A strange and silent one replaced the original Adrian Abel a month ago.
This terrible crisis makes people shudder.
Was it intentional or a coincidence that it possessed the congressman, was it an accident or a conspiracy when it slipped into the refuge area, was it weird alone or was there a group behind it, what did it do in the month it became Adrian Abel, and whether it and them had already
Know the dungeon plan, and...how many citizens have been replaced.
With an ugly face, Mateus sent the Knights to immediately investigate everything Adrian Abel had done in the past month and everyone he had come into contact with.
"Didn't you notice his problem?" Lu Li asked the twisted figure.
"It's just like you..."
Neither Swamp Mother nor the Twisted Figure noticed that Adrian Abel had been replaced.
Maybe it was some kind of weirdness that could completely replace its host. Maybe it thought it was Adrian Abel and not weird. This explained why it was executed by Lu Li without any struggle or maybe it didn't want to be exposed.
Swamp Mother and the Twisted Figure jointly confirmed that "Adrian Abel" was dead, but just in case, his body was left on the gallows, waiting for the Twisted Cultists to gather around and arrange a retrospective ceremony.
The Knight's investigation against Adrian Abel is advancing rapidly. In the past month, everyone who has been in contact with "Adrian Abel" has been brought to the gallows. Those who have only had brief contact or live nearby are also closely monitored.
, including his relatives and friends.
They came to the scaffold in confusion and saw Adrian Abel's body lying in a pool of blood. Then they collapsed in horror, crying, begging for mercy, or revealing their crimes.
The twisted figure thus gained two more unintelligent slaves.
"Do they need to be told the truth?"
Mateus asked. After Lu Li nodded, he looked around at the panicked crowd with a heavy expression: "You are brought here because of a crisis. Adrian Abel was replaced by an unknown monster a month ago. You were contacted by the fake Abel.
People, some of you may have been left with a curse, and maybe some of you are no longer yourself... Mr. Distorted Shadow will help you search and purify, so you cannot leave here before the purification ceremony is completed."
The Twisted Cultists have surrounded the gallows, and the Knights are on the outermost edge to prevent civilians from approaching.
The people with different emotions beside the gallows seemed to have no problem, but no one knew whether some of them had been replaced by something strange that even gods could not detect, just like Adrian Abel.
Knowing that they would not be executed, the people who were brought relaxed a little, except for the unlucky guy who couldn't wait to reveal his sins.
The arrangements for the retroactive ceremony took time, so Lu Li and the others temporarily returned to the city hall to process the last batch of names on the list.
Eldrazi, Warehouse Officer, last on the list.
He was arrested on charges of larceny for stealing all the supplies from a warehouse he was guarding that stored food for thousands of people.
If it was just like this, he would be thrown into the "death penalty" or "guilty", but he gave those materials to the residents of the outer ring, and he didn't keep any of them.
Not surprisingly, he was acquitted in the judgment of Lu Li and the two gods.
"Is it gone?"
"No, there is one last one."
Mateus put down the list and stood in front of Lu Li with a bitter smile: "That's me..."
"I know that these evil things are happening, but I am worried about destroying the loose refuge area and letting them do it... I am no different from those congressmen who allow gangs to do whatever they want behind the scenes... Please allow me to become an ignorant weirdo and wash it away with my body."
My sin."
The town hall fell into silence.
Matthäus was right, he knew about these crimes but allowed them to happen, and allowed the murderers to go unpunished.
"Are you ready?"
Lu Li stared at Mateus calmly.
"Yes... without me, this trial would be like a joke..."
"But your people don't hate you." the twisted figure said.
"Because they are 'ignorant'. But in the near or long future, when people look back on history, they find that the real murderer has been on the loose, becoming the only shadow in the dazzling light that shines on the entire era..."
People will always master knowledge and principles, unless the human condition becomes worse and worse in the future.
The Swamp Mother swayed the thorns and whispered softly that only Lu Li could hear: "Are you really going to do this..."
After thinking quietly for a moment, Lu Li replied to Mateus: "The dungeon needs you temporarily."
Matthaus may have to pay for his mistakes, but not now.
The twisted figure presided over the traceability ceremony to speed up the process. Accompanied by the Swamp Mother and Ophelia, Lu Li took 6 pieces of humanity to other dungeons to purify the farmland.
The citizens who moved to the underground city were relieved of their worries, which could be seen from their increasing number of smiles.
Although it may be difficult for them to return to the surface, and the weirdness will no longer pursue them.
The quiet hours, the disasters of the night, and those evil spirits.
There may still be weird groups of people who are unwilling to give up and try to find the "treasure" buried deep in the ground. But by then, have the identities of the prey and the hunter been quietly exchanged?
Lu Li walked through the farmland of the fourth underground city, which was about to be completed, sowing the last bits of humanity.
When the fourth migration of the underground city starts, the traceability ceremony is coming to an end.
…
The obscure and formless mist floated up from the uncorrupted corpse of Adrian Abel, forming two mist-like strands, one leading to the crowd sitting on the edge of the gallows, and the other guiding in a certain direction.
"Having the source...also has its kind."
The twisted figure whispers.
The crowd dispersed in fear and was blocked by the Twisted Cultists. The silhouette pointed by the mist showed a woman in a long skirt with a beautiful face and a panic.
"No...I'm not weird...no..." the woman begged incoherently.
Her fragility and haggardness make it impossible to associate it with weirdness.
Lu Li raised his eyes and looked at Mateus. The understanding mayor asked the knights to take the unpolluted people away from the gallows.
The woman clutched the fragments torn from someone's clothes, and slumped on the gallows in a daze, murmuring repeatedly in her sleep that it was not me.
Lu Li opened the holster of his gun, held the psychic gun, pointed it at the woman, and then became still.
Matthäus and the twisted figure remained silent.
At this time, the crown of thorns on Lu Li's head suddenly untied, crawled up Lu Li's shoulders and wrapped around his slender fingers.
"We can keep it until we solve the weirdness behind it..."
Swamp Mother whispers softly.
He didn't want Lu Li to lose her precious humanity because of this, even if she had really been replaced by something weird.
Lu Li nodded lightly and put the psychic gun back into its holster.
There is also a thread of mist leading to an unknown place, and from its direction it can be identified that it is above the underground city.
Maybe it's a refuge area, maybe it's the surface...
In any case, they can solve them exactly: help the dungeon solve hidden dangers, and help Lu Li obtain the last two pieces of humanity.
Lu Li will also go because they are not worried about leaving him alone in the underground city.
