137. He was wearing a black trench coat and his black tie was blowing in the wind
"Something happened."
Lu Li didn't intend to explain too much.
Irene raised her chin thoughtfully: "No wonder I didn't see Anna... By the way, tell me the process after you met Adolf, the manager who just brought you here."
Lu Li briefly described the conversation they had when they arrived and the reason why they found the shelter.
"Has he also made a choice..." Erin seemed a little happy, tapping her knuckles on the table. "And it's a very radical decision."
Deng Deng
"There is one more person on our side."
Lulu walked down the wooden stairs and stood behind Irene, just like she had appeared at the banquet twenty years ago, pushing Baron Joseph in a floral dress.
The passing time has taken nothing away from them except itself.
"Push me over."
Lulu held the wheelchair and pushed Irene around the desk. Except for Lu Li, everyone else saw that the blanket covering her body was missing the outline of her legs.
The wheelchair was in front of Lu Li. Irene stretched out her arms towards him and said with a smile, "We haven't seen you for more than twenty years. Why don't you give your old friend a hug?"
Ophelia suddenly exuded a fiery aura.
The evil radio in Lulu's hand made a rustling noise.
"Are you the person in charge of the shelter now?" Lu Li saw the shelter badge on Irene's chest.
"Almost, they still listen to me." Irene said, tilting her head slightly: "Lulu, help lift my weak arms until he is willing to hug me."
Unfortunately, the person standing opposite was Lu Li, and Lulu didn't lift her arm for her.
Erin's gaze paused slightly at Ophelia's body, which radiated warmth like a fireplace, and lowered her arms.
"When I see you, I can always think of the past..." She said with emotion that life in the shelter was a torture, which made the experience on the surface the most precious memory. She missed the food, the business, and the annoying flattery.
The smiling faces of those gigolos...the men they reunited with before their eyes.
"And the weird people who are always following you... tell me about the outside world?"
"Can."
Lu Li did not refuse, he came here just for this reason.
"Call all the managers to come to the supervisor's cabin..." Irene, who was halfway through the order, stopped and asked Lu Li: "I remember you don't like the excitement?"
After Lu Li nodded and answered, she waved her hand: "No need to call them, just treat it like a family gathering. Just tell them that the outsiders are my friends on the surface, and don't let them disturb me. For dinner, cook the most sumptuous thing in the shelter."
"It's... morning."
Ophelia said, holding back her breath.
"Vault Time and Surface Reversed."
After watching Lulu leave the hut, Irene said casually and looked back at Lu Li, thinking about it and asking.
"The way you stay young...can others do the same?"
…
Regulator's Cottage Restaurant.
Candlesticks illuminate a sumptuous dinner steaming on a long table
In addition to food, there are also wines that have been stored for more than 20 years and equally expensive wine made from grains.
Soon after, Erin and Lulu came to the restaurant after changing their clothes. Seeing her, Catalina suddenly understood where her hostility came from.
Erin put on a dark purple fluffy aristocratic dress with gold threads. A dark sapphire pendant bigger than the cork on a wine bottle set off her fair chest. Her exquisite makeup made her look like an aristocratic girl preparing for a coming-of-age ceremony. Her fragrance was better than Carter's.
The bad perfume that Lina smelled on the prostitutes in the tavern smelled too good.
Even Lulu, who was pushing a wheelchair, was forcibly dressed up and had her hair cut into a short, shoulder-length hair style that only girls have.
Apparently there was some thought behind Eileen's dinner.
"It's a pity that something is missing."
Eileen lazily leaned into the armchair and looked out the window.
The dark underground is like eternal night.
"Please allow me to introduce myself. I am Eileen Joseph, the supervisor of the Allen Peninsula Sanctuary. I was once the heir to the Joseph family on the surface and a baron. She is Lulu, my family."
It was Lu Li's turn. After a brief silence, Catalina spoke first.
"Katerina, a hunter named "Bee Stinger" in the deserted land."
"My name is Pusius, a member of Mr. Lu Li's team!" Pusius called while squatting on the chair.
"I am Mr. Lu Li's fiancée." Ophelia said hoarsely.
More importantly, there is no pause.
"My companion was once an employee of the Belfast Library." Lu Li then added calmly.
"The same damn charm for ghosts as always?" Irene pursed her red lips.
The merchant was the only one who didn't introduce himself, but Eileen knew about it.
"Tell me about what happened outside." Irene raised the wine glass that was redder than her lips.
"Since when."
"Just after the shelter was closed..." Irene asked Lulu with her eyes.
"Fourth year."
"...From the beginning, that year we completely lost contact with the outside world."
It was a time when the world had changed from the old glory of mankind to a time when strange things were entrenched.
Lu Li was not a person who experienced it, but after returning, he knew what happened during that time.
In Lu Li's calm narration, which lacked polish, he quickly finished explaining the external situation.
"It sounds like it's not time to go out yet..." Erin murmured softly with her eyes slightly lowered.
"So I think it's better for you to continue hiding underground." Catalina, who heard herself talking to herself, reminded her: "It's more dangerous outside than you think."
"The cold will extinguish the fire." This is what Pusius read in a book.
"Don't underestimate the shelter." Irene was not angry at Catalina's offense. "We do not lack the power to fight against monsters. For example, the monster you helped solve didn't even make us sound the alarm."
"But their ways are rough."
Lu Li recalled the scene in which the residents of the shelter held torches and homologous objects to confront the weird ones.
There was no investigation, no keeping a distance, like a group of villagers hunting wild animals.
"After all, the last weird invasion was many years ago, and most of the residents born in the shelter have never seen any weird things." Erin sighed helplessly. "Let me tell you about the situation in the shelter... don't tell anyone.
.”
The meaning of every shelter is to preserve the human fire
In the plan drawn up by the Demon Slayer Association, the shelter would be opened after the tide recedes, the dark clouds dispersed, and dawn arrived. If contact with the outside world was unexpectedly lost, the opening time would be determined by the supervisors and managers.
All shelters are planned to be closed for more than fifty years, which is the weird departure time judged by the Demon Slayer Association.
But the reality is that most shelters cannot sustain stably for that long.
The psychological conditions of residents in a closed environment, tool reserves, strange invasions, and food cultivation are all troubles that underground residents face.
Especially after the deep sea stone loses its effect.
Just like the abandoned shelter that Lu Li passed through when he escaped from the underground, it was only closed for less than twenty years before being forced to open due to strange invasions. The surviving residents became "pure human beings" and were taken away as expensive commodities.
