Bizarre Detective Agency

  Chapter 1392 Thirty-four. Next step

"Who are you."

  Lu Li had some guesses, but he still asked.

   "I am your god...the king of ghouls."

   Roughly turning to low whispers: "Who are you? Among my servants...why are there people who don't believe in me?"

   "How to help you out of trouble?"

  Lu Li avoided the question of the Ghoul King, and a long silence followed.

  Almost when Lu Li thought that the King of Ghouls lost himself due to cannibalism, a deep echo came:

   "Are you silent, or can I not hear you?"

  Lu Li realized that the conversation between the Ghoul King and him was one-way.

   After a long wait, the whisper of the Ghoul King sounded again: "Whatever it is...to Heim...find the spirit sculpture, bring it back..."

   "Where is Heim, what is the spirit sculpture?"

  There was no answer to Lu Li's question, the whisper continued:

   "The swamp conspires to imprison me, bring the spirit sculpture, unbelievers, you will get everything you want..."

  The king of ghouls did not disappear immediately, he whispered, and his voice slowly faded away.

   All the clues come together in one place - the existence behind the rotten weirdness is the swamp.

   Not wanting to disturb the eerie swamps of Midnight City drives the rotting eerie to quietly erode the surface. Ghouls are the first to make contact with them. The ghouls who were planning to evacuate to the east caused a war due to Lu Li's instigation and rotten weirdness, which delayed the erosion plan of the swamp.

  Especially after the scavenging monster Hull added more monsters, a certain deep-seated force broke out, resulting in the current result: the superficial ghoul king retreated, and the roar resounded over Midnight City, and the ghouls and rotten monsters died together.

  The truth is that the rotten weirdness of the fusion ghouls converges into a deep pit, forming a black tide to cover up the truth that the king of ghouls is being eaten by the swamp.

   Lu Li stayed away from the deep pit and summoned the merchant Anthony in the hidden place to contact the bright place.

   "Ophelia told me everything, you contacted us sooner than expected... What happened?"

   "Somehow the Lord of Ghouls told me something, what are Helm and the Sculpture?"

  Businessman Anthony returned with Lu Li's inquiry. After waiting longer than expected, the businessman brought back news that he didn't know about the Land of Light.

  Lu Li asked the Land of Light to contact Ghost Town to find a way to catch a ghoul. The higher the status, the better, and asked it what Heim and the Spirit Sculpture represent.

  Ghost Town Church helped Ophelia and the others catch ghouls. It was indeed bad news for Lu Li after a long wait.

   "The nearby ghouls are dying one after another... What happened?"

  Ophelia says they went into the old spooky town sewers, but all the ghouls they found were dead.

  Lu Li told her that the King of Ghouls is using his people to delay the encroachment of the swamp.

   "Then how do we find ghouls that are still alive?"

   "Far away, the farther the better."

   "I'll let those allies find it. But are you sure? Ghouls are entitled to know the secrets of the gods."

   "He thinks that 'I' knows about Haim and the Spirit Sculpture, so it's not a secret."

  At least the ghoul warlock is qualified to know.

"And you?"

   Ophelia finally asked.

   Lu Li looked back into the distance. The dust covering Midnight City has settled, and the Kuroshio under the deep space has formed an inaccessible forbidden area.

  He wants to go back to the bottom of the Kuroshio again.

  The foul-smelling, rotten, slushy hideous figure squirmed on the dust-covered silent street, came to the edge of the collapsed ruins, crawled along the steep slope, and fell into the creeping black tide like a lake, gradually melting.

   Lu Li seemed to be part of the Kuroshio, joining them, blending into them. Get involved in the deep eddies and slip away before they subside.

  The light passed through the gaps and reflected in Lu Li's eyes.

  Passing around the gradually thinning cage, Lu Li glanced at the King of Ghouls who imprisoned and devoured—His feet sank in the haze of hatred.

  Lu Li's arrival did not disturb him, nor did it disturb the swamp.

  Yu Yao outside the cage confirmed that the King of Ghouls could last longer than expected, Lu Li quietly returned to the surface of the Kuroshio, waiting for the waves to beach him on the shore and leave the deep pit.

   Lu Li returned to the hideout by the same route, a remote hunter's lodge built on a hill.

  The dust dissipated, and the preserved hunter's hut, which stood on a short hill before the establishment of Midnight City, overlooked the deep pit—the former owner was scared away by the fall of the alchemy tower, and the former owner was driven away by Lu Li.

  Lu Li simply used a wooden chair to block the doors and windows, picked up the stove in the kitchen and climbed up to the dark attic.

  Placing the stove aside, Lu Li pushed open the dusty window and looked out.

  The rotting ghouls that surge at the bottom of the pit look like real black water.

  Leaving the windows open for ventilation, Lu Li went back to the stove, broke off the pried wooden eaves to start a fire, and cooked food.

   But the hill cabin isn't the promised land, or even safe. Before the cans on the stove were boiling, there was the sound of a wooden chair being knocked down from downstairs.

  Lu Li had to go back downstairs temporarily, and asked the uninvited visitor: "Are you from Midnight City?"

  The fat maggot sprayed venom at Lu Li, Lu Li returned to the dreamland, gave it a devil's contract and sent it to Ghost Town, then packed up the door and chairs knocked down by Weird, and returned to the boiling can in the attic.

   Fiddled with the gurgling broth, Lu Li looked at the businessman emerging from the shadows.

  Businessman Anthony brought back news: "Heim and the spirit sculpture may be in the cultivated land garden."

  Ghoul Warlock knows no more than Lu Li, the fake ghoul. The Lightlands can only be found elsewhere.

  Cultivated Land Garden, also known as the Land of Hope, Sorahim. The latter originated from the great adventurer Soraxivia Him who discovered the cultivated land, and in the local people's name, it gradually evolved into Soraheim.

  It sounds a bit far-fetched, but what connects the clues to Cultivated Land is Spirit Sculpture—this is a unique term in Cultivated Land, and it is also used to describe the body of a god, the sculpture with divinity, and the things that were once possessed by a god.

   Does this mean that the Lord of Ghouls comes from the Plowland, from the black ring that hangs above the world.

   "Is it accurate? Plowland is dangerous and far away."

  If Lu Li wastes time and takes risks to arrive at the Cultivated Land Garden but fails, he has no chance to transfer.

   "The Swamp Mother says this is the only clue known."

  Lu Li was going to continue following this clue, and at the same time arranged: "Let the Land of Light send letters to all known ghoul groups, their kings are imprisoned in Midnight City."

   "Need to tell them the truth?"

"Need not."

   Stealth means checks and balances.

  The swamp will not be aggressive if it is not exposed, and continues to maintain a slow encroachment.

  The continuous gathering of ghouls to Midnight City can make the King of Ghouls last longer.

   "Where's Andrea?"

   "Arrived at Cape Storm just forty-five minutes ago."

   "Let it wait for me."

"Where are you going?"

  Before the merchant returned to the Land of Light, the members of the tea party were already aware of Lu Li's answer.

   "Cultivated Land Garden."

  (end of this chapter)