Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 1441 Eighty-three. Desert

  The strong wind swept across the desert turned into hills, setting off the yellow sand all over the sky.

  This endless barren sand seems to be the end of the world, only dust and gravel.

  Until a figure with a cloak pulled by the wind and sand broke into the desert, leaving a lonely footprint that gradually disappeared, trekking in the lifeless desert.

   We should be thankful that the dark clouds that will never dissipate cover the sky, leaving the most dangerous heat in the desert gone. The only thing that hinders Lu Li is the flowing gravel and one after another, which is endless and lifeless. Only the hills of never-ending wind and sand.

  After decades of spreading, this desert corridor that once occupied only one area has long since become a desolate desert covering hundreds of miles.

  There's nothing here, not even the weird.

   But the desert isn't exactly dead—

  The broken abyss bordering the desert is like falling mercury, distributed on the edge of the desert, ranging from the size of a finger that can swallow a person to the size of a house, the bottomless abyss will never be enough to swallow the sand that falls into it.

   And those worms that swell like earthworms in the dunes. All things are their food, and gravel is no exception.

  Thinking narrowly, there is no essential difference between worms and swamps to some extent—they also devour the world’s matter and feed themselves.

   It's just that the worms are allies, and the swamp is aggressively hostile to all that exists.

   and their attitudes towards the world are also quite different.

  Maybe decades or hundreds of years later, the worm will eventually grow into a swamp-like weirdness that will destroy the world and turn into a new crisis. But now, like fish jumping out of the water, they churned among the sand layers, followed, and greeted Lu Li.

   Lu Li stood on the top of the sand dunes, one sand dune after another stretched out in front of him, which was no different from the one under his feet.

   is far from the destination.

  Sliding down to the bottom of the hill, Lu Li continued to climb on the flowing gravel.

  As night fell, the temperature in the desert quickly turned to the coldness of the mainland at this time. The weird fog also climbed over the sand dunes and filled the air.

   Lu Li slid into a bunker that was formed for unknown reasons, and summoned the merchant Anthony to raise a fire. It brought a processed suckling pig - this is today's dinner.

  The weird mist that permeates the world outside the bunker, only the bottom of the pit is bright and warm, exuding the smell of meat that makes people salivate.

   "Snow mountains, oceans, forests, deserts..." Merchant Anthony asked the mother of the swamp, "What are you looking for? Or what are you leaving behind?"

   "Looking for the truth, leaving footprints, verifying some doubts."

"did you find it?"

"still on the way."

  Lu Li turned the suckling pig on the fire, quietly listening to the "sizzling" dripping of fat into the flames, and the whimpering of the wind blowing outside the sand dunes.

   There are no strange noises or footsteps, the desert is too barren, and even the beings in the strange fog don't want to appear here.

  After enjoying a sumptuous dinner, Lu Li threw the remains of the food under the gravel. Filled a few pieces of firewood into the fire, covered the coat beside the fire, and fell asleep.

   Gradually, the sound of the wind outside the bunker became clear and howling.

  Early in the morning, when Lu Li woke up from the coolness of the extinguished fire, the coat he was wearing was covered with a layer of sand, and a lot of sand had penetrated into his cheeks and hair.

   It seems that a dust storm is brewing.

  Lu Li spent some time cleaning up the excess sand and gravel on his body while waiting for the wind and sand to subside.

  The wind that swept the gravel into the bunker showed no signs of dying down, so Lu Li had no choice but to set off again, and headed against the oncoming sand and dust after confirming the direction.

  Lu Li's speed was forced to slow down, and his low visibility forced him to stop frequently to check his direction.

  In this situation, Lu Li's left leg sank into a crust of salt.

  He accidentally found a dry river.

   Lu Li staggered forward along the winding ancient riverbed that guided him. The cloak was pulled behind him, and the gravel crackled against his body.

  These predicaments did not prevent Lu Li from going deep into the desert, but when the wind and sand turned to sandstorms, he had to find a shelter on the riverbed to rest.

  The sky was dyed yellow, the visibility was less than ten meters, and the raging wind passed by.

   This sandstorm lasted longer than expected. When it weakened into the ever-present sandstorm in the desert, night came again.

  Today's dinner is canned food.

  Set up the hanging pot on the fire, Lu Li poured a few cans from the Bright Land into the hanging pot, and waited for it to boil.

  The fire dispelled the chill, and the long and narrow shadow danced behind. The smell of canned meat did not attract any existence in this desert and the weird fog.

  Because he was only on the road this morning, Lu Li, who was not tired, did not feel sleepy.

  The eye rolls from the fingertips, rolls along the dry river bed into the darkness, and hits a boot.

  Lu Li leaned against the warm rocks, listening to the businessman Antony's story about what happened in the Land of Light.

   Claire, who is doing evil everywhere, makes the residents miserable, and the exorcists are also complaining that the crows they cultivated are being led badly by Claire. The unbearable people set up a trap to arrest Claire's alchemy and restore her to adulthood and forbid her to touch the alienation potion.

   Then the eldest sister came.

  The eldest sister who did not know when to form the secret front stole the alienation potion from the alchemy academy and gave it to Claire, and then Claire, who turned into an albino crow, once again wreaked havoc on the Land of Light—

  This time there is an extra big sister.

  The burning fire gradually died down, and the smoke was torn to pieces. The wind that had raged all night turned to a whimper near dawn.

  Lu Li woke up from the still warm sand, shaking the gravel off his body.

the weather is nice today. There is still wind and sand, but the visibility is good and the speed will not be delayed.

  Lu Li rekindled the still warm ashes to prepare breakfast. But as if to stop Lu Li's footsteps, the wind and sand changed again at this moment, whimpering and blowing past.

  Lu Li gave up waiting for the can to boil, fished out the meat that was not yet warm and ate it, shook off the gravel, put on his cloak, and set off in a hurry.

   Lu Li, who continued to move forward, hoped that today's sandstorm would arrive later. As if the expectations were fulfilled, until the afternoon, the wind and sand still maintained the degree of slowing down, and there was even a short period of no wind in the afternoon.

  Then Lu Li saw, with the restored visibility in the distance, behind a tall sand dune on the road ahead, an orange-red sandstorm obscured the sky.

  There are only sand dunes around, and there is no place to hide from sandstorms. Lu Li accelerated his speed and climbed up the sand dunes before the sky turned dark yellow.

  A basin suddenly appeared behind the dunes.

  The basin was once an oasis. Those strange-shaped branches buried in sand and gravel are evidence.

   And when Lu Li climbed over the sand dunes and slid towards the basin, a sandstorm came unexpectedly.

  The gravel slapped his body, causing a tingling pain. Lu Li covered his mouth and nose in the gust of wind that was difficult to distinguish, and barely panted.

   Lu Li, who slid down against the wind, soon felt tired and had no choice but to approach the shadow standing in the sandstorm—a dilapidated wooden door half-hidden in the sand to avoid the wind and sand.

  (end of this chapter)