Between Hell

On the bed, Luo Di stared at the possessed girl before him, who was both Anna and not Anna.

He gazed at her eyes, now completely assimilated into granular orbs, and her skin, covered in burn marks.

He had never considered any romantic issues.

His only thoughts were on how to break through the situation and how to keep the "friend" he had finally made alive.

Although they had only known each other for these two days, they were already the closest peers Luo Di had ever had since birth.

Furthermore, he himself did not fear death. As a movie buff, he even felt a slight urge to experience being possessed firsthand.

Looking at the oral cavity before him, which resembled a hellish passageway—"teeth and gums completely exposed, with two forked tongues greeting him from left and right"—

Luo Di slowly moved closer to her face. He had to slow this process down as much as possible to buy Gao Yuxuan time.

Unexpectedly, Anna seemed impatient.

As the full possession had been achieved, the burn marks had spread all over Anna's body.

Swish! Sharp barbs grew from her wrist, cutting through the bandages that bound her.

At the same time, the silver needles inserted into various parts of her body were all forced out.

She was no longer restrained in any way.

Her arm immediately wrapped around Luo Di's neck, and her legs clamped onto his body. Luo Di, who had been standing by the bed, was forcefully pulled onto it by this brute strength and pinned down on Anna.

Flesh pressed against flesh, soft and scorching hot.

"Don't be so slow~ Come on, I can't wait!"

The arm around his neck exerted full force, and their lips pressed tightly together.

Before Luo Di could even extend his tongue, he felt two soft things wriggle over.

These things were more flexible than fingers, entwining, twisting, binding, They were not wet and soft as he expected, but dry, scorching, and peeling.

Hum...

Suddenly, a faint ringing sound ground within his skull, spreading like dust and drowning out all other sounds.

The entire world fell silent in an instant.

A peculiar sensation of falling enveloped Luo Di's entire body. It wasn't the downward pull of gravity, but a dragging sensation, as if every part of him was being grasped and pulled into the depths by an irresistible force.

He could feel his consciousness being peeled away from his body.

It was a bloody separation, a descent into an unknown world.

After a brief moment of tranquility brought by the silence and darkness, a smell of sulfur drilled deep into his nasal cavity and trachea, ravaging his lungs like rats. The intense, irritating burn made Luo Di jolt awake.

This was no longer the small hill in the practice area, nor the old house where zombies were revived.

It was an ashen world where sulfurous fire rained down—[Hell].

Apart from the scorched yellow background, the ground was also covered in a thick, vibrant red.

This red, surging from the cracks in the ground, seemed to come from every human suffering in Hell, making the scorched earth moist, soft, and even alive.

It caused the protruding rocks to grow like trees, sprouting branches resembling arms and bearing fruit like pus-filled sores.

It added a captivating, fishy smell to the sulfurous stench of Hell.

Scorched yellow and vibrant red, these were the colors of Hell.

And Luo Di, a human who had just arrived in Hell, had also become one of the contributors of blood.

His body was fixed to a stone cross more than ten meters high.

His limbs and neck were all wrapped with dry, rough dead tongues.

His body was cut in multiple places by sharp objects, and blood flowed down the cross, merging with the blood produced by other sufferers.

Hiss! The sound of burning~

He had coincidentally encountered Hell's "rainy season."

Sulfuric acid rain continuously fell, each drop causing acid burns on any exposed flesh, melting skin and scorching hair that flowed down mixed with blood.

By the time all the liquid drained away, Luo Di's consciousness would die here, his body completely occupied by the demons outside.

In such an extreme environment, Human biological instincts would force individuals to shut their eyes tightly, focusing solely on enduring the pain. Both the acid rain and extreme dryness were enough to cause blindness within a short period.

Furthermore, the pain itself would cause ordinary people to quickly lose consciousness.

But Luo Di gradually endured the agony, as if he had experienced greater suffering before.

His 'combat plan' was complete, and the information had already been transmitted before falling into Hell. Whether it would be realized depended on Vice Class Monitor Gao.

Now that he had the chance to personally visit Hell, and even potentially stay there forever, Luo Di wanted to see what it looked like before he lost consciousness.

Fighting against his biological instincts, he opened his eyes to take in the sights of Hell.

In his favorite B-grade movies, many protagonists also had connections to Hell.

However, Luo Di was not shocked by the scenery of Hell. Instead, before his vision was completely lost, he looked as far as possible, trying to see more of Hell's landscape.

"What is that?"

About a hundred kilometers away from Luo Di, a massive, deep black volcano stood.

Perhaps due to the sulfurous weather, the yellowish-brown smoke erupting from the crater cast an incredibly blurry, strange color in the sky, resembling some kind of special symbol.

It was too blurry and hidden behind thick fog to be clearly seen.

At this moment, A drop of acid rain landed on his eye. Even though his eyelids tried to block it immediately, they were instantly corroded and melted away. His entire right eye rapidly shriveled, and his vision became blurry.

But Luo Di did not close his eyes because of this. He continued to endure stubbornly.

He couldn't explain why, but he wanted to see the symbol clearly.

Strangely, Despite his blurry vision, and the fact that he could barely see the ground beneath his feet, he could gradually make out the previously indistinct symbol in the sky.

Hiss~ Another eyeball was hit by acid rain, rapidly corroding in a short time.

His completely blurred vision quickly approached darkness, All the sights of Hell became impossible to see.

But it was at this moment that Luo Di truly saw the [symbol] hidden behind the dense fog, above the distant volcano.

It seemed to be a special symbol representing Hell.

Buzz!

The ringing in his ears returned.

There was little blood left in his body. The symptoms of hemorrhagic shock affected his entire being, and his consciousness began to fade.

The darkness called death was about to engulf Luo Di and take him to the other side of the world.

The last drop of blood dripped from the tip of Luo Di's toe.

Drip~

He should have been submerged in the silence of death, but he unexpectedly heard the sound of blood hitting the ground, and he heard it clearly, clearer than ever before.

Buzz!

His eyelids, which should have been corroded, opened on their own.

His blurry vision gradually cleared up.

His body no longer hurt; instead, he felt an unprecedented sense of relaxation.

Before him was no longer the scorching Hell, but a clean, cold, single-person hospital room.

As for the dripping sound he had just heard, it wasn't his blood but the IV drip hanging from the stand.

Luo Di touched the call button tied to his hand with his finger.

A nurse specifically assigned to him immediately entered the room to check on him. Just as the nurse was about to notify the attending physician to check his physical condition in detail, Snap!

Luo Di grabbed the nurse's wrist and sat up.

"Do you have paper and a pen?"

"Yes..." The nurse, startled, instinctively handed him the notebook she carried, but then immediately realized something was wrong. "You need to lie back down immediately. You can't sit up right now."

However, Luo Di had already torn off a page from the notebook, recording the symbol of Hell that might be erased from his memory at any moment.