Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 1105 Forty-three. The exorcist guidelines

  Yordle woke up slowly.

   He found himself floating in the void as a strange conscious body, saw his corpse hanging on the rope tending to stand still, felt the nine companions of the same form floating around, and listened to Langer regretting beside him.

   "What a pity... you didn't resist the ritual either."

   "We've all become ghosts because of the dance skirt song...?" Yodel was stunned.

   "Guess again."

  Langer's tone was light as if he wasn't dead.

   But if you become a ghost, you are still "alive" to some extent...

   At this time, a strange change suddenly occurred around them, and the scene was like an oil painting, and the scene melted into a scene: they were walking in the ruins of old Belfast.

   Then the fog surrounded them, and the gloomy songs flowed quietly.

   "Ten apprentice exorcists run around to eat; one can't be saved from choking, and only nine of ten are left."

  Longer clucked down with a swollen throat.

   "Nine apprentice exorcists were really sleepy late at night; they fell asleep and died, and only eight of the nine were left."

   Potter, who was close to Langer, fell asleep.

   "Eight apprentice exorcists went hunting in the thick fog; leaving one there, only seven of the eight."

When    hurried to the street building, no one noticed that Lanna disappeared into the depths of the blood-colored fog.

   "Seven apprentice exorcists smashed the wall; their heads exploded, and only six were left."

  The unnoticed dance skirt song followed them leisurely, creating a one-sided massacre ceremony.

  Lear jumped over the fence, his feet stuck in the gap, and his head fell on the broken stone slab.

   "Six apprentice exorcists, playing with resentful spirits to provoke anger; flying to breathe, only five of the six."

The    alarm sounded to remind his companions that Tris was shocked, and death fell from the sky.

   "Five apprentice exorcists, afraid of the thick fog to heat the fire; the flames haunted them until they died, and only four of the five remained."

   They fled into the building, and the song of the skirts stopped outside the walls and danced in the wind.

  Elson guessed the real culprit, but one step too late, Naveen was already consumed by flames.

   And the spreading flame ignites the dead wood, and the house burns.

   "Four apprentice exorcists went out in groups and suffered a great disaster; the blame swallowed one bloodstained, and only three of the four remained."

  The surviving four rushed out of the house on the verge of collapse, and Elson was wrapped in the waiting weirdness. Yordle rescued him, but only made him die in a different way.

  When Yordle helped Elson free, they had cracked the ritual, but the skirt song was still there and didn't leave.

   "Three apprentice exorcists, the house was devastated; corpses suddenly fell from the sky, leaving only two of the three."

  The falling Triss smashed Alan to death, abandoned the lucky Yodell and Wenger and hid in the house in desperation.

   "Two apprentice exorcists, sighing under the beams of the house; the slings fell from the sky, and there was only one of the two."

   They sighed that the death of their companions was due to their own powerlessness and avoided the beams and ropes, but Wenger stepped on the air and was strangled by the gap of the plank, breaking the cervical vertebra.

   "A trainee exorcist, only one person came back; Xuanliang committed suicide, and there is not one left!"

  Yordle took down the ropes from the beams in despair, tied them into nooses, and kicked the wooden chair away.

  …

   The ten apprentice exorcists who were watching the retrospective of each person's death looked at each other and woke up from their dreams.

   They were standing in the classroom with the stomach bag and the exorcist on their bodies, no burns, no strangles, no head openings, no guts.

   "This is the first lesson."

Lu Li calmly watched the stupefied apprentice exorcists, and told the musket theory: "'Any kind of weirdness on the surface can easily take away our fragile lives. We must discover them before they discover us, and then we will be able to survive in this unequal situation. Survive the confrontation.' That's what Claire told me."

   Of course they knew who Claire was.

   "If I hadn't been the first to die, I would have guessed it was the Song of the Skirt!" Langer said angrily.

   "So you are the first." Lu Li looked at Potter: "You too."

  Longeer's scientist-like mind and Potter, who wrote down all the weird knowledge, would be the first to recognize the shadow of the dance skirt, so they would be the first to die.

   "The Skirt Song is the weirdness we didn't crack the ritual..." Potter said, frowning.

   Test them with evil spirits who don't know the ritual... Will it really work?

   In fact, this trial originated from the proposal of the Swamp Mother.

  These young people are from the frozen port of Wiener, always protected, aware of the dangers of the outside world, but never really faced the world's eerie evil. And being inhabitants of the Land of Light and being an exorcist would make them proud.

   After all, as the only exorcist, what Lu Li did was too easy to confuse people—many of his deeds were impossible for humans to do.

   So a bucket of cold water to put out the flames is necessary.

   "But will the flame burn the whole street..." Yodel said worriedly, and suddenly patted his head after realizing it: "Oh, that's a dream..."

  Lu Li looked at Naveen and continued: "There is no problem with your judgment, but you need to be more cautious."

   Their retreat was more like a rout than a retreat. Naveen is the only one to reflect on this.

   "You are very smart, Ellison." Lu Li said to the silent Ellison again, "You discovered the evil spirit before others, and realized that it was a dream."

   "But I hesitated..."

   Ellison lost. He realized that it was an evil spirit, and also realized that it was a dream, but it was difficult for him to take a firm step towards the idea until he was about to die.

   "Not everyone has the courage to face death, even in a dream." Lu Li said calmly.

   "So... did we pass?"

   Potter's questioning made ten apprentice exorcists nervous.

   "You are still apprentices."

   Lu Li's answer made them relaxed and regretful.

   "In essence, we all failed this trial." Langer suddenly said: "I think you are too lenient with us."

   "The exorcist never had a specific standard."

  Lu Li said: "There is no requirement for what an exorcist must be. Before I became an investigator, I didn't even have a psychic gun, but I still have a detective agency and call myself an exorcist."

  The exorcist can be a legend that solves the gods, or it can be a folk exorcist who solves the ghost, like Hades.

   "Can you tell me more about your past story?"

   None of them have heard of this past event, and it feels very different from the legend's mouth and the reading in the book.

"Can't."

  …

  The ten apprentice exorcists left the school building and returned to their huts to rest and rest tired.

  The dream of Luli's structure was like a real thing to them, and it didn't have the effect of resting.

   "You are like a father who teaches his children." The Swamp Mother whispered after they left.

  Lu Li left the wooden chair and walked towards the door with the Swamp Mother: "Just because there is no one else to teach—"

   The words stopped, Lu Li thought of something.

   Ten minutes later, Hell received a letter from the upper realm.

   (end of this chapter)