One hundred and forty-seven. The conspiracy of the Demon Slayer Association
"Are they going to take the property out?"
"Definitely not...there is something strange hidden in the house."
"Just burn down a street?"
"What if?"
"What a pity...why did it go out!?"
Under the gaze of two panicked eyes, the fire in the distance suddenly stopped and fell into darkness.
"What's going on...hiss!"
The guard who initially complained about the weather suddenly raised his palm, but was blocked by his helmet again.
"What's wrong with you?" his companion asked quickly. The extinguished fire in the distance made him panic. On the deserted street, even the street lights and peeks behind the curtains of the surrounding houses could not give him a sense of security.
"Maybe it's too cold and a little uncomfortable." The sting on his cheek quickly subsided, and the guard waved his hand nonchalantly and replied. "Compared to this... what happened in the five o'clock block?"
"It has nothing to do with us. We just need to keep an eye on this place... It's best to move back a little. I have a bad feeling..." The companion clenched his cold spear and stared nervously forward. When he received no response, he turned his head and glanced strangely.
——The guard trembled strangely and raised his head, revealing a face as skinny as a skull and covered with white down in his helmet.
"Tell Aileen, I..."
He muttered in a weird voice and fell forward.
Bang——
The guard fell, and countless snow-white dandelions burst out from the gaps in his armor.
Dang clang——
Another guard missed the jammed spear.
Of course he knew what it was! He held his head and ran towards the five o'clock block that was plunged into darkness and silence. The whole street echoed with his hoarse shouting.
"The weird one came out!!!"
…
"Who wrote it?"
"No signature."
There was nothing hidden on the note, nothing but a warning.
Anna stopped talking and waited for Lu Li's decision.
While I was holding the note and thinking, the red sky outside the window suddenly darkened, and the clouds no longer revealed a ray of light.
"Retreat to the farm outside the royal city." Lu Li said.
There is an abandoned farm a few miles away from the royal city. Lu Li will hide there to observe the situation in the royal city. If everything continues to go bad, he will have no choice but to give up participating in the Exorcist Council and leave the Main Familiar Continent.
Anna picked up her suitcase and oil lamp and pushed her wheelchair to wake up Lilia in the next room.
Lilia was still asleep, and after telling her that the Royal City of Allen might be invaded by strange things, she agreed to follow Lu Li and leave.
Arriving at the lobby downstairs, several guests and hotel staff gathered near the window and peered outside.
Their arrival went unnoticed until Anna lowered the latch and opened the tavern door.
A light mist enveloped the streets, and the light emitted by the street lamps became dim and hazy. The deserted streets were deserted, with only carriages parked on the roadside.
"Weird fog..." Anna frowned and whispered.
"What are you doing!?"
Some guests had already identified what the fog was and screamed for Anna to close the door quickly.
Anna ignored them, pushed Lu Li and walked out of the hotel with Lilia at the reminder of "It's dangerous outside, come in".
Bang!
The hotel door closed tightly behind him, followed by the sound of the latch.
"The strange fog shouldn't have arrived so soon..." Anna murmured, the situation was worse than imagined.
Lu Li in the wheelchair picked up the "Lighthouse" oil lamp. If there was someone approaching in the fog, he would light this expensive oil lamp.
No longer hiding her identity, Anna grabbed the astonished Lilia and flew towards the city wall.
They passed over the city wall, and the shouts and chaotic footsteps of the city guards came from the mist below.
They are closing the city gates.
Just a few dozen meters away from King Allen City, flames suddenly rose from the city wall behind him, dispersing the enveloping fog.
Lu Li looked back at the sky above the city wall. At the edge of the sky that the firelight could touch, an upside-down King Allen City vaguely appeared. It was equally majestic, but shrouded in boundless darkness. It hung upside down in the sky like a mirage, extremely close...
As we got further away from the city wall, what we just saw disappeared like a phantom into the layers of mist.
Looking away, Lu Li's eyes fell below. As the city gate closed and the fog shrouded the convoys and people waiting to enter the city, they fell into chaos. The originally stretching fire dragon turned into a thread of light under the city wall.
"Get down." Lu Li said.
Anna didn't ask why, and she led Lu Li and Lilia to land in front of the convoy. People on the ground had already noticed the "monster" falling from the sky, and screamed and retreated, leaving a large open space.
Only one exorcist recognized the badge on Lu Li's chest and asked tentatively: "Your Excellency, did you come out of the royal city?"
"There is something weird raging in King Allen City, and the city gate is closed." Lu Li replied, and continued before the exorcist spoke: "There is a farm a few miles away. I will go there to escape the weird fog. You'd better go too.
Wait there until daylight comes."
"It is indeed a strange fog..." The exorcist whispered to himself, and then said to Lu Li: "Of course, but please wait a moment, I have to tell other people and the civilians."
The exorcists escorting the convoy did not yet know what was happening in the royal city.
Lu Li nodded and watched the exorcist walk into the motorcade.
The civilians were no longer afraid, but still did not dare to approach Lu Li. They just looked at him curiously from a distance.
Lilia was also curious, but she probably guessed something and didn't say anything.
"Did you find anything?" Anna asked in a low voice.
She noticed that Lu Li had been observing the sky above Allen King City.
Lu Li nodded and told Anna the illusory upside-down royal city he saw.
Anna didn't notice anything, but she wouldn't doubt Lu Li's words. If he said he saw it, it meant that the scene was real.
The most pessimistic conspiracy theory is coming true: whether it is a conspiracy by the Exorcists Society or not, Weird is indeed targeting the city and tomorrow's Exorcist meeting.
Soon, the exorcist and his three companions returned to Lu Li and told Lu Li that a few of them were willing to go to the farm, as well as a small group of civilians.
Most people and exorcists trust the thousand-year-old royal city in the center of the kingdom, even if there is a small problem now.
It has nothing to do with not believing in Lu Li, this trust in the royal city is more like the belief that supports them - if even one of the most glorious and great cities in human civilization cannot resist weirdness, does humanity really have a future?
Lu Li, Anna and Lilia got on a vacated carriage and led the way. Sparse spots of light separated from the long fire dragon, following behind them.
Rico Farm, there are several low wooden houses located in the middle of the flat and soft farmland.
The convoy that came here unloaded the goods into the middle of the farm under the arrangements of the exorcists and soldiers, and then blocked the road to the farm with horse-drawn carriages.
They raised a large bonfire in the open space in the center of the farm that could be spotted several miles away to disperse the fog that shrouded the farm. This was very conspicuous, but also very safe. At least the beings that appeared with the strange fog would not leave the scope of the fog.
