Bizarre Detective Agency

  Chapter 1425 Sixty-Seven. Surveillance

   "Poor man, I didn't even leave my name..."

  Claire whispered.

   Lu Li looked around, and there were traces of felling on the roots of the Qiujie not far away, and the axes were scattered beside it.

  The desperate survivors swung their axes at the giant tree, and they ended up no better than the people of Night City.

   Lu Li climbed into the canopy of the forest again. Claire hid in the unfinished forest hut, standing on the window frame with tilted head and staring at the radiant figure that slipped into the branch.

  A moment later, as if the moonlight emerged after the clouds had parted, Lu Li fell back to the hut in the forest.

   "Shall we move on?"

   "Consciousness is ahead."

   Lu Li and Claire continued to move forward.

   There will be no new huts in the forest along the way, and they may reach a deep place that the night city has never set foot in.

  There is no danger lingering, but be careful, maybe this is a trap to lure the enemy deep.

   After a period of time, I went deep enough into the weird dense forest and drilled into the canopy again. If the consciousness permeated around me had substance, it was like the elm forest in Belfast, releasing some clear emotions.

  Pain, torment, hatred, and longing, prayer.

  These fragmented emotions were filled with disordered instinctive emotions, unable to communicate, unable to communicate, so Lu Li had no choice but to bring Claire up, and let the twisted branches that formed the canopy lead him to a place full of emotions.

  An unexpected scene appeared, when the twisted branches under the feet spread out like a group of snakes copulating, revealing a forest cabin standing on the black soil.

  Most of the emotions Lu Li felt came from this.

  Weird dense forest Hate the cabin in the woods? Seems like it should. Midnight City turned the remains of the weird jungle into a cabin in the woods, sheltering them outsiders, as if they were embedded in uncontrolled spikes.

   Therefore, Lu Li understood the desire of the weird dense forest—he hoped that Lu Li would help it dismantle the huts in the dark forest.

In view of the fact that the influence of the Land of Light has not radiated to the Allen Peninsula, they will not get involved in the Desolate Land for a long time to come. Lu Li answered the prayer of the Weird Jungle Forest and went to the place where emotions linger, pulling out nails embedded in the forest. Cabins in the woods everywhere.

   When Midnight City fell, there were not too many people left in the strange jungle, nor too few. At least when he followed Lu Li to pull out the cabin in the forest, he found bones on the bed, in the corner, or around the cabin.

   And in these huts, without exception, everything that could be used to burn was dismantled, and only cold embers remained in the fireplace.

   When clearing to the middle of the weird dense forest, Lu Li found a special forest hut.

  The traces of logging around it indicate that the survivors in this wooden house lived in the weird jungle for a long time. But when Lu Li stepped into the cabin, he saw the corpse leaning against the fireplace, which meant that he hadn't persisted until rescue arrived.

   "Robert..." Claire whispered suddenly.

"You know him?"

   "Those dentures..." Claire pointed to the overcomplete teeth in the lower jaw of the skeleton, and told a previous "interesting story".

  Claire was not the daughter of vice president Chrissy when she entered school. So she was envied and envied by her classmates for the many preferential treatments she received in Giant Tree Academy. Then when these jealous students go too far, Claire picks one hapless guy for a lesson and knocks out all his teeth. This is the skeleton in front of you, Robert.

  The final ending is that Claire reveals her identity, and Chris makes a pair of teeth for Robert to resolve the conflict.

   "I didn't expect him to die here..." Claire looked around the cabin with emotion, "But it's better than dying in Midnight City with no body left."

   "Lu Li, help me bury him."

   Lu Li agreed to Claire, and kept Robert's bones in the open space next to the forest hut.

  Next Actions Claire doesn't meet anyone she's familiar with again—if she does, it's hard to recognize.

  …

  The deep night in the distance is about to fall, returning to the darkness like a strange dense forest.

  The hut stands alone under the giant tree forest, covered by the canopy that blocks the sky and the sun.

   This is the last hut to be uprooted, but also the beginning.

  Claire quietly watched Lu Li take back the traces of the Night City one by one, and remembered a long sentence from an unknown poet: the disappearance of old things will be exchanged for the growth of new life.

  The last wooden house collapsed before my eyes.

  Claire watched Lu Li ascend into the canopy of the tree, but quickly fell down again. Because the twisted branches didn't back down when Lu Li approached.

   "Did it trick us?"

"No."

  Lu Li recalled the ethereal consciousness he felt for a short time, "The weird jungle can't help us for the time being."

   "So we came here for nothing?" Claire was unwilling to do so, "wasted time demolishing a bunch of huts, but failed?"

   "It didn't fail either. The weird jungle is giving birth to itself."

  Midnight City's exploration of the weird dense forest accidentally stopped this process, and as Lu Li demolished the forest hut, the weird dense forest began to breed again.

   Perhaps as time goes by, in the foreseeable future, real thinking will be born in the strange jungle.

   But before that, the weird dense forest can only be a shelter to hide in during a crisis.

   "So it's still a waste of time." Claire complained realistically.

   They left the weird dense forest, and businessman Anthony appeared around him, bringing two pieces of news: The bad news was that the swamp finally couldn't hold back, and it broke out not long after Lu Li entered the weird dense forest.

  The good news is they are ready.

  …

   Afterglow falls on the sparkling bay where sailboats are moored.

   "Follow me, He is waiting for you."

  Lu Li returned to the Land of Light and went to the church under the leadership of the Vine Cultists.

  However, he missed the awakening of the Eternal Dreamer. The priest waiting here told Lu Li, "The Lord went to inspect the Kingdom of God not long ago, and He left an oracle: You are the key to stopping the swamp."

   "Any more?"

  The high priest shook his head: "He said you will understand."

"I do not understand."

  If Eternal Dreamer just wants Lu Li to be free, he has no reason to ask Lu Li to come back and leave an ambiguous prophecy.

  Lu Li thought that the Eternal Dreamer had some sort of "unspeakable" future—he was only half right. Just as Lu Li was about to leave the Land of Light and go to the swamp, the priest blocked his way, saying that the Eternal Dreamer had awakened.

  Come to the ordinary study room, the dreamer is leaning on the reclining chair in front of the window, wearing a blanket like an old man, looking at the afterglow of the sunset.

   did not fall asleep.

"What happened."

  Lu Li realized the intention of the Dreamer—he was hiding himself.

   "The swamp is spying on that conversation." Ever Dreamer's answer confirmed Lu Li's guess.

"it's here?"

  The Dark Field and the Land of Light are tens of thousands of miles apart. If its power can monitor the Land of Light far away...what's the point of all their struggles?

   "The Lord of Ghouls affected him in the peninsula of Ellen...the swamps."

   Just a coincidence.

   "So what is the real prophecy?"

  (end of this chapter)