Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 1217 One hundred and fifty-five.

  When Lu Li asked them how long they had been here, the Rat Man was confused again. Its memories could only be traced back to the nearest, and those farther away were forgotten, and apart from the rat habits of eating, sleeping, and wandering, it did not have much memory.

   "I will take you to the wise man, and the wise man must know the answer."

   said the Rat Man, bring the landing to close to the companion. When they are eating, they are no longer madly scurrying around like mice, but just keep eating, and move around the food to avoid Luli.

  Lu Li observed the souls in their shells. Soul faces blurred...these survivors are on the verge of collapse.

   They have lost their nature and self.

  The wise man in the rat population is easy to distinguish: its rat has white whiskers, and it is wise because of its age, only in front of Lu Li and food. It is no different from other beings in the group.

   Avoid Lu Li and continue to eat.

   "This is wrong...this is wrong..."

  When the Rat Man was trembling and dreaming because the wise man didn't respond, Lu Li observed the sprinkled food crumbs. The average and even crumbs of bread crumbs and minced meat meant that they didn't accidentally fall into the bottom of the well.

   Looking up at the wellhead where the radiance is pouring down, what is feeding these rat people?

   "Where is it?" Lu Li woke up the rat man in delirium, and tried to be as detailed as possible so that he could understand: "The top of our head."

   "The wise say that is the source of their life," said the Rat Man reverently.

   It is no problem to understand this from the behavior of feeding food.

  Luli continued to look at the wellhead. It was about seven or eight meters below the bottom of the well. The higher the rock face, the straighter it became. Even a cat could not climb it.

   "Has the light always been there?"

  The light source is obviously not natural light, nor is it a dull luminous body such as fluorite, only oil lamps or light sources can emit light.

   You can figure out where the above is by asking about the interval between the replacement oil lamps.

   "No, there was a solar eclipse during the last feeding."

The meaning of   solar eclipse is easy to understand, but when Lu Li asked when was the last feeding, the rat man couldn't answer.

   "Feeding" the "days" of the human equivalent to the rat-human colony, the same unit for measuring time, if you continue to ask, the rat-man can only answer the still confused "how many sleeps" or "how many times I ran out".

  Lu Li stayed at the bottom of the well for a while, wanting to communicate with the wise ones, but after eating, the rats started to sleep soon, and when Lu Li approached, they would bump around.

  The Rat Man encountered in the Rat Hole is the only exception.

   Lu Li invited it to take the clan to leave here with him, but was rejected. They don't want to leave.

   Maybe staying here for a while can make them change their minds, but Lu Li needs to go back now. First, bring the news of the chef and the rat man back to Claire and the others.

   "Do you want to leave?"

  The Rat Man was a little reluctant, but he still agreed to take Lu Li out.

   They left the well where the light shone, returned to the darkness, and followed the Rat Man through the Rat Hole.

   Trying to remember directions and heights is quite difficult, even if the Doomsday book is still around. After walking through the cracks and tunnels for a few minutes, the gray-haired Lu Li followed the Rat Man to a Rat Hole.

  The room outside with its giant kitchen table and chandeliers was empty and silent.

  The Rat Man was not happy about it.

   "This door should be open..." The upright rat man murmured: "This is wrong...this is wrong...this is wrong..."

  Lu Li passed by it and drilled a mouse hole.

   The room is not big, and there are wooden boxes stacked in the corner, which should be the utility room leading to the kitchen.

  The oil lamp on the kitchen table means that no one cares about it here. Lu Li tried to pull the door handle, but it didn't move, meaning it was locked.

   "Why do you always think you are wrong?" Lu Li looked around every corner and asked without looking back.

   "Because I made a mistake..." The Rat Man fell into guilt. .

   "What's wrong?"

   "I... don't know." The bewildered rat man couldn't answer, the barren rat's head tingling from overuse.

   At the same time, Lu Li found a copper key hanging on the wall beside the door.

   "The key is there."

   Lu Li said to the rat man, and came under the copper key.

The    keys are a bit high, even if they stretch their tails, lie down on the wall, or jump up, and there are no broom mops long enough in the utility room—not even a cat can handle them.

  Lulli looked at the planks, blocks and the rat people who came out of the rat hole, and got an idea.

   Knock down the plank, drag the plank and block under the key, and set it up as a rocker.

   Lu Li jumped onto the kitchen table, instructing the rat man to stand at one end of the rocker in coordination, and then jump down again.

   "Wow-"

   exclaimed and flew up with the rat man, slipped down against the copper key, and was caught by Lu Li who had arrived at the landing spot.

   The rat man who was stuck in Lu Li's back crawled out with his hair.

"Again!"

  The excited rat man stood on the rocker, climbed up the kitchen table with Lu Li, jumped down, and vacated again.

   This time the rat man landed exactly on the copper key and pushed the key off the nail.

Below   , Lu Li wrapped his tail around the copper key and caught the one who jumped off.

  Lu Li came to the door, inserted the key into the lock hole, twisted it lightly, and pulled down the door handle with his tail.

  Kacha——

   The door was pulled open a gap.

  Lu Li peeked out from the gap. In the quiet corridor outside the utility room, the lizard maid wiped the inlaid window.

  The bat guard watches the corridor at the end.

  Lu Li quietly returned to the utility room and closed the door.

   The door they struggled to open was not an exit.

   "I can't get out here, is there any other way out?" Lu Li asked the Rat Man.

   "This is wrong...this is wrong...this is wrong..."

The    Rat Man once again fell into violent self-denial.

  Loli waits for it to leave the state, and asks again.

   "Other exits... I know, but I'm afraid..."

   "There is more than one exit, there is always one to leave."

   Lu Li "encouraged" the Rat Man to regain his confidence and led Lu Li to the second exit.

   They passed the cook's busy kitchen, under the table and between their legs. Encountered a cook who was hiding in the warehouse to steal food and passed by behind her. Climb up the rope from the snoozing cook and exit through the rat hole in the wooden beam.

  The castle is quite vast, so vast that even mouse holes are like a maze, criss-crossed. But bat guards are stationed in every corridor. Between disappointment and self-denial, the rat people went to an unknown number of exits.

   Walking through the dark and quiet tunnel, gradually, the cool surface breeze blows from the front.

  The Rat Man took Lu Li to a new exit: the mouse hole in the base of the outer wall of the castle.

   A dark, rotten moat stretches across the front.

   "This is wrong...this is wrong...this is wrong..."

   Rat Man hugged his head in pain and squeaked.

  Lu Li raised his cat pupils and looked at the light reflected from the windows of the tower of the head maid in the distance.

   "That's right." Lu Li said.

   "This is wrong...this is wrong...this is...right."

   (end of this chapter)