The swirling clouds formed a funnel-like shape, twisting vertically towards the spiral tower in the center of the longhouse.
Puff's escape did not affect Lu Li's plan, and they inquired about the news from the swirling residents who had returned to calm.
The problem of how to communicate is inevitable. After several active contacts, they realized that the more layers of "annual rings" there are, the harder it is to communicate. Even the eldest sister can't do it.
Only residents with low pronunciation levels can vaguely discern interrelated pronunciations.
"Have you ever seen anyone like us?"
Lu Li asked a whirlpool man. With only four internal rotations, it could still barely distinguish the cross-section of teeth, scattered facial features, and slender and elongated limbs.
"have no idea……"
As a distorted noise that stirred her brain sounded, Catalina covered her forehead again. She even felt that listening to it for too long would shorten the pendant time.
Advancing along the spiral longhouse, the tail of the first circle of longhouses emerged in the distance. During this period, they were not attacked and received no information.
This is not a good sign.
They didn't have much time, and as night fell it was no longer suitable to search.
If there is no trace of Saint Elena tomorrow morning, they will have no choice but to leave the whirlpool.
Stepping into the second circle, they were surrounded by cramped long rooms like a maze, and the twisted corridor extended forward.
The depression caused by the reduced field of vision became more intense. Catalina followed Lu Li quietly, while Lu Li observed the place.
The structure of the longhouse is similar to the detective chief's house in the former Sailor District, but it is simpler. The gaps between the wooden boards can even vaguely peek at the shadows shaking inside.
If you want to get close to the center, you don't need to walk around in circles. Some longhouses have no walls and you can walk straight through.
Not only in the longhouses, but at regular intervals, there will be a pool between the connected longhouses. Food for the whirlpool people is cultivated in it, a kind of snail people that have failed to whirlpool.
The outer volute is made of the degenerated hard skin of the body. The head whose face was swallowed by the whirlpool drags the heavy volute and squirms densely in the pool.
When the whirlpool man feels hungry, he will fish out the snail man and devour the shell and meat together.
Catalina thought it was cannibalism, and both the whirlpool people and the snail people made her nauseous. Only Lu Li observed some details.
From vegetation to dark clouds, longhouses, spiral towers and whirlpool people, everything in the Land of Whirlpool spins clockwise.
The snail man who failed to vortex will rotate counterclockwise.
Although they look almost the same, to the Uzumaki people they are completely different, another species or even a heretic.
"This won't work. We can't understand what they are saying at all."
After Lu Li stopped the residents who were turning inward to ask questions, Catalina stopped him.
They encountered the least inhabitant of the inner circle three times, and its words were still incomprehensible.
"Sister, are you really unable to hear it?"
"snort!"
The eldest sister raised her head proudly and paid no attention to anyone but Lu Li.
Catalina looked at Lu Li, who asked again: "Don't you understand either?"
"Hmm..." The eldest sister lying in the cloak nodded. "Their language is distorted by the power here."
"Do you have any idea?" Lu Li looked at Catalina.
Catalina thought for a while and took out the pendant that still had body temperature under the leather armor: "The pendant is more specific than our previous question."
Next, the way they ask questions changes. In addition to "Have you seen people like us?", they will also show the pendant and ask if they have seen it.
Their route has also changed. They no longer need to walk along the rotating corridor. Instead, they will ask questions in each area by walking through the long house.
From noon until evening, they found nothing.
“Did it slip through the cracks or was it just bad luck?”
Catalina stood on the roof of the longhouse, falling towards the spirals that stretched into the distance.
They visited almost half of the Whirlpool Town, but found nothing.
"Or maybe the saint is dead?"
The gentle-tempered Uzumaki people ignored the three figures on the roof. After getting to know each other for a while, they realized that the characters of these Uzumaki people were as slow and dull as turtles, and no matter how outrageous their behavior was, they would not attract too much attention.
"Twisting the figure will not let us look for someone who does not exist." Lu Li said.
"But is it possible that the pendant was taken away?"
The small cyclone blowing by blew up the ends of Catalina's hair. After observing their location, they returned to the street and began to continue questioning.
Perhaps Katarina's complaints had an effect. After asking the seventh or eighth resident, its reaction was different from all the previous Uzumaki people.
It turned its body clockwise, heading in a certain direction outside the town.
"Have you seen it?"
Catalina realized that it was useless to ask, because they couldn't understand it, so she changed her words and said, "Can you take us there?"
The Uzumaki Man muttered something vaguely and walked in the direction previously directed.
Lu Li and Catalina looked at each other and followed the vortex man.
The squirming vortex man led them through the seventh and sixth circles, to the fifth outer circle, in front of the door of a long house, and left muttering twisted words.
Lu Li came to the door and knocked on the wooden door.
Knock knock knock
After waiting for a moment, the wooden door opened, and a terrifying whirlpool man spinning inward for more than ten times appeared behind the door.
"We are looking for the person who owns this pendant." Lu Li directly showed the pendant.
The whirlpool person is still, as if observing or thinking.
After more than ten seconds, it paused and stepped away, signaling for them to enter the room.
Lu Li and Catalina, who covered their eyes, walked into the house and saw another whirlpool man sitting in front of the round dining table. Its body only rotated three times, and its stretched neck held a diamond-shaped pendant.
The same pendant worn by Lu Li and Catalina.
"Are you Elena?"
"...I'm...looking for...you...!"
The pendant proves its identity.
They found Saint Elena.
But it's too late. Elena has been contaminated by the twisted power and transformed into a whirlpool person.
"What should I do?" Katerina asked
"Take her away."
The twisted figure only asked them to bring Elena back, which they have done.
Whether or not it has a way to return Elena to normal
There was still some time before dark, and they had time to return to the edge of the Whirlpool before nightfall.
Elena suddenly let out a hoarse cry, and the obscure and distorted voice could not be distinguished due to anxiety.
The whirlpool person who was spinning inward for more than ten circles whispered something, and when he approached Elena, who had only three circles, the difference in number of circles seemed to be that of her mother.
They seemed to be quarreling. Elena was screaming and shouting, and the Uzumaki people answered softly with a tenderness that they could also feel.
Katarina remained vigilant, ready to control the Uzumaki who was talking to Elena.
Finally, Elena left it and came to Lu Li's side.
The Uzumaki Man persuaded Elena to leave here with them.
"let's go."
Lu Li opened his mouth and left the house with Elena who was reluctant to leave.
Their backs gradually became smaller and smaller, and they walked along the curved corridor towards the outskirts of the Whirlpool Town.
The remaining Uzumaki people stood in front of the door, seemingly watching them go away with sad expressions.
