"We'd better run before they react. The faster, the better, and the further, the better."
The war between ghouls and rotten monsters is like an ever-expanding whirlpool. Perhaps before long, the entire Midnight City will become part of the whirlpool.
There will be no need for true seeing at that time - the soul of Midnight City has fallen into eternal sleep.
"I'm more worried that they want to trace the source..."
The more weirdness involved, the more weird and weird it is.
They might have traced the origin of it all, and discovered that it wasn't a ghoul or a rotten weirdness.
Being a spoiler is the best way to weaken weirdness - as long as you don't get caught.
"I remember that you met Anna's manor in the World's Back Mountains? You can run for refuge, or go to the farmland. They know you are there and they don't dare to chase you..."
At this moment, Lu Li and Claire heard distant and ethereal singing falling from the deep space.
In the narrow clouds outside the cellar, an illusory outline gradually solidified. A swollen whale scattered with fragments soared under the clouds and came to the sky above a certain territory in the east. It screamed and collapsed, turning into filthy rain.
Lu Li suddenly covered Claire and closed his eyes at the same time. The next moment, terrifying wails and strong winds roared outside the cellar.
If Lu Li is still carrying a sanity counter, it will beep at this moment.
"It's really scary... Swamp Mother and Twisted Shadow combined can't withstand several corpse explosions." Claire's wings had a gray spot, and she observed Lu Li casually, "How is it? Do you still want to stay here?"
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"Return to the farm first."
Lu Li couldn't last long under this kind of pollution.
There won't be many cursed titles in the restless Midnight City. The longer they stay, the more likely they are to be discovered, and Lu Li must be prepared.
Prepare for the deep terror to descend on this strange city...
Such as the Ghoul King and the existence behind the rotting weirdness.
Lu Li had no intention of exploring who the strange being who controlled decay was, and he no longer continued his identity as the "Mad Warlock Blood Man" and quickly returned to the farm with Claire.
In the ten minutes that Lu Li was on the road, the situation worsened beyond measure.
Several bloated whales appeared in the void and fell into the east.
An apocalyptic dusk enveloped half of the Midnight City.
The body fused with the Heart of Astos was unable to withstand the pollution spread from more than ten miles away, and Claire's feathers quickly turned gray as if they were exposed to a withered halo.
Lu Li stuffed Claire into his body, who could hardly hold it anymore, and simulated more arthropod tentacles to speed up and escape back to the south.
Along the way, we encountered many strange creatures escaping Midnight City. Some of them continued to flee south, while others hid in strong castles.
Knowing that the castle was not safe, Lu Li jumped into the tunnel and returned to the rural farm.
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In the manor house, Ophelia looked at the apocalyptic sky in the distance, unable to suppress her panic.
"Why is it like this... Where are Lu Li and Claire?"
Creep monsters rose up like lampposts, alerting Ophelia that the manor had been invaded. When she rushed to the wine cellar, she saw black eyes in a pool of rotten monsters.
Lu Li spit out the listless Claire.
"What's wrong with her?"
"Somewhat contaminated."
"What's going on outside?"
"Weird riot——"
There was a sudden violent tremor deep in the ground, and gravel fell. They returned to the ground before the wine cellar collapsed and looked at the center of the tremor - the eastern part of Midnight City.
This depression swept through half of the Midnight City, and thick smoke from collapsed buildings rose against the apocalyptic dim background.
The manor in the suburbs no longer seems safe. The strange people who have taken refuge here have been panicking since this morning.
"Should we stay further away?" Claire huddled up like a real baby bird, "It's best to leave first."
"There's something wrong with you." Ophelia said with concern.
"I don't know... I just have a bad feeling... like something is going to happen."
It is as if the baby bird huddled in the nest is afraid of the poisonous snake lingering under the tree.
"Listen to Claire and leave Midnight City."
It is not difficult to convince the farm that it is strange. They come to the farm to avoid danger and will not refuse to retreat again to avoid the approaching terror.
Even the queen is willing to leave with them.
The chaotic evacuation team stretched into a long dragon, painted with a doomsday color, and retreated to the safer west.
Creep monsters run the fastest.
"Why did it become like this?"
Ophelia still couldn't understand.
Lu Li combined Claire's clues to piece together what happened in Midnight City: with the ghouls and the rotten and weird hostility as the trigger, and Lu Li's actions as fuel, Midnight City burned like a huge bonfire.
Even if the chaos subsides, only the devastation and ashes of Midnight City will remain.
This outcome would be worse than letting the ghouls move to the south.
"It's not your fault, we didn't expect it to suddenly become so bad..." Ophelia comforted.
"Look...!"
Elena suddenly shouted, raising her cloak and looking at the Midnight City behind her.
A roaring shadow emerged in the east.
Feral bone spurs pierce the sky, and sharp peak-like teeth are stacked in a row.
Lu Li was extremely familiar with the outline of the sculpture he had seen countless times in the ghoul lair - the King of Ghouls.
The weirdos were crawling and shivering, Claire screamed and buried herself in the fungus carpet, Elena uttered an obscure prayer, and Ophelia lost her mind because she didn't look away immediately. The hot magma overflowed, and her sight was blocked by Lu Li.
Only Lu Li watched the Ghoul King emerge, and everything was shrouded in his shadow. Its bloody claws as huge as a town clawed downwards, and the seemingly slow movements made it difficult for all living creatures to react.
The bloody claws streaked across the city, like a child clawing at a sandcastle, and the claws grabbed were littered with gravel—the rotting weirdness that once brought disaster to the ghouls.
The Ghoul King treats rotten weirdos the way rotten weirdos treat ghouls - stuffing them into his mouth and chewing them slowly.
It was only then that the rumble and tremors of Bloodclaw's plowing came from the ground.
The shadow of the Ghoul King faded away, and Lu Li thought it was over. Suddenly, a tremor so close at hand made Weird scream.
The invisible dream filled the air, wrapping around all beings to prevent them from being shaken to death. Then Lu Li looked at the source of the tremors——
Weirdness once stole this city that never sleeps and belongs to mankind, located in the dark wilderness.
The traces of human beings have never disappeared...the standing alchemy tower symbolizes their wisdom.
But now, an alchemy tower was uprooted by unimaginable power, rising into the deep space, and then like a red-hot needle piercing the phantom of the Ghoul King's arrival.
Fragile buildings continued to collapse, and the wild wind and sand swallowed the earth.
Lu Li heard an angry roar deep in the wind and sand, twisting, breaking, and dissipating.
Ghouls and rotten weirdos are no longer needed to balance the land - they no longer exist.
The howling wind and the swirling dust were blocked out by the dream.
