Lu Li looked around. There were signs of cutting down on the Qiu Jie roots not far away, and axes were scattered nearby.
The desperate survivors swung axes at the giant trees, but their ending was no better than the people of Midnight City.
Lu Li once again ascended into the canopy that covered the forest. Claire hid in the unfinished forest hut, standing on the window frame and tilting her head to stare at the figure covered in light as she crawled into the branches.
After a while, like the moonlight emerging after the clouds dispersed, Lu Li fell back to the cabin in the forest.
"Are we still going to move on?"
"Consciousness is just ahead."
Lu Li and Claire moved on.
No more new forest huts appeared along the way, and they might have reached a deep place that even Midnight City had never set foot in.
There is no danger looming, but be careful, it may be a trap to lure the enemy deep into.
After a while, I went deep enough into the strange jungle to once again crawl into the canopy, and the consciousness that permeated the surroundings seemed to have substance, as if the elm forest in Belfast was releasing some kind of clear emotion.
Pain, suffering, hatred, as well as longing and prayer.
These fragmented emotions were filled with disordered instinctive emotions and could not be communicated. Lu Li had no choice but to bring Claire up and let the twisted branches that formed the crown of the tree take him to the place where the emotions were lingering.
An unexpected scene appeared, when the twisted branches underfoot spread out like a group of snakes having sex, revealing a forest cabin standing on the black soil.
Most of the emotions Lu Li felt came from this.
Does the Weird Jungle hate forest huts? It seems like it should be so. Midnight City made forest huts from the remains of the Weird Jungle to protect outsiders like them, as if they were embedded in uncontrollable spikes.
Therefore, Lu Li understood the desire of Weird Forest - hoping that Lu Li would help him dismantle the forest huts scattered in the dark forest.
Since the influence of the Land of Light has not yet spread to the Allen Peninsula, they will not touch the desolate land for a long time. Lu Li accepted the prayer of the strange jungle and went to the land of emotional wandering to pull out the nails embedded in the forest.
Cabins in the woods everywhere.
There were not many or few people left in the strange dense forest when Midnight City fell. At least when they followed Lu Li to remove the cabin in the forest, they found skeletons on the bed, in the corner, or around the cabin.
These huts are without exception, everything that can be used for burning has been dismantled, and only cold embers are left in the fireplace.
When clearing into the middle of the strange jungle, Lu Li discovered a special forest cabin.
The cutting marks around it showed that the survivors in this wooden house had lived in the strange jungle for a long time. But when Lu Li walked into the wooden house and saw the bones leaning against the fireplace, it meant that he had not persisted until rescue arrived.
"Robert..." Claire suddenly whispered in a low voice.
"You know him?"
"Those dentures..." Claire pointed to the excessively complete teeth in the lower jaw of the corpse and told an "interesting story" from the past.
Claire did not enter the school as the daughter of Vice President Chris. Therefore, the many preferential treatment she received at Giant Tree College were envied by her classmates. Then when these jealous students became more and more excessive, Claire picked an unlucky one.
Dan taught him a lesson and knocked out all his teeth. This is the skeleton in front of him, Robert.
The final outcome is that Claire reveals her identity and Chris makes a pair of teeth for Robert to resolve the conflict.
"I didn't expect him to die here..." Claire sighed and looked around the wooden house, "But it's better than dying in Midnight City with no body left."
"Lu Li, help me bury him."
Lu Li agreed to Claire and collected Robert's body in the open space next to the forest cabin.
In the following actions, Claire did not encounter any familiar people again - even if she did, it would be difficult to recognize them.
…
The deep night in the distance is about to fall, returning to the darkness of a strange dense forest.
The forest hut stands alone under the forest of giant trees, shrouded by the canopy of trees that blocks the sky and the sun.
This is the last cabin to be uprooted, but also the beginning.
Claire quietly watched Lu Li take back the traces of Midnight City one by one, and recalled a long sentence from an unknown poet: The disappearance of old things will be replaced by the flourishing of new life.
The last wooden house collapsed before our eyes.
Claire watched Lu Li rise into the tree crown, but then quickly fall down. Because the twisted branches did not give way as Lu Li approached.
"It deceived us?"
"No."
Lu Li recalled the ethereal consciousness he briefly felt, "The strange dense forest can't help us for the time being."
"So our trip was in vain?" Claire was unwilling to accept this. "We wasted time demolishing a bunch of huts and ended up failing?"
"There is no failure. The strange jungle is giving birth to itself."
Midnight City's exploration of the weird jungle accidentally stopped this process, and as Lu Li demolished the forest hut, the weird jungle began to breed again.
Perhaps as time goes by, in the foreseeable future, real thinking will be born in the strange jungle.
But until then, the strange jungle can only be a shelter to hide in in times of crisis.
"So it's a waste of time." Claire complained realistically.
They left the strange jungle, and businessman Anthony appeared around, bringing two pieces of news: The bad news was that the swamp finally couldn't hold it back, and it broke out shortly after Lu Li entered the strange forest.
The good news is that they are prepared.
…
The afterglow falls on the sparkling bay where sailboats are moored.
"Please come with me, He is waiting for you."
Lu Li returned to the Land of Light and came to the church under the leadership of the Vine Cultists.
However, he did not catch up with the Eternal Dreamer's awakening. The priest waiting here told Lu Li: "The Lord went to inspect the Kingdom of God not long ago, and He left an oracle: You are the key to stopping the swamp."
"Any more?"
The high priest shook his head: "He said you would understand."
"I do not understand."
If the Ever Dreamer just wanted Lu Li to be free, there was no reason for him to let Lu Li come back and leave an ambiguous prophecy.
Lu Li thought that the Eternal Dreamer had some kind of "unspeakable" future - he was only half right. Just when Lu Li was about to leave the land of light and head to the swamp, the priest blocked his way, saying that the Eternal Dreamer had awakened.
.
Arriving at the ordinary study, Ever Dreamer leaned on the lounge chair in front of the window, covering himself with a blanket and watching the sunset like an old man.
Didn't fall asleep.
"What happened."
Lu Li realized Yongmengzhe's intention - he was hiding himself.
"The swamp is spying on that conversation." The Ever Dreamer's answer confirmed Lu Li's guess.
"Here?"
The dark wilderness and the land of light are tens of thousands of miles apart. If its power can monitor the distant land of light... what is the meaning of all their struggles?
"The Ghoul King influenced Him in the Arren Peninsula... in the Fens."