Lu Li didn't believe that the creep monsters would become loyal followers, and the creep monsters didn't believe that Lu Li would give up converting followers.
This fear forms a delicate yet fragile balance, allowing Lu Li and the creep monsters to temporarily not worry about attacking each other.
At least Lu Li didn't have to worry.
Lu Li made the creep monsters converge and cover the manor's body. The creeps surged and faded away, revealing the original dilapidation and mottled appearance of the mansion.
Entering the wine cellar, the secret passage has long been blocked by mud and rocks. If you want to recapture the castle, you can only take the ground road.
Before Claire returned, Elena asked Lu Li about the strange things near the Kraggs creep monster.
Weird didn't know the meaning of lips and teeth, and just wanted to get a share of the pie and get rid of the enemies. Elena told Lu Li that the creep monsters told two Weirds that they coveted the manor territory, but they couldn't compete with the creep monsters and wandered around.
They are obviously no stronger than Kraggs creep monsters, or at least they are powerless against creep monsters, and Lu Li's dream treats the weirdness under the evil spirits equally.
But before going to recruit the second and third helpers, Lu Li first had to deal with the hidden dangers of creep monsters.
He doesn't need to worry about a sudden attack by creep monsters, Ophelia is naturally restrained, and only Elena is weak.
Lu Li took out the contracts he had obtained in batches from hell, set up the treaty according to the teachings of the mind-centered demon, and prepared it for the creep monsters to sign.
The content is that until Lu Li leaves Midnight City, the creep monsters must obey Lu Li's orders and protect Lu Li. In response, Lu Li cannot harm the creep monsters.
Lu Li instinctively enslaved the creep monsters harshly, but what stopped him from doing so was not kindness, but fear that the creep monsters would notice.
Obediently leaving plaque on the parchment contract, the devil's contract seemed to tell Lu Li that he was worrying too much.
But it’s not important, the devil’s trap in the contract is enough to control the creep monster——
Lu Li cannot harm the creep monster, but he can kill it.
Let the creep monster lead the way to where the neighbor is. Soon after, Lu Li, Elena and Ophelia approached the edge of the creep and saw a piece of farmland formed by humus soil along the creep.
What was planted in the fertile and soft humus soil were not crops, but strange creatures that were not dead one by one. They were planted into the soil and cultivated by gardeners with strange shapes and evil bodies protruding from the patterns on their faces.
The creep's neighbor is visually more terrifying than it is.
The owner of the farmland noticed the arrival of neighbors and outsiders, and the face on the gardener's evil body squirmed, driving them numbly to collect dark purple viscous liquid from the "crops" and put it into their skulls, and then came to the edge of the fungus carpet to lift it up and share the nectar.
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The surging carpet of bacteria gathered around Elena, engaging in communication that Lu Li could not understand.
"The creep monster says that nectar is a trap, and eating nectar will become the servant of the flower queen."
The queen of flowers is the owner of this piece of humus soil, and the shadow of a low hill in the depths of the farmland in the distance is its true body.
Lu Li observed the busy servants in the strange farmland. There were a dozen or more here.
Obviously, the more weird there are, the higher the chance of the existence of the soul of Midnight City.
Whether you eat or touch the nectar, you will be parasitized by the Queen of Flowers. It restrains the Creep, and the Creep also restrains it, depending on where you fight. Therefore, the Queen of Flowers cannot infect the Kraggs Creep Monster that first occupied the bloody wheat field.
Lu Li didn't need to worry, because under the evil spirit, all those who entered the dream were treated equally.
A deep dream enveloped Lu Li, like a hanging black ring, floating towards the "Queen of Flowers" deep in the farmland.
The vines are entangled with twisted branches and have thorn-like thorns. The back of the flower looks like a big tree made of flesh and blood. The servants irrigate the nectar collected from the fruits into the holes of the flesh and blood tree, spewing out a dense cloud of pollen.
As the pollen came into contact with the dream smile, Lu Li took out the devil's contract, and Elena negotiated with him: obey or die.
In fact, there is no latter. If the flower queen obeys, it will sign the contract; if the flower queen refuses, it will be forced to sign the contract.
The Flower Queen who signed the contract did not obey like the creep monster. Even if it allowed the flames of hell to burn its body, it refused to obey Lu Li.
"Can the Tree Whisperer make it honest?" Ophelia suggested.
Lu Li couldn't try. The Tree Whisperer made too much noise, and the entire Midnight City would see Annie's shadow and then know Lu Li's arrival.
But you can try a lighthouse you haven't used yet.
Deep in the bizarre dreamland, the hazy halo of an oil lamp slowly lights up.
A reassuring light spreads around.
Elena and Ophelia grew closer to Lu Li, and the Queen gradually became peaceful. Does this mean that... the Kraggs carpet monster that has become less hostile is the soul of Midnight City?
Lu Li asked Elena to communicate with the Queen of Flowers while the lighthouse continued, until it no longer resisted and the warm light that guided the lost existence disappeared.
Elena and Ophelia became disappointed, and the Queen of Flowers raised the twisted branches, trying to save the light from dissipating.
Anyway, the second weirdo becomes the henchman.
"Next."
Lu Li fell back to the Kraggs creep monster.
But it seems that the neighbor sensed the approaching danger, and the place was already empty when the creep monster led them away.
"Where did it go?" Ophelia asked.
Creep monsters spread across this barren land, surging and spreading to the end of sight, confirming that the neighbor had indeed run away.
"Are there any other neighbors?"
Elena asked and was denied.
As they returned to the farm and manor, a baby bird with feathers that looked like white paint flew from Midnight City and circled above Lu Li's head.
"Are you hungry?" Ophelia looked at Claire who refused to leave, "I can bake it more tenderly."
"You don't even let small animals go?"
The wandering Claire falls on Ophelia's head, like a shadow wearing a white hat.
“Are there animals in weird times?”
The answer is yes, they just change their appearance... Just like humans adapt to strange times with alien species, they can too.
"How's your progress?"
"After solving the problem."
"Queen of flowers? No surprise."
"Don't expect anything in return." Ophelia and the teasing Claire said, "It has brought the beautiful word "Queen of Flowers" to a bad level by itself."
"You killed it out of anger?"
"Being taken under Lu Li's command." Ophelia told the details and the role of the lighthouse.
"Lighthouse? Let me see it!"
At the urging of the curious Claire, Lu Li released the lighthouse again.
A hazy halo spread.
"Like the sunshine in the bright land..."
Claire was fascinated by it, "You seem to have carried the land of light with you..."
The lighthouse is as warm as the sun, but also as "useless" as the sun.
Claire remembered something: "Can you see their mental projections?"
"They don't have any." Lu Li shook his head, "What does the castle look like?"
"Some strange weirdness has taken over the castle..."
"How weird is that?"
At this moment, Ophelia and Claire heard a gurgling sound from Lu Li's abdomen.
