In the sea area called the Deserted Land, island-like towns are scattered everywhere.
The never-ending raging storms make this sea area full of dangers. Only a convoy of ships can cross the dangerous seas and reach the island.
Most of them have fixed routes, sail along confirmed safe routes, and pass through islands with full cargo and passengers, so as not to let them become isolated islands.
The Pulisi fleet is one of them.
Unlike other convoys that usually have more than two routes, Pulisi's convoy only has one route: Midnight City to Storm Point, passing through only a few villages and towns.
Professor Wayne's recommendation makes sense. The Pulisi convoy is the fastest and safe route to Cape Storm.
Like the convoy that was attacked, the Pulisi convoy also had caravans that released a strange aura. The difference was that the convoy that was attacked only had caravans, and they were unable to resist the weirdness that saw through the disguise and invaded.
The Pulisi convoy with combat personnel can.
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Stretching for nearly a mile, a long convoy of hundreds of carriages drove on the edge of the dark wilderness.
"You smell so good, Miss Caterina." Pusius couldn't help but say while lying in the carriage.
The smell of Catalina's perfume was a torture to Pusius's sensitive nose, which caused him to have a runny nose.
"I washed the leather armor." Catalina gently rubbed the old and peeling leather armor: "I didn't know it was so dirty before I washed it."
Excluding the excessive spraying of perfume, Catalina now looks much fresher and cleaner, unlike before, which was covered in a layer of dust and desolate.
"Are you also trying to become the companion of the hero in the legendary story?" Pusius asked.
"Legendary story...what?"
After explaining, Catalina understood what Pusius said and shook her head slightly: "Maybe... I just didn't know what to do. I thought of Lu Li and followed him impulsively."
Catalina lied, and the washed white leather armor showed that her return was not motivated by impulse.
As she moved away from Midnight City, the eldest sister no longer hid her figure, climbed up on Lu Li's shoulder and got into the hood, as if huddled on a lounge chair.
Lu Li looked out the car window at the black land. The land stretched almost endlessly. If the visibility was better, he would be able to see the world's back mountains in the distance.
The first stop of Pulisi's convoy was a sheltered village half a day away from Midnight City - a village without gods.
Rather than a village, it should be called a branch line - the shelter village itself is a branch line of the old underground sewer.
There is only an open space on the ground surrounded by a low wall, and in the middle of the open space is an underground passage leading to the old sewer.
Therefore, shelter villages do not need to be protected by gods, and such villages only exist around Midnight City.
The Pulisi fleet will stop here for thirty minutes to sell and purchase supplies, as well as accept new passengers.
Pusius couldn't wait to run into the distant wilderness to urinate, and Lu Li and Catalina followed him out of the dull carriage.
"Mr. Lu Li, we are almost out of the Dark Fields!"
Pusius, who ran back, lowered his voice excitedly: "When I was digging the pit, I saw the loess below."
The name of the Darkfield comes from the dark, silt-like soil of this land. Outside of the field, the soil returns to its normal color.
This also makes the Dark Fields more depressing and dull than other places, as if even the wind is silent.
"Beru? Beru...you are here."
An old voice suddenly sounded from behind him, and a skinny hand held Lu Li's black robe.
Lu Li turned his head and looked at the elderly woman who had made a mistake. Her eyes were covered by a black cloth.
"I'm not Beru." Lu Li said.
The old woman let go of her palm and realized that she had recognized the wrong person: "Sorry, I'm looking for my niece..."
The elderly woman on crutches turned awkwardly to leave.
"Does she have any characteristics?" Lu Li suddenly said.
"Beru, she can't speak..." the old woman simply described the image of a girl with braided braids.
They are residents of Shelter Village and bought tickets to Storm Cape.
"Beru said she was going to buy water, but I've been waiting for a long time and she hasn't come back yet..." the elderly woman said worriedly.
"We will tell you when we see her," Lu Li said.
"Thank you..."
As Lu Li and the others watched, the elderly woman staggered away and continued to search for her niece among the motorcade.
"That girl named Beru will not go too far without leaving her elders." Pusius raised his head and asked Lu Li: "Are we going to help find Mr. Lu Li?"
"Um."
There are still ten minutes left before the convoy starts again.
"Wait a minute." Catalina stopped them. "Aren't you worried that this is a conspiracy? Don't forget what happened in Midnight City."
"We will not leave the convoy." Lu Li said.
Leaving the carriage, they walked towards the center of the convoy near the wall of the sheltered village.
As they approached the wall, a faint noise could be heard.
"I just came out of the motorcade... Please, at least let me send the kettle in." A woman begged.
"Sorry, you can't go in without a ticket."
People from Pulisi's motorcade stopped her outside.
"Are you Beru?"
A calm word rang out, and the pleading woman was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously replied: "I am! I am Beru."
The woman looked at Lu Li in a cloak and Catalina in a hunter's costume with confusion. She couldn't remember where she had seen them before: "...you know me?"
"An old man asked us to find her niece." Lu Li replied.
"That's me!" The woman pointed to herself and handed the heavy kettle to Lu Li with a sigh of relief: "Help me give the kettle to Aunt Carolina!"
Lu Li's dark eyes fell on the kettle held by the woman: "Aren't you going in with us?"
The woman showed her panic for a moment: "...I don't have a ticket."
Lu Li calmly stared at the woman who called herself Beilu.
Her dark eyes as quiet as a pool made it impossible for her to look at each other. She lowered her head and told the truth: "Actually, I am not Beru..."
Catalina pressed her palms to her eye sockets and stared at the woman with her other eye.
"It was a girl named Beru who asked me to do this..."
The seemingly complicated story is not complicated at all. The reason is that Carolina and her niece Beru, who depend on each other for life, want to go to the dream land, the ice-free port of Vina.
But they didn't have that much money, so Beru came up with a good idea - to sell himself and use the money to buy a bus ticket and a boat ticket for Aunt Carolina.
With some of the remaining money, she hired a woman to pretend to be herself for the day until she sent Aunt Carolina into the motorcade.
Aunt Carolina was unable to stay awake most of the day due to the pollution. Coupled with her eye disease, she couldn't tell that her niece was a different person.
After listening to the story silently, when Lu Li asked the woman where to find Beru, the woman said it was too late.
The real Beru is probably dead somewhere in the wilderness.