Deep in the Living

Chapter 600 Danger Source

The information for the eight advanced freshmen is as follows:
The Hateful Eight

The local organization in the corner (responsible for cultivating new monsters, a breeding ground for malice, accepting only newborn monsters with extreme malice, limited to eight spots).
Selected personnel:
1. The Carnivore's House. Hunter
2. Deep Rot. Mia
The Sisterhood

The Corner Self-Made Organization (created by the grandmother, it only accepts female monsters with potential and is centrally managed)

Selected personnel:
3. Grandmother's right arm, the executioner. (Yu Lu)
The Hotel Scream

The Corner Self-Built Organization (created by the Duke, an important gathering place for Green Gate monsters, with non-mandatory centralized management)

Selected personnel:
4. Delicious pumpkin. Fran
The Rainy City*
*Located in a special city in a rain-prone area, this city is perpetually in a dangerous rainy season, and its population is far smaller than that of the Sin City.

Meanwhile, Rain City is the only literary capital within the corner, and the shops here mainly sell books, most of which are written by monsters.

Rumors have it that some people have seen Mr. Kraft, which has attracted many monsters, even top-tier monsters, to come here.

Selected personnel:
The notorious Rain City killer registered under a pseudonym:
5. Rust Rain
[Jiang Residence]

The Corner Self-Established Organization (created by the Jiang family patriarch, recruiting only monster members of Chinese blood, who are also responsible for guarding the dungeon entrance)

Selected personnel:
6. Former butler, Uncle Zhou

Sin City

Selected personnel:
7. Slave owner Fyodor
As for the last one, he was an unaffiliated young man who wore a white mask, was rather small, wore a bow tie, a tartan kilt, and leather shoes.

His personnel registration information was equally simple.
8. Rabbit Riley
This monster's presence was terrifyingly low. Because Roddy's attention was focused on Hunter, he occasionally glanced at Yulu and completely failed to notice the existence of this person.

Just as Roddy was pondering what this person had done in the melee and what monsters he had killed, the other party had already completed the draw.

The draw is over.

Each new student had a photocopy of their student ID, but it was destroyed after just one glance. Anyone who tried to peek could only see a dense array of question marks on the blank paper.

Besides Yu Ze, who was sleeping with talismans still attached to his body,
The returning students all wanted to know the lottery results.

However, it seems that Professor Guo is not in a hurry to reveal everything at once, but rather one thing at a time.

“Going to school requires enthusiasm, so the new students who are drawn last will be the first to begin the final assessment.”

The first one to appear is Riley the Rabbit, an unaffiliated, wandering monster.

Your examiner is Katayama.

"Ah I?"

When it was announced that it would be the first one to go on stage, Katayama, a veteran performer, looked nervous and started producing a lot of mucus. The rabbit, on the other hand, showed little expression and maintained its extremely low profile.

Before the other person went on stage, Roddy secretly came to Katayama's side. He actually had a good impression of this person, after all, it was rare to see such a simple monster in the corner.

"Katayama, do you need a piece of metal? I feel you'd be better able to control yourself when you're slightly dehydrated."

"Thank you, Roddy, but no need. After two morning runs, I've roughly learned how to regulate my body's water levels."

"Be careful."

"I will."

Roddy instinctively wanted to pat Katayama on the back to cheer him up, but he pulled back the moment he got close, almost ruining his arm again.

The practice area will remain the playground.

Freshmen who did not participate in the assessment should retreat to the outer edge of the playground and should not be interfered with in any way.

Both sides entered the venue.

Katayama reduced his body water by 70% through self-twisting, resulting in a well-proportioned and slightly thin appearance, with his drooping black hair slightly covering his ears and eyes.

He even jogged onto the playground and started doing very standard warm-up exercises.

Teacher Guo's voice came from the stage: "I would like to remind you again that although you need to be mindful of life and death when sparring, you do not need to hold back in any way."

Once our teachers discover that someone may die, they will intervene directly.

In addition, the sparring area is limited to inside the playground; leaving it constitutes defeat.

There are no other strict rules. Just immerse yourself in the fear and practice your skills, and show what you are good at.

Now, the first sparring match officially begins!

At Teacher Guo's command, the two people, who should have immediately erupted into a conflict of fear, did not move at all, not even making the most basic move of getting close.

