One hundred and nine. You can regret it, but you can't look back
The bonfire was "cracking" and burning.
A heat source dissipates the chill in a drafty cabin.
The silent village was enveloped at night, and a strange surging fog swallowed up the brainless corpses outside.
The shadow of the poison of knowledge has gone away from them, and as a price...
Catalina, Evil Fall, and Pusius huddled on one side of the campfire, while Lu Li sat alone on the other side.
The sound of a crawling hollow sounded in the shadow blocked by Lu Li's shadow. Katarina and others tried not to look in that direction.
The people who are suffering are behind Lu Li.
Its existence makes them afraid to look at it, but it also has advantages.
Don't worry about weird things approaching in the fog.
The shadows could not hide the fat people like buckets of suffering, and their blinking and rotating eyes appeared in the gap between light and darkness, making Lu Li like a god with a strange background on the stained glass window of a church, which was awe-inspiring.
"Will it really not eat us..."
Pusius asked for the seventh time, his muffled whisper lingering only around the campfire.
Even the eldest sister who settled in the hood felt uncomfortable and chose to sit down on the crook of Lu Li's legs.
"Um."
"Why not..."
"ceremony."
The evil spirits and villagers approaching dozens of minutes ago made the panicked Pusius fail to remember the "knowledge" that Lu Li told him.
"Suffering people will only fight back against those who harm them."
"We hurt it too..."
Worried about being heard by the suffering people, Pusius's whisper was burned up by the flames.
If Katarina wasn't around, and if the apocalypse book hadn't been enlarged, he wouldn't even have noticed that Pusius had just spoken.
"The damage has a threshold, and the damage from throwing stones is not enough for the suffering people to fight back."
They don't understand the meaning of "threshold", but it doesn't prevent them from understanding the meaning of these words.
"Why is it still following us?"
Knowing that the suffering people would not harm them, Pusius spoke a little louder.
"It's still a ceremony."
The bonfire became stronger and heated up. Lu Li moved away from the flames and got closer to the suffering people behind him.
"We hurt the Hard One, fell into its rituals, and it couldn't fight back because the threshold wasn't reached."
"I know, it's the same as the poison of knowledge, right? The poison of knowledge wants to eat the villagers, but the villagers will not be eaten without knowledge."
Pusius said excitedly, receiving approval from Lu Li and quickly wagging his tail out of recognition.
"I thought it would be safer to return to your hometown. Now I see that the Main Continent is much more dangerous than the Desolate Land." Katarina doesn't like this kind of life. At least most of the towns in the Desolate Land are safe and friendly enough to not leave.
There will be no danger in the safe zone.
She has encountered more life and death crises in the past few days than she has faced in more than ten years of survival in the wilderness.
"Go back to the barren land and cry to your mother."
The Evil Fall controlled the five senses to prevent them from spreading due to evil spirits, and taunted Katarina with extreme malice.
"He needs your disgust." Pusius said quickly, fearing that Caterina would be angry.
"Don't pretend to be smart, little beast."
Pusius whined and tucked his tail.
Even though he knew the reason why Evil Fall said that, he still felt hurt.
Of course, Katarina knew why the villain said that. And because of her previous behavior that left her in a bad mood, Katarina's impression of the villain changed, and it was difficult to bring up her bad feelings.
"Don't bother, it's hard for us to hate you now."
The messy hair hung down in front of her forehead, swaying in the hot air. Catalina raised her arms to collect her hair, and hit the back of her head with her elbow.
It's one thing not to dislike it, it's another thing to punish bad mouth.
"So you are actually a good person."
"Good guy...?"
Evil Fall sneered at this and stopped using vicious words to absorb negative emotions. After a moment of silence, his mouth opened wide.
"I'm going to die."
Pusius raised his head in confusion, and Catalina, who had her hair tied in a ponytail, put down her arms: "What did the villagers do to you?"
"It has nothing to do with them. My pollution is serious."
Lu Li then stretched out his palm and raised his index finger.
Knowing his intention, Evil Fall stretched out his palm covered with burning scars and touched Lu Li's fingertips above the bonfire.
Evil's face was twisted in a weird way, making it difficult to distinguish his emotions, but his trembling arms showed that he was in pain.
Watching silently as they retracted their arms, Catalina asked: "So you chose to follow us?"
"At the last moment of life, traveling with the last exorcist is a perfect ending, right?"
The evil depravity that peeled off the bad appearance revealed another side. Perhaps before coming into contact with the strange power, he was a knowledgeable person.
"Maybe you will become a stranger and a different species, and still stay awake." Pusius comforted the evil one, hoping that he would not give up.
Lu Li's team is growing, and there is even an evil spirit joining them to create an epic.
"Not everyone is as lucky as you, little one." The villain who revealed the truth stopped being sarcastic and became much easier to get along with.
The severe pollution caused by people with weird abilities is worse than ordinary people.
They have ways to suppress and control pollution, but everything has a limit, or what Lu Li calls a "threshold."
The "threshold" will only be raised, not erased.
And when they reach the limit of being deeply polluted, they will not turn into aliens and alien species, but directly become strange sources of pollution that even pollute the earth.
"I can still hold on for a while. Before that, you'd better find the person you're looking for." Evil Fall said to Lu Li.
"how long?"
Katerina asked.
"As long as a week." But irony has become a mask that is hard to tear off.
Using abilities will aggravate the pollution of evil, as will being too close to weirdness.
"Can you keep it farther away?" Evil Fall said by the way.
The last person who hurt the suffering people was Lu Li, so it followed Lu Li.
Lu Li nodded, held up the eldest sister's head, and retreated to the corner of the house with the others in distress.
The surroundings quickly grew colder, and the distant fire was like the setting sun sinking into the horizon.
"Go to Weiner Freeze Port to retrieve the news." Lu Li said to the businessman.
Two days have passed, and Weiner Freeze Port should have collected clues about Anna.
"Wait a minute, what if Barry shows up?" Catalina stopped her.
"While there are many suffering people, maybe Barry won't show up."
Lu Li used charcoal to write "Barry is an evil spirit" on the wall.
The other side of the wall is written by Evil Fall.
Caterina could not read, and Pusius could not hold a charcoal pencil.
Barry can distort memory and cognition, but cannot change the nature of things.
Just in case, Catalina asked the merchant to hurry up, but it wouldn't take long to retrieve the clues.
The businessman didn't respond, and his body faded away and the world inside gradually faded away.
The hut returned to silence, leaving only the rustle of charcoal drawings on the walls.
"The ancient marks you drew are so ugly."
Catalina looked disgusted and didn't think such crude paintings could protect them.
"The ancient mark doesn't look standard either..."
Barry, who was holding the charcoal, turned around and scratched the back of his head with a silly smile.
The walls are painted with numerous twisted ancient marks.