She had never heard of Anna, but she could guess that she was the family Lu Li had been looking for.
"You go back and wait for me."
Lu Li's eyes blended into the night and it was difficult to distinguish his emotions.
"I've followed you all the way here, I have to see the end..." Catalina looked around at the cat, the corpse, the smell of blood, the sound of the sea breeze, and the cat's meowing, and chose to follow.
Pusius and the merchant were no exception, and even the evil degenerates did not return.
Torches and oil lamps illuminated the surroundings. The road under their feet turned into a deserted dirt road, and the buildings on both sides no longer showed the edges. They left the small town of Nice and entered the mountain forest under the leadership of Flowing Cat.
Whining sounds blew through the treetops, and after walking for more than ten minutes, a hunter's cabin integrated with the forest appeared in front of him.
"Meow"
The flowing cat is sitting next to the door, its slender tail curled along its body like a silhouette, indicating that this is the destination.
click
Everyone's attention fell back to the figure from the hunter's cabin, who loaded bullets into the psychic gun.
Catalina suddenly couldn't understand Lu Li's behavior.
The person named Anna who was being sought by the man who never showed any emotions before his eyes, as if he was the embodiment of reason, should be his extremely important person.
Not an enemy, nor hated by him.
But why?
"Again?"
A soft and sad whisper suddenly sounded in my ears.
"You want to kill me again, don't you..."
Lu Li raised his black eyes and looked at the slowly emerging silhouette deep in the forest.
Meow
A cat-like meow came from far away and from close by, pulling Lu Li out of his delirium.
The mist in the direction Lu Li was looking was stirred up by something, and the sea surface melted like a whirlpool and disappeared into the depths.
The illusion was only aimed at Lu Li, who had many thoughts.
Lu Li looked away, the hand holding the psychic gun hanging down by his side, and Lu Li stretched out his hand to push the wooden door.
squeak
The dust-sealed wooden door slowly opened, and the dust fell, blown away by the incoming wind, covering the small house.
In the haze where the dust has not yet settled, repetitive, messy words filling every corner emerged before my eyes.
The ceiling, the walls, the floor, the repeated words of repentance are written everywhere where you can stay and be seen.
They are like distorted eyes under the mist, staring maliciously at uninvited guests standing outside the door and entering the hut, disturbing the tranquility.
The desk covered with repeated words was covered with thick dust, the windows were dimly illuminated by a halo of light, and the ashes in the fireplace had long been blown away by the wind.
Anna is here.
once.
"Where is Anna?"
Lu Li lowered his head and stared at the flowing cat at his feet.
"Meow"
"Sister, what did He say?"
"It's too complicated, I can't understand it!" The elder sister's head emerged from the hood.
Lu Li was silent, walked to the desk, and opened the dusty notebook.
Page after page, until the last page, no new content appears.
The clues return to the flowing cat. He knows something, but it is difficult to communicate with him.
"Do you have a way to know what He said?" Lu Li asked the eldest sister.
The eldest sister didn't scream or answer crisply anymore, and fell into some kind of hesitation.
"You can go to the church in Vig Town." Catalina glanced at the flowing cat, not daring to look directly at it like Lu Li did. "They are believers, they must know what He said."
Lu Li nodded lightly and looked at the flowing cat: "Can you take us there?"
Meow
The flowing cat walked gracefully outside the hunter's hut. Catalina and others stepped away from the door, and Lu Li followed and left the hut.
Stopping his steps, quietly looking back at the words in the room, Lu Li gently closed the door.
Because of the flowing cat, they don't have to wait for the strange fog to clear at dawn before setting off.
The cats clustering around me raised their tails with curved tips, as if looking for food.
Pusius, who was very close to his kind, wanted to jump into them and play, but he was not in the mood at all now. Even the eldest sister noticed the change in Lu Li's mood.
They had never seen such emotion in Lu Li.
There is something suppressing beneath the calm and dead water.
They just hope they can get to the town of Vig as soon as possible, and that the answer is there.
…
At midnight, the vigil believers who were awakened by the knock on the door yawned and walked towards the door.
In addition to the knocking on the door, there was also the meowing of a group of cats. The vigil believers thought it was Old Hans, because he was the only one with so many cats around him.
But when he opened the door and saw several figures outside the door, as well as an elegant and noble shadow-like black cat squatting at the feet of a man with black hair and black eyes, his scream woke up everyone who was sleeping in the "church".
Flowing Cat Church Hall.
Without colored windows and benches, the church lobby is simply a first-floor hall with useless tables and chairs removed.
"Messengers of the Lord"
The church priest, a middle-aged man with gray hair and beard, bowed to them.
Lu Li told him why he came, and the flowing cat barked in agreement.
"This... we cannot understand the Lord's language." The priest expressed embarrassment. "The Lord never sends oracles, communicates with us, or asks for sacrifices..."
The flowing cat is not a god.
The church has a poor population and never offers sacrifices. The sparse faith is not enough to support the flowing cat to become a god. Their rituals are inherited from the traditional church and they do nothing except mass.
Lu Li was silent.
Even the church cannot understand the words of the flowing cat.
"Is it important to you to know what it says?"
The eldest sister suddenly said, her voice huddled in her hood turning into a low voice.
"Very important."
"...I want the stitches from the little girl's most cherished doll, the two buttons from the dress that has been with her mother the longest, and the needle from the most expensive doll that has ever been sewn."
After a brief silence, the eldest sister asked Lu Li for three strange things.
Lu Li looked at the priest, who hesitated and said: "You can find it in the first two towns, but the last one..."
Without pausing, Lu Li said to the merchant: "Go back to Weiner Freeze Port to collect it."
"Let Mr. Businessman leave? But what if Barry shows up?" Pusius' face showed concern.
"The evil fallen and flowing cats are here."
Evil spirits are sensitive to malice, flowing cats may be able to detect falsehoods, and
Lu Li took out the notes from his suitcase and turned to the page that said "Barry is an evil spirit".
The priest called the believers to look for the first two things, and the merchants also walked out of the church and returned to the other world when no one could see them.
Pusius couldn't help but comfort Lu Li: "Don't worry, Mr. Lu Li, we are very close to the truth."
"yes."
Barry also echoed: "We will have the answer when the merchant comes back with the things."