Deep in the Living

Chapter 587 Appreciation
Whirlpool Town, Fourth Middle School, Teachers' Office.

Teacher Guo stuck out his tongue, looking at the small piece of flesh missing from the side. Then he looked at his feet, where a pitch-black demon with a human body and a tongue was lying.

The demon's back was completely concave, its spiral structure utterly disintegrating the flesh.

Teacher Guo was not angry at all because of the other party's sneak attack. Instead, he showed a smile that he hadn't seen in a long time. It seemed that this was the kind of person who was qualified to be a teacher and who could face threats from outside the region.

Just as he was feeling fortunate to have such a person join the teaching team and was about to start preparing for tomorrow's lesson again, his expression suddenly changed.

"Why are there so many things happening today..."

……

Roddy has already agreed to Gustav's request and is preparing to let him meet his friends ahead of schedule.

Anyway, classes will proceed as normal, and as a teacher he will meet with everyone, so Luo Di thought he would just invite everyone to Wu Wen's villa for a dinner party.

Getting to know each other beforehand allows any problems to be resolved in advance, which is always better than having conflicts erupt within the school.

As the two walked toward the villa area, Roddy suddenly sensed a familiar presence.

Gustav, who was walking behind, had already turned his face away.

The familiar bag-shaped head, the familiar question mark logo.

"Mr. Question Mark, what are you doing here? Oh no!"

Along the way, the thing Roddy heard most often was about Gustave's craving for Mr. Question Mark's tongue. This craving, like fermenting beer, became more and more fragrant and intense during the decades of sealing!
It's like a young man who decides to quit pornography. After successfully persisting for a full hundred days, a senior member of the group accidentally forwarded a series of high-quality videos to the group in the form of chat history. He just happened to click on it and saw the GIFs in the videos.

Roddy couldn't fully grasp this feeling, but he knew perfectly well that he couldn't stop it on his own.

really,

When he came to his senses, Gustav was no longer behind him.

He pounced on it in the most primal, frenzied way, his tongue flying high in the air, displaying his excitement.

What was clearly a simple act of pouncing on its prey, Roddy vaguely saw something rather abnormal.

It was as if countless tongues had sprung up along the entire street, surging in from all directions like a tidal wave.

but,

Mr. Question Mark made no move; the red question mark on his face slowly turned yellow, and the dot at the bottom of the question mark seemed to turn into an eye.

Gustav was about to touch his face.

suddenly,

A powerful aura descended from the outside.

A pure white fist the size of a sandbag landed solidly on Gustav's cheek, and the shockwave it released shattered all the tongue illusions that filled the street.

click!
Gusta was nearly decapitated by the punch, barely managing to stay upright thanks to the dense tongue around his neck. His body crashed into the houses across the street, passing through three buildings before finally coming to a stop.

It wasn't Mr. Question Mark who delivered that punch.

Instead, it was Javin, the first zombie who suddenly passed the authentication and happened to enter Vortex Town, who was also the person who participated in the videotape incident with Gustav back then.

only,
After delivering that powerful punch, Jia Wen's expression turned incredibly ugly.

The feel of that fist was very strange, unlike any of the creatures he had ever fought before; it felt like he was hitting an endless mountain of tongues.

Not only did it fail to damage the mountain, it also ended up with his hands covered in saliva.

hum!
Jia Wen acted decisively, biting off his right shoulder and severing his entire right arm.

Even while the severed right arm was still in a detached state, a tongue began to emerge from within, turning the bone, skin, and muscles into tongues.

Bang!

The right arm that had fallen to the ground exploded, turning into countless tongues that continued to surge forward.

Jia Wen, however, instantly regenerated his arm and made a very exaggerated movement.

He stretched his arms back until his palms could come together behind his back, and then accelerated forward, delivering a powerful clap in a huge arc!

Snapped!
The space itself was shaken by the impact.

The ground was dented in a fan shape.

The resulting air pressure directly blew all the tongues off and tore them apart.

Even Luo Di, who was standing a hundred meters away, was forced to cover his ears and take three steps back, blood seeping from his eyes and nostrils.

"What level of battle is this...?"

Cold sweat trickled down Roddy's forehead as he was shocked by the scene before him.

But he was not afraid, nor worried about being affected. Instead, he went a step further and wanted to see every detail clearly.

His true nature as a serial killer led him to seek this rare combat intelligence and to gain physical strength.

"what is that?"

Roddy suddenly noticed something behind Jia Wen.
In a corner behind him that he hadn't noticed, in a complete blind spot, a silent figure was rapidly climbing down the building's facade.

Roddy saw it; it was a creature with a human body and a tongue, the tongue monster form that Gustave had created to influence the outside world.

But this thing can only be seen, not sensed, as if the tongue monster has licked away its own aura.

