Anna frowned, her eyes swept over the monster corpses, killing humans in weird ways to gain humanity...
"I know what you are thinking, no." Lu Li looked at Anna seriously.
If Anna kills humans like Weird, her humanity will quickly disappear from her body - another kind of humanity.
Anna had never seen Lu Li show such an expression before, and she nodded gently in agreement.
"And the problem may not be here." Lu Li became calm again and thought: "Several times of obvious improvement in humanity were obtained by me personally using 'Salvation'. The amount of humanity gained may be related to whether I hold it or not.
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"But the price is too high." Anna said.
It is not cost-effective to exchange the almost irreversible sanity value for the speed of increase of "humanity".
"That's it for now." Lu Li needed to think carefully about how to gain humanity.
Now he has enough time to think.
Anna picked up the "Investigator Weekly" on the blanket, and when she turned to the last page, Lu Li's voice sounded: "I plan to attend the Exorcist meeting."
"At this time?" Anna put down the newspaper, showing her delicate face with a frown.
"A newspaper is not enough for me to understand the current situation."
"You can buy information from merchants." Anna said.
"That's the backup plan."
For a long period of time, Lu Li's only source of income from investigation points was the 140-point weekly remuneration of a senior investigator.
Twelve thousand investigation points may seem like a lot, but as time goes by, the prices of items and information sold by merchants will become higher and higher, just like deep sea stones.
The expansion of the shelter and the door seemed hopeless.
Every day that follows is pretty much the same.
Anna would take "Redemption" out to hunt in the afternoon. Every time she hunted, Lu Li's humanity would be improved more than once, sometimes three or four times, but she usually only brought back a strange corpse, or returned empty-handed.
Not all weird bodies have bodies, and not all weird bodies are in line with human aesthetics - most of them are shapes like human nightmares, or can induce the deepest fear and disgusting negative emotions in people's hearts.
Although the Jimmy siblings need to be restored to their humanity, they don't care if the weirdness is ugly and disgusting.
When eating, the Jimmy brothers and sisters would take the "children" to avoid Lu Li and leave the cliff top to eat in the elm forest. After a while, Jimmy returned from eating and was supported by Remi. His face was pale and his pupils were bloodshot, as if he had vomited not long ago.
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And every time without exception.
Although the eating process was not pleasant, Jimmy's physical condition was much better, and the monster's body no longer looked thin. At least it was no longer like Lu Li, who spent all day huddled in a recliner and covered with a blanket, like a retired old man.
The "children" did not change much, which may be related to their previous severe burns. Remy accidentally discovered that "Ville"'s "skin" was cracked, and then they realized that the black charcoal epidermis of the "children" was not their skin.
It's carbonization after being damaged by fire.
Under the cracked "skin" is new skin.
Anna has also changed. She is becoming colder and colder, as if she is wearing a mask called indifference. The aura of a predator gradually strengthens, just like those weird things that hunt humans.
But her prey is weirdness itself.
Only when facing Lu Li did she lose her cold appearance and only remain gentle.
Corresponding to this is Lu Li's slow recovery speed. On the fourth day of training, he could only move at a slower speed than an elderly man on crutches.
On the fifth day of living in the shelter, when Anna left in the afternoon, she also took away the clean bones left after Jimmy had eaten strange things in the past few days - she had recently discovered some strange traces on Elm Street, and sometimes their footprints would extend into the elm trees.
forest.
Some are monster footprints, some are human footprints...
However, because of the negative emotions in the Elm Forest, they never went deep into it.
Anna plans to scatter the bones on the edge of the elm forest as a warning to any approaching monsters, especially those who leave human footprints.
Whether they are pagans or evil spirits.
On the sixth day, Anna said she found a survivor. However, the survivor was being tied up and taken away by pagans in black robes.
Anna, who was hiding in the dark and observing, noticed the slippery scaly skin exposed between the hems of the black robes as the group of pagans walked.
Anna didn't show up until they left.
The captured survivors have nothing to do with her, and Anna will not care about anyone else except Lu Li.
Especially those are a group of cultists who are obviously intelligent and organized.
The fate of the captured survivors can be met - either as sacrifices to please the evil gods, or as being transformed into cultists.
The improvement of human nature is limited. Anna's six days of hunting only increased Lu Li's human nature by less than 1%.
The news on the Exorcist radio every day is worse than the day before. The Allen Peninsula has almost completely fallen, with only Himfast remaining to support it, where more than 90% of the population of the peninsula is gathered.
All the villages and towns in the Main Continent have lost contact, leaving only the towns and main cities that gather a large population around them.
According to the broadcast, Lu Li marked the maps of the Main Continent and the Allen Peninsula.
The towns that were originally distributed on the Main Continent, like stars, were wiped out one by one, leaving only a few dozen sparse stars. The Allen Peninsula was even darker, with only a little light from Himfast.
Early morning on the seventh day.
The strange fog that spread inland slowly receded, the sea swallowed up the fog, and the black flesh-and-blood monsters like hills sank to the bottom of the sea.
Lu Li opened his eyes and slowly sat up from the bed.
The quilt slipped off her body, and Anna, who was standing next to him, put down the black cat and put the windbreaker on Lu Li.
Then, like every day, she carried Lu Li onto the deck chair and took him to the edge of the cave. Although Lu Li could already walk slowly.
But today was different from usual. In the soil next to Lu Li's lounge chair, there were two sprouts growing out of the ground.
Brother and sister Jimmy quickly gathered around and were amazed by the sprouts that had grown.
"It has something to do with human nature?" Remy guessed, she couldn't think of any other reason.
You will know after you give it a try. Remi carefully picked up the soil under one of the buds, planted it on the other side of the cave away from Lu Li, and then waited excitedly for the results tomorrow.
In addition to the sprouts that brought unexpected surprises to everyone, something new happened soon.
The black crow arrived and landed on the armrest of the lounge chair.
Anna took out the letter from the courier's lap. The black crow still didn't leave. He tilted his head, and his black pupils reflected the figures of Lu Li, Anna and the black cat.
Anna returned to the refuge to get food for the black crow, while Lu Li in the recliner unfolded the letter.