One hundred and fifty-nine. He lost time, lost Anna, and now he even lost his mind
"Lu Li..."
The call came from far to near.
Lu Li escaped from delirium and returned to the cold reality.
Anna looked at herself tenderly and worriedly.
"I didn't..."
The explanation stopped abruptly, it was Ophelia.
"You... don't look... well..." Ophelia said, Lu Li was actually in a daze just now.
Lu Li did not answer Ophelia, but said to the businessman Anthony: "Contact Weiner Freeze Port and ask them if there is any way to operate in the fog tide and eternal night...any way."
While waiting for Wiener's answer, they returned to the cellar to wait.
No new clues were found while waiting. Before the solution was sent back, a piece of bad news was brought back by the businessman Anthony.
Catalina is missing.
Just this morning, she disappeared in the ward after being sent to a sanatorium for recovery, leaving behind a large area of silt and seaweed originating from the seabed.
Ophelia is not at the shipyard either.
The trial court intervened in the investigation, but it is currently unclear whether they were abducted by some being or whether they insisted on leaving to find Lu Li.
Probably both.
Bad news comes one after another.
Lu Li, who was hiding in the cellar, smelled a fishy smell like dead fish.
The smell does not originate from the cellar, but even the smell is frozen on the ice-covered ground
The heretics whose faith polluted Himfast came after him.
Ophelia couldn't smell the fishy smell, but she could feel the aura that was more ominous than Himfast's.
The blackened arm stretched out, extinguished the two oil lamps, and covered Lu Li's mouth in the darkness.
Lu Li tilted his head and leaned forward slightly, preparing to break free.
But in the dimness where only the fluorite shimmered, he saw a hauntingly delicate face.
Of course Lu Li knew this was just delirium.
The soft palm covering the lips gradually became rough and hard, and the delicate fragrance was gradually replaced by a burnt smell.
Only the faint fishy smell remained unchanged and became stronger.
The wind and snow had not stopped when they arrived, and their stay during this period should have obscured their footprints.
Except Hades' house and the footprints in the alley.
But these ended as abruptly as Pusius's breath. Even if they were found, they would be difficult to trace.
I just don't know if they will find the gate of hell wrapped in magma rock and use it to set foot in hell.
The only thing that gives me some peace of mind is that these ugly things that seem to come from the deep sea are definitely not suitable to stay in the scorching hell.
Just as Lu Li thought, the fishy smell became clear and faded several times. The group of pagans lingered in Watch Town and stayed for a long time before leaving.
When the breath stopped appearing, Lu Li took away Ophelia's palm.
"News from the ice-free port of Weiner."
The businessman broke the silence and said: "Midnight City provides a solution, but it comes at a price."
"What can I do?"
The method provided by Midnight City was something Lu Li and the others experienced in the old sewers, worms.
Even rock formations are like butter to them, and their bodies extend for hundreds of meters or even miles.
More importantly, there's no weirdo like them.
The texture of worms is as rough as sand, devoid of nutrition and humanity, and they secrete foul-smelling body fluids that disgust the weirdos. The hungry weirdos would rather eat themselves than take a bite of these things.
Therefore, instead of being killed by this behemoth floating around the world's back mountain range, this group of parasitic beholder worms became its dependents and lived in symbiosis with it.
They were the fastest way for Lu Li to travel in the cold winter, fog and eternal night.
It's just that Lu Li has to bear the price of calling worms, and worms will appear here.
For the Main Continent and even the Allen Peninsula, this is equivalent to a species invasion. No one knows what terrible changes will happen to the worms that arrive on the Main Continent. Because of the law of Weiner's ice-free port, the worms have never set foot on the Main Continent.
But Mayor Mateus still told the businessmen about Midnight City.
If Lu Li is willing, Midnight City will send a few worms as quickly as possible.
Lu Li chose to bear the price.
I don’t know what method Midnight City used to connect more than a dozen worms that allowed Lu Li to reach Himfast. They were loaded into a cargo ship within a few hours and sent to the ice-free port of Wiener.
I heard that a dozen cargo ships attracted many people's attention when they arrived at the port.
To avoid causing panic, Mayor Mateus did not let the cargo ship dock. Instead, he asked businessmen to secretly board the cargo ship to load the worms, and then asked the businessman Anthony on the other side to release them.
The cellar is obviously not a good place.
They crawled back to the ground, confirmed that the pagans had left, and asked the merchant Anthony to release the worm.
Businessman Anthony stepped into the darkness. After a short wait, the ground began to tremble violently.
Lu Li held the oil lamp high, and the swaying light of the oil lamp made it difficult to see the full outline of the tumbling figure.
The frozen soil was easily consolidated like gravel on the beach, and the cracks spread. Ophelia reached out to help Lu Li, who was standing unsteadily, but he dodged.
He must deliberately keep a distance from Ophelia to prevent more violent delirium from swallowing up his sanity.
The violent churning was difficult to hide, but the existence in the mist and darkness seemed not to be interested in this place. Until the earth stopped shaking, the rumble disappeared at the end of the darkness, everything fell silent, and nothing happened.
Holding an oil lamp and leaning into it, it looks like a path of crawling worms emerges from the reclaimed frozen soil.
Businessman Anthony took out the yellow plum grass and distributed it to Lu Li, Ophelia and himself.
The eldest sister waved her hands and feet to resist, unwilling to let Lu Li smear body fluids on her body.
Entering the worm tunnel, the wriggling walls of flesh squeezed and pushed them forward. The worms were not connected end to end, and there were rock cavities several meters long between each other.
These rock formation cavities allow them to stay briefly and replenish yellow plum grass and water.
The corrosiveness of worms is more terrible than imagined. Except for yellow plum grass, almost everything is in its diet, such as the disappearing soil and rocks.
The oil lamp he was carrying was corroded and digested by the crawling insects because he forgot to apply bodily fluids on it.
It is worth noting that a layer of bodily fluids appeared on the merchant's heavy clothes and backpack.
The backpack is part of the businessman's body.
So are scarves and coats.
…
The rock-hard frozen soil gradually arches up.
The soil under the snow emerged, broke open, and arched out a huge crawling worm tunnel as big as a house.
Several wet outlines stained with mucus extruded from the flesh wall with a glimmer of light like fireflies, exposed to the ice and snow.
Ophelia sent out heat waves to evaporate the mucus on her body, and also provided a heat source. Lu Li put on a blanket and wiped his body to prevent frostbite.
"Ahead... pollution."
Ophelia felt the sticky malice in the darkness.
They arrived at their destination, with the polluted Himfast just ahead.
Now, all that is left for them is to find the Holy Land of the Shadow Church located around Himfast.
The tide of fog, the cold winter, and the eternal night all made it difficult to find the hidden shadow church, but Lu Li had to do it.
Anna might be there.
The elegant girl stepped into the darkness and gradually disappeared from sight.
Lu Li could feel that he was not far from the answer.
