Beneath the Mist

[Ten minutes ago]

Wenslaim City, Miller Park, Hall of Fame.

The explosion blew off the roof of the memorial, and Luo Di was hit by the blast at close range, leaving a huge bloody hole in his back, a broken spine, and a deep coma.

He was stuck to the corner like a lump of mud, and his condition was not optimistic.

Li Beite used his inner monster to block most of the explosion damage. He glanced at the heavily injured Luo Di in the corner, and then adopted the starting stance he had learned from Roddy.

They chased after the corpse's scent at top speed, but when they reached a sewer opening, the scent suddenly vanished.

The death that existed deep within the sewers completely swallowed the other's aura.

Li Beite was also very wary of death in the sewers and dared not go down rashly.

He could only wait until the other party emerged from below. He knew perfectly well that the other party would never absorb corpses in such a dangerous place as the sewers, and the accumulated death below would never allow the mist to spread.

As soon as the opponent's aura begins to emerge, they will immediately chase after them and kill them all.

As everyone left because of Clown Jock's "theft".

Inside the memorial hall, Luo Di suddenly opened his eyes, and his seemingly broken spine was actually intact.

The injuries he sustained from the explosion were partly real, and partly faked with Wu Wen's help.

The first thing Luo Di did after getting up was to check on his teammate Mia's condition. After confirming that there were flies flying around several pieces of rotten flesh, he stopped worrying.

He went straight to the pit that was more than 20 meters deep and looked at the bottom. Although there was nothing there, Luo Di seemed to see something.

Suddenly, he took out Chainsaw Blade and cut a piece of flesh off his body.

"Wu Wen, please."

A woman's arm grew out of his back, and using this flesh as a base, a fake body of Luo Di was created, just like the fake body used in the previous battle against Li Beite.

The fake body was in a state of injury and unconsciousness, and was thrown in a corner to prevent Li Beite from retrieving the remains in advance or returning for other reasons.

With everything ready, Luo Di leaped into the deep pit.

Next, he will begin the most important operation of this incident, the "hidden clue" he obtained by risking his life and everything on the Wenslam University campus.

The fog is merely a safe, used to seal away the secrets within.

There is something hidden beneath the fog, which requires an entire Mist System to conceal, cover, suppress, and seal.

Grip the hilt of the knife, and pure Hell marrow is poured into it.

This time, the structure growing from the end of the handle is no longer the blade, but a pure bone shovel.

Start digging.

During this process, the spine protruded, steam escaped, the digging speed increased, and even the shovel began to smoke. Luo Di knew very well that time was running out.

Whether the Joker successfully evades pursuit and absorbs the corpse, or Li Beite reclaims the corpse, he has no more than ten minutes.

Wu Wen, who had planned to rest until the incident was over, also came to help. She grew two arms with a special structure to help with the digging.

fifty meters,

One hundred meters

Two hundred meters,

Sudden!

A powerful, primal fear surged from beneath the soil, forcing Wu Wen to instantly pull her arm back and cease digging. Even as she merged into Luo Di's body, her trembling was uncontrollable, cold sweat trickling down her thighs.

"This is!"

Luo Di, however, remained relatively calm, pausing his digging to perform a strange act, one he had done before.

He put his palm in his mouth, bit off all his fingers, and communicated with Wu Wen at the same time.

"We're almost there. Wu Wen, quickly wipe away any part of your body that's related to your fingers... or Wu Wen, you can just leave here. Thank you for your help."

I had already gotten used to this thing that night; you're experiencing it for the first time and might be deeply affected.

"Grass!"

Wu Wen cursed aloud because just as she was about to deal with the "finger problem," she discovered that the structure of her entire body was gradually going out of control, and fingerprint-like patterns were appearing on her body surface.

She decisively separated from Luo Di's body, but did not leave immediately. Instead, she looked at the young man who was preparing to continue digging.

"On campus at night, after you finished your duel with the Mist Man, you obtained this hidden information and began your personal plan."

The fog and the finger-like structure are not directly related.

