One hundred and forty-five. His name is Mick, and he is very difficult to provoke
Close to the three-meter-high log wall, the whining wind blowing through the gaps was accompanied by the sound of tidal waves.
"Is there a sea near Himfast?" Psius looked around in surprise.
The answer is no.
"It's pollution."
Katarina lowered her head and stared at the sanity counter that sounded.
On the sea or other surface areas, the counter sounds between 6 and 7 minutes, but when approaching Himfast, the gap becomes only 3 minutes.
Twenty years have passed, and the pollution caused by the bloody sacrifice has not dissipated.
The "clucking" sound of the counter suddenly intensified after they entered the city through a section of collapsed wall.
Catalina didn't know the concentration of the pollution, but she knew it was getting worse.
"No, we have to exit the city." Catalina frowned and backed away.
The city surrounded by wooden walls looks like a polluted zone.
They left the gap, moved forward along the wall for a certain distance, and entered the city through another gap. But it was still useless. The sound of "gurgling" followed them everywhere, and pollution was everywhere.
"I'll try it!"
Pusius came forward. As a weirdo, he was naturally resistant to pollution.
To prevent accidents, Lu Li tied Pusius' hind legs with ropes and put on a sanity counter.
Pusius walked around the inclined log and entered the city. The collar-like counter on his neck sounded rapidly again, and became more and more rapid as Pusius went deeper, like a crumbling flame.
Lu Li observed Pusius's condition and suddenly pulled the rope to pull him back.
"What's wrong?!"
"Psius is deformed."
Pusius was dragged back outside the wooden wall without any resistance. Catalina saw that Pusius's deformed limbs were almost as big as his tail. His body seemed to be bald with a few patches of hair missing, and the remaining hair was mixed with the mud.
They stick together and emit a strong fishy smell like deep sea mud.
The absent-minded Pusius slowly regained consciousness. He fearfully described the process of losing his mind and followed the whispers as he went deep into the city.
Weird people are not afraid of pollution itself, but the breath contained in pollution will pollute them. If Pusius was lost in Himfast and waited to regain his sanity, his consciousness would be distorted and he would have become a loyal servant of the breath master.
Most of the dependents or servants of powerful beings are like this.
"So we have no way to enter this city..." Catalina.
Can't say whether it's good or bad news.
"I can... resist... the invasion." Ophelia said.
She is also unable to resist, but the stronger strange power can help her persist longer in the polluted Himfast.
Lu Li did not agree to Ophelia's request.
Ophelia is not a good choice.
She is not as strong as Anna and has difficulty communicating fluently. More importantly, she thinks that she and Anna are love rivals.
This was enough for Anna to fall into the abyss and kill her.
The eldest sister's head was not good either. She shrank in her hood and shivered when they approached Himfast. The only one who could step in safely was the merchant, but it would not do anything other than trade.
No matter what, Lu Li must find a way to enter this lost city-state.
"Go back to Belfast. The pollution that caused Pusius's distortion may have the same origin as the belief of the Tentacle Cultists," Lu Li said.
Hopefully it will know something.
The unsuccessful return disappointed everyone who had been going smoothly since arriving in Belfast. The silence that followed brought silence and continued the atmosphere.
…
"Mr. Lu Li, do you want mushrooms for your portion?"
Pusius, who was immune to the quiet time, became a busy person. After Lu Li shook his head, he poured all the dried mushrooms into Catalina's dinner.
They have returned to the sea outside Belfast port, waiting for dawn to head to the Twisted Church.
The quiet hour falls in the evening, hopefully it won't last until the morning.
Wow——
A pot of canned mushroom soup was poured into the pot, steam rising. Pusius sat back on the stove with the empty pot in his hand, cooking Lu Li's portion.
When the temperature cooled down, Catalina untied the cloth covering her mouth and ate quietly.
After dinner, a quieter night arrived than before.
…
There were still ten minutes before dawn, and the ethereal sound of horns from the depths of the conch awakened everyone from their slumber.
The hours of silence recede.
When the strange fog receded, they landed on the Belfast coastline and once again went to the real library through the secret passage of the Andres Brothers maintenance station.
"You guys came back faster than expected..."
When the Twisted Shadow learned that they were trapped outside Himfast and needed help, they summoned the Tentacle Cultists for them.
But the tentacle believers who came to the church expressed their hatred for Pusius——
The presence of pollution left behind is irrelevant to, and even hostile to, its beliefs.
According to the Tentacle Cultists, the existence of Himfast who was sacrificed was an abominable monster that only stole the priesthood of their gods and parasitized on their bodies. Confusing the two is a blasphemy to its gods.
If the Tentacle Cultists were radicals, they might have executed Pusius.
After the angry tentacle cultists left, the twisted figure told Lu Li the difference between them.
The Tentacle Cultists believe in sleeping ancient gods, who are the original inhabitants of the world. The bloody sacrifices held in Himfast are beings who came from outside the world and dominated the earth in the old days.
The old gods are at odds with the old gods, just as humans are at odds with the weird.
The Twisted Shadow couldn't help Lu Li on how to set foot in the land polluted by the old gods.
"Maybe we should ask the prophet again."
Walking out of the church, the hesitant Caterina said to herself.
Pass through the real library and come to the Vine Church on the other side.
It's just that they failed to see the Everlasting Dreamer. Believers said that he had fallen into a deep sleep and would wake up next time half a month later.
For the Ever Dreamer whose dreams are longer than the previous one, shortening the number of sleeps is a good idea. But Lu Li and the others cannot stay here and wait for the Ever Dreamer to wake up.
"Did the Prophet leave a message?" Pusius asked, but the believer denied it.
"I think the prophet knew we were coming, but didn't say anything... Could it be that he 'saw' that we had found a way?"
"The abyss of the previous generation?" Katarina said subconsciously.
So they were escorted back to the coast by the Twisted Vine Church and boarded Andrea. The busy pagans at the port discovered them, but did not get close.
Return to the ruins, ask the merchant to put away the two stone statues again, and wait until nightfall to talk to them.
This time Lu Li asked the previous generation about the details of Socrates' Bottom. Interestingly, they unexpectedly got information about the Old God of the Deep Sea from the previous generation.
The seal of the Deep Sea Old God is related to them. In other words, it was experienced by them.
The long time has made the guardian forget many things. It only remembers that the fragment of the artifact that was used by the ancient gods to seal them was placed in the abyss called Socrates by the previous generation.
