Deep in the Living

Chapter 543 Misfortune and Vortex

“Welcome next time!”

After leaving the video store, the four were immediately teleported to a random area in the back mountains.

It is still nighttime.
Through conversation, we learned that the flow of time inside the dungeon is different from that outside.
Although the movie events they experienced were several days apart, the actual time it took for the footage to be transmitted back to the video store was only a few tens of minutes apart.

If calculated according to this ratio, only a few hours should have passed in the outside world; it should still be the night they entered the dungeon.

The butler from the pine tree had been waiting for them to return at the back door.

Under the effect of the silent notes bestowed by Yu Ze, they each returned to their rooms.

Roddy's experience in the dungeon, especially that divine contact, coupled with the prolonged excitement afterward, had already exhausted his body and mind.

It was already four in the morning when I fell asleep.

When he woke up, the sky outside was still dark; it was already night of the second day.

A flash of red suddenly appeared in his blurry vision, startling Roddy so much that he sat bolt upright.

Side of the bed,

A woman in red was sitting there, unnoticed.

The asymmetrical face was facing him.

"mom!"

Roddy instinctively cried out.

"Keep your voice down, everyone's asleep. I came here to ask you something. I fell asleep after you learned about 'asymmetry' from me the day before yesterday."

My husband led you to the entrance to the back mountain. Did anything unusual happen?
Why are all of you young people sleeping today, except for Li Beite who made it to dinner? You all seem very tired. Besides contacting the entrance, did you do anything else?

During the questioning, a finger can be gently touched on Roddy's forehead to capture the deepest fluctuations in his thoughts.

"That's right... It didn't actually take much time to get to the entrance."

With nothing else to do, we decided to have a sparring match with our father. After a long time, the four of us finally managed to touch him.

Everyone must have been exhausted, which is why they slept all day.

The woman listened with a mixture of confusion and delight. “My husband actually has the time to play with you all like this? And you little ones actually managed to touch his body? It seems my Li Beite has really grown up.”

Roddy tries his best to control his brain through disguise, so that these words, which are a mixture of truth and falsehood, can be expressed normally:

"Yes, I also have to thank my mother."

The asymmetry worked wonders, effectively capturing the father's attention; otherwise, the final touch wouldn't have been possible.

Roddy's topic shift was very successful, leading the hostess's suspicions to the issue of asymmetry.

"Can you really use what you've just learned in real combat? I don't really believe it. Let's try it out now."

"Now?"

"Yes……"

The moment the woman gave an affirmative answer, Roddy, sitting on the bed, had already slashed out with a chop to the neck!

Just a second ago I was still asleep, and now I've switched to slaughter mode.

It looks like a hand chop.

The fingers on the actual surface are randomly distributed, exhibiting not only "asymmetry" but also polydactyly.

After a perfect rest, Roddy was suddenly inspired. He drew inspiration from the extraterrestrial hand he had come into contact with through divine contact and imitated the external form of that hand.

The lady of the house originally just wanted to test Roddy.
Yet, at that moment, I felt as if I were facing a formidable enemy.

Her monstrous instincts led her to launch a direct counterattack, not physically, but by revealing her right eye, which had a Rubik's Cube-like structure, and forcibly implanting irregular concepts into it.

click!
Roddy's body instantly twisted and contorted in chaos, and the slashing hand blade was also affected, deflecting and landing in the middle of the bed.

Not only was the large bed split in two, but even the floor cracked open. Keep in mind, this wasn't an ordinary house, but the Invisible Manor, its materials sourced from the dungeon.

Although the cracks in the ground quickly healed themselves, the woman was still shocked.

Realizing she had done something wrong, she quickly stepped forward and hugged Roddy.

It restores its physical state through reverse asymmetry.

"Godson, let Mom give you a hug! I'm so sorry, your action triggered my instinctive reaction."

It seems you might have indeed gotten close to my husband. Your personal talent has exceeded my expectations; among all the Black Gate individuals I've met, you should be the one with the most potential.

"It's nothing... being twisted like that actually made me a little more awake."

Roddy was being held so tightly, and in the middle of the night, alone in a room with his father. If the chopping sounds had attracted his father's attention, he probably wouldn't have been able to explain himself no matter how hard he tried.

After recovering slightly, he broke free from the embrace and pretended to get up and stretch.

The result... *smack!*

Roddy's wrist was suddenly grabbed and he was pulled back to the bedside, sitting close to his mother.

"I came to see you tonight because there's something else I need to tell you."

Didn't you want to take Li Beite to get in touch with the [Vortex]? I talked about this with my husband today.

It's strange, my husband used to be much stricter with Liberty than I was.

He would never have agreed to contact a mysterious organization like this in the past, but he agreed to it in a short time today.

This is probably related to your sparring with him last night, which proved your strength. Furthermore, among those accompanying you was another special human and a member of the sorority; the four of you traveling together significantly reduced the risk.

