Two hundred and seventy-eight. And everything came to an abrupt end in the separation
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The soles of the shoes stirred up sawdust, and the figure holding the oil lamp stepped onto the scarred ruins.
The figure seemed to be looking for something, but found nothing. He only bent down and picked up a fragment from the ruins when leaving.
Fog came in from outside the town, and the figure left the ravaged neighborhood. His sprained ankle made him walk with a limp.
There were knocks one after another on the houses whose windows were lit with light. But the owners of the houses either ignored them or extinguished the oil lamps by the windows.
When he was about to be swallowed by the strange fog, an old couple accepted him and let him into the warm house with a lit fireplace.
"Are you hurt?"
They saw the figure's scratches and dusty clothing.
"May I have your name?"
"Lu Li." He replied.
Feeling that the young man who seemed to have been through something needed some quiet and rest, the old couple arranged for him to stay upstairs.
"...We don't have much food left. If you are hungry, you can drink some vegetable soup."
Lu Li declined the old couple's kindness and asked for a basin of water to go back upstairs to clean his wounds. Apart from the bruises caused by falling and rolling, only the sprained ankle was the most serious. The latter needed time to recover.
After cleaning the wound, Lu Li looked at the bedside table and reached out to pick up the fragment found in the rubble.
The silver-plated surface is engraved with broken rose fragments, which are part of "redemption".
Now Lu Li can only find this fragment.
A strange fog enveloped the entire town, and something seemed to be wandering in the fog.
In the silent room, Lu Li thought about everything he had seen before.
Anna's projection possessed the guide, but failed;
Anna was irrigated by the breath of the other world and transformed into an evil spirit;
She had growled "Get out";
The moment he became an evil spirit, the shadow of a hemp rope appeared above Anna's head, like a rope;
After the transformation, Anna... was crying;
Lu Li raised his head and looked at the dilapidated ceiling, imagining a hemp rope hanging down with an outline that no longer shook in the rope.
The position is wrong. The position of the sling is behind the neck. The one above Anna's head is more like
The sudden surge of sleepiness interrupted Lu Li's thoughts. It became difficult to concentrate, and his tired body urged Lu Li to rest.
Lu Li only had time to put the "Lighthouse" beside his pillow before falling into a deep sleep.
The peaceful and sad night gradually faded away with sleep.
In the early morning, a strange fog drifted away from the town, and Lu Li slowly woke up.
After turning off the oil lamp on the bedside table, Lu Li returned downstairs with the "lighthouse" and the fragments of redemption.
An old couple was cooking breakfast by the fireplace: a soup of dried spices and some salt, without any food.
It cannot extend human life, but it can fill the stomach.
Lu Li crushed the stone badge, waited for the merchant to arrive, and continued his thoughts from last night.
Anna's transformation occurred after possessing the guide. The guide was a believer in the Hour of Silence... Did she lose control due to the attack of the Hour of Silence?
Lu Li touched his pocket. The scarecrow given to him by the guide was still there.
If it can still withstand the rituals of the Silent Hour...
The soup is ready.
The husband of the old couple filled a wooden bowl with a bowl and handed it to Lu Li, but Lu Li refused.
"You can wait and eat later," Lu Li said.
He is going to buy some cans.
"When the soup gets cold, it won't fill your stomach." The old man smiled, holding the wooden bowl and walking to the fireplace to stir the cooking pot.
Lu Li watched quietly as the old man sat back by the fireplace, poured the cold soup back into the cooking pot, and filled up another bowl of steaming soup.
He suddenly turned his head and looked behind the old man.
Next to his long and narrow shadow, there appeared the shadow of a girl who was not narrow and did not belong to anyone present.
The dark girl's shadow walked towards the old man's shadow and merged into the old man's shadow before Lu Li did anything.
snap
The wooden bowl filled with broth suddenly fell into the cooking pot, and the hot soup splashed out. The old man didn't care about the hot soup falling on his arms and face. He turned to stare at Lu Li and said in a weird voice: "Lu Li, it's me."
Lu Li paused.
"We were in a séance ritual. I got rid of it, you haven't."
Before the next words were spoken, the old man's body melted like a candle and collapsed into the floor, leaving only Anna's shadow in place.
The shadow on the floor turned its head and walked towards the lost old woman again.
Soft light suddenly poured out from Lu Li's hand, and the radiance of humanity illuminated the wooden house, driving the old woman's shadow to the other side.
Anna's shadow paused, seemed to turn her head to look at Lu Li, walked out the door, and disappeared under the crack of the door.
The "lighthouse" dimmed, and Lu Li followed Anna's footsteps to a street with few pedestrians.
The breeze carried the sand and blew it through the empty streets, and Anna's shadow had disappeared.
The "lighthouse" lit up again, but it didn't shine the shadow Lu Li was looking for.
bang
The wooden door of a house on the roadside was suddenly knocked open, and a silhouette staggered towards Lu Li. He said to Lu Li in an uncoordinated tone of voice: "It affected you before, and it also affected me."
Before approaching Lu Li, he fell down and melted into the sandy ground.
Wow
Lu Li turned his head and looked at the house on the other side. The window on the second floor was broken open, glass shards were scattered everywhere, and a bloody face appeared behind the window. He said in a numb and affectionate voice: "This is the epic it weaves for you."
Faces distort and melt, disappearing behind windows.
Lu Li looked deep into the street, where a middle-aged man in shabby clothes was running towards him.
"Aunt Mary is in the Lennon Islands."
Leaving only one sentence behind, the middle-aged man fell into the sandy ground.
There was the sound of stumbling footsteps behind him. Lu Li turned his head. The old woman was dragging her broken leg and moving towards her. There was a chilling numbness on her old face: "She is the rope of the gods that drives me to seduce you."
bait."
The wind and sand blowing on the street obscured the sight, and only the sounds of chaotic footsteps coming from far and near and the sound of the wind could be heard.
"It clouds my sanity and makes me occupy other people's bodies."
The figure fell down, and a new figure was coming.
"Emin..."
The old man's voice.
"Elena..."
The voice of a child.
"I'll always be by your side..."
"Stop, Anna." Lu Li whispered to the newly emerged silhouette.
The approaching figure paused and said something irrelevant: "...Don't go, Rhodes! It's everywhere there."
The figure melted into the ground. An old man walked out of the alley tremblingly against the wind and sand.
The old man fell to the ground, but still stubbornly climbed up to Lu Li and grabbed Lu Li's ankle with his withered hands.
"……I love you."
The weak voice dissipated in the air with the sweeping wind.
The outline no longer emerged, and there were no survivors in this town.
The wind and sand on the street are getting bigger and bigger, and in the distance of the street, a tall silhouette appears vaguely.
The businessman stood in front of Lu Li.
"What's the deal?"
"A new evil spirit." The fastest updated PC version::/
Lu Li lowered his black eyes and seemed to say calmly: "Her image is the shadow of a girl, and the ritual is the shadow burrowing into other people's shadows. Manipulate the body and gain memories."
