Anna carefully walked around the beak masked figure and came to Lu Li's side.
She was a little nostalgic for the warm cabin, but she missed the detective agency in Belfast even more.
Lu Li put on his poncho and held the door of his room. When he was about to open it, the figure in the beak mask suddenly spoke.
"Wait a moment."
Lu Li looked back and saw the figure in the beak mask reaching for the pocket on his waist, trying to take out something.
"You want to leave? Why?"
The seeker sitting by the fire asked in confusion. The heavy wind outside almost suffocated him to death. He could not think of any reason for Lu Li to leave the wooden house.
"The swamp is very dangerous after dark." Lu Li replied.
"Okay, I understand. If I wasn't injured, I wouldn't want to spend the night here. Then I wish you a smooth escape from the swamp...hiss." The seeker took a breath of air when the wound was involved.
The figure in the beak mask took out the contents of his pocket and handed them to Lu Li silently.
Even Lu Li couldn't help but be stunned by the object held by the leather gloves.
"This is called a flashlight."
The figure in the bird's beak mask explains.
"I know."
Lu Li took the flashlight from the beak masked figure. It was not big and heavier than expected. He found the switch and turned it on. A dim light beam similar to that of an oil lamp came out from the front bulb.
"Crow, are you going to give this to him?"
The seeker's tone was very surprised, as if he had seen something incredible.
"Invitations for invitations." The figure in the beak mask replied.
The seeker suddenly wondered: "Did the invitation originally come from Lu Li..."
It sounded like the flashlight was something like an invitation, but Lu Li decided to accept the flashlight. There was something carved around the flashlight. Lu Li didn't have time to observe, so he raised his head and asked, "Can it be charged?"
"Battery."
"Thanks."
Putting the flashlight in his pocket, Lu Li turned around and opened the door, walked into the cold wind and rain, and disappeared outside the closed door.
…
The heavy rain fell, blocking the view. Terrifying electric snakes swam in the clouds in the sky, but strangely no sound of thunder could be heard.
The strong wind beat against his body, and Lu Li's figure looked shaky. The oil lamp in his hand swayed in the wind, and the weak flame seemed to be extinguished at any time.
Lu Li simply threw away the oil lamp and walked toward the north of the wooden house, which was the direction he came from, using the constant light of lightning in the clouds.
Anna followed Lu Li worriedly, feeling guilty. As a ghost, she couldn't feel the storm. It was precisely in this way that she felt the guilt brought about by comfort.
The unbearable suffocation of a seeker soon appeared on Lu Li. The strong wind swept away the air in front of Lu Li. He covered his mouth with his palms, took a deep breath and ran out of the cabin and into the jungle.
Darkness and white light clashed fiercely, and pale light flickered, suddenly lighting up in this swamp.
A figure ran quickly through the swamp and jungle.
But this is a swamp, not a jungle. The swamp, which has always had a bad temper, does not allow anyone to run around in it.
The running figure's feet suddenly sank, and one leg sank into the mire that was almost integrated with the surroundings.
Anna, who was following behind, instantly used her ability to grab Lu Li, and pulled Lu Li out of the mud where his right knee was stuck.
The hood of his poncho slipped down due to the sudden change, and in just a few seconds, Lu Li was almost completely soaked.
Lu Li ignored the poncho and stood up straight, holding on to a dead tree. He narrowed his black eyes and looked forward. Under the frequent flashes of lightning, the jungle ahead had turned into a swamp, making it difficult to distinguish where was the ground and where was the swamp.
With abundant rain, some dry and cracked puddles were refilled, and the swamp gradually revealed its original ferocious appearance, a biological forbidden zone.
After exhaling a breath of turbid air, Lu Li took steps and started running again.
The distance between Lu Li and the swamp bubbles was shortening at a speed visible to the naked eye. Anna pulled him back to the ground again and again, but when Lu Li ran four to five hundred meters, Anna gradually exhausted her strength.
"I'm almost out of energy!"
Lifting Lu Li to a dead tree again, Anna shouted loudly: "How far are we from the road!"
"A quarter."
Lu Li gasped and replied, the rainwater flowing meanderingly and gathering into a stream of water on his chin.
With his black hair sticking to his skin, Lu Li, who was already soaked, looked a little embarrassed and miserable, but his eyes still held an unchanging calmness.
None of the hundreds of thousands of lightning bolts that filled the hurricane fell into the Shadow Swamp. This seemed to be the ability of the Swamp Mother, but it undoubtedly helped Lu Li avoid being struck by lightning.
"There's still a quarter?!" Anna shouted in surprise.
"A quarter gone."
Lu Li took out the kettle from his pocket, unscrewed the lid and drank the warm water that had cooled down to just a little bit - it was still scalding hot when he went out three minutes ago.
The weak warmth lasted for a few seconds before being blown away by the freezing wind and rain.
Anna gritted her silver teeth and suddenly shouted: "You wait for me here, I will find a nearby hiding place!"
"etc."
Lu Li stopped Anna, who was about to float away, and said nothing while she stared at her with confusion, and pointed forward.
Anna looked in the direction Lu Li was pointing. In the pale light, a creature with six jointed limbs lying on the ground more than ten meters away looked towards this direction.
"Six-legged Savage...?"
Anna murmured its name and found that the six-legged savage turned on the spot and got into the rain curtain ahead.
"Follow it."
Lu Li walked past Anna and followed the six-legged savage.
This six-legged savage seemed to be leading the way for Lu Li. It crawled quickly through the stormy swamp, and whenever it rounded a swamp that looked like ground, it would stop and wait for Lu Li to follow.
"It's showing us the way!"
Anna confirmed her inner guess and shouted in surprise.
Lu Li said nothing, pursed his pale lips, and ran in the heavy rain to follow the crawling figure more than ten meters away.
Two-quarters, three-quarters away, the swamp road was close at hand. But at this moment, a cold light flashed and flew towards Lu Li!
The cold light penetrated directly through Anna's body and rushed towards Lu Li. Anna's head buzzed, and she subconsciously summoned all her strength to hit the cold light.
The cold light was deflected and struck into the trunk of the dead tree that Lu Li was passing by.
Lu Li, who was aware of it, turned his head and saw a familiar axe.
He stopped and turned around. Behind him, a dozen meters away, the hostess of the wooden house, covered in charred black, stood under the rain curtain.
"Mother wants to see you." She roared, twisting and throwing herself at Lu Li.
Suddenly, a branch shot out diagonally from the ground, wrapped around the waist of the "mistress" and pulled her aside.
It was a thick, weird tree. Countless branches seemed to come alive, dancing wildly in the storm, reaching out to the "mistress" and wrapping her in the branches.
"Let's go."
Lu Li took a deep look at the big tree with dancing branches wrapped around the "mistress", then turned to follow the six-legged savage.
Lu Li's figure disappeared in the rain. On the same spot, a charred arm stretched out from the branches wrapped in layers, grabbing Lu Li's back——
More branches tangled from the crown of the tree, completely wrapping it.