Deep in the Living-Chapter 899 - 878: Home

Winston.

A child who appeared under the bridge, not even knowing who his parents were.

Several joggers passing by heard the child's cries, approached with sympathy to observe, but quickly changed their expressions and walked away one after another.

The face of that infant didn't even resemble a human,

swollen, large, and full of bumps, almost like a bullfrog.

Eventually, a passing homeless man picked up the child, not out of kindness, but because begging with such a child allowed him to get more things.

No care at all,

just leaving leftover food for the child to eat, and because of his extremely ugly and even strange appearance, the homeless man wrapped his head entirely with dirty and ragged cloth.

However, the child's vitality was strong, even when frequently ill, he managed to pull through.

As he grew day by day, slowly gaining basic awareness, he still regarded the homeless man as his father, even though all he saw in the man's eyes was disgust.

Winston himself was also somewhat unusual compared to ordinary people, not just his face, by the age of eight, he was already nearly 1.8 meters tall with a large build.

Suddenly one day,

the homeless man suffered a sudden heart attack,

only eight-year-old Winston, who had never been to a hospital, didn't know what to do, so he did his best to carry his father and seek help.

In the rush, the cloth wrapped around his face fell off one by one, scaring passersby who screamed, thinking a Pseudo-Person had appeared.

Investigators arrived quickly,

but ultimately, the homeless man couldn't be saved due to various complications,

Winston's uniqueness attracted the Investigation Bureau's attention, leading to his transfer to a nearby research institute for a medical examination.

Contrary to assumptions of illness, Winston's physical condition was better than normal people.

His strength, endurance, bone strength, and even intelligence surpassed many of his peers.

This physical condition quickly caught the higher-ups' attention, and the Investigation Bureau made a special registration for him.

However, the research institute's psychologists found Winston had a mild psychological disorder, known as "altruistic personality disorder."

Although it's a minor mental issue, it still requires attention.

Considering Winston was only eight years old, still in the process of growing, starting related training too early would lead to unfavorable outcomes.

After several leaders discussed, they decided to send Winston to a well-equipped local welfare shelter with special instructions.

In the shelter,

Winston faced no discrimination regarding his appearance; instead, the children there nicknamed him "Big Guy," and whenever danger arose, they sought his help.

Winston had a happy life, arguably the happiest time in his life, and for the first time, he felt a sense of home,

He loved being with everyone, and he loved providing protection for them.

Time quickly flew by,

Twelve-year-old Winston was recalled to the Exploration Bureau, his height now reaching 2.4 meters, yet his body bore no burden, with bones and muscles developing completely normally.

Though he bid farewell to his friends at the shelter, leaving the beloved home he was reluctant to part with.

But he had a "new home" once more,

living in dorms provided by the Exploration Bureau with several specially recruited young people, starting their training with the Investigation Bureau.

Winston's demonstrated strength eclipsed his appearance.

No one mocked him; instead, they often gave him thumbs up, and he made good friends here as well.

Gradually, he started seeing this place as his second home, despite the fatigue, living happily.

Eighteen years old.

Winston reached 3.6 meters in height, weighing 400 kilograms, acing all performances and officially becoming an investigator.

For his first mission, he captured a Pseudo-Person alive.

He seemed to easily see through disguises and even understand Pseudo-Persons' psychological activities.

Though he could have killed without harm, he chose to capture alive at the cost of his own injury.

Even while subduing the Pseudo-Person, he kept saying "I'm sorry."

He understood some Pseudo-Persons were not willingly like that but were influenced by Corner Depths whispers, with their tragic pasts.

In subsequent operations, he focused on capturing alive.

Though the Investigation Bureau provided him with many psychological interventions, Winston just couldn't bring himself to do it.

Such a personality was unsuitable for becoming an investigator; going to the Corner Depths and facing various monsters would be a Dead End.

Therefore, a decision was made from above.

They took Winston to the research institute, to the living specimen research area, where the Pseudo-Persons he "captured" were confined.

The fate of these Pseudo-Persons was even worse than dying on the spot,

they underwent multiple pituitary research experiments, ultimately ending in death with the pituitary removed.

One Pseudo-Person saw Winston through the window, their gaze filled with hatred and a plea, a plea to die quickly rather than endure torture here.

With such an opportunity,

an investigator patted Winston's shoulder, telling him killing Pseudo-Persons was the best method.

They explained in detail that current technology couldn't revert Pseudo-Persons back, making such a captured ending inevitable.

That night,

Winston disappeared.

Even as the Investigation Bureau used all means, they couldn't find any trace of him.

He had always been smart, always pondering questions, and tonight he seemed to have figured everything out.

Ten years passed.

By chance,

a fast bus, with the driver suddenly ill, veered into dangerous outskirts forest areas, followed by tumbling into a valley.

Miraculously, only one passenger survived,

in a daze,

he seemed to see a Huge figure dragging him from the burning carriage,

then being carried into a building, where an inhuman doctor seemed to provide treatment.

When he awoke, he was already transported to a nearby city.

The survivor's bizarre experience caught the higher-ups' attention, leading a special investigation team to the city outskirts, searching around the site.

Throughout their time there, they encountered no attacks from Pseudo-Persons and indeed found a building built in the outskirts. 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

This place was full of Pseudo-Persons,

strangely, these Pseudo-Persons were unusually friendly, not attacking, and even some stood at the window offering goodwill.

The team naturally didn't trust easily, remained vigilant, intending to report the situation here to the World Bureau.

Just then,

a 'monster,' almost six meters tall, walked out from downstairs.

It was the missing Winston from ten years ago, having turned into a Pseudo-Person, yet still friendly, even calling out everyone's names with tears in his eyes.

He explained the reason for his disappearance,

he had figured out a mutually beneficial solution, which was to give these Pseudo-Persons a "home."

For this, he came alone to the outskirts to build houses, constructing this apartment-like building brick by brick.

Under his management, these Pseudo-Persons never killed anyone, always finding other ways to grow, always living here.

Under his management, several kind Pseudo-Persons had already gone to the Corner Depths through interstice screenings.

Soon,

he would go inside as well.

According to Winston, he would build similar apartments or hotels in the Corner Depths, allowing monsters to reside without harming humans.

Right before him,

the leader of the investigation team was a childhood friend of Winston's, knowing well of Winston's character.

Even if human and Pseudo-Person conflicts were irreconcilable, he chose to trust Winston, not reporting the situation here upward.

Six months passed,

when the investigation team returned, the entire building was empty, as multiple interstice screenings there had taken everyone to the Corner Depths.

According to the Exploration Bureau's information,

deep within the Corner Depths,

a monster called the "Landlord" had appeared, being the largest Green Door Monster seen to date.

This monster, when attacked by human teams, didn't retaliate and even handed over a peculiar letter.

He hoped human investigators would transfer some captured Green Door Monsters to him, ensuring no harm would come to them.

Winston had always been like this,

his empathetic nature made him want to help anyone, especially those at their wits' end.

The Great Screening ended,

he was transported to the vastness of space, drifting aimlessly.

He wanted to return to Earth, to protect his former tenants, to protect the town's residents, to protect those newfound friends.

But reality stood before him, and with his current power, he couldn't achieve it.

To protect everyone from Death Row Inmates, he needed to build a more perfect "hotel."

A special goal took root in his heart, wanting to do just this one thing.

During his time drifting in space,

even without anyone worshipping this newly ascended monster God, even without any training or food intake,

Winston's physique kept growing larger,

he seemed to turn into a celestial body,

a celestial body with the hotel he wished to construct inside, a hotel to protect everyone...