One hundred and thirty one. Escape from the whirlpool
Early morning mist filled the ruined streets.
The members of the Twisted Church waiting under the ruins on the street looked over.
Pusius's fur was stained with dew, and his tail waggled like a turning wheel.
"I'm...worried about you."
Ophelia, who was close, spoke hoarsely of her emotions.
"It's time to go, we stayed too long." The Tentacle Cultist whispered dully.
Lu Li turned back and stared at the place he was looking at. From the outside, it seemed that he could cross it in ten minutes. He withdrew his gaze and followed the believers back the way they came.
A twisted church wall made of wooden planks emerges at the end of the street.
Members of the gathering place opened the door to let in the group of companions who had been out for the day.
The believers dispersed, leaving Catalina and the others to the church in the center of the clearing.
"Saint Elena" in the throne of God is high above, and her footsteps are like complicated prayers, surrounding her.
"You are back..."
She whispered softly, and suddenly disappeared like a bubble, and her twisted figure emerged from the folded and pieced together broken space.
The believers squirmed past Lu Li and others, arrived at the steps of the throne, and conveyed the will of the twisted figure.
"I feel the breath of the pendant, where is my sister."
"She had been contaminated by the power of the vortex when we found her."
Lu Li took out Elena's notes, and Caterina took out her pendant.
The notes are words that have been restored by Elena. They are still extremely swirly, but if enough time is invested in studying the notes, it may be possible to translate these words that spiral like a swirling man.
"This is the note she asked me to bring back."
The believers squirmed closer, took away the notes and pendant, and brought them to the steps.
An imaginary belt of broken space stretches in front of the believer, holding up the pendant note.
After leaving, the same cracks appeared on the believers' bodies. I don't know if they were rewards or pollution.
The pendant note that fell in front of the twisted figure was shattered and pieced together with his aperture.
click
Countless dense patterns appear on the pendant, and finally break, refracting dense light like crystal, folding and spreading to merge with the broken space.
"Lu Li, can you do one more thing?"
The twisted figure said, not reneging as imagined: "Give the note to the prophet, he knows what is written on it."
"Tell me the whereabouts of Anna." Lu Li replied.
After a short wait, the cultist conveyed the words of the twisted figure and the notes sent back.
"The evil spirit didn't tell me where she was going, but I saw her walking towards the other side of the mountain, and there were pagans who believed in her and followed her footsteps away."
"Do you know more about her followers?"
"They follow her footsteps and imitate her actions..."
"Is it weird?"
"Once human."
"Are there any believers in Himfast?"
"If you need it, I will find it for you."
"Thanks."
Lu Li took the note.
They left the church and walked through the real library to the Vine Church at the other end.
"These books...are not as many as the library."
Ophelia's empty eyes turned to the rows of bookshelves in the real library.
"But it's also... very powerful."
Ophelia liked it here. If the Twisted Church had been smart enough to claim they had a library, she might have left the basement long ago.
"You can stay here."
Lu Li's words echoed in the empty hall.
"No……"
Ophelia turned her head and seemed to be immersed in Lu Li's profile: "I found... something more important... than books."
The Church of the Vine is not a pan-religious belief, and those who are active here are the followers of the Everlasting Dreamer.
A believer was still waiting in front of the gate, leading Lu Li to the place where the Ever Dreamer was.
"We meet again..."
The brazier illuminates the Ever Dreamer's old bark-like cheeks.
The Ever Dreamer didn't know their purpose, nor did he read the notebook, but he seemed to have glimpsed everything from the lower reaches of the long river of time: "Twisted Figure, is that what you call her? Inside is her sister's diary."
Diaries didn't exist from the beginning.
Despite childhood habits, the so-called diary is just a record with a certain purpose that you want others to see.
The time when the diary was written was after Elena transformed into a whirlpool. Elena, who had become a whirlpool person, recalled the past and recorded everything here.
The pendant given by her sister had stronger power to help her resist the invasion, but just like what happened to Lu Li, one day later, Elena, who had not been transformed into a vortex, was attacked by the originally "friendly" vortex people.
They tied her up and took her to the innermost circle under the spiral tower.
Elena realized that they wanted to deal with her. This was the first mistake she made. She took off the pendant and accepted the pollution of the Whirlpool.
The closer to the spiral tower, the faster the vortex becomes.
When Elena's body began to twist, the Uzumaki people thought Elena was a special individual and released her.
Until this moment, Elena still had a chance to leave this twisted land. But she made her second mistake.
Elena did not write down what was the second mistake she regretted. Only when she woke up, the high wall of mist imprisoning the Whirlpool also blocked her.
After a period of madness and despair, Elena returned to the Whirlpool Town, and spent a long time getting to know the newly arrived Niaf, also known as the little Whirlpool person.
Elena gives her the pendant after she begins to transform, delaying Nyaf's distortion and hoping she will leave.
In the end, as Lu Li and Catalina saw, she did not leave.
Elena recorded the secrets about the Whirlpool Land. For example, all the Whirlpool people would go to pray under the Spiral Tower every Sunday. For example, the Whirlpool Town was expanding outward in circles.
There is also the vortex power that distorts her consciousness.
This kind of power can only be avoided by wearing a pendant. It not only pollutes the body but also pollutes the mind.
"Little Elena added a new sentence yesterday."
The eternal dreamer who glimpsed a page said.
"He is an existence older than the evil god. He will never die, he will only sleep. The place of whirlpool is reawakening him."
After taking note of Yongmengzhe's words, Lu Li thought of another thing.
"Ruins, abyss, cultists, trees, brown cars."
Yongmengzhe answered before Lu Li.
"I took note of it."
Lu Li nodded and walked out of Yongmengzhe's tree-shaped house.
"What do the prophet's last words mean?" Katarina asked.
"I want to ask him how he found Anna."
Lu Li returned to the Twisted Church and told the Twisted Figure the interpretation of the Eternal Dreamer.
It is unknown whether the Church will resist the invasion of the Whirlpool Land or attack the Whirlpool Land to rescue Saint Lu Li, but the existence of the Eternal Dreamer will not put them in the worst situation.
Lu Li borrowed a few believers from the twisted figure and escorted him to the Watch Town on the backside of Mount Sukad.
At the same time, the Church of Twisted Vine became a client of the merchant, but the merchant could not leave Lu Li. The transaction could not begin until the second merchant was found or Barry was dealt with.
Surrounded by believers, the prying eyes hidden in the darkness of the ruins retreated one after another.
Avoid strange lairs along the way. Near the top of the mountain, the Tentacle Cultist told Lu Li: "The Breath Worm and its descendant vampire monsters are entrenched around Agate Lake."
Lu Li looked into the distance, where the mottled and dilapidated Joseph Manor could vaguely see the shadow of its past.
