Lu Li suddenly felt fear for no reason. This fear was not born in his mind, but was a creeping fear in the shadows cast by him. It was a conditioned reflex that he had encountered before and left a shadow.
The source of fear is the evil spirit rope that brought shadows in the past.
It manipulated Lu Li's life wantonly, making it like a puppet on strings, leading inextricably toward a long-destined ending.
But the rope of the spirit has long since disappeared. It may be another evil spirit of the same kind that dragged Lu Li into the ceremony, or it may be just illogical thoughts that burst out all the time and disappear in the blink of an eye.
But anyway, what was the medium used to capture Lu Li?
Lu Li recalled the birth ceremony and what happened when he left the Land of Light, and followed the ghost cultists into the old sewers. When he was about to leave, he asked his eldest sister: "Ask my mother, is there any aura wrapped around me?"
"Mother said there are many." The eldest sister raised her fingerless puppet hand: "Believer's, hell, cursed, contracted, sheltered..."
Lu Li is not a blank piece of paper. His experience is like paint covering the paper. When new colors appear, it is difficult to find the source.
Worm Station, two worms are waiting here.
The believer did not want the eldest sister to follow him, so the eldest sister hugged Lu Li's neck and refused: "I want to follow Lu Li! Mother... mother has agreed..."
Since they could not refuse or question the Mother Goddess, the bishop had no choice but to send two more teams of believers to follow Lu Li. Lu Li sensed the looming atmosphere of the other world under their cloaks.
"The Guards followers will help you and protect you."
While following the bishop here, praying for a safe return, Lu Li and the believers stepped into the worm's belly and drilled into the deep tunnel.
"Tell me the story after the separation! The chapter of the Ancient One, the chapter of Midnight City, the chapter of the Land of Light!" The eldest sister pestered Lu Li to listen to the story, so Lu Li started telling the story after the separation, and started the story around the Land of Light, late at night.
The experience of the city was briefly mentioned.
He didn't want to wait until he met the survivors of Midnight City to say it again.
Lu Li stopped when he felt faintly dizzy, took a sleeping potion and slipped into a dreamland where he would not wake up, waiting to reach his destination.
Deep in the long but short dream, the sound of the day and night tides was suddenly mixed with the sound of the clock. Lu Li, who was looking at the sea under the tree, looked at the clock, which was becoming the image of a big sister: "We are here! Get up quickly!
"
When Lu Li woke up, his eldest sister was sitting on his chest, beating her and calling him to get up.
The worm stopped trembling, and the flesh wall stretched open, revealing a cavity leading to the outside.
The Black Cat Town Station barely maintained order, but when the followers came to the ground surrounded by believers, all they saw was chaos.
It's just different from what he imagined. Lu Li thought it would be the Ghost Church and the survivors of Midnight City who would help the Black Cat Church to resist the weirdness, but in fact it was the Ghost Church and the survivors of Midnight City who would resist the weirdness and fight against the Black Cat Church.
When Lu Li asked why this happened, the ghost cultists coming from afar said that the Black Cat Church suddenly started attacking them.
That alien god has fallen into chaos?
But the alien gods who fell into chaos will no longer protect the town.
"Where are the merchant and Fodort."
After Lu Li finished speaking, an inconspicuous black beetle flew up from the shoulder of the ushering cultist. It tried to land on Lu Li, but was swatted away by the eldest sister.
"I'm here... Lu Li."
A familiar yet unfamiliar girl's voice sounded, and Lu Li stretched out his right hand to let the black beetle fall.
This is Fudot's bloodline ability, and it is also the best way to prove his identity.
Lu Li knew Fodor well, in the illusion of Midnight City. Fodor knew Lu Li well, in the book "The Sunken Land".
But above this, Lu Li, the survivor of Midnight City, has a deeper feeling. He is the person chosen by Midnight City.
The black beetle that landed on the palm of my hand retracted its thin wings, and Fudot's voice sounded: "Please forgive us... In order to make you believe in us and come to help us, we have no choice but to do this..."
"Where are you."
"...This is me, Lu Li. I am dead. This is the bloodline ability of the Linsi family, the phylactery worm. Didn't I tell you in the illusion?"
"No."
It was not an imaginary encounter. Lu Li asked her: "The ghost cultists told me that you are fighting against Black Cat Town."
"Yes... we want to usurp the throne of the Black Cat Town God..."
"Why?"
"Losing the protection of the power gods will cause the curse to break out, and when we are known, the curse will break out, so I exist in the form of a phylactery worm... Only the protection of the power gods can allow the survivors to exist..."
"Where are the others?"
Fudot's voice became sad: "They are all dead...except for the one who usurped the throne, I am the only one left..."
Some of them are curses, and some are self-sacrifice, so the survivors' usurpation of the gods of Black Cat Town is nearing its end.
Regardless of success or failure.
"You can go to Goss Basin."
"Yes, I can... become a phylactery worm and get rid of the curse, but... the captain can't, and the remnants lost in the deserted land can't..."
Lu Li did not ask who the captain was: "What do you want from me?"
"Help us usurp the throne of God..." Fodort said: "This is very important. Only the protection of gods can free us from the curse of torture and the curse of cognition..."
Without the protection of the supernatural gods, the torture curse will break out, and if the identity is recognized, the cognitive curse will break out. Only the real supernatural gods are born among the survivors, and then they can survive as "unknowable" existences.
Therefore, no Midnight City survivor has contacted Lu Li, and no living Midnight City survivor has been found.
Lu Li let Fudot fly up, touch the spikes of the Crown of Thorns, and prick his finger.
"What's wrong……"
The gentle whisper of the Swamp Mother sounded.
Lu Li briefly told him the curse of Black Cat Town and the survivors, and then asked, "Can you protect them?"
"I need to ask her, let her fall on the crown of thorns..."
Lu Li took off the Crown of Thorns and let Fudot land on it. The exchange that only they knew continued and ended with Fudot flying up.
"What's the result?"
Lu Li put the crown of thorns back on his head.
"I can protect you, but only her..."
"Can you help Captain? I'm free from the curse and don't need shelter!" Fodor requested.
"Can"
Their communication was interrupted by the sudden appearance of a majestic shadow in the sky of Black Cat Town, which vaguely revealed the outline of a face. All the chaos in the town stopped, and the local residents looking up to the sky were horrified and desperate.
Because that is not their god.
"You succeeded?"
Only Fodort shouted in surprise, but her joy quickly collapsed.
"Fudot, I failed... This road doesn't work..." A sigh sounded from the sky above Black Cat Town: "We remnants are destined to be like the rats in the ditch, lingering in obscurity... Exorcist,
Thank you, Fudot will tell you everything you want to know, remember..."
"Don't come to us..."
The whispers echoed and the faces dispersed.
The Black Cat Town incident ended as quickly as it arrived.