Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 1022 Eighty-nine. The migratory procession from the surface

  The spider girl's body was melted with wax-like odious wounds, attached to the body of a half-human half-spider, with ugly wart tumors that made the scalp numb.

   Lu Li asked when Spider Girl Lower Academy joined the game.

   "About two hours ago."

   is close to the time when the upper layer enters the fog.

   "Do you know the trial exit."

   "Exit? Isn't it the exit from the swamp?"

   It’s okay to understand that. When there is no clear-cut answer, you usually can't go wrong looking for a similar answer.

   The soil under his feet was suddenly lifted, and twisted python-like roots wrapped around Lu Li. Before forming the cage that trapped Lu Li, the spider girl's sickle limbs slashed through the dark purple afterimage like a sharp blade, two roots were broken, and gray-brown mucus was flowing.

   The mimetic weirdness did not flinch due to the injury, and even ignored the spider girl next to her, all attracted by Lu Li's breath.

  Lu Li took out the alchemy potion in his stomach bag, unscrewed it and poured it out, and the liquid pouring out of the bottle was strangely atomized into a dark yellow mist, covering Lu Li's body.

  The sound of hissing and melting resounded around, but the damage to the roots by the corrosion was very small—the roots were enough to form a prison before being eliminated by the corrosion.

   "This way!"

  The spider girl's voice sounded, cutting through the almost closed prison. Dark purple afterimages flashed continuously, cutting off the roots.

   She is also being corroded by the dark yellow mist, and the wart tumor eggs hanging on the surface of her body are wriggling and growing.

   Lu Li rushed out along the gap, and retreated to the dry forest with the spider girl.

  Standing on the soft and brown soil, lingering on the edge of the roots, and finally, because of some kind of fear, was unwilling to retreat to the dry forest.

"thanks."

  Lu Li's eyes fell on the spider girl's body that was corroded again, and took out the recovery potion from the stomach bag.

   "Human medicine is not for us."

  The spider girl smeared the witch medicine for herself: "If you want to thank me...you smell so good...can you let me taste it? Well, a small piece will do, and blood will do, but what about the nails? Hair is not bad..."

   Nagging Zhonglu Li unfolded the map, and the nearest exit marked was in the mining area of ​​the earth dwellers, which made this area tremble.

   Earthlings are neutral forces that do business with both humans and weirdos. Lu Li might get some help because he had some connections with the Dweller Firm—even if he couldn't, he could always use weird currency or shillings to clear the way.

  Lu Li teamed up with a spider girl named Ida, and approached the digging area of ​​the earth dwellers.

  Ida's six limbs let her walk on the muddy ground, disguised as mud for Lu Li's exploration, and dormant in the weird and impassable swamp.

  Lu Li followed behind to fill in the loopholes for Ida, but her perception was sharper than that of the manifesting potion, avoiding the weird quagmire that Lu Li found and did not find.

   So the speed away from the dead forest is much faster than when it is close to the dead forest. At a certain moment, the spider girl suddenly retreated to Lu Li's side, crawling with her body curled up, with the tip away from the ground.

   Tremors from the depths of the earth once again spread to this swamp.

   "Vibration makes me uncomfortable and dulls my perception," Ida explained.

   After dozens of seconds, the fading vibrations left behind a muddy and messy swamp. Date stood up again, swaying and crawling slightly drunk, regaining her balance.

   After recovering on the road for a while, the outline of the mining area digging by the local residents loomed a few miles away. At this moment, Lu Li's eyes fell on the mud.

   A few cluttered, dense lines of vague footprints stretch forward.

  Ida raised her forelimbs and drew the outline of the footprints: "They are all human footprints, could they be other players?"

   Follow the footsteps of the people in front, who are obviously in line with the destination of Luli, towards the mining area of ​​the earth dwellers.

  The increasingly clear and cluttered footprints indicate that Lu Li is approaching the person in front, but there are still only flat swamps and the outline of the distant mining area in front of him. And, the footprints disappeared in front.

  The footprints in the residual mud are chaotic and wandering, no longer spreading, like an isolated island.

   The tremors of the earth dwellers excavating the mining area appeared at this time. Ida curled up to avoid the shocks that were more pronounced due to the proximity of the mine. Waiting for the tremor to disappear, the cluttered footprints are already blurred.

   Another tremor, and the footprints will be completely covered up.

  Lu Li raised his black eyes slightly, looked at the open space ahead, and said calmly, "Are you contestants?"

   In the silence without any response, Lu Li displayed the Giant Tree Academy badge.

   "We are from Giant Tree Academy."

When the silence turned to death, Ida picked up a piece of gravel and threw it out.

  The stone swiped across the arc and slapped in the air with a sudden "snap", and the splashed wet mud revealed vague outlines.

   "...we are ordinary people."

   trembling and fearful shouts sounded slowly.

  Some sort of invisible barrier disappeared, revealing ragged, tired-looking civilians.

   "Is it... the alien beside you...is your servant?"

   The source of their fear was the spider girl beside Lu Li.

  The spider girl's eyes narrowed slightly, her limbs arched dangerously.

   "My companion, from the lower academy."

   The calming words of the exorcist around her sounded, and she felt the breath of healing and purifying the soul, and her limbs slowly stretched and relaxed.

   "Lower Academy...? We haven't heard of it but..." The team leader, a middle-aged man's gaze fell on the badge: "I know Giant Tree Academy."

  The middle-aged man could only choose to trust Lu Li, and this helpless trust quickly turned into trust when he approached Lu Li.

   "Are you a pastor?" the middle-aged man couldn't help asking.

"no."

   They are from Cotton Town, one of the towns that once defended Midnight City. After the fall of Midnight City, Cotton Town lost its shelter, and the situation was rapidly assimilated, and many residents chose to migrate.

  Compared with other godly towns that are in poor condition, they at least still have a choice and the opportunity to go to the "New Midnight City".

  The middle-aged man is one of the migration teams.

  Seven days ago, a migratory procession of forty-four residents entered the old sewers and headed for the late night city. And the results are in sight: There are now five men, two women, and a seriously ill little boy left in the migration team.

   The digging mines of the Earthlings leading to the Midnight City terminus were just a few miles away, but the migratory procession had to stop: the tremors in the mines turned the swamps into lakes and swamps, blocking the road.

   They waited, hoping the tremors would make the road appear again.

  Luri looked ahead, the muddy swamp in the tremor gap was returning to silence. Beneath the placid silt on the surface no one knew whether it was soft mud or a devouring swamp.

   They can get around here, there is always a road to the mine, but the seriously ill boy may not survive.

   The little boy's forehead was almost hot. Even if the fever subsides, he may burn his head and become a fool, and his parents are already dead on the road.

  The unkempt survivors do not know whether they will be able to enter the mining area smoothly and finish their final journey.

   They lack food, water, and medicine.

   "I only have a piece of monster meat..." The spider girl rummaged through the palm-sized jerky in her pocket, and didn't want to give it to these guys who feared and hated her.

   But this is not a problem for Lu Li.

   (end of this chapter)