[Old People’s Home Hall]
Yu Ze took out a bunch of things from his backpack, surprisingly those were the items he temporarily bought from a stationery store when pretending to tell fortunes.
The folding table was set up,
A black and white printed Bagua diagram was spread on the tabletop,
An apple, which he took from the restaurant earlier, was used as an offering and placed in the center,
Two red candles, origin unknown, were lit on both sides,
Thus, a simple altar was established.
"All the ashes go into this bowl."
Anna gathered the ashes of the burned elderly and poured them into the crystal bowl on the folding table.
She also noticed that the surface of the crystal bowl bore the label "Mercury Hotel," presumably another item taken during their stay at the hotel.
Though Yu Ze was not in a Daoist Robe,
His outfit was a special custom tailored, even with significant distinctions, a few levels above the regular investigator’s attire, styled between a Daoist robe and casual clothes.
He took out a small bottle of ink, similarly bought at the stationery store and still with the price tag, opened it, and poured it into the bowl containing ashes, stirring it into a paste.
Using a Three Pure Ones Talisman as a guide, ignite it over the red candles,
With a flick of his finger,
The burning talisman fell into the crystal bowl, igniting the paste.
Yu Ze held the bottom of the bowl with one hand, muttering something.
With a loud shout, he threw the crystal bowl.
As if supported by an invisible divine force, the crystal bowl circled around Yu Ze, covering a ten-meter diameter, evenly scattering the burning paste.
After circling once, it flew back into his hand,
The burning circular array had formed.
As the burning material was the ashes of the elderly, their screams could faintly be heard, and even the pained faces could be seen within the flames.
The array was set, Yu Ze quickly calculated using Xiao Liu Ren.
After confirming there was no discrepancy in time, he followed by burning a talisman containing Luo Di’s hair, placed one hand on the Bagua paper, and transmitted his voice through the air.
"Luo Di, can you hear this?
I have set up the array, once activated it will cut off the connection to the Corner-like Space and this building will revert to its original state in a short time.
The specific duration might be very short, perhaps only a few seconds.
You can come down and join us, or make your own decision."
The moment the transmission was sent, Luo Di made his choice.
Yu Ze revealed a slight smile; he was about to perform the final step.
With a swipe along his waist,
Buzz! A series of Five Emperor Coins flew out from his pocket, arranging themselves in mid-air to form a copper coin sword.
Previously, the sword Yu Ze used to cut through the Corner-like Space was this one.
Anna was stunned by these maneuvers, far beyond her understanding of what an investigator was capable of.
With the copper coin sword in hand,
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Yu Ze bit his index finger, letting blood drip onto the sword, no longer displaying his usual careless demeanor, now maintaining an absolute focus that even revealed a sort of unusual Killing Intent.
With a loud shout, he slashed with the sword.
The circle of fire burning around extinguished completely with this slash, and the screams of the elderly vanished, the entire hall returned to silence.
The entire old people’s home’s electricity unexpectedly restored, all the ceiling lights lit up, and the front elevator began to operate.
While Anna was in awe, her gaze locked onto the elevator stopping at the 10th floor.
She was ready with her axe, prepared to meet Luo Di coming down by the elevator, and together confront the Pseudo-Person in the depths of the old people’s home.
The numbers on the elevator panel were reducing not at the normal speed, but rapidly, even increasing in speed.
It seemed the entire cabin was in freefall, plummeting downward.
The number didn’t stop at [1], and one could clearly hear the intense friction of the elevator car within the elevator shaft.
The numbers on the dashboard continued to decrease, and when it surpassed [-5], it directly showed a malfunction.
Boom! A violent crash sound came from a far underground area away from the hall.
Anna immediately sped up and ran towards the elevator entrance, intending to forcefully open the elevator doors and find a way to go down.
The recently stabilized lights began to flicker again, and behind the elevator door turned into an impenetrable concrete wall of steel and cement.
It seems that the opponent had regained control of the Old People’s Home.
Yu Ze’s voice came from behind, "Miss Anna, we just need to wait! Everything that could be done has been done, now let’s leave the rest to him."
Yu Ze had only given the word "short time," so Luo Di didn’t dare to gamble, riding the elevator was too time-consuming, he had to take matters into his own hands.
Falling was the fastest way,
The bottom layer of the Old People’s Home, also the deepest part of the Corner-like Space,
The elevator car falling at high speed smashed the elevator doors here open, squeezing and deforming the whole car, with electric sparks flickering.
A dark shadow squeezed out through the gap of the car, stepping into the corridor at the lowest floor.
The investigator’s clothing and Luo Di’s own spinal support perfectly cushioned this fall,
His dark eyes gazing straight ahead,
The bottom layer had no extra rooms, only a hallway filled with the smell of blood and enveloped in aging mist. Protected by a Jaw Splitter, Luo Di wouldn’t inhale any harmful gases.
Even so, the aging curse of the entire Old People’s Home was still slowly affecting his body; Luo Di now looked almost forty years old.
The taste lingering on his tongue told him, the target was at the end of this corridor, the final hunt was about to begin.
Sprinting towards the end of the most intense scent.
He kicked open an Iron Gate labeled [Storage Room].
Yet the scene presented before Luo Di made him halt his steps; the so-called storage room was extremely vast, and inner conditions made it challenging for Luo Di to identify the hunting target.
It was the size of a standard basketball court,
Whether it was the floor, ceiling, or walls, all were covered with flesh and blood tissues or rather said the space itself was constructed with flesh and blood.
The most extravagant was the embedded [Mother] on the ceiling.
A female body measuring over twenty meters in length,
This mother lacked limbs, lacked skin, and looked like a sculpture made from a blood-flesh mold.
But the necessary organs were present, especially the organs used for reproduction and excretion.
The huge head resembling Isabella continuously breathed out that gray aging air from its mouth,
The protruding abdomen appeared as if pregnant, with the navel transformed into a half-meter wide flesh cavern.
The end of the mother also retained a cavern structure, seemingly for excreting waste.
One by one, mummified old people crawled out from the mother’s end like discarded material, their bodies heavily landing on the blood-covered floor, activating immediately when they breathed the aging air dispersed in the atmosphere.
These elders, as long as they died within the Old People’s Home and their bodies weren’t cremated.
Even if chopped into fine pieces, the corpses would soon meld into the building’s deeper layers and be recycled to the mother, nearly achieving infinite cycling.
These elders were merely ’waste’; their vitality and value had been drained by the mother, each cycle also squeezing them once more.
All the nutrients converged in the mother’s abdomen, gathering within the uterus.
A large amount of amniotic fluid suddenly surged out from the opening in the abdomen,
A haggard [Isabella] was birthed, this time not a virtual image between mirrors but a tangible entity, also looking quite tall.
Descending gently using the umbilical cord as an elevator cable, stepping on the ground.
Her eyes were looking towards Luo Di standing at the storage room entrance,
Surprised that he could escape the building’s constraints and find the deepest nest but also wary of the human in the Hall who could sever the Corner-like Space connection.
But Isabella wasn’t panicking, for only Luo Di came to the lair alone.
"I can’t be simply defined as a ’Pseudo-Person’ anymore; I have not only matured but also transcended what’s so-called ’human’. According to those investigators, I should be referred to as [anomaly].
The truly perfect me will be conceived,
But you’ve come at just the right time, if I drain your nutrients, this process might advance by two to three days, then I will join the [interstice screening] as a member of the Sisterhood.
I will be more cautious in the future, never making this mistake again."