Stepping onto the dark second floor hung with fluorite lamps, Pusius's screams guided the direction, but the sound became fainter.
bang
Lu Li knocked against the door panel. A foreign creature with a bloated body and a toad-like body covered with lumps and mucus was eating.
Its head was many times larger than that of a human being, and poor Pusius only had two hind legs outside his mouth.
The intrusion of the uninvited guest made it swallow Pusius faster, and its weak hind legs almost disappeared into its mouth.
Before Pusius could slip into his stomach, Lu Li rushed towards the alien, clenched his left fist, and landed heavily on the alien's belly.
The disgusting fat rippled, and the dense knots on the stranger's back spattered thick venom.
vomit
The heavy blow caused the alien to open its mouth and retching, and Pusius's hind legs emerged from the depths of his throat.
Lu Li reached into the stranger's mouth, grabbed Pusius's hind leg and pulled it out.
thump
"I caught it! I caught it!"
Falling on the floor, covered in mucus, Pusius raised his companions high and shouted.
Catalina paused for a moment with pity on it, then rushed to Lu Li's side, holding the needle-like homolog between her fingers and piercing the alien's eye.
The alien opened its mouth and was about to howl. Catalina grabbed the fluorite lamp and stuffed it into its wide open mouth and stuck it into its throat to block all sounds.
However, the damage of the homologue to the alien species was not enough. Just as Catalina was about to pull out her dagger and kill it, Lu Li stretched out his left hand and pressed it on the chest of the alien species.
The deformed and bloated body trembled violently, and Catalina could hardly suppress the alien species. After more than ten seconds, its struggle weakened, its ominous black vertical pupils were covered with gray mist, and it fell into the bed covered with venom on its back.
Humanity poured into his body, and Lu Li retracted his palm.
"It's dead."
This alien only possessed the most basic humanity, and Lu Li had to kill dozens of them to gain some humanity.
The cautious Catalina did not let go. She waited for more than ten seconds to confirm that the alien species was indeed dead, then pulled out the homologue and inserted it back into the eyeball.
Lu Li looked at Pusius.
The green face looked dull, holding the wheat that had been corroded by gastric juice and only half of the body was left.
"How did you do that?" Katarina regretfully looked away from the alien and asked Lu Li.
The alien had no clothes on, so it couldn't change the money and was left somewhere.
"My method of exorcism."
Lu Li gave a short answer.
"We almost got into trouble." Catalina was shocked. She didn't know what would happen if the tavern found out that the guests had been ripped off, but it was definitely not good.
In any case, the noise of the fighting did not attract the attention of the tavern downstairs.
rustling
The eldest sister's head suddenly climbed onto Lu Li's shoulder. Before she could scream, Lu Li grabbed her down and stretched out his left hand.
"Sister-in-law will not give in to threats!"
The double-braided doll wearing a twisted mask shrank back in a duplicity: "I, I want to tell my mother that you bullied me!"
"If you tell someone, no one will take you to Midnight City." Lu Li looked at the eldest sister's head calmly.
The mother the eldest sister mentioned is concerning. Isn’t she the leader of the elves in Ghost Town?
But it seems very reasonable. If there is a higher-level existence above the eldest sister, it explains why the eldest sister needs an excuse to let Lu Li take it with him when he leaves the ghost town.
The eldest sister lowered her head and thought for a few seconds: "I will inform you when we get to Midnight City!"
"Can."
Lu Li put his eldest sister's head back on his head again. It jumped off his shoulders, as if sitting on a slide, slid to his back and disappeared.
"Are we really taking it to Midnight City?"
Catarina always felt a little conflicted about bringing an elf with an unknown origin.
"We just have to let it follow."
Even if you don't consider the superior "mother", you can't underestimate the eldest sister's head because of its appearance. It is not something Lu Li and Catalina can fight against.
Lu Li lowered his head and looked at the lost Pusius on the floor: "Mai Mai is dead, can you still lead the way to Midnight City?"
"We should find another guide." Catalina frowned and said, not hiding her disgust for Pusius. "The guide helps us avoid trouble, not brings trouble."
"I...I can."
Pusius put down the body of his companion and got up with a sniff: "Miss Catalina, I want to bring Mai Mai because it knows a lot of things, and I want it to tell you."
But now, Mai Mai and its secrets are buried in the alien's belly.
"How do we leave now? If we go downstairs directly, we will be suspected." Catalina ignored Pusius and asked Lu Li.
Lu Li didn't answer and looked towards the window.
…
Bang.
Lu Li fell calmly onto the uneven masonry pavement.
The beings passing by around the tavern looked at them, and Lu Li and Catalina Pusius met up and walked deeper into the main line.
After passing through several forked roads, Catalina felt the sense of prying eyes disappear, and lowered the palms covering her eyes.
They were far enough away from the tavern that even if the tavern discovered the bodies upstairs, there would be no time to find them.
Pusius followed Lu Li's feet, his head and tail lowered.
"This is the worst day I've ever had..."
Pusius couldn't even bury his partner in the soil and erect a tombstone after his death, as he had always dreamed of.
It has even thought of what to write on the tombstone: Scout Scout Maimai, Scout Scout Dede, and its own Scout Leader Pusius...
Lu Li was wearing a cloak and a hood, his face hidden in the shadows, like a pagan.
But this look is more fitting for an old sewer than before.
Before leaving the bustling main area like a market, Pusius suggested that Catalina also wear a robe.
The branch line is different from the main line. It is not very friendly to humans, and most of the people wandering and living there are aliens of different species.
In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, Caterina adopted Psius's suggestion and put on a cloak.
If the main line of the old sewer is understood as a town, the branch line is the road connecting the town, and the hidden line is the wilderness.
The most vast and the most dangerous.
Fortunately, there is no need to pass through hidden lines from Ghost Town Station to Midnight City Main Station. Just pay attention to some unsafe and frequently changing branch lines.
For example, some branch lines have become hidden lines due to collapse; some branch lines have become hidden lines due to the change of people in power; some branch lines are repulsive to humans and need to be avoided.
Frankly speaking, Catalina has never trusted Pusius, but she must admit that Pusius did help them avoid a lot of trouble.
It can detect that a branch line is about to break out in a alien war and avoid it in advance. It can identify hidden lines that are disguised as branch lines but are actually luring ignorant passers-by in.
A reliable guide can ensure that you do not get lost or encounter danger in the old sewers that change every moment.
"But why do we go from here."
Katerina covered her nose in disgust.
A branch underground cave appeared in front of us.
Dirty and stinking sewage flows along the rotten silt and winds its way downstream. The vast caves and stilt stilts built in the silt make the place look like a swamp.
