He was quietly thinking about the information inside.
Although there are still slight other possibilities, such as everything is an illusion of dying - starting from falling into the abyss, or starting from being killed by a mantis.
But it is more likely that Lu Li is still alive, and the time is now twenty-four years later.
After waking up for the first time, Friday said half a year or a year had passed, and Lu Li fell asleep a total of twenty-three times.
"Can the road to the shelter lead outside?"
Putting the diary in his pocket, Lu Li turned around, sat sideways on the wooden chair and asked the woman.
"Of course, he was fine when I came..." The woman looked at Lu Li suspiciously, wondering why he asked like this.
"Where is it outside?"
"...the ground?" the woman replied tentatively.
"The Allen Peninsula, the Main Continent, is still a barren land."
"The dark wilderness of the wasteland."
Lu Li searched his memory and couldn't find the area the woman mentioned. Either she was lying, or this was a place name that was born later.
"Do you know where the people in the shelter are?"
"Picked up by people from the city."
"City people?"
"They are people who live in the city." Even worried that Lu Li wouldn't understand, the woman separated the words and told Lu Li.
Lu Li knew clearly that considering the woman's sarcastic remarks about "gentlemen from the city" before, the city people she meant were different from his understanding of city people.
He put the question aside for the time being, and continuing to ask would only lead to more and more questions.
Solve the doubts in your mind first, and then understand what the outside world is like.
The woman also changed from being impatient and mocking at the beginning to answering every question - she seemed to be trying to confirm something.
Lu Li didn't care.
"What's this weird thing that penetrates the abyssal stone?"
"Mantis ghosts, some people also call them mantis people."
"Why can it travel through deep sea rocks?"
"Sealing stone? It's invalid." The woman didn't realize how shocking her casual answer was: "Ever since a big guy emerged from the sea, these stones that can block monsters have become useless.
"Otherwise, the cowards in the shelter would not dare to leave their homes."
She added mockingly, and then carefully observed Lu Li's expression, as if to confirm whether he was from the shelter.
But she only saw peace in Lu Li's haggard, stubbled face.
"What's your name?" the woman asked proactively.
"Lu Li."
"Lu Li? That's a strange name. You can call me Catalina." The woman tried her best to associate this name with the residents of the shelter.
But as far as she knew, none of the residents of the shelter had such strange names, nor did the aliens. Their names were long and unpronounceable, very weird, and either consisted of vowels or had no vowels.
Lu Li looked at her calmly: "You care about my identity."
"There are some, the residents of the shelter are hot outside." Catalina had no intention of hiding her purpose and stared at Lu Li fervently, waiting for him to give the answer she wanted.
"I'm not a shelter resident." Lu Li shook his head gently.
"Really?" Katarina expressed doubt. "If you dare to say that you have amnesia, you will lose the trust of my "Bee Stinger" Katarina."
She reminded Lu Li in particular: "Trust is very important on the ground. If you hadn't saved me, I wouldn't have said so much to you."
"Really, but he is not the person he is now."
"'Not who he is now'?"
Lu Li calmly told her the truth: "For some reasons, I stayed underground for a long time."
"how long?"
"Twenty-four years."
After receiving the answer, Catalina was silent for a long time, just as Lu Li knew about the ground not long ago. Twenty-four years had passed, accompanied by a hissing sound.
Lu Li told the truth, but Catalina couldn't believe it.
"But how is it possible... How old were you twenty-four years ago? Ten or fifteen?"
Catalina looked at Lu Li, who was almost as dirty as herself. His stubble looked very messy, and it seemed that his trimmed hair gave his words some credibility.
"Due to some reasons, my time scale may have only passed twenty-four days." Lu Li said.
The woman didn't understand what the time scale was, but she understood the phrase twenty-four days: "So you thought twenty-four days had passed, but it was actually twenty-four years?"
"Um."
Catalina seemed to be able to accept this answer, her chest shrunk, and she exhaled the cold air she had breathed in earlier: "I don't know whether you are lucky or unlucky... So, are you a pure human?"
"Pure human?" Lu Li asked back.
Catalina temporarily pulled out the homologous substance from the sole of her foot and inserted it into her eyeball. She stood up with a black light in the middle of her eye pupil, opened her shirt, and pulled down the waistband of her trousers, revealing her shriveled lower abdomen that highlighted her iliac bones.
There is also a round sarcoma in the lower abdomen.
Catalina reached out and peeled off the sarcoma, or... eyelid, revealing an eyeball that seemed to be sleeping soundly, with a twitching pupil.
"Did you see it? All living people in the world are polluted by weirdness. Only giving birth to a child with a pure human being will reduce the pollution. If it is a pure human being and a pure human being, the child will also be a pure human being."
Putting down her shirt, Catalina retreated to the bed and sat down, pulled out the homologous substance from her eyeballs and continued to stab the soles of her feet.
"If you are a pure human, you are as lucky as the residents of the shelter. If not, you are just an unlucky ghost like me. Your identity is worthless."
"Because of what pollution?"
Lu Li was still recalling the sleeping eyeball on his abdomen.
"It's all because of everything." Katarina shrugged and replied nonchalantly: "Contaminated food, too little sanity, belief in evil gods, and alien species, using homologous substances too many times, and going to places where I shouldn't have gone.
Imprinted by powerful weirdness, from blood..."
"What will happen if the pollution deepens?"
"Not so much. Become a mutant or weird, or go to town and sell yourself."
"Sell?"
"It means signing a contract with the city lord and mayor in exchange for a fortune and a spirit-killing collar, and then fighting the monsters around the town until he is killed or becomes a monster and is killed by the spirit-killing collar."
"So you'd better be a pure human."
"What will happen to those shelter residents?" Lu Li asked.
"Bad? Not at all." Catalina seemed to be looking at a madman: "Why do you think so? A safe and warm house, no need to deal with monsters in the wilderness, no need to cook anything yourself, clean and delicious food, clear water
The water and the arranged spouse are just like...just like..."
The word was on her lips, but Catalina couldn't figure out what it was.
"Like a pig." Lu Li said.
"——Like a princess. Pig? It sounds a bit unpleasant but it seems good." Catalina didn't think "pig" was a derogatory connotation at all.
"So who were you before, a civilian?"
Lu Li lowered his head and looked at his chest. His Demon Slayer badge had long been lost.
