Except for the impossible, whatever remains is the truth no matter how unbelievable it is.
"Katrina."
In the silent world, the deep diver shook its ugly fish-like head, and the fish lips covered with cracked teeth muttered something and loosened the grip of the Doomsday Apocalypse.
Lu Li released his palm before her.
Catalina wanted to return the Book of Doomsday Apocalypse, but saw Lu Li pointing to his ear: "I can't hear the sound, just hold it."
The chaos in the port square gradually calmed down, and the rain suppressed the flames.
After leaving the square, Catalina immediately returned the Doomsday Apocalypse Book to Lu Li.
Just when Lu Li's fingertips were about to touch the Book of Doomsday Apocalypse, a white hand gently covered the back of his hand.
"Do you really want to pick it up?" Anna raised her clear eyes. "That way I will disappear..."
Lu Li lowered his eyes slightly, got rid of the powerless obstruction of the illusion, and held the Doomsday Apocalypse Book.
As Katarina let go of her hand, Anna's illusion shattered like a bubble.
Catalina looked at Lu Li with mixed emotions.
They all looked bad. Catalina's gray-green skin had a white belly. It was slippery and clammy, and her back was covered with scales. There were trembling gills growing on the sides of her neck, and her long claws were covered with webbed membranes.
The fish head has huge bulging eyes that never close. Lu Li's light gray-green skin has an obvious Insmais appearance. The skin on the side of his neck seems to be folded. His eyes are almost the same as Catalina's, but they are not yet
The eyelids bulged and struggled away.
But after receiving the Doomsday Apocalypse, the human side returned to Lu Li.
The color originating from the deep sea faded from the skin, and the eyes melted into darkness. The skin on the neck stretched and became tight again. The smell of reverence and superiority coming from Catalina also turned back to a strong fishy smell.
.
An unbearable itching suddenly appeared deep in his ears, as if something was growing and recovering. Soon, a series of noises entered Lu Li's ears.
The apocalypse brings Lu Li back to life.
Sitting on a bench on a coastal street away from the hustle and bustle of the port square, Lu Li and Catalina looked at the sacrificial square and the sea.
It's as if humans and weirdness get along in harmony.
"I can hear it."
Lu Li wiped the blood scab from his ear. The feeling of regaining his hearing was like emerging from the water, and even the dark coastal town became colorful.
"Why are you here? Why...became like that?"
Catalina couldn't wait to ask her doubts.
"We came to find you after you disappeared." Lu Liyan said concisely and concisely.
"I should have left a letter..." Catalina murmured to herself, and continued to ask in a noisy barking voice: "Where are the others."
"They will be discovered when they enter Innsmouth Town. I will be the only one."
Lu Li briefly talked about his experience and how he accepted the pollution in order to be close to the townspeople and the port.
"This is very dangerous... Most of the people who accept the favor... are polluted and turn into disgusting monsters like sea monsters."
Catalina was grateful that Doomsday Chess could restore Lu Li's appearance and ears, otherwise she might have fallen into eternal self-blame.
"Ophelia will meet you outside the town, let's go back."
Katarina shook her head and refused, sitting on the bench and slowly recounting her experiences, from the ice-free port of Vina to being trapped in nightmares, and then returning to the home of the Deep Ones, Iha Enslay.
The ceremony in the port square is almost over, and many deep divers retreat into the sea and swim towards the black line, Devil's Reef.
"Lu Li..."
She expressed her decision guiltily and painfully.
"I want to stay..."
Lu Li remained silent, waiting for Catalina to continue speaking.
"My body is filled with the blood of deep divers... My mother and grandmother are here, as well as my ancestors. I can no longer integrate into the human world... This is where I should be."
Catalina's bulging eyes secreted fishy liquid, making it difficult to hide her sadness and let tears linger in her eyes.
"But it's not a bad ending, is it?"
"Don't get lost, stick to your sanity."
Lu Li did not give any advice on Katarina's choice. Maybe for many people, becoming a deep diver is not a bad choice.
"Thank you... I will remember this journey and say goodbye to Psius and Ophelia for me."
Catalina finally wanted to hug Lu Li, but he blocked her and refused.
"Try to change yourself..." Catalina knew that it wasn't that he hated her, it was just that Lu Li didn't like to get close to her.
She stood up and said goodbye to Lu Li.
"We will meet again."
Lu Li quietly watched Catalina return to the port square, where it was difficult to distinguish her from the other deep divers as they disappeared on the sea.
Lu Li stood up and left the bench, picked up the hat on the side and put it on.
It's time for him to leave too.
…
Lu Li returned to the collapsed ruins of the house and called out to the hidden Ophelia.
Ophelia walked out of the burned ruins hiding her body and breath.
"Have you found...Kat...Lina...?"
"Um."
"Carter... where is she?" Ophelia looked around. "She... is hiding... trying to scare me?"
"She chose to stay."
Lu Li didn't say much, and walked out of the small town of Innsmaus with Ophelia, where vitality and corruption were intertwined.
On the rough beach studded with broken shells and fish bones, everyone was waiting to welcome Lu Li and Ophelia, as well as Catalina's ending.
"Why...don't you...stop her?"
"It's her decision."
Maybe becoming a deep diver is not a bad thing. You no longer have to worry about survival, and you may even have almost eternal life.
"Then can we come to see her in the future? Or she can come to see us."
Pusius was sad that he had one less companion beside him.
"She said we would see you again."
But no one knew whether it was Katarina who met them, or a deep diver with Katarina's name.
Knowing that the Innsmaus incident was over, Bishop Jon and the believers were glad that Lu Li did not have to continue taking risks.
The Tentacle Cultists were completely on the opposite side. They believed that Lu Li had betrayed them and failed to destroy the lair of this group of heretics as he swore.
"Our original purpose was to find Catalina, not to destroy the town." Lu Li answered.
Therefore, the Tentacle Cultists could only angrily get angry at Lu Li.
Eager to please God by destroying the town, the Tentacle Cultists chose to leave Lu Li's team, leave the coast with the believers, and walk deeper into the land.
Confirming that they would not come back, Lu Li called Andrea, who was hiding on the edge of the mist, to come to the shore.
Andrea whispered to Lu Li and others who were boarding.
The elder sister who climbed up Lu Li's back and got into the hood said, "It asked where Catalina is."
According to the depressed Pusius, Andrea left the offshore sea and sailed towards the outer fog and eternal night.
When Andrea was about to leave the sea, a fish-like frog-like head emerged from the waves in Andrea's wake, quietly watching them leave.
Lu Li, who was standing on the deck, saw it.
Whether it was the deep divers watching, or the farewell to Katarina, everything disappeared and sank to the bottom of the sea.
