Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 1145 Eighty-three. Trapped

  The rustling sounded all around and crawled away gradually.

   Elena returned to them and whispered, if the linguist who brought the Wiener dungeon might understand what she was saying.

  Lu Li guessed what she said and told the others: "They were led away by Elena."

   Relief gasps rang out one after another, and they held their breath for silence and listening.

   A line of footprints extended to Elena's side, her tentacles lifted, and then Lu Li's voice sounded.

   "It's not safe here, let's go back to the whirlpool town first."

  Other footprints followed, and Langer's voice sounded: "What about these footprints? It will reveal our position."

  Lu Li swept across the disappearing footprints under the breeze: "The wind will help us bury the footprints."

   The invisibility potion lasts for about 15 minutes, and under the Doomsday Apocalypse, Lu Li lasts for 30 minutes, but it is not very useful.

   A few minutes later they stopped at the edge of the forest and looked out at the strange and strange whirlpool town.

  Unfinished houses, empty streets, cookie-cutter longhouses, everything constitutes a labyrinth that seems to have no end.

   The whirlpool people searched for a chance to return to the whirlpool town. Elena led the invisible crowd to avoid the whirlpool men and hid in a vacant room outside.

  A layer of dust on the floor indicates that the place has been uninhabited for a long time.

  The disturbing thing is that the swirling cloud haze that emerged from the intrusion in the sky has not disappeared, slowly coiling clockwise around the towering tower.

  Luri looked out at the periphery of the whirlpool through the rear window. They were right to leave, the vortex man was repeatedly searching along the foggy wall. But because they left fast enough, the whirlpools couldn't even find their footprints.

  The sound of footsteps sounded behind him, Langer walked over with a piece of linen, and suddenly bumped into Lu Li, who was still invisible.

   "Sorry, Mr. Lu Li, I didn't know you were here." Langer's reaction was as fast as his speech.

  Lu Li quietly stepped back to make room, took out a bottle of potion from his stomach bag, and let others see the floating potion and know that he was there.

  Longer successively hung curtains on the rear and front windows to block possible prying eyes and returned to the much dimly lit house.

   "Mr. Lu Li, what are we going to do next?"

   He and the others looked at the suspended potion bottle, then saw a notebook, a pen floating in the air, leaning against the dining table.

  Tris, who was sitting in the wooden chair, quickly stepped aside, watching the notebook open, tearing off a blank page, and waving the pen on it to write.

   "Tell the Twisted Shadow what happened here."

  Lu Li wrote down the situation in the Vortex Land, and at the same time, he talked to his companions about the two plans: waiting and attacking.

   Wait for the Twisted Shadow to rescue and attack the Spiral Tower.

   The exorcists had a bit of a dispute over their plans, and most of them chose to wait, but Potter and Langer thought they should attack the tower, and Elson joined them after hesitating.

   In the suppressed voice, Lu Li finished writing the letter, unfolded the wooden box of eyeballs and summoned the merchant Anthony - then it did not appear.

   Maybe he was judged as "unowned" by the merchant ritual because of his invisibility?

  Lu Li asked Potter to summon, but he opened the wooden box for a few minutes, but nothing happened...

   The exorcists were vaguely uneasy. Compared with the "eyeballs" being ineffective, they guessed that the isolation of the vortex land was not one-way - the merchants were blocked.

   This situation has never happened.

   Regardless of the era of the Demon Slayer Association or the weird and dark era after Lu Li woke up.

   The merchants who move in the world will hardly be blocked unless... the blocking originates from the world.

   Lu Li opened his stomach bag again and took out a bottle of medicine that was wandering in the black mist.

   "The latent image potion...? Please wait, Mr. Lu Li!" Potter stopped Lu Li's relief: "Do you want to enter the inner world to observe?"

"Um."

   "That might be dangerous, leave it to me."

  The danger not only stems from the inner world, but also from the potion itself - all potions are contaminated, and sequence potions are even worse.

The existing record of   Giant Tree Academy is that a student drank ten kinds of serial potions and developed irreversible true low sanity syndrome.

   But that's continuous, and keeping the intervals long enough will minimize side effects.

   Potter took the latent shadow potion instead of Lu Li, and his figure gradually dimmed, more thorough than the invisible Lu Li.

   The latent image potion would last no more than three minutes, and they began to wait. The next minute, the pale Potter fell out of the corner.

   "The inner world looks like this too..."

   Potter jumped to the window, raised the curtains to confirm something, and his next sentence made everyone unable to think.

   "Those whirlpool people are also in the inner world!"

The world in    is like ghosts, evil spirits, evil spirits, weirdness in weirdness; occultism in occultism, alchemy, and divination. It stands for a single thing, and it is also a general term.

   collectively refers to "all the inner worlds except the symbolic world underfoot", such as the inner world of merchants and the inner world of earth dwellers.

   The inner world that we usually talk about is the inner world of ghosts.

  The world in the ghost is like a reflection in a mirror, and the reflection on the water is the shadow of the real world.

This is part of the reason why the    Demon Slayer Association once classified ghosts as "they are the inheritance of people, not replacements" - they were once humans, have memories of when they were humans, and live as projections of the world of appearances.

   Ghosts obey the "rules of the inner world": when they appear in reality, the inner world is no more. When they return to the inner world, reality is no more.

  The ghost cannot appear in the real world and the inner world at the same time - the news that Potter brought back is that the whirlpool people are in the real world and also in the inner world.

   Maybe this is the reason why the merchants can't answer their call - the vortex land controls the inner world.

  In any case, it has become an established fact that they have lost contact with the outside world, and the rescue they rely on cannot help them temporarily.

   The panicked exorcists looked at Lu Li, waiting for the legendary exorcist who never failed to decide.

   "The third way."

  The invisibility potion failed, and Lu Li slowly emerged from the wooden chair in front of the dining table: "Collect clues about the land of vortex, and wait for the twisted shadow to react."

   That's when they really do act—whether responding to a twisted figure or attacking a tower.

  Lu Li took out two bottles of sleep medicine, Elena should know a lot of secrets in the vortex.

   At this time, Elena is no longer just a rescue target, but also a companion who provides help.

   Lu Li and Elena took the potion and entered the dreamland. The remaining ten apprentice exorcists waited and observed the outside.

  Langel pulled out the dagger at this moment, and Elson swiped along the bulge on the back of his hand in surprise, bleeding blood.

   "What are you doing?" Potter frowned.

"Don't you think that eleven exorcists broke into the forbidden area of ​​despair, and everyone returned smoothly after overcoming the obstacles?" Langer pressed his skin with trembling fingers and squeezed out the blood-wrapped pendant. His words made his companions feel unfamiliar and not unexpected: "Someone has to die for it..."

   "I can be that person."

   (end of this chapter)