Deep in the Living

Chapter 221 Night Park
【Moon Lake Park】

This public area was funded by Taishe Group, and everyone can experience the park's activities for free twice a week.

Opening hours: 06:00-22:00

Luo Di's rental house was quite far from the park, so he did not choose to run at night but took a late-night taxi. He had three hours left to complete the requirements on the post.

Go around to the outer wall where there is no surveillance and climb in.

Rody wrapped his body in a windbreaker, with the hood covering most of his face, and all his movements were based on the standards of ordinary people.

【camouflage】

He didn't do it deliberately; he achieved this most common disguise naturally.

Because it is closed time.

90% of the park's street lights were turned off, but the entire park was not dark.

The moonlight from the night sky covered the park with a faint layer of white. Although it was far from reaching the safety standards in the corners, it allowed the naked eye to see the situation in the park roughly.

This environment reminded Roddy of the holiday island and the dark forest illuminated by the stars.

But when he looked up at the night sky,
There are no stars in the sky or brilliant colors here, but there is a bright full moon.

Roddy adjusted the "button camera" on his collar and turned on the night recording mode.

He walked along the gravel path in the wooded area outside the park. Not far away there was a road sign pointing the direction of Moon Lake.

A sign is normal.

As we went deeper into the park, more and more signposts appeared. Some were even randomly inserted in the woods, tilted all over the place, or even broken and thrown on the ground.

All the signboards are the same, all pointing to Moon Lake.

It was as if the park itself was actively guiding Rody, guiding this night-time visitor.

Or maybe some invisible and intangible being has been waiting here for the reply.

When seeing so many signboards, a trace of fear flashed across Rody's face and his pace slowed down a little. He would look left and right from time to time and take a deep breath to relax his tense nerves.

Following the direction of the signs out of the forest area, a huge lake rippling in the moonlight comes into view.

There are a lot of sightseeing boats parked at the edge of the lake, and there is also a ticket office. It can be imagined that many tourists come here to row boats during the day.

Just when Roddy was about to pick a suitable sightseeing boat at random.

click!
The lights in the ticket booth suddenly came on.

This strange sight forced Luo Di to turn his head suddenly, and he vaguely caught a glimpse of a dark shadow standing in the ticket booth.

When he noticed this abnormality, his spine even began to heat up subconsciously, but it was quickly suppressed by Rody.

He approached cautiously.
There was no one in the pavilion, and the so-called black shadow was just a long gown hanging on a chair.

Strangely, there was a boat ticket and a key to start the sightseeing boat at the ticket window.

When Rody reached out to take it, the key was easily picked up, but the ticket was unexpectedly heavy, as if it was weighed down by something.

Take a closer look.

A hand was pinching the other end of the ticket.

Just as Rody saw this pale and bloodless hand, a cool breeze blew into his ears, mixed with faint human voices.

"Double boat... No. 3..."

The sound ended and the palm disappeared.

The boat ticket in Rody's hand still had a hint of coolness.

Huh~ Breathing becomes heavier.

Luo Di seemed to be extremely nervous, and fear was spreading in his body. But since he had to complete this offline activity after replying to the post, he could only force his trembling legs to walk towards the shore.

Find the double boat with the number three on it.
I stepped onto the slightly damp boat surface, and the shaking of the boat caused by my weight created ripples that broke the silence of the lake at night.

Not electric.

Instead, you need to use your feet to move on pedals similar to a bicycle.

The so-called key is only used to open the lock.

Crunchy~
The friction sound caused by the rotation of the axle was extremely harsh on the quiet lake surface, as if it would awaken something lurking underwater.

Before he knew it, Rody was already more than a hundred meters away from the shore. Gradually, he could no longer see the shore clearly and felt as if he was in the sea.

This feeling made Rody very uncomfortable, especially his back.

Fortunately, with the encouragement of the squad leader, I had adapted to the sea to a certain extent, otherwise my current situation would be very bad.

Unable to see the situation on the shore clearly, Rody could not determine whether he had reached the center of the lake, so he had to use the "map" on the bracelet to determine his location.

