On the way to the safe house, Lu Li observed the streets. The guards who had occasionally been seen before to maintain the apparent order of the park had now disappeared.
Paradise is transitioning from false pretense to real fear.
The rules are further weakened, and there are more and more weird things on the streets that no longer take the form of human bodies. The evil atmosphere is mixed together, as if it is pulling the royal city into the other world.
It is normal for those weirdos who still maintain the appearance of humans or animals to be coveted and tested, and Anna has to release the spirit of resentment to avoid trouble. As for the "drawing horses", they have been around since Lu Li and Anna were at the Amples Noble Bank.
Due to a strange attack, the disguise was taken off, revealing a huge centipede-like body.
These indeed stopped the coveting glances at the carriage.
There was still an hour before dawn, and the carriage arrived at the block where the clothing store was located.
"Wait a minute..."
Anna immediately became vigilant when she saw the scattered broken glass and the mess behind the display window. She asked Lu Li to stay in the carriage, stepped off the carriage alone, and walked into the clothing store stepping on the broken glass.
The dark crack that expanded behind the collapsed clock was the most eye-catching. Anna searched around the store, stepped up to the second floor, and found a pool of blood in front of the window.
The blood stains extended to the broken window frame. Anna poked her head out and found dried dark red blood stains on the edge of the eaves, as well as broken clothes corners.
After searching in other rooms, Anna returned to the street downstairs and told Lu Li everything she found.
There was blood, and Red and others disappeared...
"Ask the 'residents' nearby."
If they were attacked, they wouldn't be able to move too quietly.
Hope it won't be too bad...
Because all nearby residents had been cleared, Lu Li and Anna found surviving residents in houses further away.
"What happened in the clothing store?" Lu Li asked.
"You... are too slow..." the weird and vague answer standing in front of the door was gnawing at its own fingers in a creepy way, and its left hand had been bitten until only the bones were left.
"The meat was...eaten..."
"Tell us the details of what happened."
Weird greed swept over the bodies of Lu Li and Anna, making a request: "An... arm..."
"Can."
Lu Li calmly agreed and walked into the house with Anna.
Weird sat down at the dining table, spit out a phalange, and lay it with the five or six phalanges scattered on the table. It told them vaguely and slowly what happened about half an hour ago.
Only one human was found and eaten.
Lu Li and Anna got the key information, but the others were still not found, so they might still be safe.
After Clumsy finished speaking, Weird started asking Lu Li for his arm. Anna glanced at Lu Li, stood up and walked behind Weird.
Not long after, Lu Li and Anna appeared in front of the residence.
There was not much time left. They had to find the missing Reid and others as soon as possible, 20 minutes before dawn. After that, Lu Li had to go to the five o'clock block and get there before the final evacuation.
Returning to the door of the clothing store, Lu Li and Anna continued to search for other subtle clues, such as food, warm clothes, and marks that had not been taken away.
Anna searched the cleared houses and basements around her, but found no trace or mark of them.
"Ask the witnesses," Lu Li said.
We have to first know who died, if it's not one of York and Red——
"It's Red." Anna suddenly said. She found a few strands of brown hair under the broken glass outside the window, which was Red's hair. After a moment of regret, Anna asked Lu Li: "York and the others are still alive...will they go?"
where?"
"Go back to where he should be." Lu Li stared at the short-haired people in silence.
"The University of Thutes." Anna answered.
It was relatively closed there, and York was familiar with it. After being attacked by strange things, it was indeed the most likely choice for them to hide in the University of Sythes.
But entering Xiutes University would waste too much time. If they were not there, there would not be enough time left for them to search elsewhere - Lu Li could only abandon these survivors and go straight to the evacuation point.
Anna waited for Lu Li to make his decision. Soon, Lu Li got on the carriage and headed to Xitus University half a street away.
There was an incident on the way - maybe they were outsiders, maybe they were protected by Lu Li, but there were actually three survivors hiding in a grocery store near Xiutes University.
It's just that they are extremely xenophobic, and even if Lu Li revealed his identity, he didn't get any new members.
Lu Li didn't have much time to waste, he just told them to go to the five o'clock block before dawn, where the final evacuation would take place.
After Lu Li left, the survivor hiding in the grocery store disguised as a weird person said to him, "Could he have lied to us?"
"If he is a monster... he can just eat us, right?"
"Two idiots, he is testing us! How could the king give up this city? We just have to wait and wait for the royal family to come to us with the exorcists..."
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The carriage stopped at the gate of the Xiutes University campus. Anna accompanied Lu Li into the college and went directly to York's office, which was where York and others were most likely to hide.
Walking through the garden, there were a lot less people in the academy. After humans were eaten, most of the weirdos chose to leave, leaving only some weirdos who had no intention of predating - this place has indeed become safer than the outside world.
Knock knock knock——
Lu Li knocked on the wooden door of his office.
There was a slight sound in the room, and it quickly disappeared into silence.
So Lu Li said the secret code he had agreed with York: "Where is your sanity counter."
Wow——
The noise finally started again, followed by the sound of chaotic footsteps and the sound of heavy objects being moved behind the door, and the door opened.
"I knew you could find it!"
York looked like he had found a backbone, and the other survivors also stood in the room with happy expressions.
He excitedly said to Lu Li: "Did you see it? There are only a dozen weirdos left here. It's very safe here and we can hide -"
"The Royal City has been abandoned, and the last evacuation will be at dawn at six o'clock." Lu Li interrupted York and looked at the alarm clock on the desk behind the door: "Is the time accurate?"
The time pointed to 5:40, 20 minutes before dawn.
"What?" York was stunned and realized what Lu Li was saying: "Of course, I just proofread it yesterday..."
"The Royal City has been abandoned. The last evacuation will be at the five o'clock block twenty minutes later. It's time for us to leave." Lu Li said, looking at York's frozen expression.
"How... how is it possible... there are millions of people here!"
Although York refused to believe that the royal family and the three major organizations would do this, he still chose to follow Lu Li because he trusted Lu Li more.
A group of people piled into the monster carriage and were driven straight to the five o'clock block.
The tight time squeezed the emotions of everyone in the carriage. At a certain moment, like everyone else in the royal city, they suddenly felt a vibration coming from the ground.
A dull tremor came from deep underground, as if something was awakening.
