Deep in the Living-Chapter 27 - 24 Past Events

The following morning dawned.

Luo Di on the hospital bed held a novel called "Exorcism" in his hands, and as his thoughts fully immersed into it, his tongue still involuntarily clicked. He did not detest this sequel habit; instead, he regarded it as a sort of "trophy."

During the reading breaks, Luo Di could see through the window on the ward door that many people were heading to the room next door.

The originally quiet corridor became lively, bustling with nurses, doctors, and several foreign men with blond hair whose physiques far exceeded that of ordinary people.

Anna from the next room must have awakened, but Luo Di had no interest in joining the commotion, continuing to pick up the novel by his pillow.

Time slipped through the seams of the words,

Thud thud~ a series of knocks on the door pulled Luo Di back from the story to reality,

"Come in."

A huge figure loomed in the doorway, so tall that the head was barely visible, although the door itself was two meters high.

As the individual bent over to squeeze into the ward, the first thing Luo Di saw was a custom-made oversized suit constricting the body, with a shaven, bald head sitting atop a rough and barbaric face.

The mere physical presence and the rough countenance instinctively made Luo Di shift to the side,

Following him, a slightly plump middle-aged woman over one and a half meters tall, and a youth around two meters with tattoos and a golden buzz cut, entered the room one after another.

Amidst this group, Anna, who had just recovered, was also present.

She seemed to be recovering well, with only a faint scar from a burn on her face that might be treated with laser surgery in the future.

Anna, walking into the ward, was waving at Luo Di,

But the leading bald man came to the bedside, blocking the entire view.

He placed his large hand, which was capable of crushing a head, on his chest as a sign of respect and bowed,

"Sergey Ivanovitch, I thank you for saving my daughter. Should you face any trouble in Jupiter City, you can call on us to resolve it."

A business card with Russian text was placed on the bedside table.

Luo Di merely nodded slightly, not verbalizing any response.

The bald man continued to observe the considerably shorter Asian youth before him,

"Anna says you're in good health, and now I see it's true. It would be even better if you could grow taller, perhaps you need more nutrition.

Feel free to join our family's barbecue parties whenever you're free. Humans need to eat more meat to grow taller and stronger."

"Thank you."

At this moment, Anna interjected into their conversation, "Dad! The doctor said I'm in good condition, right? Besides, the hospital service is very good, there's no need for anyone to take care of me.

You don't need to be here~ go back and deal with the family matters."

Sergey was about to refuse, but he was fiercely glared at by the middle-aged woman who grabbed him and dragged him away, "Anna, then we will go home first and return to pick you up from the hospital in a couple of days."

"Understood, Mom."

As the family left the ward one after another, the tattooed youth at the end specifically glanced at Luo Di on the bed, then at his sister, before closing the door behind him.

Anna, seeing her family leave, also let out a sigh of relief and sat down on a chair next to the hospital bed.

"You weren't scared by my family, right? Though they seem fierce, they're actually pretty nice."

"No."

Luo Di didn't mind; he had felt their goodwill from the moment they entered.

Anna clenched the fist on her thigh, about to speak her rehearsed words of gratitude, but unexpectedly, the other person spoke first.

"Did you also go to Hell?"

"Hell? Are you talking about Possession?

When we were dealing with the zombies together, I unintentionally glimpsed the tongue Demon in the woods and then got possessed as it crawled into my mouth.

My consciousness fell into Hell at that moment, fixed upon a cross awaiting death."

Luo Di nodded; it seems the experiences after Possession were similar, "Did you see any symbols?"

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"No, my eyes opened for less than a second before being corroded away. I only caught a blurry glimpse of the Hellish scene and didn't see any symbols.

I thought it was all going to end there, but just as my body was almost desiccated by the wind, I suddenly felt something soft and moist creep into my mouth.

By the time I woke up again, I had already been sent to the hospital.

"

"Luo Di, you..."

Just as Anna was about to ask about the details of how the possession was lifted, Luo Di interrupted again with a question: "What did the demon look like?"

