Mayor Mateusz Knox looked at the hanging silhouette from the ceiling with fear.
It's just a little short of the bed.
"Don't get too close, Sir Lu Li." The mayor's assistant carefully blocked Lu Li from entering the room.
"It's okay, it's a dirty spirit, a weird thing in dreams." The old woman opened her dirty, yellow and necrotic teeth, and approached Lu Li offensively and took a deep breath, waving her long and slender tongue like a snake: "It was captured by our exorcist.
The wonderful smell attracts.”
"Smell?" Pusius sniffed hard, remembering that she might be talking about human nature.
The old woman started the exorcism ritual, and she didn't mind watching from outside the door. She sprinkled bone meal-like powder around the protrusion, raised her spine crutch, and tapped the floor gently and solemnly.
bang
The strange ripples that can be watched by everyone spread at the point where the crutch hits the spine, and when it touches the sprinkled powder, it suddenly ignites a vicious and dim flame that makes one feel sick and dizzy at the sight, like a flower swaying and scattering, floating, and adhering to the raised outline.
, just like falling on kerosene and spreading.
The suddenly intensified nausea made people's skulls tremble, and they couldn't help but step back and stay away from the exorcism ceremony.
Caterina closed her eyes to block her vision. Pusius was safe and sound. The merchant was not here. He was always elusive, disappearing and reappearing suddenly.
Lu Li only felt slightly uncomfortable.
For a moment, everyone present heard a shrill scream that disappeared into nothingness.
The vicious flames that have lost their fuel are extinguished, and the ashes turn into fluorescent light and scatter.
A shocking scene suddenly occurred. The old woman let go of her crutches, crawled down like a beast, stretched out her long and slender tongue and greedily licked the ashes falling on the bed and floor.
The wrinkled face covered with mysterious lines slowly relaxed and unfolded. The old woman got up from the floor, picked up the spinal crutch that had fallen aside, and returned to the door with it.
"It's dead."
"Thank you for your hard work, Miss Rosanna." The mayor's assistant thanked him respectfully.
The old woman who was called Miss Rosanna didn't say anything, she just looked at Lu Li with a look that seemed to be coveting, and walked away with the soft sound of the crutch hitting the floor.
"Miss?" Catalina asked the mayor's assistant.
"Roseanne is only twenty-six years old. She became like this because of weird powers." Mayor Mateusz Knox took the initiative to explain: "This is why we are disgusted with weird things... There is always a price to pay for contact with them."
Lu Li remained silent, thinking that if he touched the old woman with his left hand, she would not be harmed.
"So the Vina Ice-Free Port is the same as Midnight City, right?" Pusius was very disappointed. He thought that the Verna Ice-Free Port would be different and the purest human habitat.
Even though he is already one of the weird ones.
"There is a big difference. For example, we do not actively use weird powers." There were some things that Mateusz Knox could not say, so he could only be conveyed by the mayor's assistant: "And our cutting-edge personal combat power is not them, it is
Steam Knight of the Inquisition.”
The assistant's words made Mateusz Knox sigh and look around silently.
There is still trouble waiting for him.
Although the weirdness has been solved, what happened cannot be concealed. Before dawn, it will infiltrate all the MPs and nobles, and then be published as news by the newspapers owned by the political opponents, spreading throughout the Vina Freeze Port.
The only good thing is that the city hall solved the problem on its own and was not serious enough to send out steam knights.
The Trial House, Weiner's Freezing Port, is another mainstay in dealing with strange things, besides the battleship, and even more important than the battleship. The ship cannot set foot on land and can only sail on the sea.
The Steam Knights are a fighting force affiliated with the Tribunal. They are only dispatched by the mayor and only fight against weirdos. They are fully armed, just like the night watchmen of the old days, but they are more extreme than the night watchmen.
When Lu Li arrived, the Inquisition was one of the enthusiastic invitations, but after learning that Lu Li was surrounded by strange people, the leader of the Steam Knights came to the Inquisition and immediately revoked the invitation.
To a certain extent this is not a bad thing, combat troops need extremes to maintain their purity.
The stretched and misshapen ceiling still hung from the bed, like a corpse.
Just in case, they changed Lu Li's room to a guest room far away from the room where the accident occurred.
The view here is better. Not only can you see the distant port and half of Wiener's ice-free harbor, but you can also see the industrial area from the side window, but people on the street can also see it.
Mayor Mateusz Knox quickly confessed and left, the sky became bright, and he had to deal with the remaining troubles.
When everyone left, only Catalina and Pusius were left in the room, and sobbing came from the hood.
The eldest sister pretended to cry by rubbing the mask's eyes with both hands, and cried to Lu Li to throw it away when he got up.
Rather than needing an apology, it's more like being coquettish about someone you know well.
Soon after, the mayor's assistant appeared outside and said that something happened around the city hall last night and told him not to be nervous.
The strange fog slowly retreated into the deep sea, and Lu Li walked to the bedside. The early morning mist enveloped the streets, and the moist and cold air condensed with dew.
He saw the busy crowds on the streets, and the deep ravines surrounded by them, like being plowed out by ship anchors and made of stone bricks and soil.
This is what the mayor's assistant said, the existence in the strange fog destroyed it, and the traces extend intermittently from the port to the industrial area.
Workers wasted no time in repairing and preparing to restore it to its original appearance before citizens appeared on the streets.
Before leaving the window, Lu Li saw a group of figures in strange attire, wearing robes similar to those of cultists but with complicated dark gold inscriptions printed on them, approaching the ravine.
They are what the mayor calls a court of justice.
The spreading traces of destruction aroused the vigilance of the Tribunal, who came to investigate the source of the traces.
The members of the trial court on the street were unaware that Lu Li was watching from upstairs.
"Was anyone in Midnight City attacked last night?" Lu Li asked, tilting his head.
"Uh...a little less than usual." The mayor's assistant carefully chose his words.
"Is this common?"
"...weirds don't like it here, but trouble still shows up from time to time. You know, many weirdos are invisible and invisible, like evil spirits."
It is indeed difficult to guard against the evil spirits moving in the dream, and the person being attacked is difficult to be awakened by the outside world. If it were not for the lighthouse, Lu Li would have fallen asleep until he was touched by the evil spirits.
And these are always unavoidable, unless the Vina Ice-free Port learns from the desolate land, but then the Vina Ice-free Port will no longer bear the name of "Old Glory".
Is this also part of what Mayor Mateusz Knox calls sordid?
"Is there any new news about the girl's shadow and the merchant?" Lu Li asked.
"Not yet."
There is still only one clue - the Cat of the Hillerweg Mountains.
Lu Li then asked about the ship's maintenance status.
It cooperated very well, and at the same time, the damage was more serious than the surface. The entire power cabin was flooded, and most of the bottom cabins were filled with seawater due to cracked portholes. If it was not a weird ship and was just an ordinary ship, it would have been buried on the seabed long ago.
The mayor's assistant said that the repairs may last a week, not including renovation and rust removal. He also revealed that they are investigating to trace the origin of the big ship.
"It's been too long," Lu Li said.
"What do you mean?" the mayor's assistant was confused.