Hearing the other party’s thanks, Indeedee let out a satisfied, cheerful chirp, then gently waved its claw.
The sound of a door closing rang out, and Lu Li even heard the sound of it being locked from the inside.
Indeedee, however, did not get angry. Instead, it continued pushing the food cart and knocking on doors one after another.
Every time Indeedee stopped in front of a room, a hand would reach out from inside to take the food it had prepared. After receiving the food, the person inside would also thank it with a face full of gratitude.
At this moment, Lu Li finally witnessed the classic scene of humans and Pokémon living together in harmony and friendship.
“This is how Pokémon and humans are supposed to get along in my memories!” Lu Li was almost unable to hold it together.
Heaven knew how devastated he had been when Pokémon first descended.
His wonderful childhood memories had been forcibly turned into childhood nightmares.
Pokémon, which were supposed to be humanity’s good partners, had instead become demon beasts that destroyed the world and brought endless disasters upon mankind.
The contrast was so great that Lu Li had always felt rather depressed about it.
After Indeedee pushed the food cart out of sight at the end of the corridor, Lu Li hurried over to the room closest to him.
Lu Li gently knocked on the door.
The occupant, thinking it was Indeedee, opened the door directly. Lu Li immediately squeezed inside the moment the door opened, then turned around and shut it behind him.
He had chosen this room because the hand that had reached out earlier was slender, long, and pale. It was obviously a woman’s hand at a glance.
In the apocalypse, it wasn’t only Pokémon one had to guard against, but fellow humans as well.
Lu Li did not dare approach the male occupants either. After all, this was the apocalypse. If the person inside turned out to be someone dangerous, wouldn’t walking right into their room be practically delivering himself to them?
The woman inside the room froze for a moment when she saw Lu Li, but while she was still stunned, Lu Li had already squeezed into the room and closed the door behind him.
“Who are you?” the woman questioned nervously.
“Don’t be nervous. I mean you no harm.” Lu Li hurriedly tried to calm the somewhat panicked woman.
“By the way, my name is Lu Li. What about you?” Lu Li asked again.
Only then did Lu Li realize that she was actually a foreigner. No, in this world, she should be called a Federation citizen from another state.
“Eve Leah. According to the customs of your Donghuang region, my given name is Eve, and Liya is my surname,” Eve Leah explained.
Lu Li nodded and eagerly asked, “I’m from the survivor camp in the shopping mall across the street. Can you tell me what’s going on with that demon beast that delivers food to you?”
“As you can see, everyone still alive in this hotel has actually already been confined,” Eve Leah explained.
Lu Li’s heart jolted at those words, but before he could ask further, Eve Leah continued, “On the third day after those demon beasts descended, that demon beast suddenly appeared and began forcibly taking care of us guests.”
“It prepares three meals a day for us and even cleans for us, but whenever we try to leave, it suddenly appears and drives us back inside.”
“Some people tried to resist in the meantime, but the few who caused the biggest trouble were directly made to disappear by it.”
“Disappear?” Lu Li keenly caught the key word.
“Yes, disappear.” Eve Leah nodded solemnly.
“At the time, several burly men armed with kitchen knives tried to force their way out. That demon beast only gave a light wave of its hand, and those men vanished instantly, knives and all. They were never seen again after that.”
“Afterward, we learned our lesson. The outside world is so chaotic now that it’s better to just stay here obediently. Although our freedom is restricted, at least we’ve managed to stay alive.”
“I’m telling you, I heard that many places have lost both water and electricity, but the hotel hasn’t. That demon beast possesses power far beyond anything we can imagine.”
Lu Li looked at Eve Leah with a subtle expression. Why did he sense a kind of fanatical worship in her words?
Back when he was in school, he had met a fervent Christian believer. Whenever that person spoke to him about Jesus, he sounded almost exactly like Eve Leah did now.
While the two were talking, a sudden knock came from the door.
Hearing the unexpected knocking, Lu Li’s face instantly turned deathly pale.
He remembered what Eve Leah had just said.
As long as someone left their room, Indeedee would suddenly appear.
That meant Indeedee had very likely left psychic surveillance in every room.
“Did I expose myself?”
With his heart pounding so fast it felt like it was about to burst out of his chest, Lu Li looked at Eve Leah with a gaze full of pleading.
Seeing how nervous Lu Li was, Eve Leah comforted him, “You don’t need to be nervous. As long as you behave, Lord Demon Beast won’t hurt you.”
Just as Lu Li was thinking of a countermeasure, the room door opened.
Indeedee stood in the doorway, purple light flickering in its eyes as it silently stared at him with a heavy gaze.
“Indee~dee!”
Indeedee pointed at Lu Li, signaling for him to come out.
Seeing this, Eve Leah hurriedly reminded him, “Lord Demon Beast is going to arrange a room for you. Hurry and go out with it.”
After saying that, Eve Leah added, “Oh, right. If your room isn’t far from mine, you can still come over to visit. As long as you don’t try to leave this place, Lord Demon Beast won’t bother you.”
Lu Li remembered that although Indeedee did not have the Telepathy Ability, it did possess Inner Focus Ability.
At that thought, Lu Li felt his lips turn dry and tight. He secretly swallowed, then forced himself to move in front of Indeedee.
He did not speak. Instead, he tried to communicate with it through his mind.
“Indeedee, I can’t stay here, because I still have many companions and family waiting for me to return. Can you let me go?” Lu Li repeatedly recited those words in his mind.
Although he had no talent for psychic power, Indeedee definitely possessed powerful psychic power.
As long as he thought about it firmly enough, Indeedee should be able to sense it.
Indeedee, which had been about to forcibly use psychic power to control Lu Li and make him leave with it, suddenly looked at him in confusion.
Indeedee tilted its head. It clearly had not expected this fake human in front of it to actually know the name of its species.
A trace of human-like hesitation flashed across Indeedee’s face, and the purple light around it also trembled slightly.
“You can bring your companions here.”
Indeedee transmitted this sentence into Lu Li’s mind using psychic power.
“Ahhh!”
Lu Li suddenly let out a miserable scream, then curled up on the floor while clutching his head in agony.
He felt as though his brain had been violently slashed apart by a sharp axe, followed by a wad of water-soaked cotton being forcibly stuffed inside, swelling until it felt like his skull was about to split open.
Pain!
Excruciating pain!
It was not physical pain, but pain of the mind.
When Indeedee saw this, it also realized that it had caused trouble.
Indeedee looked at Lu Li with a face full of worry. It had not expected fake humans to be so fragile that they could not even handle simple mental communication.
The innocent-looking Indeedee appeared completely at a loss, not knowing what to do.
After panicking for quite a while, Indeedee finally thought of a solution.
It pointed into the air with its right hand. A green light grew brighter and brighter at the tip of its finger, and before long, the entire room was enveloped in green light.
Immediately afterward, a refreshing and peculiar fragrance slowly spread throughout the room. As soon as Lu Li caught a whiff of it, he could clearly feel the severe pain in his mind easing significantly, as if gently smoothed away by a tender hand.
After the green light disappeared, only the strange fragrance remained in the room.
Lu Li’s eyes were filled with surprise as he braced himself against the floor and slowly climbed back to his feet.
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