The Past

Senior Activity Area - Movie Room

A mature voice, like that of a peach, came from a seat that was clearly empty.

"You don't actually think you're so good at disguising yourself that you can fool my eyes and even get the private bus to my nursing home, do you?"

I stopped hiring two months ago. Generally speaking, no matter what you do, you'll never be able to get in here.

However...

Because you were acting alone, sitting at the bus stop with your mind completely relaxed, even more so than some ordinary people, I detected a familiar scent in your thoughts.

To be precise, it has the smell of familiar people.

You know Wu Wen, right?

Is your relationship even somewhat special, perhaps even intimate? But judging from your current expression, you don't seem to know much about her past?

Since we all know her, why don't we sit down and have a chat? I've always liked Wu Wen, but unfortunately she left us more than a year ago because of some things, and I've missed her a lot all these years.

I miss every inch of her skin and flesh.

Luo Di was stunned by the photograph before him and the woman's words, and his mind began to work.

He never imagined that the strange entity behind the nursing home, Pseudo-Human mainly operated in Pluto City and was of Italy nationality, would know the class monitor and even seem to be quite familiar with him.

Recalling the night of the Fourth Middle School Incident,

Recalling the moment I met the class monitor face-to-face in the classroom,

She said on the podium that she had formed a "Mind Corner" at the age of thirteen, and that she participated in the Crevice screening at the age of eighteen.

During those five years as Pseudo-Human, did she really pretend to be a good girl and attend school all the time?

Without doing anything wrong, he managed to achieve the corner's requirements simply by "disguising" himself?

How could someone cultivate a mature pituitary gland simply by playing the role of a student, and then kill another equally remarkable and skilled imposter in the face of the Fourth Middle School incident?

Now it seems the answer is already there.

The class monitor has her own secret as a Pseudo-Human, and this secret is even involved in many other things.

Beneath that glamorous exterior, there seems to lie a dark and bottomless swamp.

Huff... A breath of hot sulfurous air escaped from behind the mask.

Luo Di made a decision: now that he had discovered a deep quagmire he had never known before, he wanted to explore it thoroughly and understand the real class monitor.

perhaps,

This is the main reason why the class monitor chose this event.

Another very important point is that, judging from the other party's words, the "squad leader" inside the backpack has not yet been exposed.

The woman in the mirror continued, "You must be Wu Wen's new friend, or even boyfriend, after she left our [society]?"

Her taste is as good as ever.

"I was actually quite captivated when you were slaughtering the elderly people in the corridor just now."

At this point, the woman reflected in the mirror stuck out her crimson tongue, extending it from her hair to lick the surrounding area.

"Don't just stand there, come over here~ Let's talk. I really want to know what Wu Wen has been doing since she left us? How did she meet you, and how did she die in the Crevice screening?"

As a condition

I will tell you some things about us.

The woman in the mirror pointed to another empty seat.

Instead of obediently sitting down, Luo Di went behind the chair where the woman was sitting... Swish! The Zombie Blade slashed at the empty spot.

Its black fur and teeth trembled together.

Although the blade appears to have pierced the woman's body in the mirror's illusory image, it's as if it has penetrated her; there's no tangible cutting sensation in reality.

The Zombie Blade seems to be ineffective.

Luo Di wanted to keep trying.

He tried to throw the animal trap at the woman's seat, but suddenly his tongue snapped out of his mouth, and he recoiled as if sensing danger.

The woman in the chair turned her head and stared at Luo Di through her black hair that covered her face. "If you want to talk, then talk properly. This is my territory. I'm only willing to sit down and talk to you because of Wu Wen."

"I'll give you one more chance, go sit down."

Command, coercion.

This is what Luo Di hates most.

Although he also wanted to know about the class monitor's past, he could have waited until the class monitor woke up to ask him in person, or learned about it through other channels.

Although it is not yet certain whether the trap is effective, based on the elevator experience and the other party's fierce reaction when the bear trap was taken out, it is almost certain that the Hell Attribute is effective.

Just as Luo Di was preparing to continue his attack on this man,

Sigh~

A familiar sensation returned from my back, and the spherical object in my backpack shifted slightly.

The killing intent dissipated.

Luo Di walked toward the empty seat left for him as if he were a completely different person.

Of course, we remained vigilant at all times.

As he sat down, a hellish sulfurous aura filled the air. When the smoke cleared, five animal traps were found around the chair.

The woman's voice came again. "You've finally sat down to talk. Let's introduce ourselves first so we can have a better conversation."

Let me start.

My name is Isabella. I was born in Pluto City. Because my grades weren't good and I often got into trouble at school, I was expelled from high school.

My parents died in Anomaly Event, and after dropping out of school, I could only find work as a caregiver in a nursing home through the community's arrangement. Little did I know that this would expose me to the dark side of the city.

You already saw it in the clinic downstairs, right? With your intelligence, you should be able to easily guess the true nature of this nursing home.

Let me tell you something else: this drug that accelerates aging is a product of research conducted by the local Research Bureau.

The reason I am who I am today, able to join the sorority, and able to meet a genius like Wu Wen, is all thanks to the terrible environment provided by the nursing home.

Taking care of those old, undead creatures 24/7.

They're all mentally unstable. They poop on the bed all the time, and if I don't do something right, they slap me and threaten to report me to the hospital.

The doctors and leaders in the nursing home knew that I had no parents, so they would always try to suppress me, and even physically assault me.

I desperately wanted to die, but I also didn't want these people to have an easy time.

So one day I made up my mind.

He gave himself all the anti-aging injections that were supposed to be given to the elderly—a full ten times the dosage! Then, before I died of old age, he used the increased physical strength brought about by the drug to kill all those leaders and doctors.

Of course, I am a person of principle, and I did not kill some of the colleagues who had privately comforted me.

After doing all that, I locked myself in a dark storage room and waited to die.

The tenfold dose caused my body to age rapidly. Even though my brain was still clear, my body was already incredibly old. I could clearly feel every internal organ and every bone in my body rotting and decaying.

In the moments before I died, I heard a voice in my mind, an incredibly clear voice.

My body then completely melted away, turning into a pool of blood that was absorbed by the nursing home building. When I regained consciousness, the entire nursing home was merged with me.

At that moment, I finally realized how special I was.

The image of me you see in the mirror is my human form, which should be comparable to Wu Wen's, right?

Alright! My introduction is finished, it's your turn.

Don't worry about the time factor. I have completely stopped the "aging" process targeting you. As long as we communicate normally, you won't get old.

If you're shy, you can also directly tell me about your experiences with Wu Wen.

What is a sorority?

When Luo Di raised another question,

The woman in the mirror quickly shook her finger. "That's not right! We had a deal. It can't always be me talking; you have to tell some interesting stories or experiences too, right?"

"Oh."

Luo Di stood up expressionlessly, put away all the traps beside him, and turned to walk towards the exit of the viewing room.

This action startled the woman. "Where are you going?"

"Since you're not willing to say what I want to hear, there's no need to continue this conversation. Just sitting here with you makes me feel disgusted."

I can't think of a way to kill you right now. That's all, I'm going home to sleep.

Luo Di deliberately paused, lowering his tone:

"By the way, how dare you compare yourself to Wu Wen?"