"Always?"
The stone figure's head seemed to glow faintly, dispelling the gray mist between them.
"Always..."
"Where is she?"
Or rather, who is she...
"Your companions, they are all..."
With the whispering gray mist, Lu Li fell into memory.
"You crawled out of the underground and met Katerina at the abandoned shelter. Why did she appear coincidentally at that time? And why did she save you then? Believed in you and told you about a new world? Then chose to be with you when survival was no longer a concern?"
"That was her companionship..."
"Desiring the outside world, liking your humanity, secretly leaving Ghost Town with you, it sounds reasonable... But its 'mother' did not show up, nor did it stop her, is this really reasonable?"
"That was her curiosity..."
"Puxiu, a little creature still innocent in the dirty and sinful old sewers... Do you believe it? An aberration, a place surrounded by anomalies."
"That was her innocence..."