Chapter 145 Sixty. Helpers in the Swamp

  Anna carefully bypassed the beak mask figure and came to Lu Li's side.

   She misses the warm hut a little, but she misses the detective agency in Belfast more.

  Lu Li put on his poncho and hood, and grasped the door of the house in his hand. When he was about to open it, the bird-beak masked figure suddenly opened his mouth.

"Wait a moment."

  Lu Li looked back, the bird's beak mask figure touched his waist pocket, wanting to take out something.

   "You're leaving? Why?"

   The seeker sitting by the fire asked inexplicably. The breathless gale outside almost suffocated him, and he couldn't think of any reason for Lu Li to leave the wooden house.

   "The swamp is dangerous after dark," Lu Li replied.

   "Okay, I understand, if it wasn't for the injury, I wouldn't want to spend the night here. I wish you all a smooth escape from the swamp...hiss." Involving the wound, the seeker gasped.

  The bird-beak mask figure took out the contents in his pocket and handed it to Lu Li silently.

   Even Lu Li couldn't help being stunned by what was being held by the leather gloves.

   "It's called a flashlight."

   The beak mask figure explained one sentence.

"I know."

  Lu Li took the flashlight from the beak mask figure. It's not big and heavier than expected. Find the switch and press it, and a dim yellow beam similar to an oil lamp emanates from the front bulb.

   "Crow, are you going to give this to him?"

   The voice of the seeker was very surprised, as if seeing something incredible.

   "Invitation card for invitation card." The beak mask figure replied.

   The seeker suddenly said, "Is the invitation card originally from Lu Li..."

   It sounds like the flashlight is some kind of invitation card, but Lu Li still decided to accept the flashlight. There was something carved around the flashlight. Lu Li didn't have time to observe it, so he raised his head and asked, "Can it be charged?"

"Battery."

"thanks."

   Put the flashlight in his pocket, Lu Li turned around and opened the door, walked into the cold wind and rain, and disappeared outside the closed door.

  …

  The majestic rain fell, obscuring the view. The terrifying electric snake roamed in the clouds in the sky, but strangely, no thunder could be heard.

   The strong wind slapped his body, and Lu Li's figure looked shaky. The oil lamp in his hand swayed in the wind, and the faint flame seemed to be extinguished at any moment.

  Lu Li simply threw away the oil lamp and walked towards the north of the wooden house by the uninterrupted light of lightning in the clouds, which was the direction he had come from.

  Ana followed Lu Li worriedly, with guilt. As a ghost, she can't feel the storm, and that's what makes her feel the guilt of comfort.

   The unbearable suffocation of the seeker soon appeared on Lu Li. The strong wind swept away the air in front of Lu Li. He covered his mouth with his palm, took a deep breath and ran out of the wooden house and into the jungle.

  Darkness and white light clashed fiercely, and the pale light flickered brightly in this swamp.

   A figure ran fast, walking through the swamp jungle.

   But this is a swamp, not a jungle. The swamp, which has always had a bad temper, does not allow anyone to run on it.

   The foot of the running figure sank suddenly, and one leg did not enter the quagmire that was almost integrated with the surroundings.

   Anna, who was floating behind her, instantly used her ability to pull Lu Li, and pulled out Lu Li, whose right knee was stuck in the mud.

   The hood of the poncho slipped down because of the sudden change just now, and in just a few seconds, Lu Li was almost completely wet.

  Lu Li ignored the poncho, stood up straight with the withered tree on the side, narrowed his black eyes and looked forward. Under the frequent flickering light and shadow of thunder, the jungle in front had turned into a swamp, and it was difficult to distinguish where the ground was and where was the swamp.

  Under the abundant rain, some puddles that were dry and cracked were refilled, and the swamp gradually revealed its original hideous appearance, a biological restricted area.

   Slightly exhaled a breath of turbid air, Lu Li took a step and started a new run.

  The interval between the swamp blisters in the land step is shortened at a speed visible to the naked eye. Anna pulled him back to the ground again and again, but when Lu Li ran four or five hundred meters, Anna gradually exhausted.

   "I'm running out of strength!"

   once again lifted Lu Li to the side of a dead tree, and Anna shouted loudly, "How far are we from the road!"

   "A quarter."

   Lu Li panted and answered, the rain water meandering and converging into a stream of water under his jaw.

   With black hair clinging to his skin, Lu Li, who was already soaked, looked a little embarrassed and unbearable, but his eyes still carried an unchanging calm.

   None of the hundreds of thousands of lightning bolts that permeated the hurricane fell into the Shadow Swamp. This seemed to be the ability of the Swamp Mother, but it undoubtedly helped Lu Li from being struck by lightning.

   "A quarter?!" Anna exclaimed in surprise.

   "A quarter gone."

  Lu Li took out the kettle from his arms, unscrewed the lid and drank the cold water that was only a little warm. It was still piping hot when he went out three minutes ago.

   The faint warmth lasted for a few seconds, before being blown away by the icy wind and torrential rain.

  Anna clenched her silver teeth and suddenly shouted: "Wait for me here, I'll find a nearby place to hide!"

"and many more."

  Lu Li stopped Anna, who was about to float away, without saying a word while she was staring at her suspiciously, and stretched out her hand to point forward.

  Ana looked in the direction that Lu Li pointed, and in the pale white light, a dozen or so meters away, a creature with six arthropods lying on the ground looked over.

   "Six-legged savage...?"

  Ann murmured its name and found that the six-legged savage turned its body on the spot and got into the rain curtain in front.

   "Follow it."

  Lu Li walked past Anna and followed the savage.

   This six-legged savage seems to be leading the way for Lu Li. It crawls quickly in the swamp in the storm, and when it doesn't bypass a swamp that looks like the ground, it will stop and wait for Lu Li to catch up.

   "It's showing us the way!"

  Anna confirmed her inner guess and shouted in surprise.

  Lu Li said nothing, pursed his pale lips, and ran to follow the crawling figure more than ten meters away in the majestic rain.

   Two-quarters, three-quarters, Swamp Road is within easy reach. But at this moment, a cold light flashed and flew towards Lu Li!

   That cold light pierced through Anna's body and ran towards Lu Li. With a buzzing sound in Anna's head, she subconsciously mustered all her strength to hit the cold light.

  Hanmang was hit and turned, and split into the trunk of the dead tree that Lu Li passed by.

   The perceptive Lu Li tilted his head and saw a familiar axe.

   He stopped and turned around. Behind him, a dozen meters away, the charred lady of the wooden house stood under the rain curtain.

   "Mother wants to see you." She roared, twisting towards Lu Li.

   Suddenly, a branch slanted out of the ground, wrapped around the waist of the "hostess" and pulled her aside.

   It was a thick, eerie tree. Countless branches came alive, dancing wildly in the storm, reaching for the "hostess" and wrapping it in the branches.

"let's go."

  Lu Li took a deep look at the big tree whose dancing branches wrapped around the "hostess", then turned to follow the six-legged savage.

  Lu Li's figure disappeared into the rain. On the spot, a charred arm stretched out from the wrapped branches, grabbing Lu Li's back—

   More branches tangled from the canopy, wrapping it completely.

   (end of this chapter)