Lu Li extinguished the lantern and blended into the darkness because he didn't want to become a clear moving point of light.
As we go deeper into this strange underground world, it gradually becomes clear that the ground filled with twisted lines is a terrifying hill formed by the accumulation of countless vortex people.
The vortex man stretched his body and turned into a viscous flowing river.
The vortex man is frozen on the steps at his feet.
This underground world is entirely composed of vortexes.
Lu Li descended along the spiral steps like a jade pillar, observing a flowing "river" slowly losing its fluidity and solidifying into a part of the hilly surface.
But there are also many "hills" with river channels, and new "rivers" flowing from unknown depths.
Along with these strange sights, there is also pollution. This underground area is corroding Lu Li's reason and consciousness.
Lu Li stopped in front of the last few spiral steps on the "hill". After a brief pause, he stepped onto these abominable forms without souls in their bodies.
Only by imagining these twisted lines as other things, such as balls of wool or noodles, can you absorb the thin sanity and save yourself from falling into madness.
Lu Li was walking on the soft "hills" with rolling tentacles, and found the unconscious Porter under a glowing toadstool not far from the spiral steps.
Driving through the toadstools with rotting and unknown slime attached to the edges, Lu Li checked Potter. He was still breathing, but his brown hair and palms showed obvious unnatural curls caused by swirling contamination.
Lu Li woke up Porter. When he woke up, he knew nothing about what had happened before: "Where are we...we were captured? Where are the others!"
"You were bewitched by some kind of force and rushed down. I followed you." Lu Li stood under the toadstool and looked around: "I didn't see anyone else."
Potter followed dumbly and looked at this strange underground world, guessing: "Are we underground in that tower?"
Lu Li nodded.
Potter, who was trying to sit up with support, suddenly frowned and looked at his palms that were still curled even though he tried to straighten them: "There is pollution here..."
"Because this is the core of the Whirlpool Land."
More central than the spiral tower.
The truth and source of the Whirlpool lies here.
Here they can find a way to escape and resolve the vortex, or stay forever and become part of the vortex.
Porter climbed up from the disgusting whirlpool of people on his elbows: "What do we do next?"
"I still don't know what has bewitched you."
"I don't know either, but I feel..." Potter shook his head in confusion and looked towards the direction covered by the toadstool: "That call that made me lose my memory originated from there..."
"Then go there."
"It might be more dangerous there..."
“Weirdness doesn’t just sit somewhere for nothing.”.
Perhaps the core of the Vortex lies there.
Lu Li continued: "Go back up and wait for the others to come down."
Regardless of whether they can return and transform into the Vortex, Potter should not stay here any longer.
"If the Whirlpool wants us to scatter... we can't do this..." But Potter doesn't want to leave. And if he goes back, he might "disappear" like everyone else.
He had realized that the group was too spread out, as if something was deliberately trying to keep them alone.
Lu Li did not refuse.
Porter's curled hands pressed against Alone and tried to straighten it, then gave up due to pain: "No...the bones are already bent, let's go."
They resumed their progress, moving in the direction that Porter sensed. Lu Li observed the surroundings, especially the "river" that had not yet solidified, and looked for Tris and the others who had come down earlier. However, it was unimaginably difficult to find the messy dark lines.
The pollution seemed to deepen as he went deeper into the underground world. Porter's back gradually hunched over, his head lowered lower and lower, and he followed Lu Li numbly.
The protective potion no longer worked. When Lu Li handed him the Doomsday Apocalypse, Potter seemed to know what it was and why he rejected it.
"It can delay your vortex transformation." Lu Li said.
"It can also delay your...it will be more useful if you put it there."
Potter tried hard to lift his waist, chest, and head, ignoring the screams of his vertebrae. Look, the Exorcist didn't even curl his black hair, how could I take it away.
The silent two continued to move along the "hills", avoiding the unsolidified "rivers" that lay along the way. Porter gradually became inhuman, whispering to Lu Li, and also to himself, "The twisted shadow will not give up.
Elena". Because Elena's pollution is much worse than him.
The camp will find a way to recover. Even if everything is so bad and no way to recover is found, he can transform into a cultist of the Twisted Shadow.
"Do you allow strangers to become exorcists?" Porter said with a voice that changed the tone of his voice.
"allow."
"thank you……"
The almost folded Porter was like a short dwarf, his pace became slower and slower, and he gradually fell behind Lu Li.
Lu Li slowed down and waited for Potter. At this moment, he stopped, and a sleepy whisper came from his head curled up in his belly: "I saw... the stairs and... the altar, Tris was there... Allen was there
...Lanna is there...the answer you are looking for is also there..."
The arms curled like snail shells were raised towards the front of them. The depths of the dark underground world that Porter pointed to seemed like a mysterious altar sitting silently.
Porter, who had lost his mind, could no longer move.
Lu Li took out the fluorescent potion and poured it on Potter to mark it, preparing to leave him and move forward.
"Please wait a moment...Mr. Lu Li...can't go there..."
Potter gasped, and his head that could not be raised let out a low growl of pain: "It's affecting me... That's not what I was thinking... Let me lure you over... Get out! Get away from me... It's right there...
…the source you are looking for…”
"Who are you?"
Lu Li looked at Potter, who was swirling like a vortex man under the influence of some kind of consciousness.
"It's there...it's there...it's there..."
The foolish Potter could only murmur under the influence.
Lu Li moved forward silently, gradually leaving behind the murmurs in his sleep.
Walking on the hills composed of whirlpool people, he recalled everything that happened after entering the whirlpool land.
The blockade of the Whirlpool Land forced the team to disperse, and it was Porter who led the way.
Thinking deeper, are other people in the same situation as Porter who was bewitched?
If we extrapolate the process from the results, then what the Whirlpool Land did was to let each of them be alone again, or in other words... let Lu Li be alone.
Lu Li was like a prey that stepped into a trap.
Towers, dungeons, and staircase altars are the bait to attract him.
But there is always a reason for doing this.
For example, the "stepped altar" borrowed from Porter's mouth.
That being wanted Lu Li to go there
It's easy to verify whether this guess is correct.
Lu Li took out the oil lamp and walked into the darkness, his steps unwavering.