One hundred and ninety-one. The place where they are buried
"Some dandelions are in the secret passage. They should have gotten in through the entrance and exit... But the problem is not them. It is the exorcist who found a blocked road in the secret passage." The assistant to the city lord checked the time frequently, as if something was urging him.
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"The blocked forked road has been broken open, and the traces are very new. They may have been left by the former city lord who escaped. The problem is that people who are close to there can't help but want to walk into the forked road. Those exorcists wake up first and drag the scavengers back.
, they said strangely that the sanity counter was not responding..."
The city lord's assistant didn't know what these represented, so he could only tell Lu Li all the information.
"It sounds like..." Anna thought of something, and this information made her feel like she had heard it before.
Walk in without realizing it; the sanity counter doesn't sound; those with stronger willpower can resist the attraction.
"The bottomless abyss." Lu Li said.
The suspension and serious consequences of the Abyss incident were still fresh in his memory: thirty-two dead investigators, including a legendary agent, and seventeen retired investigators, including a legendary agent.
But it should be somewhere in the desolate land, and shouldn't appear in the Main Continent... Is it just some kind of coincidence?
"How are those people doing?"
"They've all come back. Except for one scavenger who scared everyone else, there's nothing wrong with them."
"Take us to have a look." Lu Li put on his coat.
There are two secret passages. One leads from the master's bedroom to the fountain in the garden, and the other leads from the fountain to somewhere outside the city.
When they came to the garden, exorcists and scavengers in the same costumes gathered together. The fountain at the entrance to the secret passage was completely dug up and exposed to the outside world.
A short figure walked towards Lu Li and others, and a weak girl's voice came from inside: "Brother."
"Doreen? Why are you here?" Dom was stunned. He just wanted to go back and wake up his sister later.
"Brother, I had that dream again..." Doreen's voice was filled with fear.
"Is it closer to you?" Dom looked uneasy.
The beak mask nodded: "It's looking for me...it's already very close to me..."
Dom suppressed his anxiety, reluctantly raised the corner of his mouth and said to Lu Li: "Mr. Lu Li, Miss Anna, can I handle some personal matters first?"
Lu Li looked at Doreen quietly, and walked to the tunnel entrance with Anna.
The remaining exorcists in Flalund City are composed of part of the night watchmen and exorcists. There are no investigators - there should be, but when the dandelions came, they, like most of the citizens, failed to react. There were only a few
Some night watchmen and exorcists escaped disaster.
Despite this, there were only six exorcists standing in front of Lu Li, which was already half of the existing exorcists in Flalund.
They told Lu Li what happened in the tunnel, and the temptation the scavengers felt: "It was like something was calling me to go in... I had never felt that feeling before, I can't describe it... It was like... like
Mother’s warm love.”
It sounds weird to link weirdness with family affection, but it also makes the road full of indescribable weirdness.
People with stronger willpower, such as exorcists, can only feel the call without any additional temptation.
"My opinion is to let people with strong willpower block the fork in the road again and stay there after exploring the secret passage to prevent citizens from destroying the wall again."
No one objected. They were not investigators with a strong desire to explore, and it was more important to evacuate the citizens first than to explore.
As for how to know whether the will is strong or not, it is very simple: most exorcists have this talent. Or you can choose some people to get close to you, and you will pass if you are not tempted by the call deep in the fork in the road.
Lu Li returned to Dom's brother and sister not far away, and told Dom the arrangement, and he would convey it to the city lord Valentine.
The city lord's assistant hesitated several times, turned to look at his sister, gritted his teeth and said: "My sister Doreen may be haunted by weird things... Can you help her?"
Lu Li didn't answer and turned his head to look at Anna.
"I didn't feel any weird aura on her body." Anna replied coldly.
"It's not reality...it's a dream." Dom quickly explained. "Sister, tell me."
Doreen, who was wearing a beak mask for protection, nodded slightly and spoke weakly.
She suffered from narcolepsy two months ago - a condition in which she is always too sleepy and falls asleep without realizing it.
Fortunately, Dom became the city lord's assistant before his sister fell ill, and his salary was enough for Doreen to see a doctor, although the effect was minimal.
Of course, they also searched for exorcists, but most of Doreen's dreams were disordered and confusing content that would be forgotten within dozens of minutes after waking up, without any results.
Doreen had no choice but to follow the psychiatrist's instructions and recuperate at home.
The change occurred a few days ago when Doreen woke up from a sleep in the afternoon. This was the first time she woke up on her own initiative. Usually only calls and ringtones could bring her back to reality from a deep sleep.
This dream was different from the past. She remembered the process clearly, as if it had really happened: In the dream, Doreen woke up at home, walked to the window, and saw a dark shadow like ink, deeper than darkness, on the street in the distance.
Walking around, looking for something.
For some reason, Doreen realized that the figure was looking for her. At this moment, the pitch black figure in the distance noticed something and turned her head. Doreen hurriedly avoided the window, fear and heartbeat awakening her.
Doreen only regarded it as an occasional ominous nightmare, after all, everyone has nightmares.
Until she dreamed of this scene for the second time.
Same as the previous time, Doreen woke up in the bedroom. Uneasy, she walked out of bed and went to the window, where she saw a dark figure appearing on the street closer than last time.
She hurriedly closed the curtains, climbed into bed, and tried desperately to think of a way to wake herself up.
"I was next to her at the time...she pinched her nose and almost choked herself to death." Dom said distressedly.
This time no one treats it as an ordinary nightmare - although nightmares are also continuous, the sudden onset of narcolepsy by the cheerful Doreen is a strange condition that cannot be understood.
Now that Doreen has become haggard and introverted, Dom feels distressed. He continues to take Doreen around to see doctors, but this time he is changed from a doctor to an exorcist.
Disappointingly, there are still no results, the exorcists can't find the source of Doreen's nightmares, the sanity counter never goes off, and the congener detection of the source of the contamination doesn't work. This usually only means two things: it's just
Pure, coherent nightmares; and what haunts Doreen is not the normal sense of weirdness - not all weirdness can be detected.
Both siblings hoped it was the former and that it was just a bad nightmare.
And just now, Doreen briefly fell asleep due to narcolepsy——
"I woke up from the dream and subconsciously looked at the window, and then...then I saw that dark shadow standing outside the window, staring at me..."
