One hundred and forty-five. The girl in the dungeon
Margaret's threshold for accepting the truth is higher than imagined.
Maybe it's because she, like Lu Li, doesn't think about things with too much emotion, and is more rational than sensual.
And there's nothing worse than being imprisoned in a dark underground city.
Lu Li returned to the head maid's manor. Claire had already woken up and was sitting on the terrace waiting for his return.
The wind entwined the black cat who had fallen into a dream, and hugged Lu Li into his arms. Claire looked at the silver-haired girl with shimmering light: "Margaret?"
"Are you someone I know?" Margaret was also observing Claire, who was close to Lu Li.
"You don't know me, but I know you..."
In Lu Li's dream.
Claire suddenly stopped stroking the cat's back, lowered her head and asked: "You brought Margaret back...does this mean that Asammonth is lying to us!"
"This doesn't mean anything. Asammonth's guess about the illusion is just rational thinking." Lu Li shattered Claire's newly born hope without any subtlety, and said to Margaret: "We need your help."
"Please tell me first what happened in the past four months."
Lu Li nodded and asked Claire to take out the sleeping potion and hand it to Margaret: "Don't resist."
"My body is not here. I can sleep if you need me." Margaret, who was just a soul, said.
"As long as you're asleep."
And ghosts can dream.
They returned to the bedroom, and after Margaret fell asleep, Lu Li accompanied her to sleep.
Margaret had a dream.
Dozens of minutes later, Lu Li woke up from his dream and waited for Margaret to open her eyes.
To a certain extent, finding Margaret is more rewarding than finding Asammonth. Margaret has not experienced the fall of Midnight City, and has all the memories before the March Contest.
At this time, Margaret slowly woke up and looked at Lu Li no longer like a stranger: "Thank you for rescuing me in the illusion, Vice Captain Lu Li."
Next, it was Margaret's turn to tell Lu Li and Claire what happened before the March Tournament, as well as the stories of everyone she knew.
This enriches the stories of each professor and many students. If more details are needed, Lu Li can also experience Margaret's story from his dream. She doesn't mind having her memory spied on.
After Margaret finished speaking, Lu Li told her the current clues: "The farmer is an immortal" and "The gardener is Asammonth". During this period, Claire brought two lizard maids, but unfortunately Margaret didn't recognize them.
"What do you think?" After explaining Asammonth's point of view, Lu Li asked her.
"I am more inclined to Asammonth." Margaret's answer caused the wind around Claire to become chaotic: "Unlike you, I have not had any contact with the dean or the vice dean, and have no feelings for them."
"If mother is the real culprit...why would she weave your whereabouts into a fantasy?" Claire retorted.
"I have no idea."
Margaret's calmness left Claire speechless.
Lu Li raised his cat's paw and patted Claire to calm her down, then continued to ask Margaret: "Is it possible that Kinuait and the others told others about you being trapped in the dungeon?"
"Yes, they may have tried to save me and asked the professor for help after failure, but it seems they failed."
What is darkly humorous is that Margaret, who died first, survived, but none of the unharmed team members survived in the end.
Margaret's story is over, and now it's time to talk about how to hide her whereabouts: Margaret doesn't have the means and power to hide herself like Lu Li. As long as the bat guards arrive and Lu Li is not around, she will be exposed.
Lu Li arranged two options for Margaret: "The first option is that I send you out of Midnight City, the worm will escort you to the safe ghost town, and the merchant will maintain our communication. The second option is to transform into a lizard maid
, you will have a body, stronger strength and your identity will not be discovered, but the price is that you may not be able to get rid of this body and maintain an ugly appearance."
"I will stay." Margaret said calmly. "Four months have passed, and my body has long been buried and rotting in the soil."
Because Lu Li and the others need his help at any time.
Lu Li looked up at Claire, and she took the opportunity to rub the soft hair on his chin: "When can we start the transformation?"
"It's okay now."
It's hard to say that Claire didn't have the idea of punishing Margaret, but this accident allowed them to avoid the trouble that would follow.
Lu Li temporarily retreated because the transformation would bring pollution that he couldn't bear, and there was no point in leaving someone who was consuming human nature to stay in a dream.
Watching the naked corpse and lizard head of the Lizard Maid being sent into the basement, Claire and Margaret went in afterwards.
While waiting, Lu Li thought about the conversation he had long ago when he was not an investigator about "What is a human being?"
Lu Li's answer at that time was: to have a sense of human identity.
It still is.
Human beings use civilization as a carrier.
As long as you identify with human civilization and consider yourself a human being, then you are a human being.
Claire is human, Margaret is human, and Swamp Mother is human.
The wait didn't last long, the iron door of the basement opened, and Claire floated out, followed by the lizard maid.
With a ferocious lizard head on top of her plump and white body, Margaret's cold voice also became hoarse and strange: "I have been reborn."
Soon after, several bat guards fell into the manor and hung upside down in the gardens, corridors or halls to help the head maid or monitor the head maid.
Lu Li's range of activities was restricted and he could only hide in a bedroom where he was not being monitored.
Margaret, who had transformed into a lizard maid just a few hours ago, could pass by the area they were monitoring calmly.
Under the surveillance of the bat guards, they temporarily changed their plan. Claire called all the lizard maids back to the manor under the pretext of shrinking the defense. Lu Li, who was hiding in the dark, found "three, four, and five" from nearly a hundred lizard maids. Then Margaret was asked to remember them.
Live them, enter Margaret's dream, and follow her through the long dream that begins when she enters school.
This dream may last for several days. Claire asked Lu Li how he would explain it if the gardener came to find him.
"The truth can be told."
Lu Li entered the secret room connected to the bedroom.
This time the dream was changed to the perspective of Lu Li following Margaret. Lu Li found the identities of "Two" and "Five" at the promotion party and New Year's party.
One is a senior student and the other is a middle school student named "Vina".
Three of the five Lizard Maids have been found.
When Lu Li and Margaret woke up, it was already the evening of the next day. Claire brought "Two" and "Five" and told them the truth in the form of a dream.
Maybe they don't believe it, but that doesn't matter. They are the servants of the head maid, and they are destined to be unable to resist and betray.
