The sleeping man was breathing slowly and rising and falling around him. Through the light coming from the crack of the stove, Lu Li saw that everyone in the dark captain's cabin was sleeping soundly. Even Andrea was floating peacefully on the sea.
Lu Li woke up the eldest sister and asked her to wake up Andrea, and he went to call the other sleeping people.
"Where are we?"
Pusius thought he just fell asleep accidentally, until the eldest sister conveyed Andrea's words: they all fell into a deep sleep before they even got close to the sea area.
"What we... experienced... was a dream?"
Ophelia stood up blankly, and she saw that the merchant had also fallen asleep.
"I'm afraid not."
Lu Li looked out the window at the surging darkness. The Doomsday Apocalypse book lay quietly in his pocket.
The followers of the Church of Shadows also found no trace of the Tentacle Cultists on the ship.
At the same time, the gifts of this trip emerged.
【Dreamman】
[It’s magnificent, weird, and colorful. From the hyenas surviving in the wilderness to the giant beasts dormant in the nebula, they all have dreams. This dimension is only fair at this point. Who knows that dreams are not another world? 】
[You can enter the dreams of people around you and experience wonderful or terrifying nightmares until you are lost in the depths of the dream]
[Fiery dreams will melt you, or melt the dreamer]
"Leave here first." Lu Li said.
Andrea sets sail again, leaving this mysterious sea where reality and dreams overlap.
Next, after losing Anna and Catalina, they will return to the ice-free port of Vina, take a short rest and investigate the information about Paradise Valley.
After a night's rest in the captain's cabin, the next morning when eternal night still shrouded the earth, they were less than two hundred nautical miles away from the ice-free port of Vina.
But a piece of bad news was delivered to Lu Li through the businessman.
"Who is it?"
Ophelia asked.
"Mayor Matthäus. He asked us not to return to the ice-free port of Wiener."
Lu Li said, looking away from the brief one-line letter and asking the merchant.
"What happened to the ice-free port of Wiener?"
…
bang
The door to the mayor's office suddenly opened. Mayor Mateus stood up in shock.
"I'm sorry, Lord Mayor, but the bad news I bring is a hundred times more serious than breaking in unexpectedly."
"Is there anything worse than the relationship between Mr. Lu Li and the Shadow Church?"
Mayor Mateus bent down to pick up the dropped pen.
"The trial court has just announced that it will no longer support us." Assistant Valendo said seriously.
"They have always disliked our Mr. Exorcist, ever since he arrived in Hong Kong on that weird ship. Those fundamentalists want to 'purify' even the polluted people. It is normal for them not to support us at this time."
Putting the pen back on the desk, Mayor Mateus sat down in his chair. He was not surprised by this, or he did not think that the trial court would be on their side from the beginning.
"The Parliament and the Privy Council are deeply divided, with nearly two-thirds of each not supporting us or not participating in it," Assistant Valendo continued.
This is indeed bad news. When he became mayor, Matthäus's supporters were two-thirds, which means that the number of people who support them is now less than half.
"Our troubles are endless." Mayor Mateus sighed: "Where is the businessman? Those idiots didn't want to kill him."
"Because exorcists were cooperating with businessmen in the old days, they didn't cause trouble here."
"Well, tell me something that's not that bad."
"Although they used dirty methods to deal with the exorcist, they also paid a price and their supporters were also declining. Many officials believe this is serious internal friction."
"Sounds good, but isn't there any real good news?"
It sounds wonderful when the enemy who snatched the fruit failed, but the fruit no longer belongs to them.
The assistant had a hard time finding news to save morale from the predicament: "Because of the perpetual night fog, the citizens did not oppose the parade, and most people have not heard about it from the newspapers."
"Newspaper..."
Mateus' eyes fell on several newspapers that were placed on the table not long ago.
Even illiterate citizens would feel uncomfortable if they printed photos of Luli landing on Andrea or attending a party with fonts full of exclamation marks.
…
[The disgusting scandal of the last exorcist!]
[The Horrible Truth: Evil Pagans Believe in Our Hero Exorcist Lu Li]
【The Corrupted Exorcist】
"How...how could they...say that!"
Ophelia was so angry at the title that hot lava emerged from the cracks and fell to the floor.
Bishop Jon expressed his resentment towards the believers who betrayed Lu Li.
"Calm down, Ophelia."
Lu Li reminded the out-of-control Ophelia, and Pusius rushed forward with a kettle in his mouth, extinguishing the lava in the white smoke, but the fist-sized burn hole was still visible on the floor.
"Vina Freeze Port has always been hostile to non-human beings. Andrea is not rejected because of me and because she is a ship. Humans build ships and humans are familiar with ships. The Church of Shadows is different. Humans deeply hate pagans.
Absolutely, they are like a deadly plague. A little laxity may turn a city into a dead city. Partnering with heathens is a kind of betrayal in their eyes."
Lu Li rarely spoke a lot, and he spoke for the people who were attacking him.
In fact, Lu Li could understand this emotion.
Although there are ugly political factors in the exposure of the relationship with the Shadow Church, Weiner, which considers itself a "humanity beacon", cannot forgive Lu Li indefinitely.
Pusius, Ophelia, the Church of Shadows, and perhaps more weird things will follow in the future. One day, the citizens of Vena Freeze Port will see clearly the true face of this revered exorcist.
In any case, Weiner Freeze Port will not be able to return in the short term or even for a long time in the future, and it is not suitable for them to help with the investigation. In order to protect Mayor Mateus, and to protect Lu Li from exposing his whereabouts.
However, Lu Li could find information from other places and other towns.
The ice-free port of Wiener cannot represent the will of mankind.
Lu Li asked Andrea to return to Belfast.
"Mr. Lu Li, what is the new cursed title you got?"
Pusius asked stiffly, and it was obvious that he wanted to change the topic to a less serious topic.
"The dreamer."
Along with Lu Li's words, the additional content of the cursed title appeared in the minds of the observers.
Lu Li, who had returned less than a month ago, had indeed received many cursed titles.
Lighthouses, bloodstained ones, tree whisperers, linguists, and dreamers, the power they bring is hard to describe.
After a day's sailing on the sea, Andrea arrived at the port of Rodeste.
The Fugitive Church, which was already an ally, received them, stayed briefly to visit the ocean-going ship under construction, and returned to the Twisted Vine camp.
They rested here for two days, and the surprise came on the third day.
The Tentacle Cultists returned, bringing with them the oracle that they conveyed to Lu Li.
"The great God of the Deep Sea has noticed your insignificance."
