474: 331.
Moon 474: 331.
Moon A small patch of darkness that had ford seconds before was repaired by a lting human-faced worm.
The dark fragnts spread forward again, carrying Lu Li onward.
As he moved away from the neck area of the Old Mother’s shell, the twisty, winding blood vessels beca steeper.
Sotis Lu Li had to use both hands to feel the icy dark fragnts as he climbed upwards.
The number of human-faced worms he encountered was gradually increasing.
Sotis they appeared in groups, forcing Lu Li to retreat into other blood vessels and wait for the human-faced bug swarm to drift past.
anwhile, the naturally occurring dark fragnts disappeared after passing through the neck, leaving only the areas marked by the dark fragnts known to the Mother of the Marsh for Lu Li to traverse.
Everything indicated that this place was under the complete control of the Old Mother.
The good news was that no change had occurred, which ant that Lu Li had not been discovered.
[I…
do not know how to lift the seal…]
The whisper of the Mother of the Marsh seed like a poor joke.
Lu Li’s face showed no emotion, the usual calmness: “Then how do you think I can help you get out?”
[You are the only one…with whom I can bargain…
Avoid them…]
The murmuring of the Mother of the Marsh changed and Lu Li, having been through this several tis, remained silent, retreating into the crossroads and waiting along the dark fragnts that appeared behind him.
The shadows that continued to spread into the distance lured away the group of drifting human-faced worms.
When they disappeared from sight, the dark fragnts began to extend a path, allowing Lu Li to return to his original position.
Lu Li and the Mother of the Marsh had erged too early.
A seemingly solitary human-faced worm drifted toward him from the front.
With only one, Lu Li did not need to hide.
The shadowy lure of the Mother of the Marsh appeared in front of the human-faced worm.
But this ti, the worm was indifferent to the shadows in need of repair and headed straight for Lu Li, who stood motionless.
“Sothing’s not quite right…”
Lu Li gripped the handle of his gun.
The vivid face of the human-faced worm gave Lu Li the impression it was watching him.
Hearing his words, the Mother of the Marsh produced several new shadows in front of the worm, only to be ignored by it.
The distance had closed enough for Lu Li to clearly observe its fierce and malevolent face.
No more probing was needed.
When the human-faced worm ca close enough to touch, Lu Li suddenly drew the Spirit-Calling Gun and slapped it onto the worm.
Alone, the human-faced worm was as fragile as an insect under sequence 1 of a blooming rose.
Like a solid clump of smoke, it was disturbed by the waving of the Spirit-Calling Gun.
At the sa ti, the surroundings suddenly changed.
Lu Li stood amidst the upturned earth.
This was a field under cultivation, with several farrs scattered across it, swinging their hoes.
It was twilight after sunset, the sun had already vanished below the horizon, and at the far end of the field, there stood a cluster of rudintary huts made of grass and wood.
Lu Li turned back to see the dark, damp, dark green jungle swamp.
The ti and place were now certain.
The early days when the Pioneers established Shadow Town.
Were the human-faced worms once human too…
Lu Li thought quietly, his eyes settling on a solitary figure approaching from near the swamp.
The next scene would be this farr being attacked and killed, but before that happened, sothing else suddenly caught Lu Li’s attention.
Above the Shadow Swamp, in the southwest sky, a bright spot adorned the night sky.
Lu Li rarely found it hard to contain his emotions, his fists gradually tightening.
Was that…
the moon of this place…?
…
Outside, Lu Li’s actions had triggered new changes.
The blood vessels began to quiver as the silent shell seed to awaken, resonating with a disturbing low hum.
[Lu Li…
The Old Mother’s husk has sensed it…]
The Mother of the Marsh alerted Lu Li, who was imrsed in the vision.
This trembling continued into Lu Li’s hallucination, with the whispers of the Mother of the Marsh echoing in his mind.
Not far away, a farr was wiping the sweat from his forehead and walking toward Lu Li, or rather, toward a companion on the other side of the field.
But Lu Li just looked up, staring at the “moon,” his gaze never shifting.
Lu Li had never seen the moon in this world.
When he arrived, the gloomy clouds had already blanketed the sky and never left, and he had never heard any rumors about the moon.
After all, he wasn’t an astronor.
Since he couldn’t use the stars to confirm whether this world was part of the known cosmos, understanding the distance between the sun and the moon was pointless.
However, the luminous body hanging in the sky, not bright because its light hadn’t faded, was definitely not the moon he was familiar with.
[The husk has discovered you…
The Old Mother is coming…]
The whisper of the Mother of the Marsh took on urgency.
At the sa ti, a farr passing by Lu Li let out a scream.
The vision shattered, and Lu Li returned to the blood vessels, with only the deeply etched contour of the moon in his eyes and the fleeting image of a relief-like smile on the face of a Human-faced Worm as it vanished.
Etching the moon’s contour firmly in his mory, Lu Li ca back to the present: “I’ve been found?”
The blood vessels were trembling, and the flickering walls of flesh flashed more frequently, as if inciting a psychosomatic irritation, breeding an uncontrollable sense of restlessness and anger.
[The Old Mother has only sensed sothing odd…
not you…]
“But it will know soon.” Lu Li looked into the depths of the blood vessels, an indescribable weird noise surging forth.
Whatever was approaching, it couldn’t be good: “Can you get out of this husk?”
[My power is weak…]
“Can you still pave the way?”
[Only that much…]
“Then enter the brain and lead the way.”
Lu Li put his Spirit-Calling Gun back into its holster and rapidly moved along the spreading black fragnts.
The vibrations continued without pause, and the flickering blood-red light affected his vision.
Lu Li simply stopped observing his surroundings and trod upon the shadows, relying on the Mother of the Marsh to help him avoid danger.
[We…
have arrived…]
At a certain mont, when the surging strange noise was very near, the Mother of the Marsh whispered.
At the end of the flesh passage, a cavernous space erged.
A dense network of blood vessels connected to the brain of the Old Mother’s husk, and in the center of the space stood a color-faded, mottled statue.
Insect body, human form.
“Your husk?”
With a glance, Lu Li turned his head so that the statue disappeared from his line of sight.
The ticking of Sanity Value sounded off more frequently like noise, and Lu Li knew what that ant.
[Yes…
how will you lift the seal…]
Lu Li didn’t speak.
He drew his Spirit-Calling Gun, checked the statue’s position in his peripheral vision, and then pulled the trigger.
Bang!
A deafening buzz echoed through the husk’s brain, burrowing into the multitude of blood vessels and spreading to other parts of the husk.
There was no need to hide anymore.
“Any changes?” Lu Li coolly replaced his Silver-plated Bullets.
[It’s as if the bullets didn’t exist…
also…
they’re here…]
Lu Li looked up and realized that at so point, the strange noises that had been surging in the depths of the blood vessels had vanished.
As the echoes of the gunshot faded, an ominous silence surrounded him.
The densely packed blood vessels within the brain’s shell were brewing sothing.
“Where’s the Old Mother?”
[She will be here shortly…]
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