The ice-free port of Wiener, shrouded in a strange fog, was silent.
Lu Li and the others were waiting in the ward.
Now is not the best time. It is not safe in the strange fog, especially for Lu Li.
Near dawn is the time for them to take action.
There will be fewer and fewer people in the fog, and the guards guarding and monitoring the surroundings of the hospital will become slacker.
Catalina and Barry rested in their seats. As time passed, the hands of the clock in the corner coincided at the lowest point.
In the old days, it was already early morning even in winter, but now it is still late at night. It is almost 7 o'clock before the outside world can be seen without the help of an oil lamp.
But it's time for them to get ready to leave.
The doctor who checked every hour knocked on the door of the ward again, smelling of disinfectant. Lu Li told him that they would take a rest and there would be no need to check again before the morning, and asked the guards outside the door to leave.
"That's okay, Exorcist, your recovery speed is very fast."
The doctor sounded respectful, checked Lu Li's wounds and then left the ward.
Click.
The door closed, and Caterina stepped forward to hang the latch.
Barry took the initiative to pick up the suitcase.
"Don't worry, let's wait." Catalina glanced at Lu Li and said to Barry.
…
"His Excellency the Exorcist said not to disturb him anymore..."
In the dean's office on the same floor as the ward, the doctor narrated the conversation with Lu Li and left the room.
"Your Excellency Lu Li is sleepy." The mayor's assistant yawned. He hadn't slept all day.
Mayor Mateus, who also hadn't slept all day, took a sip of warm coffee and said, "Maybe he sensed that we were spying on him. How long is it until dawn?"
"Less than an hour and a half."
"When the time comes, we will go over to visit and ask the guards on that floor to return first." Mayor Mateus said, still a little worried. "There are guards stationed on the top floor of Bronte Department Store, right? Let people enter the room and keep an eye on it from the window.
The ward is delivered every ten minutes. No need...I'll go there myself."
Mayor Mateus stood up, waited until his assistant put on his coat, and left the office.
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Wow
Tie your tie tightly and gather up your shirt collar to cover your neck bandage, leaving only the edges exposed.
After Lu Li left the hospital bed, he tidied up the quilt. Catalina thought he was going to fold it, but Lu Li made the quilt even more messy. He also stuffed the pillow into the quilt to reveal the outline. Then he moved the clothes hanger behind the door to the window, pulled off the sheets and covered the clothes hanger.
superior.
Although it looks nondescript, when looking at the curtains from the outside, it looks like a figure leaning against the window.
"What are you doing?" Katerina didn't understand.
Pusius felt familiar, he must have read a similar plot in some book!
"If they are monitoring, they can delay it for a while." Lu Li replied.
"Aren't we waiting for the merchants?"
Barry, who was carrying a suitcase, asked honestly, as if he was not worried that the businessman would be like last time.
It is strange that the businessmen who exist in this world hate Barry. Fortunately, Barry does not dislike the businessmen because of this and intensify the conflict.
"It will find us." Lu Li said, walking to the ward door and unbolting the door.
"I didn't expect that a dignified exorcist would take his turn to do such a thing..."
Catalina whispered helplessly before opening the door.
"We're going to sneak out!"
The only excited eldest sister loves this game.
squeak
The sound of the door being opened carried far away in the silence.
Dim light poured from the ceiling lights, and the corridor was empty. There were no patients, doctors, or guards.
Lu Li and the others walked quietly along the long corridor that reverberated even the slightest sound and smelled of disinfectant.
They reached the stairs at the end of the corridor, but the rest was not so smooth. When they went down to the second floor, they were stopped by the guards downstairs.
The guards only exited the third floor, but did not leave the hospital.
"Which way to go?"
Katarina whispered.
There is another staircase to Weinstein Hospital, but there should be guards there as well.
"Climb out the window."
Giving up the idea of trying their luck on another staircase, they returned to the corridor, opened the ward doors one by one, found the unlocked ward, and pushed the door open to enter.
A young girl was leaning against the bedside, quietly reading a book, while a middle-aged maid lay sleeping beside her.
The stranger who suddenly broke in frightened her. She exclaimed and raised her book to cover her face, leaving only her clear eyes exposed.
"The Last Exorcist," reads the book cover.
The fear in the girl's wide eyes suddenly turned into surprise. She looked at Lu Li, then lowered her head at the book in her hand, and suddenly became excited.
Catalina thought that Lu Li's story might be written on it, so she whispered, "Can you keep it a secret?"
The middle-aged maid was not woken up, and the girl nodded quickly.
Opening the window, the cold night wind blew open the curtains, and Catalina jumped down while holding the back of Pusius's neck. Barry threw the suitcase to Catalina below to catch it, and climbed up the window sill himself.
"You can tell them if they ask."
Lu Li tilted his head and said to the girl with shining eyes, and jumped down when she exclaimed.
"Well..."
A low groan sounded beside her, and the middle-aged maid who was awakened slowly opened her eyes.
"Miss..." She looked up at the girl who quickly lowered her head and pretended to read a book, and looked out the window in confusion: "Why is the window open..."
Downstairs of Weinstein Hospital, Lu Li and others walked out of the fake flowerbed made with colorful dyes.
The dye has already dried, so you don’t have to worry about it staining your clothes.
Bypassing the guards stationed there, they sneaked into the empty streets shrouded in mist.
"This is the direction of the port."
Catalina tilted her head and asked Lu Li, who was holding an oil lamp: "Are we going to leave on a big ship?"
In the deserted streets, only the streetlights glowed dimly, and the surrounding fog made her feel uncomfortable, as if some kind of existence was peering in here.
"It needs to be kept for repairs," Lu Li said. "We can say goodbye to it before leaving."
Saying goodbye without saying goodbye may cause some trouble.
"All right……"
Although Catalina often feels a strong aura of the old times in Lu Li, there are also times when she feels that Lu Li is more like a person of this era than she is, such as now.
Even she has trouble seeing cold things as "communicable beings."
It took half an hour to arrive at the port. The sky seemed to be lighter than before, but it seemed to be just an illusion. The huge shadow in the dormant fog of the ship repair yard appeared ahead.
There was no one stationed here, and there was no need to station one. Lu Li and the others successfully entered the ship repair yard.
Lu Li approached the big ship and told it their arrangement: it would just stay here and wait for their return.
After a short wait, the eldest sister in the hood raised her hands and cheered: "It agreed!"
As soon as he finished speaking, there was suddenly a loud shouting outside the main door of the maintenance shop.
They couldn't see the guards, only the noisy footsteps and the clanging of armor sounded from the mist, and the dim light of fire dyed the mist red.
"They found us, damn it!" Katarina cursed in a low voice.
"So fast!"
Pusius marveled that they had only been away for a short time before they were found missing and found here.
You'll be fine if you get caught by the guards, but it'll be harder to leave later.
