Deep in the Living

Chapter 728 The Person Outside the Door
Human Exploration Bureau.

After completing a retreat in an ancient cave, Yu Ze, the deputy minister, returned to his private office to find that Miss Song was not there.

During this period, Song Huiwen, as a specially appointed member, followed the Extinction Department to carry out many overseas missions.

The sachet and talisman given to her by Yu Ze can effectively limit her condition.

The Extinction Tribe is a group of belligerents who value strength above all else. They are not hostile towards Song Huiwen and have even formed some friendships with her.

The fundamental humanity that Song Huiwen once lost is slowly being restored in this process.

Yu Ze sat alone at his desk.

On the upper right corner of the desktop was a pile of his own materials, which appeared to be hand-drawn about various types of holes and abyss structures.

On the center of the table was a document that had just been delivered. It was a file that he had arranged for people to retrieve before he went into seclusion, containing information about the Jiang family and Master Jiang.

The relevant information is quite complete, with very detailed records of him before he became a monster.

Jiang Huaishan (1935-?)
In the early days of the United States, the local infrastructure work was enormous, requiring a large influx of manpower. The immigration policies at the time were very lenient, and certain special groups were even sent to this remote island nation.

Jiang Huaishan, who was convicted of first-degree murder and should have been sentenced to death, was instead sent to this island nation as a special case at this juncture.

The other members were also criminals from various prisons across China.

They were concentrated in the eastern part of the island, where Jupiter City is now located, and carried out construction work around the clock while wearing electronic shackles.

All existing buildings on the site of the United States need to be demolished to ensure that there are no physical corners left.

Even these fearless criminals felt fear when they saw someone disappear right in front of them.

However, the authorities also promised that as long as they could complete the city's construction, most people's sentences would be waived, allowing them to stay in this land and live a completely new life.

However, as individuals who have committed serious crimes, their activities will still be restricted to a certain extent, and they will always be required to perform basic tasks assigned by their superiors.

Construction of Jupiter City is complete.

Jiang Huaishan was still alive. He was then assigned to work outside the city, where he was put in charge of more dangerous forest protection work, which required him to move power lines and lights to remote wilderness areas that no one had ever set foot in before.

He was accompanied by a group of brothers who had committed serious crimes. Despite being contributors to the city's development, they were deprived of their freedom.

Hatred grows within, but there is no chance to escape.

If they try to escape, they'll have nowhere to go in the suburbs, and even if they aren't swallowed up by a corner, they'll starve to death. It's impossible for them to scale the walls of Jupiter City with their bare hands, and there's virtually no way to break the electronic shackles they're wearing.

This can only continue.

At least they can barely survive.

However, the work of forest rangers outside the city is far more dangerous than imagined.

Various strange terrains, various plants, and even some very inconspicuous areas can form physical corners.

Jiang Huaishan is very intelligent and has a keen eye for detail; he always manages to avoid people when he goes out to work. But his brother is not so lucky; even the slightest lapse in attention can cause him to disappear.

As time went by, the number of forest rangers dwindled.

As a result, Jiang Huaishan was the only one left on the platform.

The city government didn't seem to be planning to send anyone else to help, so he was left to work alone, working a full twelve hours a day and installing a fixed number of lights.

Jiang Huaishan knew very well that the higher-ups wanted to eliminate him completely. People like him who had committed serious crimes had long been stripped of their human rights and were not entitled to live a normal life.

Every day, he would sit outside the rest area, gazing at the city he had built, longing for the day when he could control everything and have absolute power over it all.

however,
Everyone has flaws; even Jiang Huaishan has moments of lapse and unexpected events.

Jiang Huaishan, who had worked as a forest ranger for six years, was still alive, but this time he encountered an accident while working. When he was installing lights on a rugged mountain road, he encountered a wild adult brown bear.

Even though he was nearly fifty years old, he was still able to fight a brown bear head-on with his personal equipment, and even knocked the bear's mouth full of blood.

But the difference in physical strength was undeniable, and Jiang Huaishan was forced to retreat step by step. He accidentally fell down the hillside and lost consciousness after the impact to his brain.

When he woke up, it was already dark.

The lighting device and the birdcage used for alarms were both broken.

In this situation, it's impossible to go back; one will inevitably be drawn into a corner.

He decided not to go... or perhaps he couldn't go at all, because in addition to the equipment, both of his legs were broken and his wounds were infected.

Furthermore, he landed in a desolate, flat graveyard, dotted with tombstones inscribed with various foreign languages. Upon seeing the Japanese writing on them, he immediately showed disgust and spat out a large mouthful of phlegm.

Lying on the putrid soil,

Jiang Huaishan felt no fear whatsoever. Although he was terrified of the zombies depicted in some supernatural novels when he was alive, at this moment, he felt only hatred.

