A lengthy motorcade piles up outside Storm Point Bay.
There is still some time before the night high tide, and people are gathering around the motorcade, staring at the Storm Cape with wonder.
"Don't hold out hope that he can come back." Bastos, who was leaning on the cargo box, snorted: "Although I admire his stupidity."
"Lu...he won't die!" Pusius argued loudly.
"No one can survive death, even the gods will be eaten one day." Bastos had no intention of quarreling with the little guy, looking at the world's back mountains in the distance on the horizon.
"But you brought us with you just because you thought he could come back." Catalina, who crossed her arms, sneered.
Bastos, who seemed to have a hot temper and was unapproachable, remained silent.
After a while, the knights on the periphery of the convoy came and told Bastos that they had noticed something approaching.
"Mr. Lu Li must be back!"
Pusius rushed over impatiently.
Catalina also followed, worry hidden in the depths of her eyes. She hoped that Lu Li would really come back...otherwise, if he didn't live in the wilderness for a day, his chance of survival would be lower.
"Lu Li?"
Bastos whispered the name that Pusius accidentally missed and frowned.
The approaching dark shadow caused panic in the convoy.
The scene in the monocular telescope spread, and what was close to them was a giant tree-like strange thing.
Bastos and his knights maintained order and shouted "This is a safe zone, weird people dare not step in" to prevent the convoy from becoming chaotic.
Just in case, several caravans in Pulisi's convoy opened their tarpaulins, revealing the strange crossbow vehicles and strong aura hidden underneath, and alerted them to the approaching tree men.
It was getting closer and closer, and when the outline was almost visible, the men who were holding telescopes to observe came to him in panic and told him: there was a person standing in the strange tree man's hand.
…
"Stop it."
Lu Li stood in the palm of the guardian's hand.
The guardian, who was as stubborn as a tree, did not listen to Lu Li's words and continued to support him forward.
When they arrived at the convoy and saw the panic on people's faces, as well as Bastos standing in front of the ballista surrounded by knights, the guardian stopped his heavy steps and helped Lu Li down.
"Welcome, home, guest."
Muffled thunderous whispers rolled around.
Lu Li, who had reached the ground, looked back at him: "I will do it."
The guardian stood up, turned and walked into the rising dust.
"We should keep it." The eldest sister in the hood said. "That way no one will dare to bully us anymore."
"Not now."
Withdrawing his gaze, Lu Li looked at the piled up motorcade and a hyena running towards him with its tongue wagging.
"Mr. Lu Li!"
He circled around Lu Li's feet, twisting his butt and wagging his tail almost like the propeller of a steamship.
He behaves more like a domestic dog than a hyena-turned-human or a hyena.
Catalina then came over with wonder and confusion: "Is that weird? It can actually help you..."
"This is Mr. Lu Li!"
Pusius believed in Lu Li unconditionally.
Of course, he was a little worried when Lu Li didn't come back for a whole day.
"Is the problem solved?" Katarina also felt much more relaxed.
"It won't haunt us anymore."
Lu Li answered, raising his eyes and looking behind Catalina.
Bastos ordered the knights and servants to retreat and approached them alone, his face gloomy.
"Who are you anyway?"
"Lu Li."
"The rumored exorcist?"
"Um."
"...I will pretend that I heard nothing." Bastos finally chose to ignore it. He is just the leader of this motorcade. He should not know too many secrets, and he cannot afford the price of secrets: "I take back what I said before.
To solicit."
He was lucky: when he asked Caterina and the hyena named Pusius to follow him, they did not use force.
"Wait a minute." Lu Li stopped Bastos who was about to leave: "Have you seen the escaped... slaves?"
"Slave? That piece of meat...he didn't come back." After saying the offensive words, Bastos, who seemed reckless at first, retracted his words in time.
A slave suffering from severe lack of blood and smelling of blood could hardly escape in the wilderness, or he was not stupid enough to return to the convoy and become a slave again.
Hopefully it's the latter.
When Bastos returned, he told his men that Lu Li was a guest of a nobleman and warned them not to disturb him and to stay friendly.
In fact, there was no need for Bastos' warning. Anyone who saw Lu Li being sent back by the giant monster did not dare to provoke him.
Lu Li returned to the convoy while watching secretly.
"Where's Carolina?"
"She has left..." Pusius's raised tail lowered. "We tried to stop her but failed."
"What happened?" Lu Li frowned.
Pusius told Lu Li what happened next.
"I persuaded myself in my heart that Wei Na Freeze Port is our dream. I should go there with her dream, but I can't leave Beru here alone..."
Leaving words and words of gratitude for their help, in his last conscious moments, the old man who could not see anything walked into the wilderness alone.
Sad ending.
Lu Li came to the bay and looked at the dozens of standing stone pillars in the bay: they were almost straight, the tops of the stone pillars that were a hundred meters high were parallel to the ground, and the narrow tops with a diameter of only a few tens of meters were crowded with buildings.
Some bridges connect the central pillars, but most of the edge pillars do not have this treatment.
These stone pillars are Storm Point, and the residents live on them.
Storm Point was obviously not like this in the past, but after the disaster... the old city of Storm Point sank, leaving only a few dozen stone pillars.
Lu Li looked at the bottom of the bay, and saw only white waves lapping against the rugged rocks.
"How do the residents above leave?" Lu Li asked.
Without ropes and steps, how can these nearly independent stone pillars communicate with the outside world?
Pusius told Lu Li that the tide would fill up the bay after nightfall, and they could take a boat to Midnight City.
Tide rising hundreds of meters high?
Lu Li looked at the distant coastline and couldn't understand it. But considering that Pulisi's convoy and several other convoys were waiting in front of the bay, and there were some ships parked on the sea outside the bay, this was the only possibility.
"Why don't the residents here leave?"
Cape Storm is not a safe place by any means.
"Gods." Pusius' voice subconsciously became softer when he said this word: "The gods are protecting this place."
So the Priscilla team and the rest of the team stayed here, waiting for the night.
As time passed, at five o'clock in the afternoon, a strange fog emerged from the sea and was blocked by the Storm Cape Spirit.
Night completely enveloped the deserted land.
The convoy lit up the light of oil lamps and fluorite lamps, and arc-shaped fluorescent lights lit up along the edge of the bay.
Star-like points of light also lit up on the stone pillars of Storm Point. The closer to the center, the brighter the light.
Gradually, Lu Li heard the distant sound of waves becoming clearer.
"Everyone, stay back!" the knights on horseback shouted as they passed by.
In addition to the passengers who were amazed and wanted to spy on what was happening in the darkness, the team workers who had experienced it countless times had already begun to unload the cargo.
While waiting under the oil lamp, a damp and cool feeling hit my face.