On the back of the letter, below the diary of the little boy and Little Reina, there are a few lines of additions left by "Anna".
It's not that there is hidden news to tell Lu Li, it's just that Anna remembered something she forgot to mention and added it later.
This kind of thing does seem like Anna's style.
[I don’t worry, I know you will definitely come to me... Never. Do you know what I saw during the few hours I was trapped in the Shadow Swamp? Their feast, the mother of the swamp.
The appearance, the resentful spirits that fill the jungle, the forest of billions of spiders, and... and the residents of Shadow Town who sacrificed to the Mother of the Swamp]
[They actually believe in the Mother of the Swamp! I saw them kneeling in the mire, their skin split, revealing the blue-gray horn inside... Our whereabouts are what they told the swamp! 】
[Shadow Town has fallen, and we have never escaped from the swamp. If you receive this letter in Shadow Town, please run!]
[Escape, escape from the Allen Peninsula, and escape to a place where the Swamp Mother and her followers cannot find you.]
[So, don’t come here]
All content ends here.
The scrawled words are connected together, and the urgency and despair in the writer's heart almost spill out of the paper.
Lu Li's eyes lingered on the last paragraph for a moment, then he raised his head and looked towards the bedroom.
The bedroom was empty, and Anna, who was lying on the bed reading a book, was nowhere to be seen.
Turning his head to the right, a translucent delicate cheek poked out from behind his shoulder, very close at hand.
"When did you come here?"
Anna tried her best to look around to see what Lu Li was doing, but she didn't notice that Lu Li's face was only a few centimeters away from hers: "When you looked away, what were you looking at?"
Anna, who is full of curiosity about everything, was equally curious at the moment. But I don't know if it was because she read the letter... She looked a little strange.
"A letter, signed by you."
Wow——
The letter paper was shaken by Lu Li and made a soft sound.
Lu Li can think and question, and this kind of thinking and questioning exists all the time. But he will not let this kind of doubt dominate his will.
Just like Lu Li's sanity test answer,
It's either left or right, there is no middle.
When the matter itself cannot be confirmed, the information obtained can only provide reference, not evidence. This is why Lu Li rarely expresses his opinions on things - if you don't say it, you can't be wrong.
"Eh? Where is it?" Anna showed no fake surprise and floated up to look at the desk.
"Can't you see?" Lu Li frowned slightly and raised his arms.
Anna looked at Lu Li's fingers in confusion, and then at Lu Li's face: "You don't have anything in your hands..."
Could it be...
Lu Li thought of a possibility and took a box of matches from the corner of the table, struck them and placed them under the letter.
The unique sulfur smell of burning spreads, and a faint flame emerges from the match head.
The flame was not split in two, and the paper inside was not blackened and burned.
An invisible letter.
Is it the new trick of "Gate"...
"Another letter that I can't see?" Anna guessed something.
"Yes." Lu Li nodded and met Anna's curious gaze. "Do you still remember Xiao Ruina's diary? The letter paper was torn from it."
"Well..."
Next, Lu Li fully explained the contents on the letter.
Anna hesitated to speak several times, and the emotional distance changed. It was not until Lu Li finished speaking the last sentence and looked up that his cheeks turned red and he anxiously defended: "I didn't write this! Bah... I am me!"
He folded the letter paper again according to the folding marks, stuffed the envelope back, and put it into the deepest part of the drawer, along with the previous letter. Lu Li looked at Anna and said, "I know you are you."
Anna's gaze touched those deep black eyes, and the unchanging calmness infected Anna. Although Lu Li was no different from usual, Anna could see that he believed in her.
The restless breath gradually calmed down, and Anna was embarrassed to show that she was moved. She could only mutter in an unhappy voice: "What, the door actually uses such disgusting tricks, it's so disgusting!"
"But it works."
Lu Li closed the drawer.
If it were someone else, regardless of whether they believed the content of the letter or not, they would subconsciously prevent Anna from seeing the content of the letter, and would not realize that it was a letter that was invisible to others.
The style of "Gate" is getting more and more bizarre.
After the initial panic and Lu Li's trust, Anna returned to her usual personality, raised her back and whispered something that Lu Li could hear.
"I was actually discovered. It seems that the plan is going to be advanced. Hehe..."
"But there is one thing that concerns me." Lu Li suddenly said.
Anna's attention was easily diverted, and she turned around in confusion.
"Do you still remember the last letter?" Lu Li said.
"Those photos?"
"Yes. Although the murderer is not me, the content above is true." Lu Li narrowed his dark eyes slightly and tapped his knuckles on the table unconsciously.
"Except for you, what is true in this letter..."
Anna was stunned, recalling the contents of the letter that Lu Li narrated, a chill that penetrated into her bones filled her heart.
Jingle bell bell bell——
At this moment, the phone on the desk suddenly rang, which scared Anna.
"Be careful..." Anna warned almost subconsciously.
The impact of the news that the residents of Shadow Town are followers of the Swamp Mother is too terrifying.
Lu Li didn't say anything. He picked up the phone that kept ringing and put the receiver to his ear.
He remained silent, but panicked calls for help rang out from the phone.
"Save me, save me! It wants to come out! It wants to replace me!"
…
Huchi - Huchi - Huchi -
Cold, metallic, harsh breathing echoed in the swampy dry woods that turned into water.
A strange black shadow walked through the dead trees. It moved quickly but was extremely cumbersome.
The shadow's face has a crow-like beak. Compared with the thick and tall upper body, the shadow's lower limbs are unexpectedly thin, like an adult-sized crow or...a person carrying another person on his back.
The two men were covered with a thick layer of mud, and even if the rain never stopped, it could not remove the mud.
The surrounding dead trees were becoming sparse, and they were approaching the edge of Shadow Swamp.
The ankle-deep water still exists, but it is no longer filled with swamps that prey on people like the depths. In front of the shadowy jungle, human buildings are looming.
The figure on the back turned to look behind him and shouted excitedly: "They are not coming! Mother Swamp cannot radiate here, Shadow Town is right in front! We are safe!"
A cold, hoarse and heavy female voice sounded in my ears: "Do you think it is safe to break into the home of the Swamp Mother?"
"Is it true..." The figure on the back was stunned, and then gritted his teeth: "But we must send that letter as soon as possible. I owe Lu Li."
After a few seconds of silence, a hoarse voice sounded.
"Bypass Shadow Town and go to other towns to send letters."
After saying these words, the jungle became dead silent again, with only the sound of flowing water and heavy breathing echoing.
