Catalina and others broke into the shack because of howling in agony.
They saw Lu Li with a cold expression, the headless body at his feet, and the corroded sleeves and arms.
Catalina rushed to Lu Li's side, took off the water bag and poured water into her hands to rinse.
This was of no use, the mucus still clung stubbornly to Li Li's palm, corroding the skin and swallowing deeper into the flesh.
"Give the artifact to Mr. Lu Li!"
Pusius shouted at this time, Catalina woke up and stuffed the fragment of the artifact into Lu Li's palm.
The mucus that was difficult to remove dissipated with the pollution in an instant, but Ophelia around her suddenly emitted a hot temperature.
"What's going on?" Katerina pulled out her dagger and solidified the corpse.
"Who is... looking... at!"
Ophelia is looking elsewhere.
The obscure aura emerging from the void was not completely dissipated by the pagans, but instead became more intense, converging into substantial malice and suddenly overflowing.
Except for the merchant and Lu Li, everyone held their heads and screamed, and scenes of delirium crept into the depths of their trembling minds.
Deep sea, waves, mud, ruins.
They form a picture, and everything comes to an abrupt end in rupture before revealing the truest fear under the deep sea.
Catalina gasped violently and opened her bloodshot eyes.
Lu Li seemed to be waking up from a deep sleep, lowering his dark eyes.
The fragments of the artifact in the palm of his hand completely turned into powder, stained with flesh and blood.
It blocks most of the pollution for them.
"That's...what...!"
Catalina roared out from between the pressure cracks. It was difficult for her to concentrate, and countless residual delirium afterimages were floating in front of her eyes.
"It...belief...is...aware...of...us."
Bloodshot eyes turned to Pusius's large pieces of fallen hair.
"Are we cursed?"
"No."
Ophelia's aura gradually became stable.
"The artifact... resisted... the curse, most of it."
There are still a small number of people who have polluted their souls, and they now need to cultivate and get rid of the terrible influence brought by that awareness.
"You go back first."
Lu Li unscrewed the kettle, washed the remaining blood and lime on his palms, and wrapped bandages around them.
"I still have things to do."
"The magical fragment has been destroyed, and we can no longer remove the curse here." Katarina frowned and covered her forehead.
"I will not leave the cemetery."
But there is still room for purification.
"Then we will wait for you in the house outside as soon as possible. He has noticed us and may come at any time."
Catalina spoke hoarsely, she could hardly hold on anymore.
They left the hut, and Ophelia and the merchant were driven away.
Lu Li was the only one left in the cemetery.
After they left, Lu Li stepped over the pagan's corpse and picked up the white skull on the wooden frame.
Skulls with hollow eye sockets are no different from other skulls.
Lu Li took it out of the shed, walked through the path back to Anna's tombstone, and stepped into the tomb.
Gently lower the skull, collect the scattered bones around it, and place them one by one into the grave.
After placing the last leg bone in place, the silent Lu Li crawled out of the tomb. He found a broken shovel at an incomplete tombstone not far away, shoveled up the soil mixed with snow, and buried the bones.
Snap——
The shovel was thrown aside and the tomb was completely filled.
Lu Li stood quietly in front of the tombstone. Before leaving, he took out a book that he always kept in his inner pocket and put some rough soil on it.
"Belfast Love"
This is Anna's favorite book.
…
Bang bang bang.
Ophelia turned to the knocking on the door.
Opening the door, Lu Li, with black hair stained with snowflakes, stood outside the door.
"it's over?"
"Um."
Lu Li picked up the kettle they left outside the door and walked into the room.
Ophelia then closed the door.
They moved the bed from the bedroom to the living room, and Caterina lay on it.
"Miss Catalina is not in good condition."
Psius said.
He and Ophelia are weird. Pollution itself will not harm them, only the consciousness contained in it will. As a human, Catalina is affected by both pollution and consciousness.
As a hunter who always lives in the wilderness, Katarina's sanity has already approached the critical point.
"Don't listen to his nonsense, I'm fine."
Catalina retorted weakly: "The stone flakes have blocked the pollution, and the remaining trouble will not be a problem for me..."
She is trying to be brave, but it also shows that the worst has not yet come.
"Tell me about you, what happened at that time made you... angry."
Ophelia and Pusius looked at Lu Li.
After a brief silence, Lu Li said, "Speaking on the road."
Go back along the way you came and arrive at the wooden wall.
Ophelia helped Caterina out of the wooden wall.
Lu Li looked back and saw the spire of the church in the west of the city looming under the flakes of snow.
After staring quietly for a moment, he lowered his head and stepped out of the wooden wall when his companions called.
…
On the way back, they listened quietly to Lu Li's indifferent description of what happened in the shack.
"So what's going on? Those bones...are Anna's true form?"
Catalina couldn't understand: "But why did she turn into a human and be eaten...and killed by pagans?"
"Anna is looking for a way to resurrect the dead," Lu Li said.
"The dead are resurrected...you mean she resurrected herself..."
Although it was difficult to maintain thinking, Catalina still understood what Anna had been doing.
Anna believed that Lu Li was dead, so she looked for a way to resurrect him. She almost succeeded and resurrected herself physically, but was attacked by heretics...and died.
"We haven't encountered a tree or a brown car yet!" Pusius, who was walking along the crowd's footsteps, shouted at this time.
Catalina raised her head and said, "Psius is right, and no matter what Anna feels like in your heart, she is an evil spirit... and cannot be killed by a weak heretic."
"She is still alive..."
Lu Li murmured softly.
"Well! The prophet must know something, let's ask him again." Pusius said.
Catalina looked over and said, "Did the voice confuse you again?"
"What?" Pusius was stunned, raised his head and asked, "Did I just say something about going back to Belfast?"
"The Prophet is in Belfast."
"I...I don't know..."
Maybe it's a coincidence, maybe Pusius's consciousness is being subtly influenced.
Anyway, they are going to Belfast again.
After finding Anna, but with not so good results, everyone returned to the coast, boarded Andrea, and sailed towards Belfast.
During this period, a message came from the Vina Freeze Port.
"I heard that you entered Himfast?" Mayor Mateus asked.
There are merchants at the Vina Freeze Port, and Mayor Mateus wants to know Lu Li's whereabouts. It's not troublesome.
"Ask him what's the matter."
Lu Li became more silent than before, and he could only ask Katarina to hold him up.
After waiting for a while, the businessman brought back the news that the museum director wanted a batch of art collections from the Him Astor Montana Art Museum.
"Tell them that Himfast can no longer enter again."
Soon after, Mayor Mateus replied that it was regrettable and he would convey it to the museum.
