Most people have only two impressions of swamps: wet, fragmented, wetlands with no place to stay, tall reeds swaying in the wind, the ground covered with shallow grass, flying animals hiding in the reeds, occasionally wandering and chasing after them,
Green and clarity are the keynotes here. The blue sky and green water make you feel happy. There are also twisted, entangled dead trees with snake-like vines climbing up, and the muddy turbid sewage with strange bubbles, darkness and gray.
It permeates every place, lifeless and lifeless, which makes people stop and dare not set foot.
The real situation is generally the former, but in today's Principality of Ellen Peninsula, the latter may be more common.
On the horizon behind Shadow Town, a dark swamp forest looms in front of you.
"Is it in there?"
Anna, who had been bored for a long time, became more energetic and looked at the small town road in the distance.
"Maybe."
Lu Li replied that the bloody tentacle fell into Shadow Town, but maybe it fell into the Shadow Swamp behind Shadow Town.
There began to be more carriages on the road, mostly trucks. Some of them had burning torches on the fronts.
Following these scattered trucks, the carriage drove into the shadow town.
Lu Li and Anna in the carriage looked at the town at the same time. It was much smaller than Watch Town, but it was also very big, even a little weird.
The streets are wide enough for six carriages to drive side by side. Even in Belfast, there are only a few such wide roads. The signs of street pubs occupy more than half of all shops - but the fact is that no residents will live there.
There, Shadow Town usually doesn't have many tourists.
Unless everyone here is an alcoholic, people often stay drunk at night, but that's obviously not possible.
The carriage continued forward until it crossed through the middle of the town and reached the edge of the Shadow Swamp. He received some not-so-good news.
The bloody tentacle spread into the Shadow Swamp.
This meant that the target Lu Li was looking for was in the swamp, and he had to enter the swamp.
"You see where the tentacles are?"
The carriage stopped at the edge of the town, and Anna asked Lu Li, who was looking far away.
Lu Li did not look away: "One good news and one bad news."
"The bad news is that the tentacles are in the swamp?" Anna tentatively guessed.
Lu Li nodded.
"What about the good news?"
"It shouldn't be too far away."
Under the dim sky, the bloody tentacles were almost mixed with the night sky, but they were already extremely clear.
"It seems there is no way to enter the swamp now..."
Anna poked her chin and said, looking at the dark swamp forest in the distance, feeling a little scared.
"Find a place to stay first."
Lu Li pulled up the reins and turned around, returning to the center of the town.
There are no electric lights in Shadow Town. Instead, lit gas lamps are distributed on both sides of Sansan Street. Although Sansan Street has a strange name, it is the widest and first street in Shadow Town. More than 50% of the residents in the town
They all live on both sides of this street.
Returning to the central location of Shadow Town, Lu Li randomly found a Big Wave Tavern and stopped. He handed the reins of the carriage to the waiter guarding the door, and Lu Li walked towards the tavern.
"I feel like someone is following us...not human."
Anna's little voice sounded in my ears.
"I was discovered! Something is wrong..."
Lu Li looked calm and did not look around for anyone to spy on him. However, he quietly touched the back of his waist with his right hand and pulled out some of the psychic gun.
The movement was not big, but the handle of the psychic gun had already left the holster.
The coldness instantly enveloped Lu Li, making him breathless. Although Lu Li put his gun back into the holster in less than a second, the coldness never dissipated.
"Did you feel it?" Anna asked in a low voice.
"No."
Lu Li walked up the steps in front of the tavern: "There is a lot of malice, but I didn't find what you mentioned."
The homologues will allow Lu Li to sense the existence of the other world. For example, those dark beings, such as ghosts. The former usually have extremely clear malice, and the latter is the same, but weaker.
Lu Li's use of the psychic gun for detection usually involves detecting weaker malice. For example, the malice on Anna's body is very weak.
But just now Lu Li didn't sense any weak malevolence around him, so maybe Anna's perception was wrong, or maybe the person following them was one of the powerful ones.
The trouble is, Anna is unlikely to perceive the error.
"Want to go over and have a look?"
Lu Li shook his head imperceptibly, raised his hand to hold the door panel, and pushed it open: "Not yet, let's understand the situation here first before considering action."
Squeak——
The door of the tavern was pushed open, and there was no hustle and bustle as expected.
This small tavern is surprisingly quiet and bright. A few kerosene lamps on the walls disperse the darkness. The old floors, tables and chairs indicate that this tavern has a certain history.
Behind the counter was an old woman with some white hair and wrinkles on her face. She smiled towards the door and said, "Hello, this is Mr. Zhang's face. Look at these beautiful eyes like black gems... Distinguished guest,
Where are you from?"
"Belfast."
Lu Li walked towards the bar, and the bright interior of the tavern seemed to dispel the coldness from his body.
If the sanity rules apply, he is now recovering sanity under bright light.
The old woman asked: "Allen Star? There have been no guests from there for a long time. Are you here for tourism?"
Allen's Star is another name for Belfast, but since the changes in the deep sea and the decline of the port, no one has called it that for a long time.
"You guys?" Lu Li's dark eyes narrowed.
At the same moment, a strange voice came from behind.
"I'm not, I came from the interior."
A man wearing a black coat and carrying a suitcase walked past Lu Li and came to the bar.
His suitcase seemed heavy and made a clunk sound on the floor.
"Oh, sorry, we are old, I thought you two were together." The old woman smiled sheepishly. "I guess you want to stay in the hotel, right?"
The man in black, who gave people an inexplicable sense of darkness, nodded.
Lu Li did the same, but moved his lips slightly and whispered: "Is it him?"
"I don't know...but this person's aura is also very strange..." Anna's hesitant voice sounded in her ears.
There were footsteps behind me at this moment, and the waiter who had gone to set up the carriage said politely: "Sir, the carriage has been placed in the backyard."
"Thanks."
Lu Li thanked him and walked to the bar, side by side with the mysterious man.
The old woman took out two oil lamps from under the bar, lit them one after another slowly, and signaled them to pick them up: "The kerosene has been replenished. There are candles in the drawer in the room. If you are worried, you can light them. Each candle costs one shilling."
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"As a local, I need to remind the two guests. Please close the curtains before going to bed at night, no matter what you hear..."
She stared at the two people in front of the bar and spoke word by word.
