Chapter 149 Sixty-four. Treacherous world

  Shadow Town is far less prosperous than Belfast. Although the only two bakeries on Trinity Street have opened, they are still cleaning up the troubles caused by the hurricane, and the dough has not yet been prepared. It will take at least half an hour to put it in the oven.

   Lu Li, who brought nothing back, returned to the tavern. Little Jack behind the bar had been awake for a while, maybe it was the sound of Lu Li leaving, or maybe it was the humidity that got into the tavern.

   He politely greeted Lu Li, rubbed his eyes and opened a few curtains, then ran to extinguish the oil lamp that had been lit overnight.

  Lu Li went back upstairs and pushed open the wooden door of the room.

   "Come back so soon?"

  As soon as Lu Li returned to the tavern, Anna, who had sneaked back to the upstairs room, turned her head and pretended to be surprised.

   "A few seconds later than you." Lu Li replied.

   was directly pierced by Lu Li, Anna was a little embarrassed, and suddenly found that Lu Li was about to close the door and leave.

   "Huh? Where are you going?"

   "Feed the horses."

   Ignored whether Anna followed or not, Lu Li walked through the newly installed back door to the backyard, fed some grass and beans to the brown horse that seemed to be fine, and returned to the room.

   "When are we going back?" Ana asked Lu Li with her chin resting on her hands and tilting her head in boredom.

  The most looking forward to going out, she misses the detective agency at this time. And the sculpture, though it never paid attention to itself.

   "After buying newspapers and food."

   Lu Li looked at the alarm clock, it was just ten minutes past six ten.

   Then Anna saw that Lu Li was stunned, staring at the alarm clock motionlessly.

  Ann guessed something and asked tentatively, "Have you seen an illusion again?"

  Lu Li's eyes moved upwards, watching this vine that grew taller and taller from the alarm clock needle passed through the ceiling.

After the    illusion dissipated, Lu Li nodded: "Yes."

   "Why do you always feel that the illusion is a very interesting thing for you..." Anna whispered.

   In fact, Lu Li thinks so, it would be better if his sanity didn’t drop.

  Lu Li stopped talking, and Anna, who was almost used to his silence, picked up a fable and flipped through it.

   Time passed, a while, and the sound of approaching footsteps came from the corridor outside the door.

   "Sir, a newsboy is here to deliver the newspaper."

  Two minutes later, with three freshly-baked newspapers, Lu Li went back upstairs and said to Anna, who had just appeared and camouflaged with the book, "Get ready to go back."

  …

   In front of the tavern, Little Jack stood on tiptoe, put the reins on the brown horse, checked whether the connection between the horse and the carriage was firm, stood up and said, "It's all done, sir."

  Lu Li nodded, put his backpack into the carriage, and got on the carriage. Under the reluctant gaze of the tavern owner, he pulled the reins and slowly left the door of the tavern.

   "Going back!"

   Finally ended this strange and troublesome journey, Anna was a little excited, and the gradually dissipating noble etiquette was almost invisible at this time.

   Before leaving Shadow Town, the carriage stopped temporarily outside the door of a bakery. Lu Li got out of the car and bought five pounds of bread, and returned to the car with a cowhide bag and an umbrella.

  Ana looked at Lu Li with an unbelievable look, because... Lu Li was actually bargaining just now!

When Lu Li said "Can it be cheaper?", his silent and stern image collapsed in Anna's heart, so that Lu Li returned to the car and pulled the reins again. Anna couldn't help pinching Lu Li's face. .

  “…?”

   The still calm black eyes looked suspiciously.

   "Cough cough... I want to see if you are fake Lu Li." Anna, realizing what she had just done, coughed a few times, pretending to be calm.

   "Are you talking about bargaining?"

   The curtain was lifted, and Anna in the carriage nodded, realizing that Lu Li couldn't see it, and said, "Could it be that the price of bread is too expensive?"

   "Just to save money."

   "Eh..." Anna snorted, unable to understand. "Are we running out of money?"

"and also."

   "Then why save money?"

  Ana's thoughts basically overlapped with Lu Li a day earlier: money doesn't matter.

   Lu Li was silent for a moment, without turning his head to answer: "Because of something."

   He didn't intend to hide Anna, although it was troublesome to say.

  Lu Li then told her what she had guessed after seeing the cruise ship in the sky: the world is becoming more and more dangerous.

   This is something to follow. A few months before Lu Li's arrival, the cataclysm of the night had come, followed by an endless stream of terrifying and terrifying events. Places far from human gathering points were becoming more and more dangerous, plants stopped growing, and the sun appeared less and less often—

  The people of this world are experiencing a boiled frog. The supplement is that frogs know that they can jump out when the water is hot, but people don't know, and the few who know can't jump out.

The more frequently the    weirdness appears and the closer it is to humans, it means that the world is being eroded more seriously.

   "It won't be so bad..."

  Anna didn't believe that the plots that didn't appear in the novels would appear in the real world, but she couldn't refute Lu Li's speculation. He said that there was almost no loophole - the world was indeed becoming bleak at a speed visible to the naked eye.

  The somewhat unacceptable Anna lowered her head and remained silent.

  Lu Li didn't comfort her, he was the kind of guy who would say "you're about to die, you'd better find a suitable burial place and tombstone" to a dying person, regardless of whether others could accept it or not.

   "But maybe it's not that bad, right!"

   Suddenly, Anna raised her head and asked with hope in her eyes.

  Lu Li's voice was flat: "Yes, this is just my speculation. But it has been foreseen, so we must prepare everything in advance."

  Anna clenched her fists quietly: "So what are we going to do next?"

   "Find a solution for the door and the **** tentacles as soon as possible, and then prepare a safe enough shelter and enough supplies to survive."

  Lu Li will not pin all his hopes on Richard who is hiding. He intends to make contact with the mysterious forces of this world when he returns to Belfast: the Night's Watch, and the Investigators.

   In the night watchman, he knew Joel, and the flashlight was suspected to be the investigator's token.

   Lu Li, the remaining demon slayer, has never had contact with him. Maybe you can ask Haders if he knows anything.

   The rain was still heavy, but without the wind, it became much more docile, as long as an umbrella was needed to avoid getting wet.

   After the carriage left Shadow Town, Lu Li put down the reins and got back into the carriage.

  Lu Li forgot to fill the kettle with hot water, which would warm his cold palms for at least ten minutes. Early morning wilds are only a few degrees, or lower.

  The rain falls on the body, which can quickly take away the only heat from the body.

  If this kind of cold appeared in the storm last night, Lu Li might not be able to return to Shadow Town unharmed.

   Anna, who was excited to go home before, was thinking about something. Lu Li took his eyes off her and unfolded the three newspapers he had bought on the bumpy plank in front of him.

   "Allen Principality Gazette", "Walson Post", "Daily News"

  Three newspapers verified Lu Li's pessimistic predictions from different angles.

   (end of this chapter)