The stars, which make every resident of the Land of Light feel frightened when they first see them, gradually appear in the depths of the clouds. Completely opposite to the sun, everyone bathed in the light will be filled with warmth, but climbing up the vast empty galaxy will only stimulate excitement.
Aroused their fear of the unknown. Although after becoming familiar with it, all the fears they once had turned into wonder at the splendor and beauty.
If there is a day off, residents can lie outside the shack and watch the stars all night long without getting bored, including those who believe in twisted vines.
After breakfast time, the residents received fluorite lamps and returned to their respective posts. Fluorite lamps are one of the few good things born in this terrible world. They require no fuel, no pollution, and have almost no shortcomings except for the dim brightness.
In the open-air lumberyard sponsored by the Vina Freeze Port, carpenters cut logs into planks, and workers carried them to the newly built shacks and to the shore of Agate Lake. The former provided shelter for the upcoming fifth group of residents, and the latter pruned the access to the camp.
The wooden bridge on the island in the middle of the lake. A few farmers are taking care of the cultivated farmland. The first seeds have been buried in the farmland for three months, but just like other places in the Land of Light and the outside world, the land that has been exposed to sunlight for a long time has no
Plants grew. People guessed there might be something wrong with the soil, but they couldn't find clean land. Women were doing the same thing as men. The Land of Light was so short of people that a street in old Belfast was bigger than
There are many camps in Agate Lake. Only children can temporarily run and play freely in the open space in front of the shacks, exerting their energy after a full meal, and giving the residents a strange sense of peace of mind, even though there are only three or four children in the entire camp.
The population of Agate Lake is quite deformed. Women only account for one-sixth of the population. There are no elderly people and there are very few children.
Weak old men, women, and children were the first to die when the disaster struck. They left the Weiner refuge area and waited for Andrea's arrival along the coast to screen out many survivors.
But there is no need to balance it. No one knows which will come first, the adult descendants of the residents or the disaster.
The twisted vine believers who finished eating began to patrol around the workers, sheds, and wooden walls. Compared to the bright and warm day, the weirdos preferred to wander in the darkness, and they were indeed difficult to detect.
The residents have quite complicated feelings about them. The outlines of the abominable tentacles extending under these spacious uniforms are strangely homologous to the disasters that drove them underground and killed their companions and relatives. But at this moment, these monsters are protecting them like patron saints.
Their protection from strange intrusions would not be such a contradiction if these inhabitants came from the middle of nowhere.
The farmers in the farmland were approached by Lu Li and became frightened after recognizing him.
"I was just taking a look."
Their calm words did not improve their mood, so Lu Li ignored them for the time being and walked into the fertile and soft farmland where a large number of seeds were planted but no plants sprouted.
Standing at the edge of the farmland, fluorescent saplings stretched out their branches from behind Lu Li, casting a soft glimmer of light as the plants sprouted from the ground beneath his feet.
The glimmer of light was fleeting, and only the dullness of the farmers and the green shoots around Lu Li told what had happened.
"Then we'll see if they continue to grow."
Lu Li said to the farmers, and then they were silent for a short time as they prostrated in the moist fertile soil: "Stand up, you no longer need to kneel."
But not all residents were overly in awe of Lu Li. For example, Porter and his friends, when they found Lu Li approaching with a fluorite lamp, they even took the initiative to complain to Lu Li that they needed medicine to treat night blindness. Many residents could not see anything at night.
Qing, poor old Joel broke his leg on the pebble beach yesterday.
Although the diet of the Land of Light also included wheat paste, a food that kept residents away from constipation, nutrition had never been relevant to people in the Dark Ages. To treat people's night blindness, Lu Li had to get carrot-like mutant plants and fish from old sewers.
That’s ok too.
There seems to be no shortage of fish in both the Land of Light and the Vina Refuge Area because they are along the coast, but in fact the surface has long been a place that humans cannot set foot on. It is impossible for them to risk their lives to go fishing in the bay and then bring back less than ten fish.
It provides food for tens of thousands of residents, and the old sewer is in the barren land, and there is even less fish.
However, since the treatment for night blindness was urgent, Lu Li could only ask the businessman Anthony to buy the fish at a premium. Fortunately, more than 200 people would not consume too much.
Also not overly awed by Lu Li were the children, two boys, a girl, and a baby born after arriving in the Land of Light.
The children who had not yet been completely overwhelmed by the cruelty of the world worshiped Lu Li more. They jumped around and asked if those stories were true, if Pusius really had two tails, if Catalina really turned into a fish-man, and if they wanted to
I want to become an exorcist like Lu Li and kill weirdos.
"All weirdos be damned!"
Little Amy, who was filled with hatred, swore an oath, but Lu Li just said to him: "'We should not vent our resentment on existences that are as poor and weak as us', this is what Giant Tree Academy told me. Hatred is the driving force that drives us forward, but
Remember, don’t let hatred consume you.”
Little Amy may not understand now, but he knows that what the exorcist said will not be wrong.
After inspecting all the places in the Agate Lake camp but not the Land of Light, Lu Li returned to the island in the middle of the lake. When passing by the Twisted Church, he saw a twisted figure performing a transformation ceremony for old Joel who had broken his leg.
The Land of Light will not throw out the irrational, polluted, or injured residents. It can support them here, but the territory needs more strength.
So they will join the Church of Twisted and Vine, transform into slimy and wet believers, and live in another form.
After Lu Li confirmed that the excited old Joel volunteered to become a believer in the Twisted Church, he watched the beginning of the ceremony and left. During the transformation ceremony, the twisted figure would spontaneously release pollution, and Lu Li was just an ordinary human being.
Returning to the island in the middle of the lake, Annie greeted Lu Li with a swaying canopy of lush trees, expressing closeness, joy, and longing.
"Not yet."
Lu Li said as he looked at Annie, who was healthier and taller than the projection, and the mark was already close to the height of her forehead.
When many things that happened in the illusion were false, Lu Li's humanity also became an amplified copy of the original doomsday apocalypse.
Anne gently shook the branch as if coquettishly showing off to her family, and dropped a leaf onto Lu Li's black hair. Then Lu Li gradually regained his composure as he looked at the camp on the other side of the lake and thought about it.
"Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."
Lu Li thought of this sentence because of the enthusiastic residents.
Treasure does not only represent wealth, it can be something precious in the heart, a symbol, or something longed for.
Whether it is the Weena Refuge Zone, the town of gods, the humans in the old sewers, or anyone who knows this place, they all have a common "treasure":
A bright place without hunger and cold, without strife and danger.