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58. Waiting before leaving

The pace of running slowed down, and the crisp sound of stepping on dead branches and vines disappeared.

Lu Li stopped and frowned.

It was a big tree that was incompatible with the surrounding dead trees. The tone of Shadow Swamp was that of a lifeless, lifeless, gray, dark, dead swamp.

But this tree exudes the complete opposite vitality. Although it has no green buds and its branches have been damaged by the hurricane, this weird feeling still exists, as if it is alive and breathing.

"That's...a human arm sticking out of the tree hole?"

Anna lowered her voice, as if she was afraid of waking up the strange tree. She had the same feeling, even stronger than Lu Li.

Not sensing any malice from the tree, Lu Li took his hand away from the psychic gun and looked at the tree hole.

The tree hole was dark and dim, and it was difficult to see clearly what was going on inside. Only an arm hanging with a cloth stretched out from the depths of the tree hole, grabbing forward.

"I gonna go see……"

Anna suggested, but Lu Li walked towards the weird tree before her.

It was a highly rotted arm, and the bones of the badly rotted palm were already exposed. The arm was stretched straight forward, with the palm facing upward, as if it was trying to grasp something.

After approaching about five meters, Lu Li stopped and raised the oil lamp. However, this distance did not allow him to clearly see the situation in the tree hole, so he continued to approach.

"careful……"

Anna gently reminded Lu Li, who was continuing to move forward, to spread his breath and spread it around Lu Li, preparing to deal with any emergencies that followed.

Half of Lu Li's attention fell on the tree that was getting closer and closer in front of him, and the other half was focused on the surroundings - there were several strange big trees like this in the jungle ahead.

It seems that Lu Li has intruded into their habitat, or perhaps there are these things everywhere in the depths of the swamp.

These big trees all have one characteristic: they have spacious tree holes that can hide a person.

As for what the tree hole is for...

Lu Li stopped again. He was standing less than two meters away from the trunk of the big tree, within easy reach.

Under the oil lamp, the rotting corpse in the tree hole appeared completely before our eyes.

"This is……"

Anna's eyes shrank, a little frightened.

This was a severely decomposed body huddled in a tree hole, wearing a dirty long dress that should not appear in a swamp. Her head was lowered, and one right arm stretched out of the tree hole.

"Our target, she is already dead." Lu Li replied.

A red thread so thin that it was almost invisible fell on the back of the corpse's head, and the bloody tentacles resided in her brain.

Just like the one in Lu Li's head.

The head suddenly trembled strangely, and the next moment, a wriggling tentacle emerged from the hair on the back of the head.

Before Lu Li did anything to the corpse, the bloody tentacles that sensed the aura of the living appeared on their own initiative. But Lu Li was not an ordinary person who would scream and run away after seeing the bloody tentacles. Before it sprang up and touched Lu Li, it was controlled by Anna.

Live, suspended in mid-air.

Lu Li almost effortlessly took out the psychic gun again and swung it forward, smashing the bloody tentacles into nothing and disappearing.

It's a bit ridiculous that this fragile thing is now living in Lu Li's brain, like a time bomb, making Lu Li run for it.

The bloody tentacles hanging from the sky began to become illusory, fading and disappearing.

The trouble this time around was enough to make Richard jump up and down.

Looking away, Lu Li looked towards the eye of the hurricane. At this time, the swamp under his feet was no longer in the center of the eye of the hurricane. Soon, violent winds and heavy rains would come again.

Lu Li withdrew his gaze and was about to leave. Suddenly something occurred to him. He took a step back and looked in front of the outstretched arm.

The broken branches of vines covered the rotten leaves and soil. The shoes cut through these debris, and a dull metallic color flashed among the soil.

Lu Li bent down and picked up the piece of metal. The fallen leaves around it were moved around, and a gray-silver silver pendant was pulled out.

This is a photo pendant. Wipe off the dirt on the pendant shell with your thumb, lift the cover, and a black and white photo the size of a fingernail appears.

Limited by today's technology, the photo is very blurry, with a line of small words written underneath.

【Edward & Louise】

The focus of his eyes shifted from the pendant to the back, looking at the arm stretching out from the tree hole, trying to grab something. Lu Li didn't say anything. He squatted down and put the pendant into the palm of the highly rotted hand.

"Go back the way you came."

When Lu Li stood up, he walked away from the big tree without looking back.

Anna floated behind Lu Li, looking back with a hint of worry, her eyes suddenly widened.

She saw the outstretched arm suddenly retract into the darkness behind the tree hole and disappear.

Anna stared blankly, and followed Lu Li gradually away from the weird tree. I wonder if it was Anna's imagination, but the weird tree seemed to be more alive.



The eye of the hurricane is moving away.

The drizzle that had stopped for a short while fell again, and a breeze began to rise around us.

The sky turned into a rich and ominous dark red, coating the already dark swamp jungle with a layer of blood.

Lu Li calculated how long it would take to reach the swamp road, and found that no matter what, he couldn't reach the swamp road before the storm came again.

This meant that Lu Li had to return to the cabin, and might even have to spend the night there.

That's not a good thing.

In just a few hours during the day, Lu Li encountered frequent strange events. After nightfall, the strange events would only become more frequent.

To make matters worse, if the hurricane had gone away by then and there was no severe weather to stop it, Lu Li might have faced even weirder dangers.

At the twelfth minute after returning the same way, a patch of cut wood piles and a looming wooden house appeared in front of the jungle.

They are back.

Lu Li also thought of a way out at this time.

"The body is gone!"

The moment Anna walked out of the jungle, she discovered that the body praying at the door of the cabin was missing.

"Don't worry about it. The storm is coming and it will be taken care of by the hurricane."

As long as you have an entity, you will be treated equally under natural disasters.

The rain began to intensify, and dense dark purple lightning surged in the gloomy clouds that covered most of the sky.

Anna went to the woodshed to carry firewood. Lu Li suddenly remembered the figure with a beak mask that he had briefly encountered before. Was she hiding somewhere waiting for the hurricane to pass? It would be ridiculous if that mysterious guy who looked very powerful died in the hurricane.

The wind blew the hair on her forehead, and Anna carried the firewood and floated into the wooden house. Lu Li walked to the door, finally raised his head and stared at the strange sky that turned dark purple. He stared quietly for a few seconds before he closed the door tightly.

"We are now in the eye of the hurricane, and the westward hurricane is about to pull us into the depths. I plan to wait until this stage passes and when we are outside the hurricane, we will leave the cabin and head to the swamp road."

In front of the fire, Lu Li said to Anna.

After completing his goal, Lu Li had no intention or desire to stay in Shadow Swamp for more than one minute. It was no different from dancing with wolves.

"So we'll leave before dark."


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