He hated himself for not taking advantage of his last trip back to the city to kill a few people; at least that would have given him some satisfaction.

He hated the city he had built, yet he himself had no right to live there.

He hated the so-called order and laws of this world, and he wanted to create a territory that belonged entirely to him, where he could set all the rules.

however,
Time passes day by day.

Lying in the desolate grave, Jiang Huaishan was almost starved to death. There was no rain, no food, and he could only wait for death in despair.

Unbeknownst to him, several days later, he was greeted by visitors, not a rescue team, but the brown bear he had encountered in the mountains before.

The brown bear recognized him and pounced.

The bear bit down on his body, but instead of drawing blood, it made a snapping sound, and the sharp bear teeth actually drew blood.

Jiang Huaishan grabbed the brown bear by the throat and instinctively bit down.

Several minutes passed,
The carcass of a brown bear, drained of its life force, lay on the ground. Jiang Huaishan's legs, fully restored after being sucked dry, stood up, staring at everything in disbelief.

He looked at the black veins crawling all over his skin, like earthworms.
He looked at the livid mortis covering his entire body and the indestructible skin tissue.

He looked at the eerie aura he exhaled and the thickened, sharp, jet-black fingernails.

He recalled the descriptions in the book and realized that he had become the thing he used to fear most—a zombie.

Because he showed no signs of life, the electronic shackles on his body considered him dead.

Raise your hand,
He absorbed all the yin energy from the desolate grave, and white hair began to grow on his body. He could jump more than two meters high and tear open tree trunks with a single claw.

Even so,

He showed no mania, no arrogance, and no desire to go back for revenge.

He founded Jupiter City himself, and he knew very well that even if he could kill some people in his current state, the final result would still be death.

He returned to the rangers' rest area, only to find that a new person had taken his place.

The first time Jiang Huaishan tasted human blood.

Then another beam of light shone over, from a bus traveling from Jupiter City to other cities.

In the blink of an eye, Jiang Huaishan was lying under the car. The next day, news spread throughout major cities that all 42 people on board had died, suspected to be related to the dummy vehicles operating in the suburbs.

Jiang Huaishan had never gone to the city. His years as a forest ranger had made him very familiar with the outskirts, and staying outside was the safest and most stable option.

Occasionally, they would target passing vehicles.

When there were no living people around, he would drink the blood of wild animals.

Even after a perfect meal, he would venture deep into the wilderness to seek out a place of great darkness for self-improvement.

By the time he was able to return to the city, he was no longer an ordinary fake human. He easily killed the investigators who were chasing him and quickly completed his interdimensional advancement.

Arriving at the corner,

Jiang Huaishan was also capable of mass killings.

He led Uncle Bo to establish the Jiang Mansion, setting rules to recruit only monsters of Chinese blood.

He gained recognition in the corner with his absolutely strong personal strength, and not only established an organization but also obtained the qualification to guard the dungeon.

Everything was going so smoothly.

Until he reached the very bottom of the dungeon,

He encountered a "dangerous thing" he had never seen before... His physical body was completely destroyed, and he barely managed to escape with his soul by relying on his extreme control over Yin energy.

Thanks to the Jiang family's corpse-refining techniques and the accumulated resources over the years, he was able to prolong his life, but time was running out, and he had to find a perfect vessel to hold his soul.

at last,

A young man named "Rodi" came to their door.

Everything was so close, everything was so within reach, but...

[Human Body Expo, Backyard]

Master Jiang's body was cleaved open diagonally.

The yin energy he had gathered back into his body began to leak out uncontrollably, and it started raining again.

This was the most serious injury he suffered during this trip; even his soul was cleaved in a dark gash.

This was nothing to him in the past; he could repair his perfect zombie body and heal the wounds on the soul level through corpse refining techniques.

Jiang Huaishan quickly manipulated the Yin energy, attempting to reattach his severed upper body.

however……

click!
He saw his lower body collapse; his ever-decaying flesh reached its limit at that moment, turning into a pool of bubbling black water and vanishing completely.

Even the upper body is the same.

Only the shoulder blades, the back of the head, and the left cheek still had some flesh clinging to them; the rest were all exposed bones, blackened and broken.

Even so,

Jiang Huaishan continued crawling forward.
He crawled toward Rodina's fallen body.

But what he saw before him was not Luo Di, but a city wall bathed in starlight, inside which was the city he had built with his own hands, yet which refused to let him in.

He was never qualified to live there.

He climbed to the gate.
Touching the door, which felt like the texture of a neck.

He opened his mouth, trying to bite open the lock.

however……

His teeth also fell out.

The door won't open.

He could only stay in the suburbs and die in the suburbs.

But in his final moments, he smiled, as if he had finally been able to put down something very heavy...

(End of this chapter)