Bizarre Detective Agency

  Chapter 201 One Hundred Sixteen. Followed

   Another night has come.

  Since he realized that his true sanity was difficult to recover, Lu Li no longer used the method of briefly touching the psychic gun to sense the surroundings to check his surroundings.

   Use a little less Sanity.

  Anna took over this reconnaissance job, and although it was of little use, it was better than nothing.

   The curtains in the kitchen and living room were drawn one after another, leaving only the dim yellow light of the oil lamps in the living room and bedroom in the detective agency.

  Anna was lying on the bed holding the book, reading with relish. Reading in low light is bad for the eyes - except for ghosts.

   9:30pm, close to bedtime. Anna heard the sound of Lu Li going out. She came back a few minutes later, took off her coat and walked into the kitchen to wash. The sound of water flow stopped for a while, the footsteps came to the living room, and then the sofa leather made a rubbing sound and the clothes rustled.

  Lu Li was lying on the sofa, covered with a woolen coat, with his arms on his forehead, so that his eyes were hidden in the shadows and could not be seen.

  tick-tick-tick-

   In the silence, the sound of the alarm clock walking on the desk was faint. Occasionally, a strange cry from out of nowhere rang out from the window.

   In the space under the sofa, the malicious pus-yellow compound eyes flashed away. In the corridor outside the door of the detective agency, sharp claws covered with scales quietly entered under the door.

   "Good night." Anna said to the outside where there was no more sound.

no answer.

  Silence flows in the room.

  …

   July 11th, 5:00 sharp.

   The gloomy sky that gradually brightened over the sea dispelled the darkness of the night.

   Along with the horizon, there was the slight noise of the neighbor next door getting up.

   Anna, who had been reading the book all night, moved her ears and looked up at the living room. The sound of a neighbor opening the door could be heard in the hallway outside. Early in the morning, the residents woke up one after another to prepare to cook on the fire.

  chi——

  If there is a sound of cooking vegetables coming from outside the corridor, this kind of life atmosphere is exactly what Anna yearns for. She listened quietly for a while before she remembered something. She buckled the book, turned over, jumped out of bed, stumbled a bit, and ran to the living room with bare feet without making a sound.

  Lu Li lay on the sofa, closed his eyes and breathed slowly, yet he didn't wake up.

   Confirming that Lu Li was still sleeping, Anna crept off the two oil lamps as usual, then approached the sofa and leaned over to draw the curtains.

  Whoa——

   The sound of the curtains being drawn horizontally was a little loud. Anna peeked at Lu Li on the sofa below, and when she saw that the eyes were open, she kept on pulling the curtains slowly, pretending not to know anything.

  Ten seconds passed, twenty seconds passed, thirty seconds passed...

  Anna seems to be different from the surrounding time, and draws the curtains little by little by centimeters.

   "I'm going to get up."

   After waiting quietly for a minute, Lu left the mouth and said.

   "Huh? Oh..."

   With a strange shyness and loss on her face, Anna opened the rest of the curtains and slowly left above the sofa.

  Lu Li sat up, took off his coat, put on his shoes and opened the door.

   The noise in the corridor suddenly intensified. The sound of cooking vegetables and the loud voice of the child briefly entered the detective agency, and was blocked by the closed door. After a while, Lu Li came back, walked into the kitchen to wash up, went back to the desk and sat down.

   He saw the book buttoned by the bed in the bedroom, and asked Anna, who was lying on the sofa, watering the flowers in the flowerpot on the windowsill: "Have you still not slept all night?"

   "It's very dangerous at night now, and you're resting again. To protect you, of course I have to stay awake at night." Anna just had to write "Hurry up and praise me" on her face.

  Lu Li nodded, but there was no follow-up response as expected.

  Anna, who was used to it, didn't care either and continued to water the flowerpot.

   A tulip flower left by Lu Li had already withered and withered. Anna was sad for a while, and then focused all her energy on the flower pot.

   Even in order to allow something to grow inside, Anna asked Lu Li to buy various seeds, including but not limited to weeds, flowers, tree seeds, and vegetables.

  Although not a single leaf sprout has emerged from the soil until now.

   The scene of the beautiful girl watering the flowers quietly in front of the window is so beautiful, passers-by can't help smiling when they see it. The reflection on the glass makes it difficult for them to see the transparent figure of the girl behind the window.

  Suddenly, a black shadow flew from the sky and crashed into the window. Anna was so frightened that she fell back and screamed.

  Lu Li raised his black eyes and saw Anna pointing out the window with a startled expression: "There's a crow!"

  …

  Kacha——

  The dusty window was opened by Lu Li, and the dust between the cracks was blown into the detective agency by the cold wind and rain outside, along with the crow that jumped into the windowsill.

  The dust blowing in front of her made Anna squinted her eyes subconsciously.

  Lu Li closed the window again, and the detective agency calmed down.

   This crow was as black as coal, except for the claws that clawed at the edge of the potted plant, which was dark brown. There was a layer of oil on the feathers covered with morning dew and rain, and a letterbox was tied to his legs.

   Investigator's partner, Crow.

   Lu Li stretched out his hand, but the crow did not dodge, allowing Lu Li to take out the small note rolled up in the letterbox.

  【About the strange appearance of the real library in the Belfast area has been identified】

  [The strangeness that appeared in the real library on July 10th was a new type of evil spirit that has not yet been discovered. It had already left when the exorcist went to dispose of it. At the same time, strange traces were found in the real library, confirming its existence. 】

  【This information has been recorded. Lu Li, as the discoverer of this anomaly, you will receive an internal reward of 'contribution*50' from the investigator organization. You can choose to send the specific information of this contact to the investigator organization through the investigator base or the Black Crow. The member organization will give you corresponding contribution rewards based on the information. 】

   The investigator's department's handling was unexpectedly quick.

   "Wait for me." Lu Li closed the note, said to the crow, turned to the desk, and tore the page from the notebook.

   He intends to hand over the information he knows to the investigator as suggested in the letter.

  Anna didn't leave the window, she stared at the black crow without blinking, tilted her head slightly to the desk and whispered, "Lu Lili~ What do crows eat?"

   "Omnivorous creatures, crows that people eat can eat."

  Lu Li didn't lift his head to speak.

   "Where's the bread?"

"Can."

  Anna sneaked into the kitchen excitedly, took out the bread left over from last night, broke off a small piece, held it in the palm of her hand, and flinched towards the crow.

  Anna looks so cute that she is eager to touch, and she is afraid of being pecked by crows.

  The black crow standing on the edge of the flowerpot turned his head, his throat wriggled, and his black eyes looked at Anna.

  Anna stopped moving, and finally failed to overcome her fear of being pecked, and put the crumbs on the table next to her.

   The crow tilted its head and looked at it for a while, then jumped from the flower pot to the back of the sofa, leaving wet paw prints and jumping onto the dining table, bowing its head and pecking at the crumbs, and devoured them separately.

"Oh--"

  Anna's eyes sparkled.

   (end of this chapter)