One hundred and twenty-seven. The land of whirlpools
The surging mist like a vortex enveloped this twisted place, making it difficult to peek out of the outside world.
Lu Li and Katerina stared at the spiral long house at the foot of the mountain. They were like patterns on conch shells, rotating into a vast area as vast as a town.
The situation is more troublesome than they thought.
The vortex land is like independent of the ruins of Belfast. The outside world is blocked by fog, and there is no trace of the shadow of the forest and the city in the fog, as if it is another world.
For example, they appeared on the mountainside when they entered the whirlpool from the block.
The whirlpool inside is wider than the whirlpool outside that only occupy half a forest and a few blocks. The spiral town at the foot of the mountain is much larger and more complex than the whirlpool at a few blocks.
The countdown to the pendant's day is much shorter than expected.
"Hold on the world."
Lu Li walked towards the spiral long house at the foot of the mountain, and Katerina and the merchant followed behind.
After learning from the twisted shadow that "Barry" is Lu Li and cannot be dispelled, the merchant only needs to follow Lu Li.
It has no pendants, but the ability of the merchant race is to ignore pollution, and the twist of the vortex land will not be added to it.
The whirlpools on the trunks are like dense and weird eyes, and the withered bushes at their feet are twisted and internally rotated, and even the stones are covered with fossil-like spiral patterns.
The breeze swept the cyclone and blew the ends of the hair, falling down the dust to form a spiral outline.
Vortexes are everywhere.
“These things make me feel dizzy…”
Katerina complained in a low voice.
Lu Li raised his black eyes at this time and looked at Katerina.
Katerina turned her face and looked at each other, and found Lu Li's eyes passing by, looking deep in the woods.
"What's wrong?"
Lu Li heard the sound of aggressive logging in the depths.
“There may be residents there.”
Although the twisted figure said that there was no fight in the Whirlpool Land, it was safer to find local residents to test whether there was malice in the Whirlpool Town, which was directly involved in the foot of the mountain.
Following the direction of the sound of logging, Lu Li passed through a forest and saw a scene that made the scalp tingling.
The twisted and overlapping figure is like a snail, and its body is stretched narrowly and long and twisted inward like a tree cross-section ring, divided into more than a dozen circles.
It grabbed a sickle-bending axe and was putting the cut branches into a spiral-woven backpack.
It is impossible to identify any organ belonging to humans from it, like a mass of chaos or a pool of dyes. Ordinary people will experience a sharp drop in their rationality when they encounter it.
Katerina lowered her eyes, allowing the outline to appear only in the afterglow.
"Have you ever seen someone like us?"
Lu Li stopped five or six meters away and asked the "resident" who could not distinguish the movement.
“………………”
The woodcutter's seventh circle had a crack in the upper left corner of his body, and the mixed text was obscure and difficult to understand.
Katerina frowned and covered her head, feeling the voices of the residents twisting her head into a spiral shape.
Is even the language vortexed?
"I don't understand."
“…hiss…wriggle…”
Disordered, inexplicable syllables were emitted from the woodcutter's mouth. During this period, Lu Li found the woodcutter's eyeballs that were squeezed and deformed in the outermost circle, but there was only one, and the other one had not been found yet.
After several more communications, Lu Li and the others turned around and left.
In any case, the attitudes of the residents of the Whirlpool Land have been tentatively verified.
“It has no hostility to us…”
Katerina turned her head frequently and looked at the outline of the woodcutter who picked up the weird axe in the distance and continued to cut down the trees.
Not only was there no hostility, Katerina could even feel kindness from her unintelligible voice.
"Because they think we will be new residents soon." Lu Li replied.
Katerina rubbed her arms with goosebumps in disgust: "I would rather die than be like this."
They resumed their journey. With half the distance left from the foot of the mountain, they encountered a young man who was the same as them, without pollution.
The thin boy, who was dressed in a worn-out clothes and a few years younger than Caterina, kept his distance and was alert to observe Lu Li and the other two.
Lu Li, who has lost his humanity, no longer has a close atmosphere, but his generous appearance makes it difficult to feel disgusted. In addition, their clothes look like rich people, the teenagers put aside some vigilance.
"You guys are hiding in too?" he asked, his eyes hiding in the huge backpack between Lu Li and the merchant.
"Accept the entrustment and come in to find someone." Lu Li replied.
"Hunter is right? I've heard of it."
The boy restrained his covetousness.
The nakedness and wildness in his eyes made Caterina remember her hunting career. It seemed like a long time ago, but in fact it had been less than a month.
Many hunters have this kind of vision, including her, who is the same person as she used to be, with interests first, use any means, and neglecting life.
However, she changed because of Lu Li, but no one interfered with the young man.
"Where are you from?" Lu Li asked calmly.
"The ruins of Shimfast are right behind the mountain."
The teenager who called himself Pav replied.
He was born in the tenth year of the Weird Age, and Shimfast had long turned into ruins. The young man was lucky to have a responsible father who tied himself up when he was about to become an alien and fed him with flesh and blood to survive in the Weird Age.
Unfortunately, the Allen Peninsula is too far from the Port of Wiener and too close to danger. He mingled through the gathering place, fled before destruction, and fled after surviving as backup food for a period of time.
He could hardly hold on, so when he heard that there was a paradise called the Whirlpool Land in the Belfast ruins, he climbed over Mount Succad to come here.
"Do you have food? I haven't eaten anything for many days..." The boy's wild eyes appeared in his teenager's wild eyes and fell on the businessman with his backpack.
But he guessed wrongly, there was nothing in his backpack.
Lu Li split a box of canned food, and Puff took it over in surprise. He thought it would be weird meat or fish, but these guys who called themselves hunters were richer than they thought.
Katerina did not stop them. They brought enough food and the merchants could get it at any time, but they were risking Barry's appearance.
After a snoring and swallowing sound, Puff licked the canned box clean, put it away and prepared to polish it into a dagger, grabbed the kettle that dissipated the strange smell and raised his head to fill it with water.
"Do you know what's going on here?" Pav asked with his eyes rolling.
"We know as much as you." Lu Li said.
“Is this really a paradise?”
"perhaps."
When all stepping in are assimilated by vortexes, the fight will naturally no longer exist.
But after leaving the mountains and forests and stepping into the outermost circle of the whirlpool house, all the wonderful fantasies of the boy collapsed.
"What the hell are these..."
He looked in a daze at the twisted outline in front of him, which looked like layers of flesh and skin circles.
"Inhabitants of the Whirlpool Land."
Pav’s hopes and desires turn into fear.
"I don't want to become such a ghost!" He screamed and knocked away Katerina and ran to the top of the mountain.
The teenagers' shouts attracted the attention of the residents around them and quickly moved them away. They did not mind the teenagers' resistance and disgust.
Because it won't be too long, he will become one of them.