This vortex street, which resembles a maze, is frighteningly large.
Everyone has been walking inside for a full hour, yet still hasn’t reached the center.
Luo Di uses the Hell System, with his spine holding together with metal to stabilize his body and restrain the vortex’s influence on it.
At the same time, based on the current situation, he roughly speculates about Teacher Guo.
’This undeveloped area definitely wasn’t at first,
whether it’s the ashes dispersed in the sky or this frighteningly large vortex street,
all of these were crafted by Teacher Guo himself. These structures seem to block outsiders, but in reality, they are more like suppressing and sealing something inside, precisely that strange dungeon.
Such a project can’t be completed overnight, yet Teacher Guo has not been at the Corner for long.
There’s only one possibility,
Teacher Guo rushed to this undeveloped area right after completing the selection process when he arrived at the Corner, placing everything here. The latest_epɪ_sodes are on_the novęlfire.net
Someone is giving him hints, someone is directing him... Is it Mr. Kraft?
Could it be that Mr. Kraft foresaw that Teacher Guo would be selected by the comic store, so he arranged for him to come here? Prepared in advance to deal with the strange dungeon?
I’ll have to wait until I’m more familiar before personally asking Teacher Guo. Directly asking Mr. Kraft isn’t ideal, and he likely won’t say anything.
Regardless, this is certainly an opportunity.
This strange dungeon might yield something different, something not belonging to the Corner, and perhaps we can prematurely touch that true danger.’
Just as Luo Di takes a deep breath to adjust his state,
two sisters suddenly come over, intending to embrace Luo Di between them like that night, hand in hand.
However, just as their palms are about to touch,
Luo Di suddenly feels an arm wrap around his shoulder, pulling him forward. The golden hair floats past the two sisters, who dare not speak out in anger.
Luo Di is somewhat surprised that the other would suddenly find him , and judging by Lebeite’s relaxed demeanor, he doesn’t seem affected at all.
Lebeite, however, is serious, "Luo Di, do you know about my father’s situation? Has he been here before?"
"Yes, Teacher Guo mentioned this matter."
No wonder I received a family letter at my residence, carrying an aura of misfortune; my father actually took the initiative to ask me to assist this organization.
Once the organization is formed, he even wants me to join it.
Teacher Guo must have talked to my father about something... it’s getting more and more strange, my father used to be the strictest, but now he lets me leave the manor and even proactively wants me to join another organization.
There’s definitely something important hidden behind this.
Yet, this is good, so I won’t be bound by home and can return to the Human World with you whenever I want to truly experience human life."
"By the way, Luo Di, who do you think is the strongest among Teacher Guo’s students?"
"Based on their aura alone, it should be that tall thin woman, but overall, it would be Dormo. If his dream can invade reality, the variables he could control are vast."
"That’s about the same feeling I have... I didn’t expect there would be so many formidable people in the Corner."
"Teacher Guo’s judgment has always been very unique."
Lebeite’s tone suddenly shifts, "I don’t know if there’ll be a chance to kill them all in the future, whether it’s Teacher Guo or Mr. Question Mark who would be easier to kill... hush!"
Lebeite places his finger vertically, as if indicating that in his eyes, besides Luo Di, the human, everyone else is a competitor.
And perhaps the apex of the food chain has room for only one.
After walking on the vortex street for nearly two and a half hours, they finally reach the center.
Here lies a downward staircase, spiraling without end, with no sight of the bottom.
Teacher Guo’s voice comes from ahead:
"The entrance is just below, from now on, don’t restrain your bodies, follow the feeling of the vortex to change to enter."
Everyone successively steps onto the spiral staircase, gradually undoing their bodily defenses, and their bodies immediately begin to transform.
Luo Di can visually see his fingers being elongated and curled.
Hair, tongue, spine, legs, and even his entire body follow suit.
Even his vision, the space itself starts to spin,
so much so that Luo Di slowly no longer needs to walk, being automatically rotated downward, until the very bottom of the small hole, with his body twisted into noodle-like strings, Luo Di smoothly flows in.
As Teacher Guo’s arm rested on his shoulder, Luo Di’s body was instantly restored.
The familiar video store was right in front of him, indicating that they had already entered the "Entrance," but the video store looked somewhat off.
