Chapter 951 Eighteen. New Commission

  Professor Chris did not appear.

  Claire took her place and led Lu Li to the tree trunk layer.

   Stirling's makeshift laboratory.

  The corridor leading to the laboratory has been blocked by gatekeepers.

  Through the blockade and put on the beak mask, Lu Li and Claire entered the laboratory.

  Lu Li saw Sterling.

   He sat on the sofa in front of the fireplace. The fireplace was burning, and Sterling's head was thrown up, a piece of charcoal stuck in his mouth, burning through his throat while it was still burning.

   "Exclude homicide." Claire whispered.

   They came unnoticed by the gatekeeper. They removed the fallen charcoal and fiddled with Stirling's head.

   "The head is intact."

  A gatekeeper took out an octopus-like mass of soft, wriggling meat and covered it over Sterling's head.

   The soft body stretched and wrapped around Stirling's head, rhythmically rhythmic.

   After more than ten seconds, the waiting gatekeeper took off the naturally curled meat ball, threw it into a pocket crucible and smashed it, and poured out the mucus.

  The mucus was poured into the birdcage, and a puddle of dark ooze smelt the smell of food crawling in the birdcage, and was swallowed by the rotten mass of meat that didn't seem to be dead.

  The rotten flesh that devoured the ooze healed the body and condensed into the outline of a human being, as if a tiny human beating disorderly in a bird cage.

  The dance, which is not related to the dance, lasted for a few minutes, and the miniature man stopped and approached the edge of the birdcage, as if there was a fireplace there. He stretched out his palm, grabbed something and stepped back, as if he had a piece of charcoal in his hand, sat down, as if there was a sofa there, raised his head, and stuffed the charcoal into his mouth.

   "The dead die of delirium with low sanity." The gatekeeper concluded.

   A gatekeeper lit a candle-like incense, the smoke rising more violently than firewood, rising straight up against the ceiling, spreading out to occupy the room.

  The smell is not pungent, or it has no smell. Another gatekeeper released the black threads from the wooden box, which scavenger-like devoured the smoke that had taken over the laboratory.

   "No weirdness."

   The gatekeeper approached the desk, and before touching the scattered notes, Claire stopped: "Those are important notes. The letter from Professor Chris asks you to keep it."

   The gatekeeper took her letter and said after confirming that it was true: "Then this death incident has been dealt with."

   Before leaving, the leaders of these gatekeepers warned Lu Li: "Exorcist, we don't want this to happen again. Take your danger and stay away from the Giant Tree Academy."

   They gathered Sterling's body into a body bag and left the laboratory with it.

   "Never mind, my mother wouldn't change her attitude even at these stones," Claire said.

   "Is there a possibility of wrong judgment?" Lu Li asked after returning to the silent room.

   Sterling's death doesn't seem like a coincidence.

"Unlikely. This is a giant tree, and the handler is the gatekeeper." Claire looked at the desk: "The point is that Sterling went crazy after touching the notes... They may have problems, I will temporarily hand over the notes to Mother."

"Can."

   Carrying notes on Theory of Humanity and Sterling's handwritten notes, they leave the laboratory in the abandoned utility room after Sterling's death.

   "Does he have any family?" Lu Li asked before the corridor split.

   "No. Don't be sad, we're all used to dying, if you're going to be sad."

  Claire said goodbye to Lu Li and walked into another corridor.

  Lu Li returned from the original road. When he was about to enter the mixed area, he was stopped by the gatekeeper.

   The gatekeeper did not let Lu Li go.

   "We need to check your Sanity."

   Actually the sanity check is not obtrusive.

  As the safest canopy in the entire Midnight City, the gatekeeper forbids any pollution from being brought there.

   They are not given special treatment because of their Lu Li status.

   is like the gatekeeper introduction: they just follow the rules.

  Lu Li was taken out of the mixed area and headed to the gatekeeper's lair - there were no students passing by, only a strangely shaped gatekeeper wearing a short standard cape.

Before    walked into the dark hut, he saw a student walking out of the hut next door.

  The oil lamp emits a dim yellow light, and after a short wait in the dark hut, the gatekeeper arrives.

   Two gatekeepers, one sitting opposite Lu Li, the other standing in the shadow behind Lu Li.

   The gatekeeper in front of him showed Lu Li an oil painting: the seagulls soaring in the blue sky skip the blue sea where the lighthouse stands on the reef.

   "What do you see in this painting."

   "Sea, sky, seagulls, lighthouse."

   The gatekeeper flips the painting to reveal the back: a hairless, winged monster hovering in a rock-wall-like sky, an eye beacon watching over a blood-colored ocean.

   "Blood sea, rock wall, weirdness, eye beacon."

   "Which do you think is true."

   "The former."

   "reason."

   "Old Belfast is like that." Lu Li replied.

   The gatekeeper was silent for a while, gave Lu Li a bottle of medicine, and asked him to take it.

   "What effect does it have?" Lu Li asked.

   "Produce delirium, describe in detail the visions you see... don't hide, exorcist."

   "Don't you have any branches of the tree of mind?" Lu Li didn't take the medicine.

   A strange, low voice that seemed to be blocked suddenly came from the shadows behind him. "Can you get it, tree of the mind."

   "I don't know where it is."

  The Tree of Mind and the League of Exorcists passed away in the old days.

   "Find it, and you will get the gatekeeper's friendship." The gatekeeper behind him left the shadows, revealing the light of the oil lamp.

   The beak mask he wears covers his face, and the patterned cloak shows his identity as the gatekeeper elder.

   Lu Li did not refuse. Finding the Mind Tree obviously speeds up the sanity check.

   It just takes time. Either confirm its location or find it.

   Lu Li still has a lot to do.

   As a reward for finding the tree of mind, the gatekeeper paid part of it in advance: exempted from taking the potion and subsequent sanity check, and released Lu Li.

  Leave the cold, dead gatekeeper's lair and return to the mixing zone. An anxious Professor Hagrid appeared before him.

   Hearing that Lu Li was taken away by the gatekeeper, Professor Hagrid wanted to leave the canopy to rescue Lu Li, but was blocked by the gatekeeper.

   He was relieved by the return of Lu Li, and returned to the office to prepare for the upcoming mystery class.

  Because of Sterling's death, what Lu Li faced was temporarily put on hold, waiting for the follow-up news from Professor Chris.

   The newly obtained request "Investigate the location of the Mind Tree", not now...

   "Mr. Lu Li...Mr. Lu Li?"

  Lu Li broke away from his thoughts because of the call. Professor Hagrid on the podium was paying attention to the strange students around him.

   "Mr. Lu Li, please tell us what the sanity test method in the old days was." Professor Hagrid asked.

   "Branch of the tree of the mind."

   "The tree of the mind is..."

  Professor Hagrid resumed his lectures. Lu Lihe had already read the occult textbooks and confirmed what he was going to do.

   Take the Occult Level 1 Trial.

   (end of this chapter)