Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 1210 One hundred and forty-eight. The Necronomicon

   In the afternoon.

  The lizard maid entered the castle through the side door as usual, pushing the ironed sheets. The high-heeled shoes stepped on the stone pavement and entered the corridor with a clatter, and turned into silently poking into the dark red blanket.

   The lizard maid carrying the sackcloth, buckets or sundries brushed past it, without communicating with each other, walked along the promenade by the garden to the end, and disappeared into the corner.

   Unlike the usual delivery of clothes, this lizard maid took a detour and came to the west of the castle, which she seldom passes by.

   The bat guard standing like a statue at the intersection swings his velvety ears with fine cilia, and the auricle rotates with the passing lizard maids and carts.

   Passing through the corridor extending out of the castle, the lizard maid waiting here picked up the sheets and returned to the depths of the corridor, leaving the perception of the bat sculpture.

   A shadow that seemed to flow dark came out from the gap of the bed sheet and slipped into the corner along the spiral steps.

   At the end of the steps, Lu Li opened the unlocked trapdoor and stepped into the head maid's tower bedroom.

  Once Claire loved it here, no matter the delicate decoration or the arrangement. Every window can be opened, and in the weird times, you can see the prosperity of Midnight City; in the old days, you can see the stars. And now, the darkness around them only seems to live on the lookout in the dark wilderness.

   It is said that when the castle still belonged to the nobleman, this tower housed his favorite young daughter.

During the    period, the lizard maid Vina came and closed two windows for Lu Li, leaving only one window that no longer blew in the breeze.

  As evening approached, a strange breeze whipped up the curtains, and Lu Li on the desk jumped to the bottom of the desk alertly to peep outside.

   The curtains floated like a veil, gradually highlighting a silhouette, which was lifted by the bandaged palm.

  Claire leaped into the room and turned to look for it, "Lu Li?"

  Lu Li stepped out from under the desk and was caught by the wind into Claire's arms.

   There was still some time before the dinner party started, and the lizard maid Vina brought Claire's "evening dress", a maid's long dress that was slightly slimmer than usual.

  Claire took off her clothes, and the thin body wrapped in bandages under the service of the lizard maid Vina put on a new maid dress.

   "Where's Margaret?" Lu Li asked Weina.

   "I didn't see her..."

   After sending Lu Li, Margaret didn't know where to go.

   "You really don't need to give me your eyeballs?" Claire mentioned again: "I can spy on its soul during the dinner."

"Need not."

   The core of this operation is to confirm the identity of the chef. It is obviously easier to give the True Vision Eyeball to Claire, but the Viscount's ability is unknown, and Asammons, who maintains his ignorance, may detect the True Vision Eyeball.

  clang——clang——clang——

   Evening bells echoed in the night sky, and Claire lifted the curtains on the other side of the castle, and the windows lined up in the castle shone with the only firelight that could be seen everywhere a few months ago.

   "Mother is calling us, I'm going to a dinner party." Claire's lips touched Lu Li's forehead and put him on the bed: "Be safe, your life is far more precious than our memories."

  Claire led the lizard maid Vina away, and Lu Li stayed in the tower alone, waiting for the bat guard to leave the castle and search the territory. That's when Lu Li was in action: hide in the chef's room, wait for it to return, and peek at its soul.

Da da--

   Luli's cat ears turned towards the direction of the sound.

Da da--

  The sound of high heeled footsteps came from the spiral steps under the trapdoor.

  The Lizard Maid will not be here at this time.

Da da--

   The sound of footsteps was getting closer, Lu Li jumped off the bed, got under the bed, curled his tail and merged with the darkness.

   The trapdoor opened now. The head of the lizard appeared under the trapdoor, and with the sound of clattering, the thighs wrapped in silk stockings stepped up to the tower.

   Here comes Margaret.

"What happened?"

   Confirming the soul of the lizard maid, Lu Li stepped out of the bed.

   "I found this from the library, maybe it can help you." Margaret put a book on the desk.

   Lu Li jumped from the chair to the desk, the name of the book was written on the cover of the hideous human skin: "Necronomicon"

  The Necronomicon is also called the Book of Summoning. This book records many strange summoning rituals, which Lu Li had heard of when he was a student, but he didn't need this knowledge at that time, and it was relatively taboo.

   Turning over the title page, the first page of the Necronomicon is a description-level item for the ritual of summoning ghouls. Carrion, bones, grave soil, grave goods, etc. The higher the grade, the stronger the summoned ghoul. From the lowest ghoul farmer to the ghoul army, and even when the ceremony is grand enough and the offerings rich enough, the pleasing ghoul **** may come to consciousness.

   But with the exception of certain sinful esoteric cults, the officiant is usually not tainted with ghoul rituals.

   The Necronomicon also has a reminder that if the summoning is dissatisfied with the ceremony, the host will be attacked.

The cat's paw turned the pages of the human skin paper page by page, except for the weirdness that can be summoned by simple rituals such as ghouls, and the weirdness that requires complicated rituals to summon or communicate, including some weak evil gods and ancient people. Cthulhu ceremony.

   Usually only the latter are recommended by the academy - the ancient priests or servants are dangerous, but they won't eat and wipe after helping you accomplish your goal.

  【Brain Sucker Neshua】's summoning ceremony is marked as a special threat. When summoned, it will **** up all the living body, body and soul that it can see, like drinking coffee mixed with milk. Its slender, pointed, hollow hummingbird-like beak is depicted on the yellowed page as a straw.

The only advantage and disadvantage of the    ceremony is that the summoning ceremony is simple and does not require sacrifices. As long as you draw a magic circle on the ground, you will have a chance to successfully summon it.

   There is also a line of ink in the corner of the page about it, indistinguishable jumbled text.

   "What does this mean?" Lu Li asked Margaret.

   "Like words but not, perhaps left by some desperate illiterate."

   And Margaret's "useful" doesn't mean bringing the Necronomicon to the Land of Light to enrich the inventory - it can indeed help Lu Li at this time.

  【Smart Race Sinan】

  Margaret turns the Necronomicon to the last pages. In the depiction, it is floating upright, with tiny cilia on its tail, wearing a white dangling cloak, and its head is like a transparent helmet. There is no skull protection to reveal the weird structure of the brain.

   The brain gully of the wise race Sinan depicted by    has a red vein, representing the identity of an elder, while the ordinary wise race Sinan is creamy gray.

   This is a kind of intelligent group that is floating on the edge of the human world. The description in the "Necronomicon" is: They know everything that happens in the world, and the only thing they can tell is the price you can pay.

   This is not an exaggeration, in Margaret's memory, the Giant Tree Academy has a household name for it: the Observer.

   (end of this chapter)