Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 19 Nineteen. The surging darkness in the deep sea

  If possible, Lu Li would prefer a quick decision.

   But Lu Li couldn't, he didn't know if the sculpture was a ghost or what. The side effects of using the psychic gun are too great, which is equivalent to an irreversible progress bar. Every time you hold it, the progress bar will move forward by one space.

The result of    abuse is that Lu Li is pulled closer to the evil spirit space.

   So as Haders said, "talk" to the ghost. Ghosts have no tendency to attack, and Lu Li will not take the initiative to attack ghosts.

  dong dong dong—

   Dong Dong Dong!

   There was a sudden and powerful knock at the door.

   Lu Li, who was sitting behind the table, looked sideways and listened quietly.

  dong dong dong—

   Dong Dong Dong!

   The knock on the door echoed in the empty and lonely gallery corridor.

   "Who is it?" Lu Li asked outside the door, in a normal tone as if he was asking a resident who was knocking on the door.

   After waiting for a long time, there was no answer outside the door.

   The strangeness is growing in the silence.

  Lu Li looked around to make sure that nothing strange appeared, and raised his legs to the door.

  dong dong dong—

   Dong Dong Dong!

  The door moved agitatedly again, and Lu Li could clearly see the trembling and falling ashes of the door.

The moment the knock on the door disappeared, Lu Li walked to the door. He put his hand on the doorknob and yanked it open—

   lost the block, the light from the oil lamp on the table poked out a small piece, and a silhouette standing at the door appeared in the dim light.

The    sculpture came back, or didn't go at all. It raised one arm in a knocking position.

   Lu Li was silent for a few seconds, then turned sideways to clear a passage.

The    sculpture remains untouched.

  Lu Li remembered, it wouldn't move when it was watched. So he picked up the sculpture outside the door, carried it back to the gallery, turned around and closed the door.

   After closing the door for a brief moment, Lu Li observed that there was something growing in the gray fog on the outside street.

   Maybe those are the reasons for the Belfast legend of staying in the light after dark?

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   With the door closed, everything was blocked out, and silence re-occupied the surroundings.

  Lu Li walked around the sight for a short while and left the sculpture with new changes, picked up the oil lamp, and walked towards the depths of the gallery.

  He is going to the second floor of the gallery to investigate something.

  The oil paintings hanging on the wall are mostly figure paintings, and there is a strangeness everywhere. Lu Li, who was carrying an oil lamp, walked by, the portraits seemed to come to life, his eyes followed Lu Li, and when Lu Li's eyes fell, everything returned to normal.

  Sculptures follow behind.

   The constant movement behind him made Lu Li look less lonely.

   After passing by the empty sculpture base, and by the girl's oil painting that remained unchanged, Lu Li came to the end, and a staircase appeared in front of him.

  The stairs extend upwards for a section, but not straight to the second floor. There is a corner five or six meters away and continue to extend upwards.

  It is worth noting that there is an oil painting of a European medieval figure on the wall facing the front.

  Lu Li stepped up the stairs and inevitably approached the medieval oil painting on the wall. It was larger than expected. The bust in the painting was dressed in retro clothes, and the proportions of the body were no different from reality. When viewed up close, the eerie feel is uncomfortable.

   It was not in the supernatural phenomenon pointed out by the envelope. Lu Li ignored the oil painting and went upstairs.

   Behind suddenly darkened, a pair of eyes in the oil painting slowly turned to Lu Li.

Da da-

  Empty and lonely dark corridor, the sound of footsteps echoed slowly, burrowing into the darkness.

  The floating dust walked under the light of the oil lamp, and Lu Li walked past, rolling small vortexes.

  Lu Li casually opened a door closest to the stairs. The office-like arrangement made Lu Li realize that this was Benjamin's room.

   excludes the possibility that Benjamin trusts his employees so much that there is no money or valuables in the office.

  Lu Li walked into the office, closed the door with his backhand, and didn't lock it after thinking about it.

   Glancing at the bookshelf, Lu Li came to the desk and picked up a staff brochure that was casually placed on the table.

  The above records the employees who work here, including the past.

   Athena Leslie

  Claire Joyce

   Vera Griffin

  Dave Garcia

  Smith Duncan

  Chaplin George

  James Campbell

  Dewey Raphael

  Powell Taylor

  Edie Bell

  Joan Joyce

  Leona Murphy

   The names of the two female employees who became ghosts may be among them.

  Squeak-

   There was a slight door opening, and Lu Li, who flipped through the employee manual, noticed something, raised his head, and a figure appeared outside the door.

   Ruo Ruo Li chased after the sculpture behind him.

   Ignoring it for now, Lu Li turned to the last page of the employee handbook, wrote down the dozens of names that appeared in the handbook, put the handbook back on the table, and picked up another booklet to read.

The    above records the daily visitor volume of the gallery, which basically fluctuates between dozens and one hundred per day.

   Quietly flipping through for a moment, Lu Li suddenly remembered something and looked up.

The    sculpture walked into the door.

   Looking back, Lu Li sat down behind the desk, picked up the booklet, and started reading again.

   A few seconds later, the booklet slid down, revealing a pair of deep black eyes.

   The corner where those eyes were looking, the sculpture was motionless, but it was closer than before.

   flipped through the booklets on the desk again, and confirmed that there could be no clues here, Lu Li retreated to the door, and flipped the lock behind the door.

  The office door slowly closed.

  Click.

With a small sound   , the office door was locked from the inside.

  Lu Li stepped back, turned around and walked towards the corridor, ready to go to another room.

Da da-

  The sound of footsteps echoed in the empty corridor.

  da-da-click-da-

   A faint sound was mixed with the footsteps.

  Lu Li took a pause and turned to the direction of the sound.

   Not far from the office door, the door opened a gap. An expressionless, stiff face poked out from behind the door, looking towards this side faintly.

   when - when - when -

  The lingering sound of a bell from nowhere cut through the deep and quiet night and echoed in the air.

   Lu Li in the corridor paused, looked out the window on the other side, his eyes narrowed.

  The street stretches to the coastline, at the end of the crescent-shaped bay, the lighthouse in the reef lights up with a clearly visible beam, searching for the deep sea.

  Suddenly, a darkness as if in reality spread from the depths of the sea to the harbor.

  The bell rang five times in total and gradually subsided. But the aftertaste it brings lasts, like the surrounding houses.

   The light in the windows of the room became brighter, it seemed that the residents had added new lighting, and there were faint sounds of panic and crying.

   Aware that something was wrong, Lu Li temporarily stopped exploring, backed all the way, and returned to the office door.

   He carried the sculpture that was blocking the door into the room, Lu Li followed him in, and locked the door with a click.

   Light the candlestick on the wall and the oil lamp on the table. The two new light sources make the office no longer dim and brighter, making people feel more secure.

   Sitting down behind the desk, Lu Li quietly waited for the indescribable and indescribable darkness that appeared from the deep sea.

   (end of this chapter)