Anna said that after entering Himfast, she had to restrain her aura and strength and couldn't carry Celica Dallaire, so Lu Li had to carry her.
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Lu Li did not refuse, took out the investigator badge and pinned it on his coat, and walked up to Celica Dallaire.
"Thank you……"
Celica Dallaire whispered and climbed onto Lu Li's back.
Maybe it was the damp and cold morning, but the body behind me started to tremble slightly again.
Celica Dallaire was very light due to long-term hunger, maybe less than 80 pounds. Carrying her for a mile didn't even make Lu Li's breathing quicken.
A sparse and deserted queue lined up in front of the wooden gate. The clothes of Lu Li and the other two people quickly attracted the attention of the guards: a mysterious man with black hair and black eyes, a woman with a sunken chin and a strange gauze wrapped around her chin, and a man wearing a shawl.
A cloaked figure with a face hidden in the shadows.
The guard holding the sensory alarm clock walked toward them, perhaps arriving in the city. Celica Dallaire behind her no longer trembled.
The guard watched closely as the alarm clock approached, which reassured him that these three strange guys did not cause any change in the alarm clock's perception.
However, when registering to enter the city, the guard captain discovered and recognized Lu Li's investigator badge. After confirming his identity, he asked if he needed to contact the Exorcists United Organization on his behalf.
Lu Li declined the guard captain and walked through the wooden wall gate into Himfast.
The bustling crowds on the street made Celica Dallaire tremble behind her again. When she arrived last time, the scaffolding everywhere had been demolished and replaced by ugly and simple wooden houses mixed in among the neat and beautiful buildings.
With millions of people trapped inside, Himfast became more noisy and lively than ever, but it was hard to see horse-drawn carriages and steam cars.
They are now a scarce resource, especially after the "hungry people attacked the nobles' carriages and quartered the horses".
Walking out of the outer neighborhoods, many residents gathered at the spacious intersection.
"Every child born is God's expectation."
The gathered young couples followed the priest in chanting in unison.
Walking through the crowd, Lu Li walked into a clinic on the street.
The clinic was filled with a faint smell of disinfectant and there were no patients. Poor people usually do not have the luxury to see a doctor, and rich people do not choose roadside clinics. Therefore, the middle-aged doctor was very enthusiastic about the arrival of Lu Li and others, and reached out to help Saili.
Carl Dallaire sat down.
Perhaps because of the injury to her lower lip, Celica Dallaire, who was wary of men, avoided the help of the middle-aged doctor.
However, she did not stop the doctor from touching her during the subsequent disinfection and silently endured the severe pain of the alcohol-contaminated wound.
"Her wound is very bad, but it seems to have been disinfected before? The gauze was also bandaged very professionally. Just be careful not to get infected in the future."
The middle-aged doctor said, feeling sorry for the poor person, squatting down and rolling up Celica Dallaire's trouser leg to check her right leg.
"she……"
As soon as the doctor opened his mouth, a shadow quietly penetrated his shadow.
Memories like a flood flooded into my mind, and the images flickered, and the distorted knowledge made people feel a strong sense of vomiting. Anna endured it, and suddenly felt something.
…
The manor stands not far away, the sun is shining like pearls, and the warm afternoon breeze is blowing.
Anne gently swayed her green canopy, and under the shade, an old figure sat.
The rope of trance, old Miklos.
That night in the cabin, the body of old Miklos appeared outside the door, and Anna's ritual touched it.
"Why are you here?"
Anna stared at the back figure coldly.
The heads under the tree slowly turned around. The face was not old Miklos, it was constantly changing. Sarah, Adam, old Miklos, beggar, woman calling for help, mouse, doctor...
The face changes, flickering with the faces of those beings who were once possessed by Anna, and finally, as if time has stopped, it freezes into Anna's cheeks, no longer changing.
"You should be called..."
"Anna's" clothes became mottled and torn, and she fled away with waving wings like a butterfly, revealing the same white dress.
"Another me."
…
"...Her ankle is sprained. She just needs to rest for a few days."
After a moment of silence, the middle-aged doctor slowly spoke and released his grip on his ankle.
Celica Dallaire silently took off her trouser legs to cover up the goose bumps on her skin that had been touched by the middle-aged doctor.
"Go to Aunt Mary's." Anna said softly.
Lu Li nodded lightly, carried Celica Dallaire, whose body stiffened for a moment, and walked out of the clinic.
When Lu Li was about to walk out of the clinic, he remembered something and turned around and asked, "How many shillings."
The middle-aged doctor stood motionless next to the oil lamp, his shadow stretched long and narrow.
"…150 shillings."
Lu Li paid the consultation fee and carried Celica Dallaire and Anna to the Champs Elysees neighborhood.
As they left, the clinic returned to its initial silence.
The doctor, who was as still as a sculpture, resumed his movements. He tore off a page of notebook paper, wrote a paragraph, walked to the door numbly, and locked the wooden door of the clinic.
He turned around and opened the medicine cabinet, took out the bottle of sleeping pills from the bottom, then picked up the oil lamp and walked into the bedroom.
The oil lamp was placed on the bedside table. The doctor unscrewed the cap of the bottle and cast a shadow on the wall. The pills fell into the throat and melted in the stomach pouch.
Soon, the doctor fell on the bed and fell into a deep sleep.
A shadow broke away from his body and walked strangely under the oil lamp. It swept away the notebook paper on the desk and disappeared under the crack of the clinic door.
In the clinic bedroom, there was a gentle but gradually weaker sound of breathing.
Then he will sleep for a long, long time. He may also just sink into sleep and never wake up.
…
"Please don't leave me..."
When Lu Li was about to send her to the church, Celica Dallaire begged in a low voice: "Let me follow you for a little longer... I will leave voluntarily when you leave Himfast!"
"Take this poor woman with you..." Anna also said sympathetically.
Lu Li acquiesced and carried Celica Dallaire to the Champs Elysees neighborhood.
They went to the governor of the Champs Elysees neighborhood and asked about Aunt Marie. The governor told them with confusion that the owner of the house had not returned.
Accompanied by the administrative officer, they went to No. 66. After entrusting the house to the city hall, it was arranged to house three households: a family of three, an old couple and a young woman.
They expressed their gratitude to Lu Li and Anna for lending their house, but they also didn't know about Aunt Mary's return.
When we arrived at the study on the second floor, the place remained as it was. Only some personal items belonging to Aunt Mary were put into cardboard boxes and piled in the corner of the study.
"We didn't move anything here." said the old couple outside the study door.
Lu Li put Celica Dallaire in the chair behind the desk and looked at the window sill.
There was no letter on the windowsill, but Anna found it on the bookshelf.
Lu Li opened the letter and read out the contents.
Celica Dallaire behind the desk looked calm, as if she was also listening.
The most intense fear flashed in the depths of her eyes.
