Deep in the Living

Chapter 607 Cold
Deep Blue Internet Cafe, outside the Fifth Hospital in Hades City.

Hawke suddenly felt his fingers stiffen, made a mistake, and was killed by his opponent. The computer screen turned black and white.

In the past, when faced with this situation, he would usually punish himself with instruments of torture to punish his lack of focus and mistakes.

But this time was different; that moment of stiffness made him realize something.

[“I love torture the most” has surrendered.]

Oculus and David, who were sitting next to him, immediately gave him strange looks, because they both followed the principles of Hell, and even if it was just a game, they had never thought of surrendering.

David patted his belly and said, "Hawk, are you out of your mind? Are you becoming more and more like a human?"

Oculos did notice something amiss. "An intruder?"

"No... Although it was only a fleeting feeling, I'm certain that Roddy is going to die."

Upon hearing this, Oculos immediately surrendered. Rodi was the treasure of the Spine, the key to breaking the existing order, and a crucial point personally mentioned by the leader.

Although David was unwilling, he still surrendered.

The base exploded, game over.

David didn't seem to care at all. "Our activity area here is severely limited. We can't even go to eat anything a little further away, let alone go to any corner. We can't help him at all, can we?"

Hawke inserted the hook into his brain, deep in thought. "There's a way... Oculus can help me."

Oculos pushed up his glasses, seemingly having guessed what was going on, and immediately stood up.

David wanted to go with them, but his stomach was stuck in the seat. "I'll wait for you guys at the internet cafe. Come back soon! I'm going to play a few solo games first."

……

Yu Lu stood on the playground like a female corpse, wearing a black and light dress that reached just to her knees.

Her black hair with bangs covered the area above her nose, revealing only her light pink lips.

Her pale skin was exposed, making her impossible to detect with thermal imaging, and the surrounding air was rapidly cooling down.

"Sister Yulu."

When Roddy came on stage, he greeted everyone politely, but for some reason, I felt that the interaction was a little awkward or distant.

I did spend some time with Yu Lu before, and I was even taken to the basement.

After that, Roddy was busy with other things and basically didn't go back to the sorority. The last time he went back, he didn't go to the basement, and they haven't seen each other since.

Even the best of friends will eventually drift apart if they are separated for a long time.

Are you scared, Roddy?

Beneath his bangs, his round eyes were fixed on the young man he hadn't seen in a long time.

Or rather, from the moment Yu Lu arrived here, she spent at least half her time observing Luo Di, the young man with whom she had once attempted suicide by hanging.

The other person has indeed changed a lot.

"No... I was a little excited, so I was sweating."

Roddy stuck out his tongue and licked away the cold sweat that had just slipped down his face, then started jumping up and down on the spot.

"Phew... Yu Lu, your death is a little different from when we worked together before. I estimate that your plant will soon merge with the pituitary space."

And with so many teachers here watching over me, even if I were to die, they would forcibly pull me back from the brink of death.

Therefore, we should just focus on fighting with all our might.

Yu Lu tilted her head slightly. "Go all out? Sure."

Teacher Guo has already raised his arm.

Start!
Whether offstage or on stage

Everyone felt a chilling aura enveloping their necks, especially the students, who felt as if they were being tightly strangled by a rope and were having difficulty breathing.

Everyone was only affected by the hanging themselves.

Roddy is the main target.

A visible hanging rope had been looped around Roddy's neck, suspending him in the air, one meter off the ground.

This is no ordinary rope; it is a tangible representation of death. When this thing is put around an individual's neck, death is essentially a death sentence.

But...buzz!

A loud engine roared, and Roddy managed to break free of the ropes without using his hands.

Careful observation will reveal that,
Roddy's neck was covered with intricate metal gear saw blades, which were spinning at high speed under the influence of hellish energy, with ash constantly rising around them.

Obviously,

Breaking free from its restraints, it landed instantly.

Swish!
Ash wings spread out behind him.

The old ridge protrudes completely outwards.

Both hands were already in a swinging motion.
The moment his wings flapped, Luo Di simultaneously pushed off the ground with his calves, mimicking Wu Wen's running posture.

Whoosh!
When the size 45 work shoes stepped forward, the enormous force left deep footprints on the ground, and with a whoosh, the air blasts could be seen exploding around the body in the instant of the explosive sprint.

The morning runs I've been doing lately have been quite effective.
While he might not be as good as monsters like Wu Wen and Li Beite at sustained long-duration running, he's by no means inferior in short bursts of speed.

The ashes haven't even caught up yet.

Roddy had already closed in.

Snapped!
He grabbed the other person's neck with his right hand, using the gray tentacles to restrain them.

Simultaneously, the left arm created a hellish chainsaw specifically designed for cold, deadly death.

Scorching, dry, and teeming with life in the hellish sawtooth formation.
Cut it off!

Tear!

While cutting and crushing her flesh, a portion of her body was also inserted into her left arm for in-depth analysis.

