The warm firelight from the fireplace radiates throughout the room.
The desk and bookshelf were neatly arranged, with two unopened letters on the desk, a bed in the corner, and a dining table with pastries.
Rather than a prison cell, a secret room is more accurately described here.
Lu Li even discovered that the handcuffs were not strong enough, and the gap allowed him to remove them like a bracelet.
Observing the runes carved on the handcuffs and tarpaulin, they seem to have the same origin.
Loose restraints and a secret room that looks more like a study—
Did a superior person forcefully bring him here?
Don't they think Lu Li is an imposter?
Someone is snooping somewhere?
The truth is wrapped in a mysterious fog.
Lu Li walked to the desk and looked at the two letters on the table.
[In person from Your Excellency Lu Li]
The half-folded letter reads.
I opened the letter, but what was written inside was not the answer, but information about the investigation of the "Shadow of the Girl" and the "Businessman".
In the former, due to the lack of news caused by the strange era, and the fact that the "Shadow of the Girl" did not wreak havoc in the town, the last news about her still ended in the Hilleweg Mountains.
This means that if Lu Li wants to find Anna, he can only go to the Hilleweg Mountains to explore.
The latter, as the partner of the exorcists of the old era, the merchants disappeared along with the exorcists in this land, and their former wealth was also missing. Except for the Earth-dwelling Chamber of Commerce, which seemed to have opened the merchants' business in the deserted land.
A treasure.
As well as the Wiener Freeport Museum, which preserves the body of a merchant.
Lu Li read the investigation information about "The Girl's Shadow" again and put the letter back on his desk.
The bookshelf is full of books, but they are all "useless" knowledge. The only geography that can come in handy is only for reference due to the great changes brought about by the strange era.
In any case, someone took Lu Li to the secret room, and the purpose was obviously not to imprison him.
Lu Li waited for the moment when the person behind the scenes appeared
The wait took longer than expected. There was no clock in the secret room, and nearly a day passed in the perception. Only then did some indistinguishable sounds faintly penetrate the outside of the secret room.
Another half day passed, and Lu Li, who was sitting in front of the fireplace and flipping through a plantation book, raised his head.
The stone door was pushed open with friction, and a knight wearing dark gold armor appeared outside.
They came to take Lu Li away.
Lu Li put the books back on the bookshelf, took two letters with him, and followed them out of the secret room.
This time they did not restrain Lu Li with a tarpaulin and handcuffs that had mysterious powers. They just led him along a long corridor that had a slight slope and extended upward.
Underground?
Lu Li guessed and quickly got the answer. After walking a certain distance, a cell appeared on the side of the corridor.
This is indeed a dungeon, the only exception is the secret room.
Many prison cells are empty, or shrouded in strange gray fog, making it impossible to see clearly inside.
But as it gradually moved from deep to shallow levels, the prison cell changed.
All the cells were covered with tarpaulins, and the unmistakable smell of blood filled the narrow corridor.
"What happened to these prisons?"
Lu Li saw some blood stains. They were not old and seemed to have dried up not long ago.
The silent knight suddenly answered Lu Li: "The heretics have invaded here."
"heresy?"
"Infidels, conspirators."
Lu Li was vaguely aware of their purpose and the source of the noise outside the secret room half a day ago.
After a long journey, they seemed to have reached the upper level of the dungeon. There were no cells here anymore, only a relatively wide corridor.
At the end is an arch formed by solid fog.
The knights brought Lu Li to the misty arch and let him walk in.
"Where is it inside?"
Lu Li's inquiry received no answer this time.
He could only step into the foggy arch and pass through the gray fog that seemed to have substance——
The gray fog in front of him gradually dissipated, and Lu Li appeared in a cramped space surrounded on three sides, with a knee-high threshold in front of him.
Outside the cramped space is a spacious, borderless study room, surrounded by a light blue clear crystal curtain wall, allowing you to have a commanding view of the entire Midnight City.
Except for the part blocked by the trunk of the giant tree that covers half of the city.
Two figures were sitting on the sofa in front of the curtain wall, and there was an empty sofa.
They were waiting for Lu Li.
Lu Li crossed the threshold and looked back at the door he walked out of.
That's a wardrobe.
"We call it 'the door'."
The old man in the two figures said. His hair and beard were sickly pale, he was wearing a light green robe, and the badge of Jushu University was worn on his chest.
"Door?"
This word caught Lu Li's attention.
The strange thing is that 24 years after he left the underground and arrived, the "door" has not appeared again.
"A mysterious side tool developed by the academy." The old man replied with a smile. "The dungeon has no exit to the outside. The 'door' is the only way in and out of the dungeon."
"I am Ernie Hamilton Wayne, professor of occult science at Crans University. She is Meg, from the Midnight Church."
"Is this the Alchemy Tower?" Lu Li looked outside the crystal curtain wall.
The foot is very high, almost parallel to the branches of the giant tree in the distance.
"Les Alchemy Tower, one of the five alchemy towers." Professor Ernie Hamilton Wayne said.
"You rescued me, but you still have to tell the truth." Lu Li looked at him calmly.
"He is indeed an exorcist who left legendary deeds." Professor Ernie Hamilton Wayne said kindly. "You guessed the truth."
"What kind."
There were no riots or smoke in Midnight City, so it was unlikely to be a factional fight.
"the latter."
Meg of the Midnight Church was taciturn, so Professor Ernie Hamilton Wayne told him the truth: it appears that Crans University's good intentions turned out to be bad.
It is indeed the right thing to do to let heroes get the reputation they deserve, and it seems that Crans University has done nothing wrong in sparing no effort to promote this, although they are driven by their own interests.
But these idealists in the ivory tower, who have been separated from reality and reality for too long, are too optimistic about the situation in Midnight City.
There are the heretics who want to kidnap Lu Li, the organizers of the conspiracy surrounding Lu Li, the weird people who want to destroy Midnight City and its heroes, and the city hall faction and the noble faction who want to win over Lu Li.
So the neutral giant tree, the Midnight Church, and some city council members formulated a plan to hide Lu Li, and then lure out all the conspirators and deal with them.
"Yenad Matthews is also under protection?"
"No, he is a substitute we made." The wise Professor Ernie Hamilton Wayne smiled mysteriously and looked at the closet.
"Please sit down and wait, he will be here soon."
Not long after Lu Li sat on the only empty sofa, a figure appeared in the "wardrobe".
Yernard Matthews.
He no longer wore the confident smile that had never disappeared, but rather cautiously got out of the closet and walked up to them.
"You can tell our Lord Lu Li the answer." Professor Ernie Hamilton Wayne gestured to him.
Genard Matthews stood up straight, raised his head and said, "My name is Stan Lozano, a stage actor."
