Torture Devices
"Luo Di, do you need my help? I can also kill from a distance."
Anna, standing on the main road, witnessed what had just happened and saw the strange gas emanating from the dead cat's body, thus gaining a general understanding of the characteristics of these stray cats and dogs.
Just as she was about to step forward to help, Luo Di raised his hand, signaling her to continue waiting.
Luo Di seemed to have a particular idea; he set his sights on the next, larger dead dog. Having already made his initial contact, he had a general understanding of the "habits" of these stray cats and dogs.
This almost unconscious mutation is a pretty good experimental material; it can be used to test the new abilities he just acquired from the Hell Torture Chamber.
This time,
Luo Di stopped when he was about three meters away, a distance that would not activate the corpse.
Bend your knees and squat down.
During the squat, he spread his left hand with all five fingers fully open, so that his palm was about five centimeters from the ground.
Anna, who was not far away, was also watching this scene with great curiosity, not knowing what Luo Di was going to do.
Anna soon noticed a very strange phenomenon.
What is that?
Although the streetlights here aren't very bright, the burning bus adds a lot of brightness.
This allowed Anna to see what appeared to be thin, slender things wriggling under the skin of the other person's so-called "bionic arm."
Now, the things inside are slowly crawling out.
"Iron wire!?"
Anna thought she was seeing things, so she rubbed her eyes hard and looked again. Sure enough, there were barbed wires protruding from her skin, and they looked painful just to look at.
More and more wires emerged, gradually wrapping around the entire left arm.
These wires eventually converge in the palm area, merging together with the core wire that emerges from the center of the palm.
Extend, weave, construct...
As the scorching heat and yellowish-brown mist dissipated,
Anna's eyes widened as something she couldn't comprehend was created.
"Beast trap"
An old-fashioned animal trap, covered in scorch marks and wrapped with barbed wire, lies steadily on the ground.
"Is this Luo Di's ability as a Connector? To create some kind of trap?"
Anna's gaze traveled upwards along the barbed wire-covered arm, and when she looked at Luo Di's face again, she was so startled that she took a step back.
The other person's profile, illuminated by the firelight, was radiating a slightly perverse smile. Even though the features of their face remained unchanged, it felt utterly unfamiliar to Anna.
Luo Di completely ignored the look Anna was giving him; he was unusually excited.
This was the first time he had used this Hellish Ability, which resided in his left arm and had been obtained from the torture chamber.
It is called "Tool Construction".
Although this ability is still in its early stages of development and cannot construct too many or too complex torture devices, such a bear trap is more than enough for Luo Di, a B-movie enthusiast, and even far exceeds his expectations.
Looking at the sharp teeth between the trap's plates, and at the barbed wire wrapped around the animal trap,
Luo Di's whole body was trembling slightly, eager for his prey to join him.
The trap has been set.
Luo Di got up and approached the dead dog in front of him.
Sure enough, these mindless inanimate objects all exhibited the same behavior pattern: when they got within 1.5 meters, they would suddenly pounce, and their bodies would also be covered with dense, thin blood vessels.
It was about to pounce on Luo Di's face.
Seize the opportunity and dodge to the side.
The dead dog, having missed its target, traced a perfect parabola through the air before landing precisely on the animal trap.
Click!
Trap triggered,
The serrated edge pierced through the dead dog's body in an instant, pinning it firmly in place.
Moreover, the sharp wire wrapped around the animal traps also pierced the skin and penetrated the dead dog's body.
This dead dog clearly felt no pain and was probably already dead.
The animal trap, however, transmitted a torment within it; the dead dog struggled madly in agony, its eyeballs almost detaching from their sockets, and its tongue was bitten off by its teeth.
As Luo Di felt the pain, he lay down on the corpse and tried to get as close as possible to observe the tiny blood vessels emerging from under its skin.
"The guy who created the nursing home also has the ability to 'age' and ' Corpse Modification '... He can even use animal corpses, so it would probably be even more dangerous if it were human corpses."
The previous driver was probably a failure, which is why he was covered in bandages and was assigned to drive.
Anna slowly approached to observe as well, and offered her opinion:
"Perhaps aging and Corpse Modification are abilities in themselves? People in nursing homes who die of old age will turn into something similar to a zombie, a derivative."
Those who went missing may have already undergone a transformation within the nursing home, and their strength is estimated to be comparable to that of an immature Pseudo-Human.
Moreover, these things contain a kind of energy... let's call it "Death Qi" for now. If we inhale it, we'll probably age prematurely.
After a brief observation and analysis, the two got up and moved away from the dead dog that was trapped in the animal trap.
Just as Anna was about to ask if they needed to throw it from a distance to deal with the dead dog,
Luo Di squeezed hard with his left hand, his fingers pulling on the animal trap five meters away... Crack! The even greater closing force crushed the dead dog, leaving a pile of mangled flesh on the ground.
He didn't look back or stop at all during the entire process; these stray cats and dogs posed neither a threat nor any value to Luo Di.
"Let's go inside the nursing home and take a look. We just need to stay at least 1.5 meters away from these corpses. If we can't avoid them, we can kill them from a distance."
"Um."
On the way to the nursing home building, Luo Di also had a worry on his mind.
According to the intelligence we have so far, these corpses contain a gas that is suspected to cause aging, which will severely limit Luo Di's "killing" and prevent him from engaging in his most proficient close-quarters combat.
A solution must be devised as soon as possible, otherwise subsequent explorations into nursing homes will be extremely dangerous.
As Luo Di clicked his tongue and entered a state of complete absorption in thought, he happened to pass by a street lamp. In the light, Anna caught a glimpse of something that made her uneasy.
"Luo Di, wait!"
He grabbed Luo Di's shoulder and pulled him away!
Two white hairs that were stuck together were pulled out.
Luo Di also turned his head to look at the white hair that should never have appeared on his head.
Just as he frowned slightly, Anna noticed a faint crow's foot at the corner of Luo Di's eye.
"Luo Di, you seem to be getting old..."
Meanwhile, Luo Di noticed two white hairs hidden in Anna's hair, which were not very noticeable because she was surrounded by blonde hair.
"Even without inhaling the gases from the corpses, would simply stepping into this Corner Space accelerate aging?"
"Pseudo-Human that combines space and curses!"
Anna came to a rather bad conclusion.
"It seems we need to speed things up."
Just after they officially entered the nursing home building,
In a dark, unlit area within the front yard wall, a familiar cloth shoe stepped out.
Yu Ze yawned and slowly walked out, his face showing no sign of danger. He felt the lingering heat in the air as he approached the location of the trap.
These created animal traps will not last forever; they are rapidly disappearing, but some remain.
Yu Ze squatted down.
Completely ignoring the crushed dead dog, he reached out and touched the surface of the animal trap.
Even though the spikes didn't pierce his skin, a sharp pain still shot through him, forcing him to pull his hand away abruptly.
"Why does the smell of sulfur smell so different from the hell described in books? What's with this pain? Is the world this guy is connected to really hell?"
Or is it some more ancient, more primitive Hell world?
The world is very deep... deeper than I expected, and its nature is even more sinister than I anticipated.
My fellow countryman, can you maintain your integrity under the influence of this world? Don't let yourself fall into depravity! I've finally met such a capable and young fellow countryman; I don't want to kill you with my own hands.