"A group of soldiers came outside the street just now. They are arresting the rebels. They told us to stay at home and not go out." Qiao Qiao thought of the clues: "Is it related to you?"
【No】
Shred the paper and blow air to piece together new sentence patterns.
【Have you gone to the port in the afternoon】
Qiao Qiao did go to the port after Lu Li disappeared: "I looked for you everywhere and questioned the suspicious exorcist, but he really didn't seem to know where you were."
Some shredded paper floated up and some shredded paper remained:
【Is there any status at the port】
"Well, there are still those rebels. Soldiers are arresting them everywhere. When I passed by, the port began to prohibit ships from entering and exiting..."
Unfortunately, tonight may be the night when the tragedy of the "Lennon Islands" begins.
Downstairs, Aunt Mary and Aunt Roxanne were still worried about the news about the rebels that they would break into Shanin Street. This street was mostly filled with old people. Qiao Qiao was completely relieved because Lu Li was back.
Neither of them realized what was about to happen.
Only Lu Li clearly realized that they didn't have much time.
Historically, the Lennon Islands lost contact not long after.
However, patrolling soldiers holding torches appeared on the streets from time to time and the port was blocked, preventing them from leaving.
【Stay, here, I, go, investigate】
Lu Li must first figure out what happened, and remember the same warning from the old exorcist and the handbook: run to higher ground.
This is an island. If there is a tsunami or the entire island is flooded, running to higher ground will indeed avoid the danger, but only temporarily.
And it turned out that there were no survivors on the Lennon Islands.
Was it a tsunami that devoured the islands, or some other unknown crisis?
Lu Li preferred the latter - because when he passed through the broken Lennon Islands, he found no traces of the tsunami.
"Am I with you?"
【No】
Qiao Qiao, who was born in a slum, may be agile, but an invisible ghost is more suitable as a scout.
Leaving Qiao Qiao to stay here to protect Aunt Mary and Aunt Roxanne, Lu Li left Shanin Street and drifted towards Tamboul City.
It is very simple to find the core of martial law. Follow the moving torches on the streets. The denser they are, the closer you are to the truth.
But when Lu Li floated over Tambur City and overlooked the entire "Queen's Island", he found that the southeastern part of the island looked like an area with broken street lights, and several blocks were plunged into darkness.
The outer edges of the dark neighborhood were densely populated with moving torches, and giant bonfires were burning at every intersection.
Lu Li fell back onto the street, approaching the outskirts of the area where soldiers were hurriedly patrolling. At first, only soldiers under martial law were patrolling the empty streets, but as they got closer, the soldiers turned into figures wearing crow masks filled with spices, disinfectant and gauze. They distributed
Medication, disinfection, sealing doors and windows.
Frightened residents lay beside the windows, coughing occasionally.
Lu Li, who left no reflection behind, passed the bonfire, jumped over the crow-masked soldiers and the fence, and headed deeper.
Lu Li began to hear painful coughs in the house and desperate cries for help banging on the door that was sealed from the outside. There were no more patrolling soldiers and doctors disinfecting and distributing medicine.
Despair and pain are staged behind every window: the little girl twitches and vomits blood in the arms of her crying mother; the staggering old man falls down trying to get medicine, hitting his head on the corner of the table and falling stiffly; the empty room behind the smashed windows,
Dirty blood scattered on the streets.
plague?
Did the Lennon Islands “just” have a plague outbreak?
Although it is true that if the plague spreads quickly enough, it can easily infect the sealed islands, the Lennon Islands are composed of dozens of islands, and it is impossible for them to have plague outbreaks at the same time, seal themselves off at the same time, and leave no one safe.
Lu Li continued to move forward, and the houses on the street no longer reflected light, leaving only dim street lights illuminating the dead streets.
Wow——
A muffled sound of knocking came from behind a window. A couple was fighting. They were tearing each other's clothes, hair, and skin apart. They were tearing apart the person they once loved most with their claws and teeth like wild beasts, and finally knocked down the dining table.
When the oil lamp was shattered, darkness enveloped the outline of the hateful flesh and blood that merged with each other.
Abominable evil thrives in darkness.
As Lu Li moved, heavy, hoarse breathing sounded from behind the sealed doors and windows.
Once again, we passed an intersection with an extinguished bonfire standing there. The street lights in front of us no longer lit up, and the dark streets seemed like a dark dead zone.
As Lu Li stepped into the real core, some kind of chaotic running sounds were accompanied by roars, from far to near. In the dark night without moonlight, terrifying monsters were running in the darkness.
Lu Li couldn't clearly see the appearance of these twisted and different shapes, but he could confirm that they found him and followed him to bite. However, they couldn't fly and could only follow and roar below.
There was still some distance from the real core, but Lu Li stopped moving forward. He thought that the weirdness in the depths might hurt him. Now he was just a ghost without any power, and he couldn't confirm whether he would really die if he died in the dream, or whether he would be unable to enter again.
Nightmare.
Lu Li returned the same way, and the light of more and more destroyed houses, the retreating defense lines, and the sound of church bells in the distance told him that the plague had not been controlled and was spreading outwards.
The figure with a blood-stained bird's beak mask floated over the sky. Lu Li did not go back to Shanin Street, but looked for the Night Watch base or the exorcist.
He saw no trace of the exorcist among the martial law soldiers. The fact that the exorcist did not intervene in this situation represented a problem in itself.
But Lu Li didn't find the night watchman or the exorcist. The old exorcist he visited earlier also disappeared. The house was intact and there were no signs of disturbance. He had no choice but to return to Shaning Street and remind Qiao Qiao and the others to be prepared.
When Lu Li came back, Aunt Mary, who was wearing a nightgown, was sitting on Qiao Qiao's bed. She spoke with a pale face about the phone call she had just received:
A friend of Aunt Mary's who was going to visit tomorrow called and heard a weak cry for help on the other side of the phone. She said that people in the whole street were infected with the plague and many people died. She hid in her bedroom and downstairs by the door.
It was being knocked. Then the phone was disconnected in a hurry after the glass shattered and a scream.
She hesitated to call the police station, but no one answered several times. The only time she got through, she only heard busy and panicked shouts and the ringing of the phone on the other side, and then was hung up.
"Will those rebels break into the police station..."
Qiaoqiao, who didn't know anything, was still waiting for Lu Li to return. Finally, she saw shreds of paper flying.
"I'll go downstairs and take a look."
"Don't go out..."
"Don't worry, I'm just watching from the window."
Qiaoqiao swept the shredded papers and said, [We must leave], hurriedly grabbed them and returned downstairs, spreading them on the dining table.
"What's going on outside?"
【Plague, epidemic, infection, monster】
"Plague...monster..."
"Where are we going?" Qiao Qiao remembered the old exorcist's reminder: "Run to higher ground?"
