Even though his black hair was stuck with dried mucus, and even though his face was stained with dust, the old man who recalled the old days remembered everything.
Professor Nuno Alexandrovich's skinny palms had nowhere to put his hands, his eye circles gradually turned red, and his lips wriggled and it was difficult to speak.
"Oh my god...how is this possible...you...you are still alive?"
Lu Li nodded in response.
His trembling, skinny palms held the edge of the sofa, supporting his aging body.
"Please wait a moment, I'll call those old guys..." the old man said excitedly, and his staggering steps made people wonder if he would fall.
Bang.
The door closed, and the short footsteps behind the door gradually faded away.
Catalina was left looking at Lu Li blankly: "The ballad he said is about your story...?"
"Um."
"But you never said..."
"You didn't ask."
Lu Li thought of the ballad. Is the source of the ballad that tells everything the rope of trance, or is it Anna?
Catalina suppressed her surging emotions and realized that this was a good thing. The treasure in the treasure chest was far richer than imagined.
Maybe you can get the resident status of Midnight City!
Until noisy footsteps and shouts were heard outside the office door, the wooden door was violently knocked open, and sawdust flying revealed the guards crowded outside the corridor.
"It's them!"
All of Catalina's wonderful fantasies burst like bubbles.
"We were fooled!" A low growl came from her throat, Catalina pulled out her dagger and confronted the guards.
Homologues do not work in humans.
Lu Li judged what was happening from the guards' cowering, and said calmly: "What happened."
"Don't you know what you are doing!" the guard shouted with stern expression.
During the confrontation, Lu Li learned what happened after Professor Nuno Alexandrovich left the office.
The excited Professor Nuno Alexandrovich went to find their old friend, but he ignored his physical condition, or was too excited and fell down in front of the guards.
He only had time to grab the guard and tell him "people in the office" before he passed out, and then the guards who thought there was an intruder came to arrest him.
This kind of thing is so ridiculous that it makes people laugh.
"Is it just a coma?" Lu Li asked.
"Did you do other tricks?"
Lu Li shook his head and said calmly: "We are the guests of Professor Nuno Alexandrovich. He is excited because he knows something, and he is probably unconscious. We can stay here and wait for him to wake up. If you are worried, call
His colleagues came to confirm our identities."
Perhaps because of the reasonable content, or perhaps because of his aura, the guards accepted this method, exited the office, and controlled them in the room until Professor Nuno Alexandrovich woke up.
"I thought there was going to be a fight."
Catalina put away the dagger: "Is this how people in Midnight City deal with problems? The strong and the weak there cannot reason..."
His words did not conceal his longing for Midnight City.
Lu Li walked to the window and looked at the garden. Several guards gathered downstairs to watch over them, but they sat lazily on the flower bed and benches.
This feels more like malfeasance than the way Midnight City handles its problems.
A run-down university?
"There are many books here..." Catalina, who was wandering, came to the bookshelf and asked, "What is university?"
"A place where knowledge is imparted."
"Knowledge? It sounds terrible..."
Catalina avoided the bookshelf as if she were seeing contaminants and wandered to the oil painting.
This oil painting is called "The Great Migration of the Rotating City". Under the mottled city gate, a surging crowd is rushing out of the city gate, and the figures on the high platform next to it are clearly visible.
"Is that you?" Catalina saw an outline of black hair and black eyes, and turned back to look at Lu Li.
"Um."
"Who's standing next to you?"
She pointed to a majestic silhouette.
"The Lord of Spin City."
Catalina's finger pointed to the right side of Lu Li in the oil painting: "Where is this guy?"
It was an outline covered in black robes.
"mine……"
Lu Li paused in speaking.
"Huh?" Katarina turned back in confusion.
Lu Li lowered his dark eyes and answered softly: "Family."
"What happened next?"
Catalina had already guessed the ending of the story, but she still couldn't help but ask.
"She became an evil spirit."
"The evil spirit...that girl's shadow?"
Catalina suddenly remembered the news that Lu Li had been asking for.
"Um."
Catalina retracted her fingers as if touching a flame, stopped wandering around and returned to the sofa to sit down.
Lu Li left the window and walked to the bookshelf and pulled out a book.
"The professor said not to open notes from unknown sources."
Opening the "Geography of the Darkfield", the title page reads the 24th edition of the Strange Era, which means the current edition.
The dark map on the homepage shows the outline of the dark wilderness.
There are more than a dozen towns scattered in this dark wilderness consisting of parts of the old river plain and surrounding areas.
Midnight City is in the west of the Dark Wilderness. Ghost Town, Leviathan Town, and Mango Town are also on the map, heading east in order.
Tangge Town is almost at the edge of the Deep Dark Wilderness.
In addition to towns, there are also weird lairs represented by dark skull symbols scattered on the map.
There are more of them than the towns, and they are like evil spirits wandering around the towns, waiting for opportunities.
"Problematic books won't be on the shelves."
Lu Li answered and turned the pages of the book.
The following content is not as detailed as expected, and can even be said to be simple. Regarding the towns, they only mention their scale and rules in passing, without mentioning the gods or those weird lairs.
It's as if people have lost the ability to record.
Lu Li then opened a few more books. They were all of the same size, but only briefly described.
The advantage is that your mind will not be polluted by books, but the disadvantage is that you only know a little bit of everything.
This loses the meaning of the record that the book is supposed to carry.
If people today can only read this kind of knowledge, the decline of schools will become reasonable.
When Lu Li was about to put it back on the bookshelf, he suddenly saw an unloved book tucked between the shelves.
When I took it out, it was covered with thick dust indicating that it had been neglected for a long time.
This book is called "Illustrated Book of Weird Colonies", and there is a line of mottos written under the title.
When you open it, it means you are ready
After a brief pause, Lu Li brushed off the dust on the cover and opened the book.
[Part One·Ghoul Community]
Turning over the first page of yellowed parchment like cicada wings, a sketch appeared on the back of the paper.
It was a sketch of a ghoul, with the words "Ghoul Commoner" underneath.
Another page contains text describing it.
[This humanoid upright monster has a canine-like snout, a curved back and sharp claws that almost hang at the feet. It is close to what people imagine as a werewolf, but is usually not that tall and even shorter than women. Their appearance
It is severely rotted and colonized by fungi, which means that in addition to the claws and fangs themselves, the plagues and viruses they carry are equally deadly.】
