Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 1032 Ninety-nine. Weird jungle

   "Crackling" burning bonfires dispel the surrounding darkness.

  Lu Li sat quietly by the bonfire, leaning against the rock, and wrote the contents in the opened notes.

   "I'm at the second level."

   Soon, new handwriting appeared in the blank space of the note.

  【As expected of Lu Li, what is the export? 】

   "The exit is the fog. It doesn't appear when you deliberately look for the fog, and forgetting makes it there."

  【Sounds really complicated...I'd better stay in the first level to eliminate players】

   The appeared handwriting was quickly crossed out, and changed below: [Forget it, I still try to pass the level. Are you still in the swamp? 】

   "Should not be there."

  Lu Li raised his head and looked around.

   The terrifying giant tree is like the iron fence surrounding the prison cell, and the scale of human beings in it is like a tiny ant. The lush foliage that obscured the sky and the sun could not see through any light, and twisted branches and drooping vines surged like dark seaweeds.

  Lu Li wrote down the description of the environment of the dark giant forest and got the answer:

  [Sounds like a weird jungle... dig up the soil and see if there are tree roots in the depths]

  Lu Li is already doing this.

   With the flickering firelight, Lu Li dug out the soil beside the bonfire. A few inches below the wet soft putty, the fingertips touched the hard object.

   He threw a fluorite block into the excavated mud pit, and the shadow that the fire could not reach was illuminated by the shimmering light, revealing the layers of hideous roots like blood vessels under the mud layer.

   "This is a jungle of monsters."

  【Um... Confirm your location first and then evacuate to a nearby hut, you know how to do it and you don't need me to remind me, I'm trying to find a way to go to the second level now]

   [Also, I'm already close to the mining area, and I can't get in. The local people are searching for something in the mining area like crazy, and they even clashed with the people from the Bloodline Family Alliance]

   Earthlings react faster than expected.

   Seeing that the land dwellers and miners who stepped into the cave have died in the shock caused by the escape of the guardian of the land boundary, he should only be suspected, not directly identified as the murderer.

   "Will the player die?"

  On the other end of the note, Claire suddenly wrote it down when she was about to get busy.

  【What happened? One of your companions died? It's a pity, but they are indeed dead. 】

  Lu Li stared at the handwriting that appeared in the note and fell into silence.

   But after more than ten seconds, new content emerged little by little.

  【Well, you already have doubts. It won’t be long before you know the truth. Let me tell you directly... The Top Ten Tournament will protect all players, and even if they die, they will be resurrected. I think mother, they didn't tell you that they wanted to awaken you to other cursed titles, don't blame them...]

   Same as Will Ken.

   "Will Ken."

  Lu Li took out the parchment that resided in Will Ken's consciousness. Since entering the second level, Will Ken no longer appeared, and the parchment has returned to normal.

   There was no response, Lu Li put away the parchment and the notes that no longer appeared, took out the compass, summoned the merchant Anthony, and recalled the rumors about the strange jungle in the forbidden area.

   However, the existence here came before the merchant Anthony...

   Unlike the swamps and rotten sewers, the danger of the strange jungle stems from the forbidden area itself - the existence of those terrifying giant trees that are associated with and attached to them.

   The sound of rustling echoed from the dark canopy that covered the sky and could not be observed broke the silence.

  [The strange jungle is their territory, any outsider will be rejected and become part of the jungle - nourishment]

  Lu Li put out the bonfire, and only used cloth strips to wrap wooden sticks to make simple torches, and left the embers that had stayed for a long time.

  Lu Li held a torch and walked along the compass pointer in the vast and eerie dark forest. But in the absence of a reference, the only function of the compass is to tell him which direction to go.

  The merchant Anthony brought a temporarily useless map. The surrounding environment is the same: the darkness of the silent forest surging like a mist, and the terrifying giant trees with a diameter of tens of meters that are deeper than the darkness are erected everywhere.

   No bushes, no life.

  Lu Li asked businessman Anthony to contact Kiruat, contact Nunes, and contact everyone with eyeballs in the first level except Claire, but there was no response.

  The torches gradually dimmed. This weakness is unreasonable. It should have burned for more than ten minutes, but now only three or four minutes have passed.

  The surging and approaching existence in the dark is waiting for the opportunity, waiting for the torch to be completely extinguished.

  【They are afraid of flames, and they hate flames—the more they hate, the more they fear, and the more they fear, the more they hate.]

   Lu Li, who still didn't know where he was, could only continue to move forward, walking among the sparse giant trees.

  【Tree Whisperer】 doesn't seem to work here, at least not completely. Lu Li is not regarded as a friend here, but he has never encountered all kinds of strange rumors about the strange jungle.

  chi——

  The weak torch suddenly made a sound like being extinguished, and the flame disappeared into a plume of rising blue smoke.

  The flames no longer protected the silhouette that fell into darkness, and the darkness surging around attacked Lu Li.

   But in the sudden darkness, Lu Li was able to glimpse the depths of the gap between the terrifying giant trees, and a faint fire lit up behind a window, dimly reflecting the vague outline of half the wall.

  【The hut in the woods is the only exception, and the corpse remains respected. If you find a hut, you will gain temporary peace]

   A heavy stack of darkness descended, and when it was about to touch the figure on the ground, it spread like holy wings, and light suddenly appeared around Lu Li's body.

  The shimmering saplings stretched their torso, turned into a force that seemed to be covered by a real darkness, and gradually retracted into the sky, and the plants scrambled to emerge from the soil and grow visibly to the naked eye.

  Lu Li discarded the torch and was surrounded by the seedlings that broke out of the ground and approached the forest hut.

   Soon, the people in the hut found Lu Li.

  The light by the window was blocked, and many people leaning in the window looked at the glowing, vibrant silhouette standing in the dark forest.

   They looked at each other.

   After more than ten seconds, the wooden door of the hut in the woods was pushed open, a figure stood at the door, and shouts echoed.

   "Are you the exorcist Lu Li?"

  Lu Li nodded lightly, his eyes fell on the badge on the figure's chest: the old sewer front.

   "What is the hint for the second level."

   If there is a hint in this level, it is most likely to be placed in a forest hut.

  Lu Li stopped. Because I saw the shadowy silhouettes and their badges in the hut in the woods: they are all players of the old sewer front and the conspiracy spider web.

  Obviously, either other factions have been excluded from this hut, or other factions that originally existed have been eliminated by the two factions.

   After waiting for a moment, a crow flew from the wooded hut with a note in its mouth and landed in the grass extending under Lu Li's feet.

   His gaze stopped for a short while at the bloodshot crow under his wing, and Lu Li picked up the note. The blood crow with its beak vacated tilted its head, and curiously picked up a white flower it had never seen before.

   (end of this chapter)