Yeager turned back to confront the villagers: "What's going on...you want to go back on your word?"
Margaret raised her illusory palm to stop Jaeger and said something silently and calmly.
"Maybe the soul has been away from the body for too long." Fudote said.
Kiruit checked Margaret's body. Her body was still alive, with weak breathing and heartbeat, but her soul was not there.
"Can you restore her?" Lu Li asked the villagers.
【We don't know】
The villagers gathered in words to answer, as if to prove that what they said was true, the power that enveloped Margaret's body dissipated. Kiruait caught the collapsed body and motioned for Margaret to touch it again.
The phantom arm still goes through the body, which doesn't work.
The Holy Light Team didn't know how to deal with "resurrection from the dead", and Kiruait raised his head in panic: "Her body is dying!"
Without the power of the dungeon, the body without a soul is heading towards death.
"Go to the Alchemy Office to find Professor Chris." Lu Li confirmed that she was there through the businessman Anthony.
"Margaret is a ghost now... The giant tree won't let her in!" Naxi looked at Margaret in panic. She was still calm, emitting a cold fluorescent light like moonlight, as if she was not the one who was dying.
Fudot released a parasitic insect from her insect bag, allowing Margaret's soul to temporarily reside on it, hiding from the giant tree and the gatekeeper's search.
"What about you?" Kiluaite asked Lu Li, who didn't intend to leave.
"Complete the remainder of the collaboration."
They will not let Lu Li leave before completing the cooperation.
"be safe."
The Holy Light Team quickly left the dungeon with Margaret's soul and body.
After the team members disappeared from the rock gap, Lu Li asked the businessman Anthony to summon worms to drill a passage to the restricted area of the swamp.
This process was destined to be long. After dozens of minutes, the worm was shaken, digging down the wall of a small house and drilling out of the ground. The dungeon consciousness that had already been reminded did not reject the worm that appeared.
The cold atmosphere from the outside dispersed the turbidity of the underground city, and the villagers gathered around the tunnel dug by the worms. From the end, they could vaguely see the glimmer of light coming from the swamp.
For closed underground cities, the swamp restricted area is the "outside world" and the only way to the old sewers.
There is no doubt that this underground city is composed of swarm consciousness. Margaret's body also became part of the swarm consciousness, but her soul survived for unknown reasons. Maybe the swarm consciousness needs Margaret's wisdom, maybe she has another
There are secrets.
Lu Li and the dungeon consciousness completed their cooperation. They allowed Lu Li to leave without stopping him. As for whether to stay in the dungeon or abandon this dungeon between giant trees and swamps and choose to migrate, you need to choose for yourself.
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The lonely Lu Li returned to the entrance and slipped through the gap without looking back. Not long after he went out, the entrance suddenly collapsed and was closed.
They already have the answer.
…
Knock knock knock
Trunk level, Senior Alchemy Office.
When Lu Li arrived, Professor Chris was preparing potions in front of the alchemy table.
Margaret's body was lowered into the lounge chair, surrounded by the others and her soul.
"Would you like to hear good news or bad news?" Kiruait looked at Lu Li.
"Both."
"The good news is that Margaret can survive, but the bad news is that her soul has been separated from her body for too long and it will take a long time to recover...it may be too late to get enough credits for promotion in less than two months."
The joy on Kiruait's cheeks showed that the bad news was insignificant compared to the good news.
Is there anything more gratifying than finding something lost?
Lu Li approached the lounge chair. Margaret's body bore minor abrasions from the rock wall. Other than that, there were only frayed dirty clothes and calloused palms.
After all, before Lu Li rescued Margaret from the dungeon, her body had been a "villager" for more than a month.
"You destroyed that dungeon?"
Professor Chris, who was preparing the medicine from behind, asked.
"No. I left after opening the passage to the swamp, and then the dungeon blocked the entrance."
"It seems they want to escape the fate of being reduced to a dungeon, but I'm curious... they didn't even think of biting you."
Resisting Lu Li's "charm" requires strong restraint, especially for weird people who are not bound by rules.
"Maybe they are afraid of the power of the Giant Tree Academy and the Tarot cards."
"Tarot cards?"
"The Tarot of Light, the treasures taken out of the dungeon."
"You are lucky." Professor Chris commented.
"Is it famous?"
The Bright Tarot Card is now in the hands of Fodort, the only one who knows how to use it.
"Earl Hunter's huge bounty has been hanging on the task board in Midnight City for three years."
The characteristics of homologues make it difficult to classify them by power, just like many weird powers cannot be measured: "So I guess except for the Bright Tarot Cards, the rest are just garbage, right?"
"A few bottles of potions close to the hundredth rank." Lu Li answered.
Professor Chris, who had prepared the potion, returned to the recliner and poured the thick and transparent mucus potion like aloe vera juice into Margaret's pinched mouth.
There was no swallowing, and the medicine was poured into the throat.
"What is this?" Kiruait, whose restraint had faded slightly, asked.
"glue."
"Well……"
"Glue used to rejoin the soul and body." Professor Chris handed the remaining half cup of potion to Margaret's soul: "Drink the rest."
Margaret's fluorescent soul, which was originally unable to contact the outside world, caught the potion and drank it. Following Professor Chris's instructions, she lay down on the recliner and overlapped with her body.
"Close your eyes, imagine that you are trapped in a nightmare, breathe, feel your heartbeat, and open your eyes to wake up..."
In the whisper of Professor Chris, they heard a faint heartbeat, their chests began to rise and fall, their eyelashes trembled slightly... A pair of eyes that were not illusory and as tranquil as lake water opened.
Lu Li asked businessman Anthony to bring a wheelchair.
Lu Li, who had had similar experiences, knew how to avoid out-of-body symptoms.
"Keep still, the glue is taking effect, and then adapt to your regained body." Professor Chris took off the wide-brimmed hat on the coat rack, turned back and said goodbye to Lu Li: "My dear, I still have something to do with you.
My team members remember to tidy up the office for me when they leave."
Click
The door closed, and the Alchemy Office fell into an eerie silence.
Lu Li's footsteps broke the silence and he began to clean up the chaotic alchemy table.
Kiruait and others watched, they didn't even dare to help.
"Thank you."
Margaret's whisper brought a strange situation back to reality, and Kiruait gently touched her forehead: "You are our companion..."
Lu Li quickly tidied up the office. They didn't stay here too long. When Margaret could move slowly, Kiruait picked her up and gently put her in the wheelchair.
