Two hundred and seventy-two. His indifference ripples in his heart
She really exists there.
It's not the illusion of a "door" or anything.
"So Miss Anna is your companion." The exorcist girl suddenly interrupted Lu Li and Anna's gaze.
Anna nodded gently and looked at the girl: "Miss Gulian."
The girl named Gulian understood, took Elena and asked, "Are you feeling uncomfortable somewhere?" and left the guest room.
Bang.
The door closed and the room returned to silence.
Anna left the balcony, stepped on the wine-red carpet with her snow-white bare feet, stood in front of Lu Li, and said softly with guilt: "I'm sorry...I forced you to take risks with me."
"Have you found Aunt Mary?" Lu Li's dark eyes returned to calmness, as if it was just an illusion.
Anna lowered her eyes, bright red hidden under her eyelashes: "Aunt Mary... has been buried in the cemetery by me."
She slowly told her experience: from landing on the west coast to going to Thunder Castle and then to Spin City, Anna followed the footsteps of the strange believers until here, met Gulian, the exorcist from Storm Cape on the southern coast, and cooperated in the investigation.
Although Anna exterminated the followers of the Church of Quiet Hour who were planning the conspiracy in Spin City, she was unable to rescue Aunt Mary and could only stay in Spin City and wait for Lu Li's arrival.
Despite the sad outcome, Anna gets an important message.
"I learned the solution to the Time of Silence from those believers..."
"What."
Before Anna could answer, Elena pushed open the door and entered, and Gulian, who didn't stop her, looked at her apologetically.
"You didn't say your companion was a ghost." Elena paused for a moment at Anna's illusory body and looked at Lu Li, her tone not as close as before. "Don't forget your promise."
"What promise?" Anna frowned, as if she didn't like her unreasonable attitude.
"There is a group of undead demons hiding in the lake next to her town. I promise that after she finds you, I will help the town solve the weirdness."
"Okay, then come back and do that." Anna replied. She looked at Lu Li tenderly, with an undiscoverable heat deep in her eyes: "Solve the third disaster."
Elena doesn't plan to join, she only cares about the people in Helen Town.
Gulian wanted to stay and help the suspicious Viscount Hamis to get rid of the non-existent weirdness around him. She watched Anna take Lu Li and Elena into the sky, turning into a black dot like a goshawk and disappearing in the western sky.
Elena is actually afraid of heights.
She closed her eyes tightly and pursed her lips that were blown pale by the strong wind.
Anna did not use a shield to block the strong wind blowing her, as if to punish her for being rude to Lu Li. After Lu Li reminded her, he blocked the strong wind for her.
It took Lu Li and Elena two days to complete the 150 miles, and it only took Anna less than an hour.
When we arrived above Helen Town, the sky had not yet darkened.
"Go down, I want to see them." Elena said.
Without the strong wind, her fear of heights was relieved a lot.
Anna took them down outside the town of Helen. Elena walked into the town, and people were surprised that they came back so early. At the same time, they looked at Anna in a cloak curiously.
During the two days that Elena and the Exorcist left, the town was peaceful and no one was attacked.
"Lu Li has found his companions, and they are back to help us."
Surprisingly, when Elena proposed to the mayor that she could deal with the First Death Demon, his attitude was no longer firm.
"Child, the townspeople have prepared their luggage. Now that you have returned... we can leave the town tomorrow."
The townspeople are ready to leave their hometown.
There are too many undead demons in Guangjing Lake, and they are not confident that they can eliminate them. Moreover, the lake is too big, and if any fish slip through the net, they will become a swarm again soon.
"Back off?"
Elena's eyes were full of hatred, she clenched her spear tightly and made a "clucking" friction sound: "Abbey Lodge and Giles, Mrs. Gus, Uncle Barton, Missy's death!"
The mayor sighed and looked at Lu Li in embarrassment.
"We will help you eliminate the first dead demons." Anna's voice suddenly came from under the cloak. "But we don't guarantee that none of them will be left."
"That's enough...thank you." The mayor said with a sigh of relief.
The townspeople wanted to follow, but they were all rejected. Only Elena, who knew Anna's true identity, followed them to the Mirror Lake.
The lake is as calm as a mirror, reflecting the magnificent world's back mountains covered with snow on the mountainside.
Watching the lake quietly, it seems like there are dark fish shadows swimming underwater far away from the shore.
Elena knew it wasn't a fish at all.
"Give me redemption, humanity should not be wasted." Anna already understood the first dead demons, and their ability to create illusions was not worth mentioning to her.
"The gun will break if it gets wet." Lu Li said.
"I forgot..." Anna whispered shyly, taking off her cloak and handing it to Lu Li. "Wait for me."
"Pay attention to safety." Lu Li took the cloak.
"Um."
Anna walked to the pebble beach, passed the wooden boat stranded on the shore, stepped on the lake with bare feet, and walked into the depths step by step.
Under Lu Li's gaze, the figure in the white dress on the lake raised her hand, thinking about something, and then gently lowered it.
The next moment, an invisible torrential rain seemed to fall on the lake with a diameter of several hundred meters around her, and the water boiled violently with the sound of breaking through the air, forming ripples like waves and lapping towards the shore.
Walking silently on the lake, the violent waves followed and surrounded Anna, but it was difficult to affect her who was like a storm goddess.
Anna's strength increased again.
Lu Li watched this scene quietly.
The reply from the Demon Slayer Association has yet to arrive.
A few minutes later, Anna, who had been wreaking havoc in a circle, returned. What was left behind was turbid and chaotic, no longer as smooth as a mirror-like lake.
"I found something in the center of the lake." Anna looked at Lu Li. "Do you want to come and take a look?"
"Um."
Lu Li grabbed Anna's outstretched hand and was led to the center of the lake.
Anna's power repels the surrounding turbid lake water, revealing the bottom of the lake a hundred meters below: a rugged reef and a group of caves.
"This is their lair." Anna took the oil lamp in Lu Li's hand, lit it, and took Lu Li down to the lake.
The turbid lake water was surging around him. Lu Li lowered his eyes and focused on the reef cave, which was getting closer and closer.
Arriving at the bottom of the lake, Anna raised the oil lamp and approached the cave.
Some human bones were scattered around the cave. As Anna got closer, more bones emerged from inside, almost filling the cave.
The merchant did not say that the First Undead had the habit of collecting human bones.
There were hundreds, even thousands, of bones piled up in the cave. The bones of those who had been on the same boat with Lu Li and Ai Min were mixed in among them.
"There should still be some First Dead Demons surviving, but most of them have been eliminated." Anna spoke at this time.
Lu Li nodded gently: "Go back."
Leaving the narrow and dark bottom of the lake, they landed on the shore and returned to Helen Town with Elena.
The crisis in Guangjing Lake has been resolved, and the townspeople are discussing again whether to leave.
But this had nothing to do with Lu Li and Anna. After fulfilling their promise, they walked out of the town in the darkening sky.
Elena said goodbye to the townspeople soon after, saying that she was going to help Lu Li and walked into the wilderness alone.
