"There are no survivors living in those houses." York came to his senses and told Lu Li about their situation: "Did they not find them or..."
"No survivors found."
York looked gloomy for a moment.
"Maybe they are all hiding like us." Jiminy Red analyzed, thinking of the more serious future in the near future: "But the weird will soon discover this, and then start searching for survivors hidden in the house.
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"Will they come to our place?" Ivo emerged from hiding behind the clothes rack.
"So I won't leave for the time being." Lu Li said.
The crisis was over, and the survivors who had hid upstairs returned to the first floor. After expressing their gratitude to Lu Li solemnly, they were driven back upstairs by York, along with Ivo and Webb—if Weird started to pay attention to the house, pretending to be too
Clothing stores with many people will definitely be suspected.
One boss, one waiter, and two guests are the best configuration. And someone must guard the second floor to prevent weird things from breaking in through the windows.
Jiminy Reid dug up the wet mud in the fireplace again, but the fire had been completely extinguished by covering it for too long and had to be rekindled.
After a while, the warm but weak fireplace was lit again. Jiminy Red added a few pieces of wood, stood up and looked at Lu Li: "Have you found Emma?"
"Um."
Lu Li told them about the situation of the Echo Church, including their dedication and his own speculations, in order to gain new perspectives from others.
"I can't think of anything other than spreading the curse..." York thought.
"They believe in a certain 'god', maybe it's a summoning ritual." Jiminy Reid analyzed. "Remembering is the key."
Then they looked at each other and merged each other's thoughts in unison: "They sacrificed their own flesh and blood to summon a certain 'god', but if someone remembers them, they will lose their effect if they are forgotten."
"Very close."
Their guess was close to Lu Li's, but Lu Li was a little confused: Tristan had become a descendant of an evil god, so was it the same "god" they were trying to please and sacrificed to, or a different one?
"We can't do anything now." Jiminy Reid sighed. They were shut out by the mystery and could do nothing but wait. The only one who could move around, Lu Li, was restrained here because of them.
"Can."
Anna didn't intend to do anything. She held her chin and tilted her head to look at Lu Li: "Clean up the surroundings before they come to disturb you?"
From another perspective, this can make them safer and less disturbed. From another perspective, there are not many opportunities to plunder human nature with less risk.
And if there are other survivors hiding in the house or basement, they can be found.
Lu Li agreed and left the clothing store with Anna again.
The cleared houses across the street were still empty, but this time the clearing was on the clothing store side—starting with the neighbors.
Knock knock knock——
Lu Li knocked on the door of the house adjacent to the clothing store. After waiting for a moment, he heard slow footsteps coming from behind the door.
Squeak——
A dull middle-aged man's face was revealed behind the opened door.
Lu Li raised his head and looked around the city. Several octopus-like tentacles crossed the threshold and swung in front of the door.
"Can we go in?" Lu Li said.
"Go in...?" The middle-aged man rolled his eyes stiffly and landed on Lu Li, like a scarecrow with only his legs moving, and stepped back: "Of course."
Lu Li walked into the room, followed by Anna with crooked eyes.
squeak - ah -
The door slowly closed behind him, and a moment before it closed, there seemed to be a sound of heavy objects falling.
A minute later, Lu Li and Anna appeared at the door and walked to the next house.
Cleaning is not always smooth sailing. After cleaning the second house, the third house is a restaurant, with seven or eight guests sitting at the dining table behind the window.
Evil spirits are usually more like humans than other monsters - because they are the existence that people become after death. Although they will be transformed into resentful evil spirits by the breath of the other world as they fall into the abyss, before that, they are just
As ghosts, they still maintain their self-awareness to the greatest extent.
It's just that this self-awareness becomes inherently hostile to living people.
For example, customers in a restaurant.
On the one hand, just like nobles using complicated etiquette to distinguish themselves from common people, they bring the meat they get to the restaurant and give it to the restaurant to cook it into steaks. As a reward, the restaurant will charge a part of the meat.
On the other hand, their food is the same kind that they once had.
These ghosts try to use this higher-end "eating" to distinguish themselves from the weird people outside who eat hair and drink blood, just like vampires and werewolves in legendary stories.
Sticky red wine glasses, delicious steaks, snow-white tablecloths wrapped around the neck, exquisite knives and forks - an evil and aristocratic ritual-like scene.
So much so that the guests laughed at Lu Li and Anna, who came in, asked questions, and then left "despontaneously", as they were country bumpkins who didn't understand anything.
But soon, Lu Li and Anna returned again, bringing with them the "meat" they got from the fourth residence - a piece of prime rib.
This proves their strength. Although the guests will not be silent in awe, their attitude is much more polite.
The boss didn't quite understand why the ribs were so clean, as if they had been processed. He took it as Lu Li and Anna's special abilities, happily brought them to the kitchen, and provided them with two cups of freshly squeezed blood for free, along with some leftovers.
temperature.
Anna did not sit down, but went to the table of other guests as if curious, looked at it carefully, and deliberately made a criticism that everyone could hear: "The steak is too old, too much seasoning, and full of low-quality processed wood."
Pungent smell."
Although Anna's craftsmanship is not very good, it is not difficult for her, who was once considered a half-noble, to comment on some shortcomings.
The chef wearing a clean apron walked out of the kitchen to see who was making trouble. Anna raised her white chin towards him and said proudly: "Anna Lotta Bessie, the legitimate daughter of the Lotta family."
Although Anna no longer used her family's middle name when she was born.
Some of the guests were once nobles, but most of them just wanted to distinguish themselves from the weird ones. They CIA didn't know what the Lotta family was, but it just sounded like they were powerful. So the originally aggressive chef became weak, just
He muttered that this is an ordinary restaurant and cannot serve the level of chefs employed in noble estates.
The plan went as expected, and Anna continued: "Can you leave the ribs to us? I allow you to watch from the sidelines."
As guests, of course they want to taste more delicious food. As a restaurant, it would be great to learn more advanced cooking methods for free. So Lu Li and Anna entered the kitchen smoothly.
Click——
Lu Li, who was the last to walk, gently closed the wooden door of the kitchen.
