Deep in the Living

Chapter 430 Deciphering
【The Sixth House-Clothing Store】

Participants in the incident-Roddy, Nosh Libet.

The letter requires: "Pick any color of clothing and go to the fitting room to change into it. It must be fitted and no other clothing is allowed inside. After finishing dressing, just stand in front of the dressing mirror to complete self-examination, and the door to the next room will open.

Please take off your clothes as soon as possible, otherwise it will be very dangerous. "

Solid color clothing on hangers (three primary colors).

Red trench coat, green leather jacket, blue turtleneck sweater.

Rody, who was leaning on a crutch, and Libet, who had half a head missing, picked one each without much hesitation.

Roddy chose red, Libet took blue, and they each went to the locker room.

There are question mark labels on the collars of these clothes, but the dangerousness of the clothes themselves cannot be detected. It is estimated that the dangerousness will only be revealed when they are worn on the body.

Take off the monk's coat and inner garment,
Huh~ Taking a deep breath, Rody put on the windbreaker.

The next second, the seemingly normal buttons on both sides were immediately attached to the skin, and some kind of probe was inserted under the skin, connecting all the ribs.

Bone sucking!

Rody could feel that his ribs were rapidly decaying, so he quickly left the dressing room and went to the only mirror in the room to admire his appearance. He could see with the naked eye that his chest was slowly collapsing.

After finishing his self-admiration, the lock on the door opened halfway.

Li Beite also changed into a blue sweater. The wool penetrated into his skin and sucked his blood. He was in a state of blood loss and dehydration.

As he presented himself to the mirror, the door to the next room opened.

They now need to figure out how to get the costumes off.

However, the two looked at each other and did not take off their clothes immediately. Instead, they took this opportunity to feel the effect between the question mark and their bodies.

Luo Di closed his eyes and blocked out all external influences.

Under the influence of the drama brain, the "question mark decryption" is visualized.

A huge three-dimensional question mark icon floated in front of Luo Di. In the previous level, he only tore off a small part of the sticker on the surface of the question mark.

Currently, because the clothes are worn for a long time, Rody has more time to decipher the question marks.

Reaching out and slowly tearing off the sticker on the surface, the secret hidden under the huge question mark was revealed. Roddy was even immersed in it for a moment and forgot the harm the clothes were causing to himself.

until……

"Rodi!"

A piercing sound reached my consciousness directly, as if a monster that could not be looked at directly was about to crawl out from the darkness.

He suddenly opened his eyes and cut open his clothes with a knife.

When the costume fell to the ground... Clang! There was a sound of bones hitting the ground.

An almost complete rib cage was actually worn inside the garment.

Correspondingly, Rody's ribs were almost squeezed dry, and his entire upper body was completely shriveled up, and he could only rely on the support of his old spine.

Because this is Mr. Question Mark's method,
Any attempt to replace the ribs is not possible.

Neither the chain frame nor the tentacle support can do this, leaving the internal organs without the protection of the bones, leaving the upper body in a "empty" state.

Breathing is also affected and ventilation efficiency becomes very low.

Li Beite looked at the human in front of him and said, "Rodi, you really don't want to live! If I don't call you... you will probably be sucked dry by this clothes."

"My level of decryption is about 38%. How about you?"

Luo Di didn't waste any words and only talked about the decryption of the question mark.

Li Beite's skin was completely peeled off by the sweater, and he had lost more than 50% of his blood, like a mummy, but his condition was still very good, as if he had not been injured at all.

After hearing the ratio given by Rody, he gave a thumbs up and said, "So fast! My estimate is exactly 30%... and I can't estimate as accurately as you. Your brain seems to be very good at this kind of thing, and your control over your body is also very high. It's amazing! Rody!"

Luo Di didn't want to waste words, but looking at the other party's finger movements, he couldn't help but complain: "Thumbs up is a compliment, and thumbs down means the opposite."

"Ohhh~ I read in the book that it only said to give a thumbs-up sign, without specifying the direction. It turns out that different directions have completely different meanings. Humans are really good at these details! Thank you. If I meet someone with a bad temper, I'll probably get beaten up."

Libet quickly rotated his thumb back to its normal position.

Rody looked towards the dark doorway. "I hope the next room will be similar to this one, so I can spend more time with the question mark."

Libet looked up and down at Luo Di, who was having difficulty breathing.
"Can you hold on? I think I already know the secret about Mr. Question Mark. What's more important now is whether you can survive, Rody.

I have learned medicine from my family, and I can see that your condition is very bad, Luo Di, and you may die."

"Walk."

After hearing Rody's reply, Li Beite said nothing more.

The two men supported their broken bodies and walked towards the next room. The scene before them made Rody gasp, and even Li Beite showed a rare pouting expression.

