The ugly dilapidated land is revealed, and the sound of waves that continues day and night breaks away the dead silence.
Anna's illusory silhouette appeared at the entrance of the cave. She first looked at the top of the cliff. Annie was safe and sound, and Rem and their cabin were not damaged. It seemed that the howling that echoed through half the night was just an illusion.
Anna brought a telescope, but found that she didn't need it to see everything that happened last night.
An extremely twisted, elongated and strange vortex that seemed to be sucked into the center appeared at the original location of the oak forest.
It stretches from the oak forest hillside to the top of the mountain, encompassing most of the oak block, where everything curls inward and twists into a swirling shape.
Swirls are not as simple as "a child squats on the beach and draws circles and circles" or "naughty children come to the sand painting and draw circles and destroy the pattern." Those are more like pouring paint evenly on the drawing board and then using it.
The clean brush paints in circles. The colorful colors are mixed, fused, and distorted, creating an indescribable feeling of nausea.
The paint doesn't disappear, it just blends and twists together.
The same goes for houses and woods. They were not destroyed, they just became members of the huge whirlpool.
And they look more uncomfortable than turbid paint, as if... they will gradually curl up if you look at them for too long.
Fortunately, this may be an illusion, and Anna cannot feel that her consciousness is contaminated.
But just in case, it's best not to let Lu Li see these.
Anna returned to the cave and told the residents who had not slept all night what happened in the distance. Brother Jimmy and Adamfuya went to the top of the cliff to observe, while she stayed to describe the appearance of the whirlpool to Lu Li.
She first smoothed the quilt with her palms, raised her fingers to hold the quilt and began to rotate. As she turned, the fabric around her fingers became wrinkled and twisted: "It's about this, but it's not folded."
"I guess I understand, have you found anything else?" Lu Li wanted to know if the group of heretics and their master had been eliminated.
"I can go take a look." Anna replied.
"No, now is not the right time." Lu Li shook his head. The movement there would obviously attract some strange attention, just like the pattern itself: a vortex.
"The businessman may already have the answer."
The merchant did not keep them waiting for too long. Jimmy ran to report the news, and the whole cave echoed his dull running voice: "The merchant is here, and there are those stones! It's incredible... I just didn't see them piled up downhill for a while.
Deep Sea Stone.”
"Jimmy! Come and help move things." Remy shouted from outside the cave. Jimmy hurriedly left again, and a new businessman came in.
In addition to the 100 cubic meters of cut deep-sea stone brought, nearly 5 billion survey points that have been stored in Lu Li's name and an additional 500 cubic meters of deep-sea stone stored, there is also news about the Tree of Mind.
Unfortunately it's bad news.
"It refused," said the merchant.
Anna's eyes were cold, but Lu Li remained calm: "Is there a reason?"
"It thinks it's going to be expensive and it's going to help more exorcists than just you."
It's hard to imagine that an evil spirit would think about the answer from the perspective of a high-level exorcist. Lu Li regretted that he couldn't find out the source of the "door", but he obviously couldn't bargain with an evil spirit: "Please help me pay attention to other methods."
"Any other deals?"
Lu Li nodded and said to Anna: "Go and call Adangfuya."
In fact, there was no need to call her. When the businessman appeared on the top of the cliff, Adangfuya couldn't restrain her emotions and hid at the entrance of the cave to eavesdrop. When she heard that he was mentioned, she almost lost her temper and walked into the refuge.
"Solve your affairs now." Anna and Adangfuya said, looking at the merchant: "Can you contact the shelter?"
"cannot."
Adangfuya's face became even paler.
"Send the letter, or send it back."
"cannot."
"The location of the refuge."
"have no idea."
"Even you can't know?" Lu Li asked.
He clearly knew how deeply entangled the merchants were with the exorcists: the three major organizations, including the long-established Association of Exorcists, completely believed in the merchants and cooperated deeply with them.
"No." The businessman replied still coldly.
With every question and answer, Adangfuya's breath would become disordered and out of control. Anna's breath spread out, guiding her to take it back. Remi who walked in also gently hugged her shoulders, but this could not stop Adangfuya's breath.
sad.
Lu Li tapped his fingers on the armrest of the wooden chair, thinking about something.
The shelter clearly wants to "disappear" and has almost succeeded.
People who failed to enter the shelter knew no other information except the name.
The intentions of the three major organizations fit the meaning of "fire". It was separated from the fire and hidden in a place unknown to anyone.
It can even be said that the residents of the shelter are separated from the world.
They no longer belong to this era, but to the new world after Weird has left in the future.
Unless found by a weirdo.
But how do they know when the new world will arrive?
Prophecy? Or the ability to know what is happening in the outside world?
"How do they know the outside world?" Lu Li continued to ask.
"newspaper."
"Which one, or which kind?"
"A newspaper that belongs in a shelter."
"What's in the newspaper?"
"Combined regular newspapers and the Investigator's Weekly."
"How often?" Lu Li asked.
The questions were very cumbersome. Although the merchant answered whatever Lu Li asked, he never answered questions other than the questions, even if he knew that Lu Li was about to ask a question.
"every day."
"How much of a stir will it make in the newspapers?"
"Like Belfast last night."
“How much part can it occupy?”
"Half page."
"How many newspapers are there, one side and two sides?"
"One sheet, two sides."
That's one-eighth the size.
"If you use survey points to buy half a page, how much will it cost."
"...70,000." The businessman replied after a moment of silence.
"Less than expected." Lu Li said, looking at the silent Adang Fuya: "We don't know everything in the shelter, but the shelter knows us. If you don't mind not getting a reply, you can write one every day.
Send him a letter and publish it in the newspaper."
Everyone knows that 70,000 contribution points is not a small amount. Very few exorcists will accumulate it, or accumulate such a large amount. Even now, with 70,000 contribution points, it can buy more than 500 boxes of cans from merchants.
But Lu Li is too rich. Even without the unexpected surprise of the ghost prison, the deep-sea stones used as walls in the refuge would have made Lu Li worth billions in the investigation points - but he couldn't sell so much.
"Can...?" Adang Fuya suddenly raised her head, her dark eyes blooming with new brilliance.
"Yes, as long as you don't mind that other residents of the shelter can also see your letter to Tesla." After thinking about it, Lu Li added: "In case the shelter refuses or increases the price, I suggest that the letter should only occupy one space in the future.
A small section.”
Adang Fuya hurriedly wanted to thank Lu Li, but Remi smiled and pushed her gently: "Go write a letter and remember to add 'see you tomorrow' at the end."