At the Big Wave Tavern, Lu Li simply answered the old woman.
"It's...a miracle that you didn't get out of trouble at all." The old woman obviously didn't know how to speak, which was probably the reason why her pub had the worst business on the whole street.
"Your mission is accomplished."
"Um."
Lu Li still answered briefly.
Behind the bar, the old woman holding a pipe looked Lu Li up and down, leaned forward and looked at the wet footprints extending from the door to the bar and the water at Lu Li's feet, showing an impatient look: "Your carriage has been dragged into the stable.
Put it away and go back to the room. If the room leaks, remember to call Little Jack. If you need hot water and medicine, you can come to me, but you have to pay."
"Do you have today's newspaper?" Lu Li asked, he needed other things more.
"I don't have the newspaper, do you want the book?"
"Can."
"Wait."
The old woman returned to the kitchen and came back soon, throwing in a local guide to Shadow Town.
Lu Li took the guide book, picked up the oil lamp on the table and walked upstairs.
The old woman's shout came from behind: "Little Jack, come down quickly and mop the floor clean!"
Little Jack was the waiter from yesterday. He was carrying a bucket, smiled sheepishly at Lu Li, and ran downstairs.
He took out the key from under the carpet and opened the door. The smell of damp wood floated out from behind the door. Lu Li entered the room carrying an oil lamp and put it on the table.
The door closed automatically, and Anna's figure appeared in the room and threw herself on the bed.
"so tired--"
She looked like she was really lying on the bed, with her hair scattered around her face and her translucent white calves hanging on the edge of the bed.
If you ignore the skirt that penetrates the sheets due to gravity.
Anna was paralyzed for a few seconds, then suddenly jumped up, with her legs together, her cheeks with a hint of blush, she arranged her hair dignifiedly, and returned to the delicate and beautiful aristocratic girl like porcelain in the oil painting.
She just remembered that Lu Li was still in the room.
"You can rest, I'll keep watch."
Lu Li put down his backpack. He had chosen waterproof fabric when he bought it. He opened the zipper and found that the contents inside were a little damp, but no water had entered.
At least that extremely precious flashlight can be used normally.
"Well... you are more tired than me right now, right?" Anna, whose cheeks were still flushed, glanced at the side of Lu Li's face.
The room was very quiet, except for the whistling outside the window and the sound of rain hitting the window.
This made Anna, who had been hearing the noise in her ears for a long time, a little uncomfortable.
She watched Lu Li put his backpack on the edge of the dining table, took off his almost rotten poncho and said, "I slept for a while before escaping from the swamp, and I'm in good condition."
The alarm clock on the dining table showed the time as 7:25, and it took them almost an hour and a half to return to Shadow Town from the storm.
Anna pinched her thumb and index finger and made a little gesture: "Then I will take a short break and then take over for you."
"Um."
Completely soaked and cold, Lu Li had not yet changed out the clothes that were stuck to his body and wring them out. There was a spare on the carriage, and he would take it back later and ask for hot water for a shower.
And a hot meal.
Of course Anna could see that Lu Li was tired, a little guilty, and a little happy.
What a dishonest concern...
Anna lay straight on the single bed, placed her hands on her abdomen, and closed her eyes.
It was the first time for Anna to rest in the outside world. Anna was not used to it, but having Lu Li by her side could offset some of the strangeness. Of course she could go back to the inner world to rest, but then Lu Li would be the only one left in the room, which would look quite pitiful...
…
As she entered a state of rest, Anna, who had made some small movements at first, became as if she was still.
Lu Li looked sideways at Anna's sleeping face, observed it quietly for a few seconds, and then looked away.
A ghost's rest is similar to sleeping, nothing special except that it is almost completely prohibited.
The cold touch of the soaked clothes made Lu Li reluctant to move. He simply flipped through a few pages of the local guide to Shadow Town, and suddenly saw something. He paused and stopped when he was about to turn to the next page.
Lu Li maintained this posture for tens of seconds, quietly reading the above content, then moved his eyes away, and went back to doing his own business.
He opened the drawer and lit the spare candle. Lu Li left a candle in the room and went out carrying the oil lamp.
The door closed softly, and the weak candlelight swayed gently, gradually becoming stable.
Not far from it, the unfolded "Shadow Town Local Guide" was turned to the fifth page, which introduced a special product of Shadow Town.
【Lighting Fruit】
【A plant fruit that grows in a moist environment with sunlight.】
[Origin: Swamp]
[Maturity period: three months]
[Appearance: The roots of trees growing in swamps are green when immature and turn brown when mature. If they are boiled in water when immature, they will also turn brown]
[The original pioneers of Shadow Town discovered the fruit growing in the Shadow Swamp. After eating it several times by accident, they discovered its hallucinogenic effect, which corresponds to the light fruit in their memory. The early residents who ate the light fruit discovered that this fruit was commonly used.
The fruit used for medical anesthesia tastes surprisingly good, so a small amount is mixed into food to enhance the taste of food.】
[After this behavior caused several troubles, it was stopped by Mr. Johnson, the first mayor of Shadow Town at the time, but some townspeople still ate it secretly for the delicious food. The mayor, Mr. Johnson, was kind and generous, and was not willing to use punishment to punish the townspeople.
He was tolerant and forgave the townspeople who secretly ate the fruit of light, and for the sake of the townspeople, he personally found ways to avoid hallucinations.】
[One day, the mayor, Mr. Johnson, who left Shadow Town to search for the Kingdom of Light in the swamp, was resting under a tree. Suddenly, a fruit fell from his head and hit his head. The mayor, Mr. Johnson, picked up the fruit.
Fruit, recognize this as the unripe fruit of the Light Fruit】
[The mayor, Mr. Johnson, was thinking in his heart, why did the fruit fall downwards instead of upwards, and hit his head just right? The mayor, Mr. Johnson, thought this was a revelation from God, so he thought that since the ripe light fruit would be eaten when eaten,
If you have hallucinations, what about the immature fruit of light?】
[The mayor, Mr. Johnson, picked the immature fruits from the tree. In order to protect the integrity of the fruits, he wrapped them in clothes and returned to the town.]
[The mayor, Mr. Johnson, made a meal with unripe light fruits and planned to try it himself. The residents who learned about this gathered outside the manor of the mayor, Mr. Johnson, and wanted to stop him. But the mayor, Mr. Johnson,
Said: "Each of you are my people, I will not let you take risks." Then drank the food.]
[While everyone was watching, the mayor, Mr. Johnson, first praised the taste of the food, and then unexpectedly discovered that the hallucination that had troubled the people for a long time did not appear! ]
[The great mayor Mr. Johnson, he found a new source of revenue for Shadow Town. Even today, decades later, the residents of Shadow Town will still put unripe light fruits into their food. Let us thank the mayor Mr. Johnson.