One hundred and thirty-six. His name is Lu Li, an exorcist
"They seem to be afraid of us."
Catalina stepped over the gradually cooling magma and lowered her voice.
The residents of the shelter at the other end were holding on to torches and outdated weapons of similar origin, with faces filled with joy at the strange solution, but also with their vigilance averted by the strangers.
Most of them are middle-aged people, and there are some young people.
"This shelter is not open. There is no difference between us and the weird ones. We are all outsiders invading the shelter." Lu Li answered, looking for familiar figures in the crowd.
"At least we won't attack them," Katarina said sarcastically.
Katarina doesn't like the Vault Dwellers.
No one likes Vault Dwellers, except those who benefit from Vault Dwellers.
When they were struggling to survive on the surface and fighting against the strange things that poured into the world, the residents of the shelter hid in the shelter deep underground. Although people knew that the meaning of the shelter was to leave fire, understanding did not mean they could accept it.
No one likes to be abandoned.
The solemn atmosphere was not lifted by the disappearance of the weirdness.
"Ouch——"
Suddenly, Pusius screamed. He accidentally guessed that the soft magma shell that had not yet cooled down had collapsed downwards. The hair around the claws was so hot that it burned for a moment. He tucked his tail between his legs and crawled to Lu Li's feet to tremble.
The interlude eased the atmosphere. A manager walked out of the crowd, stood outside the solidified magma, raised his chest, and performed the old-fashioned aristocratic salute: "Thank you for your help, outsiders. But can you tell me your reason for coming?"
"We found a strange cave dug in the ruins on the ground." Lu Li answered.
"Thank you for your help..." The old manager seemed to be hesitating, hesitating to decide something: "If you need food or supplies, we can help, but we don't want you to spread the news that the shelter is here."
There was a noise from the residents. They did not support the administrator's decision to allow outsiders to leave, which would expose the shelter.
"Don't you know him?" Their attitude made Catalina even more disgusted, and she said maliciously: "This is the legendary exorcist of your time."
The manager was stunned: "Who are you?"
"My name is Lu Li, exorcist." Lu Li said calmly: "I know Baron Joseph Irene and investigator Tesla. They should be residents of the shelter."
"Tesla? It was the traitor who told—"
A middle-aged shelter resident suddenly shouted angrily and was stopped by the manager. He looked at Lu Li and fell on his young and handsome face: "I can't confirm your identity, but... what do you want?"
"I want to see Eileen and Tesla."
The Forever Dreamer's precognition points to this land, and these shelter residents should know Anna's information.
"...Please come with me."
Lu Li's age confused the managers, but he didn't think people on the surface knew about Irene and Tesla.
Whether they actually knew these two people or Tesla told them.
"Outsiders should not enter the shelter."
A young resident stood up to resist the administrator's decision, and some supporters stood behind him, including a middle-aged man who called Tesla a traitor.
"They have already come in, kid." The manager shook his head slightly. "The refuge is outside."
His supporters pushed away the opponents and allowed the managers to lead Lu Li and others deep underground.
Away from the complaining residents of the shelter who were left to clean up the damage caused by the strange invasion, the passage gradually became narrower and cramped, and the excavation marks on the stone wall indicated that this was a forcibly dug passage.
After traveling a certain distance, a natural open cave appears at the end of the passage.
Fluorite is inlaid on the top of the cave like stars, and hundreds of broken spheres made up of fluorite are like the moon, emitting a dim halo that illuminates the cave.
Children chased and played underground with laughter.
Catalina stared at all this blankly. She had never seen so many children in one place.
Children always represent hope.
The children who discovered them also stopped chasing and looked at these strange outsiders curiously. The children who observed Psius and Ophelia the most made them uncomfortable.
On the hill where the wooden houses were built in the center of the cave, they stepped onto the gravel street and approached the top of the hill.
Lu Li asked the manager: "Why do residents call Tesla a traitor?"
"Because twenty years ago, Tesla escaped from the shelter."
That was four years after Lu Li disappeared.
As time goes by, the surface environment becomes worse and worse, merchants gradually disappear, and the only information Tesla and Adangfuya have about each other's situation may be broken.
Given the importance of Adamfoya to Tesla, it does not seem surprising that he left the refuge.
Tesla should have gone to Wanghaiya when he returned to the surface. But Lu Li couldn't find the letter he left... Maybe Tesla died on the road, or left the letter in his former home.
However, the place is now occupied by the Breathing Worm and its relatives, and it is impossible to confirm whether there is a letter left by him.
While thinking, the manager led them to the supervisor's hut on the top of the hill.
This is just a two-story wooden house with a shelter fire flag, but it is already the most luxurious building among the hill buildings.
The manager told the guard in front of the door: "The weirdness was solved by an outsider. An outsider who claimed to know the supervisor and called Lu Li an exorcist wanted to see her."
The guard handed the spear to his companion, turned around and entered the wooden house to deliver the message.
Soon the guards came out, and urgent shouts could be heard faintly from the door that had not yet been closed.
"Regulators let outsiders in."
"Outsiders, please come in." The manager signaled to step aside.
Lu Li opened the door and entered the wooden house.
There is a fire burning in the fireplace in the living room, and an oil lamp filled with fluorite is placed in front of the desk, reflecting the shadow of the bookshelf.
A woman sits in a wheelchair behind a desk.
Time has taken away her past, but the outline of her lost youthful beauty can still be seen from her wrinkled face.
The bright eyes reflecting the flames showed hope.
And the tall figure who stepped into the living room did not disappoint her.
"Lu Li? It's really you...Lulu! Lulu!"
Erin slapped the table like a girl and shouted: "Come down and see who is coming!"
A figure appeared in front of the wooden stairs. The woman with rough hair and pale hair pushed up her thick round glasses and looked at Lu Li calmly.
"Who are you?"
"He is Lu Li, don't you remember——"
Erin's excited shouting suddenly stopped and she quickly calmed down.
Of course they knew about Lu Li, but they also knew that more than twenty years had passed.
Lulu took out an old evil spirit radio, listened for a moment and then raised her head: "He is not an evil spirit."
"Maybe we are evil spirits or evil gods."
Their reactions made Catalina unable to help but feel sarcastic.
"Then there's no need to disguise your identity." Lulu's voice was as steady as Lu Li's, and she asked strangely: "But why don't you get older?"
