Twenty-four years later, the meaning of the exorcist representative has not changed and has become more profound.
"real?"
Katerina never trusts people easily, nor makes friends. In the wilderness, lies and weirdness are equally terrible, and it is harder to make her believe that a person is than to make her earn a thousand shillings.
But she was unable to resist the huge temptation of "Lu Li is a purebred human".
"You'd better not lie to me."
"Civilians won't listen to you after all this." Lu Li said.
Katerina was half-believing and half-doubted. This was enough for her. If it weren't for Lu Li's help, his identity, and that kind of... trustworthy aura, she would tie up the person first and then consider whether she believed it or not.
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"I heard that the exorcists never ask for rewards to destroy monsters, help those in need, and use their lives to protect civilians. Are these true?" Katerina asked.
"Most of it." Lu Li replied. "Are there any exorcists now?"
"I can't see it, maybe there are still in the city." Katerina recalled the past, stabbing homologs into her toes.
The nearly ten centimeter-long homolog completely penetrated into the toe and strangely did not pierce from the other side.
"When I was a child, there were exorcists, but they were all short-lived ghosts, and most of them were not as you said... They were no different from me, they were all doing things with money to survive."
“Does the Exorcist Society still exist?”
"I've never heard of it."
It may be because of the news blocked, or it may be because it is destroyed by a strange wave.
They left nothing but fire.
When he wanted to ask why there were still towns on the ground, Lu Li suddenly realized that it was impossible to finish the question - he would have countless questions every minute and every second, some Katerina could answer, and some didn't even know about it.
So Lu Li asked Katerina to tell him everything she knew on the ground.
"Then you have to be mentally prepared," said Katerina.
The world has long fallen apart.
The third disaster was born shortly after the fourth disaster was born.
It seems to be an inducement. The Lennon Islands, known as "Friendship in the Sea", were changed overnight by indescribable power. They were broken into countless islands and sprinkled around like puzzles.
Weird invaded human gathering places and the population dropped sharply. If the lights in the windows of the town represent humans, Weird is late at night, and as time goes by, the sleeping people extinguish the lights.
During this period, many things happened to the Mainland and the broken Lennon Islands, but Katerina didn't know about those and didn't care. It seemed that she had experienced many misery during that period and did not want to talk too much.
The new changes in the deserted lands that Katerina knew appeared about twenty years ago.
A small town called "Midnight Town" rose from the wilderness. The founder was a group of human believers who believed in "Midnight Lady".
It miraculously stood in the strange dark fields wandering everywhere and was not attacked by strange things.
People who were hiding like mice nearby came to the ground and learned the truth about the safety of "towns": the church believed in their "gods" and protected the towns with the power of "gods".
Because only weird can fight against weirdness.
It was the first human town Katerina knew, but it might not be the first town in this world or the continent.
Over time, other towns began to appear in the dark field, and the first Midnight Town became Midnight City.
The furthest city Katerina knew was opposite the strait, the main host of the mainland, the Wiener Unfreezing Port.
Lu Li also knows where.
Although the towns are relatively safe, it does not mean that humans have found a way to fight against weirdness: they just stood firm.
What is different from imagination is that believers usually do not force people to believe in their God.
In other words, the threshold for churches in most towns is very high - they do not allow those who think evilly among believers, and should keep the power of the "god" as pure as possible.
However, some churches don’t care at all, so their “gods” become like evil gods, bloody and chaotic. This leads to the destruction of some towns and some towns becoming more chaotic.
Although the church is the controller of the town, they are not in power: in the town, politics and religion are separated. It is like the relationship between the exorcists and the state - relying on each other and independent of each other.
The church ensures the safety of towns, develops believers and strengthens gods, and politicians build towns and ensures stable management.
Because outside towns is an absolutely dangerous and weird area, most churches can only barely protect their own towns, so towns scattered throughout the mainland are like isolated islands, and each island has different owners. They have different laws and different atmospheres, and sometimes they have different towns.
They will also be hostile to each other.
and some unknown islands.
"Unknown" is caused by a variety of factors. For example, those who know it are dead, or those who know it cannot spread the message to the outside world. For survivors, unknown towns are equally dangerous as wilderness.
Just like some islands are lush with vegetation, some are rich in food, some are full of ferocious beasts, and some are flooded by sea water when the tide rises-
So this also means one thing: not all towns are friendly and safe.
And people after the end of the world have also found their own way of survival: adapting.
Adapt to ubiquitous pollution.
They depend on the town to survive, plant, work, fish, hunt, and clean up weirdness in exchange for shillings and food, delay the infection and keep themselves alive, and if they are lucky, they can also be qualified for residents before becoming alien species.
Being a resident is an honor, and everyone wants to be a resident: that means you will be able to own a house of your own in the town.
But that requires enough cost or enough contribution.
Most people who work hard to contribute to towns are contaminated as alien or weird before becoming formal residents - the pollution caused by contact with weird things is far more terrifying than the pollution caused by food and water.
"If I could be a resident, I wouldn't have to risk taking on the weird lives around the town." Katerina sighed, inserting the homologue into her eyes.
She didn't look disappointed, maybe because she found Lu Li.
If Lu Li was really a purebred human, the contribution she had received was enough to make her a resident.
“Where is the closest town here.”
"Thirteen miles away, the name is Mango Town."
"Does the town have anything to do with the mantle?"
"I think it's a coincidence." Katerina shrugged. "But the church people do often issue missions to wipe out mantles, maybe it's relevant?"
"Is a mantis ghost a alien species?" Lu Li asked.
"I don't know...but I haven't heard any rumors that anyone has become a mantle ghost. And that kind of monster is hard to pollute people... either get rid of it from afar or be killed by it."
Before Lu Li asked, Katerina took the initiative to speak out the ability of the mantle ghost: "Next time to see them, keep a distance, keep quiet, they can't see things that will not move."
"I was chased because I was too close to you, so are you, they are not blind."