Chapter 1076 Fourteen. Fifth batch of residents

   Getting to the land of light on a perilous surface is no easy task.

   At least for nearly four months after the birth of the land of light, no human or inhuman has entered the land of light, climbed Mount Sugard, approached the Agate Lake camp and said: I want to join here.

  The only way for those who yearn to go to the land of light is Andrea.

  When the sound of the whistle that cut through the night came from the bay, it meant that Andrea had returned with the fifth batch of residents.

  The Onyx Lake Campsite becomes bustling, and usually at this time, the residents will stop all the work they are doing and prepare to meet their "old selves".

   "How did you get the residents to come to the camp."

  Lu Liwen followed Andrea's cry and a distorted figure appeared beside him.

   Looking at the distant bay under the night, Andrea's hull is hidden in the gloom.

   "Your allies have made a way for us..." He said.

  Allies refer to the worms that are still active on the back of Mount Sugard, and can still come if Lu Li needs them.

The twisted figure summoned her followers, a group of twelve twisted followers and a vine believer who could communicate entered the underground passage from the deep pit surrounded by fences in the southwest of the camp, and went to the other side to meet the new residents. He sat in the Agate Lake camp. .

  Lu Li will also stay because he can't do anything even if attacked. But before he set off, he made a suggestion: let the greeting team bring a resident.

   This will ease the apprehension of those new residents.

  The vast stars gradually climb above the void, their pervasive pollution malice has been purified, and only pure magnificence remains.

The residents took out the furniture from the warehouse and moved them into the newly built shacks, brought the bedding and clothes to the square and piled them up, and then boiled the lake water from the Agate Lake, so that the new residents could take a hot bath so as not to soil their new homes—this is all. The experience accumulated by batches of residents.

   At midnight, Lu Li followed the twisted figure who sensed the return of the believer to the underground passage.

   "Don't expect anything..."

  When the wet squirming sound echoed from the depths of the passage, the twisted figure beside him whispered.

   Then, Lu Li saw the thirteen returnees and Mitra, who was lost.

"What happened."

   Lu Li asked the team that returned as it was.

  Mitra brought back bad news: all the fifth inhabitants on Andrea were dead, no one was spared, no one survived. Their bodies were piled up in the belly or in the room, and like every part of the ship was covered in thick black mud - what happened to Andrea on her way back.

   "Take me there." Lu Li said, pushing open the gate to the underground passage.

   Thirteen followers followed, and Mitra chose to follow for no apparent reason.

   Walking along the dark tunnel that the worm ate, Lu Li found that the twisted figure was also following.

   "You should stay in the land of light."

  Lu Li didn't want the Agate Lake camp to be destroyed by leaving this time.

   "Your existence is more important than the camp..." said the twisted figure.

   "They don't know my return, but they know your departure, maybe they are waiting for this moment."

   It was never the shepherd dog that made the wolves dare not touch the lambs, but the hunter and his shotgun.

   The twisted figure finally stayed at the camp, but another group of believers was sent to follow Lu Li away.

  After a boring and long hour, Lu Li, who had traveled along the straight tunnel, reached the coast and boarded the port from the humble wooden ladder once built by the fleeing sect.

   The twisted believers dispersed, Lu Li took out the oil lamp, and saw Andrea, who was deeper and darker than the sea on the dark sea.

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   "What are these silts?"

  Land Li stepped on the deck and walked along the clean area to the cabin.

   Andrea couldn't tell what happened, only the Vine Cultist told Lu Li that it was some kind of inactive biological slime.

   Entering the cabin, black silt is pervasive in every corner of the walls, ceiling and floor. A washed-up corpse is lying nearby, as pale as if it had been soaked in sea water for more than ten hours.

   Andrea may have passed through somewhere, or been wrapped in something, and the silt got into the gap and killed everyone in the cabin.

  Only Andrea was spared because she was made of steel.

   "Please help me wash this silt down." Lu Li said to the twisted believers around him.

They bowed down, came to the deck to start the ceremony, and manipulated the sea to wash the mud on Andrea's ship. After witnessing the mighty power of the **** of the deep sea, the twisted figure and his followers were inevitably affected by the breath of the ancients. , but that's not a bad thing. Although the twisted figure belongs to the evil god, the power gap between him and the real evil gods in the town of gods is like the gap between Lu Li and it.

  The influence of the breath of the ancient gods will change the power of him and the believers, and the "good news" is that the **** of the deep sea has died, and he will not be twisted into a servant of the ancient gods.

It took dozens of minutes for    more than 20 twisted believers to wash Andrea, and finally washed the last mud into the sea that reflected the faint sparkling light.

   And 79 corpses lay pale on the deck, horrifying and sad.

  Because they should have come to the shore alive, to see the stars and sunshine in the land of light, and to fight for the future of mankind.

   "We are all the people of the Lord, and we will all return to the arms of the Lord..."

   Mitra's whispered prayers came from beside her.

  Old Belfast is not safe, Lu Li can't bury them here, even at sea. He called the merchant Anthony to the deck, took the bodies to the Shadowtown cemetery for burial, and sent a letter to the Swamp Mother by the way.

  When the corpse disappeared, Andrea's decayed, holed deck, and corrosion and rust, parasitic black spots on the steel hull became apparent.

   The five round trips in three months have not avoided all danger.

The   vine believer approached Lu Li at this time, telling him that the strange people around him had noticed this.

   "Don't set sail for now, I will find a way to give you the power to resist."

  Lu Li let Andrea stay in the bay to recover. Before leaving, he tried to give Andrea a trace of humanity.

   Nothing happened, the corrosion rust didn't recover, the decayed holes didn't heal, nothing seemed to happen except the joy from Andrea's whistle, and human nature didn't make Andrea heal or grow strong.

   Maybe it's because he gave too little humanity, but Lu Li can only wait to accumulate some humanity before trying again.

   Saying goodbye to Andrea, Lu Li and Twisted and the Vine Cultists return to the Onyx Lake camp before the weird approach.

   When Lu Li and the others returned to the Onyx Lake camp, the warm atmosphere had long since disappeared. People who already knew the bad news moved away and worked sadly and silently, no longer smiling.

  The long-lost crisis once again reminds people of the terrible times we live in today.

   (end of this chapter)