Several children were playing on the brown sand beach far away from the sea.
The storm has gone away for half a day, leaving Belfast cool and even a bit cold.
However, low and thick rain clouds are still scattered over Belfast like patches, and occasionally a cool, shower-like drizzle falls.
The Port of Rodeste in the distance became more lively than it had been for a long time. The ships docked at the port and in the bay were densely packed. Every ten seconds, a distant sound would be heard reaching the beach.
The laughter of children brings life to the brown wet sand, and their mothers are on the shoreline, looking for seafood to fill their food reserves before new rains arrive.
Every rainy season, the poorest people at the bottom will be particularly difficult, especially this year. The price of wheat flour per pound has risen to the point where people cannot afford it. The poor have to mix in sawdust to fill their stomachs, or mix in sawdust.
Wheat flour.
Only the five or six-year-old children who are still ignorant of everything can still show their innocent smiles and play to their heart's content.
A crooked grid is drawn on the beach, and children jump in it. When a playmate steps on it because he is unstable, there will be a burst of laughter after death, and then he will continue to jump high and fall to the next grid.
…
Bang——
Lu Li landed on an isolated piece of dark debris.
The flesh and blood under his feet made a dull sound.
"Flesh and blood" is just an adjective. Except for the surrounding walls that slowly shimmer with a dark red light as if they were alive, the feet are neither soft and slippery nor have an unpleasant smell.
Standing in the darkness, Lu Li stopped briefly and looked at the dark debris two meters away.
That was the last place to stay. The nearest dark debris was more than ten meters away and was wrapped in dark debris.
"There is no way." Lu Li said.
The consciousness of the Swamp Mother has never left, whispering: "I will create a new island at your feet..."
"You won't be discovered by your old mother?"
[Weak changes will not be noticed by the old mother...]
The murmur fell, and a new shadow was emerging in front of the last dark fragment.
[Follow the emerging island...you will reach the head of the old mother body...]
Lu Li silently stared at the new fragments revealed: "You should know that people can't fly."
The mother of the swamp slowly murmured in confusion: [Is it above your head...]
"Almost, on the wall."
There was a brief silence, and Lu Li watched the shadow slowly move and merge with the last dark fragment.
The area where you can stay extends further forward.
Holding his abdomen and holding the Swamp Mother sculpture in his other hand, Lu Li stepped forward.
Next, whenever a new shadow appeared, Lu Li would step on it, and the shadow behind him would disappear.
This change was inevitable, and Lu Li associated it with the trap in the tree hole above his head.
Apart from changing from hazy beams to pitch-black shards, they don't seem to be any different.
As he walked in silence, as he went deeper into this space, the originally wide passage around him began to turn narrow, and the flat feet became inclined, as if he were climbing a slope.
"What do these flashes of red mean?"
The narrow passage allowed Lu Li to observe the flesh-and-blood wall more clearly. Compared to pieces of flesh, the complicated, rune-like textures on the dark red walls were more like... the textures of wood.
[The body that the old mother can sense...]
"What about the areas that become shadows?"
[The body that I took over...]
Therefore, Lu Li could move around in his old mother's body smoothly.
The blood-red passage has many forks, some are narrow and difficult to pass, and some are wide enough to resemble the place where he fell.
At the seventh minute of moving in his body, Lu Li, who had been prepared for a long time, encountered the servant of the evil god.
It was not any kind of servant he had encountered before. It was only the size of a fist, its beetle shell reminded Lu Li of the description of his old mother, and its head was a vivid human face.
It floats from the depths of flesh and blood,
This kind of strange servant is like a balloon with a human head, which can induce the deepest fear in people's hearts.
Lu Li stopped and the murmur of the Mother of Swamps sounded at the right time: "Stay on the island, it won't find you..."
Following the Swamp Mother's reminder, Lu Li remained still. The human-faced insect floated towards him, but it was slowly approaching Lu Li.
Holding Sequence 1 in the palm of your hand, ready to pull it out at any time, at the same time, new changes occurred in front of you.
Like a human-faced insect floating in the water, it slowly falls down and lies on the edge of the dark fragments. Like a candle close to a fire source, it quickly melts and fills the dark fragments.
The human-faced insect's flesh and blood turned the small piece of pitch black into a shimmering dark red again.
It's patching the channel.
As the human-faced insect melted, the surroundings returned to calm, revealing only the dark fragments with a missing bite.
"What is that?"
Ten seconds after the human-faced insect disappeared, Lu Li asked after confirming that it was safe.
[The power of the old mother...they surge in the body of the old mother...]
Lu Li thought of a possibility: "Like human blood?"
[It can be said that...]
Everything became reasonable. The surrounding walls of flesh and blood shining with dark red light were actually the blood vessels of the old mother.
And the problem also arises: there is usually not too little blood...
"Are they also servants?"
[It is part of the old mother... just like me before... don't worry... I avoided most of them for you...]
But there will still be a few fish that slip through the net and appear in front of Lu Li.
Resuming progress, perhaps because the area Lu Li was in was no longer at the edge of the body, the appearance of human-faced insects became more and more frequent. Whenever this happened, the Swamp Mother would create a dark fragment near the flesh-and-blood wall of the human-faced insects for the human-faced insects to repair.
The trouble is not just that, the blood-red passage is becoming twisted and winding, making it even more difficult to walk.
"Where are we in Old Mother now?" Lu Li asked.
"Using your description...it's on the neck..."
He was very close to the shell's head.
Lu Li looked into the depths of the blood-red passage, and could not see the outline of the human-faced insect at the end of the visible twisted passage.
"We should stop temporarily." Lu Li said.
Although the sanity counter never stopped after entering the body, Lu Li did not intend to take greater risks in order to save time.
[Why...the seal was lifted...before the old mother found out...]
There was a hint of urgency in the murmur of the Swamp Mother.
"It's very simple. I don't know how to release the seal." Lu Li replied and began to check the three psychic guns in the holster. "It's not a good idea to rush in before you have a way."
The old mother has already been deceived once, so there is no reason for it to be defenseless against the seal of the new swamp mother.
It is very likely that when Lu Li steps there, his old mother will also learn of Lu Li's arrival, and then everything will end.