Seeing your performance tonight, Luo Di, has put my mind at ease. In order for my son to have a better future, it is indeed good to let him go out and broaden his horizons.

However… I'm still not entirely at ease, so I need Roddy to do me a favor.”

"What?" "I will eventually agree to let Liberty go out, but it will be limited to one week. Also, I will install a tracking device on you, and Liberty will have one too."

If Liberty hasn't returned home by the appointed time, his father and I will come looking for him.

Roddy was somewhat embarrassed. "Well... since this organization can be so secretive, it must have special methods to track external threats. If we contact the organization, we'll definitely be subjected to a full-body check, or sent to a special space completely isolated from the outside world."

"Mom, you can rest assured. I'm over 90% sure this organization won't harm us, and we'll definitely bring Liberty back within a week."

The woman of the house flatly refused, "No, this is a necessary condition; otherwise, we will not agree. As for whether the tracking device will be discovered, that's something you need to consider yourself."

We will come to you in advance if the location service fails.

"...Okay! By the way, this positioning device won't be too conspicuous, will it?"

The woman's fingers instantly pierced Roddy's skull.

As the fingertips touched the brain, Luo Di's cerebral sulci underwent subtle changes, forming a small asymmetrical structure.

"Done~ If the other side can discover this method, it is enough to show that this emerging organization is very powerful."

The woman got up, stretched, and prepared to leave. As she reached the door, she asked softly, "Would you like to come hunting with me in the back mountains? If we have time, I can teach you some more things."

"Ok."

time flies,
Five days have passed since Luo Di arrived at [Invisible Manor].

Aside from the dungeon experience, the most important takeaway was learning about asymmetrical structures from "Mom".

The rest of the team also reaped great rewards.

Since returning from the dungeon, Yu Ze has been extremely busy. During the day, he conducts combat training with Li Beite in the family's front yard, and Hua Yuan also participates.

At night,

Yu Ze would also be invited to the head of the family's study to discuss matters such as calamities and ominous signs.

Today, Luo Di and Hua Yuan need to leave first and return to the Sisterhood.

My grandmother happened to be out after the videotape incident, so I had to go back to explain the situation.

They are expected to meet at the ruins of the amusement park where the videotape incident occurred two days later, and then head to their destination together.

Roddy didn't know the exact location of the [vortex]; he only had a directional sense deep within his brain.

……

Inside the mansion,

The couple rarely spend time together.

The woman raised her index finger to show her fingerprint, which had sulci patterns on its surface.

“Honey, this is a signal that was extracted from deep within Roddy’s brain. If you’re busy, I’ll go check it out.”

"The fact that the other organization could remain completely hidden under the noses of so many monsters means that even if it's just a signal, it should only be directed to a transit station."

Only when Roddy gets there will someone be there to meet him. You're not good at area reconnaissance, so I'll go instead.”

"Thank you for your hard work, honey."

"Yes, I'm very interested in this matter myself, and it seems that Mr. Question Mark is also secretly investigating it."

The "father" sits in his own fully automatic wheelchair, using mechanical support to move a painting inside his study.

He took out an old train ticket from the safe hidden behind him.

The entire ticket exuded an aura of fear, as if it were some kind of special prop.

The woman then engraved the signal pattern onto the ticket.

The ticket began to shake, and a structure resembling a voting gate appeared in the space in front of it.

The father dropped the train ticket into it... *Whoosh!* A spatial fluctuation occurred.

Scene panning!

The "father" in the wheelchair had arrived at a crossroads, an area belonging to the "unexplored zone" of the middle level.

There are several reasons why it has not been explored, including but not limited to regional instability, high risk, being on the periphery, and lack of exploration value.

The crossroads are surrounded by dilapidated town streets.
The sky was obscured by an unknown type of dust.
Even during the day, it appears as if it were night.
There is no light source, and visibility is extremely low.

The father showed no extra expression; he simply loosened the wheelchair restraints as if nothing was wrong.

Get up on your own and take a step forward.

But before he could take two steps, misfortune struck. He twisted his ankle and fell heavily, his mouth hitting the curb of the vertical structure.

The fall completely smashed his head off.
Brains splattered.

However, within the wound on his father's neck, blood vessels quickly began to pulsate, forming a strange symbol that seemed to be sensing something.

A discovery was made soon.

Skull reconstruction

The father also sat back in his wheelchair and slid to the nearest bus stop, where the clump of brain tissue he had just knocked off was located.

The weird thing is,

The brain tissue exhibits a vortex structure.

Next second,
On the metal bench on the other side of the bus stop, a thin man with neatly dressed clothes and slicked-back hair was sitting down.

He was also holding an unnamed textbook in his hands.

Its facial features are rotating at different frequencies.

(End of this chapter)