"Let me think... It looked like a dried corpse, completely dehydrated, covered in burn marks and riddled with holes.

Its head seemed to have two different forms,

Sometimes it just looked like a solitary tongue connected to the neck, flapping around in the air.

At other times, it appeared to be a normal human face, but tongues filled every eye socket, nostril, and ear.

Ugh~ Just thinking about it makes me uncomfortable.

Right, they told me that in the end, you were the one who came up with the solution and voluntarily transferred the demon inside me to yourself. How did you do that?"

"I have a unique scent that the demon liked and it was willing to transfer onto me. Leveraging its desire to transfer, Gao Yuxuan and I worked together to make contact with the outside world."

"Oh... I see..." Anna didn't think much further, "Being able to come up with a solution in that situation, no wonder Wenwen often mentions you in private.

After all, with her personality, she rarely praises peers so earnestly.

When the infusion is over, let's go see Wenwen in her ward. Because of me, she was badly injured and it might even delay her studies."

"A few days' delay shouldn't be too bad, right? This experience will be a huge boost to admissions later on."

Anna rested her chin on one hand, as if recalling some unpleasant memory, "That's hard to say, Wenwen's family is very strict about her studies... Ever since an incident more than a year ago, she hasn't gone out to play with me like before, only meeting up on weekends at most."

"More than a year ago?"

Luo Di also remembered something; he recalled that Wu Wen transferred to their class in the second semester of the first year of high school and quickly replaced the previous class president with her excellent overall qualities.

Anna explained, "Yeah, we both got admitted to the same high school, the best one in Jupiter City, First High School.

Though Wenwen was top of her class in middle school, she became less outstanding among all the monsters and geniuses at First High. Possibly due to family pressure, her grades kept slipping.

Later, during a physical test near the end of the term, she got into a disagreement over something trivial, struck someone, and was forced to drop out."

"Hurt someone?"

Luo Di, who rarely interacted with the class president, couldn't picture her, who was always smiling and gentle to everyone, in a conflict with someone else.

Anna let out a sigh, "Maybe it's for the best. After transferring to your school, it seems Wenwen became her old self again. With her caliber and the certification from this special experience, Wenwen is sure to make it into the top hundred in the city next year, maybe even better than if she had stayed at First High.

Once she's recovered, the four of us should definitely get together.

Surviving this time wasn't easy... Thank you so much; from now on, we're good friends. Like my dad says, if you ever run into trouble in Jupiter City, feel free to come to our family."

However, the "thank you" that Anna finally managed to say, didn't receive a timely response; Luo Di was staring blankly at the ward door, seemingly lost in thought.

Anna too curled her fist and gently tapped it against his arm.

"Hey~ What are you thinking about?"

Luo Di paused slightly before responding softly, "Friends, huh."

"Of course. Remember to stay in touch from now on. Even though we're not at the same school, we could still meet up on weekends or holidays."

Who would have thought, Luo Di's mind had jumped to something else again,

"Right, do you have that habit?"

"What habit? Why are you talking so weirdly?" Anna, confused, even reached out to touch Luo Di's forehead, suspecting he might have a fever.

"This habit."

Click~

When the tongue clicking sound came from Luo Di's mouth,

Anna was so frightened that she catapulted up from her seat, came to attention, her heart rate shot up instantly, and her body even faintly felt the terrifying heat of Hell.

She quickly realized, Luo Di had woken up before her and must have been thoroughly tested already; if there were any problems, he would have been isolated by now.

"Luo Di, are you trying to scare people to death~ Can't you give me a warning before making that sound?"

Luo Di simply said calmly, "I sometimes do it unconsciously now, probably a side effect of the possession. Don't you have it?"

"No... Definitely not~ I have a strong reflex response to that sound, let alone make it myself."

"Strange, even though you've been possessed longer than me, could it be because I was the last one possessed that I have this habit? Or maybe I'm not as averse to this sound?"

Anna looked at Luo Di with a look of disgust and quickly backed away from the bed, "I'm not staying with you any longer, it's eerie~ I'm going back to my room now, I'll come find you later!"