Katayama has become much more proactive, but only in comparison to himself.

He was still doing his final stretching exercises, his gaze fixed on himself, ignoring the freshman wearing the rabbit mask.

suddenly,
Katayama, who was stretching his legs, became puzzled. He suddenly couldn't remember who his opponent was, and when he looked up, he saw that he was the only one on the playground.

He couldn't quite remember why he was standing there or what he was doing there.

However, he still noticed something. His morning runs during this period had left a very deep impression on him about the playground, but the area, which should have been flat, had some holes in the grass, resembling rabbit holes.

Furthermore, judging from the teachers' appearances and Roddy's eyes, Katayama must be conducting some kind of outdoor exam, and he must perform well.

His target might be inside those strange rabbit holes.

Thinking of this,

Katayama tried to move towards the nearest rabbit hole.

Instead of spreading the pathogens in his body, he lay down and peered into the dark hole, trying to see what was inside.

When you press your entire eye socket against the wall, all you can see is the darkness inside the hole.

A pair of red eyes glared out from the darkness, startling Katayama, who instinctively stepped back and accidentally sat down on his bottom.

however,
The red-eyed creature wasn't anything scary; it was an adorable white rabbit that had emerged and started grazing around.

"rabbit?"

Just as Katayama was wondering what was going on, a second rabbit emerged from the hole.

And it wasn't just this hole; rabbits started appearing one after another from the other rabbit holes on the playground, and soon a large number of rabbits surrounded him.

Some of the rabbits tried to get close to his body and began to gently tug at his clothes with their paws.

Katayama didn't reject them; instead, he squatted down and gently touched the rabbits. He had liked these kinds of small animals even before he became a pseudo-human.

however,
Just as he was getting into it, he suddenly realized something was wrong.

Several rabbits around seemed to be deformed; their bodies appeared to be stuck together, and one of them was even making baby-like cries.

A strange sensation came from Katayama's hand as well.
The texture was no longer fuzzy; instead, it felt like touching something sticky.

Looking down, I saw a large patch of rotten flesh on the back of the rabbit I was stroking, and fleshy roots were growing from the rotten flesh, connecting it to nearby rabbits.

time.

Scene changes,

Katayama had somehow already reached the depths of the rabbit hole.

A large totem made up of countless rabbit corpses is stuck here, with various fleshy roots floating on it.

Waves of fear rippled through Katayama's mind, constantly washing over his thoughts.

Katayama's body began to grow rabbit fur, and his hand suddenly broke off and fell to the ground, turning him into a rabbit.

An unknown phobia was spreading wildly in his brain.

……

On the actual playground.

When Katayama looked at Rabbit Riley, he froze, completely motionless.

Riley leaped and silently appeared behind Katayama.

His palm gradually cracked open, and dense nerve tendrils grew out, seemingly intending to peel off Katayama's pituitary gland directly.

Just as he was about to make his move,

Katayama turned around at the crucial moment, looking at him with an embarrassed expression, staring at the fleshy roots that had separated from his palm.

"Ah... what are you planning to do? Oh right, I remember now, you're that freshman, I'm evaluating you."

Riley was clearly startled. He couldn't understand why the other person hadn't been consumed by fear, even though he was already deeply immersed in it; his rabbit phobia should have taken root by now.

The surprise was only momentary.

In the rabbit's eyes, the opponent is full of flaws. All it needs to do is send its whiskers into the opponent's facial features to reach the pituitary gland and win.

The fleshy tendrils are just beginning to grow.

Whoa, whoa, whoa!
A violent coughing fit followed.
Rabbit Riley coughed up a lot of blood from under his mask, and his body became weak. He smelled something and decisively abandoned his attack to keep his distance.

When he looked up at Katayama again,

This seemingly simple, handsome young man, full of flaws,

In reality, danger lurked everywhere, and even the grass on the ground was infected with the disease long ago... This was not a person at all, but a cluster of disease twisted together by a vortex.

In the "rabbit hole" where Katayama fell, snails are constantly crawling out from among the rabbit corpses, and an endless plague has spread.

He himself had not been in contact with the infected person, yet he had already fallen ill.

"I abstain..."

(End of this chapter)