Luo Di probably returned to his rented room around 3 a.m.
on his way home, an intense hunger swept over his whole body.
This hunger was totally different from a normal stomach growl; rather than saying Luo Di was hungry, it was more like his pituitary needed nourishment.
"Did I merely use a bit of my power and it consumed so much? Or is there something wrong with the way I use it, or does it need to be used on Pseudo-Persons?
Maybe it’s because I just activated the Corner system, right now I’m probably equivalent to a Pseudo-Person less than a month old, if I misuse the power, the pituitary will be heavily overdrawn.
Only by fully nurturing the pituitary can I keep up with my Hell physique.
This power of fear is indeed interesting, once cultivated, it will definitely bring me closer to a true Murderer. Plus, I stumbled upon this interesting website, it can serve as a pastime when I’m bored."
Due to nighttime control in Mingwang City, basically all stores were closed.
Looking at the empty streets in the middle of the night, the first place Luo Di thought of where he could eat was the Underground Eden that the monitor had once taken him to experience.
Recalling the smell of roasted sausages and the aroma of meat wafting from some secret shops there, a strong desire was released in his brain.
Urging his body towards the entrance of Eden.
A slap struck his head, that kind of meat shouldn’t be eaten.
Relying purely on willpower, he walked back to Chinese Street; luckily, since Chinese Street was far from the city center and had its own special management methods, some Huaxia’s specialty restaurants were open all night.
Luo Di arrived at a barbecue stall where there weren’t many people,
and stared at the food with fully dilated and congested eyes as if he wanted to swallow the raw meat immediately, startling the boss who was brushing the grill for short times.
Such eyes were not unfamiliar to the boss, generally only seen in homeless people who hadn’t eaten in days.
But Luo Di’s dress and appearance didn’t like someone who couldn’t afford to eat.
"Handsome guy, what will you have?" Follow current ɴᴏᴠᴇʟs on noveⅼfire.net
"...Do you have brain?"
"Roasted brain? Yes, how many?"
"I just happened to have prepared a whole pig brain, do you really want all of it?"
Luo Di didn’t respond but directly transferred several times the price.
"The faster, the better, less seasoning," he said.
The boss, having never encountered such a customer, was even somewhat suspicious that Luo Di had developed a Thought Corner, ready to dial the Investigation Bureau’s phone at any moment.
But he also felt the youth in front of him looked somewhat familiar; under the light, he gradually made out his features.
"You are... Luo Di! Are you the Huaxia-born investigator who helped us solve the case of youth disappearances by killing a Pseudo-Person?! It really is you.
Come, come~ I can’t take your money, otherwise the neighbors would scold me.
Still working so late at night! From now on just eat at my place for free. We may not have much, but we provide enough food."
"Boss... hurry it up!"
Perhaps smelling the fishy aroma of the brain, Luo Di’s hunger grew stronger, and he could only sit down and press his face with one hand to suppress the hungry expression.
As the boss was roasting the brain, he sneakily glanced in Luo Di’s direction and was shocked to see something peeking through the gaps of the fingers covering his face—it looked like the squid tentacles displayed on his stall. He nearly dropped the freshly packed box of brain.
But when he looked again, there was nothing.
Ten minutes later, a barely cooked large serving of brain was served.
Luo Di intended to take the roasted brains home to eat, but he couldn’t restrain himself and started eating right at the stall.
Other people would use a spoon for eating roasted brains and also needed to cool it a bit.
Luo Di skipped all these steps, holding the freshly roasted brains still steaming hot, with a temperature no less than 90°C, and immediately poured them into his mouth.
One box after another.
In less than five minutes, he had eaten the entire amount of a whole pig’s brain, non-stop.
"More? I... I’ll go borrow some from next door; they should still have some."
The boss dared not delay, mentioning Luo Di’s name to the neighboring stall and quickly borrowed over three kilos of brain.
These were also "drunk" by Luo Di in a short time.
"Handsome guy, this Coke is for you."
Luo Di gulped down a liter of Coke like flushing a toilet, the sugar in the Coke quickly transformed into nutrients delivered to his brain, combined with pig brain’s special nutrients, finally clearing all the hunger induced by the pituitary.
A super loud burp echoed through the street, drawing looks from diners nearby and the owner of the adjacent stall.
"Full now, thanks..."
Watching Luo Di’s retreating figure towards the Youth Apartment, the stall owner’s impression of the investigator was completely elevated.
Previously, he merely thought that investigators were a group of extremely elite humans, but now it seems they far exceed humans, and don’t even look human at all.
Back in the apartment, Luo Di didn’t idle for a moment.
He projected his watch into computer mode again and pulled up the "materials" he had filmed tonight.
It recorded the whole process of him running at night to the junkyard, boarding the bus, and subsequently handling the social waste.
How could Luo Di not see through such a fishing post? If they really encountered a Pseudo-Person, the first thing would be to dial the anomaly hotline, and the investigators would come immediately, not leisurely log into a forum to post.
His purpose in going there was threefold.
1. To test the newly acquired system.
2. To gather material for posting and try to earn so-called ’Fear Beans’ on 4hs.
3. Before leaving, to help purify the social environment of Mingwang City.
"The wristband’s compatibility with computer mode is still a bit inconvenient, these video contents naturally can’t all be uploaded, some parts need to be deleted and covered up, I’ll buy a laptop tomorrow."
Luo Di was only a novice in terms of computers.
He learned and used video editing on the fly, working from 4:30 in the morning until almost 8 o’clock, barely managing to cut a video that wouldn’t expose his identity or specific locations.
Named "Late Night Hunting", it was posted on the Assassin section of the 4hs forum.
Right after he clicked the send button, he suddenly realized that the sun had already filtered through the curtains onto his body.
Suddenly, a strong wave of tiredness surged over him.
Luo Di couldn’t even make it to the bed before he had to close his eyes and lean back in the chair to sleep.
The dream had no images, only whispers coming from the corner:
≮Having tasted the lowest-grade human fear, pituitary filled by 0.5%, please minimize intake of such inferior nutrition.≯
When Luo Di woke up, he had fallen off the bench and was lying on the floor.
It was already half past four in the afternoon.
But his brain felt clearer than ever before, clearer than his earliest mornings, as if he had endless energy.
"It seems the growth of the pituitary is similar to that of the spine, although they are systems from different worlds, the early stages are pretty much the same... Just feed this thing properly.
The spine needs fighting,
And the pituitary needs the release of fear.
Going next to the Capital City doesn’t seem like it will be idle, hoping there’s a dense enough event frequency there to bring me some high-quality fear nutrition... I must go faster, quicker to the Corner."
The wristband, detecting the individual had awakened, automatically exited sleep mode, and lit up the screen, the [99+] notifications drawing Luo Di’s gaze.
His last night’s edited hunting video was listed as a hot video in the assassin section, garnering hundreds of thousands of likes in just over ten hours.
Although the filming was terribly shaky, it brought a sense of realism and even an immersive sensation of chasing and killing, earning applause for Luo Di’s justice in eliminating societal trash.
And Luo Di’s account also received exactly 50 Fear Beans as a reward.
Watching these likes, looking at the comments... Luo Di felt a sensation similar to the joyful cheers of winning in the Fighting Hall, and a special thought emerged in his mind.
Perhaps his subsequent actions to supplement the pituitary could all be recorded with a camera.