Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 1219 One hundred and fifty seven. Beyond the hole

   It's easier to find where the Rat People are than by getting lost in the rat hole in the city wall - just drill into the rat hole in the outer kitchen and follow the memory to the bottom of the well.

  Claire left the tower before Luli. Not long after her figure melted into the gloom, Margaret arrived in the name of cleaning up the tower. After tidying up and cleaning the room, she left with a bucket that had hidden Lu Li at noon.

   The same way he sneaked in in the early morning, Lu Li hid behind the statue in the sunken wall and slipped under the car as the cook pushed the dining cart past.

  Squeak-

  The dining car was pushed into the kitchen. The cook stole the mouth and arranged the ingredients, returned to the familiar position, dozed off and fell asleep as if nothing happened in the morning, and put the key on her belly brightly.

  Lu Li can completely steal the keys and sneak into the depths of the kitchen and do better, but there is no need to do so anymore.

   Stepping on the dull snoring rhythm, Lu Li got out from the bottom of the dining car, slipped into the mouse hole, and crawled along the wall in the direction he remembered.

   A faint light appeared in front of him, Lu Li was close to the bottom of the well, dormant in the darkness of the tunnel, Lu Li swept over the group of mice lying at the bottom of the well.

   Sixteen, all of them here except Miller.

   Avoid letting the mice run and flee due to intrusion, and Lu Li stayed in the tunnel and waited quietly for the light source to change.

   It was about an hour before the castle replaced the oil lamp, and Lu Li encountered the food bits floating down from the hole again. After hesitating, he stepped out of the hiding tunnel while the rats were eating, and approached the group of rats that were no longer hiding.

  Their souls are still as vague as yesterday, and the animated puppet bodies squeak and eat in front of the debris.

   No feces found nearby, are they excreted elsewhere, or do they not need to be excreted?

Lu Li approached a slightly larger piece of food scraps, the cat's claws raised the scraps, and the rat man who was lying on the side eating followed, raised his head, stood upright, and then moved to the other scraps after the scraps were lifted to an unreachable height. Dine.

   Holding the crumbs in front of you, this piece of fiber torn from bread seems indistinguishable from regular food.

  The tail temporarily put down the fluorite and the merchant's eyeballs, rolled up the food scraps and hid it in the hair on the back, brushed away the rat people who were sniffing the fluorite, and rolled the fluorite again.

   After ten minutes, the rats ate all the scraps, and at the same time, they got used to the existence of Lu Li and didn't run away. It's just that they will still avoid when the land is approaching, and they will not communicate, including the wise.

   Only Miller is special in the Rat People community.

   The wait was longer than expected, approaching the time in my heart for an hour, but the light source never changed. Even if I waited for another half an hour, the light source outside the hole remained unchanged.

  Although it is a bit strange, it can also be regarded as good news: the lamp will always lack lamp oil. The longer the slide show, the easier it is to find the difference. At that time, using the eyeball of the merchant may directly confirm the source of the hole.

   That businessman's eyeball was brought here - when the oil lamp outside the hole was replaced, Lu Li summoned the businessman, but the businessman would not appear due to environmental restrictions, so he knew the specific time for the replacement.

   After nearly two hours of waiting, the light source above finally changed, but instead of changing the lamp oil—

   Another crumb of food spilled.

  Lu Li watched the sleeping mice and the people woke up because of the food and ate again.

  The food appears too often.

   It seems that only the kitchen can do it at this frequency.

  Look at the hole where the light shines, maybe the kitchen is above it, is it a cook or a chef?

  The former has a higher probability, because the chef has been confirmed not to be a soul.

   recalled the complicated passage to the bottom of the well, he should have come in with a ruler and a compass.

   It is about 2pm now. At 3 o'clock, Lu Li no longer waited, and got into the tunnel after the rat man dozing lazily.

   Hiding the businessman's eyes under some gravel temporarily, Lu Li returned to the kitchen the same way.

The cook was still dozing off, but he had replaced one. Lu Li got into the cart and left the kitchen with the cook pushing the cart after a few dozen minutes. He hid behind the statue and was greeted by the lizard maids who passed by at a fixed frequency. pick up.

  Lu Li did not go back to the tower, but met Margaret in the corridor not far from the kitchen.

   She brought the ruler and compass that Lu Li needed, and took away the food debris hidden in the hair.

   Knowing that all the oil lamps and candles in the castle had been replaced two hours ago, Lu Li asked, "Where haven't they been replaced yet."

   Margaret answered several locations, including the kitchen.

   is in line with Lu Li's imagination - a cook who has a soul and even a memory carefully feeds these former companions who are located underground.

   "What's going on with Claire?" Lu Li asked Margaret, who was wiping the glass mosaic window.

  Margaret's answer to Gardener finding a suitable excuse to invite Claire and the undead to the Necropolis: a new stitching idea for the Lizard Maid and the Lower Defiler.

  The bat guards have searched their territory before, and trust in them has returned to the past.

   There were no other problems. After cleaning the window, Margaret left with a bucket and a linen. Lu Li stayed in the shadows, waiting for the cook who was pushing the cart to appear at the end of the corridor, and when he passed the statue, he drilled into it completely.

   Skillfully slipped into the mouse hole in front of the sleeping cook, Lu Li grabbed the ruler and compass, and measured from the entrance of the mouse hole bit by bit.

   But at about two-fifths of the way, the hands of the compass were inactive and turned chaotically.

   The magnetic field changes, and that doesn't work.

   Throwing away the ruler and useless compass, Lu Li returned to the bottom of the well, and dug out the eyeballs buried along the way.

The    rat people were a little flustered by the arrival of Lu Li again, but only a few, as if turning over, got up and turned around and continued to doze.

  Lu Li stared at the hole above his head, and there was only one way to confirm the location.

   Climb up to the hole before the new food scraps fall out.

  The wall is not completely smooth, and there are some dimples that he can barely climb.

  Lu Li raised the cat's paw, and the cat's paw tucked behind the pad popped out.

   Not sharp, but good enough to grab the wall.

   Not being watched by the rat people, Lu Li stepped on and grabbed the tiny foothold and climbed upwards.

  If the rock wall is curtains or fabrics, the sharp cat claws can make Lu Li easily climb to the top, but for the rock wall, the cat claws are not as useful as expected, better than the soles of the feet and worse than the palms.

   The climbing Luli slipped several times, scraping marks on the rock wall. Fortunately, even if it falls, it will not be very high, just be careful not to overwhelm the rat people who gather every time the gravel is scattered, and find that it is not food and then return to laziness.

  Finally, Lu Li was very close to the hole where the light was shed, crawling on the rock wall, staring at the light, waiting for his eyes to get used to the light and glimpse the world outside the hole.

   At this moment, the light outside the hole swayed, and the black cat pupil reflected a long and narrow dark golden pupil looking towards the bottom of the well.

   And this eye Lu Li has only seen on one person.

  Chris.

   (end of this chapter)