The sky-blocking dust gradually enveloped Midnight City.
"Are we going back?"
Ophelia looked at the suburban farm swallowed by the dust.
The dust of the rotten and weird ghouls has settled, and it seems like they don't need to leave here anymore.
Claire no longer cowered and trembled, and the source of her uneasiness seemed to disappear with the fall of the alchemy tower.
"I won't follow you."
Lu Li was preparing to leave, fearing that the Ghoul King would trace the origin of the war and implicate them.
"Where are you going?" Ophelia asked him.
"Liberate in Midnight City and wait for the eyeballs to arrive."
"Do you still want to go back?"
"Ghoul——"
"Don't say it!" Elena screamed to stop Lu Li: "I can feel... He is listening to any words that mention Him..."
"——Even if He traces the origin, He cannot appear in Midnight City."
For Lu Li, Midnight City is now safer than other places.
"And we always have to know what's going on in Midnight City."
"Claire can... pay attention to safety." Ophelia retracted her words to stop her.
No one can convince Lu Li, except Anna.
Lu Li followed them back to the dusty farm, and then left alone.
No longer a ghoul or a rotting monster, Lu Li, who was dressed in a black robe and haunted by his faith, frightened the few remaining weirdos in the south.
Ignoring the prying eyes behind the vertical windows of the castle, Lu Li stepped into the yellow sand.
He first came to the ghoul lair. The ghouls were taken to the Blood Eye by Lu Li. The blood pool dried up due to the arrival of the King of Ghouls, leaving the place as desolate as if it had been abandoned for a long time.
Lu Li left the ghoul's lair and came to the outpost. He searched the dried blood pool, the bloody monastery, and the theater one after another, but surprisingly he could not find any trace of the ghoul.
Including the blood spirit that may be the soul of Midnight City.
Looking at the unknown east from here, mist-like dust envelopes the quiet Midnight City.
In the end, Lu Li hid all traces and quietly approached the Blood Eye lair.
Stepping into the withered lair, the ghouls who had followed him here were the same as the blood pool, dried up like rotten wood, maintaining the same posture as in life.
Lu Li's passing brought about the breeze, or the touch of his robe caused a ghoul to collapse and ashes to rise.
He stopped investigating the Blood Plague tribe because the answer he sought had already been obtained: the god who was listening to the talker had drained all the ghouls in Midnight City.
No matter whether the weird carnival is taking place, or the deep pit left by the Alchemy Tower is forming, there is only danger and barrenness left there.
An unsettling sound echoed in the depths of the dust that had not yet dispersed. Lu Li left the danger and returned to the safety of the south, where he continued to visit the weird things that had not left him.
The Misty Manor, which he had dealt with before, was the first target Lu Li visited. He told them everything that happened in the east, threatened them that the south would be invaded, promised that the manor would give them a place to live, and successfully got them to sign a contract and leave the manor.
Then there were the wraiths. But when Lu Li visited, only an empty haunted house was left, and the wraiths were nowhere to be seen.
Lu Li moved into the bookstore next door to the haunted house to curb his unnecessary curiosity.
Night falls and dawn comes.
Lu Li woke up from the underground rock layer wrapped in tree roots, returned to the basement, and returned to the surface from the basement.
Outside the dusty window, it was still as dim as a sandstorm, and the dust caused by the fall of the Alchemy Tower was unexpectedly long-lasting.
The ghost neighbor has not yet arrived.
As if Midnight City didn't want Lu Li to wait and see his eyes, the approach of the resentful spirit's aura attracted Lu Li's attention, but it was not the owner of this place who was waiting.
"Why are you here?"
Lu Li looked at Ophelia, what was she looking for anxiously:
"I'm here to find Claire...haven't you seen her!"
The bizarre dreams quickly spread and then receded, and Claire was no longer around waiting for mischief.
"But Claire said she went to find you..."
Lu Li had some guesses: "You go back to the farm, and I'll go find her."
No longer waiting for the ghost to return, let Ophelia go back and then Lu Li headed to the east of Midnight City.
Clare was most likely in the east at this time.
Got into some kind of trouble, or investigated something?
Lu Li passed by the outpost, but Claire was not here. He came to the Blood Eye Lair again, and Claire was not here either. Not only Claire - the remains of the ghouls were also missing.
Even the ashes scattered by Lu Li as he passed by disappeared. And from the exit of the lair, he found messy footprints that were still new and not covered by dust.
These footprints are specious, as if a ghoul whose body and soul were annihilated has resurrected evilly for some reason.
Lu Li looked at the footprints extending deep into the dusty streets. If they didn't change direction... there was the Blood Plague tribe.
The clues seem to converge in one place.
Like fate, Lu Li, disguised as a ghoul, inevitably returned to his hometown after the blood plague tribe was destroyed.
There's just one more thing that needs to be confirmed: did Claire go there on her own initiative or was she captured?
No matter which... it means there is some secret buried there.
Lu Li moved forward along the uncovered mark, and the buildings he passed became increasingly dilapidated. The impact of the fall of the alchemy tower turned the wooden house into broken eaves and broken walls, and the roof and walls were inlaid with fragments of the alchemy tower.
Finally, Lu Li approached the edge of the Blood Plague Tribe - the surrounding area was reduced to ruins, and there was no flesh nest or shadow in the dust-shrouded front, only a deep pit spreading like a cliff.
The Alchemy Tower forever changed the landscape of eastern Midnight City.
The footprints that led Lu Li here disappeared on the edge of the pit. This was the blood plague tribe, and the ghouls used it to return home... But something strange was surging in the silent dust-shrouded pit.
What did Claire discover?
When the wandering Lu Li was about to descend into the pit, a black shadow suddenly jumped out of the pit, jumped over Lu Li's head, swooped down in an arc, and got into Lu Li's cloak.
"run!"
Claire's panicked voice came out.
Lu Li didn't ask what happened and retreated from the nearby pit without hesitation.
When Lu Li was ten meters away from the edge of the pit, a silhouette crawled out from the bottom of the pit.
It was a rotten monster flowing with pus, decayed, dirty, disgusting, and the unsustainable abominable shape changed all the time, enough to become anyone's terrifying nightmare.
It was completely terrifying, but it shouldn't have panicked Claire so much, especially when Lu Li was far away from the edge. It wandered back into the pit without delving into it.
"Why are you here."
"I just escaped..."
"Are you trapped by it?"
"It's not just it..." Claire said incoherently. "It's everywhere down there."
Claire described what she saw: black tide surged at the bottom of the pit, pregnant with some kind of terror.
"Rot ghouls? I don't know what to call them..."
When she found that Lu Li didn't respond, she exclaimed, "You don't want to go exploring, do you?"
"...I don't want to do that right now."
Looking at the bright side, the Eastern Weibo is the first to face the abyss of terror, and Lu Li and the others can leave at any time.
Thinking about the worst, the Rot Ghoul seems to be a fusion of the characteristics of the Rot Weird and the Ghoul. If they breed new horrors...
The most important thing is.
Lu Li smelled the scent of the swamp from the rotting ghoul.