But when the bracelet is turned on, it is prompted that "there is no signal in the current area".

Rody could only temporarily stop pedaling the boat, take his hands off the steering wheel, and try to find a reference. Strangely,
Although Rody stopped pedaling, the boat showed no sign of stopping.

The steering wheel, which was not controlled by hands, turned on its own, as if there was another person pedaling the boat.

Thinking that he was on a double boat, Rody suddenly looked at the seat next to him.

There was no one on the cold plastic seat.
Only the pedals were turning and creaking on their own.

soon.

The boat began to slow down and finally stopped, presumably reaching the center of the lake.

Luo Di also started the countdown on his watch, waiting for the ten minutes to end.

The temperature of the lake surface dropped sharply, and it reached below zero in just three minutes. Rody could not help but hold his arms and shiver.

The cold brought fog, making visibility across the entire lake less than five meters.

I always feel that something is approaching in the fog, there is one more person on the boat, and something is floating up from under the lake.

Loneliness, coldness, and suspicion in the mind interweave into an emotion called fear.

Until... drip drip drip!

The countdown is over.

Rody hurriedly stepped onto the sightseeing boat and tried to leave.

But the fog on the lake did not dissipate. Rody was a little confused about the specific direction. He could only pedal hard in a fixed direction as long as he could reach the shore.

After a long time, there was still no sign of reaching the shore, which was longer than the time it took to reach the center of the lake.

Rody also realized that the real danger was not the ten minutes in the center of the lake, but [how to return].

No more wasting energy in vain.
The extreme coldness of the lake was rapidly depriving him of body heat.

If I just curl up like this and wait until the park opens in the morning, I might be able to survive, but there's a good chance I'll freeze to death.

Rody had no choice but to step onto the bow of the boat, trying to stand at a higher position to spy on the situation around the lake and try to see even the slightest bit of the buildings on the shore.

As far as the eye can see.

It seemed as if I really saw something in the thick fog.
In order to make sure that it was a landmark on the shore, Rody moved forward as far as he could, only one step away from falling off the bow.

however,
There are no landmarks at all, it's just an illusion caused by the extreme cold.

Just as he was about to turn around and go back into the boat, intending to curl up and spend the night.

I just felt a pair of cold hands on my back.
Give it a gentle push!
Rody, who was already standing on the edge, had no time to react and fell forward.

Plop! The waves splashed.

The extremely cold lake water submerged Rody. The unexpected fall caused him to be completely submerged in the lake. His vision came below the surface of the lake and his hearing was submerged by the water.

He was just trying to float up.

But there was a sound coming from the depths of the lake.

It was a song, a female song, that attracted Rody's attention and made him want to keep his body under the water.

Also at the same time.

With the faint illumination brought by the moonlight,
Rody saw a long-haired woman slowly swimming towards him in the depths of the dark lake, and the singing came from her mouth.

The other person seemed to have been dead for a long time, as if he had been waiting for the arrival of living people at the bottom of the lake.

Despair, suffocation, darkness, helplessness.

Anyone who replied would have either started thrashing around in the water or tried to get back on the boat.

but.

Rody's horrified expression suddenly froze, then slowly turned expressionless.

His right hand reached for the button camera on his collar and turned it off, so there was no need to record the following footage.

Looking at the woman swimming towards him,
The corners of Luo Di's mouth curled up slightly. He never expected that the fake person who he thought he would need to track down through various clues and intelligence could actually be contacted through the 4hs website.

Moreover, the other party is a pseudo-person who can express complete and concrete things.

Gulu gulu~
The lake water on the back was directly burned and bubbled, and the so-called extreme cold was dispelled by the heat from a higher dimension.

As darkness covered the pupils,

Rody, who had transformed into a devil from hell, pulled the lake water with tremendous force, carrying his body straight towards the black-haired woman who had a look of surprise on her face.

The other party seemed to have not reacted at all, still deceived by the disguise and thinking that the target was just an ordinary person.

When she looked at the 'replier' in front of her again, she found that there seemed to be some tentacles surging between the other's dark pupils, emitting a color fear that could be implanted in her brain.

(End of this chapter)