Deep in the Living

Chapter 435 Despair
Although Jia Wen helped them open the door, he had no intention of following them in.

Ga~
When the four people stepped into the mansion, the door behind them immediately closed.

The interior was not as gorgeous as expected, but rather looked messy and old.

There are no lamps.

No candles either.
The light of the whole room comes from self-luminous paint.
A large amount of yellow and green paint was used to paint question mark symbols inside the house, from table legs to the ceiling.

There were no guides or instructions.

It seems that you need to find Mr. Question Mark yourself.

Currently, you can choose to go to the entrance passages on both sides, or go up the stairs to the second floor.

The squad leader looked at the scene in front of him and said softly, "Mr. Question Mark really likes playing games... If the other big guys weren't in the City of Sin, I guess question marks would be floating over the entire city, and he would have turned it into a game city.

Games are a disaster, and by the time you realize it, you've already been infected.

My purpose is different from yours. Luo Di, you are going to receive the award, but I have something else to do with Mr. Question Mark. Let's separate here for the time being and see you at the door after we are done."

The squad leader had personally participated in the game and had a certain understanding of question marks.

She walked towards the left entrance where there were the most green question marks, raising her arm over her shoulder to say goodbye to everyone.

Hua Yuan and Yu Lu had not participated in the final level, nor had they formally met Mr. Question Mark, so they were unable to make a correct judgment on the situation before them.

But Rody pointed directly in another direction, upwards.

"Let's go upstairs."

The surface of the stairs is also painted with question marks.

The scene in front of the three people changed when they stepped onto the stairs.

The stairs that seemed to have only twenty or so steps before now extend infinitely.

"I'll go ahead, you guys follow me. Yulu, you'd better not float around here..."

Roddy originally meant for the other party to walk on the ground, but as soon as he finished speaking, he felt a touch on his back, as if a cold human backpack was hanging on him.

Hua Yuan could only follow behind with a forced smile.

But Rody didn't care too much, he had already entered the decryption state.

The question marks on the steps look the same, but there are actually subtle differences between them, and you must step on the correct question mark graffiti each time you go up a step.

After walking up the twenty steps correctly, the infinitely extending staircase disappeared, and a straight passage appeared in front of him, with only a door with a yellow question mark on it at the end.

Rody still seemed very cautious and treated this meeting and award ceremony as a game.

Carrying a school bag,

He took Hua Yuan's hand and walked in this passage.

The slightest distraction can cause the team to get separated or lost.

Rody's body structure changed to a certain extent. The tentacles gathered between his eyeballs, turning his pupils into gray question mark structures.

Instead of heading for the door at the deepest part of the room, he suddenly turned left halfway.

Use grey liquid to draw a question mark structure with a fixed proportion and correct direction on the empty wall.

When the dot under the question mark was dotted out, the wall immediately turned into a door and the door lock opened automatically.

A room filled with various blackboards, each of which was filled with game puzzles, appeared. Mr. Question Mark with a bag head was performing some mathematical calculations on one of the blackboards.

“4 minutes and 27 seconds, passed… It seems that you did decipher the basic meaning of the question marks in the final level, rather than passing it by trial and error.

You have a pretty good brain to be able to do this just after germination.

Would you like to stay with me?"

As soon as these words were spoken, both Yu Lu on his back and Hua Yuan behind him trembled slightly and became serious.

Luo Di did not think for a moment and gave the answer:

"I'm sorry, the sisterhood saved me."

As soon as I finished answering, I felt a push on my tailbone.
Hua Yuan was staring hard and giving various eye signals.

Although she really wanted Rody to stay in the sisterhood, it would be better to seize this opportunity now.

Working under Mr. Question Mark would provide greater security and development opportunities.

But Rody had already given his answer and could not take it back.

"Well, the reward is on the table. Do you want to take it away? Or do you want me to help you install it?"

"Excuse me Mr. Question Mark."

"Wait for me a moment. I'm still designing the next puzzle for the big challenge. You can feel the plant pot first. The early adaptation and familiarity will help with the next combination."

"it is good."

Luo Di naturally turned his gaze to the black plant pot on the table.

Suddenly he smelled a smell, a very stinky smell.

Different from the odor in daily life.

This stench is a long-lasting stench.

