Familiar person spared from disaster 635: 154.
Familiar person spared from disaster If Anna were in the city, where would she be?
Hotels, investigator bases, hills, and Xiusi University—they had only visited a few limited places.
Lu Li had already checked the hotels when heheaded to the university; that room was now occupied by a strange gray mist disguised as a woman—it lay on the windowsill, enjoying the view, and was spotted by Lu Li.
As he walked down the corridor, an unexpected figure suddenly emerged ahead.
Lu Li watched him, and he noticed Lu Li as well, his expression changing.
He averted his gaze and hurried past Lu Li.
Historical Professor Gawain York was still alive…
Lu Li did not call out to Gawain York, nor did he look back, but simply brushed past him.
However, it wasn’t long before Gawain York actively sought out Lu Li.
Amid the rapid footsteps, he caught up with Lu Li from behind, covertly slipping a note into Lu Li’s pocket, and then turned into the garden with his hands in his pockets.
Lu Li raised his eyes to gaze out the window, as if looking into the sky at the reflection of Inverted City, there was no one standing where Gawain York had been.
“Is he a strange being…” Dorin Flay’s voice was low, she felt that man was very odd.
“I don’t know,” Lu Li replied, withdrawing his gaze.
“You don’t have to keep following me.”
Dorin Flay frowned in reply, “I worry that if we separate, we’ll encounter strangeness…
It might be safer to walk together.”
“I need to observe the school, walking together would draw attention,” Lu Li answered, heading toward the garden.
Lu Li stepped into the garden, while Dorin Flay stopped at the end of the corridor, her toes hanging over the edge of the step.
After hesitating she said, “Then I’ll wait for you in the classroom…
Lu Li lifted his head but didn’t see Dorin Flay’s outline from the edge of the steps.
Seeing Dorin Flay walk away, her figure disappearing at the corner, Lu Li took out the note from his pocket and unfolded it.
This was sloppily drawn with the ubiquitous wet mud.
Understanding what Gawain York meant, Lu Li put away the note and headed to Gawain York’s office.
As the door was knocked, a tense voice asked from the other side.
After getting a response, there was the sound of heavy objects moving from behind the door.
The door opened, revealing Gawain York gasping inside the dim room with a sofa skewed behind the door.
“You really came…” Relief was written all over Gawain York’s face.
He was worried that Lu Li was a strange being in disguise, fortunately, Lu Li proving he wasn’t by coming here was good.
Peeking out into the hallway, Gawain York closed the door and slid the bolt, eagerly asking, “Are you here to rescue us?”
Lu Li shook his head, “I’m trapped here just like you.”
Gawain York anxiously licked his lips, his face draining of color, and it took him a moment to collect himself, “Then…
what’s the situation outside?”
“This place is just a miniature of the outside world.”
Lu Li’s words caused Gawain York’s hope to collapse, and he slumped on the sofa behind the door, devoid of spirit.
“I’m looking for someone.” Lu Li walked to the window and drew back the curtains.
The office became relatively “brighter.” “Anna…
the cloaked person who had been with me before, has she been here?”
no one has looked for me.
but when I saw him again a few dozen minutes later, he was only half there…”
To be precise, it was a pair of legs.
He identified the owner of the lower half by those shoes.
That memory nearly shattered his sanity to the point where Gawain York didn’t want to stay here even a moment longer, “Will you get me out?”
“How should we leave this place?” Lu Li countered.
Gawain York replied that after a few classes there would be an exam, and those who passed would not be confined to Xiusi University.
It’s just that Gawain York didn’t know the content of the exam.
Lu Li asked what had happened at that time, and Gawain York told him with a trembling voice that at the very start, continuous screams almost filled the city’s sky, echoing with the tolling of the church bells.
But after just ten minutes, the tolling had disappeared, leaving only the ongoing screams.
Such a hellish scene of terror lasted for dozens of minutes.
Gawain York, who hid in a cabinet and covered his ears, felt whispers rising in his mind.
The voice told him the “rules of the game” and designated his identity—still a history professor.
Only now his students had turned into monsters.
This is when Keg Flay found Gawain York.
Keg Flay realized what would happen once these rules settled in for a while, so he teamed up with Gawain York and they established secret codes for each other.
“My code was ‘Bread is with me,’ and his was ‘Is a pound, fifteen shillings?'”
Afterward, Flay left Gawain York’s room, intending to gather as many survivors as possible.
Then, on his way to give a lecture, Gawain York saw Flay’s half-corpse…
“His body should be in the azaleas…
in the northwest corner of the garden.”
Lu Li continued to ask, “Does Keg Flay have a sister?”
“I’ve never heard him mention one…
So, Lu Li told Gawain York about Dorin Flay.
“Wait, are you saying she knows a lot about you and Keg Flay?” Gawain York’s expression suddenly plunged into immense fear, and fine beads of sweat appeared on his pale face.
His look caused Lu Li to frown, “What did you remember?”
I’m not sure…” Gawain York stuttered in reply.
He did know some things…
about the monster that killed and partially devoured Keg Flay.
A survivor found by Keg Flay, who was alive at the time, had told Gawain York.
He said what killed Keg Flay was a creature that could devour souls and memories, enabling it to masquerade as anyone it consumed.
Unlucky Keg Flay simply didn’t expect that a monster with human memories would be his downfall.
“So you’re saying that cousin who knows a lot about Flay…” Gawain York’s body trembled, but he didn’t finish his sentence.
Lu Li didn’t think so; there were still puzzles unsolved, “If she were a monster with memories, shouldn’t she have come looking for you?”
“I’m not sure, maybe it didn’t eat everything…?” Gawain York replied tentatively, “Flay’s half-body is there…
where the azaleas used to be…
in the northwest corner of the garden.”
It sounded somewhat reasonable, but memories are stored in the brain.
Even if this strange world granted memories to the soul, it doesn’t mean the lower body can store memories, at least not for humans.
Lu Li pondered, Gawain York waited for him to finish thinking.
At that moment, dull footsteps suddenly echoed in the hallway outside the office, drawing closer and closer.