One hundred and seventy-four. Cage in the basement
The eyes that were still bright even in the darkness lost their sparkle for a moment: "I didn't hear..."
"I know."
Lu Li put an end to Anna's panic: "Go and make sure the door is open."
Anna subconsciously drifted over, but forgot that she was now in a human body. She staggered and walked to the door silently. She slowly turned back, and the weakness and despair that had never appeared before clung to her cheeks.
"The door...is open..."
It comes in...
If it was an uninvited guest, Lu Li would have already been triggered to death——
"It's not an uninvited guest." Lu Li replied in a low voice.
The ceremony of uninvited guests ends in a different way, instead of the sound of the door opening.
Anna can't feel it or hear it. This should be a characteristic of the "door", but the "door" should not affect reality, at least not the last time it pretended to be an uninvited guest.
So that means...
A head suddenly poked its head out from behind the door furtively, probing its head.
"York?" Anna was so happy that she forgot about the strange knock on the door.
"Anna? Is it you?" York also looked happy and walked into the restaurant with a sigh of relief. "Red has made a new discovery. Let me call you back... Where is Lu Li?"
"He's inside." As she spoke, Anna frowned, her crescent-like eyes missing a corner: "What's the matter with the knock on the door?"
"What's the knock on the door?" York was stunned, suddenly feeling uneasy, and stumbling over his words: "When I came here, I saw that there was a dim light inside, and there seemed to be no one, so I opened the door and came in..."
Anna suddenly looked back, only to see that Lu Li, who was supposed to be at the entrance of the basement, had disappeared. An arm deep in the dark basement grabbed the wooden door of the basement.
He retreated into the basement.
Anna understood immediately, rushed over and closed the wooden door of the kitchen, and reminded York, who had just entered the kitchen: "It came for Lu Li, keep quiet."
York had to hold back what he was going to ask and stuck behind the door to cover his mouth.
He felt an inexplicable chill behind him, as if there was wind blowing... more like someone was touching his butt. York quietly turned around and saw a withered claw sticking out of a dark crack, rubbing his butt!
"Ugh!"
York's eyes widened and he jumped up, almost shouting.
Anna silently listened to the sounds around her, feeling the subtle changes in the airflow, but she couldn't feel anything except the heartbeat of this body, as if there was an invisible presence wandering in the restaurant.
The "door" has always been rendered mysterious and unsolvable——
The eerie silence and uneasiness lasted for several minutes, and the wooden door to the basement finally opened slowly.
"It left."
Lu Li's figure appeared behind the door and said calmly as usual.
The situation was more dangerous than imagined. When Anna reacted and closed the kitchen door, it had already entered the kitchen. Lu Li could even hear its dull footsteps in the kitchen. Fortunately, the wooden door of the basement stopped it. After three knocks at intervals,
The breath of "door" disappears from outside the door.
"Did I get into trouble?" York still didn't dare to speak loudly and asked in a low voice.
"It has nothing to do with you."
However, the "Gate" did use York to come to them and set up a trap: Imagine that when Lu Li and Anna mistakenly thought they were uninvited guests and broke in, they could not escape or hide. The final outcome was that Lu Li was trapped by the "Gate".
"See.
Don't be heard by it, it can see you. Don't be seen by it, it can touch you. Don't be touched by it, it can take you back...
The "door" traps are more difficult to guard against and more vicious than before.
"What did Red discover?" As the person involved, Lu Li escaped from the shadows earlier than Anna and York. In other words, he had never been shrouded in shadows.
York remembered the business and said quickly: "He didn't say anything, he just asked me to call you back in a hurry."
"Let's go back." Lu Li said, closing the wooden door of the basement as gently as covering him with a quilt.
This may have something to do with the soft whisper he heard while hiding in the basement.
Back at the clothing store, a steady and warm fire was burning in the fireplace. Jiminy Red sat in front of the fireplace, his face dimmed by the fire, mostly serious: "I remembered something about 'Prada'
thing."
Anna, who was the last to walk, closed the door, sat down with Lu Li by the window, and listened to Jiminy Reid's story.
He didn't connect Lu Li's story about "Prada" with that incident: people would pay attention to a noisy, inflected, strange prayer-like murmur coming from the radio, but they usually wouldn't remember the content of the cumbersome whisper.
The reason Jiminy Red remembered it was that the prayer frequently repeated a long word, including the pronunciation of "Prada". So when he found the radio in the clothing store, he immediately thought of it and
Let York call Lu Li back.
"The radio is here, but I'm not sure if it still works." Jiminy Red pointed at the radio, which was covered with a thick layer of dust on the counter and had several handprints stamped on it when it was moved out.
The royal city is still supplied with electricity, and at least the street lights are still on, but it is faintly suppressed by the dark environment.
"When did you hear it?"
"It was almost the time when the royal city became a paradise, and they almost appeared together."
When Lu Li came to the counter, he turned on the radio, and for a moment, harsh noise filled the first floor of the clothing store.
Turning the volume down, Lu Li asked Jiminy Red's frequency.
"Well... I was listening to The Exorcist and then they burst onto the airwaves."
Lu Li will tune in to the frequency of the Exorcist.
Human voices suddenly came out in the noise, but like the shouts in the heavy rain, they were all covered up by the rain. Only a few words passed through the rain curtain, faintly emerging in the noise.
[To... survivors... rustle... evacuate... away from... area... rustle... at dawn... this... last time...]
when--
The quartz clock in the clothing store was ringing dully at this moment.
It's four o'clock.
There are still two hours before dawn.
Unfortunately, the content that was buried under the noise played once, and then the radio was just a shrill noise. Fortunately, they heard part of it.
Lu Li pieced together the missing pieces of the puzzle, trying to restore several possible meanings: asking all survivors to evacuate to a certain area, what will happen at dawn, this is the last notice; asking all survivors to evacuate this area
area, what will happen at daybreak, this is the last warning.
But it is not necessarily accurate. It may also have another opposite meaning: inform all survivors that the Exorcist United Organization has been evacuated. They will start rescue at dawn and stay away from a certain dangerous area. This is the last notification.
;Inform all survivors that the United Exorcists have evacuated away from this area. This is the last warning of what will happen at dawn.
