The ghost's eyes were blank, like an ordinary person who had lost his memory and was trying to recall.
"Yeah." Lu Li replied.
【Missing Person Notice】
【Alice】
【19 years old】
[Long brown hair, wearing a white floral dress when he disappeared. If anyone sees him, please come to us at No. 43 Parrot Street, please.]
"Where is she..." Alice turned her head numbly, her eyes falling on Lu Li's side.
Anna sat there.
"Same as you." Lu Li replied.
Alice looked at Lu Li again, confusion flashing in her eyes: "I forgot how I died..."
When she regained consciousness, she stood under the streetlight and saw posters and carriages coming from the rainy streets.
"But he's dead... then forget it..." Alice raised her arm and looked at her illusory palm, as if she had put something down. There was a touch of humanity in her eyes: "Can I ask you a favor?"
"I will tell your parents." Lu Li knew what her request was.
"Thanks."
Alice bowed her head sincerely to thank her, then raised her head, as if feeling some kind of call, and looked in one direction.
Her soul began to become illusory, slowly dissipating like mist.
"Wait a moment."
Lu Li stopped Alice who was about to leave.
When Alice looked at it with confusion and confusion, Lu Li's hand reached to his waist and picked up the holster.
"I'll help you."
…
The crisp sound of horseshoes was masked by the pounding rain.
The heavy rain was like a school of fish in the sea under the strong wind, gathering together and then suddenly scattering.
Stagnant water poured into the ditches on the roadside, turning into rapid water and rushing down the streets. If the view was clear enough, you might be able to see the spectacular scene of the entire city being covered with flowing water, rushing towards the coastline.
Ten minutes later, the carriage stopped in front of a house.
There was light in the window and there was someone inside.
Bang bang bang——
Lu Li knocked on the door.
Soon, the door was opened, and a suspicious figure appeared behind the door.
"Who are you?"
The slender figure wearing a poncho outside the door made the middle-aged man feel inexplicably uneasy and weird.
His uneasiness came from the tranquility around Lu Li, the windy and rainy streets, but Lu Li's body did not look disturbed by the storm at all, and there was even no water on the corners of his poncho.
"I'm an exorcist, and I just found the ghost of your daughter."
The figure spoke, and the pale thunder suddenly flashed behind him, like the God of Death announcing death.
"Who is here, dear?" A woman came from behind the middle-aged man.
Lu Li repeated it to her again.
This news was very cruel to the family. The woman hugged her husband and cried bitterly.
"We should have been prepared a long time ago." The middle-aged man patted his wife's back.
He thought of something and raised his head, only to find that the figure had left and the carriage disappeared into the rain.
…
"I thought you would avenge Alice."
Anna sat next to Lu Li and said while holding her chin.
She tried her best to hide her aura, but there was still uncontrollable aura from the other world leaking out, which made her very uneasy.
Anna didn't want to hurt Lu Li.
"She has already given up on herself. There is no need to make the decision for her." Lu Li replied.
There is no coldness or malice in Alice, just like Anna in the past. They all died of nature and accidents, rather than being killed by others.
Alice's house was barely on the way, and the carriage headed back towards Elm Street.
After a silent period of driving, Lu Li's voice sounded in the carriage.
"What is your psychic projection power?"
Telekinesis, or Anna's ability to control objects, is not her unique ability. Almost all ghosts have this power, and only this power.
Only when you become a resentful spirit and begin to transform into an evil spirit can you have a unique spiritual projection.
This is the prototype of the evil spirit ritual.
Anna's mental projection is a distorted shadow, and she has not yet used her abilities.
"Fusion." After a moment of silence, Anna answered.
Her mental projection, or ritual, causes the distorted shadow to cover the victim's shadow until it is completely covered. The victim will become part of her power, and she will possess the victim's memories and thoughts.
The solution is very simple, hide in a place where shadows will not appear, such as in the dark.
Mental projection, as its name suggests, is an ability evolved from inner obsessions, and this ability must be born from dark obsessions.
After all, if a person's obsession is protection, the projection of that person's mind after becoming an evil spirit cannot still be protection.
So, Anna’s dark thought hidden deep in her heart is... she wants to know everything about herself?
Lu Li thought quietly.
This is indeed possible. Lu Li clearly knows how curious Anna is about his emotions and origins.
But there are other reasons, such as...
Fortunately, Anna was also aware of the troubles of mind projection and treated Lu Li like a delicate and fragile object.
Anna observed Lu Li. From the moment Lu Li started thinking, she knew that Lu Li already knew.
However, Lu Li still showed no resistance or disgust, no different from usual.
It feels so good to be trusted...
The indifference in Anna's scarlet eyes seemed to have melted a little.
Forty minutes later, the carriage arrived at Elm Street.
Half a month has passed, and the ruins of the houses destroyed by the infection have been cleared away, leaving only empty foundations. Unlike the streets where most of the windows were illuminated before, only a small half of the houses here are emitting light.
.
After the [Cannibal House] incident, many restless residents fled the Elm Street neighborhood.
No one would choose to endure danger on the periphery if they could hide in a safe center.
Stopped briefly at the Elm Street Warehouse, loaded up a piece of cut deep sea stone, and headed toward Elm Forest.
Normally, an ordinary carriage could barely carry the weight of two deep-sea rocks, but in this bad weather, Lu Li couldn't gamble on whether the carriage could successfully reach the top of the cliff.
The houses on both sides of the street no longer appeared, and the uneven bluestone road turned into a muddy dirt road. Occasionally, the wheels would get stuck in the mud, but Anna waved her hand and used her power to push it out.
The sky in the morning was as dark as the evening, and flashes of lightning illuminated the withered and twisted trees around the trail.
The consciousness of the elm forest entangled with all kinds of negative emotions permeated Lu Li and Anna. The consciousness of this forest became clearer than the last time they came, and it seemed that consciousness with the ability to think was really about to be born.
Sadness, pain, and despair enveloped Lu Li, but were blocked by his firm will.
The emotion was not directed at Lu Li, it was applied fairly to all beings who entered the forest.
As Lu Li approached the top of the cliff, the consciousness around him gradually changed.
From being a few hundred meters away from the top of the cliff, emotions no longer entangled the carriage, to being as friendly as friends when approaching a hundred meters away from the top of the cliff.
