Two hundred and sixty. Cobwebs float down from the hazy sky
In any case, as evening approached, Lu Li left Thunder Castle and headed for Tawei Town.
Emin insisted on following. This girl stubbornly believed that "solving the weird believers" would be her transition from a trainee to a real exorcist.
They reach Tawi Town before the strange fog catches up.
The local townspeople were unaware of the strange believers and remained as usual.
The carriage stopped at the outskirts of the town. Lu Li held a lighted oil lamp and walked into the gathering place of weird believers with Ai Min.
Squeak——
The half-open wooden door was pushed open, and the iron chain of the door handle slid off. Dust in the wooden house fled everywhere, and messy traces on the ground appeared under the light of the oil lamp.
This is like a drunkard's description of a hut where innocent victims are imprisoned. But now there is no one in the hut.
There was no clue about Anna in the hut, so when she walked out holding an oil lamp, the strange fog spreading from the west coast had arrived outside Tawi Town.
When the outside world was shrouded in darkness, Lu Li and Ai Min walked into the last wooden house.
The wooden door slowly closed behind him, leaving nothing hidden in the unobstructed wooden house, and Anna's letter was not seen.
Maybe I should go to town and ask.
At this moment, Lu Li's ears suddenly heard indifferent and anxious words, as if they were coming from outside the door.
"Lu Li? Are you in there?"
That's Anna's voice.
The deep pool rippled, and Lu Li raised his eyes to look at the door.
Anna's exclamation followed: "It's really you... don't say anything, pretend nothing happened, there is a resentful spirit hiding next to you -"
Lu Li's eyes moved slightly, and in his peripheral vision, Ai Min was rummaging through the bed and wardrobe.
She seemed to be completely unaware of the voice that sounded in Lu Li's ears.
"You are too close. I don't have time to take action... find a way to get away from it." Anna said anxiously.
Lu Li looked around and saw that the wooden house was not big, so it was difficult to get far enough away from Aimin.
Ai Min seemed to have been paying attention to Lu Li. She raised her head and asked him: "What did you find?"
"There is nothing here, go to the town and have a look." Lu Li said.
"But...well."
Ai Min swallowed what she said and nodded.
Lu Li came to the door, put his hand on the doorknob, and suddenly paused.
"Why stop?" Anna's voice sounded, urging Lu Li to leave Aimin quickly.
"Where did we first meet?" Lu Li asked.
"My mother's gallery...don't worry, it's really me."
"...What happened on the Ashuri?"
The voice in my ear and Amin answered at the same time.
"Nothing." Lu Li shook his head slightly, turned the doorknob, and opened a tiny gap.
Suddenly a hand stretched out from beside him and pressed the back of Lu Li's hand.
Bang.
The wooden door that had just been opened closed again.
"Lu Li...Sir, something is wrong with you." Ai Min looked at Lu Li seriously with her light brown eyes, with undisguised concern: "Did you hear something? Be careful... maybe there is a trap in the fog.
"
"It found me! Come out, immediately!"
Anna shouted anxiously in her ear.
The dull Lu Li made Ai Min anxious. At this moment, she seemed to have discovered something and pointed to the window sill: "What is that!"
A white letter lies by the window.
With Anna's urging in his ears and Ai Min's anxiety in his eyes, Lu Li responded by pressing the holster of his gun with his palm and pulling out the psychic gun.
The cold noise flooded into Lu Li's senses again, or Lu Li broke into their world. He looked at them curiously, covetously, and greedily.
But except for the existence between the other world, the wooden house is empty inside and outside.
"You monster! Get out of my—" Amin suddenly held her head in pain and screamed hysterically.
Lu Li let go of the psychic gun and turned around to look.
"—log house!"
Ai Min's face was pale, with fear remaining. Her red eyes looked at Lu Li pleadingly: "I just felt a terrifying malice, and its target is you! Please believe me, please don't go out."
"I'm hiding, the psychic gun can't detect me...Don't you even believe me?" The voice in my ears is still ringing.
As he finished speaking, a loud noise suddenly came from outside the wooden house.
The floor shook, acrid dust arose in the wooden house, the mist outside the window was stirred, and debris crackled on the wooden house and the windows.
"Did that monster do it?" Ai Min grabbed Lu Li and retreated from the door. The shaking oil lamp made the shadows in the wooden house tremble.
The sound outside the window gradually calmed down and the lingering ripples dissipated.
And the sounds in Lu Li's ears stopped ringing.
Lu Li and Ai Min continued to remain quiet until the pungent dust settled in the wooden house, and Ai Min asked in a low voice what had just happened.
"A curse that haunts me."
Lu Li was almost certain that the voice that sounded in his ears before was the whisper of "door": only Lu Li could hear it, tempting him to open the wooden door.
If the door is opened, it will "see" Lu Li and the curse will enter the third stage.
Picking up the envelope by the window, it was signed Anna: She said that those weird believers were alarmed by the rescue of Luosha Town, and unexpectedly timidly prepared to leave here and move closer to the church in the east.
Anna wrote in her letter that she had found Aunt Mary, and also unexpectedly discovered the existence that this group of weird believers believed in: the Time of Silence.
They are believers in the third woe.
At the end of the letter was attached the address of the Church of the Silent Hour, where Anna will wait for Lu Li: [Central of the Desolate Land. Rotating City on the Edge of the Gauss Basin, Church of the Silent Hour]
Gauss Basin, a familiar place name.
It once appeared in Prada's Paradise High School exam questions. A huge strange worm called the Beholder, 60 miles in diameter, floated in the sky there.
But Lu Li didn't read the relevant news in the newspaper. Maybe it happened a long time ago, or maybe it hasn't happened yet.
They left the wooden house and approached the direction of the loud noise. A wooden house there was destroyed, leaving only a piece of debris.
"Fortunately, we didn't hide here at that time." Ai Min was thankful for this.
Entering Tawei Town, the local townspeople were panicking due to the loud noise outside. After they were safe, the people breathed a sigh of relief. Like the towns they passed before, they begged Lu Li to stay.
But he only stayed in Tawi town for one night.
In the room on the second floor of the hotel, across from Ai Min, she covered herself with a quilt and fell asleep. Lu Li sat on the single bed, quietly thinking about what happened today.
The dangerous night, the disappearing Anna, Emin's scream, the visit of the "door", the destroyed wooden house...
The pattern pieced together by these clues reminded Lu Li of something.
"Anna." Lu Li whispered softly.
Ai Min, who was still asleep, opened her hazy eyes: "Mr. Lu Li, what did you say?"
Lu Li looked calmly: "Are you Anna?"
Ai Min was a little confused, wondering why Lu Li asked this.
"Of course not... don't worry, I will help you. Good night." She thought Lu Li was worried about Anna, so she comforted her softly and went back to sleep.
Lu Li still doesn't completely believe Aimin, but he believes in Anna.
