Chapter 11: Departure
"Happy birthday, Sister Lily!"
The voices of the crowd echoed in the lobby on the first floor, causing some children on the second floor to sneak up the spiral staircase to the first floor.
"Thank you...... Thank you...... Woo, thank you. ”
Lily couldn't hold back after all, wiped her tears, she really didn't expect these children to suddenly bless her, and it seems that these children don't know when they have already discussed, and Ander must be the "culprit".
The biggest, Camille, didn't even know where to pull out a sign and hold it up above her head, with a big colorful paint on it: Lily's 15th Birthday Coming-of-Age Ceremony.
After Lily finished crying, and thanked everyone, she took Andra aside and whispered:
"You just want to see me cry, don't you?"
"Why, I just told everyone about your birthday today, and they spontaneously organized this ceremony, and I didn't have any opinions."
Lily gave him a blank look, and the ghost believed you.
"I'm leaving, you don't want to play on the computer alone until late at night, boys will stay up late and their hair will fall out, and their memory will deteriorate, your brother John is a lesson from the past!"
Lily told her brother, who warmed her heart.
"Uh-huh!" Ender's chick kept nodding his head like a peck, and Lily was amused for a while, not knowing if this guy really listened or if he was just perfunctory.
Pinning a strand of broken hair from her ear behind her ear, Lily finally settled Ander to cooperate with Sister Xiu to manage the orphanage, especially those little thorns to take a good look at, and turned around and went to the basement to find the "weapon" she expected.
Unfortunately, she couldn't find a suitable "weapon" in the basement, even if the object was only a centimeter longer than 25 centimeters...... And she didn't think it was too short.
"I'm not going to be a paranoid...... I'm going to be a little shocked, and I'm back in the hall on the first floor.
At this time, the rest of the team had almost prepared their own supplies and equipment, Lily saw this, and hurriedly ran upstairs to change into light and easy to move clothes, a pair of bound cargo pants and a half-sleeved vest on the upper body, in order to prevent the temperature from dropping at night, Lily also took a coat to herself.
Tying her hair up in front of the mirror, Lily observed herself in the mirror:
The crying just now made Lily's eyes a little red, but the light blue eyes were no longer so calm, but revealed the vitality of a girl, and the faint freckles made Lily's outfit more youthful and dynamic.
With a breath of turbidity, Lily quickly went downstairs, took her backpack from Aiden, walked to the front of the group, and turned to look at the crowd:
"The main purpose of our expedition is twofold, first, to find the missing John and his team. Second, find out if anything has changed within the 'walls' we are. ”
"I think Aiden is equipped with supplies that can meet our food needs for three days, which means that we can have up to three days to explore."
"This is a search operation in Hell difficulty, and I know from John's diary that there is a chance that he will suddenly change the original 'Screening Patrol' target, so it is likely that we will choose John to explore in the exact opposite direction."
"I don't believe in the existence of a god, but I hope that the god can shelter us and make this operation go smoothly."
"We'll be able to get John back and come back safely."
Lily finally took a deep breath and said in a deep voice:
"Let's go!"
After speaking, Lily took the lead in walking to the side of the double gate of the orphanage, reached out to hold the door handle, Aiden also ran quickly to the other side of the gate, reached out to hold the door handle, after a eye contact, Lily and Aiden pushed hard at the same time, and the two pushed open the door of the orphanage together.
Although this is not the first time Lily has been outside the orphanage, unlike that time, she is not a follower now, she is the captain, and she will lead her team through the [Two Point of Wanton Mist] that gives people an eternal and unchanging feeling.
Standing in the antechamber of the orphanage, looking through the towering and quaint fence gates of the orphanage, looking at the fog that tumbles 24 meters away but barely changes, Lily still can't help but feel trepided, but she can't show the slightest timidity now, she must be more courageous and calmer than everyone in the team.
Once again, Aiden pushed open the fence gate of the orphanage, and after taking a few steps, Lily couldn't help but glance back at the church-style Saint-Lance Orphanage.
I saw that Xiu didn't know when she also took Ariel to the door of the hall of the orphanage, and when she saw Lily turn around, she immediately smiled and waved goodbye to Lily, and Ariel also waved her little hand to Dunn and Sanjo in the team.
After watching it for two seconds, Lily's temperament changed, and she turned her head and said calmly:
"Let's go."
Lily led the team to the east of the orphanage, which was the direction in which John's "Sift Patrol" team set out that day, and it was also the direction in which Lily made up her mind to explore all the way to the end, and she could only gamble until she could confirm John's specific destination.
By the time everyone had gone deep into the fog and could no longer see the outline of the orphanage, Stephenson and Sandra finally understood the real horror of the statement that the visibility was only twenty-four meters introduced in the book "Two Dots of Fog".
When the children in the orphanage are still only about 10 years old, it is difficult to make the children clearly aware of what a distance of 24 meters means.
Most children will think that it is a long distance, so even if there is only 24 meters of visibility in the fog, it is a very large space, and there is nothing to be afraid of.
"I think if I'm the only one walking in this fog, I'm going to go crazy quickly."
This is Sandro's assessment of this "cage".
Lily nodded, and she felt that this was a "cage", a cage for both the body and the mind.
The limitation of vision will bring people mental oppression, and psychological oppression will be fed back to the body, which is equivalent to superimposing this negative effect over and over again, until finally the mind and body are haggard, and they can no longer endure the slightest bit in this fog.
As everyone continued to move forward, Stephenson and the others had mixed feelings about the strange scene of the once bustling streets of Dunlun City becoming uninhabited.
Camille had also been involved in the orphanage's initial expedition and had been on a "screening tour" with John last month, so she had become accustomed to the discomfort of the drop.
Only in the team, Dunn's face was changing little by little, becoming more and more solemn.