One hundred and fifty-seven. Outside the hole
"Where haven't you changed it yet?"
"Kitchen, palace, dungeon, warehouse."
Lu Li held his breath and recalled the conversation with Margaret.
Eyes outside the hole did not notice the intruder lying on the rock wall, and quickly moved away, scattering food crumbs again.
Two minutes later, the owner of the dark golden eyes stopped feeding him. Lu Li put his head next to the hole and his cat ears against the stone slab, listening to what was going on outside.
There was silence, only an eternal hollow sound came from the other end of the stone slab.
The space above won't be too small, either a palace or a dungeon.
If the former...only the Viscount will wander there. If the latter, it will correspond to short intervals of feeding.
Is the being with that eye the Viscount's prisoner, or the Viscount himself?
The cat scratched the rock wall and slid back to the bottom of the well to confirm that the mice would not leave and nothing would happen. Lu Li left the bottom of the well and measured the direction, location and height from the mouse hole to the mouse community again.
But the compass he recovered was useless from the beginning. The ruler was difficult to measure in the tunnel that was not straight, and the slope made Lu Li lose his ability to judge the height.
This won't work.
Forced to return to the bottom of the well, Lu Li climbed up the rock wall again, this time his tail curled around the businessman's eye.
Climbing up to the top skillfully, the tail with rolled eyes stretched towards the hole, but there was still some distance. Lu Li tried to throw the eyeball into the hole but failed. The eyeball fell back to the bottom of the well, bounced several times and hit a rat man.
After they ate the merchant's eyeballs, Luli slid down with dust and drove away the rat people around the eyes.
Maybe he would be able to throw the eyeball out of the hole after a dozen more tries, but it was more likely that Lu Li made a mistake and fell from above, killing and injuring these rat men.
Now there is only one way left: make a noise to attract attention outside the hole.
Lu Li didn't do this and chose to put it aside for the time being and leave here.
The more important thing now is to turn the Viscount back into Chrissy.
As for whether it is a palace or a dungeon outside the hole, whether it is a viscount or a coincidence... or the guessed "Chrissy's soul imprisoned in the dungeon" will also be revealed.
But this doesn't mean Lu Li will stop thinking.
Returning to the kitchen, he was taken away by Margaret who was waiting for him. Lu Li tried to contact Claire in his dream, but he was too far away and could not approach the manor from the dream. He could only let Claire control the lizard maid to answer him.
Tower, after Lu Li described the dark golden eyes, Claire immediately said that those were the characteristics of his mother.
"You mean mother is feeding the rat people?" the lizard maid's hoarse voice was full of surprise to Claire.
"Not sure yet, but the possibility is slim."
If the eyes belong to the Viscount, then feeding the rat people means that she still has some memories, but this does not explain why she still does not contact Lu Li and the search of the territory.
Even if there were some reasons to support her doing that, it was just speculation rather than evidence.
The Lizard Maid fell into silence at this time.
"Claire?"
"Maid maid, you have left." Replied the lizard maid.
Soon after, Claire, who returned, controlled its consciousness: "I'm at the dean's cemetery. You can come back first and we can figure out a solution together."
"Um."
Lu Li promised Claire and looked at Margaret: "Send me back."
A few dozen minutes later, Margaret walked out of the castle holding a stack of maid uniforms, walked through the moat and gardens, and followed the dry forest path to the gardener's territory.
She waited here while Lu Li got out of his maid uniform and flowed towards the gardener's territory surrounded by branches.
Asamounsi had driven away the little gardeners around the cemetery, and Lu Li walked through the silent and putrid place and approached the gardeners' cemetery.
Lu Li would have gone straight into the necropolis through the cold stone steps, but some long-lost inspiration suddenly warned him in the form of a tree whisperer that something was wandering in the tomb.
Unable to understand where the perception came from, Lu Li decided to follow his inspiration and release the Tree Whisperer after a long absence.
Anne's phantom shimmering like a giant tree spread out behind Lu Li, who was in the form of a black cat. When Lu Li put on the invisible crown of the plant monarch, he felt that the people in the cemetery were jumping for joy at the arrival of their king.
Deadly spores of the undead flood the Necropolis.
Here is the trap.
Claire is not here, nor are Asammonth and the Undead.
The dim light disappeared with Annie's shadow, and the people of Luliqiao left the cemetery as if they had never arrived.
At the edge of the dry forest, Lu Li returned to Margaret who was waiting here.
"Have the other lizard maids seen you?"
Lu Li asked Margaret, and after receiving the answer, he told her what happened to the cemetery: "The cemetery is a trap."
"Claire can't betray you," Margaret said.
Lu Li thought of Claire's strange temporary departure during the previous conversation: "Let's go back to the castle first."
Even the Viscount couldn't make Ku Lin attack Lu Li, and Claire had released Margaret's maid control and made her an independent individual. So Lu Li didn't encounter any attacks or accidents until he returned to the tower.
Only the lizard maid she met along the way followed her to the tower.
"Why didn't you come back?" Claire asked puzzledly.
They still didn't know that Lu Li had approached and left the cemetery.
"I remembered some clues and wanted to enter the dreamland." Lu Li's rationality and calmness were the best disguise.
"What does it have to do with?"
"The existence of earth dwellers."
"Hurry up, I'll wait for you at the necropolis," Claire said.
Lu Li nodded, curled up at the end of the bed and closed his eyes. At the same time as the lizard maid left the tower, the black gemstone hole reopened.
"Create the illusion that I'm still here and send me to the kitchen." Lu Li said to Margaret who was left behind.
"Aren't you going to save Claire?" Margaret retorted after asking: "Don't tell me where to go."
Margaret will also not betray Lu Li, but she may be forced to betray him like Claire.
"They can't save them yet. They know that dreaming people and rushing in rashly may be another trap." Lu Li replied.
Lu Li asked Margaret to tear off a page from the bedtime story beside the bed, curl it into a roll of paper, fold it and roll it up with a cat tail, then hide it in the maid uniform and leave the tower.
There were no accidents from the tower to the mouse hole. After getting out of the well, Lu Li climbed up the rock wall with the unrolled paper while the mice and people were lazily napping.
After the "betrayal" of the lords, the unknown existence outside the hole who fed the rat-men became the only helping hand.
The extended tail rolled up the paper and sent it out of the hole. Lu Li shook his tail, trying to attract the attention of the people outside. After a few minutes, Lu Li felt tired and was about to retract his tail when the paper was suddenly pulled out of the hole.
Immediately, the stone slab was moved away, and bright light poured out. In the haze, Lu Li was lifted up by the back of his neck and lifted to the ground.
When Lu Li was hesitating whether to use the Dreamer to escape, "You are not allowed to use the Dreamer." A familiar lazy voice sounded in his ears.
His vision gradually recovered, and Lu Li saw the empty palace and a pair of dark golden eyes in the shadows.
The spreading black cat boy gradually shrank: "Chrissy?"
Chapter completed!