282. He is willing to end everything with his own hands
"The shadow of the girl attacked the lawyers and professors in the city of Ke'andijingdian yesterday and early this morning."
On the edge of the old river plain, under the canopy of a withered acacia tree, Lu Li was talking to a businessman.
"Is that the code name of the new evil spirit?"
"yes."
"Kande Jingdian City, what's the story there?"
Lu Li had never heard Anna mention that place, and Anna had never been there.
Maybe it was a certain story written with the background of K'andijingdian City that impressed Anna deeply?
"170 years ago, a coup was launched in the city of Ke'andijingdian, which separated the Kingdom of Elloria into an independent city-state. The people who initiated the coup were seven members of the city-state's parliamentary group——"
"Is there a love story that is impressive enough to be written into a book?" Lu Li interrupted the businessman. Anna was obviously not interested in politics.
"...The tragedy of Closi." Maybe no one has ever bought a love story from a businessman. It paused for more than ten seconds. "During the coup, a girl named Closi from the conservative camp was sent to the guillotine, and the executioner was her lover.
.The ending is that the executioner killed his beloved in order not to cause trouble to family members, and committed suicide at home that night. It was written as "The Tragedy of Cloche" 140 years ago."
Maybe it's right.
So Anna attacked the upper echelons of the city of Kander - they were all former vested interests.
After parting ways with the merchants, Lu Li stepped into the wilderness called Pingyuan.
The Old River Plain was once the place with the most abundant rainfall on this land. If life in the desert is an oasis, then life in the barren land is the Old River Plain.
But as time went by, something happened. The ice and snow in the world's back mountains no longer melted to this point, and the old river plain gradually became a thing of the past.
Lu Li was walking on the plains, and there were dry riverbeds everywhere around him.
On the sheepskin map, there are many villages and towns marked on the old river plain. However, after the arrival of the third disaster, most of the villages and towns have been abandoned.
At least there was no one in the village Lu Li passed.
The empty village made people feel more uncomfortable than the wilderness. Lu Li did not enter the village and went around the outside.
As Lu Li walked along, he saw uninhabited villages, saw wolves walking a few miles away, saw old sailboats stranded on the river bed in the old river channels, and saw some holes that he couldn't understand how they were formed.
They are like wounds in the earth, not densely packed, but they can be seen everywhere on this plain. Some holes are only as big as a fist, and some are big enough to accommodate a house.
Without exception, they are bottomless and seem to reach straight to the center of the earth.
Fortunately, they are conspicuous enough that they will not turn into traps and devour unsuspecting people.
However, these strange and disturbing holes reminded Lu Li of old news from long ago: the nightmare incident in the deserted land and the bottomless abyss.
Thirty-two investigators died in that incident and 17 were retired.
But Lu Li did not feel what the investigator described as an "uncontrollable strong urge to join in".
Maybe they weren't the first to appear in the abyss, maybe Lu Li kept enough distance from them, maybe his high humanity helped Lu Li resist their temptation.
In the afternoon, Lu Li paused briefly as he advanced, pursed his dry and cracked lips and looked into the distance: far away on the earth, a meandering river flowed in the opposite direction from south to north.
This is the river introduced to solve the Third Woe.
This new river is not marked on the parchment map. If its path is similar to that of the old river - crossing the river and heading northeast for less than 150 miles, it will be the destination of Luli.
After taking out only half the bottle of water bag to moisten his mouth, Lu Li continued to set off.
In addition to the breeze on the wilderness plain, the sound of flowing river gradually sounded in his ears. An hour later, Lu Li arrived at the shore.
Drink water from south to north, with the smell of moist sea breeze.
You don't need to hold a cup of river water to taste it to know it's salty.
Dang——dang——dang——
The evil spirits broadcasting more frequently than at the beginning reminded Lu Li.
Lu Li observed the river. It was less than fifty meters wide, and it was difficult to see the bottom of the river because of the sediment. However, the river was not too deep, usually no more than ten meters.
You have to cross the river to continue moving forward, or go back to the uppermost reaches 150 miles away and cross there - but this is almost impossible.
When the ceremony left while waiting for silence, Lu Li began to prepare for crossing the river.
The four psychic guns were thrown to the other side in order to reduce weight and reduce the chance of being damaged by water - if they were not broken.
The straw doll, "lighthouse" and oil lamp were wrapped in oilcloth by Lu Li and placed close to his body to prevent them from losing their function or being lost due to accidents. The cloak was left on the shore.
Wow——
Reach out to stir the river water. The temperature is relatively cool. Wring out your clothes as soon as possible after landing to avoid body temperature imbalance.
He sat on the bank and soaked in the river water until his body got used to the temperature and stopped cramping. Lu Li jumped into the river and swam to the other side.
The water in the river is not very fast, but the turbidity makes it difficult to observe the situation in the water.
As he swam to the middle of the river, Lu Li suddenly felt something soft and gentle on his fingertips. He raised his hand and saw that there was no mud or anything else on it.
Lu Li swam faster.
Suddenly, Lu Li on the surface of the water suddenly sank into the water, as if something was dragging him down. A few seconds later, a dull sound came from the water, and a meter-high spray of water exploded on the river surface.
Lu Li resurfaced and panted, holding the empty psychic gun in his raised hand.
He had no time to look for the attacker, so he threw the psychic gun underwater and continued swimming to the other shore ten meters away.
This was not Lu Li's home court, even though the Doomsday Book had increased his strength. All Lu Li could do was speed up and swim to the other side.
When he was less than five meters away from the shore, his body suddenly hit the bottom of the water again.
This time the drag source is on the "lighthouse" on the left hand side.
Lu Li squinted to observe, but it was difficult to see clearly in the turbid river water. He tried to burn his humanity, but the light could not penetrate the oilcloth wrapping.
With his right hand, he pulled out the last psychic gun on his body and pulled the trigger towards the source of power.
Nothing happened, the psychic gun soaked in water failed.
The force dragged Lu Li, and he was about to be dragged into the depths of the river. He could only loosen his grip on the "Lighthouse", swing his legs to break away from the river, breathe in the cold air, and climb wetly to the shore.
Coughing out the uncomfortable seawater in his mouth and trachea, Lu Li retreated from the river bank.
Nothing could be seen in the river water mixed with sediment, and it seemed as if nothing had happened.
A breeze blew by, and the clothes dripping with river water clung to the body, revealing the outline and taking away body heat.
Lu Li took off his clothes, wrung them out, put them on crumpledly, and then picked up the four psychic guns scattered on the shore.
What's worse is that they all malfunctioned, and what's even more dangerous is that a psychic gun exploded after Lu Li pulled the trigger, and the gun chamber exploded irregularly like a trumpet.
The still damp clothes were robbing Lu Li of his body temperature, and there were still a lot of troubles waiting for him: night, strange fog, and a malfunctioning psychic gun. Compared with these, hypothermia was even insignificant.
He should retreat and return to nearby towns for repairs and supplies before setting off.
