Deep in the Living

Chapter 83 Empathy
Youth Apartment-11th Floor

The middle-aged man dragged his heavy, tired body through the corridor.

From time to time, he would rub his eyes or scratch his head.

It felt like something strange was about to grow inside his body, and parts of his skin had even developed strange black spots.

He was sniffing the same scent he had just smelled in the elevator. There was no mistake, the person he was looking for was on this floor.

Following the smell, he came to the door of an apartment that looked newly renovated.

The door was locked and the side windows were closed and the curtains were drawn.

This kind of active light shielding is clearly not in compliance with the resident safety manual, and it must be here.

After making sure he had found the right place, the man took out the lock-picking tool from his trouser pocket.

His expressionless face gradually showed excitement, and his body also became excited.

As he inserted the unlocking tool into the door lock,
click!
The door was opened from the inside first.

At the same time, a strong arm suddenly stretched out and grabbed the middle-aged man's neck. The force was so great that it directly pulled him in.

boom!
The door closed and locked again.

In the dimly lit room,

The middle-aged man was strangled by the neck and pressed against the wall, but he did not feel uncomfortable at all. Instead, he showed a strange smile, feeling excited because he had found the right person.

Rody frowned slightly, as he had sensed something unusual about the man in front of him.

The touch of the place where the fingers were clasped was obviously not right. The neck was obviously the most vulnerable part, but it felt very hard and difficult to crush it directly.

However, this kind of touch was very familiar to Rody, and he even smelled a similar scent from the man.

"Zombies?"

My eyes moved upwards to look at the man's mouth, which contained only yellowed teeth from excessive smoking, and no fangs.

"Has the mind corner been formed recently? I'm afraid it's not even two months old. It's just now beginning to express the fear concretely."

Rody's brain worked quickly, and he could almost conclude that the man in front of him was not the cause of the young man's disappearance.

Combined with the other person's behavior of following him to the apartment, his age, and the initial transformation of "fear embodiment" that occurred when he was emotionally excited at the moment.

Various reasons can almost lead to an accurate inference of the other party's identity.

but no matter,
The other party is deeply bound to the corner and is hopelessly trapped.

The changes in the middle-aged man continued. Obvious zombie skin had already formed on his neck. The effect of being strangled gradually weakened, and he was able to breathe again.

Call ~
As he got a breath, he immediately clasped his hands together and grabbed the young man's arm, with several blackened nails digging into the skin of his arm.

The middle-aged man also said madly:

"You are such a weird person! Everyone has been kindly reminding you along the way that you shouldn't stay in Chinatown.

But you didn't listen and instead stayed here.

Could it be that you have kidnapped my son? It must be yours. I have never seen you before, but you were able to move into this youth apartment. My son has lived here before!"

but,

No matter how the other party roars,

No matter how hard he pulled Rody's arm,
No matter how hard the nails dug into the flesh, blood was already flowing out.
The arm that was stuck on his throat remained motionless, with no intention of loosening, as if the pain had no effect on the young man at all.

When the middle-aged man looked at the young man in front of him again, the other's pupils were already bloodshot, staring at him intently, as if with unspeakable hatred.

Even the man himself didn't know why the young man hated him so much.

Just when the middle-aged man didn't know how to break free,
The hand that was pinching his neck loosened on its own and even moved away.
Seeing that he had regained his freedom, the man immediately pounced on the young man in front of him, wanting to use the fangs that had just grown in his mouth to suck the other's blood.

On the way to fly,

Swish!
Something flashed before his eyes, and his already hardened neck felt a chill. The middle-aged man wanted to strangle the young man in front of him, but he found that his head was disconnected from his body.

The field of vision gradually fell and finally fell to the ground.

Snapped!
Perhaps it was the power brought by the corner of his mind that allowed him to survive for a while even after his head was chopped off. His mouth kept biting, and the sound of his teeth colliding echoed in this single apartment.

who knows,
The young man in front of him actually lowered his entire body, even lying completely on the ground and looking directly at the middle-aged man's head.

The beheading just now had already satisfied the young man.

The hateful eyes returned to normal, now just staring intently at the man's head in front of him.

There seems to be some kind of empathy between their eyes.
Rody's voice also became slightly more friendly, but it also contained a cold murderous intent:
"Don't worry, I will avenge your son... This is why I came here."

Perhaps he read similar grief of bereavement in Rody's eyes, or perhaps the influence of the corner was relatively weakened before his death.
The middle-aged man chose to believe this.

The angry expression became calm:

"That guy just found a suitable internship and used his first paycheck to buy me an expensive leather jacket. He also made an appointment with me to go to Jupiter City to meet his mom and have a meal together during the holidays.

But this guy just disappeared like that. I searched every corner but couldn't find him, and there was no response to the notice I posted.

I was wrong.

My initial decision to immigrate here was a mistake.
Dad is sorry for you..."

He passed away peacefully with tears streaming down his face.

Luo Di also reached out to close the other person's eyelids.
Then he found tweezers, a knife and other tools in the house, and cut out the pituitary gland and sealed it without damaging the head as much as possible.

A phone call was made directly to the trainee investigator who was in charge of contacting him, Marco Rubio.
"I have a fake person here. He is estimated to be no older than three months old. He is the father of the missing person in the case. I have already killed him. I will seal the body in a bag. You can come and get it as soon as possible."

"Mr. Di is amazing. He has made some progress so quickly. Although it is not directly related to the case, it has eliminated a potential risk."

"Don't you know that in Chinese the surname comes first?"

"Mr. Luo doesn't sound good at all, so Mr. Di sounds better. I will arrange for someone to come and retrieve the body tonight. By the way, you should not have taken the pituitary gland with you, right?"

"Take it."

"Hiss~Okay, I'll write a report and submit it. Although it's just the pituitary gland of an early pseudo-human, please don't circulate it on the market. Just keep it for yourself.

If you are found selling it, you will be sentenced according to the Corner Law."

"Ah."

The phone hangs up,

Luo Di found a large plastic bag from the closet and put the body in it.
As for the large amount of blood remaining on the ground, Roddy did not take the mop, but threw the zombie knife on it.

Although it was only the blood of an early pseudo-human, since they were of the same type, the zombie knife was still very happy to absorb it. The yin energy contained in the blood had a nourishing effect on the knife itself.

The blood was quickly absorbed, leaving only a circle of blood stains that could be cleaned with a slight mop.

After spraying some air freshener in the room, Rody returned to the sofa as if nothing had happened.

but,

He was not in a hurry to continue watching the video.

Instead, he took out the "class monitor" that he had just hidden and put it back on the sofa.

I took out the "pituitary gland" that was placed in a transparent plastic bag and tried to slowly move it closer to the head to see if there would be any reaction, even the slightest reaction.

But even if it was completely pressed against the head, not even the hair moved.

Roddy had no intention of forcing it. He put away the pituitary gland and continued watching the video footage, trying his best to find similarities and suspicious points among the four missing persons.

There was no disappointment in his eyes.
Just calm as usual.

(End of this chapter)