save a lot of trouble later.

The vehicle stopped at a rest stop and passengers were notified and prohibited from getting off the vehicle.

All private rooms are under emergency lock, but one room located deepest is out of control.

Luo Di and the squad leader walked out and got out of the vehicle.

Neither the driver nor the ranger expressed surprise. Instead, they provided the two men with two sets of ranger uniforms that had been prepared in advance.

They immediately obtained the status of forest rangers and boarded a staff off-road vehicle covered with luminous strips, driving to a nearby forest trail.

The forest rangers who were working here took off their clothes, transformed themselves into two passengers, boarded the long-distance bus and headed to their destination.

……

On the ranger's special off-road vehicle.

The squad leader was still driving, and Luo Di sat in the passenger seat.

"It's only half an hour's drive away. You better relax. Being nervous can easily be noticed by others."

The monitor thought Luo Di was a little nervous, but when she turned her head to look over, she found that he had fallen asleep.

"You have a really strong mental state..."

After half an hour,

The vehicle stopped by the roadside, and the squad leader finally woke Roddy up after a lot of pushing and shoving.

The area ahead illuminated by the car lights suddenly perked up Rody, and a sense of crisis came over him.

In front of us is a run-down town left over from the former state, still maintaining the style of the 1940s. Due to the nationwide disappearance incident that broke out that year, the entire town became deserted.

The town itself is located deep in the suburbs and has not yet been properly demolished.

There are also warning signs erected by forest rangers on the road leading to the town - [Do not approach, corner warning].

Since it is a town left over from the former state, its architecture does not follow the corner method at all, and each building is built in the form of vertical intersection.

Looking around under the light of the car lights, all of them are structures that can form physical corners.

The only word left of the town's name carved on the stone by the roadside was "County".

"Holding a meeting here? It's too dangerous... If you're not careful, you'll end up in a corner."

"Of course not! We just need to pass through the town. This is a transition area to prevent outsiders from entering during the rally.

As for the [Physical Corner], don't worry.

Hold the light-emitting device and keep it at least three meters away, so we won’t be sucked in.”

"Let's go." The ranger's uniform was left in the car.

Rody put on his iconic mask, hung a pig's head around his waist, wrapped himself in a black coat, and wore Oxford leather shoes.

The squad leader wore the same black latex suit.

When the flashlight is turned on to diffuse light mode, it can maintain safe lighting within a fan-shaped range of fifty meters.

Walking into this abandoned town, Rody felt quite uncomfortable with the vertical structure of the walls and the ground. After all, he had never seen this kind of building structure since he was a child, and he had been told about the dangers of this vertical structure during his school years.

He always felt that this vertically intersecting interface was like a huge mouth of the abyss, which would swallow him up if he was not careful.

while walking,

Luo Di, who had been paying attention to the corner the whole time, suddenly felt a sense of being peeped at. He moved the flashlight upwards and looked towards the second floor of the building. There was actually half of a woman's face printed inside the square window.

Look carefully,

Not a real person,

It is a mannequin with geisha makeup on, but the feeling of being stared at is extremely real.

"The sisterhood's spies are stationed here. If any outsiders approach, they will be notified immediately."

"Ah."

There are many more dummies like this set up in rooms on different floors.

Roddy originally thought that the sisterhood's gathering was somewhere deep inside the town, but the monitor showed no intention of stopping. Instead, he walked faster and faster and finally left from the other side of the town.

The country road behind the town was shrouded in a thick mist.

It seemed as if there were all kinds of delicate arms in the mist, touching the bodies of those who entered. This must be one of the sisterhood's methods.

The purpose of setting up layers of measures is to prevent the gathering from being exposed.

It is no wonder that such a pseudo-human organization can exist for a long time and can always recruit outstanding and special female pseudo-humans from all over the country.

After walking for several hundred meters in the fog, the outline of a large building gradually emerged.

Snapped!
When the touch of the soles of your feet changes from mud to stone,

The fog lifted.

"Um!?"

Luo Di was stunned for a moment. He had been walking on a small road outside the town before, but now he had come to a deep valley. It was surrounded by two towering mountains and had excellent concealment.

A modern French mansion stands in the middle of it, with off-white stone walls and a dark brown wooden roof. Light shines out from each arched window, illuminating the area a hundred meters in front of the door.

It's just that the gate of this mansion is a little strange.
Its size is inconsistent with the building. To be precise, it is too big. The arched door is more than five meters high. It seems that this door will not only welcome people of certain size, but also even larger beings.

The archway was closed, and it seemed that the meeting had not yet begun. There was no sign of any sisters or servants.

When the two came to the closed archway,
There was a sudden movement in the soil beside me.
A rotten arm stretched out from it, and a zombie wrapped in green skin actually crawled out from the ground, but he was wearing a close-fitting waiter's uniform.

Holding a bell in one hand and a golden bowl in the other.

Normal human voices came from a mouth full of earthworms and mud, in a rarely used French dialect.

"Miss Isabella, you came really early today! You are the first one to arrive at the assembly."

The squad leader quickly took Luo Di's arm and said, "Haven't you just found your partner? You must bring him here early to get acquainted with him and show him off at the same time."

The zombie butler with a few wisps of white hair on his head wanted to take a look at the so-called "partner", but found that he had no eyes. He quickly took out an antique metal box from his pocket, where the two eyeballs were kept.

When he put it into his eye sockets and saw Rody's appearance clearly, he nodded in affirmation.

"A good aesthetic must make an excellent partner!"

"Thank you, Uncle Corpse!"

"Okay, the old rules apply."

The zombie butler stretched out the golden bowl in his left hand, and the squad leader also stretched out his fingers, gently scratching the latex suit and the skin of his fingers with his fingernails, and blood fell into them.

Luo Di immediately followed suit.

The zombie picked up the golden bowl and poured the blood into his mouth, and the identity verification was completed.

Ding Ding Ding!
He rang the bell in his right hand and shouted in a loud voice that could be heard throughout the mansion:

"Miss Isabella and her reserve companion have arrived at the assembly!"

(End of this chapter)