Swish! Yu Lu's body was completely torn apart from head to toe... But this scene didn't need censoring, because there was no blood splattering, and no contents falling out. It was like cutting open a cadaver that had long been hollowed out.

Only about five seconds have passed since the sparring began.

Such decisiveness and instantaneous killing left many people at the scene speechless, even Mr. Question Mark, who was hiding, gently tugged at his collar.

"Jia Wen, what do you think?"

"If a plant can have such physical explosiveness and coordination even before it is mature, I would give it nine points if it were a new plant."

"Why are we still one point short?"

"Not purely physical."

"Who do you think will win?"

Jia Wen was about to blurt out an answer, but he quickly swallowed it back just before it slipped from his lips.

The answer to this duel seems obvious on the surface, but Mr. Question Mark's question raises a big problem.

"Boss, you...think Roddy will win?"

"will not."

"That's right. This competition was never going to be a suspenseful one. The executioner raised by the grandmother will definitely win. The difference in the perfection of the plants is too great, not to mention that the quality of the woman's plants is also top-notch. No matter how talented this kid is, he can't possibly narrow the gap in rank."

"That's not right either."

"what?"

"Let's wait and see, this matchup is going to be a bit special."

An ancient coin appeared between Mr. Question Mark's fingers, turning back and forth between them. During this time, the campus area he saw began to be covered in darkness, and the temperature began to drop.

The grass began to wither and die, and the playground turned into wasteland.

Hundreds of meters above the ground, ropes descended from nowhere, their sheer number so great that they could be described as dense.

These ropes are of different lengths and range from 1 to 20 meters above the ground.

Roddy glanced at the nearest rope, and his death instinct was awakened. He unconsciously moved closer, wanting to stick his head into it.

"Hanging" became his primary need.

despair!
The tongue clicks, the mind clears.

Roddy immediately snapped out of his daze and decisively pressed his left arm to his eye—the structure of the torture device!
A ring of black metal is inlaid around the eyes, completely disrupting vision.

Simultaneously,

Roddy stopped breathing through his nose and started breathing through his mouth! He intended to make the most of his tongue, a scene that Gustave witnessed.

On a rope about fifty meters away, Yu Lu's body gradually solidified into shape.

She didn't attack directly, but said softly:
"You... you were already prepared to target me, Roddy?"

They actually transformed the neck completely into a metal structure similar to your left arm, covered in serrations, capable of cutting even my ropes.

With his vision blocked, Luo Di responded based on the direction of the sound:

"After the first four rounds, among the remaining four freshmen, apart from Sister Yulu, the other freshmen do not need any special preparation."

Yu Lu's death far outweighs my concerns. If I don't find a way, I won't even be able to put up the most basic resistance... I must give it my all.

Luo Di deliberately slowed down his speech to savor the taste of the cold air and detect the faint scent of corpse on Yu Lu's body.

Determine the location.

He unleashed another burst of extremely high speed, charging towards Yu Lu, who was hanging in mid-air.

[Cinematic adaptation]

During the sprint, Roddy simultaneously overlaid the cinematic effects.

A full moon appeared in the night sky, illuminating every rope and Yu Lu's body, labeling the other party as "supporting character prey," greatly reducing their defense and increasing the damage they would suffer from the killer's attacks.

They were about to get close, only ten meters away.

Without Yu Lu making any physical movement

Tap~ Tap~ Tap!
Roddy's tongue became uncontrollable and began to thrash violently.

The weird thing is,
Roddy seemed to have made up his mind. Instead of dodging, he continued to charge forward... or rather, the fact that his tongue was slapping so fiercely meant that it was too late to dodge.

Death surpasses Luo Di's current sense of danger; he was already dead the moment he faced Yu Lu.

Even so,

Roddy unleashed his strongest aura, wielding his chainsaw and slashing forward, pushing himself to the limit.

Swish!
A silvery-white luster suddenly flashed.

For a moment, it seemed as if time itself had stopped.

The cinematic space constructed by Roddy was ripped open with a huge gash, and the so-called domain was instantly destroyed. Even the moon was cracked and hung in the night sky.

The blade disintegrated, and its internal black metal structure was completely severed.

Luo Di was also completely frozen, unable to move.

Everything around him became so cold; he couldn't feel anything in his body, only a sense of loneliness.

the reason is simple,
The head was severed.
The head slid off along the smooth incision.
He fell hard to the ground.

The camera zooms out.

Yu Lu, suspended on the rope, was holding a silver-white scythe in her hand. This was a reward she had recently received in the deep dungeon, making her look like a true grim reaper.

She hadn't originally planned to show this during her enrollment period.
It was because Roddy had made a request of her, because Roddy had conveyed that request with his eyes, asking her to give it her all.

This level of death is far superior to the "immortality" that Roddy possesses.

Luo Di, whose head was severed from his body, showed no signs of healing... something went wrong with the test.

(End of this chapter)