Woo——

The gap in the wall was blocked with sheets, the door was set back into the door frame, and the window frames were nailed with wooden boards.

The strange whistling sound of the wind blowing through the cracks resounded in the calm and warm wooden house.

"call……"

Lu Li blew away the heat from the kettle, brought it to his mouth and took a sip.

The warmth flows into the throat and spreads inside the body.

Tick ​​tock—tick tock—

The woolen windbreaker and pants hanging behind the door were dripping with water, and the short boots were buckled on the wall. The holster containing the psychic gun lay quietly beside Lu Li, baking away the moisture.

Lu Li was only wearing a wrung-out shirt and shorts, sitting barefoot by the campfire with a calm expression.

Anna sat across from her, holding little Ruina's diary. Perhaps because of shyness, or perhaps because of the firelight, a blush appeared on her pale and delicate cheeks.

Lu Li dumped the kettle, dipped a clean cloth in some hot water, and wiped the abrasions on his arms and palms: "The book was held upside down."

Anna exclaimed, hurriedly turned the book over, and her cheeks became even redder: "I, I, I have been practicing reading books backwards recently..."

"Oh." Lu Li replied without comment and continued wiping.

"Really, really! I can read these words backwards. For example, this word is very white, no, I mean... ugh -" Ana, who was incoherent, covered her face with her diary, and the blush gradually spread to her earlobes.

After feeling the fever for a long time, Anna carefully put down the book, revealing a pair of clear eyes. When she saw Lu Li wiping the wound without any intention of paying attention to herself, she put aside her shame and turned her attention to the diary with difficulty.

She wants to determine if there are other key clues in the diary. What if this "uncle" has another wife?

As for reading things backwards... the little boy's handwriting is very illegible, and it is difficult to distinguish it even with normal reading. You can only guess based on the content before and after, let alone reading it backwards...

Time passed by. After wiping his body, Lu Li put down the wet cloth, added some firewood to the campfire, picked up the hot kettle again, and drank it in sips to avoid catching a cold due to the previous rain.

Anna also gradually became silent about the contents in the diary, looking at each paragraph with a serious face.

The long-lost calm permeated the space between the two of them. It was stormy and violent outside, and the wooden house was isolated from the coldness and danger outside.

Anna did find "uncle's" wife, but she died a long time ago. In addition, Anna saw a lot of useful information. For example, those six-legged savages, the family of four called them "little meat", and the poor

The family, Lu Li and other humans are called guests and "big meat" by them.

Anna later found out the difference between "small meat" and "big meat". Unexpectedly, this was actually related to the sanity value.

[I hate eating small meat. Every time I eat too much, I see terrible things appearing around me! My aunt went crazy because of eating small meat and was taken away by the Swamp Mother!]

According to the original text of a family of four who believe in the Swamp Mother, small meat will cause their sanity to decrease, but large meat will not.

Anna told Lu Li the information she found, and Lu Li was a little surprised. He didn't expect that this being that was obviously not human could actually have sanity.

Does this mean something...for example, it's not just humans who have sanity? Or maybe this family was once humans?

Lu Li recalled their body structure. Under the skin-like surface was a fibrous, dark wood-like mixture. It was like baking bread and leaving it for a while, then cutting open the bread and you would see dense fibers piled together. Without brain tissue, there would be no

There are no bones in the flesh and blood tissue. Apart from the appearance, the inside is not composed of human tissue at all.

If I had to describe it, they are like a group of vegetative people. They have internal fibrosis and are extremely afraid of fire.

"Uncle" is a little different. Its fiber is denser and tougher. Lu Li's flintlock can blow a woman's head off, and the wooden stick can pierce a little boy's mouth and nail it to the wall. But it can only be done when "

"Uncle" had a crater as big as a bowl and was pierced several centimeters into the body. It looked more like a wooden man.

The advantage is that it becomes stronger, but the disadvantage is that it becomes more fragile. In the end, it was decapitated by Anna with an axe, and could not be resurrected.

Grass can grow when broken, but trees cannot.

"How did you discover the problem?"

Anna closed the diary and expressed the question that had been bothering her for a while.

"What did you find?" Lu Li left his thoughts and looked at Anna.

"I just found out that a family of three are monsters..."

The moment Lu Li shot, she thought that Lu Li was like the novel she had just read, and suddenly turned into the evil camp...

"There are a lot of doubts."

Lu Li's words made Anna feel a little embarrassed, but she didn't notice any of them...

Lu Li said: "There is a wooden house with a family of three living in the Shadow Swamp. It is weird in itself. The calm before the storm, the darkness before the dawn, the peace in the crisis - remember, the more out of tune with the environment, the more abnormal it is.

.”

"Oh." Anna nodded. She felt the same way at first, and then she unconsciously lowered her guard...

"There are also clothes. You may not have noticed that there are many styles and types of clothes in this wooden house. They are piled around the bed without being cherished."

Anna subconsciously looked at the bed in the corner. Sure enough, just as Lu Li said, various types of clothes were piled in the corner, layer after layer.

"And the distance from the fire. You may not notice that they are warming up the fire, but they are far away from the fire. Even if they are filled with firewood, they will never get close to the flames."

"You discovered so much in such a short time...?" Anna felt her intelligence and observation being crushed. "So these make you conclude that this family is not human?"

She is obviously a ghost, so she can observe her more carefully than Lu Li...

"No."

Lu Li shook his head and said calmly.

"What made me think that this family had a problem was the smell of blood. The rain had just started to fall, and the smell on the ground was splashed. The smell of blood around the wooden house was so strong that it almost lingered. As for what I just said, I deduced it after getting the answer.

result."

When you know the answers, some doubts will naturally be magnified infinitely.

Anna was speechless, not knowing what kind of expression she should use to face Lu Li.

Dong dong dong——

The door trembled, and something knocked on the door.

The warm atmosphere in the wooden house solidified instantly.

Come again!?

Anna felt a chill in her heart and looked at Lu Li who was touching the psychic gun.

Holding the handle of the gun, Lu Li felt an uncomfortable aura approaching the door, and then left, leaving only a weak aura, as if leaving something behind.

"Open the door."

Lu Li said.

Anna had no doubt that he was there, so she gathered momentum and floated to the back of the door, then opened it suddenly!

There was nothing outside the door, except for the moisture pouring in and an invitation posted on the door at some point.

Anna took the invitation in confusion, closed the door and returned to Lu Li.

Lu Li put down his psychic gun, took the invitation, unfolded it, and looked at the content on it.

【Dear Guest】

[We heard that you came to the swamp as a guest. The mother of the swamp is hospitable and likes guests]

[After dusk today, a party will start in the deepest part of Shadow Swamp]

【We sincerely invite you to attend the party】
Chapter completed!