Deep in the Living

Chapter 588: A Chance Encounter


"Enough, that's it for today's extra lesson. If we continue, Luo Di, you'll be left with irreparable aftereffects.

Besides, you already understand the essence of 'Danger Perception.' As long as you listen carefully in class, your danger perception will improve, covering a larger area."

In the lobby on the first floor of the administrative building,

Gust sat here, not on a chair, but rather on Luo Di.

Luo Di was completely sprawled on the ground, his entire body bound by tongues, unable to move at all.

Even Wu Wen, who stayed inside him, was entangled by tongues filling the space between organs, bound in a strange posture within the body cavity.

With Luo Di completely restraining his killing intent, his hand touched Gust's shoulder, and the latter no longer held back, suppressing him completely within a minute.

The tutoring was effective.

"Then... you... get off me."

Luo Di used all his strength to utter these words.

Gust immediately stood up, releasing all the tongue restraints.

The body that was licked felt weak and powerless, coupled with Luo Di already in a weakened state for the tutoring. After this battle, he barely spoke two sentences before the body, just standing up, directly collapsed.

Just as he was about to hit the ground,

Wu Wen quickly separated from within.

It was just a bit strange; she didn't reach out to assist.

Bang!

Luo Di's entire face hit the ground, nosebleed coming out, yet too weak to leave his sleep-like state.

Gust just watched quietly not far away, struggling to understand today's young people.

Recalling Luo Di's previous tendency to behead without hesitation, he didn't criticize Wu Wen's behavior.

He only lightly asked the young girl:

"Your hand-to-hand combat skills should be no worse than Luo Di's, yet you chose to assist. This might lower your tutoring efficiency; did you learn anything today?"

Wu Wen clasped her hands between her thighs and bowed in gratitude:

"Thank you, Teacher Gust, for your concern. I'm not quite used to using the tongue to foresee danger. But I still learned something about binding and wetting, which might be useful in the future."

"You have a high understanding, quickly take this lad back to rest. Don't push him today; it'll lead to kidney deficiency."

Wu Wen made an OK gesture. Once Luo Di's nosebleed slowed down, she gently leaned down to carry him.

Gust then lifted all the seals in the first floor lobby, and after confirming both young ones had completely left, he hurriedly turned and ran into a nearby restroom.

Locking the door,

Whoa aow!

A strange scream,

followed by a bunch of chaotic metal objects being taken out from inside his shoulder, with iron wires forming the words "Teacher happy" on the surface.

"Do these metals really hurt?

Hell World sure has some interesting things, but for now, I'll tidy up the garden in the corner before considering going over there to collect tongues.

Moreover, in a few days, there will be a new batch of quite promising students coming in, simply fantastic! Eager to taste their tongues.

This way, I won't need to run around the corner; the excellent tongues will naturally come to this school."

Gust, regaining his interest and in high spirits, even walked with a skip only a girl would have, humming a classic old song.

However,

just as he was about to leave the administrative building in such a peculiar manner, footsteps sounded from the stairwell beside him.

A faculty member descending the stairs seemed to have witnessed Gust's real side.

Realizing this, Gust immediately stopped his dance steps and humming, clearing his throat with exaggerated gusto to alleviate the embarrassment.

But Gust quickly sensed an anomaly.

The individual in the stairwell was descending slowly, seemingly cautious with each step.

Looking up,

a pair of brown leather shoes first appeared at the stair corner.

Followed by a blond man wearing a bowler hat slowly emerged, a yellow scarf completely covering everything below the nose.

Aged and bloated.

"A teacher?"

At first glance, Gust couldn't determine who the person was. Given their aged appearance and silver hair at the ears, they didn't quite fit the master of Invisible Manor.

In his opinion, a man able to win Aiser's heart surely wouldn't have a poor appearance and stature.

Gust instinctively used his tongue to taste the individual's flavor; discerning the specific taste would quickly confirm the identity.

As the tongue extended from his mouth,

for some unknown reason, he failed to maintain his balance, his body responding instinctively, jaw closing!

Bang!

The winding long tongue was completely bitten off by its own teeth, and blood immediately spurted out.

If it were an ordinary person, they might be immersed in pain, unable to realize the fundamental reason behind it.

