Capítulo 1397: Chapter 237: New Companion
The little girl shook her head: “This is your food… If you can’t eat it, you can give it to .”
“It’s yours now.”
Lu Li intended to temporarily rest in the street shelter and summon the rchant to inquire about the status of the safe haven.
Aileen was safe for the mont, the black stone wasn’t spreading outward, but she was very scared. The rchant left the safe haven after moving things last night, leaving Aileen alone in fear—
Andrea was still on the northern coast of the Main Affinity Continent and would take four or five days to reach the safe haven’s coast. Lu Li temporarily could only have the rchant stay at the safe haven to accompany Aileen, while the remaining three rchants barely maintained trade operations.
“You’d better take a trip to the Ghost Town on the way,” the rchant conveyed the ssage from the Mother of the Marsh.
“I won’t pass by there, what’s happened?”
“The ‘Mother’s’ condition is gradually deteriorating, and without human supplentation, she won’t last until this winter arrives.”
Lu Li calculated the ti needed for this operation: “I’ll head over once I fulfill the wish of the Uninvited Guest.”
A muffled groan echoed, and the frail girl struggled to drag a slab-cut at piece before Lu Li, stubbornly leaving the “best” at for Lu Li, ensuring he accepted it before she gnawed on the corner scraps drenched in dirty mucus.
The rchant had not left yet, and he brought a parchnt prepared by Chris and a vial of potion.
[Things I’ve crafted using the essence from the Tree of the New World, guess what it’s most sensitive to? Evil spirits. I haven’t nad it yet, what you have is Humanity No. 1, its function is to shatter and instantly attract an evil spirit. When entangled with a difficult strange being, you can try tossing it.]
The potion bottle covered in gold foil shimred with a golden gleam under the genuine oil lamp’s glow, a gleam coveted by Hades.
Yet the surroundings of the shelter paid no heed to it.
The little girl wrestled with her food: a deceased strange being’s segnt revitalized, limbs sprouting from the flesh, attempting to burrow through the girl’s throat.
Lu Li helped the girl by pulling the tentacle from the mouth cavity, which was burrowing towards her throat. The vomit-covered tentacle retained the fear of its original being, squird, and fled.
Lu Li ignored this slug-like tentacle and threw the initial piece of strange at to the girl’s feet.
As the girl devoured her al ravenously, Lu Li squeezed into the shelter that felt cramped and confined to him.
The shelter held little that stood out in terms of personal expression, yet everything seed to do just that—a faded rabbit-patterned chipped cup, a bed layered with filthy clothes, a perpetually unlit hanging lamp.
Charcoal graffiti painted on the walls: four human outlines and a small figure holding hands.
Lu Li erged from the shelter, and the little girl was still eating.
Her abdon bizarrely swelled, nearly translucent, under the oil lamp’s light, barely revealing the dense wriggling tentacles busy beneath the skin, digesting.
Lu Li pulled the whimpering-eating little girl away from the at pile; instead of a beast-like food protection, she lifted the chewed-up at with fine tooth marks towards Lu Li.
“I don’t eat it, but you’re going to burst.”
“Wouldn’t that be good?”
The cruel yet innocent response left one silent.
The girl listened dutifully, no longer filling her mouth with at, and turned her attention to the budding plants growing in the cracks of broken stone slabs.
Lu Li lingered here for quite so ti; under the influence of humanity, plants started to grow.
It’s ti to leave, before they form a mossy lawn.
Lu Li had the rchant take back “Humanity No. 1,” bid farewell to the little girl, and left the shelter. The girl stared blankly at his back, suddenly running to the remaining at and dragging it along, following Lu Li.
Lu Li halted due to the sound and following, calmly gazing at her.
“I want to follow you.”
The girl’s speech, which had been sparse for a long ti, gradually beca fluent, though still slurred and leaky.
Lu Li refused her. From Seaside Town to Kazgille Town is hundreds of miles, even with a Dreamwalker’s aid, crossing with flesh and blood wouldn’t be easy. In fact, if Lu Li hadn’t beco a ghost, he wouldn’t do this, and would wait for Andrea to return to the Land of Light to travel to Kazgille Town with her.
After all, if Lu Li were still alive, he would be outside Himfast’s borders resisting strange creatures or would have joined the blood pool of the black stone monunt.
Even sending the girl to the Land of Light would be impossible—the seaside is ho to a one-eyed sea monster; Andrea could never smoothly dock and take her away.
Lu Li walked along the ruined street out of the town, with the girl trailing behind, dragging the at. Her frail fra slowed her movents, falling further behind the fading silhouette of light, forcing her to discard the heavy at, letting the strange beings swarm to snatch the food.
Leaving the town, Lu Li briefly stopped, looking at the girl halted at the town’s edge.
She dared not leave the shelter of the weak ones, exposed to the outside world.
Covered in the faintly illumined phantom soul gradually fading, Lu Li returned to the Inner World, resuming his journey.
anwhile, the girl he ignored stubbornly stepped out of the town, following that blurred outline, like how she stubbornly left the best food for Lu Li.
Tide-like darkness surged with terrifying sounds—heavy breathing, muffled heartbeats, bizarre howls—the girl curled up in the hard-to-see dark, trembling from fear.
Being weak makes her hard to notice, but sustained neglect requires luck.
And luck always strikes when people hope.
Inaudible joint friction sounds erged from the unknowable darkness. The girl lifted her head, faintly seeing shadows swaying in dimness, descending from above, sharp limbs dangling toward her head—
A softly glowing arm grasped the limb, and in the gap where the spiteful compound eyes flickered, a pair of pale arms gently reached into its body, cradling the grooved trembling brain away from the spider’s shell.
Lu Li gazed down at the girl.
“You shouldn’t have co out.”
The phantom arm vanished with the discarded brain while the horse-sized giant spider’s body fell from mid-air.
Lu Li realized sothing, raised the oil lamp, and the dream glow spread outward, revealing a spider web extended skyward from the spider’s belly.
The glow grew brighter, reaching out for dozens of ters, but the descending web in the invisible darkness still revealed no source. This mont, Lu Li heard vague dense crawling sounds from the web’s end deep in the sky.
Along the glowing fringe, countless rope-like coarse webs drooped like hanging ropes.
The Dreamwalker swiftly wrapped Lu Li and the girl, subrging them underground.
Minutes later, far from the web’s domain, Lu Li fabricated a cavity underground, setting down the girl.
“Why do you want to follow ?”
The girl replied: “You’re different from them; they want to eat , you don’t. My good friend also told … I should follow you.”
“Good friend?”
The girl glanced at the empty space beside her:
“I call it my good friend.”
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