Only Pusius was still confused and didn't know what was happening.
"Uninvited guests, this is its ritual." Catalina withdrew her gaze and answered Pusius' confusion. "You don't know?"
"Uh...when I was very young..." Pusius lowered his head.
Katarina briefly explained its consciousness. Because of this speech, the merchant paid her 200 contribution points.
"You should adjust the ratio of reward for information." Lu Li reminded the merchant.
The Weird Era is not suitable to continue to use the contribution point system of the old era, at least not now.
Any kind of weirdness is new to the only merchant, and its complete value is at least 500 contribution points.
The ratio of contribution points to shillings in the old currency is still 1:10. One weird message is enough to buy thousands of pounds of weird meat, eating it until the body becomes dehumanized due to pollution.
"What to do."
The businessman asked Lu Li for his opinion.
It's unusual, but there's only one exorcist left, and so is the merchant.
"Let Wiener Freeze put together a weird book."
This will prevent some guys from selling information that everyone knows.
A pot of fish boiled with a fishy aroma. Pusius liked this kind of rich-flavored food. On the contrary, Catalina lacked condiments and side dishes. The fishy smell of the sea, which was a hundred times stronger than the sea breeze, made it difficult for her to swallow the fish.
But Lu Li was also eating quietly, and she didn't say anything.
Ophelia does not need to eat. Although she can make the movement of eating, food is only a burden to her, and the food she swallows will only be burned into waste residue by the high temperature in her body.
After finishing the fish, take it outside and pour out the remaining fish soup. There is still some time before resting.
The little guy who is like the glue of the team, Pusius, began to ask the new members: "Ophelia, are you also from the old times?"
"I am... a wraith." As a scholar, Ophelia subconsciously corrected her. "Yes, I and... Lu Li... are together..."
It sounds a bit ambiguous. I don't know if it's a question of expression or if it's intentional. It seems like the latter.
"Can you tell us about that era?" Pusius asked curiously, and Catalina also moved to pay attention.
Lu Li never talked about what happened at that time.
"I...said...very slowly." Ophelia's answer was hoarse and staccato.
"It doesn't matter, the night is still very long anyway." Pusius squatted down obediently.
Ophelia tilted her head, as if fragments of ashes fell off and dissipated, and she slowly told the story of the old days.
Not beautiful sounds, slow words flowed in the captain's cabin, and scenes about the old days unfolded in my mind.
They all had a brief but stunning glimpse of the foggy fictional bustling streets and warm sunshine on the train, the noisy and brisk crowds and the warm smell shining on the fur, which Catalina and Pusius still remember vividly.
People always yearn for things beyond what they are accustomed to, especially those that are really beautiful.
"If we get out of the dark clouds, can we see the sunshine?"
Pusius looked out the window with longing, but there was only the surging darkness clinging to the glass.
"No, the sky of illusion...has covered...the sky."
That's what people in the desert say, "Don't trust the sky."
As if responding to the conversations of everyone in the captain's cabin, or the changes in the clouds that are approaching in the cold winter, the thick clouds gradually dispersed, revealing a dim and dim light like the moon.
It is a regular reddish-brown luminous rectangle, occupying almost half of the sky. It does not emit light itself, and the light source comes from natural light outside the cuboid. This gives the cuboid a layered feel, as if there is another layer of space outside.
Lu Li carefully stared at the cuboid itself, or the space outside the cuboid.
The curved lines crawl on the reddish-brown surface, as if they are the ceiling.
Lu Li's dark eyes gradually shrank, and he saw a head passing by the edge of the cuboid.
"I call it...the carton...the sky."
Ophelia whispered like a whisper.
"We are like... creatures in... a box..., and the ground beneath our feet... is like... the bottom of a cardboard box..."
They all saw the back of the head passing by the edge of the carton and recognized the light brown hair.
The associations brought about by Ophelia's words and the scenery are depressing and spectacular.
People suppress their own insignificance and yearn for the world outside the cardboard box.
"I saw this sky when I was a child..."
Catalina looked at the sky and whispered, thus recalling the nightmares she had when she had a high fever after seeing the sky: the distant scene was zoomed in front of her, forming the outline of an abominable monster.
"Is it an evil spirit?" Lu Li asked.
"have no idea……"
The sky of illusion lasted for nearly an hour before disappearing again due to the cover of dark clouds.
Everyone left the window and returned to their seats to digest everything they saw.
It seemed that every time the "illusory sky" would induce fear and desire to explore in people's hearts, at least the two skies Lu Li had seen had this element.
The previously lively captain's room became deserted, and soon it was time to rest. Pusius, who was still not separated from the sky scene, said good night to Lu Li and others, curled up in a corner and fell asleep.
The black crow landed on the locked rudder.
"I don't like it too hot."
Katerina, who was leaning on the edge farthest from Ophelia, said this.
Silence returned to the captain's room.
Ophelia, who didn't need to sleep, quietly stared at Lu Li who was gradually sleeping. At a certain moment, she leaned forward slightly as if she wanted to get closer to Lu Li, but she found that she also didn't need to sleep. The businessman standing next to the door like a clothes hanger withdrew his gaze and leaned forward.
Body.
The faint sound of waves drifted into the captain's cabin, and the night was quiet.
…
Lu Li woke up due to the coldness.
The merchant next to the door closed the door, and Pusius came back shaking his wet hair.
"I went out to pee."
Catalina also woke up and stretched her slender waist.
Lu Li looked out the window. There was a layer of water mist on the glass, as if there was a heavy fog.
The strange fog has receded, leaving only a mist and moisture covering the world.
The temperature is still dropping, each day is colder than the day before.
Heating canned food for breakfast. After eating, Andrea leaned towards the ruins of the port and anchored at the edge of the shallow water.
Close to the mist on the sea surface, a wooden boat slowly emerged and approached the shore port.
Landing on the shore, they looked at the ruins of the port. Rather than ruins, ruins are more appropriate to describe this port. Only some pillars and broken stone slabs remained in the once bustling port.
But as people go deeper into this land, they gradually notice something strange.
Marble pillars stand among the ruins, covered with carvings called time. The stone slabs have long been cracked and broken, and the withered grass between the stones has long since died. The damaged and incomplete limbs of the stone statues are scattered everywhere, and most of them are difficult to identify.
This is not the port of Himfast.
It's more like a...lost ruins.
It reminded Lu Li of the ruins prophesied by the Eternal Dreamer.