But when Gust saw the severed tongue underground, his hair stood on end, and he quickly pulled away as if in reflex! Who knew that during his retreat, he accidentally stepped on the blood that had just sprayed out.

He was forced to slip,

unable to adjust his posture in mid-air.

Moreover, the direction he slipped in was straight towards the metal door handle on the main door.

Logically speaking, this ordinary metal could never harm Gust, but... snap! The cylindrical door handle completely pierced into his eye socket, and the eyeball was directly pushed out from the back of his head.

Gust simply didn't care about this kind of injury; he just wanted to quickly distance himself.

He swiftly pulled the door handle out from his eye socket,

then quickly retreated from the administrative building to a spot a hundred meters away, near the school's entrance.

He did not repair the penetrating injury to his eye; instead, he immediately lay flat, using his palms to touch the ground.

With tiny tongues growing from the tips of his fingers, he sensed something through the earth, confirming that he was now outside some invisible field.

"Why didn't my tongue have danger perception... Was it because the person didn't have any killing intent towards me, or were their means superior to mine?

Earlier, different forms of bad luck occurred in succession, and the bad luck amplifies environmental factors to ensure they can cause me harm.

What kind of monster is this, so exaggerated? I've never heard about this before, and this guy doesn't even seem new. Could it really be..."

Gust looked at the administrative building in confusion, only to witness a strange scene.

The elderly man actually stepped on the shattered eyeball while walking slowly, fell backward, and the back of his head landed precisely on the crook of his cane, with various substances pouring out from the wound.

This scene made Gust touch the back of his head, feeling a phantom pain.

The old man still stood up very slowly, and when leaving the building, he took out a special metal wheelchair from somewhere, relying on external aids to move his body.

"Does this guy affect even himself? A bit similar to that snail student, uncontrollable ability? But this person is clearly at a higher level, supposedly at the extreme of the middle layer, yet still uncontrollable?"

This time, Gust didn't use his tongue for tasting, but caught sight of a ring worn in the old man's hand, recognizing the family crest of Invisible Manor.

"It really is... No wonder Aiser described this person as 'special.' This guy is strong! Probably the most formidable among all the teachers, even harder to deal with than that enigma.

I wonder what his tongue tastes like?"

Gust, murmuring softly, suddenly changed his expression, showing a face of greed, hunger, and strangeness, his pupils shrinking into a demonic granular structure,

immediately following,

behind the wheelchair-bound old man,

inside the hall,

the eyeball previously poked out by the door handle astonishingly sprouted the structure of a tongue on its surface, quickly growing into a human-like tongue-headed shape.

That tongue monster crazily licked its body and the surrounding environment, concealing the presence of everything through licking.

It did not choose to rush forward,

but instead followed at a speed just a tad faster than the wheelchair,

simultaneously,

from a distance, Gust remained with his hands on the ground,

remotely controlling numerous tongues moving underground, clearing all substances that might trigger 'bad luck' around the tongue monster.

The tongue monster itself also crawled to move, with tongues between its palms and the ground maintaining deep contact, preventing it from slipping.

Gust cleared everything he could see that might cause bad luck, and the tongue monster's approach went very smoothly.

Just as they were about to approach the target and about to succeed,

Gust's tongue suddenly tasted many different types of flavors, corresponding to different directions, and each of these flavors was intense, carrying an invisible danger.

1. A crack appeared in the floor-to-ceiling window of the office at the top of the administrative building, with a piece of glass about to fall.

2. The streetlamp ten meters away was experiencing a short circuit, with sparks flying.

3. Thunder rumbled from the sky as rain began to fall.

Gust's greedy eyes instantly turned sullen and serious.

Very decisively, he waved his hand, making the tongue monster disappear, turning into a pool of shattered eyeballs on the ground, washed away by the rain.

Abandoning contact,

as soon as he tried to reach out to touch this person, all surrounding anomalies disappeared, but the rain continued to fall.

The old man in the wheelchair cast his slightly cataracted eyes over.

His voice carried over with the sound of the rain:

"Hello, I am Maximus, the philosophy teacher of this school."

"Biology teacher, Gust."

"We should collaborate when given the chance in the future."

"Looking forward to it."

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