At dawn, the plain was still shrouded in darkness. A few miles away from the ruins of King Allen's City, a group of people greeted the Rico Farm, which surprised the people hiding here.
"It's just... I thought you..." Alvar Montes was so excited that he almost rushed over to hug Lu Li in the living room of the residence.
The people here were lucky to not look up into the deep sky when everything happened because of the roof cover. They could only hear the roar echoing in the plain. Only the four exorcists in the attic noticed anything. Fortunately, their position was more inclined to the night watchman.
Not investigators, so no one suffered any bad luck.
"They are..." Alvar Montes looked at the other people standing at the door behind Lu Li.
"The only survivor of Allen City." Lu Li looked around at the people in the living room and found Lilia among them. She seemed to be in good condition.
"What do you mean by the only one left?" a woman couldn't help but ask, her haggard eyes unable to hide her worry.
Her husband and children are still in the royal city.
"The royal city has been destroyed. It is unlikely that there are survivors inside."
A few hours of weird killings had left very few survivors in the royal city, and withered claws...or Prada indiscriminately wiped out everything in the royal city when she woke up, except them.
Suppressed cries of grief began to sound in the living room, and gradually spread. Avar Montes, who looked painful, and his four companions looked at each other, this was not the place for conversation, and went to the attic together.
"I'll stay here to comfort them..." the female exorcist said, without following her to the attic. Except for York and Webb, the old couple also didn't follow them.
"We saw that giant... was it because of it?" A middle-aged exorcist asked impatiently as he stepped onto the attic.
None of them were locals, so the destruction of the royal city itself caused more emotional changes in them than grief.
"To a certain extent, it is on our side." Lu Li said, briefly telling them everything about the royal city, including the withered claw god, Prada.
After finishing speaking, Lu Li returned to the second floor, warming himself by the warm stone fireplace and looking at the gradually brightening clouds outside the window.
The strange fog has dissipated, and it may take a few dozen minutes for the outside world to be bright enough to see.
The crying downstairs also gradually subsided, and the bright outside made the elderly, women and children feel at ease and fell asleep tiredly.
Alvar Montes walked down from the attic not long after, stood in front of the window and watched for a while, and asked Lu Li with some confusion: "What is that shadow outside...?"
Outside the carriages surrounding the farm, a dark silhouette the size of a woodshed crept.
"A 'horse'." Anna said.
Alvar Montes looked at Anna and felt strange - not because the shadow was obviously not the shape of a horse, but because Anna made him feel...contradictory.
Her cold appearance is the same as when she left, but there seems to be a heat hidden under this coldness... This is hard to understand.
Similar changes occurred in Lu Li. In fact, Alvar Montes clearly felt the changes in Lu Li when Lu Li came back.
He became more... attractive, and people couldn't help but want to get closer to him and take a deep breath intoxicatedly——
This thought made Alvar Montes feel that his sanity had dropped, but strangely, the sanity counter did not sound all night.
So he left the second floor and asked his fellow exorcists, and they all felt the same way. They said, "It's as fresh as grass and apples." "It's like walking into the forest." "The gloomy mood has been swept away."
Wait for evaluation.
This has a lot to do with the fact that Lu Li already has three parts of humanity. Before entering King Allen City, he only had two parts.
Anna's changes were equally clear - the lost body simultaneously deprived her of her sense of taste, smell, and heartbeat. The pastries were no longer sweet, but as tasteless as wax. This loss was mixed with her emotions, and she became
complex.
A few minutes later, York came down from the attic. He seemed to want to say something to Lu Li, but when he saw Lu Li sleeping with his head down in the wooden chair, he temporarily held back.
Ten minutes later, Anna floated out of the attic, causing the centipede outside the farm to creep into the ground.
If it were Anna more than ten hours ago, she would have killed it without hesitation and robbed it of its humanity. But at this time, when the body temperature was still lingering, her idea was to lead the centipede to avoid difficult points.
They need a relatively docile mount that can avoid unnecessary trouble, and expand the residents of Elm Forest.
As for the food issue, there is no need to worry. Jimmy and the children on the top of the cliff can't finish the weird things Anna hunts every day, so they can share the rest with her.
Anna quickly floated back to the second floor and found that Lu Li had woken up. His black eyes narrowed lazily because he had just woken up: "What's wrong?"
"I asked Ampei to hide underground."
Ampere is the name Anna gave to the weird centipede: "I don't think Ampere is like an ordinary weirdo. Maybe he is a weirdo that is fed by something."
It is more docile and honest. As a weirdo, after sensing that everyone around it was human except Anna, it did not choose to fight, but continued to carry them to Rico Farm. It did not even exude the atmosphere of the other world. It was simply
Like an overly ferocious and huge native animal.
Of course, Anna can sense the source of its power - Ampere is indeed a weird one.
"Maybe." Lu Li was noncommittal and looked out the window.
In the distance, the mottled walls of the lifeless Royal City of Allen stood alone on this plain. On the road extending towards it like a spider web, carriages and people were traveling in the opposite direction to the Royal City.
"Human beings are forced to stay away from their cities and hide in the wilderness to survive..."
York's whisper sounded behind him, and he looked sadly into the distance of the plain.
Lu Li did not answer. The plans of the Fire Project and the three major organizations must be hidden. Although they were all people who were abandoned on the ground outside the plan.
"Where are you going next?" Ava Montes came over and asked.
Both he and York were confused about the future - after the destruction of the royal city, they didn't know where to go.
"Anna and I are going to Tuca Town to do something." Lu Li planned to say goodbye to them later, and after thinking for a while, he reminded: "Go to Himfast or Tower Wind City."
With a group of old people and children, they cannot survive in the wilderness and can only rely on towns.
These two are the only human gathering places that Lu Li knows.
Tuca Town, Himfast, and Tafeng City are not easy to reach, unless they can wait for Lu Li here - but Lu Li has another thing to do besides going to Tuca Town.
Although it is a pity, they still have to say goodbye here.
York told Lu Li that if it wasn't suitable for them, they would go to Himfast.
I heard that there is enough land there and is isolated by swamps, so it may be safer, and Lu Li lives near Belfast on the Allen Peninsula. Psychologically speaking, York and others who were rescued by Lu Li are more willing to go there.
