The townspeople stood on the edge of the town, watching the exorcist Lu Li and Elena walk into the wilderness and disappear behind the low hill.
Although for the people in the barren land, endless disasters and poor resources forced them to move out of the interior. The clouds covering the sky prevented people from facing the scorching sun that dried the earth.
Elena wore an animal skin coat common in villages and towns in deserted lands, revealing her bronzed and strong figure.
After a dull rush, Lu Li and Elena left Helen Town for more than ten miles.
"There are wolves in that forest, stay away."
Elena's spear points to a poplar forest in the distance.
The withered and dead poplar trees are still standing tall on the dry land.
Lu Li and Elena avoided the poplar forest, but the hungry wolves still stared at them. After a wolf howl, one after another howled, and the shadow of a running wolf appeared in the woods.
"Get back there!" Elena pointed to the boulder more than ten meters away, pulled out the hunting knife hanging on her leg, and stared at the surrounding wolves as they climbed up to the boulder.
Elena's eyes were as fierce as a wolf's, scanning the pack of wolves, looking for the figure of the alpha wolf.
Bang!
The deafening loud noise echoed in the wilderness, and the surrounding wolves were scared away, and fled with their tails between legs.
The crisis was quickly resolved.
Elena turned her head and looked at Lu Li, who was holding the psychic gun straight, smoke rising from the muzzle: "You should have killed the wolf just now."
"We are passing by, not exterminating the wolves." Lu Li said. Redemption took back its holster, unloaded the barrel and loaded a new bullet with the inscription.
"If they are hungry for a few more days, they will not retreat." Elena put away her hunting knife.
Not long after he resumed his journey, the evil spirit in Lu Li's arms rang a bell: the time of silence was coming.
Elena asked Lu Li to sit down. Standing would attract the attention of wild beasts or eagles. They don't need to hide their movements. They only target humans when they are silent.
Lu Li and Elena were lucky. If they had arrived at a time of silence when encountering a wolf pack, they would obviously be in big trouble.
Twenty-three minutes later, the moment of silence receded and they continued on their way.
The vast barren land and the World Ridge Mountains in the north formed a spectacular scene. Lu Li occasionally looked ahead to the Gauss Basin a hundred miles away.
There was still no sign of the beholder worm in the sky.
Lu Li guessed that maybe the time hadn't come yet, or maybe his sanity was too high to see it.
Calculated in percentage terms, Lu Li's sanity value is above 110% after being strengthened by the chess piece "Doomsday Apocalypse". At the same time, his high humanity also gives Lu Li resistance to sanity pollution.
Goshawks circled in the sky, and the vultures' eyes on the rocks reflected two figures walking in the wilderness.
In the afternoon, in front of a dry river and under a dead acacia tree, Lu Li unfolded the map and roughly determined their location: 50 miles northeast of Hailun Town.
Slightly off course, but correctable. There was a village thirty miles away where they could spend the night.
If that village still exists.
Elena opened the kettle and took a sip. She drank sparingly. The kettle was still almost full.
"I remember the road ahead, I won't need this thing." Elena seemed to be disdainful of the compass in Lu Li's hand, waiting for him to put away the map and compass, grabbing the spear and walking ahead.
The wilderness is not lifeless, some small animals and insects still live here. For example, a fox peeking outside under a piece of gravel, or a beetle crawling across.
Elena said that the biggest threat here is the hyenas. They are more numerous than wolves and more cunning. Unless they can kill the queen hiding behind or kill a quarter of the hyenas, they will not retreat.
However, they did not appear when they were about to approach the village.
However, during this period, Lu Li and Elena encountered a strange pothole. It suddenly appeared in the wilderness. It was just the right size to accommodate a person, and the dark walls swallowed up the sight. As they approached it, a call would softly ring in their minds.
"Go around." Lu Li said.
They stayed far away. The farther away they were, the weaker the call became until it disappeared.
When Lu Li was far enough away, he looked back and saw that only a dense darkness remained in the pit.
When the clouds in the west behind him began to turn dark red, the outline of a dilapidated village emerged in the distance.
People were walking among the primitive huts made of thatch and mud, and a bonfire was rising in the center of the village.
Elena led Lu Li into the village. Perhaps few outsiders came here. The villagers who were busy with their own affairs stopped what they were doing and followed their movements with their eyes.
"Something feels wrong...be careful." Elena's eyes swept over the numb faces of the people, and she tightened her grip on the spear.
"My advice is, get out."
Lu Li's black eyes fell on a skinny child. He stood sluggishly at the door of his home, holding a human finger bone in his hand and chewing on the minced meat on it.
"It's late."
Elena stopped in front of the bonfire and turned around.
Villagers holding weapons blocked the way they came.
The bonfire was burning brightly, and the hot air blew the corners of Lu Li's clothes and hair, and also reflected the gloomy faces of the villagers.
"I know your Abdel village chief. We don't know anything, let us leave." Elena said to them.
A sturdy villager walked out of the crowd and spoke intermittently: "Master... is hungry... needs something to eat... you... stay..."
After the words fell, the villagers approached them in front of the bonfire.
A burst of weird and sinister laughter suddenly sounded from behind the villagers.
Lu Li thought he was their "master", but judging from the panicked behavior of the villagers, he wasn't.
"It's a pack of hyenas!"
In the firelight, Elena's eyes became bright.
The hyenas had already begun to attack the group of villagers who had their backs turned to them. Screams rang out from behind the human wall. The child who was chewing on his finger bones was stunned and knocked down by a hyena of the same size.
"Let's go."
Elena grabbed Lu Li and rushed to a nearby hut.
Whether running into the wilderness among hyenas or running into the wilderness at night is the same as seeking death.
The spear was thrown and pierced the chest of a villager who was blocking them. Elena pulled out the spear, shook off the blood indifferently, and rushed into the wooden house with Lu Li.
Bang!
After entering, Elena pressed against the wooden door. The next moment, the door was knocked by the villagers who came over. With Ling Lie, Elena pulled out the hunting knife, stabbed it along the gap between the door panels, and swiped it from bottom to top.
When he retracted it, half of the hunting knife was stained with blood.
"Get out of the way."
Lu Li's voice came from behind. Elena dodged and let Lu Li push the table behind the door.
The chaos caused by the screams and the hyenas' evil laughter was blocked out.
Elena turned her head and found a woman standing in the hut, looking at them with hatred in her eyes.
"Tell me what's going on." Elena quickly approached the woman and pressed the hunting knife with warm blood against her neck.
"The Lord...will not bypass...you..."
With a touch of mockery, Elena grabbed her wrist and pressed it against the wall, and asked again: "You can also think about whether I will spare you."
