My Endless Life

In the Fog Explorers Association in Rubino City.

Maru is still sitting in front of the white sphere that is suspected to be a special-grade relic, observing the sphere in front of him.

Regarding the phenomenon that someone in the city was attacked by the fog, Maru has sent people to assist the local association in investigating.

Maru also urgently reported the monsters that appeared in the fog area to the capital, asking the capital to send more fog-level people with special-grade relics to investigate.

At present, Maru's only task is to stare at the white sphere in front of him.

In fact, it stands to reason that the white sphere should have been escorted to the capital a few days ago.

But... Maru recently heard from his team members that they saw people from [Chasing Light].

The Chasing Light Society is an evil organization that claims to chase light and save the world. Maru and other explorers who go to the fourth-layer fog area often deal with them.

Even in the fourth-layer fog area, the danger does not come from the environment and fog beasts of the fourth layer, but from the attacks of these self-proclaimed "saviors".

Chris...was injured because of this.

Gel had to take her into the sea of ​​fog...

Thinking of this, Maru looked at the ball in front of him again:

"Your goal... is it?"

His eyes flickered, he walked forward and put his hand on the white ball.

Not surprisingly, there was no reaction, Maru was used to it.

If Wiener hadn't repeatedly emphasized that this thing must be sent back to the kingdom before entering the sea of ​​fog, Maru would probably not have brought such a big thing back here through the fog area.

But Wiener didn't say what this thing is and what it does.

Taking his hand off the ball, Maru shook his head again.

That's right, Wiener is the youngest black fog, but he is not a god, how can he know everything.

But Wiener's intuition is quite accurate, maybe his magical intuition has noticed something again.

Just when Maru thought of this, the door was kicked open in an extremely violent way.

Without even turning his head, Maru knew who was coming.

He asked helplessly:

"Carol, what happened this time? Who offended you?"

"Who? Who else! It was those bastards from the Light Chasing Society!"

Carol said to Maru with a gloomy face:

"The things in the city have been investigated clearly. The people from the Light Chasing Society used some unknown method to transform the safe zone into a fog zone. Those victims accidentally entered the fog zone, and they would naturally suffer from the backlash of the fog when they came out!

"It was the Light Chasing Society..."

Maru was not surprised by the results of Carol's "investigation".

But he was surprised by Carol's attitude at the moment: "Even if it was the Light Chasing Society, you shouldn't be so angry..."

"Li Qi was involved."

"!"

"That bastard actually wanted to take Li Qi away from the fog zone! If it weren't for Li Qi's good strength, she might have succeeded! "

Carol said, hitting the wall beside her hard.

Crack--

The wall suddenly cracked, and several cracks spread around along the place where Carol hit.

Maru took a look and confirmed that it was not a load-bearing wall, then asked Carol:

"She?"

"The senior leader of the Light Chasing Society, Jinghua, has been confirmed by Li Qi that she should have died in the fog area she created... probably."

Carol's tone became uncertain at the end.

Jinghua is the most difficult guy in the entire Light Chasing Society.

With a first-level relic that can create illusions, it has caused countless troubles to the exploration team.

Carol didn't believe that she would die, but Li Qi and the little golden retriever next to him said that she had died in the fog area.

That's why Carol's tone was so uncertain.

She didn't believe Jinghua, but she believed Li Qi.

"Is that so..." Maru rubbed his beard and said, "Where is Li Qi? I have something to ask him. ”

…

In the reception room of the association, Li Qi was leaning back in a chair with a cup of coffee in his hand.

Compared to him, Ronnie was pale, lying on the sofa next to him, looking like he was going to die at any moment.

“This… this is the backlash of the fog… it’s so uncomfortable… I’m dying… I’m dying…”

Ronnie’s voice was hoarse, and he no longer had the passion and vigor he once had. He was like a contemporary college student who had suffered from heat stroke, murmuring weakly.

Li Qi ignored him, and had no intention of using healing magic to relieve his symptoms.

After all, Ronnie was not an ordinary A person who has come back directly from the second-layer fog area will suffer from the fog backlash. Although it is extremely painful, he should be able to bear it.

While the fog backlash brings discomfort and pain to people, it also strengthens people's bodies.

The reason why the bodies of the fog explorers are so strong, even if they have not mastered the "qi", they are far stronger than ordinary people, is because they have endured many fog backlashes.

Let Ronnie experience this feeling, it will not hurt him.

Li Qi was thinking about this when he heard Ronnie ask:

"Teacher... why are you okay? Can you withstand the fog backlash of the second layer?"

"Maybe I am gifted."

Li Qi remained calm.

What a joke, not using healing magic to relieve Ronnie's symptoms does not mean that Li Qi cannot use healing magic on himself.

His strength is already strong enough, and he will use "qi" to strengthen his body when he is free, so he naturally does not need to experience the pain of fog backlash again.

"No... worthy of being a teacher..."

Ronnie expressed weak admiration.

Li Qi did not talk to him, but looked up at the door.

