The twisted figure and its more than sixty followers will be the crew of this voyage.
The evil gods and their descendants are more powerful than many strange groups on the surface, which means that they have the ability to protect themselves, but they still need to be cautious.
Strange food-loving gods roam everywhere.
After more than ten days, I boarded the Andrea again. The hull and deck were visibly more dilapidated and decayed. There was even calf-deep water accumulated in the boiler room at the bottom.
Stopping in front of the abnormal boiler room with the door tightly closed, Lu Li raised the oil lamp. The faint light dimmed the surroundings, and the rust-soaked moisture seeped into the walls, reflecting the dark and cold light. When he touched it with his palm, he seemed to be able to feel the coldness surging on the other side.
deep sea.
"We haven't been alone together like this for a long time..."
A whistling and hoarse sound, as if the wind was exaggerating the flames, sounded behind him. Lu Li retracted his gaze and fell towards Ophelia, who was almost blending into the darkness and wearing a men's black dress.
Andrea is in desperate need of a repair.
Lu Li left the oppressive silence at the bottom of the cabin and returned to the top.
Andrea had not yet left the land of light and walked along the sun-dried deck to the captain's cabin, where there was nothing but dry surfaces.
Months of traveling at sea have already destroyed everything in the captain's cabin.
Looking at old Belfast from the bay. The most eye-catching thing is not the silent Belfast or the sparkling Agate Lake, but the giant whirlpool entrenched in the southwest. If you look at it for a short time, you will be absorbed into it.
As Andrea sailed away from the land of light, darkness and coldness descended everywhere.
Lu Li and Ophelia's twisted figures retreated into the cabin, adding a new stopping point for Andrea's route from the Land of Light to the Freezing Port of Weiner: the Swamp of Shadows.
"Why don't you put them on when you get back..."
The twisted figure asked, "The weight will slow down Andrea's speed. With him and his followers, there is no need for banyan trees to guard the ship."
"Andrea needs repairs, and we have to stay in the ice-free port of Vina for a few days."
Rodster Port is not in a position to do this, and there are no workers in the camp who know how to repair it. The banyan tree guards are prohibited from possessing entities and poisonous weirdness.
And they can serve as carriers for the arrival of the Swamp Mother.
Sailing takes time, and even the Shadow Swamp on the Allen Peninsula will take nearly a day of bumps. Fortunately, this route has been verified many times and is safe enough.
On the second day after setting sail, Andrea arrived at Shadow Swamp with one hour left before dawn.
The Swamp Mother, who received the information from her family, ordered two banyan tree guards to board the ship. This was the best load to carry without slowing down Andrea too much.
A seven- to eight-meter-tall banyan tree stands guard on the deck, its hanging roots floating in the wind like sea anemones, quietly sailing to the Main Continent with the ghostly Andrea.
…
"How many days until they arrive?"
A few days later, Mateusz anxiously walked back and forth in the office when he learned that Lu Li was also on the ship.
The fireplace dissipates the cold, and the thick curtains cover the windows, all replicating the mayor's office in the period of Wiener's ice-free port. However, if you open the curtains, only the cold rock walls will appear behind the windows.
"A few more days."
Maxson, a friend and aide who was leaning on the sofa, said.
"He's too reckless..." Matthäus muttered to himself.
"The exorcist used to run around. When he first came out of the underground, he ran from the deserted land to the Main Familiar Continent, from the Main Familiar Continent to the Allen Peninsula, and from the Allen Peninsula to the Lennon Islands.
It seems weird that I can’t see him.”
"This time is different Maxson, this time is different. There are things that the Exorcist has to do because no one else can do it, but this time it's just repairing the ship, just finding other ships, and the Exorcist's weird friends can do it
Do it.”
"Didn't The Exorcist already say that we hope we have a replacement?"
"Hope is not the only quality." Mateus refuted his friend's statement, or refuted Lu Li's behavior behind the scenes: "The Land of Light and Lu Li each hold 50% of the hope. If Lu Li sinks in the deep sea, the Land of Light will hold 50% of the hope.
It’s not going to be 100%.”
Maxson's focus was not on this: "I remember that sailors have a custom and never use words like 'sink' and 'crash'."
"...Please leave my office."
"Okay..." Maxon shrugged and sat up from the sofa, but before leaving, he reminded his old friend: "So we are not as good as the Exorcist. All of us hope that Lu Li will stay there motionless, just to be satisfied.
Our empty and desperate hearts. But he has been doing what an exorcist should do..."
"What an exorcist should do..."
Mateus repeated in a low voice, and at this time, the businessman Anthony arrived and took Lu Li to his location.
"Andrea will arrive at the ice-free port of Vina within a day, and the Exorcist is asking if you have the repairman ready."
"Tell Mr. Lu Li that the Weiner Freeze Port is ready."
…
"So why do you insist on coming to the ice-free port of Weiner?"
"Don't be like the Mother of the Swamp."
Lu Li looked at the map of Weiner Freeze Port with his dark eyes and said without raising his head: "My curse, it cannot let me stay in the same place for too long."
"It appeared?"
Ophelia looked around, but could only see an empty restaurant echoing the creaking sound of the ship's hull.
"No, but I don't know when it will appear."
It has been nearly a month since Lu Li returned to the Land of Light, and the disappearing "door" is like the sword of Damocles... hanging above his head.
On the surface, the speed of the "Gate" is no different from that of ordinary people walking. If it had followed Lu Li's consciousness to the Giant Tree Academy, it would have at least two months before it would approach Lu Li's Allen Peninsula. But even the ancients could not know the true nature of the "Gate".
Will Lu Li be given enough time?
Equally bad is the limited viewing range.
Even in the daytime on Sugard Mountain, standing at the commanding heights of Agate Lake, the outline of a human figure that Lu Li could discern would not be more than 8 miles away.
This is a one-hour walk from the "Gate".
Unless Lu Li only rested during the day and woke up once an hour.
As a result, the sense of crisis is increasing day by day, and the only bright place in the world where light shines is no longer safe.
Maybe leaving Agate Lake Camp is a bad idea, but staying at Agate Lake Camp is never a good idea.
This trip to the ice-free port of Wiener can once again extend the sense of impending crisis to more than a week.
In the early morning, which was indistinguishable from the late night, a twisted figure knocked on the cabin where Lu Li was resting, telling him that the ice-free port of Weiner had arrived.
…
March is coming to an end, and the temperature in the ice-free port of Wiener is still only in the single digits. However, the frozen coast of the ice-free port began to open up more than ten days ago. To this day, the ice caps of winter are no longer visible.
The cold sea water, which has melted only a few degrees, laps at the coast day and night.
His breath hit the cold helmet and floated out along the cracks.
The queue of knights, who occasionally coughed, stood quietly in the ice-free port.
Matthäus put on his coat and stared at the silhouette approaching from the depths of the dark sea.