One hundred and ninety-eight. Return to Swamp Road
Invisible tentacles extended with the sound, and the sanity counter rattled crazily amidst the whispers of the Swamp Mother.
Lilia, who was standing at the very back, let out a scream and covered her head that was almost split open in pain. The horrific illusion was roughly stuffed into her brain. She felt like she was turning into a monster, and she could even feel the bulge under her skin. Abnormal touch of granulation.
Lu Li's humanity helped him resist part of the pollution. Apart from the whispers that accompanied the sound, he felt no other abnormalities.
The Mother of the Swamp seemed to realize that the people it was talking to were ordinary people, who were so fragile that they would fall into madness even when they heard their own murmurs. After a slight pause, the silhouette of the black robe turned into the voices of a gathering of believers, repeating the Mother of the Swamp. Voice: "This way... you will feel much better..."
The sanity counter was slowly recovering, but Lilia stared blankly at the back of her hand, as if an eyeball was squeezing out flesh and blood, looking at her.
Lu Li woke her up from her delirium. She raised her skirt in a panic and made an ancient etiquette to the outline of the black robe that may have originated from the Principality of St. Mark: "I am Lilia Toyala, the 21st generation descendant of the Toyalagon family. tribute……"
Lilia forgot what to say next. The Toaragon family had been commoners for too long.
"Toyaragon..."
The mother of the swamp whispers, this surname awakens some memory fragments buried deepest.
Lu Li took out a few books that Lilia had given him in the carriage and handed them to the black-robed silhouette: "Stories about you and your family."
The outline of the black robe floats like a curtain, catching the books.
"When we came, the swamp road had been encroached by the trees of the North Swamp." He told the scene he saw not long ago and asked about the situation.
"Its invasion slowed down..."
Of course, the Swamp Mother knows about the evil neighbor next door, but the good news is that it postponed its visit as if it was delayed by some reason - if it had not been postponed, half of the Swamp Mother's territory would be occupied by trees at this moment.
"Where is Adangfuya?" Lu Li asked.
"She is still in the church...my servants are guarding her."
"Thanks."
Lu Li thanked him and asked a six-legged monster to take them to the ruins of Shadow Town, leaving Lilia time to communicate with her "ancestors".
…
The church appears to have been poorly restored.
The reason why it is described as lame is because the collapsed hole in the church was crudely blocked with layers of wooden boards, just like an unattractive shack in a slum.
These seemed to be the work of the servants of the Swamp Mother. When Lu Li and Anna arrived, Adangfuya also asked them to express their gratitude to the Swamp Mother. Although she was a ghost, it was great to not have to hide in a closed and dark basement. .
"Have you had dinner?" Adangfuya asked Lu Li, who was holding an oil lamp.
The six-legged monsters collected food from under the ruins of Shadow Town. Some of the cans were given to Adangfuya, and they even brought a stove - they thought she needed to eat.
Adang Fuya did not refuse because she thought that Lu Li might need it.
"Please." Anna replied.
"It's just a small thank you." Adang Fuya smiled nonchalantly and went to help Lu Li prepare dinner.
Due to the limited ingredients, Adangfuya couldn't make anything too delicious, so she just added some spices and jicama and boiled the canned food, but nothing can warm the heart more than a bowl of warm broth on a cold night.
Lu Li left a copy and returned to the huge banyan tree at night to give it to Lilia.
Not far away, the silhouette in black robe stood under the huge arch-like banyan tree, looking this way.
"Is it cooked in a can? It tastes good." Lilia praised while sitting on a tree root like a low stool. She thought it was made by Lu Li or Anna.
The spices cover up the ash-like taste of preservatives in most cans, and you can still eat hot food at this time, so what else is there to hope for?
What makes her happy is not only the food, but also the Swamp Mother's attitude towards her: "Princess Allen accepted me... I am helping Your Highness recall my past self."
On the way here, Lilia thought it would be difficult and even cost her life to help Princess Ellen wake up - but His Highness was much easier to communicate with than she thought.
Lu Li had no intention of stopping Lilia. Letting an evil god possess humanity is not a bad thing, at least for humans.
Although this evil god is being invaded by powerful enemies.
"Mr. Lu Li..." Lilia seemed to have made up her mind, her old eyes showing firmness: "I want to stay here to serve Princess Allen."
"You are just an ordinary person." Lu Li said.
Still an old man.
This swamp is filled with the aura of evil spirits.
Even if the Swamp Mother is always weak and tries to contain her aura, the ubiquitous aura will still corrode people's sanity.
Even if Lilia didn't care, the dampness, coldness, and darkness were enough to quickly knock down an old man.
Lilia replied: "Before that, I will ask Princess Ellen to transform me into her dependent."
"Have you thought about it?" Anna asked, she cared about her body more than anyone else.
Lilia showed a bitter smile: "It's just a broken body. Even if it's alive, it can't do anything..."
She just felt tired even after talking for too long.
Lilia had already made her decision, and Lu Li said nothing more. He said goodbye to Lilia and the Mother of the Swamp, returned to the church, picked Adang Fuya into the carriage, and drove out of the ruins of Shadow Town in the night under the watchful eyes of the shadow people.
Anna likes to hear interesting stories, and Lu Li likes to hear useful information, so in the car, Adangfuya told many stories about Tesla's experiences when he was young.
"You must have never imagined that Tesla has always been timid when he was young, and he has not overcome it even now." A smile appeared on Adangfuya's face when she talked about it. "The first time he encountered the Visible Song, he was almost frightened.
Michael is most afraid of this fear that is approaching little by little. If the investigators who followed him had not come out to cover his eyes, there might not have been those stories later."
"But he is surprisingly courageous when it comes to other scary things. Even the sudden appearance of suffering people around him doesn't scare him."
"How did you meet?" Anna asked.
When two women are together, they always talk about love unconsciously.
"An accident..." Adangfuya looked soft as she recalled it.
They were somewhat of an enemy at the time - Tesla was sent to investigate rumors of a haunting in the town, and Adangfuya happened to be one of them.
Those annoying little ghosts collapsed the house after Tesla entered the haunted house, trapping Tesla inside. Adangfuya appeared to accompany him for a few days and finally rescued him——
The young investigator also fell in love with Adangfuya.
Listening to the story silently, Lu Li opened the car curtain.
More than a dozen miles away, the brightly lit Himfast seems even more dazzling and noisy than Belfast once was. If viewed from above, it is the brightest spot in the dark Allen Peninsula.