Footsteps were heard outside the door, and as the footsteps approached, the door was opened.

Malu walked in from the outside and looked at Li Qi in the room.

"Hey, boy, the experience tonight is quite exciting."

Malu smiled at Li Qi as soon as he started.

Li Qi took a sip of coffee and said calmly:

"It's okay, except that I almost thought I wouldn't be able to come back, everything else is fine... Where is Aunt Carol?"

"She went to avenge you... Not to mention her, I heard that you met the Light Chasing Society in the fog area?"

Malu explained casually, then got down to the topic and asked.

Li Qi did not hide anything and replied:

"Yes, she calls herself Kyoka from the Light Chasing Society. She said she wanted to take me to join them. She also said she knew you."

Ma Lu nodded: "We do know each other, or in other words, as long as the Tanwu family enters the fourth floor, there is no one who doesn't know them, but... this is the first time for them to directly enter the safe zone to cause trouble. "

Malu said, looking at Ronnie who was resting on the sofa, and then turned to Li Qi and said:

"Let's go for a walk? Let's talk while walking?"

Li Qi also glanced at Ronnie, knowing that this was probably not news that ordinary fog hunters would hear, so he nodded to Malu:

"good."

…

"The Light Chasing Society is an organization formed by a defected Black Mist thirty years ago. The organization's philosophy is to chase the light and completely dispel the fog area to save the world..."

In the corridor in the backyard of the association, Ma Lu and Li Qi explained the origin of the "Light Chasing Club".

Li Qi responded appropriately and asked:

“Isn’t this a great concept?”

The implication is, then why does the kingdom still label the Light Chasing Society as an evil organization?

Ma Lu smiled and said:

"The idea is good, but sometimes having an idea is not enough. It also depends on what they have done. You know... what did they do after the Light Chasing Society was actually established, that is, twenty years ago?"

"..."

Just as Li Qi was about to answer, Ma Lu spoke first:

"They attacked the third-level observation station and used some unknown method to change the life forms of the personnel at the third-level observation station..."

"…What's the meaning?"

"They turned the people there into 'fog beasts'."

"?!"

Li Qi's pupils narrowed and he looked at Ma Lu.

Maru stated calmly:

"All kinds of unknown fog beasts, although they have no threat or fighting power, after being transformed, they can no longer be regarded as human beings.

"But the Light Chasers call this transformation 'coexistence'."

"coexist……"

"Yes, they believe that it is inevitable that the world will be eroded by fog. If they want to continue the human race, the only thing they can do is to find a way to coexist with the fog. Transforming humans into fog beasts is one of the ways they think of."

Malu told what the Light Chasing Society had done.

The idea of ​​transforming humans into fog beasts and finding ways to coexist with the fog zone is indeed a bit rebellious in the eyes of people in this world.

It is only natural that the Kingdom will label the Light Chasing Society as a cult.

But transforming people into fog beasts...

Li Qi suddenly thought of something:

"The unknown monster that appeared on the first floor...\

,"Malu nodded: "If nothing unexpected happens, it should be the work of the Light Chasing Society, but before that, the 'fog beasts' they... created were all strange and weird in appearance, with nothing in common or threatening.

"But the monsters that appeared in the first layer of fog area have common characteristics. This is one of the reasons why we were not able to identify them immediately."

"So, the Light Chasing Club has mastered some special transformation technology and can create finished fog beasts..."

"It may also be some kind of special relic, like..." Malu suddenly paused here and skipped the topic and continued: "... In short, this incident in the city and the monsters that appeared in the fog area are all related to Chasing the light will have something to do with it, that’s for sure.”

The members of the Light Chasing Society have already appeared at the establishment, and some people were sent to the second-level fog area. If they have nothing to do with them, others probably won't believe it.

Li Qi understood the whole story related to the Light Chasing Society. Thinking about the fog area that appeared in the safe zone, he raised his head and asked Ma Lu:

"Uncle Malu, the philosophy of the Light Chasing Society is that the world will gradually be swallowed by the fog, so they have to find a way to coexist... Will the world really be swallowed by the fog?"

Hearing Li Qi's question, Malu did not answer immediately.

He crossed his arms over his chest and seemed to be deep in thought.

A long time passed like this, and Ma Lu didn't answer Li Qi's words. He just asked Li Qi a question:

"Li Qi, where do you think...the foggy area came from?"

"I have no idea."

Li Qi answered decisively.

Ma Lu laughed when he heard this and said, "Yeah, I don't know...so I don't know either, I don't know anything."

He said, patted Li Qi on the shoulder and said:

"Don't think so much, prepare well for the heavy fog level assessment. There is not much time until the next fog area exploration."

Malu reminded Li Qi, and then left the backyard corridor.

Li Qi stood there, still thinking about the conversation with Ma Lu just now.

He recalled Malu's last expression, which was profound in his heart.

Malu...he really doesn't know.

Or maybe I just don’t want to accept reality...

Perhaps only he himself knows this.