Lu Li walked out of the mist and stood beside Catalina.
The mist that enveloped the whirlpool was like a cage, preventing beings infected by the twisted power from leaving this place. Katarina pressed her hands on the edge of the mist, like seals on fogged glass.
Lu Li held her wrist with his right hand and reached into the mist.
The slippery wrist in the palm encountered resistance, and an invisible force prevented Catalina from leaving.
Lu Li let go of Catalina, and she moved closer to the mist and slapped her hard, but no sound came out.
When the look of despair and pain in Catalina's eyes gradually became stronger, Lu Li took off the pendant and handed it to her.
"I..." Catalina shook her head hesitantly and backed away from the pendant: "You go out first and tell Elena's sister about my situation, and she will find a solution..."
"It's too late."
It takes two or three hours to get to and from the vortex, and Katarina's vortex is even more severe at that time.
Rather than leaving to seek help, he had a way to save time.
"I'm standing in the mist."
Catalina was finally willing to catch the pendant, and then tentatively touched the mist.
The mist still locked her in the whirlpool like a cage.
"Take it away and you'll recover if you carry it long enough."
An obscure murmur emerged in Katarina's mind.
"No...no."
Catalina shook her head and returned the pendant to Lu Li.
"Do you have any other options?" she asked Catalina. Lu Li, who was always calm and rational at all times, allowed her to barely suppress the pain.
Lu Li turned his head and looked at the businessman.
"No." Catalina knew what he was thinking. "The businessman will appear after he leaves Barry."
"It may not be able to step into the whirlpool."
"It may not be impossible." Catalina stubbornly disagreed with this method and refused to let the merchant leave. "Don't forget that we have interrupted it several times, and its patience is disappearing... Its rituals are easier to carry out here.
"
"Then go back to find Elena." Lu Li said
Elena's pendant has more lasting power. She once asked the Vortex people to take it with them and leave. Maybe it can help people infected with the twisted power leave.
Caterina did not refuse.
The mountain road is rugged and difficult to walk in the dark, and it is difficult to approach jogging even if you speed up.
Katarina still needs to hold on to the dagger to be careful of Puff rushing out to attack them. Although it was almost killed by Lu Li before, it probably won't dare to show up again.
During the process, she passed through several clearings where she was suspected of fighting Puff. Katarina looked at her feet and tried to find the pendant. But she could not see anything except the confusing spiral pattern.
Relying on the firelight in the outermost expansion area of the Whirlpool Town, they did not get lost in the forest and successfully returned to the outskirts of the town.
"Do you remember the way?"
"Um."
After walking through it several times, Lu Li was able to find Elena's home with reference objects.
There are still many vortex people walking around in the corridor. They are not afraid of darkness and can ignore it.
Knock knock knock
When there was a knock on the wooden door, Elena and her family opened the door, and it seemed that they could feel their shock.
"We need your pendant."
Lu Li said directly: "Katrina's pendant is lost."
Catalina raised her left arm, and her palm, which she tried to straighten, was still curved like a plant root that had lost its nutrients.
More serious than at the edge of mist.
"...Wish...to..."
The little vortex man answered, and then got into an argument with Elena who was twisted and whispering.
It stretched like the slender neck of a long-necked person and squirmed. The second circle of pendants moved toward the outer circle with the squirm, and finally landed in the palm of Lu Li's outstretched hand.
"Thanks."
Lu Li handed the wet pendant to Catalina.
Elena said something, and the little whirlpool man relayed it to them: "... only if you wear it... longer... will it stop... you... leaving in the early morning."
Catalina wiped the pendant and couldn't wait to put it on and looked at Lu Li.
"She has no reason to harm us."
Lu Li said, walking into Elena's cabin.
Elena asked them about what happened outside and placed them in an empty room next to the longhouse.
"Don't let...objects...out of contact, they will be...distorted."
She reminded Lu Li.
After they left, Catalina lay down on the wooden bed, checked again that the pendant was still there, and fell asleep tiredly.
Lu Li sat down on a wooden chair to rest, waiting for the morning to arrive.
The oil lamp weakly illuminated the old room, and there were only faint sounds of people moving in the whirlpool outside in the corridor.
Time passes quietly.
squeak
A faint light shone through the clouds outside the swirling dark clouds. It was still an hour before morning, and the door was gently pushed open.
"……run……"
The little vortex man clumsily said to Lu Li and Catalina who had woken up.
"...Run...quickly."
"Where's Elena?"
Caterina grabbed the dagger.
"She came secretly to inform us." Lu Li looked out the window. "Leave now."
Grabbing the handle of the oil lamp that curved to fit the palm of his hand, Lu Li and Catalina left the house as the little whirlpool people said goodbye.
Something was not right about the situation. The Uzumaki people who originally ignored them in the corridor stopped strangely and stared at the uninvited guests who had intruded indifferently.
"I feel them looking at you." Katarina reminded in a low voice, just feeling the peripheral vision made her shudder.
Something unknown had happened, and it only happened to Lu Li.
"...He...is not...us!"
A sudden scream sounded from behind.
The little Uzumaki man standing in front of the longhouse shouted at their backs.
The reason was found.
Catalina was contaminated by the power of the vortex, but Lu Li was not.
"run."
Lu Li ran forward. At the same time, an afterimage stabbed at his back.
Katarina threw the dagger and knocked away the afterimage. Lu Li in front was also attacked.
It was no longer the simple and crude attack of Puff that only twisted half a circle. The body of the Whirlpool Man spread out and stretched like a noodle, lashing towards Lu Li like a long whip.
It was not very lucky. Lu Li did not dodge the attack, but his body was wrapped around his left arm. Lu Li just held his body behind his back, and the vortex man howled miserably and cut his body off.
The Uzumaki Man, who had lost part of his body, was stuck in place, spinning in circles inexplicably.
"Let's go!"
Katarina, who helped Lu Li fend off several vortex people, turned around and shouted.
They didn't attack Katarina because she was "the same kind". Katarina used this to cut off the bodies of several vortex people, causing them to spin in circles.
While fleeing, more and more Whirlpool people joined the attack.
Bang
The closing wooden door of the longhouse and the whirlpool man flew upside down and rolled,
Lu Li looked around indifferently, jumped out of the house, and escaped from the vortex people with Katarina.
They successfully left the whirlpool town while the people outside the whirlpool did not know the situation.
Running through the forest, a wall of fog appears in front of me.
Lu Li and the panting Catalina slowed down. She hesitantly raised her palm and gently touched the mist.
Catalina's arms collapsed into the mist, and the "wall" contained her.
"call……"
Before finally walking into the fog, Lu Li turned back and looked at the foot of the mountain.
The small town of Whirlpool was shrouded in the pitch-black darkness before dawn. The looming commotion was faintly heard.
This twisted land hides many unknown and strange secrets, the rumors of paradise spread in the land of whirlpool, the spiral tower in the center of the town, and the back-and-forth between Elena and the little whirlpool people.