I don't even want to act anymore.
Directly in front of me was a trap room.

A circular pit with a diameter of eight meters is set in the center of the house. The inside of the pit is full of maggots in the shape of question marks, with mouthparts similar to those of lampreys.

The letter requirements are simple.
Jump into the worm pit, find the key hidden inside and go to the next room. If the previous rooms only peeled off part of the body structure, this one can directly devour the human body completely.

All kinds of perception cannot penetrate these insect swarms, so one can only jump down and reach out to feel around.

Li Beite had already sensed the danger of these insects in advance and could roughly estimate the time it would take for his flesh to be completely devoured. If he did not resist, he would be eaten up in less than half a minute.

And once you go down, it would be difficult to get to the next room even if you could climb up.

Just as Rody had estimated at first, the limit for the two of them to be able to clear three rooms together was already the limit.

Luo Di, who was standing on the edge of the pit, had a determined look in his eyes, "This time we can just jump down while keeping our brains shared. We don't need to look for the key!

Focus all your attention on deciphering the question mark... Once you have deciphered it, then consider the key."

"Are you sure? It's very likely that we will be completely gnawed away before we finish deciphering it."

Luo Di did not respond, but just gave a look.

Li Beite burst out laughing. "I saw humans in books. They are basically timid and fearful of death... Luo Di, you are completely different. You have nothing to do with what is described in the books. I am becoming more and more curious about the human world.

In that case, I will also show my true strength to clear the level."

Li Beite's seemingly weak body seemed to have undergone some changes, but the change was not outside the body, but inside the body.

Nothing could be seen through the camera footage; only Rody, who was standing next to him, could feel it.

The old spine has instantly straightened,

A primitive sense of fear lingered in my heart.

Rody suddenly looked at Li Beite's abdomen. It seemed that there was something inside, something very scary.

"What are you looking at, Rody! Connect me now."

"Ah."

Crunch, crunch~Gray tentacles grew out from Roddy's forehead and drilled into the other's brain. The two minds connected and shared the progress of deciphering the question mark.

The connection has been established.
The two of them leaped forward in sync.

Pah! The moment they fell into the pit, the question mark-shaped worms immediately began to bite their bodies, and once they made a hole, they would drill into their bodies.

This time Libet did not focus on deciphering the question mark.

Since Rody can decipher the code faster than him, he will let the other party do this job. He will ensure that Rody will not be completely eaten by these bugs.

hum!
The invisible realm is released.

Only one question mark worm was allowed to drill into Rody's body, and the other worms that tried to drill into him or Rody's body would be crushed into minced meat.

Decipher the question mark with minimal physical exertion.

Although the worms between the pits can be produced unlimitedly, the production speed cannot exceed Li Beite's killing speed.

Some kind of extremely terrifying existence is hidden in Li Beite's body. With just a slight pinch, all targets within a fixed range will be wiped out.

However, the only worm that crawled into Rody's body laid eggs rapidly in a short period of time, and in less than a minute, there were dozens or even hundreds of them.

Li Beite cannot be crushed directly inside Rody's body because the broken insect body contains toxins that will accelerate the decay of the body.

Just when he was worried that Rody might die because of this, he discovered something strange.

Although the number of insects in Rody's body was increasing, their eating speed was decreasing. Moreover, as Rody got closer to death, the eating speed of the insects dropped to almost zero.

"Hmm? Mr. Question Mark is letting you down... No, is it Rody's ability?"

Li Beite paid some attention to Rody's remains and found that the insects crawling among the flesh seemed unable to bite them anymore.

A strange aura lingered in Rody's body, preventing death from happening.

"Immortal?"

A few minutes passed,
Rody, whose face was completely unrecognizable and had lost his human form, actually smiled and completed the final deciphering before he lost consciousness.

As Rody shared the decryption results,
The two immediately transformed their body structures.
Li Beite stopped killing the bugs and let them crawl all over their bodies. However, this time, the bugs did not bite them, but just crawled over their bodies.

"It's a bunker! Rody!"

Libet praised him using human words he had read from some book.
Rody just gave a bitter smile. Now it was difficult for him to even stand up. Maintaining the most basic breathing was already his limit.

The edge of the pit,

Libet climbed up with only the upper body of Rody left on his back.

Blood holes on the body surface,
No ribs,

Unrecognizable,

Even the eyeballs were eaten clean.

However, Rody's broken body remained immortal, and the blood vessels in his body were rearranged, corresponding to the secret pattern behind the question mark.

This kind of structure in the body is like a [key] that can prevent the question mark structured substances from causing harm to the body. The secret set by Mr. Question Mark in the final level has been cracked.

(End of this chapter)