From another perspective, the fog is protecting the city, protecting us... suppressing and concealing what lies beneath, ensuring the influence of the finger structure doesn't overflow.

It was because the remains were moved that the people in this city experienced the disappearance of facial structures and the transformation of their brains into fingers.

This is likely beyond our current control. Are you sure you want to make contact?

Luo Di had already bitten off the last finger and responded in a low voice:

What do you think?

"No wonder you didn't care about the corpses at all, no wonder you were so happy after losing to Li Beite... By the way, did you plan this out on the First Day? That's why you deliberately brought that sleeping Girl along."

"I'm not that quick-witted. I only brought her along because she was the only one I felt I knew well among all the participants."

Because I spent the First Day with her, no one knows her condition better than me.

On the Third Day, as the fog intensified its effects on us, I vaguely sensed that she was about to awaken, so I deliberately left the iron bucket inside the memorial hall, targeting the clown who might come to steal things.

"Luckily, everyone was lured away... As for Wu Wen, based on our long-term cooperation, you're most likely trustworthy."

"Pah! Once I get off the videotape, I'm definitely going to beat you up!"

"Okay, let's go now, you've grown six fingers."

Looking at the extra finger, Wu Wen directly activated her Pituitary Gland Trait and, through absolute control of her body, forcibly suppressed the sixth finger back.

After giving an international greeting gesture, he stomped his bare foot hard on Luo Di's face as a stepping stone and jumped up to leave quickly.

Without any delay, Luo Di inserted the bone shovel into his palm and continued digging, since he had no fingers.

Not long after... Boom!

An explosion came from afar, and even here one could feel the strong tremor.

The incident is over; the videotape will stop playing in 10 seconds.

The announcement, which resounded throughout the city, came simultaneously.

Upon hearing this notification, Luo Di, disregarding the possibility of exhaustion, forcibly entered his Great Demon Form. A metal excavation device also materialized on his left arm, and he alternated between his hands.

Luo Di felt that his hands were moving even faster than when he fought Li Beite; he was digging so hard that the soil was steaming.

10

9

8

7

6

5...

The soil at the bottom was directly dug through by Luo Di, and it fell downwards.

It felt the same as when his entire consciousness was sucked into the deep pit in the Mist Man's face.

The difference is,

This time it's a real deep pit.

Even though Luo Di had bitten off all his fingers beforehand, he was still affected.

His teeth and eyeballs began to fall out, replaced by a dense array of fingers.

New fingers began to grow from the cut surface of the palm.

Clearly, what lies below wants to assimilate Luo Di.

To get him to fully embrace his fingers,

We want him to develop entirely in this direction.

But Luo Di's choice remained "refusal".

He has his own path, and he has his own ultimate dream.

He went to great lengths to find this place based on hidden clues, all so that he could reach his dream faster. Whatever it was, it was just a stepping stone on his path forward.

Don't even dream about changing his course.

He stood firmly on the cave floor, which was made up of fingers. His whole body was transforming into a cluster of fingers, but he still barely maintained a human form. The heat of hell strengthened his resolve.

There are only three seconds left.

3,

Luo Di didn't think about anything else.

They were simply thinking about hunting, sniffing out the richest scents in the area.

Position!

2,

Not far away,

Right at his feet!

1...

A sound of a videotape being demagnetized echoed in my ears.

In the blink of an eye,

Everyone returned to the amusement park's basement, or rather, everyone was freed from the movie-watching state.

All that was in front of me was an old television screen covered in static and a malfunctioning videotape machine that was smoking.

While the other participants were contemplating continuing the killing, escaping quickly, recovering their physical bodies, and regaining their memories and cognition...

Luo Di, sitting beside the coffin, kept his head bowed.

He held it tightly in his arms.

Wisps of smoke escaped from between his fingers.

Without blinking,

Hold your breath

Complete focus,

He slowly released his hands, revealing what he was holding inside.

This is a Crimson Iron Maiden, which consumed almost all of Luo Di's hellish energy and was modeled in his mind beforehand.

There was something very unruly being suppressed inside.