A cold light like moonlight diffused from the rat man's body.
Lu Li was dragged into the epilogue of death without any warning.
Unlike in the past, where he could only glimpse the time of death in his post-death memories, Lu Li could intermittently see the tragic life of the rat man named Miller.
Miller's family was well off and he was raised by his parents. In the dark ages, having both a father and a mother was as rare as a pure lamb.
Because his parents both possess strange powers, he also has high hopes, hoping to continue his parents' glory and even become a blood family.
But there are natural barriers in bloodline families. Whatever you get, you have to pay for it.
Weird power allows people to protect themselves and even fight for what they want, but it also pollutes the users' thinking and makes them paranoid and crazy.
Due to the lack of blood family heritage, such families usually disintegrate themselves, and Miller's family is one of the unfortunate ones.
The persecution and paranoia of his parents meant that his life was constantly being manipulated, and if he made the slightest mistake, he would be punished.
"This is wrong."
This sentence was like a curse tightly entwining his thoughts, from childhood to adulthood, and even after death, it never disappeared until Lu Li truly refuted this sentence.
The invisible words that imprisoned the soul disappeared together with the liberated Miller.
Lu Li woke up from the memory of death.
Miller's soul was gone, leaving only the stuffed mouse lying next to him, his plastic eyes dull and dull due to the lack of soul.
And the return of death means that Miller has disappeared.
Lu Li realized that the survivors under the castle had not been reborn as strange bodies. They were still the souls of Midnight City, attached to inanimate dolls.
So Miller was finally freed like a ghost.
Lu Li silently rolled up the soulless mouse puppet with his tail and looked back at the dark mouse hole hidden behind him.
This hidden rat hole leading outside the castle may come in handy in the future.
Leaving the cave entrance, Lu Li approached the tower along the castle wall. He had no intention of approaching the tower and climbing up from the bottom. He was a cat, not a gecko.
And the bat guards standing on the eaves and spires will not ignore him.
Passing by a window with a moving shadow, Lu Li jumped onto the window sill. The lizard maid who was wiping in front of the glass stopped in shock.
All the lizard maids were aware of Lu Li's existence, so he hesitated to open the window.
"Tell Claire that he found me and send me back to the tower so that I don't get discovered by the bat guards." Lu Li said to it.
The lizard maid picked up the bucket and poured the sewage out of the window, letting Lu Li get into it, and led him hurriedly down the corridor.
Knowing Lu Li's return through induction, Claire controlled the lizard maid's behavior and brought him back to the tower without attracting attention.
"Why did it take so long this time? And it's so dirty..." Claire picked up Lu Li with a hint of disgust. The dust from the cat fur quickly made the white bandage dirty. There was no bathroom in the tower, so he could only wait until he returned.
Manor takes another bath: "What is this mouse?"
She noticed the stuffed mouse wrapped around its tail.
"Put me down first."
"No, that's what you said."
Lu Li had no choice but to continue being held by Claire and tell him what happened after sneaking into the kitchen.
When she learned that the chef had no soul, she had the same opinion as Lu Li: "Maybe at that time, I knew that the chef didn't have a soul, so I killed it directly."
"Can he be resurrected?"
Lu Li's tail lifted up the mouse puppet.
"With no soul left, he is free..."
Claire took the mouse stuffed doll and asked Breeze to bring it to the table: "I will let the lizard maid bury it when I get back."
It sounds meaningless, it's not a skeleton, but Lu Li agreed to Claire's arrangement, which could help her regain her humanity.
Although Claire did this just for him.
He described the bottom of the well where the rat people lived to Claire, but Claire couldn't remember if there was a similar structure in the castle. Lu Li asked the undead Wenger and Asammonth one after another, but they also didn't know where it was.
"Their souls are disintegrating, you'd better bring them back as soon as possible." Asammonsi, who saw what Lu Li saw from the dream, said.
"It's hard."
Miller, who could be friendly with him, has disappeared, and even if a wise man sees Lu Li, the remaining souls will panic and take them away forcibly, which may cause them to run around and be difficult to find.
If you want to bring them all back, you must first find out where the bottom of the well is.
This meant that Lu Li needed to return to the rat hole and return to the rat people.
But it was already morning, and the lords were about to return to their respective territories.
It would be much easier if the chef was one of theirs. Asammonth suggested giving it the memories of the survivors of Midnight City to make it think it was a human. It just needs to be cautious and not trust the chef as much as they do.
Claire was opposed to this: Possessing other people's memories is not without cost, Lu Li may lose himself because of it, and it is best not to abuse the ability of the Crown of Knowledge.
In the end, Lu Li, who had the power to make the decision, did not adopt the suggestion. Next, he would return to the mouse hole, where he would wait for the light source outside the hole to change to confirm the location of the bottom of the well.
Because Claire, the undead, and Asammonth wanted to return to their respective territories, they needed someone to stay in the castle to support Lu Li.
Margaret and the other spirit maids will stay at the castle.
And, while Lu Li brings back the souls of the rat people, Asammons and the others will find a way to solve the last problem: after the identity of the chef is revealed, only the Viscount is left standing in front of them.
After obtaining the "Necronomicon", the trouble is no longer the trouble itself. Lu Li can get Chrissy's memory from the wise race Sinan and return it to her.
All they had to face was how to let Lu Li contact Chris safely.
"Why don't you wait until Lu Li comes back to prepare?" Claire still couldn't make up her mind to fight against her mother.
"The Diju Trading Company won't give us too long." Lu Li answered on behalf of Asammonth.
Although it is possible that the matter will end there, it is also possible that Dijuren Trading Co., Ltd. will not let it go. The latter is more likely.
The earth dwellers were not sure that Lu Li was here, but they were also not sure that he was not here.
They may be short-sighted, but they are not stupid. Even if they are really short-sighted and stupid, the fact that a product worth millions of weird currency may be in Midnight City is worth their continued search.
"We will start implementing the plan when you come back with your soul. Before that, we will look for the Viscount's weaknesses." Asammons said: "Lu Li, regarding memory, you'd better wait until the last moment. Chrissy's memory is different from Wen's."
Different personalities, regardless of gender or complexity...the longer it lasts, the greater the impact on you."
The best ending is that they successfully control the Viscount, Lu Li obtains the memory, confirms that it was just a misunderstanding, returns the memory, activates the alchemy tower, and takes control of a corner of Midnight City.
The worst outcome is that the plan is discovered by the Viscount, Lu Li is affected by his memory, the stone seal is taken away, and they lose themselves and sink again.
Lu Li nodded, woke up from his dream, took a piece of fluorite and a merchant's eyeball and left the tower.
