Lu Li and the others encountered no trouble on their way back.
The twisted and weird whirlpool is like a peaceful and peaceful town, without obstruction or hostility.
Just in case, they spent more time walking through the corridor to the outermost circle of the longhouse, followed the outer circle back to the direction they entered the Whirlpool Town in the morning, and returned the same way.
While walking through the forest filled with swirling patterns, they saw no sign of the young Puff, who had probably escaped from the whirlpool.
Katarina returned more urgently than when she arrived. The ubiquitous spiral was about to distort her seriousness, and Elena's vortex made her feel uneasy. Even Elena, who had a pendant with stronger power, could not resist the whirlpool.
strength.
She is the same as Puff in this regard. Even if she dies, she doesn't want to be like this bologna-like thing wrapped around her fork.
But when she was about to reach the edge of the whirlpool, Elena suddenly became resistant and unwilling to go any further.
"I...Elena..."
"What?"
Catalina frowned in understanding, while Lu Li listened quietly.
"I am……"
"Are you worried that your sister won't recognize you?" Katerina guessed.
"……no……"
Catalina began to feel a dull headache again, and the voice was simply twisting her brain. She backed away from Elena and asked Lu Li, "What does she want to express?"
Lu Li stared at it quietly with his dark eyes.
"You're not Elena?"
Catalina shouted in surprise: "How is it possible?"
"Answer us with actions. If you are Elena, move forward, not backward."
The Uzumaki man pretending to be Elena stepped back and answered Lu Li.
"Oh no..."
Katerina covered her forehead in pain.
"Why do you have a pendant?" Lu Li continued to ask it.
The people in the whirlpool narrated twisted words, and by repeating them over and over again to obtain fragmented words, Lu Li pieced together part of the truth.
The whirlpool person who opened the door for them, argued with it, and finally watched them go away was Saint Elena.
Some details seem to match up. For example, why Elena was stunned for a while when she opened the door, and why Elena was just arguing with the Uzumaki Man.
"We have to go back again. You go out and tell them what's going on here." Lu Li said to Catalina, who was watching the dark clouds calming down a few meters away.
"No...I'm fine."
Catalina withdrew her gaze and returned to Lu Li.
"I'll go back with you."
The surroundings become dark, and night will fall soon.
They speeded up and returned to the whirlpool town shrouded in darkness before night came.
The Uzumaki do not need light and are not harmed by darkness.
The only place where the fire is lit is at the top of the outermost circle of the spiral longhouse. They are building longhouses and expanding outward.
Catalina's face was illuminated gloomily by the oil lamp in Lu Li's hand.
"Are we lost?"
There is almost no reference point in Whirlpool Town, especially at night when nothing is visible.
"Do you still remember the road?" Lu Li asked the whirlpool man.
"...Follow...me..."
The Whirlpool Man led them through the long house corridor and back to the same dark house.
A glowing oil lamp was placed on the dining table, barely illuminating the outline of the hut.
Elena, who was surprised by their return, chatted with the Uzumaki Man in a low voice for a moment. The Uzumaki Man turned around and said something coherent that could be understood: "You...are...sent by my sister."
Catalina's face suddenly turned ugly: "I can understand its words..."
"I can do that too."
Katarina paused as she groped her body.
"Language... is found by the whirlpool... and the rules... can be restored."
Elena spoke up, and the Whirlpool Man explained it.
This is the pattern discovered by Elena. The language of the vortex people is related to their vortex formation. The more circles there are, the more distortions there are.
It's like putting reverse language in order, but more difficult.
Elena could only barely find the three-circle twisted language law.
Although the communication was slow, it became meaningful.
Elena said that she still remembered Lu Li and was happy to see familiar people again, but she could not leave to see her sister. The power of the vortex had deeply eroded her, and she could no longer leave this whirlpool place.
Unless my sister has a way to solve the whirlpool and the twisted power exerted on her body.
Elena took out a notebook from under the bed that was entangled in growth rings like a tree stump, with large, unrecognizable content written in twisted text. She asked Lu Li to give it to her sister, which would also prove that they had found her.
"Is the pendant still useful to you?"
Lu Li asked. The pendant is better evidence than the notes.
"...she said...ok..."
The whirlpool man answered. But Elena then blamed it a few words, and had to rephrase: "...I didn't...say that...the pendant can...resist the change of power..., the family...needs it...delay,
Can't...give it to you."
"Do we have to wait until dawn before we can leave?" Lu Li asked again.
Elena replied that it can be done at any time. There are no things other than whirlpools in the place of whirlpools, except for more powerful disasters.
After confirming this, Lu Li and Catalina no longer stayed here too long.
Lu Li lifted the oil lamp and his eyes paused briefly on the bent oil lamp handle.
It is difficult to identify the direction of the whirlpool town at night, so Elena and the whirlpool people are willing to send them to the edge of the town.
Saying goodbye to Elena, Lu Li and the others walked into the dark woods.
"Will the church people wait for us outside?"
Caterina was worried about seeing something strange.
"It should be. If not, just return it."
Discounting the pollution itself, the place of whirlpool is indeed a peaceful place.
At this moment, the bushes rustled in the distance, and an afterimage jumped out towards the businessman.
The silhouette of the businessman faded, and the silhouette passed through. There was a brief pause and then attacked Catalina.
Catalina was caught off guard and was knocked down. She raised her hand to pull up the homologous object. Suddenly, she screamed miserably. She broke free from Lu Li's hand and fled deep into the woods quickly away.
Listening to the sound of rustling bushes disappearing into the distance, Lu Li reached out and pulled Catalina up.
"What is that?!" Katerina was shocked.
"Puff."
Lu Li saw Puff's upside-down head, his body folded in half from his chest, and it had begun to vortex.
After a moment of hesitation, Catalina got up on her own: "I shouldn't have shared the food with him... Fortunately, this little bastard attacked the businessman first."
Lu Li retracted his palm and waited for Catalina to check her condition and resume her journey.
After a while, they reached the edge of the whirlpool and stepped into the mist.
After walking a certain distance, Lu Li suddenly felt that something was missing and thought about it.
Only the silent businessman followed, and Catalina disappeared.
"When." Lu Li looked at the businessman.
"After entering the fog."
Lu Li returned the same way and saw Catalina in a daze at the edge of the mist.
Holding the fluorite in her hand, she noticed Lu Li returning. She raised her face in confusion, tearing open the leather armor on her chest in pain, and then raised her palms to press against the substantial mist.