The boy covered his mouth and crawled back to the corner.
For indigenous people who have never been exposed to medicine, this type of chemicals is more effective and tastes worse.
"Remember to wash your body and keep it dry, and your ulcers will gradually lessen."
"Are you a witch doctor?" The young man huddled in the haystack, and his voice floated from the darkness: "Your medicine is much more bitter than that of the witch doctor, but you don't need to take as much."
"I'm an exorcist."
“What is The Exorcist?”
The isolated village knows little about the outside world.
"Hunt those weirdos."
"Hunting monsters? How can you defeat monsters?"
"With wisdom and sacrifice."
Lu Li talked about a strange thing that even the isolated villagers were familiar with: evil spirits.
In the old days when the black ring had not yet arrived and the weird invasions had not yet occurred, Lu Li told the boy the story of the future.
Such as uninvited guests.
The boy leaned against the haystack, his bright eyes in the dark room quietly listening to Lu Li's story:
"The uninvited guest fell beside the bed. At the last moment of consciousness, he went home."
"What a great story..." The boy was immersed in the story. This was different from the stories he usually heard.
For Lu Li, and for the strange times, the story of the uninvited guest brings a rare sense of warmth and peace.
Only people killed by uninvited guests don't think so.
Lu Li continued to talk about his experience of leaving the Immortal Giant that ran aground on the rocks, being swallowed by a strange fish along the bay, and controlling the strange fish to come to the village.
"So you were caught by the villagers after fighting a monster?"
"Um."
These experiences can help Lu Li gain trust and contact villagers to complete the farmland garden commission.
After listening to the two stories, the contented young man whispered: "I'm going back. If they find out that I have contact with you, I will be beaten to death..."
Saying goodbye to Lu Li, the young man crept into the haystack. The bulging haystack gradually subsided, and the dark room returned to silence with only the sound of pattering rain.
Lu Li tried to raise his arm, but his fingers only trembled slightly. Manipulating the strange fish seemed to have paralyzed the nerves and muscles, making it difficult for him to control his body. His divergent thinking made him guess whether the strange fish stranded on the river bank was twitching due to its own movement at the moment.
Lying in the haystack, quietly staring out the window.
The raindrops and thunder hitting the thatched cottage made his eyelids heavier and heavier, and he gradually fell asleep.
During this period, Lu Li heard a vague noise, and gradually regained consciousness. In an instant, he fell into a nightmare that was difficult to open his eyes, and fell back into dreamland.
I don't know how much time passed, but what woke Lu Li again was the rustling sound of nearby haystacks.
Thin shadows crawled out of the haystacks. The rain and lightning outside did not stop, but the thunder disappeared.
"How long...how long has it been?" Lu Li's voice was hoarse and unclear, and his throat was stinging due to dryness.
"It's been a day."
"Is there...water?"
"I'll pick it up..."
The boy crawled out of the dark room and soon came back with rainwater in his hands. He came close to Lu Li and wet his lips and throat.
"cough--"
The rain that choked his nose made Lu Li cough lightly, and he woke up a lot. He heard the noise he heard vaguely when he fell asleep: "What happened outside before?"
"They were quarreling..."
"Why?"
The boy didn't answer, so Lu Li didn't ask any more questions and asked the boy to take another anti-inflammatory pill.
The medicine was very effective. The boy did not resist the medicine anymore. He was even worried that it would not work yesterday so he bit the pill again, chewed it and swallowed it.
As a reward, the boy gave Lu Li a piece of black cane sugar that was slightly larger than yesterday.
Lu Li replenished his paltry calories, and then told a new story in response to his expectations.
"This time it's...the story of Jimmy and Remy."
Lu Li slowly told the story about the Jimmy brothers and sisters. When the story was finished and the boy wanted to hear the second story, the light of torches and footsteps outside the dark room drove the boy into the haystack.
Quietly listening to the movement in the rain, they got closer and closer, some kind of argument broke out, and then they disappeared inexplicably.
Lu Li curled his fingers slightly, and the slow speed of recovery meant that it would take several days before he could move.
He didn't wait for the boy to come back. Night fell and darkness enveloped the dark house. Lu Li seemed to have been forgotten by the villagers, and the oil lamp had long been extinguished. He only relied on the lightning in the storm to avoid being engulfed in darkness.
The storm lasted for an unusually long time.
Finally, a new day arrived and the rain stopped temporarily. Along with the rustling sound, Lu Li could smell a faint smell of decay.
Two anti-inflammatory pills saved the boy who was covered in ulcers.
"This is the last one." Lu Li said after the boy took out the anti-inflammatory medicine, "You probably won't need the anti-inflammatory medicine anymore."
The boy handed the third black cane candy to Lu Li, but hesitated and did not leave.
"What's wrong?"
"They are going to destroy the village."
Lu Li realized that the time had come: "What happened in the village?"
The frightened boy vented his emotions tremblingly: "They killed the village chief, grandpa, witch doctor, grandma, and many other villagers..."
The boy spoke plainly about the riots that took place in the village, and combined with the conversation that Lu Li heard when he was brought back by Lu Li and Sauron... this was a tragedy.
At the beginning of the disaster when the farmland lost contact, this unknown village was protected by a "guardian spirit" who had protected the village for generations. At first, people believed in the guardian spirit, and the guardian spirit was also protected by people's trust. But as time went by, all the weirdness was revealed.
Blocked outside the village and unable to see the truth, seeds of doubt were born among the villagers.
Their faith was no longer true, and the guardian spirit's power weakened.
Lu Li already knew everything that happened later.
Suddenly, chaotic shouts entered the dark room. The boy stood by the window, looked around, and said, "There's a fire."
It was a mixture of crying, laughing, screaming, and running, which gradually became closer and clearer.
Lu Li's mind pictured those young people setting houses on fire amidst the cries of the elderly and children.
call--
The flames quickly spread here and ignited the wet grass pile.
"Don't worry about me, take the guardian spirit and leave." Lu Li said to the boy who was trying to drag him. He watched him get out of the dark room.
The burning flames grew stronger all around, licking the calm face, and suddenly solidified at a certain moment.
"What do you think of this scene, people from the outside world..."
"They are not worth protecting." Lu Li replied to Farming Garden. "What happened to that village in the end?"
"have no idea……"
Even without Lu Li, conflicts would still break out.
The best outcome is that the rebellious villagers leave the village and get the freedom and self-righteousness they want. The worst outcome is what Lu Li experienced. They sent themselves and everyone to a dead end. Then they cried and begged the guardian spirit.
, but it's too late.
"You have completed the test... Now it's time to fulfill your promise and send you back to reality..."
"Wait a minute."
Lu Li changed his mind: "Can you send me to the Black Ring?"
Geng Diyuan didn’t understand, but still agreed and blessed:
"They can't pollute, they can't hurt you, they can't kill you..."