Almost the instant Jia Wen stopped, the thing was already close, about to make a move.

hum!
An invisible force field was suddenly released.

The tongue monster seemed to be fixed in place by something, remaining completely still!
Upon receiving the news, Jia Wen immediately turned around, his eyes wide, clearly unaware of the strange thing approaching.

The weird thing is,
This time, Jia Wen didn't attack; instead, he took two steps back. He seemed unable to attack the motionless tongue monster, as if it had been marked by something and trapped in a special domain.

Mr. Question Mark, who had been sitting still, stood up and faced the Tongue Monster.

He clenched his right hand into a fist and slowly raised it.

The tongue monster made the exact same fist-raising gesture.

As their fists were raised above their heads, they suddenly slammed down.

They weren't attacking each other, but playing a game, a simple game that everyone can play - rock-paper-scissors.

One round determines the winner.

The tongue-shaped monster is made of stone.

Mr. Question Mark is Cloth.

The outcome is decided!

An irreparable, fundamentally destructive crack formed on the tongue monster's body surface. After the crack opened, the body quickly annihilated, leaving not a trace behind.

Just after the tongue monster was completely annihilated,

Gusta, who had just been punched and sent flying, walked back from the other side of the street.

Strangely, he seemed to have suppressed his desire for the tongue, or perhaps he had been completely jolted awake by the punch.

"Oh my gosh~ you two are still together! At first, I only saw you with the question mark, and I thought this was the best opportunity ever."

If it's two, then forget it!
Although I racked my brains underground and came up with many new methods, the two of you working together were practically flawless. We'll have to wait until Roddy grows up before we have another two-on-two match.

"By the way, what are you doing here, Question Marks?"

"What are you doing here, tongue?" Mr. Question Mark retorted directly.

"Huh? I've already signed a contract and officially become a member of Whirlpool Town. Now I'm the biology teacher here."

"If you're interested, you can stay too! Let me think about it! Jia Wen would be perfect as a PE teacher, and Question Mark, why don't you become a computer lab instructor? That way, we can see each other every day—wouldn't that be amazing!"

"A contract? A teacher?"

Mr. Question Mark was not yet clear about the specifics of Whirlpool Town, but this kind of organizational structure was something he had never heard of before, and it seemed quite interesting.

Who is that student?

Gusta put his hand on Roddy's shoulder. "Roddy is one of them. What other natural monsters are there? I don't know much about them either. I just got here."

Mr. Question Mark stopped talking, only glanced at Roddy, and then walked with Jia Wen into the depths of the town.

I thought this farce was about to end.

Gusta, who had been behaving normally just a moment ago and had decided not to start another conflict, suddenly changed his expression and began to grow a large number of tongues from his feet, charging forward without making a sound.

It looks like they're about to ambush the two from behind.

Just when everyone thought a conflict was about to erupt, an unbelievable scene unfolded.

Snapped!
When Gustav came to within five meters of the two men, he actually knelt down on the ground, looking distressed.

"Question mark, please have mercy~ cut off a part of your tongue and give it to me? Preferably a large part, no... preferably the whole tongue."

I must make a specimen of your tongue and keep it as a decoration by my bedside!

"Give it to me, and I'll give you something very important in return."

Even with his face covered by a cloth bag, Mr. Question Mark could be sensed that he was looking disgusted and just wanted to leave as quickly as possible, away from that tongue.

He quickly went to a small hut by the roadside, drew a question mark on the door, opened it, and went inside.

By the time Gustav got up and chased after them, the two figures were no longer behind the door.

He could only walk back dejectedly towards his dormitory, his disappointment practically written all over his face.

Roddy looked at Gustav, who was preparing to go back to his house, and asked, "Senior, aren't you going to see my friend?"

"I'm going to go to bed."

"Row……"

Gustave strolled back to his teachers' dormitory, closed the door, shut the window, and turned off the lights.

Sitting at the dining table,
The previous disappointment had completely dissipated, replaced by an extremely joyful face, so much so that he was sweating profusely from excessive joy.

In his hand, he held half a tongue firmly; the shape of the tongue, the texture on its surface, and its proportions were all perfect.

Although it wasn't a complete tongue, he was already satisfied!

He took out some snacks to accompany his drinks and began to savor this delicacy alone.

……

the other side.

When Mr. Question Mark arrived at another location in Whirlpool Town via a "door," he suddenly reached out and touched his mouth.

"That guy touched the door beforehand!"

It was when Jia Wen knocked him away that...
While we were drawn to the tongue monster,
He quietly touched the door, smeared saliva on the lock, and then used my disgust to trick me into falling for it.

Interesting...really interesting!
"Jiawen, be prepared, we might be staying here for a long time."

(End of this chapter)