Like an unknown body sunk to the bottom of the river,
This sinking lasted for hundreds of years.

When the entire canal dried up completely, the corpses were still lying at the bottom, but the corpses themselves had been completely mixed with filth. The filth of the entire river had settled among the rotten flesh and fermented between the flesh.

When the body was fished out and taken back for autopsy, the smell that emanated from its mouth was similar to the smell it emits now. It was a long-standing stench of filth, a settled decay, and a dead smell.

Simultaneously,

Rody also saw a unique structure [human face relief].

As a participant, he was the first to see a human face-like structure vaguely appearing on the surface of the plant pot in the audience. There really was a human face structure on the dark surface of the plant pot, with eyes closed and lips closed, giving him an indescribable sense of weirdness.

The inside of the pot is filled with soil, from which the smell comes.

Do not know why,

Rody had a strong urge to touch the plant pot, even though he had already replenished his basic nutrients in the hot spring.

But, this is his thing.

Even though the old spine was trembling slightly, warning of danger, Rody's ego chose to ignore it and subconsciously reached out his hand.

Hua Yuan was about to step forward to stop him,
Yu Lu on Luo Di's back waved her hand to stop him. In her opinion, although this touch was dangerous, it was also an opportunity, or the installation of the plant pot had already begun.

The moment Roddy's fingers touched the surface of the plant pot, the sleeping or dead face actually opened its eyes and mouth.

This is an expression called "despair".

The dark soil inside the plant pot began to stir. Tiny, desperate human faces appeared in the soil and began to spread outward.

Human faces began to grow on the tabletop, followed by the ground, then the walls and ceiling...

Occupies space and covers Mr. Question Mark's office.

hum!
After a burst of tinnitus.

Rody was already in a completely unknown dark dungeon, where the soil, stone pillars, and walls all emitted a similar stench.

Reliefs of desperate human faces will continue to emerge.

"here it is……"

Rody had already grasped the butcher knife in his hand, always on guard against possible danger.

However, nothing appeared in the deep darkness. Instead, the cell door next to it suddenly opened, and a strong stench wafted out from inside.

Rody entered the cell.
There was no monster inside, but a "person" that looked like a skeleton locked with iron chains, and it was unknown whether he was dead or alive.

For some reason, Luo Di felt that the person in front of him was somewhat familiar.

He carefully used a butcher knife to lift up the man's long hair, but found that the man's eyes had long been bitten out by insects, and his entire face was almost indistinguishable from a skeleton.

The mouth is open in an [O] shape.

The depths of the dark mouth seemed to want to convey some sound, but Roddy could hear nothing.

Just this action drained the mummy's last bit of life and it died in despair.

His body melted into the wall, with only his desperate face remaining on the surface.

The cell seemed to sense the arrival of new members, and distorted faces appeared one after another.

Crying, shouting, screaming.

Iron chains came out from the mouths of these human faces, locked Rody, and tied him to the wall, to the position of the mummy just now.

All abilities were blocked and he became an ordinary person.

No matter how much you scream or struggle, you can't escape.

Rody was bound here.
One day, one month, one year... Strangely, he did not starve to death.

Only to become weak and thin,
Drowning in despair.

Until one day the cell door finally opened,
A young man who looked just like him used the blade of a knife to push his hair aside.

Rody used his last breath to try to escape from here, but his rotten and decaying mouth could not make any sound.

Despair gathers,

Total death.

Rody's body was gradually taken into the dungeon and became a part of it.

hum!
My eyes suddenly opened, everything returned to normal, and I returned to the office.

The yellow question mark on the bag head is right in front of me.

Roddy quickly touched his body and found that everything was still intact and in great condition. It was not shriveled or dead at all.

It felt like an unknown number of years had passed, but in reality only half an hour had passed.

"The planters have been installed. Go back and check them out for yourself... How does the dungeon feel?"

"good."

"You are really adaptable. Most people would have gone insane long ago and would probably need several months of mental treatment. No wonder Mr. Kraft chose you.

I hope there will be a bigger surprise when I see you next time."

"Thank you, Mr. Question Mark."

"Goodbye, human."

"Wait~ There's one more thing I want to ask you. It's about my tongue."

As he said that, Rody stuck out his tongue, with the sealed question mark structure still on it.

(End of this chapter)