Chapter 139 Fifty-four. The knock on the door

  woo—

  The gap in the wall was blocked with a sheet, the door was installed back to the door frame, and the window frame was nailed with wooden boards.

  The whistling sound of the wind blowing through the cracks sounded in the calm and warm wooden house.

   "Call..."

  Lu Li blew out the heat from the kettle and took a sip to his mouth.

  The warmth flows into the throat and spreads out inside the body.

  tick-tick-tick-

   The woolen trench coat and trousers hanging behind the door were dripping with water, the short boots were buckled against the wall, and the holster with the psychic gun lay quietly beside Lu Li, roasting the water vapor.

   Lu Li only wore a wrung shirt and shorts, sat barefoot by the campfire, and looked calm.

  Anna sat opposite, holding Little Rena's diary. Maybe it was shyness, or maybe it was the firelight, and a blush appeared on her pale, delicate cheeks.

  Lu Li poured out the kettle, dampened a clean cloth with some hot water, and wiped the scratches on his arms and palms: "The book is upside down."

  Anna let out an exclamation, and hurriedly brought the book straight, her cheeks turned even redder: "I, I, I have been practicing reading upside down recently..."

   "Oh." Lu Li was noncommittal and continued to wipe with a reply.

   "Really! I can read these words backwards. For example, this word is very white. No, I mean... 嘤—" Anna, who was incoherent, covered her face with her diary, and the blush gradually spread to her earlobe.

   After burning for a long time, Anna carefully put down the book, revealing a pair of clear eyes. Seeing that Lu Li was wiping the wound and didn't intend to take care of herself, she put down her shame and focused on the diary with difficulty.

   She wants to determine if there are other key clues in the diary, what if this "uncle" has a wife?

   As for looking upside down... The little boy's handwriting is very scribbled, even if he reads it normally, it is difficult to distinguish it, he can only speculate from the content before and after, not to mention upside down...

  Time passed. After wiping his body, Lu Li put down the damp cloth, added some firewood to the bonfire, picked up the hot kettle again, and drank it one by one to avoid catching a cold due to the previous rain.

  Anna also gradually became silent about the contents of the diary, her face full of seriousness as she read the passages.

  The long-lost peace permeated between the two of them. It was windy and rainy outside, and the wooden house isolated the cold and danger outside.

  Anna did find "Uncle"'s wife, but she died a long time ago. In addition to this, Ana saw a lot of useful information. For example, those savages, the family of four called them "little meat", while the poor family, Lu Li and other humans were called guests and "big meat" by them.

  Anna found the difference between "little meat" and "big meat" later, which was unexpectedly related to Sanity.

  【I hate eating small meat, every time I eat too much, I see horrible things appearing around! Auntie went crazy because she ate the little meat and was taken away by the mother of the swamp! 】

  According to the original text of a family of four who believe in the mother of the swamp, small meat will cause their sanity to drop, but big meat will not.

  Anna told Lu Li what she found, and Lu Li was a little surprised. He didn't expect that this apparently non-human existence would actually have sanity.

   Does this mean anything... like it's not just humans who have sanity? Or was this family once human?

  Luri recalls their body structure. Under the skin-like surface is a mixture of fibers, similar to dark wood. It is like a mixture of dark wood after baking, and then cutting bread to see dense fibers piled together. No brain tissue, no flesh tissue, and no bones. Aside from the outside, the inside is not at all made up of human-owned tissue.

   If you have to describe it, they are like a group of vegetative people. Internal fibrosis, extreme fear of fire.

   "Uncle" is a little different, it's denser and tougher. Lu Li's flintlock gun can blow up the woman's head, and the wooden stick can pierce the little boy's mouth and nail it to the wall. But he could only punch a bowl-sized hole and pierce a few centimeters into the body of "Uncle". It's more like a wooden man.

The advantage of    is that it becomes stronger, while the disadvantage is that it becomes more fragile, and is finally cut off by Anna with an axe and cannot be resurrected.

   Grass can grow when it is broken, but trees cannot.

   "How did you find the problem?"

  Anna closed the diary and asked the question that had been haunting her for a long time.

   "What did you find?" Lu Li left his thoughts and looked at Anna.

   "I just found out that a family of three are monsters..."

  The moment Lu left the gun, she thought that Lu Li, like the novel she had just read, suddenly turned into an evil camp...

   "There are many doubts."

   Lu Li's words made Anna a little embarrassed, but she didn't notice a single one...

Lu Li said: "There is a wooden house in the Shadow Swamp where a family of three lives. It is a strange thing. The tranquility before the storm, the darkness before the dawn, the peace in the crisis - remember, the more out of tune with the environment, the more abnormal it is. "

   "Oh." Anna nodded, she felt the same at first, and then unconsciously let go of her vigilance...

   "And clothes, you may not have noticed, there are many styles and types of clothes in this wooden house, and they are not cherished piled around the bed."

  Ana subconsciously looked at the bed in the corner, and sure enough, just like what Lu Li said, various types of clothes were piled up in the corner, layer after layer.

   "And the distance from the fire. You may not have noticed, they are heating the fire, but so far from the fire, even the firewood is never close to the flame."

   "You found out so much in such a short time...?" Anna felt the crushing of her IQ and observation. "So that makes you think this family isn't human?"

   She is clearly a ghost, so she can observe more carefully than Lu Li...

"Do not."

  Lu Li shook his head and said calmly.

"It was the smell of blood that made me think there was something wrong with this family. The smell of blood splashed on the ground as soon as the rain started to fall, and the smell of blood around the wooden house was so strong that it almost lingered. result."

  When you know the answer, some doubts will naturally be magnified infinitely.

  Ana was speechless, not knowing how to face Lu Li with that expression.

  dong dong dong—

   The door trembled, something knocked on the door outside.

  The warm atmosphere in the wooden house instantly solidified.

   here again! ?

   Anna felt a chill in her heart and looked at Lu Li, who was touching the psychic gun.

   Holding the handle of the gun, Lu Li felt an unpleasant aura approaching the door and left again, leaving only a faint breath, as if something was left behind.

   "Open the door."

   Lu Li said.

  Anna did not suspect him, she floated behind the door with momentum, and pulled it open!

  The door was empty, save for the moisture that had poured in, and an invitation card that had been posted on the door at some point.

  Ana took the invitation card in confusion, closed the door and returned to Lu Li.

  Lu Li put down his psychic gun, took the invitation and unfolded it, looking at the contents above.

  【Dignified Guest】

  【We heard that you came to the swamp as a guest, the mother of the swamp is hospitable, she likes guests】

  【After dusk today, a party will start in the deepest part of the Shadow Swamp】

  【We sincerely invite you to the party】

  【See you tonight or not】

   (end of this chapter)