Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 206 One hundred and twenty one. The eve of departure

"I also need to go!"

   Feeling faintly aware that Lu Li might not bring her, Anna grabbed the backpack that Lu Li was sorting out, hid behind her and shouted.

"no."

   Lu Li ignored the backpack that Anna took away, walked to the bedroom, and took out a set of clean clothes from the cupboard.

   "Why! I'm already very good!" Anna always faced Lu Li who was moving, watching him walk out of the bedroom to the desk, and said unwillingly.

   Putting the clothes in his hand on the desk, Lu Li stretched out his palm to Anna and looked calmly: "If you lose your way, you will never be able to find it again."

   "I'll just follow you." Anna lowered her head and stared at Lu Li's hand in front of her. Suddenly, she also stretched out her white and transparent palm, holding the slender palm that she couldn't feel the temperature of.

  “…”

  Lu Li looked at Anna quietly for a while, until she dodged shyly and stretched out another palm.

   Anna hid it behind her without even thinking about it, stretched out her left hand holding the backpack, and held Lu Li.

The    backpack floated behind her, held up by Psychic.

  Anna raised her head, her clear eyes couldn't hide her pride.

   But in the next second, smug was replaced by panic. Lu Li, who was holding Anna's hands, suddenly exerted force, and threw the light and weightless Anna to the empty living room behind him.

  Anna, who was floating in the air, stabilized her figure, didn't care to organize her messy hair, rushed to Lu Li's back in shame, shouting "I'll fight with you!", and jumped on Lu Li's back to cover his eyes.

  Anna knew that she had no weight, so she used her ability to pull herself, which made Lu Li stand unsteady and sway from side to side.

   "Pfft...Pfft hey hey hey hey..."

  Anna let out a burst of gleeful laughter, and suddenly found that Lu Li was silent, and the laughter stopped abruptly.

   Anna, who couldn't see Lu Li's expression, thought he was angry, and honestly climbed down from Lu Li's back, daring not to speak, and secretly observed Lu Li's profile.

   Lu Li's calm has not changed, he resumed his movements, picked up the backpack that fell on the ground because of Anna's play, put it back on the desk, and put the clothes inside.

  Anna was very unwilling and pursed her lips and muttered, "So why won't you take me there..."

   "As I said, the sea is dangerous."

   "Then you are not in danger?"

   "It's better to be dangerous with one person than with two. And your abilities have little effect at sea."

   "How come! If you accidentally fall into the sea, I can pull you out!"

   "How long can you hold me?"

  Anna was speechless, quietly watching Lu Li put various things into her backpack.

  Bitterness breeds in Anna's heart. She is like an abandoned puppy on the street. She wailed pitifully and helplessly: "Why do you all leave me...you too, so does my mother..."

"I do not have."

  Lu Li didn't look back, put the separately packed kerosene lamp and lamp oil on the top layer of the backpack.

   "You all said so..." Anna pouted and whispered.

  Whoa——

  The zipper of the backpack was fastened, and Lu Li turned his head and said, "I won't leave for too long, no accident, I'll be back tomorrow morning."

   Although Lu Li couldn't feel Anna's strong dependence, he could understand it. An eighteen-year-old girl died of an infectious disease. She became a ghost, but her family was gone, and her closest mother also died of grief when she died. Anna, who has become a ghost, is alone in this world.

   Then Lu Li stretched out his hand.

   "Huh?" All of Anna's negative emotions suddenly froze. She stared at Lu Li blankly, with water mist in her eyes: "Wait for just one day?"

   "120 nautical miles, come back after the exploration, how long do you think it will take?" Lu Li asked back.

   "Um...I, I, I thought it was a day too!" Anna stumbled, her blushing cheeks explained some problems.

   Picked up his backpack, Lu Li looked around to make sure he didn't forget, then turned and walked towards the door.

   "I'll make you your favorite food when you come back!"

  Anna suddenly gathered up her courage and shouted.

  Lu Li walked to the back of the door and paused, picked up the umbrella by the door and opened the door.

  .

  The door closed, and the detective agency returned to silence.

  The expression on Anna's cheeks became lonely at a speed visible to the naked eye.

  …

   Overcast and rainy days did not dampen much of the hustle and bustle on the port.

   Sweat and the smell of fish permeated the slippery pier boards in the port, and the workers who came and went, shirtless and covered in sweat, carried the cargo on the cargo ship.

  At another pier several hundred meters apart, a tall cruise ship with white paint was docked at the port. First-class aristocratic gentlemen dressed in decent dresses held the hand of their female companions and gracefully walked down the gangway.

   I heard that this ship came from the kingdom of Ellen.

  Tesla leaned on a cane, stood beside Lu Li, and introduced the two people in front of him: "This is Captain Harvey and First Officer Louis."

   "Hurry up and remove the things on the ship! The guests on the Air over there will be unloading here after they get off!"

   An overseer shouted and trotted past them.

   "It's a pleasure to serve you, sir." Captain Harvey took off his cap, buckled it on his chest, and saluted.

   He clearly knew the identities of Lu Li and Tesla.

   The dark-skinned Louis stood upright, like a guard.

   "Talking while walking." Tesla pointed ahead with his cane and walked to the bustling pier. "Tell me about the specific situation."

   "Louis, you tell the two gentlemen."

Louis, who was as straight as a mast, said beside the three: "All the sundries and artillery have been removed, except for the whaling gun and the basic crew. This weight will allow us to reach ten knots. It is dark now for departure. Disc Reef could be reached before."

  Tesla nodded and turned to look at Lu Li: "Are you seasick?"

   "If there is no wind and waves."

   While talking, they came to the place where the sailboat was docked.

   It was a sailboat nearly 60 meters long. The heavily faded hull made it look a few years old.

   "Old guys are the most reliable." Captain Harvey grinned and said a proverb among sailors. "When are we leaving?"

   "Do you have a pen and paper?"

   Lu Li's reply was irrelevant.

  …

  Anna sat alone on the sofa, the detective agency in front of her was the same as usual, no different from usual.

   But she just felt something was missing.

   bored his head and looked out the window. Suddenly Anna saw something, and sat up excitedly, turning around and lying in front of the windowsill—

   An emerald green shoot emerges from the moist soil of the pot.

  …

   In the captain's room, after Lu Li wrote the last paragraph, he folded the paper and stuffed it into the envelope.

   "If I don't come back in three days, ask someone to send this letter to the detective agency."

  Tesla hesitated, but said nothing, smiled and put away Lu Li's envelope, and walked off the sailboat accompanied by Lu Li and the captain.

   "So smooth sailing."

  Standing on the dock, Tesla took off his hat and waved to Lu Li on the deck.

   "Sail!"

  Louis waved the pennant, and the sails were raised one after another.

The    barque gradually moved away from the port of Rodster, and turned into an insignificant trace in the leaden sea.

   (end of this chapter)