Imposter Incidents

Dark clouds gathered at the very bottom of the sky, almost pressing down on the rooftops.

A fierce wind swept through the city, carrying withered leaves, seemingly trying to sweep away the vitality of all living things.

Luo Di is currently in an old resettlement community, and he has just walked out of a self-service restaurant with a "Shop for Sale" sign.

Due to the Investigation Bureau's blockade, the entire resettlement community was deserted, or perhaps it had already been evacuated in advance, or perhaps it had been completely overrun.

Although there are seven buildings in the community, Luo Di's eyes are already fixed on the building at the far end.

The reason is simple.

Because there was a person hanging at the bottom of the stairwell of that apartment building, and from a distance it looked like he was hanging, with his back to Luo Di.

Strangely, the neck of the person who hanged themselves was dragged out very long, exceeding the normal length of a human.

Luo Di didn't hesitate and walked straight over. Prioritizing the exploration of suspicious areas would definitely save time, and exploration efficiency should also be taken into consideration.

The route will pass by the children's playground in the residential area.

Hehe~

Luo Di could faintly hear children laughing, but his tongue sensed no danger.

Turning my head to look,

The swings and the large rotating platform swayed and spun in the strong wind, making it look as if children were actually playing on them.

Luo Di vaguely felt that he had seen this scene somewhere before, but he seemed to have deliberately forgotten it.

After a quick check of the amusement park and finding nothing amiss, we continued towards the innermost apartment building.

Only when we got closer could we finally see it clearly.

The long-necked corpse hanging at the door was not an ordinary resident, but an investigator. Luo Di was very familiar with the Investigator uniform the man was wearing.

As they continued to move closer,

His tongue was slightly curled up.

This means the body may be in danger.

However, since Luo Di did not draw his knife or summon his crow, the level of danger was only a matter of normal handling.

As he slowly approached, wearing heavy leather shoes, Luo Di's eyes darkened.

Tap tap tap~

When the size 45 leather shoes were ten meters away from the body

The thick hemp rope hanging around the corpse's neck began to twist.

Slowly, the corpse, which had been facing away, was turned to face forward. Its neck had been stretched to half a meter in length, and its face was covered with bright red bloodstains from all seven orifices.

The rope was completely untied at this point.

The investigator's body was standing firmly on the ground.

His long neck, stretched from being hanging for so long, could not stand upright; instead, it drooped in front of him like a flexible tube, and his head hung down in front of his chest.

It charged toward Luo Di in an extremely contorted posture.

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No handle,

bare hands,

Because the long neck was too conspicuous, Luo Di, who originally intended to split the opponent in two, changed his mind and beheaded him.

Whoosh!

The neck was broken, and the investigator's chest was ripped open as well.

The severed head lay on the ground, with a soft, elongated neck attached beneath it.

Fresh blood flowed out.

After a bout of convulsions, he fell silent.

Not only was it not as difficult as expected, it was actually too easy, making Luo Di wonder if he was participating in a so-called Exploration Bureau assessment.

Upon closer reflection, what I'm seeing now is probably just an appetizer.

The purpose of this corpse should only be to lure him here; the real test should be inside this building.

Before entering the old apartment building plastered with various advertisements, Luo Di deliberately passed by the decapitated corpse, his left hand lightly gliding over its surface.

A certain hellish pattern drilled into a corpse can prevent resurrection and also serve other functions.

At this moment,

A large number of people had already gathered in the Personnel Department's monitoring room.

Using a high-tech camera with X-ray vision to observe the corpse, they discovered that a gray metal was beginning to proliferate inside the body. Its shape and structure were quite strange, and it eventually formed a whole.

"This is the first time I've seen the abilities of a connector like this... It not only contains Hell, but also incorporates Mr. Kraft's style. It's a bit exaggerated."

Conventional assessments are indeed useless for him; this design is just right.

The light bulb in the stairwell kept flickering.

Each time the flashing stopped, the two households on that floor would open their doors, as if calling Luo Di to come in.

Since they had invited him, how could Luo Di refuse? He maintained his standard professional smile and stepped inside, wearing size 45 shoes.

When they left, their palms would be stained with a little blood.

Through the Passing through the Gate, one could see at least one head with a long neck lying on the ground.

Is this a gap?

