Depths of the Living
Chapter 56

Rescue

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Time: Forty-five minutes before the physical fitness test

Location: Fourth Middle School's School Gate

The students who had left campus to eat and inject stimulants were gradually returning to school.

The School Gate used an airport-like inspection process.

They had to verify their wristband information, fingerprints, and blood samples, then undergo a visual comparison by the security personnel at each checkpoint.

A female student wearing light makeup and unaccompanied by her parents followed among the crowd as well.

After passing every inspection and successfully entering the campus, the corners of her mouth curled up at an unbelievable angle, wrinkles surfacing beneath her skin along with the exaggerated expression.

Instead of heading toward the Athletics Field, she quickly turned toward a small grove at a fork in the road and went straight to the northwest corner of Fourth Middle School's campus.

Bzzzt~ Electromagnetic interference

As she approached, a streetlamp here gradually dimmed, as though affected by something.

But the power did not cut out, and no campus alarm was triggered.

The female student's body stood perfectly straight as patches of skin caked with foundation peeled from her face, ultimately revealing the wrinkled visage of a middle-aged woman.

Perhaps because she had successfully entered her daughter's school and reached the "designated location,"

Or perhaps because she had caught the scent of long-lost youth,

She began laughing uncontrollably, the bursts of sound seeming to emerge from deep within her skull.

"Let Mommy take your entrance exam for you."

Hiss~

A visible crack ran from between her brows to her lips, forming a vertical Z-axis.

Then the corners of her mouth split left and right, the tear extending along her jawline to form the X-axis and Y-axis.

The "Flesh Corner" took shape.

Yet the anomaly across the entire campus seemed to be more than

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