The cold wind moved southward in force, and the smoke that pushed the scarecrow village spread out for several miles.
Straw piled in abandoned farmland fueled the flames and blocked the path to survival outside the village.
Thick smoke penetrates into the clouds, and even if you are more than ten miles away, you can still see the smoke behind you, which is darker than the clouds.
The people on the road began to encounter strange things frequently, and strange things like vultures were surrounding them.
With Evil Fall's keen sense, they avoided the strange things in advance. Some of them were unavoidable, or were attracted by Lu Li's aura, but they were not very powerful, so Evil Fall and Katarina quickly defeated them.
Their next stop was Yuri Village. It was marked on the map of the old era, but not on the map of the strange era. It was most likely abandoned or destroyed.
If confirmed, they would have to spend the night there, then take some detours through the Selma Mountains and enter the quiet plains with a pleasant climate.
The cold airflow going south is blocked by the Selma Mountains, which is not so cold and not so prosperous.
If they don't deviate from the direction, they will arrive at Yuri Village in the evening.
As noon approached, the reissue suddenly stopped.
His face was replaced by an abyss-like dark hole.
"How is it possible..."
Dark whispers sounded from the depths of the abyss.
"What?" Catalina covered her eyes and alerted her surroundings.
The size of the pores on the evil face represents the dangerous size. This is the first time that the pores have spread all over the face.
"The body of an evil spirit is there."
The evil fall turned to the southwest.
Lu Li raised his black eyes, and the rolling hills blocked his sight.
"Do you know what it is?"
"have no idea."
"You stay here."
Lu Li walked towards the direction of the evil spirit. Catalina blocked him and frowned: "Are you crazy? That's an evil spirit."
Although she knew that the "Anna" Lu Li was looking for was the evil spirit.
"It is known that evil spirits are not dangerous." Lu Li seemed to still be calm.
The real danger is the evil spirits whose rituals are unknown.
"You don't know if that evil spirit is known, right?" Catalina once again blocked Lu Li who was avoiding him. "Don't you notice that something is wrong with you? You are neglecting your own life."
Lu Li's steps suddenly stopped.
"Whether you want to die for love or something, your life is related to a lot, to us, to the ice-free port of Wiener, to human civilization. Don't forget what the mayor said, people cannot bear the blow of the last exorcist disappearing
!”
Catalina gasped, and her words that Li Ziye couldn't understand showed how angry she was inside.
"And isn't 'Anna' very important to you? You are also very important to her, right? Can't she sense you?"
After a moment of silence, Lu Li nodded gently.
"I see."
Lu Li no longer wanted to get close to the evil spirit. Katarina finally breathed a sigh of relief and vented her frustrations over the past few days.
"This is the first time I've seen Mr. Lu Li so impulsive..." Pusius came to Katerina's feet and whispered, "Miss Katerina, what you said is great."
"Maybe he was affected by the weirdness." Catalina was still thinking.
"Not necessarily. The calmer the person, the more things he cares about." Pusius raised his head and said, "I saw it in a book."
As he continued on his way, the abyss on Xianluo's face gradually shrank and returned to abstract facial features.
They are staying away from that unknown evil spirit.
Perhaps because of the evil spirits wandering around here, they didn't encounter any strange things for a while.
But after climbing over a hill, an unexpected sight appeared at the far end.
It's noon now, and a village stands quietly in the distance on the hills.
Lu Li took out a compass and map.
They did not deviate from the direction, and there was no mark on the village on the old and new maps.
It was an unnamed village that was not recorded, blocking the way of people heading south.
"Be careful." Catalina warned before approaching.
Slowing down, Lu Li and others approached the village half an hour later.
The nameless village is not as lifeless as the scarecrow village. There are almost no villagers and many villagers are wandering around the village.
The abyss on the evil face shrank back to normal, and a whisper came from under the cloak: "There is nothing. Here... it is very clean..."
"Cleanliness is not a good thing, right?" Catalina narrowed her eyes as she looked at the figures in the village.
A clean village cannot survive a day in the wild.
In a way, clean means "less clean".
In any case, they inevitably go into the village to trace Anna's whereabouts.
The nearest villager noticed them and raised his head slowly and numbly: "Outsiders...?"
"We are investigating an incident about the resurrection of the dead." Catalina got straight to the point. If possible, they would not stay here too long.
It's enough for Scarecrow Village to happen once.
"Investigate...investigate...?" The middle-aged villager paused for more than ten seconds and suddenly shouted: "They...have...knowledge..."
Slow and muffled shouts echoed over the village.
"Knowledge?"
"Knowledge?"
This word spread like a plague, reverberating throughout the village.
"I don't feel right..."
The villagers behaved like some of the slow, slow animals she'd heard about in Midnight City.
And their reactions are disturbing.
Looking around, villagers were gathering from all directions.
Catalina pulled out the dagger and put her other hand on her eye socket, but the next moment, a feeling of powerlessness flooded her body.
snap
The dagger she was holding tightly fell into the dirt, and Katarina fell down as she lost strength.
The same fallen evil degenerate.
Pusius, the only one who was okay, was about to shout when Lu Li's whisper sounded in his ears.
"Don't resist."
Seeing Lu Li also fall down, Pusius gave up struggling and pretended to have fainted.
…
Katerina slowly woke up.
The rough touch coming from the wrist behind him explained the situation at this moment.
Katerina raised her head and looked around.
They were locked up in a hut, with torches on the walls, and Psius, like herself, was tied to a stake.
There was light outside the window, it must not have been too long.
Lu Li and Pusius had already woken up, and Evil Fall had just woken up.
"What's going on..."
Catalina tried to struggle, but the exhaustion deep in her body made it difficult for her to muster her strength.
"Something to stun us."
Lu Li's calm voice sounded from the side. In Catalina's stunned eyes, the palm holding the dagger stretched out from behind and the hemp rope slipped.
"Lu Li, you..."
"Pretending to be faint."
Lu Li, who broke free from the hemp rope, went around behind Catalina and cut her hemp rope, followed by Pusius, who was pitifully tied to a wooden stake with his legs dangling in the air.
"The villagers here believe in the poison of knowledge and are ready to sacrifice us."
"Wait, speak slower." Catalina moved her wrist and covered her forehead. "I feel like it's hard to concentrate..."
“There is a source of pollution in the village that suppresses thinking.”
Lu Li's next words were as simple and brief as possible.
"It's no coincidence that the Poison of Knowledge is nearby."
