Deep in the Living

Chapter 556 Intruder

Roddy rents a typical Japanese-style budget apartment, a long, two-story building.

The only way to go up and down is via a metal staircase at the front of the row, and there are only six households on each floor.

They lived in the middle of the second floor.
Katayama's snoring was so loud it was terrifying, that even the next room could hear it, but it didn't bother Roddy. He could control his brain state and filter out that frequency of sound.

The weird thing is,
Roddy suddenly felt the urge to urinate in the middle of the night.

His body has absolutely no kidney deficiency or bladder capacity issues; his bodily waste can be directly filtered through the burning in hell.

But Roddy didn't find anything strange. He subconsciously got up and went to the bathroom, where he ran the water for a full two minutes.

Just as he was dragging his tired body to go back and lie down for a while,
Out of the corner of my eye, I suddenly caught a glimpse of the sink I had just passed and noticed that my reflection in the mirror looked a little off.

Roddy quickly returned to the sink and carefully looked at himself in the mirror.

Sure enough, there seemed to be something under his eyelids. He forcefully pulled his eyelids open and saw something resembling horsehair worms, and there was more than one.

When these things are exposed to air,

Metal growth began to occur rapidly.
Sharp blades grew out from beneath Roddy's face, piercing through his eyeballs in the process, and structures resembling metal appendages emerged, swaying wildly in the air.

despair!
Tongue tapping,

The screen disappeared.

He suddenly opened his eyes; it had just been a dream, but the stinging sensation on his face remained.

The feeling of being pierced by metal is different from that of a torture chamber. It's a different type of metal, damp and cold, even more like a living organism.

but,

Roddy was more concerned about his own tongue and immediately stuck it out. Sure enough, the question mark on it faded considerably.

"Did the isolation caused by alienation weaken even Mr. Question Mark's seal?"

It doesn't matter anymore. In this situation, everything needs to be used; even the tongue's own warning system is useful. Is someone watching us? Nearby or…”

Perception diffusion.

But just as the gray light spread out, Roddy froze, because in the sensory map he had scanned, a person over two meters tall was standing right behind him.

The two were almost touching.

Moreover, the gray color cannot penetrate the other party, making it impossible to obtain any information.

"when!?"

Roddy's brain works at an incredibly fast pace.
At the same time, you have to choose between options such as counterattack, dodge, block, draw your weapon, and switch stances, but you quickly get the only answer.

The [Immortality] ability is fully activated, and the user leaps to escape through the window.

The opponent was able to approach from behind silently, so their strength and speed must be incredibly fast; any counterattack would be ineffective.

next second.

Bah!
The window is broken.

Roddy successfully "escaped," but his speed was a bit too fast; it didn't seem like he jumped out on his own, but rather that he was forced out.

Not only that, but his abdomen and below were completely gone, and his spine was swaying in the air.

Bang!

Its body slammed heavily against the wall across the road, creating several cracks, before falling into the garbage heap.

"Ju-on? No, this is a physical entity, and a very tall and heavy humanoid entity at that. The impact felt like metal striking metal, and despite its weight, its speed was astonishing."

I have to get back quickly; Katayama is in danger.

Supported by the immortality effect,
Luo Di first crawled on his hands, his spine undulating.

On the way to the rental house, the lower body was quickly reconstructed, and the shaping was completed right downstairs.

With a leap and a quick contraction, he made his way back inside through the broken window.

The moment it landed, the cinematic realm unfolded!

hum!
The interior was instantly transformed into the style of a crystal lake.
Roddy, wearing the Jason mask, tilted his head in confusion, because the target was not within the scope of the domain.

"Ran away?"

Roddy did not immediately discontinue the cinematic process, but instead approached Katayama's location cautiously.

In just a few seconds,

Katayama had been completely dismembered; his head was gone, and his shriveled body was scattered everywhere.

However, Roddy could sense his life force; he had not died.

"Katayama is a bit like me; his main consciousness isn't in his brain, but rather inside the snail shell that evolved from his spine."

Even if his head is destroyed, it's no big deal. And his vitality is astonishing; most ridiculously, this guy... is still sleeping?

A bizarre scene unfolded.

On the dismembered corpses of Katayama, regardless of size, even the smallest pieces of flesh showed swirling structures and soon developed snail shells.

that's it,
Snails of all sizes gathered towards the center and stuck together.

Even the abandoned human head crawled back in from outside.

Gathering,

Remove the outer shell,

Returning to its original form, it remained asleep, undisturbed even after being dismembered.

"This guy……"

The film adaptation of Roddy's story has been revealed, and it's certain that the target has left, most likely because he was contaminated with the disease's slime while dismembering Katayama.

At this moment, Roddy finally understood the squad leader's warning: Katayama was indeed special and dangerous.

……

At the beach.

Even in the early hours of the morning, a few people were fishing here.

A somewhat distorted white figure arrived here, swallowed the fishermen alive, and then submerged its body in the sea to finally expel the disease from its body.

It was even forced to undergo surgery to remove the snail shell embedded deep within its flesh.

Everything is done.
He went to a closed shop on the beach, grabbed a few bottles of soda and gulped them down, then lay down inside and fell asleep.

When the boss came to open the door the next day, she was instantly dragged inside by something, and before anyone could even scream, she became his breakfast.

……

Renting a room in the early morning.

"Wow~ I'm awake, I'm awake... I've finally had enough sleep."

Katayama stretched and slowly got up, supporting his dry and dehydrated body.

He could clearly feel a heavy iron block inside his body, which would constantly drain his body's water.

He didn't say anything more; he knew it was Roddy's doing. Although it was very uncomfortable to have it inside him like that, he chose to endure it silently.

However, while washing up, he unexpectedly discovered healing marks on his arm. "Luo, did you attack me? It looks like my body was cut into many pieces while I was sleeping."

Luo Di had just woken up a while ago and seemed to have not slept well, yawning several times in a row.

"An enemy came last night and sneaked into the house. They most likely contracted a disease while attacking you and were forced to leave."

"That means there's something else here besides the curse, which is definitely different from ordinary dungeons."

Next time I fall into a deep sleep and need to be woken up, Roddy, you can draw circles on my back with your finger, along the lines of the snail shell, and that will wake me up.

"By the way, Roddy, did you get a good look at what the other person looked like?"

"Two meters, very heavy, metallic texture, humanoid creature, stealthy, highly mobile, and also has a marine feel."

"That's definitely not something from Ju-on... Should we go find the attacker from last night, or continue searching for Ju-on?"

“Keep looking for houses. I’ve marked the locations of all the detached houses on the map and checked them one by one. The attackers from last night will definitely find their way back, so there’s no need to actively search for them.”

"Ah."

Not long after getting on the bus, Katayama's stomach started growling.

Roddy was also feeling a bit hungry, so he decided to get some breakfast first. However, the whole city seemed to be filled with fish, and almost every restaurant he looked for was related to fish.

There was no other way but to move as far away from the city as possible, away from the ocean.

Finally, we found a tonkotsu ramen restaurant located on the side of the road.

The two sat down inside the shop and waited for their ramen.

A woman with a panicked expression suddenly rushed in, ordered a bowl of fish ramen, and also added a serving of sashimi. She then sat in the corner, trembling.

Judging from her very deep eye bags, the woman seemed to have not slept for a long time, and she was also trembling slightly.

Despite it being summer, she was wrapped in a thick, airtight coat.

the most important is,

Roddy smelled a scent emanating from this man, a scent of curse.

"Looks like I'm having a lucky day..."

(End of this chapter)