[I know from the merchant that you are still alive and have hid in your own safe haven. I hope it will be safer than the shelter.]
[Sorry for the sudden disappearance before. This is a necessary check to enter the shelter to prevent those pagans from sneaking in... I think you must have had some contact with them, right? 】
[Stay away from them as much as possible. To some extent, pagans are far more difficult to deal with than weird ones, at least they won’t understand you as well as humans once did.]
[I could fill three pages with complaints about pagans... If you encounter them, stay as far away as possible and do not come into contact with them, even if they are friendly to you.]
[You should know and must know that servants and dependents are equal to the eyes of the evil god. No matter whether you are hostile or friendly to them, you will attract the attention of the evil god. Not getting close to them is the best choice. 】
[The asylum inspector is urging me again. This place is stricter than I thought. It is restricted to go out and even restrict the sending of letters. It is only because your identity is "innocent" that they allow this letter to be delivered to you.
】
[I guess the strictness of the shelter may be related to the "Tinder" program.]
[I was ordered not to disclose the content of the plan, but I think you are smart enough to guess something from this word, right? I always thought that you were more suitable for this plan than me, but I didn’t want you to suffer the same pain and suffering as me.
Sad. If possible, I don’t want to separate from my wife...]
[Sorry, I said a lot, this is another story.]
[By the way, I asked the headquarters about you being entangled by the pollution source, but they had no impression. They only remembered another thing, arresting a guy named Richard. This is very strange. I suggest you ask what happened.
.]
[I can’t write a few more letters to my other friends. If you see Rachel and Tristan, remember to say hello for me.]
[I hope there will be another chance to meet in the future, please take care, my young friend.]
[——Michael Tesla on the eve of destruction]
After quietly reading the letter written by Tesla, Lu Li folded it up again, leaned back gently in the lounge chair, and looked at the leaden sea in the distance.
Tesla's letters reveal a lot.
Some are known, some are unknown.
What is known is that those involved in the "Gate" incident at the Investigator Headquarters did indeed lose the memory of "Gate". Tesla narrowly escaped the memory tampering because he only knew that Lu Li was cursed.
What's unknown is the swarm of heretics who will be targeted if they get into trouble, the end of Tesla's ghost wife and the "Spark Project".
Just like Tesla praised, Lu Li could indeed guess the true purpose of the shelter just by relying on this word.
The remaining fire called the world will be extinguished, and there is no need to think about what the fire represents.
What really made Lu Li think about was something that seemed to have nothing to do with him: Tesla's ghost wife.
Tesla mentioned his wife in front of Lu Li many times, and his love and compassion were unmistakable. But in the letter, he was too calm. He wrote it down as if he mentioned it casually, and then abruptly changed the subject.
This doesn't seem like something Tesla would do - he's always been interested in solving problems, not creating them.
And no matter Rachel or Tristan, their friendship with Tesla is obviously better than that of Lu Li. At this time, Rachel has retreated with the residents of Watchtown to the only lighthouse on the Allen Peninsula, Himfast. It is far better than the Elm Forest.
Better to receive this letter.
So why was this letter given to him and not to Rachel?
What does Tesla want to remind itself?
Lu Li withdrew his gaze, lowered his eyes and unfolded the letter again, gently rubbing the surface of the letter paper.
The ink traces have long since dried, and the paper is only slightly damp due to moisture.
When his fingers flicked from the writing to the blank space and slid to the blank space in the lower right corner, Lu Li's palm paused.
Dudu——duh——
"ah!"
After eating the last crumb of food, the black crow let out a shrill cry, which echoed in the cave, then flapped its wings and flew away and disappeared.
At this moment, Lu Li touched the lower right corner of the letter paper again. The uneven touch felt as if he had written something with a quill pen that ran out of ink.
Lu Li asked Anna for a piece of charcoal left over from the fireplace, and asked her to cut a piece of parchment thin enough, cover it on the letter paper, and lightly smear it with charcoal.
A lead-gray shadow fell on the corner of the letter paper, and a line of handwriting belonging to Tesla slowly emerged.
[Shadow Town Church Basement]
"Isn't Shadow Town destroyed long ago? There is also a collapsed church." Anna murmured.
"So it's safest to hide things there."
"What is he hiding?"
Lu Li raised his head and looked at Anna, and calmly said the answer he got: "His wife."
This was the only reason Lu Li could think of for Tesla to give this letter to himself instead of someone else: he had a ghost wife, and Lu Li had Anna.
They are natural like-minded allies.
"But the Swamp Mother is there..." Anna still didn't understand Tesla's behavior of letting his wife live next to danger.
"So it's safest to hide there." Lu Li repeated what he said before.
Because of Lu Li!
Anna suddenly understood.
Tesla is one of the people who knows the inside story of the Shadow Swamp incident. He knows that Swamp Mother is different from other evil gods, and he also knows about the cooperative relationship between Swamp Mother and Lu Li.
"Are you planning to go to Shadow Town? The road is not safe, but I will try my best to protect you." The deep affection and seriousness in Anna's eyes made it difficult for Lu Li to look at her.
"Well, I can drop in on the meeting with the exorcist."
The meeting will start in five days. The original plan was that they would set off in three days and would pass by Shadow Swamp.
Now it seems that we can go one day in advance and leave early the morning after tomorrow.
Inform the Jimmy brothers and sisters of their decision. They plan to let Remi follow, while Jimmy and the "children" stay behind to look after the house.
Anna rejected their proposal. Taking Remi with them would delay their speed. If it was just her and Lu Li, they could reach the Royal City of Allen before noon without stopping.
And she wanted to be with Lu Li only and no one else.
And this journey is not straight forward - Lu Li will first go to Himfast, then go to Shadow Town to find Tesla's ghost wife, then cross the swamps and deciduous mountains, before arriving at the meeting place, King Allen City, at
Stopping at Tafeng City dozens of miles away - Lu Li wanted to verify something.
Does the experience in the confessional really exist, and what is its original unaltered trajectory?
So bringing Remi along would make it difficult for Lu Li to appear in the city.
"How can Anna hide it?" Remi asked worriedly.
"She can be like a pagan." Lu Li replied.
It’s still a new idea brought by Tesla’s letter.
As long as he wears a black robe, the people will only be surprised and wary of Anna. Even if an exorcist notices Anna's presence, they will retreat because of the senior investigator badge on Lu Li's chest.