The movie posters that were previously stuck outside were all replaced with comic-style promotional content here.
Pushing the door open and entering.
The movie discs and related props that were once on the shelves had all disappeared, replaced by messy comic draft papers, randomly pasted, scattered all over the floor.
Most of the draft papers were blank, at most featuring some strange lines.
Walking down the store’s stairs, each floor was ,
making it impossible to judge what kind of events this transformed dungeon might present, or what kind of things could be obtained.
the counter had been redesigned to resemble a drawing desk.
A bartender-clad employee was engaged in related drawing tasks, but he would draw at most two strokes before discarding the paper, seemingly never satisfied, never reaching his desired goal.
The biological rift that symbolized the corner of the employee’s face was gone, replaced with another face.
The entire face was smoothed out, without any protruding structures, yet he had crammed various drawing tools into his face.
Erasers of different sizes occupied the position of his eyes on the left and right,
his nostrils corresponded to a deep pen holder, stuffed with pens of all types, ready for use at any time.
Straight slots were on either side of his cheeks, filled with rulers,
his mouth corresponded to an ink pool.
As Teacher Guo stepped forward proactively, vortex pressure waves released, prompting the already transformed employee to slowly lift his head.
He wanted to speak but couldn’t make a sound, only discovering after touching his mouth that he no longer had vocal organs.
He quickly drew a 3D film camera on the draft paper, simultaneously depicting the player as being in the "pressed" state.
The sound actually started coming from between the drafts, intermittent.
"Welcome to the Corner Image... Comic Store. Currently, this place is not officially open, the dungeon structure is still unstable, temporarily not open to the public.
Wait a minute... you have here,
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 comic accepters.
However, this gentleman needs to be singled out; your depth is different from the others."
The employee was pointing directly at Teacher Guo.
"Since the proportion of comic accepters among you is greater than or equal to 50%, you can participate in this store’s trial operation. But how exactly should that be done? Please give me a moment."
The employee pulled out yet another draft paper, drawing a letter addressed to himself, then retrieved the letter to check its contents.
"I have an idea now, I know what to do! First, please proceed with the [two rounds of drawing lots]."
The employee immediately drew a lottery box on the draft paper, with a black ink hole painted at the top, forming an inserted space where you could extend your arm inside.
"First, proceed with the first round of drawing lots. Everyone draws a small numbered ball inside, where the numbers correspond to forming teams."
The employee raised the paper, aiming the black hole towards the crowd. After Teacher Guo examined it simply and confirmed there was no issue, he nodded to signal agreement.
The tall, thin woman was the first to draw, followed by others.
Lebeite was the first to rush over to compare numbers with Luo Di, only to find they were vastly different, with Luo Di being [1] and Lebeite being [5].
"Can this be swapped?" Lebeite initially intended to cooperate well with Luo Di, but then he suddenly perked up, "Oh, that guy is also a 5."
Not far away, the bald Dormo was smiling and waving, holding a small ball with the number [5].
Hua Yuan also wanted to compare numbers with Luo Di, but was immediately pulled aside by Wu Wen; the two sisters were lucky enough to both draw [3].
Luo Di had no choice but to look at the last familiar face, "Yu Ze, what did you draw?"
Yu Ze showed the small ball with the number [2], shaking his head, "Seems like my luck isn’t good today, I’ve drawn a poor lot."
His helplessness was understandable, as the other person who drew number 2 was that tall, thin woman who looked like a monster. She was watching Yu Ze with a gaze as if assessing prey.
"Strange, who’s number one?"
Luo Di could only direct his gaze to the young boy with a nail in his mouth, who immediately glared back, as if warning him not to look unnecessarily.
As for the black-and-white boy who couldn’t speak, he held a ball with the number [4].
Having eliminated all others, there was only one last person left.
Katayama was the last one to approach, finally managing to squeeze his chubby arm into the hole, drawing the ball that was indeed [1].
He also felt Luo Di’s gaze, slowly turning around, nodding and bowing with an apologetic look.
Perhaps sensing the murderer’s aura from within Luo Di, Katayama began to secrete slime like crazy, a large blob of stinky liquid falling directly on the floor, leaving stains wherever he went.