"Uh... Of course, it's not unacceptable if you want to be my father..."
Claire peeked at the giant round bed behind the curtains in the bedroom, looking for suspicious outlines or clutter.
"attic."
"What?"
Soon, Claire, who followed Lu Li to the attic, understood that Lu Li's "temporary stay" was just a temporary stay at their home, not his mother's bedroom.
"No wonder my mother asked me to come back and take a look at the Midnight City mission."
Claire leaned closer to the window sill and admired the green buds in the flower pot that were nearly the length of her thumb. She also squatted down to observe the buds growing on the wooden boards around the bed.
The bud she pinched quickly withered, and after being treated and cultivated with alchemy, it turned into a polluted plant, losing its original purity.
"Do plants grow just by being around you?"
"It seems so."
Even the wood that makes up the floor will sprout again after crossing the blurred line of death to some extent.
"Is the lord of the Land of Light himself the incarnation of light... That's great."
Claire quickly broke away from her sentimental emotions and asked Lu Li: "Have you been staying here these past few days without going out?"
"I will go to the restaurant to buy food."
"It seems that I haven't gone out." Claire stood up on her knees: "I took over the incident in the inner city, do you want to come with me? Don't worry, I will protect you, 'Father'."
Ignoring Claire's teasing, Lu Li nodded after thinking for a moment.
He really needs a "rest".
Over time, the negative consequences of ingesting too much knowledge begin to appear, such as auditory hallucinations that appear faintly during tranquility.
Sometimes it's like a cough behind the wall, sometimes it's a voice on an empty chair, sometimes it's a scream coming from the fireplace, sometimes it's a wet, muddy gurgling sound.
The troublesome part is the sound of footsteps.
No matter when and where, no matter whether he was awake or sleeping, Lu Li would approach the window due to the sound of footsteps and stare at the nearest entrance.
Because of the curse of the "door".
I have been staying in Midnight City for two months, and the "door" may arrive at any time.
This is why Lu Li needs to live in an attic with windows facing the west: the Allen Peninsula is in the west, and the stairs will warn and delay the approach of the "door".
Lu Li put on his cloak, opened the perfume potion for Claire to cover her nose, and left the house with her.
[Midnight City-Inner City-San Francisco Golden Fragrance District]
[Keniva, a well-known lawyer, experienced frequent delirium and hallucinations four days ago. Only he could see them. He went to check but no contamination was detected. The psychiatrist thought it was caused by excessive stress and had nothing to do with weirdness. However, Keniva
Don’t think so.]
[Task: Investigate the source of Keniva’s hallucinations]
[Advanced: Completely solve this task]
[Reminder: Keniva had a vision and participated in the court ruling as a lawyer on the case the next day.]
[Basic reward: 5 credits or 5 team points]
Reading the note with information about this incident, Claire's voice rang in my ears.
"You are giving them too much advantage. Being sacrificed to the gods you believe in may be an honor to those cultists."
"Death is both relief and punishment. Usually it represents the latter." Lu Li said calmly.
For example, Professor Hagrid's family, Peter Hagrid, never wanted to die, nor did he want to be sacrificed to the so-called "lord".
"Maybe you're right."
Lu Li and Claire's college badges and the stench caused people to subconsciously bypass them and successfully arrive at the San Francisco neighborhood.
Knock knock knock
As the door opened, they saw the victim Keniva.
He has a well-balanced figure, but is tired and has an aura of panic almost escaping from his face.
"I can see them, Ryan, they are students who are here to help you." The wife beside her comforted her husband softly.
"Student? Just student? I need the Knights! I need the Midnight Church! I need the Exorcist! It stinks... damn it stinks! Did Crazy Pete shit in front of our door again!"
Keniva's wife quickly comforted her and helped her mentally disturbed husband back to the living room.
Claire took the revealing potion from Lu Li, refused to take the guardian potion, glanced at it and followed her into the house.
"I'm sorry... he was so frightened by delirium that he became mentally weak and couldn't stay rational."
Helping her husband, who had just taken sedative medication, to sit on the sofa, the wife apologized.
"Tell me about him, starting from the beginning." Claire raised her chin.
"Okay... Ryan had hallucinations four days ago..."
That day she was cooking in the kitchen, while Keniva was in the study upstairs preparing materials for tomorrow's court hearing. While cleaning the cooking pot, Keniva suddenly yelled and ran downstairs, saying that something strange had appeared in the study. The frightened couple ran away
He went out to find the city guards, and nearby knights arrived soon after. After inspection, they did not find the figure of dripping water that Keneva described, and there was no trace of pollution left.
Keniva had no choice but to use the illusion to blind himself, and then at lunch not long after, he saw a head growing out of his wife's shoulder. The frightened wife quickly tilted her head, and the head disappeared.
The horrific scenes that followed appeared frequently. The words came to life and bit him ferociously, countless hands appeared on the ceiling, and the swollen head on the pillow when he turned over at night.
Suffering from delirium, Keniva had to miss the second day of the court hearing and went to a psychiatrist's clinic for treatment because only Keniva saw the vision.
Coincidentally, both drugs recommended by the psychiatrist were effective for Keniva.
The sedative drugs delayed Keniva's transformation from schizophrenia to madness, and the sleeping pills allowed Keniva to have good dreams.
Despite this, his condition continues to get worse and worse. If it is not resolved, even if Kenniva is freed from delirium, it will leave an indelible shadow.
"Sounds like a douchebag."
Claire turned her head and looked at Lu Li, nodding her hood in agreement with her guess.
The evil spirit is one of the ghosts and spirits that feed on fear and fear. It will not cause harm to the victim, but usually the person haunted by it will go crazy or commit suicide due to mental breakdown.
Evil spirits love the new and hate the old. They continue to obtain food through frightening until the victim no longer produces emotions and will look for the next person.
Lu Li is obviously the best bait to lure it out.
"Take us to the bedroom."
Keniva's wife led Lu Li and Claire up the stairs. When they reached the corridor on the second floor, an afterimage quickly passed under the revealing potion.
The roar suddenly exploded in the corridor, and a cloud of gray mist exploded in front of Claire's empty palm, which dissipated with the strong wind.
"...It's so fast, I can't control it."
Claire retracted her palm apologetically, shook off the broken bandage, and said to the woman who was frightened by the noise: "It's been solved."
While Kennival's wife was thanking her, Lu Li suddenly said calmly: "Evil spirits wander around the outer city, and it is almost impossible to enter the inner city."
Kenniva never left the inner city.
"You think someone harmed him?"
Claire guessed the meaning of Lu Li's expression and thought of the court hearing in which Kenniva was forced to miss.
"Just ask the police station to arrest them and interrogate them."