All residents were affected, similar to the vortex effect in the past. Ordinary people affected by the rift would choose to hang themselves and turn into these long-necked monsters.

Is the ultimate goal of this assessment to make me single-handedly stop the seam from progressing?

Luo Di has not yet found Pseudo-Human participating in the rift; he can only search every room on this floor and deal with the mutants inside.

And so, step by step, we arrived at the top floor of the apartment building.

Unlike before,

The door on the left side of the top floor did not open by itself and remained closed. This "difference" may correspond to the den of the Pseudo-Human.

Luo Di considered that he had been walking upstairs in heavy leather shoes, and if the other person had ears, they would definitely know he was coming.

Luo Di no longer tried to hide his presence, nor did he choose to open the door secretly.

Instead, he raised his size 45 foot and slammed it hard against the old-fashioned door, kicking a large hole in the lock and opening it wide inwards.

Stepping into the entryway,

Indeed, unlike the hanged victims on other floors,

The family of three in this room were sitting around the dining table, using ropes from the ceiling to tie their hair so that their already elongated necks could remain upright.

They are holding chopsticks, and fingers, eyeballs, noses, and tongues are placed between their plates.

When they heard that the door had been broken into and strangers had entered,

The family of three quickly turned their heads, their eyes filled with bright red resentment. Their necks grew rapidly, carrying their heads as they lunged at Luo Di.

Luo Di still didn't draw the knife from his waist, but simply picked up a kitchen knife from the kitchen.

Whoosh! A flash of light.

Quickly sever that overly conspicuous and slender neck.

Bright red blood gushed from the fracture.

It splashed onto Luo Di's body, staining his head red.

Even as blood dripped onto the surface of his eyeballs, he did not blink.

However,

It was because of these reddened eyes that Luo Di realized something, and he suddenly turned his head to look at the shoe cabinet behind him.

A picture frame stands on top of the shoe cabinet.

What was shown was a family of four.

Besides the three people who were just dealt with, there is still one younger son who is in junior high school and has not been dealt with.

Strangely, the youngest son's face in the photo frame was a jumbled mess, and his features were completely obscured.

Just as Luo Di arrived in the restaurant area to search for any remaining traces, he suddenly felt that the restaurant's structure and the overall building structure were so familiar.

Just as Luo Di was trying to recall this familiar scene,

A series of hurried footsteps came from the stairwell.

Someone has come up.

Luo Di quickly turned his head to look at the doorway.

The person who appeared there was neither Pseudo-Human nor a long-necked mutant, but a middle school student carrying a drink, whose figure was exactly the same as the boy in the photo.

However, the boy in real life had a normal face and regular features... which made Luo Di feel like he was looking in a mirror.

The person standing at the door is him; he was in junior high school.

When the boy saw what was happening inside the room, his eyes were instantly filled with bloodshot veins, and he wanted to scream but couldn't make a sound.

Luo Di, however, looked puzzled. He blinked rapidly to remove the blood from the surface of his eyeballs and re-examined the current indoor environment.

There are no long-necked mutants.

Three heads that he knew all too well fell at his feet.

Three headless corpses, gushing their final blood, sat at the dining table.

The dishes on the table were just ordinary family meals.

The family of three was clearly waiting for the boy's return to celebrate his successful graduation and admission to the Fourth Middle School.

Luo Di slowly turned his head and looked at the dressing mirror embedded in the wall.

There's no such thing as size 45 leather shoes.

On his feet was a brightly colored clown shoe.

He held a bright red balloon in one hand and a red-dyed kitchen knife in the other.

Although the blood in the eyes and face had been wiped away, the lips and surrounding area were covered in bright red, like an exaggeratedly bright red smiling face.

When Luo Di looked at the boy at the door again...

That's exactly the kind of smile they were given.

Beep beep beep!

Inside the monitoring room,

As the scene unfolds, Luo Di's Fear Value is rapidly increasing, and just as it's about to reach its limit, it suddenly spikes to the maximum!

Even more strangely, the Fear Value of a stock hitting its daily limit immediately drops to zero at an even faster rate.

Instead, another value rapidly increased, reaching a point of being out of control and triggering an alarm.

<Warning! Warning! Tester Luo Di's danger level has reached the highest level, Level I>