Ninety-five. Human civilization gradually fades away
"What did you feel?" Remi looked at Anna in front of the cave.
Anna whispered: "Uneasy...fear..."
"Me too. It seems that the source of the change is also full of malice towards us." Remi asked: "What happened to you? Lu Li passed out?"
"He went to hell and for some reasons... did not come back."
Anna answered and returned to the cave.
It seemed that the scene of doomsday outside could not affect her emotions at all.
Remy said something to her brother on the couch and followed Anna into the refuge.
Lu Li was breathing steadily on the bed, as if he was sleeping soundly.
The consciousness that permeated the elm forest and the shelter built with deep sea stones had some effect - Lu Li's sanity counter was leveling off.
"I need your help." Anna looked at Lu Li's face and said to Remi who was approaching the refuge point behind her.
"What do you want me to do?"
Anna took off Lu Li's woolen coat: "Stay here to protect Lu Li's body."
"Where are you going?"
"hell."
Anna was as calm as picking up an oil lamp from the table.
Picking up the woolen coat that smelled of Lu Li, when Remi agreed to protect Lu Li, she closed her eyes without hesitation and recalled the painful memories of her near-death experience as Ms. Merlin said.
The pre-death experience buried deep in the memory resurfaced. At that time, the weak girl was coughing up blood in pain and getting weaker day by day. It seemed that she had nothing to do with herself at the moment. Anna was like an outsider, calmly looking through the memories of the past.
Ms. Merlin was wrong. She thought Anna, who had died long ago, could be more psychic, but her long-cooled heart prevented her from feeling the so-called near-death experience.
More importantly, Anna finds that she cannot communicate with hell, as if... the door to hell has been closed.
The dead no longer return to hell.
Thinking of the horrific scenes happening outside, is this the reason why Lu Li didn't return?
Anna's cold aura leaked out, carefully avoiding Lu Li, and filled the entire space violently.
Remi took a few steps back and advised softly: "Maybe you don't have to worry too much. Lu Li is still alive. He will find a way to come back."
"It better be."
Anna's tone was as cold as the ice in the permafrost.
Sensing that her mood was not good, Remi planned to leave the cave, but then thought of something, and said to Anna before going out: "I suggest you take this time to build a shelter. There is still a door missing here."
Anna's cold eyes fell on Remi, who continued: "Didn't you notice that the blocking power of these stones has been strengthened?"
She approached the dark abyssal stone bricks and reached out to touch them.
Just like Remi said, Anna's hand touching the deep sea stone felt resistance, as if it were touching an entity.
But walls cannot stop an existence that is too powerful. When Anna released her breath, her hands gradually began to seep into the wall as if they were stuck in a quagmire.
However, Anna will always be watching over Lu Li. If something strange is really approaching, she will sense their presence.
Anna dug into her coat pocket and found the wooden box containing the carrion. She paused briefly before opening it.
At this time, can we still call for the black crow and the merchant?
Ten minutes after the wooden box was opened, the sound of flapping wings came from the entrance - a weak messenger black crow landed on the desk at the refuge.
"Call the merchant."
Anna said to it, and the black crow let out a hoarse and tired cry, spread its wings and left the cave.
A few minutes later, a figure appeared at the entrance of the cave, but it was not a businessman.
Remi left and returned, together with her brother Jimmy. They brought wooden chairs to guard the entrance for Lu Li.
While waiting for the merchant, Anna left the cave to visit her sister Anne - it had woken up, felt Anna's presence, and exuded a sense of intimacy.
It is still very weak and only has a trace of instinct.
The black sun on the sea still exists, and its position has not changed. The direction of Belfast has been shrouded in a strange fog again, making it difficult to see. It is only occasionally blown by the wind, making it difficult to identify, like the faint sounds of countless dead souls whispering.
Half an hour later, an unusually tall figure finally appeared on the top of the cliff.
Lu Li's soul is no longer here, so the merchant acquiesces to Anna's agreement to trade with it.
"The price of deep sea stone." Anna asked.
"10,100 shillings."
Surprisingly, the price last time was still 13,000 shillings, which was much cheaper than the price half a month ago.
But soon, the businessman continued: "Per cubic centimeter."
If Lu Li regains consciousness, he will know what the businessman's words mean.
"When newspapers no longer hide, shelters open, and the price of deep-sea rocks skyrockets." Tesla once said.
Now all conditions are met...
Anna witnessed a businessman carrying a heavy backpack leaving the cave.
She once asked the merchant if he could rescue Lu Li's soul from hell. Unfortunately, this was not within the merchant's scope of business.
They only trade objects and information, not saving people.
"The forest consciousness is the outermost barrier, then my brother and I, and then you. Even evil spirits will not rashly set foot here." Remi came over and comforted Anna softly.
Anna didn't answer. The light of the oil lamp reflected her profile, and her slightly drooped eyelashes cast shadows on her eyes.
Remi also returned to the cave entrance soon after
"The city... was destroyed..."
A faint, hoarse voice came from the mouth of the human body Jimmy in the wooden chair.
"Yeah." Remy replied lightly.
The cave became quiet.
They looked at the outside world. Although they were no longer human, when the disaster that destroyed their homes really came, they still felt sad about the gloomy prospect of no hope.
…
sand--
sand--
The sound of dragging sounded at the edge of the crater.
A demon dragged Lu Li up the slope.
Before that, it was hiding several hundred meters away and shivering. When the devil's aura that made it tremble dissipated, it could not resist the temptation of the alluring aura. It pursued it and found the delicious soul lying in a coma at the bottom of the pit.
The human instinct that has not yet been completely deprived tells the demon that it should find a more hidden place to eat delicious food.
But it was too thin. When the demon dragging Lu Li's soul climbed to the middle of the edge, the steepness caused it to roll down with the food and return to the bottom of the pit.
The demon let out an angry whimper, his neck twitching, extinguishing his meager instinct, and planned to eat the delicious food right here.
It surrounded Lu Li, occupying half of his face. The mouth dripping with hot mucus grew bigger and bigger, and veins appeared under the gray skin - then when it bit Lu Li's one, countless transparent arms appeared around it, tearing at his body.
Flesh and limbs.
The demon's panic scream only lasted for a second before it was torn into pieces by those illusory arms and scattered around Lu Li.
The existences that threatened Lu Li died, and they gradually disappeared, waiting for Lu Li in the void.
