Lu Li soon saw patients infected with the "strange" plague described by the assistant at the Exorcist Association.
They were lying on the hospital bed receiving treatment, and plant branches strangely grew on their trunks. Their flesh and blood seemed like fertile soil, allowing the branches to grow buds and green leaves.
The local exorcist told Lu Li that infected people and branches are integrated into each other, and they will feel pain if they hurt the branches. They have tried to remove the branches, but the wounds on the branches will also flow with blood, and the removed branches will wither quickly no matter how they are transplanted.
Die, even if the broken piece is restored.
When the infected people noticed Lu Li's arrival, they turned their heads in unison, climbed out of the hospital bed numbly, and approached Lu Li like a zombie.
They felt the soul-comforting aura from Lu Li.
"There is a voice in my head telling me to stay with him..." Some infected people who were not sick for a long time and only had finger-long twigs on their trunks told Lu Li.
"Maybe there is something on your body that attracts them." The exorcist said curiously. He did not ask what it was and continued to educate Lu Li. "We call this disease plant disease. Not only their bodies, but their minds also become like plants.
The longer the infection lasts, the more serious the problem will be."
The exorcist led Lu Li and Ai Min deeper into the room, picked up an oil lamp from the tool cabinet, and came to the last hospital bed in the dim light.
"It may be a little scary, so be mentally prepared." He warned Lu Li and Aimin, and opened the curtain of the railing.
"Ah -" Ai Min exclaimed, hugging Lu Li's arm and pressing against him, her body trembling slightly.
In the light of the oil lamp, the outline of the human figure on the hospital bed was almost unrecognizable. There was a half-meter-high banyan tree growing on the chest. The twisted and knotted plant roots hung down like tentacles, entangled with other roots squeezed out from under the clothes.
The horror spread throughout the hospital bed.
"This is the patient who has been infected for the longest time because we have not found any patient who is more...severe than her. As you can see, she is almost completely vegetative, not thinking, and unresponsive to any of our actions."
Only the slight rise and fall of her chest symbolized that she was still alive.
Lu Li's humanity also affected her, or the plants that parasitized her. The roots of the plants hanging on the edge of the hospital bed were like the arms of an old man, lifted up tremblingly, and stretched towards Lu Li.
Before the outstretched roots touched Lu Li, the exorcist pulled up the curtain and led them back to the window where the brightness was no longer oppressive.
Lu Li withdrew his arm from Ai Min's arms and answered the exorcist's expectation: "I have never seen this kind of disease."
"But they will be attracted to you."
"For some reason, my humanity is higher than other people's."
"Human nature..." The exorcist chewed on this word. He had heard this term not long ago.
He showed disappointment similar to that of the city lord, and then quickly disappeared: "The assistant who ran away said that you came for other things? He didn't need to run away. This kind of plague can only be caused by local people who must be exposed to it.
infect."
Lu Li then told the Exorcist what happened in Luosha Town.
"Weird believers and missing people...? This is a troublesome matter, but there are no people who have disappeared recently that you mentioned." The exorcist frowned deeply. The silence and plant diseases alone had already made them anxious.
Okay, one more weird believer...
"Perhaps Thunder Castle is not in their target?"
"My assistants follow them."
"Where is that assistant now?"
"I have no idea."
"That's it." The exorcist breathed a sigh of relief, hoping that the situation was not as bad as Lu Li said: "Maybe she just tracked her nearby, not necessarily in the castle."
This is also possible.
But it meant that Lu Li temporarily lost his clue.
And there are less than two hours until dark.
"Do you have paper and pen?" Lu Li asked.
"certainly."
The exorcist brought paper and pen, and Lu Li used the pen to draw the symbol of Mary Poppins on the paper. The exorcist asked about the intention and told him that he could give it directly to the city lord's assistant, and they would help Lu Li find it.
After leaving the Exorcist Association, the city owner's assistant waiting at the door agreed to help Lu Li search.
"Can we go to the tavern and ask?"
After parting with the city lord's assistant, Emin suggested: "Maybe the disappearance happened but the local exorcist association didn't find it."
After the disaster of night and the disaster of plants came, the taverns of Fort Lauderdale closed down one after another. Because the wine in stock was sold out, and because the customers could not afford the high prices.
But as long as there is still demand from local residents, the tavern will not completely disappear.
The Storm Tavern is one of the only three remaining taverns in Thunder Castle, and the afternoon is the busiest time of the day.
"I feel scared when I think about what happened in the morning..."
In the corner of the tavern, two drunken guests were talking over inferior malt liquor.
"In the morning? Weren't you hungover all night last night?" The other person waved his hand, as if he didn't believe it. "All I can think of is that the oil lamp almost went out."
"That was the day before yesterday! Hiccup... I saw a group of believers in Tawi Town this morning..."
"What are you doing there?" My companion still didn't believe it.
"I heard they are recruiting workers there, and the salary is good and not tiring."
"That kind of job is not for us guys." His companion shook his head.
"I thought so too. But you know, I wasn't awake at that time... Hiccup, just like now - shut up! Listen to me!" His voice was louder, letting the tavern guests and the two people who just walked in
guests look at it.
"Okay, I'll shut up." The companion said helplessly.
"I went out to pee, but I couldn't find where the latrine was, so I went under the wall. Guess what I heard? I heard two guys in black robes whispering, a big conspiracy!"
"Yes, yes, you don't have to be so loud." His companion responded perfunctorily and apologized in return.
If he keeps yelling, they may be blacklisted from the tavern.
"They are wooing believers and want to draw a summoning array on our territory - our territory. Luo Lei Castle is the corner of the summoning array, and those plagues are the link of the summoning..."
"Then what?"
"Then... then I finished peeing and left... Cheers."
Sure enough, he was drunk.
The companion lost his last trace of belief and clinked the bottle with him.
"Gudong - Gudong - ha... But when I went back, I went to the wrong house and found a locked room. I heard a lot of crying inside. I thought it must be full of human sacrifices from those cultists.
Taste."
"Then you rescued them and destroyed the church?" the companion asked frivolously.
"Of course not...are you telling me a drama story?" he sneered. "I found the right cabin, but they said I was a brainless drunk and didn't deserve the job, so they kicked me out."
An unexpected and reasonable ending, my companion thought.
But at this time, a tall man with black hair and black eyes, who seemed to symbolize reason, and a cloaked girl stood in front of them.
"I am a demon slayer." said the man full of mystery.
The companion nervously replied: "Uh... my friend was just talking drunkenly..."
"That's not important."
The man took out several hundred shillings and placed them on the round table.
