Chapter 1322 Two hundred sixty. The third night

  A vertical ladder about five meters long leads to the top of the lighthouse. It should be the safest place, but children and men may be able to overcome their fear of heights and climb to it, even Jojo, but the rest of the women and the elderly cannot.

  Lu Li floated into the top of the lighthouse, which is about the size of a living room, enough to accommodate the people here.

   And sooner or later the plague and the infected will spread to the lighthouse, the stairs can't stop them.

  Lu Li motioned for Jojo to climb up, Jojo understood what he meant, said something to Aunt Mary, and approached the vertical ladder.

   The administrator still wanted to stop it, but was rejected by Jojo: "You don't know what's going on outside. I'm going to go up and see how far they are from us. You can also come up together."

   "They?"

   An old scholar exclaimed unexpectedly, the whispers inside the lighthouse gradually faded, and people on the stairs looked at Jojo.

Qiaoqiao looked at Lu Li and said after obtaining his permission: "I only know that the plague broke out in the city, and many people were infected into monsters... We wanted to leave the island, but Queen Harbor was blocked, and all the boats on the beach were gone, This lighthouse is our last chance."

  Jojo's words stirred up confusion, they only knew to go higher, but they didn't know the disaster that was happening on Queen's Island.

   "It's impossible, the soldiers told me just now that I'm just a rebel..." A woman supported by her daughter argued in disbelief.

   "We all came to the lighthouse because of 'running to the heights'. If it's just rebels, why would we do this?" Jojo looked around at her own eyes: "And how long has it been since the patrolling soldiers appeared?"

   "The lights outside are all off..."

   "I passed by Queen's Harbour when I came, it was dark inside..."

   "Power outages everywhere!"

  People began to talk about what they had seen when they arrived, adding anxiety to their hearts.

   Only the administrator hesitated, still not believing it easily.

   "What else do you think would make us panic so much..." Jojo sighed and pointed to the panicked people around her, "Hide in this lighthouse?"

   "Are there really plagues... and monsters?"

"Um."

  Jojo's words became the last straw. The administrator murmured his wife's name to squeeze out the crowd on the stairs. People stood firm and watched the administrator running into the dark night outside the narrow window.

   At this moment, there was an exclamation of fire.

   Lu Li drilled through the wall of the lighthouse, his eyes leaped across the trees, and he saw the lights of the distant city lit up.

   I don’t know if it was an accidental fire, or the residents were trying to stop the spread of the plague.

  Lu Li returned to the lighthouse, Jojo was climbing up the vertical ladder under the care of Aunt Mary, pushed open the top trapdoor, and nimbly got into the top.

   The extinguished searchlight shade brought residual warmth, and Jojo looked out of the ring curtain window outside the guardrail of the lighthouse—the once prosperous Queen's Island was now plunged into darkness, with only burning flames and sporadic light.

   Looking back, she saw sparse spots of light moving towards here from the beach.

  Those oil lamps should not be monsters.

   "We should remove the searchlights..."

   But instead of saving space by removing the searchlight, Jojo must first find a way to get the people below to come up.

  Jojo asked the young men in the crowd to climb up with ropes, tie the ropes to the brackets, and let the people below grab the ropes and pull them up.

   First, the elderly and children. Before the crisis approached, people still maintained the basic morality.

   "I'm too old to stand up to this kind of tossing..."

   Aunt Roseanne was still complaining, while Aunt Mary helped her tie a rope and drag her to the top floor.

   But more and more people gather on the stairs - residents who feel uneasy and know "run to the heights" come to the lighthouse.

  Jojo realized after being reminded by Lu Li that they might bring the plague and the infected.

   But Jojo couldn't stop them, so she could only wait to go to the top of the lighthouse to observe the situation and check their physical condition.

  Only when the asylum seekers disagreed about whether to remove the searchlights, Jojo believed that removing the searchlights would allow more people to come up—more people crowded at the bottom of the lighthouse.

   But the old people want to keep the lighthouse so that they can call for help.

   "No one will come to save us." Qiaoqiao, who had already learned the truth from Lu Li, said in a deep voice.

The    searchlight was eventually removed, but because it couldn’t be moved out, it could only be temporarily piled in the corner.

   There was a sudden noise outside the lighthouse, and some asylum seekers who could not squeeze in were arguing. Jojo was about to go down to maintain order, when Aunt Roshan quietly tugged at the corner of her clothes.

"I want to save them..." The old man rubbed his aching stomach and said, "But child, you know that when I get old, I will be kind and do a lot of stupid things. If this is wrong, please let me know. stop me…"

   "You did nothing wrong."

  Jojo said gently, "I'll do my best to save them."

   Then as Jojo crawled downstairs with determination in her arms, she heard a shrill cry from above her head.

   "They are coming!!"

   A strong sense of suffocation enveloped Jojo, and she heard the abomination approaching quickly in the gloom, and heard chaos erupting suddenly below.

  The order in the lighthouse collapsed in an instant.

With a blank head, Jojo subconsciously wanted to go back downstairs to block the entrance, but this became an extravagant hope. The crowded climbing crowd pushed her back to the upper floor. The rope, the person who fell smashed a large piece.

  The monsters who rushed into the lighthouse with a roar started this nameless feast in their desperate cries.

   The middle-aged man who finally climbed up kicked off the palm of his hand that was grabbing his ankle, closed the trapdoor in horror, and the others who were awakened pushed the heavy object onto the trapdoor, blocking the hellish screams below.

   Weak prayers, weeping, and pleading were squeezed and mixed in the crowded lighthouse, dull and depressing.

   At this moment, Lu Li's silhouette disappeared from Qiao Qiao's sight.

  …

   "A plague broke out in 'Queen's Island', and the infected residents turned into monsters to attack humans and spread the plague."

  Lu Li will tell the mother of the swamp that he will pass by tonight.

   "The information I collected is that there is a shadow of a secret religion."

  Lu Li thought quietly, and the Swamp Mother quickly asked, "What did you think of?"

   "There is more than one force attacking the Lennon Islands."

   At least the source of the plague is not the same force that shattered the Lennon Islands.

   "She thinks the same as Vice President Chris, and she thinks so too."

   Like a pack of wolves besieging a bison, chasing and tearing at fresh flesh.

   "Investigate the source of 'running to heights', it should be related to a conspiracy." Lu Li said, a motto that appeared before the disaster could not be without a reason.

   "I will do it."

  The cave was quiet with the departure of the merchant Anthony.

   The bonfire crackled, and the light penetrated Lu Li's soul.

  Lu Li quietly filled in the firewood, waiting for the third night to come, and arranging what to do next.

   Find the boat for the man at the lighthouse.

   Explore "Queen's Island" to find out the truth.

   (end of this chapter)