22. Good news, bad news(1/2)
Lu Yu soon became unable to speak, and the noise in his mind became louder and louder.
Those shrill screams kept echoing and overlapping, like giant waves, continuously beating at Lu Yu's fragile nerves.
At a certain moment, the eyes of this weird summon turned into black bubbles, swelled, and exploded. The green, chilling feeling of hatred only disappeared for a moment, and was replaced by another kind of nauseating fear.
Where the eyes disappeared, irregular mouths emerged one after another under the "surrounding" of flowing mucus. A pair of hands stretched out from those "mouths" and waved gently in the direction of Lu Yu, as if inviting him to move forward.
, give him a hug.
The slender tentacles gradually became thicker, like vines that grew wildly after absorbing nutrients.
On each "vine", green "beads" bloom one after another, making the sound of popping bubbles when the viscous slurry is cooked.
Lu Yu felt as if all the strength had been taken away from his body in an instant, and his feet suddenly became weak.
Unsteady, he fell backwards.
At the same time, a voice sounded in his mind.
"strength…"
"Pay..."
"Contract modification..."
"I can give you..."
"Get out!"
It was the first time that Lu Yu heard Lulutis's powerful voice.
At this moment, in his mind, the summoned creature no longer showed its spherical body.
The rapidly expanding black mucus is very similar to the black carbon that continuously pours out of the beaker during the brown bread experiment. The only difference between the two is... at this moment, the black mucus pouring out of the summoned object's body is like a waterfall.
The newly emerged mucus is also covered with eyes.
After hearing Lulutis' scolding, the expansion of the summoned object tended to stop.
"Lu Yu, wake up and tell him the contract is terminated!"
Lu Yu opened his eyes with difficulty, and the expanding summoning object in his mind overlapped with the summoning of a ball in front of him.
Through the spiritual connection between the summoner and the summoned object, he already knew that the picture he just saw was this guy's "weeding plan".
The place where his shapeless body passed was indeed barren...
Lu Yu finally recalled what he was thinking of at the last moment of the summoning description in his brief dizziness.
It was his first impression of Lulutis when he first came to this world.
Tasteless.
"contract…"
"termination!"
The body of the summoned object began to become transparent and erratic.
The tentacles that had taken root on the ground retracted into the sphere, and all the eyes closed together.
"Pay..."
"Achieve..."
After it revealed the last character, the summoned object turned into countless light spots and dispersed into the air.
Sudden heart palpitations and collapse knocked Lu Yu down again for a brief moment. He had no time to take any precautions and collapsed again.
Fortunately, Lulutis was fast and held him up.
"Lulu..." Lu Yu couldn't take a breath and began to breathe heavily.
"I know, this is a normal reaction. He took your magic power as a reward... although the summoners call it a price from their own perspective."
"Now your magic power has been drained by that monster, so you will be extremely exhausted..."
Lu Yu knew that he would fall asleep soon, so he suppressed his exhaustion and called Sigrid, who was stunned.
"Tomorrow...early, go to the Adventurer's Guild for evaluation."
"Lulu... Tis, prepare more things for her to defend herself."
"We need tools to destroy corpses and eliminate traces... sometimes people... are more terrifying than monsters..."
Lulutis was amused by Lu Yu.
I was exhausted, but I was still thinking about the details of destroying corpses and destroying evidence.
After Lu Yu finished his instructions, his head relaxed and he fell asleep.
By the time Lu Yu woke up again, it was already the afternoon of the next day.
This night, he slept extremely deeply.
He thought that after seeing such a disgusting summoned object, he would have more or less intimate contact with the tentacles in his dream, but he actually dreamed that he was eating tomato beef brisket in his dream...
It seems that beautiful memories have unimaginable power.
"woke up?"
Lulutis happened to walk in the door carrying a large basin of roasted beef.
"If you don't wake up, I'm going to try to shake you awake."
Generally speaking, it's hard to make barbecue food taste bad unless you don't even notice it's burnt.
Probably because the tentacles can rotate easily and continuously, Lulutis's barbecue looks quite appetizing.
Lu Yu, who had been hungry all day, didn't say much, just picked up a bunch and started eating.
Apart from the fact that the seasoning was too strong and you couldn't taste the original taste of the beef, there really wasn't much to fault.
It seems that if I am lazy and don't want to cook in the future, I can let Lulutis cook a barbecue instead.
"How is the taste?"
Lu Yu praised it while eating: "It's much better than I thought. As long as you don't make slime magic...well, slime magic potion soup, your craftsmanship is still good."
"You can eat as long as you like... This is the only craft I learned from my family."
"Does your family often eat barbecue?"
"No, it takes a long time to eat it. Maybe that's why the memory is so deep." Lulutis said, "Therefore, after I became a magician, I often baked it myself."
Lu Yu continued to eat happily, while Lulutis said to Lu Yu solemnly: "I'm sorry about last night."
"If you mean to ask me to try to summon you immediately after becoming a magician, then there is no need to apologize."
"Actually, I had that thought at the time, and I was also very interested in the conjecture you mentioned."
Lulutis thought this was Lu Yu's relief: "You don't have to step in for me. You are willing to help me, and me urging you to implement it are two different things."
"Besides, I didn't expect that the summoned object you summoned would be so...powerful?"
Lulutis couldn't find the right words to describe what she saw last night.
Lu Yu found the word for her.
"It's indescribable, right?"
Lulutis tasted the word and happily adopted it.
"I have only seen an existence similar to him in legendary records and some scattered ancient books before, but those descriptions do not match the summoned object last night."
"Not only is it indescribable, it is more like a collection of hatred and fear. The existence itself makes people feel uncomfortable."
Lu Yu was very satisfied with Lulutis' ability to summarize.
Wait a moment...
He originally wanted to ask for more details about the summoning ceremony and try again tonight.
But what did Lulutis just say?
"You just said that you have seen similar things before?"
Lulutis nodded: "The object you summoned last night is very similar to the 'infection spirit' that destroyed the four countries on the Mera continent six hundred years ago, forcing the other countries on the continent to unite to resist."
"Infested spirit?"
"He has many names. The descendants of the Solon Empire, which was founded on the four destroyed kingdoms, call him the Spirit of Infestation."
"The clergy of Silver Maple Holy Theocracy claimed that this was a 'blasphemous filth' in a place where the shadow of the gods could not shine."
"The adventurers of the Sligo Empire prefer to call them 'twists'."
"They appeared without any warning, as if they were born from this world overnight."
"Before that, there were no traces of them in countless magical documents and vast seas of books for thousands of years."
"Their form is not fixed, but the most common description in the records handed down is this sentence."
"It seems to be a monster that is made up of various human bodies and can only make meaningless howls."
To be continued...