The strange fog retreated to the sea, and the mist enveloped the beach.
Old wooden boards, suitcases, and sundries were blown onto the beach by the waves.
Kate's eyes fell on an oil painting, and she recognized it as "The Withered Cobhill". It was a famous painting that should be placed in a museum or art exhibition rather than soaked in sea water.
The hazy Immortal Titan is like a beached whale, gradually fading away amid the distant siren song.
Kate volunteered to carry the drunken middle-aged man. Lu Li really needed to deal with the dangers around him and handed the man over to Kate.
There's something sinister about the idea that losing a leg reduces weight, but it does make a drunkard feel as light as a woman.
What he faced next might not be just weird. Lu Li picked up Kate's fake flintlock gun and stepped on the fine gravel outside the beach.
An outline gradually emerged from the depths of the gray mist in the distance, with a wooden boat stranded on the surrounding rough gravel.
As Lu Li and Kate, who were carrying the drunkard on their backs, approached, the outline of a fishing village gradually became clear.
There is no smoke from cooking, no villagers getting up early, no barking dogs and no dried fish hanging from the eaves.
The silent and desolate fishing village shows that it has been abandoned for a long time.
Lu Li put down the drunkard, left Kate outside, and walked into the desolate fishing village alone.
This village has been abandoned for a long time, and the walls of the houses near the coast are covered with a layer of rough grains brought by the corrosive sea breeze.
Compared to the main continent and the barren land, the Lennon Islands, the farmland gardens discovered in recent times maintained a strong local style. This was similar to the specialness between tribes and civilizations until Lu Li saw the parchment posted on the wall.
[Claude State Government Transfer Order No. 11:]
[In order to develop the tourism industry in Claude State, Desolate Bay will be under the unified jurisdiction of the state assembly. All village residents are asked to arrive in Bay Town before June 15th, and you will be uniformly assigned residences and jobs]
[Residents who refuse to leave and their relatives will be stripped of their citizenship and no longer receive state government benefits]
[Note: Just go upstream along the bay]
This coast is deserted and no rescue will be coming soon.
Pushing open a few unlocked doors, the dark room was filled with dust.
Lu Li returned to the fishing village and asked Kate, who was sitting casually on the gravel with her skirt gathered up, "Do you know about the Claude State?"
"Except for the knowledge and etiquette among nobles, I don't have any common sense or knowledge about life."
All he can count on now is the drunk, but he doesn't know when he will wake up.
"Are we still on our way?"
"Waiting."
Although we knew from the announcement that we could reach the town along the bay, the distance would not be too close. A man, a woman and a drunkard with a broken leg couldn't make the journey.
Lu Li took the drunk man off Kate's back and let him lie in the open space outside the fishing village.
"Aren't we going in?"
"No entry."
The view of the village is too narrow, and it is impossible to know whether there are any beings left in the strange fog.
"You want to wake him up?" Kate looked at Lu Li who was surrounding the drunkard, "He didn't even wake up after a monster ate his leg."
Soaking in sea water and subsequent air drying did not wash away the smell of alcohol, like a drunkard soaked in wine. I don’t know how much alcohol he drank.
Kate had never seen someone so drunk. If it weren't for the constant snoring, she would have thought he was dead.
"The monster that ate one of his legs was probably drunk... He seems to be awake?"
At this time, the drunkard who seemed to be dead slowly raised his hand, scratched his chin, and turned over squirmingly. The loss of a leg did not affect his sleep at all.
"this."
Kate saw an iron piece fall out of his pocket, picked it up and handed it to Lu Li.
This is a standard badge, with the flintlock and fleur-de-lis pattern symbolizing some kind of law enforcement status.
"He's a police officer?"
The familiar vocabulary made the drunkard react, and he murmured in his sleep: "Anna..."
Lu Li's black eyes suddenly turned dark: "Who is Anna?"
"Anna, don't leave me..."
The drunk man who seemed to have woken up vaguely reached out to grab Kate, but she dodged him.
Lu Li stared at the drunk man. The messy brown hair was not black, and the swollen face with stubble was not similar to his own.
"Who are you?"
"...Don't treat me as a criminal." The drunkard muttered vaguely, but no matter how he asked, it was illogical babble.
"Don't let him fall asleep."
Lu Li pulled off the drunkard's shirt and let him subconsciously hug his chest because of the cold. He returned to the shallows to wet his clothes and covered the drunkard's mouth and nose.
The coldness and suffocation stimulate the drunkard to open his mouth like a drowning person, gasp, and then suck seawater into his lungs, choke and cough, and spit out nauseating vomit.
Lu Li and Kate retreated to the upwind a few meters away.
"Uh-uh-bastards...are you from the Eagle Strike Gang or the Zombie Gang...huh?"
"Look up."
The drunkard raised his bloodshot scarlet eyes. In the distance, the double image swayed, and the lead-gray water stretched as far as the eye could see. A giant steel ship that had never been seen before was stuck crookedly on the beach. There were more than a dozen lines in the shoals and on the deck.
Silhouette moves.
"Is this the crime scene?"
The drunkard was frothing and said that he didn't even remember getting on the boat.
Lu Li briefly recounted what happened last night and what happened to save him.
The drunk man yelled something nonsense at the top of his lungs. He looked down and saw that he had lost his leg. He smacked his lips again and said, "Like what happens when I get drunk. I told you Puhan, sooner or later you will lose your leg when you are drunk..."
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"Who is Anna?" Lu Li interrupted the drunkard's self-admonishment.
The drunk man shook his head and tried to focus his eyes on Lu Li: "How do you know that name?"
"It's me who should ask."
"That's my daughter..." the drunkard murmured sadly.
The Anna mentioned by the two men is not the same person.
Kate lowered her head at this moment and picked up a metal badge that the drunkard had left under her body: "Are you a police officer in the farmland?"
"Do you know me? Have you ever been caught by me... Hiccup -" The drunken man began to speak in confusion, "When I was caught by the compound-eyed man and my head was chopped off..."
He fell asleep again.
"Go to Bay Town first."
Lu Li carried the drunkard on his back and walked back to the stranded ship.
"You seem to be very nice to him." Kate said following behind.
"Why do you say that?"
"Micro expressions or movements?" Kate pointed to her eyes: "Can I see your subtle changes because of the person named 'Anna'?"
Lu Li was noncommittal.
A dozen survivors gathered on the beach in front of the Immortal Titan, making the deserted beach livelier, as if the disaster of the Immortal Titan had never happened.
Many people died, but there were also those who survived.
Lu Li temporarily left the drunk man under their care, climbed back to the deck, went all the way to the cargo hold, pushed the steam car he saw earlier onto the life raft, then lowered the life raft and landed on the beach.
With the expectations of the survivors, Lu Li lifted the drunk man to the back seat and got into the driver's seat.
Kate opened the car door and sat in the passenger seat: "Can you drive?"