When he woke up, Lu Ban found that it was already late.

He was lying on the bed, covered with a quilt, with the windows closed. Although it was snowing outside, the house was warm as spring.

The blood on his face had disappeared, and his wounds had long been covered by grass and healed, leaving no trace.

Sitting up, Lu Ban felt a little unbelievable.

He looked into the bedroom. Two clouds of mist were swirling in the corners of the ceiling, and there seemed to be a blurry figure sitting on a chair.

"Is it you?"

No response.

But there was no further response.

It seems so.

After Lu Ban had an accident, these people living together in the house could only barely contact Lu Ban and could only wait for Lu Ban to recover naturally.

But now, it seems that these cohabitants have initially acquired the ability to influence and interfere with reality. At least they can help him wash dishes, clean, close windows and cover himself with quilts.

"Is it true, as Feng Yu said, that the pollution level in this world is also getting worse?"

Lu Ban felt that the situation was becoming serious.

The idea he came up with after chatting with Feng Yu was very simple, which was to improve the world's human beings' ability to withstand pollution to some extent. The first way was to cause a certain amount of slight pollution first.

Just like a vaccine, we first raise people's threshold in a painless way, allowing them to develop patience for those strange and indescribable things in foreign lands. Later, if the whole world falls into a state of erosion, it will not be easy for humans to be alienated.

After achieving this, what Lu Ban needs to do is to find a way for human civilization and pollution to coexist.

Now he thought about it carefully and came to his senses. In fact, most of those foreign lands were the worlds that had survived after experiencing severe erosion and pollution.

And each world has its own way of coexisting with pollution.

For example, the crystal core disease in the wasteland is said to have destroyed civilization, but it may be the existence of the crystal core disease that allowed the humans in that foreign land to complete their evolution, so that they can survive in the desert and fight against the overwhelming insects.

For example, in the Kingdom of Night, the knowledge of magic is itself a form of pollution, but the mages of the Grey Tower use the magic net to isolate this pollution from ordinary humans. Even mages who have to use spells have to pray to the magic net and gain knowledge for a short period of time to resist the erosion.

As for Hedao, the system of pure fire and priestess was originally the vanguard in the fight against pollution. At least the pure fire burned the filth and slowed down the progress of erosion and pollution on Hedao.

As for the abandoned city, those ruins where monsters lurk one after another may be the traces of civilization being invaded by evil gods. As for how the abandoned city and pollution can coexist, Lu Ban can't see it for the time being.

Therefore, Lu Ban needs to figure out how these pollutions work and find a way to resist pollution that is suitable for this world.

This is not something that can be solved by just singing "Good Luck Comes".

"Wait, maybe singing 'Good Luck Comes' would work, wasn't that what movie theaters were like back then?"

He decided to keep the proposal for now.

Getting up from the bed, Lu Ban washed himself, changed into clean clothes, packed his backpack, and took some necessary tools.

Although it is New Year's Day, the hardworking Lu Ban decides to set off immediately.

He sent a message to Feng Yu, but received only the reply "Bon voyage".

It seemed that Feng Yu was not surprised or worried about the fact that Lu Ban was about to move to the [Alienation] difficulty level.

It is also possible that she doesn't care about Lu Ban's life or death at all.

Maybe even if Lu Ban died, Feng Yu would still be able to deal with him.

Putting down the phone, Lu Ban walked to the table and opened the book that was both illusory and real, and full of a weird texture.

[Do you want to enter the quiet place?]

【whether】

The handwritten words appeared, and Lu Ban gently touched them with his finger. [Yes]

In an instant, countless words flew out of the book and wrapped around Lu Ban's arms and body like vines. He felt a strong suction force in the book dragging him, and after instinctively resisting for a moment, he chose to hug the other person.

A strong wind suddenly blew in the room with the doors and windows closed, countless pieces of paper flew everywhere, and Lu Ban was sucked into the book.

And the pages of that book flipped wildly, and finally closed, as if no one had ever opened it.

On the cover of the book, the painfully twisted human face turned into Lu Ban's appearance, and above it, several strange and bloody words slowly emerged.

"In the Mouth of a Madman".

[The speed of time in the Quiet Place is inconsistent with the outside world]

[The time ratio of this journey is: 1:1]

[Number of companions: 2]

[Heading to the Wasted City]

Lu Ban did not see these. He only felt the world spinning and the earth was shaking. A sense of weightlessness beyond anything he had ever felt before enveloped his entire body. Silhouettes of some monsters, incomprehensible scenes, and crazy mumblings flashed through Lu Ban's mind. When he came to his senses, he was already sitting on a chair.

"……haven't seen you for a long time."

Lu Ban discovered that the person sitting opposite him was Trist, whom he had not seen for a long time.

Trist still had the same messy black hair like seaweed, lake blue eyes, and a face with some Western angles. He was wearing an autumn and winter coat, a deerstalker hat, and holding a pipe carved from briar roots in his hand.

When he saw Lu Ban, Trist was stunned, but then he pretended nothing had happened and picked up the tea in front of him.

"I thought you were supposed to be here in some more relaxed and easygoing way."

Drizzt lowered his voice.

Lu Ban looked around. This was a teahouse with open-air seats. He was sitting by the window in the store. In front of him was a small ceramic cup filled with hot tea. The tea seemed to be a mixture of black tea and some other tea. It had a rich aroma. Just the smell was enough to refresh him.

The guests are dressed in suits, long gowns and cheongsams, and it looks like a metropolis in the early 20th century. Men and women chat and make friends in this teahouse. If you pay attention, you may hear some upper-class gossip, or infer some unknown business secrets, or even spy on the house number of a lonely lady.

The people around did not express any doubt about Lu Ban's sudden appearance, as if Lu Ban had been sitting there from the beginning.

While he was thinking, another person appeared in the seat next to Lu Ban.

She was wearing a dark grey hooded cloak, and underneath the cloak was a thick and solid armor. Even her slender hands were covered with steel gloves. The woman had short, slightly curly light golden hair and emerald green eyes. There was no doubt that she was Xia, the wizard from the Kingdom of Darkness.

She noticed Trist first, and then noticed Lu Ban, and the vigilance in her eyes was a little less.

"Let me introduce you. This is Drizzt. He's a detective and a chosen one like us."

Lu Ban pointed at the detective wearing a deerstalker hat, and then at the girl in armor.

"This is Shia, a mage from the Kingdom of Night."

After saying that, Lu Ban picked up the teacup and was about to drink the hot tea in it when he felt a shadow looming over him.