"Bring Elena back and I will tell you where you are."
"That's what you said about letting us go to the ruins of the library." Catalina suddenly said.
"I'm sorry for what happened before."
The believer bowed his head to apologize.
"Pay the reward first and we'll help you." Catalina added.
"Then you will leave directly."
Caterina stopped talking, she really thought so.
"We are just ordinary people." Lu Li repeated these words again.
"The Prophet thinks you can."
The twisted figure believed in the Eternal Dreamer on the other side of the library more than Lu Li and the others.
"Hopefully he's right."
Lu Li decided to accept the twisted figure's deal and asked it about the situation in the Whirlpool Land.
After the Whirlpool Church failed to summon their god twenty-four years ago, the church was destroyed, and the believers may have been cannibalized, leaving only the whirlpool place with residual twisted power.
After all, the place had been affected by the evil god, and the ruins of Belfast were large enough and not an inch of land was valuable. The weirdness that inhabited the city had no intention of consuming power to occupy the twisted land, and it always existed.
As time goes by, some beings with nowhere to go gradually escape into the whirlpool. Most of them are survivors, a small number are weak and weird, and a small number of beings who accidentally stepped into the whirlpool.
Such as avoiding danger and chasing prey.
The remaining power of the evil god still distorts the land, and those who step into it will have their bodies vortexed as the stay time is extended. When the changes occur sufficiently, the contaminated ones who step into it will no longer be able to leave the whirlpool.
Not only the body is vortexed, but also the mind.
In the early stages of change, beings who have entered the vortex may still want to leave, and they may be able to leave smoothly. But when the vortex characteristics appear, the vortex that was originally a few blocks in diameter will become infinitely long and wide, exerting the twisting power of the earth.
Make it impossible for those who step in to leave, until the vortex intensifies and is assimilated into residents who never want to leave.
To a certain extent, it is a paradise in the ruins of Belfast. Residents will not leave the whirlpool to start a war. There is no fighting or fighting in it, except for the distortion itself.
Before Lu Li asked "How to get out of there?", two pendants that were constantly reorganized, broken, and folded in half, like multi-faceted crystal-like pendants, floated out from the outline of the twisted figure, and were brought to Lu Li by the believers.
"It can protect you from being infected by the power of the Whirlpool. The prerequisite is to always carry it with you."
Lu Li put away the two crystal pendants, which contained obscure powers. Touching them with his left hand should destroy them.
"How should I find Elena? Is she still alive?"
"I can feel that my sister is still alive... She has a stronger pendant, which protects her from being eroded by power... The pendant will allow you to sense her. The closer you are to her, the stronger the sense."
"Since there is a pendant to protect her, why doesn't she come out?"
"have no idea."
The scene in the Whirlpool Land cannot be glimpsed. The never-dissipating fog shrouds it, and no one knows what is going on inside unless entering or destroying it.
"Why don't you go in yourselves?"
"The evil god's power has been corroded deeply. If we step in, the confrontation with the remaining power will accelerate the corrosion. Only humans will not be affected."
Therefore, Twisted Figure only gave two pendants, corresponding to the only two humans, Lu Li and Katarina.
This also prevents Psius and his new partner Ophelia from joining them.
"What do we need to pay attention to?" Lu Li asked.
The cultist replied softly: "The power of the pendant will only last for one day. Hurry up, find Elena, and bring her back."
"Why don't you give us a stronger pendant."
Catalina frowned, the countdown to only one day made her uneasy. If she stayed in the Whirlpool for too long due to some trouble, she might never come out again.
"That will consume too much energy..."
After finishing the questions, Lu Li and the others left the church to prepare for entering the whirlpool.
The twisted figure gradually dispersed, and "Saint Elena" reappeared on the throne, leaning on it gently and watching the people leaving outside the church door.
Members of the Twisted Church will escort Lu Li and the others to the edge of the Whirlpool Land, carrying enough food and water for a day.
"Ophelia, how do you stay sane?"
Lu Li asked Jiao Heihui and put on the pendant.
Catalina hesitantly took away the remaining pendant, put it on her pale neck, and hid it under her leather armor.
There was no reason for her to let Lu Li go alone.
"Obsession...knowledge. I like those books..."
Ophelia's hoarse voice suddenly became excited and urgent when she answered: "How could you... know my... name...!"
"I explored the basement in the old days, and you almost found me."
Lu Li also stuffed the pendant into his shirt.
"You were...the intruder at that time..." Ophelia still remembered what happened at that time.
The prophecies of the prophets are an interesting thing.
He said that Lu Li would meet familiar people here, and it was true. And not just one, but three.
As for the so-called "not a bad ending", I can only say that I hope so.
Pusius and Ophelia will follow Lu Li to the edge of the Whirlpool, and they will still be escorted by the Tentacle Cultists.
After understanding that the Twisted Church is a pan-church, more like a gathering place than a church, Lu Li also knows that it is not a believer of the Twisted Figure.
It and some believers with characteristics of marine life believe in another existence, accept the protection of the twisted figure, and also spread their faith in the gathering place, but it is difficult for them to compete with the twisted figure.
A group of eight cultists and wraiths escorted them through the ruins of half the city and arrived at the whirlpool that swallowed up the oak forest and several surrounding blocks.
The cultist and Pusius Ophelia stayed behind, while Lu Li and Catalina stepped into the fog.
The surging mist lingered around them due to the disturbance, and the visibility allowed them to only see a dozen meters around them, and it compressed to only a few meters as they went deeper.
The fog didn't look that thick from the outside, and Pusius could even make out the outline of the whirlpool when he was looking at the sea cliff.
Lu Li and Catalina stayed close to each other to avoid getting separated in the fog.
After walking quietly for hundreds of meters in silence, the fog gradually dissipated, and they were leaving the range of the surging fog.
The fog around me became thinner and thinner, and the road under my feet suddenly turned from bluestone to dirt. After walking a certain distance, the fog faded, and the interior of the Whirlpool Land emerged before my eyes.
Hole-like swirling clouds hang low in the sky, and the trunks of surrounding forest trees are crowded with conch-like circles. Looking down at the foot of the mountain, the houses there are connected to each other to form lengthy long houses, coiled around one after another, like a huge whirlpool on the sea.
.
What they saw was a swirling world drawn by an abstract painter or a child out of boredom.
