The dim oil lamp gradually lights up, dispelling the darkness, and a figure holding an oil lamp emerges.
Observing the strange patterns on the floor under his feet, Lu Li raised the oil lamp.
The dusk spreads outward, revealing more things hidden in the darkness.
The ceiling fan stands at the feet, the tables and chairs in the living room are stuck to the ceiling, the messy dishes and spoons are left on the dining table, and the door extends along the floor.
Lu Li, who was standing on the ceiling, walked to the window and peeked out through the dusty window.
The dome-like ground extends forward, and the stretched houses hang upside down from the dome. The darkness below is bottomless, and if you step out of the house, you may fall towards the sky.
The upside-down world lets Lu Li know where he is: the filthy sewer.
The Filthy Sewer is an outlier among the three forbidden areas.
Whether it is swamps or strange jungles, people set foot in them, establish safe zones, explore and understand them. Only the foul sewers are not included, and people know very little about them.
But Lu Li's status allowed him to know the deeper truth: the rotten sewers are a forgotten place.
The March Contest will place the second level in the foul sewers, allowing all players to enter here... Does it have any deep meaning?
The second of the three forbidden lands has become the first two levels of the competition, so in the distant third level, is the final strange jungle waiting for them?
Leaving the window, Lu Li walked around the ceiling fan and returned to the living room, calling in his heart for Will Ken. There was no response from the old exorcist. After confirming that the parchment on his chest was still there, Lu Li took out his eyeball and called the merchant Anthony.
It's just that the situation in the filthy sewers is more troublesome than imagined: Lu Li and the businessman Anthony can't understand each other's words, and the contents they write are not only reversed, but even formed into weird and unrecognizable words.
But the gesture to let him go can still be recognized.
After the businessman Anthony left, Lu Li walked to the dining table.
A note was covered in the dust on the table. He reached out and took it off. There were words written on it that Lu Li could recognize.
[Congratulations on reaching the second level]
[I hope you can still read the note, otherwise you may miss this tip]
[What you have to do is very simple. Stand in front of the window and see the exit of the filthy sewer in the distance? Once you get there, you will enter the third level]
[Remember, there will be no rewards for eliminating other players, this is a cooperative level]
Looking through the note with no abnormalities, Lu Li took out his pen and tried to copy it. However, no matter how correct his mental perception was, the written content turned into upside-down text that confused his brain.
snap
Lu Li lowered his head and looked at his feet. There was a noise coming from the second floor.
Stopping copying, Lu Li put the note back where it belonged and walked to the stairs.
The stairs were turned upside down and turned into a decoration. The only way for Lu Li to reach the second floor was to jump down.
After confirming that the ceiling would not collapse due to the weight and fall into the void-like sky, Lu Li jumped down from the stairwell.
Bang!
The dust trembled as the ceiling shook, and the shadows swayed as the oil lamp swayed.
bang
Another sound of bullets sounded from deep in the corridor.
Stepping on the ceiling that made a creaking sound, Lu Li walked along the corridor to the end. After briefly sensing the space behind the door, Lu Li pushed the door open.
At the same time, another stone entered the room through the open window, landed on the ceiling, and rolled several times.
This is a guest room. The window has long been broken, and the glass is scattered on the floor above the head. The breeze blows the gauze-like curtains, and five stones lie quietly around the broken glass.
After stepping through the threshold-like partition above the door, Lu Li entered the room and walked to the window.
In another house more than ten meters away, the second floor window was open, and a figure suddenly emerged from the edge, holding a stone in his hand.
He found Lu Li, who expressed joy at getting the answer to his call, but as expected, Lu Li couldn't understand his words, and neither did he.
At this time, the shouting figure suddenly let out some kind of surprised cry, seeming to recognize Lu Li, shouting indistinguishably, trying to express something.
Then he thought of a way and showed a behavior that Lu Li couldn't understand: he waved his hands in front of the window like a madman and ran in circles, pulled out the dagger, signaled to Lu Li, slowly changed his mouth shape, and used the dagger to slit his neck.
The expected scene of blood spurting did not happen, and the figure behind the window suddenly disappeared.
Lu Li vaguely understood the meaning of the figure's mouth from the last part of his mouth.
"Death restores condition," he said.
Lu Li frowned, wondering whether the outline he saw was a delirium or a crazy person.
The former may be humble, unless the delusion-destroying ability of [Lighthouse] is hidden, and the latter may be close to reality, but it is difficult to explain its sudden disappearance like a bubble.
Lu Li calmly observed the window opposite, when he was about to leave
Squeak.
In sight, the door of the house against the rock wall was opened from the inside, and a figure hanging upside down on the rock wall walked out, or... the figure was walking on the ground with correct understanding.
Not long ago, he was reminding Lu Li to carefully observe the street, but he didn't notice Lu Li. After confirming that the street was safe, he rushed into the house opposite and disappeared.
The figure returning to normal reminded Lu Li to recall what he had said before: "Death can restore the condition."
After staying in front of the window for a moment, the figure no longer appeared, and Lu Li stepped out of the "threshold" and returned to the corridor.
There are two rooms on the second floor of the house, one is a utility room and the other is the owner's bedroom.
Standing on the ceiling directly above the bed, Lu Li looked at a book on the bedside table that was the same as here, upside down and unrecognizable.
If there is a clue hidden in this house, it should be in the owner's bedroom
At this time, his chest felt slightly warm, and Lu Li suddenly heard Will Ken's voice, which had been silent for a long time.
"Lu Li... integrates... the way... fakes his death to... get rid of... trust Will."
The normal, understandable, old voice seemed to sound from afar, forming broken words intermittently. But based on what he saw in the guest room on the second floor, Lu Li pieced together the truth: the way to blend into the surrounding environment was to fake death... I believe Will.
Coincidentally, Lu Li thought of Claire's mother. Among the "gadgets" given to them by the vice-dean was an eternal sleeping pill.
Lu Li didn't think the situation was that simple, but he really had no way of leaving the house, turning the world upside down and making the house under his feet feel like an isolated island in the vast deep sea.
And Will Ken had no reason to cheat on him.
Before killing himself, Lu Li released the sapling projection to confirm that it was not an illusion or a lie, and then took the potion.
The white pills took effect quickly and when his heart stopped beating, a thought emerged uncontrollably in Lu Li's mind: had he already "died" before?
…
Deep in the mist shrouded in darkness.
The dim oil lamp gradually lights up, dispelling the darkness, and a figure holding an oil lamp emerges.
The dusk spreads outward, revealing more things hidden in the darkness.
Lu Li raised the oil lamp and saw in front of him an old living room that had been neglected for a long time. A ceiling fan hung from the ceiling, untied dishes and spoons were thrown on the dining table, and the windows were covered with gauze-like dust.
