Bizarre Detective Agency

  Chapter 1400 forty-two. Migration and drunks

   The eerie fog recedes to the sea, and the mist hangs over the sand.

  Worn boards, suitcases, and sundries were blown onto the beach by the waves.

  Kate's eyes fell on an oil painting, and she recognized that it was "The Withered Copperhill", a famous painting that should be placed in a museum or art exhibition instead of being soaked in sea water.

  The hazy Immortal Giant is like a stranded giant whale, gradually drifting away in the distant song of the siren.

   Kate volunteered to carry the drunk middle-aged man. Lu Li really needed to deal with the dangers around him, so he handed him over to Kate.

   The idea that one less leg will reduce the weight is somewhat malicious, but it does make drunks as light as women.

   What he faced next might be more than weird. Lu Li picked up Kate's fake flintlock gun and stepped on the fine sand and gravel around the beach.

  In the depths of the gray mist in the distance, a silhouette gradually emerged, and the surrounding rough gravel grounded the wooden boat.

  As Lu Li and Kate, who were carrying a drunk on their backs, approached, the outline of a fishing village gradually became clear.

   There is no cooking smoke, no villagers who get up early, no dogs barking and dried fish hanging from the eaves.

  The quiet and desolate fishing village shows that it has been abandoned for a long time.

  Lu Li put down the drunk, let Kate stay outside, and walked into the desolate fishing village alone.

  This village has been abandoned for a long time, and the walls of the houses near the coast are covered with a layer of rough grains brought by the corrosion of the sea wind.

  Compared to the main mainland, the barren land, and the Lennon Islands, the cultivated gardens discovered in modern times maintain a strong local style. This was similar to the special relationship between tribes and civilizations until Lu Li saw the parchment posted on the wall.

  【Claude State Government Order No. 11:】

  【In order to develop tourism in Claude State, Desolate Bay will be under the unified jurisdiction of the State Assembly. All village residents are requested to arrive at Bay Town before June 15th, and you will be assigned residence and work uniformly]

  【Residents who refuse to leave and their relatives will be deprived of citizenship and no longer enjoy state government benefits】

  【Note: just go upstream along the bay】

  This coast is uninhabited, and rescue will not arrive in a short time.

  Push open several unlocked doors, the dark room is covered with dust.

  Lu Li went back outside the fishing village, and asked Kate who was sitting casually on the gravel with her skirt gathered: "Do you know Claude State?"

   "Except for the knowledge and etiquette among nobles, I don't have any common sense and knowledge of life."

   Now all he can count on is the drunk, but he doesn't know when he will wake up.

   "Shall we continue on our way?"

   "Wait."

  Although it is known from the notice that the town can be reached along the bay, the distance will not be too close. A man, a woman, and a drunk with a broken leg couldn't travel.

  Lu Li took the drunk from behind Kate and let him lie in the open space outside the fishing village.

   "Aren't we going in?"

   "No entry."

  The view of the village is too narrow, and there is no way to know whether there are any beings left in the strange fog.

   "You want to wake him up?" Kate looked at Lu Li who was surrounding the drunk, "He didn't wake up after being eaten by a monster."

   Soaking in seawater and subsequent air drying did not wash off the smell of a drunk who was soaked in wine. It is not known how much he drank.

  Kate had never seen such a drunk person, if not for the constant snoring, she would have thought he was dead.

   "The monster that ate one of his legs was probably drunk... seems to be awake?"

  At this time, it seemed that the dead drunk slowly raised his hand, scratched his chin, and wriggled over. The loss of a leg did not affect his sleep at all.

"this."

  Kate saw an iron piece falling out of his pocket, picked it up and handed it to Lu Li.

   This is a standard badge, and the flintlock gun and iris pattern symbolize that this is some kind of law enforcement status.

   "Is he a police officer?"

  The familiar vocabulary caused the drunk man to react, and he whispered in his sleep: "Anna..."

  Lu Li's dark eyes suddenly became darker: "Who is Anna?"

   "Anna, don't leave me..."

  The drunk man, who seemed to have woken up, stretched out his hand to grab Kate vaguely, but she avoided him.

   Lu Li stared at the drunk man. His messy brown hair was not black, and his swollen face with stubble was not similar to his own.

   "Who is it?"

   "...Don't take me as a criminal." The drunk man muttered vaguely, but no matter how he asked, it was irrational raving.

   "Don't let him fall asleep."

  Lu Li tore off the drunk man's shirt, let him subconsciously hug his chest hair and chest because of the cold, went back to the shallows to wet his clothes, and covered the drunk man's mouth and nose.

  The cold and suffocation stimulated the drunk to open his mouth like a drowning person, panting, and then sucked sea water into his lungs, choked up and coughed, and spit out nauseating vomit.

  Lu Li and Kate retreated a few meters away to the upper wind.

   "Uh-uh-bastards... Are you from the Eagles or the Zombies... eh?"

   "Look up."

The drunk raised his bloodshot scarlet eyes. In the distance, the double shadow was shaking, and the leaden sea was endless. A giant steel ship, which he had never seen in his life, was stuck on the beach, and there were more than a dozen roads on the shallows and decks. Silhouette walks around.

   "Is this the crime scene?"

  The drunk man said while spitting that he didn't even remember getting on the boat.

  Lu Li briefly described what happened last night and what saved him.

The drunk man yelled nonsense at the top of his voice, looked down and saw that he had lost a leg, and pouted again: "Like what happens when I get drunk. I told you Puhan, you will lose a leg sooner or later... "

   "Who is Anna?" Lu Li interrupted the drunk man's self-admonition.

  The drunk man shaking his head tried to focus his eyes on Lu Li: "How do you know that name?"

   "It's me who should ask."

   "That's my daughter..." the drunk murmured sentimentally.

  The Anna that the two men are talking about is not the same person.

  Kate lowered her head at this moment, and picked up a metal badge left by the drunk man: "Are you a policeman from Plowland?"

   "You know me? Have you been caught by me... Hiccup—" The drunken man began to ramble in confusion, "When I was caught by the compound-eyed man and my head was chopped off..."

  He fell asleep again.

   "Go to Bay Town first."

  Lu Li picked up the drunk man on his back and walked back to the stranded ship.

   "You seem to be very kind to him." Kate said following behind.

"Why do you say that?"

   "Micro expressions or movements?" Kate pointed to her eyes: "I can see your subtle changes, because of that person named 'Anna'?"

  Lu Li was noncommittal.

   The beach in front of the Immortal Giant gathered more than a dozen survivors, making the deserted beach a bit more lively, as if the disaster on the Immortal Giant never happened.

  Many people died, but there are also those who survived.

  Lu Li temporarily handed over the drunk to their care, climbed back to the deck, walked all the way to the cargo hold, pushed the steam car he saw earlier onto the life raft, and then lowered the life raft onto the beach.

  With the expectation of the survivors, Lu Li carried the drunk man to the back seat and sat in the driver's seat.

  Kate opened the door and sat in the co-pilot: "Can you drive?"

"Won't."

  Lu Li stepped on the accelerator.

   "That's the brakes."

  (end of this chapter)