Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 209 One hundred and twenty four. Clothes, whales, and falling into the water

  The wake swayed at the stern of the wooden boat, blending into the gray mist.

  The unmanned wooden boat drifted forward faintly, Lu Li turned his wrist, and swayed quietly around.

  After the fog shrouded here, the small wooden boat seemed to be completely isolated from the outside world.

   The Nikolai counter made a faint, slow, uninterrupted clack, not rushing, nor disappearing. The source of sanity reduction doesn't seem to be due to what's around, but from the fog.

  There is no sea breeze and no sound of waves. The whole sea area is as calm as a windless lake.

   The psychic gun in the holster was pulled out little by little, and when it left the holster, the psychic gun was retracted into the holster at the moment when it felt that it was escaping outward.

   For a brief moment, Lu Li felt that there was a vague abomination around him, but it was not weird.

   This is good news for Lu Li, who was trapped in the vast sea.

   But he still couldn't understand whether the abnormal fog came from the deep sea or the source of the hurricane.

  Lu Li opened his mouth and bit the flashlight, picked up the oars on both sides, moved gently, and rowed towards the position of the three-masted sailboat in his memory.

  The wood pulp disturbed the calmness of the sea, and ripples swayed in circles into the darkness where the oil lamps could not shine.

  Time passed silently, and after a few minutes, Lu Li stopped shaking the paddle. Back in the water, he stood up from the boat and held up the oil lamp.

   The dim, dim butter lamp illuminates the sea less than five meters around. No sailboats, no crew shouts, no strange ripples.

   The barque was gone.

   There was no sound on the dead, dark sea.

   It is impossible for the sailboat to leave so quickly. Did something happen, or did he deviate from the direction...

   a little—— a little—— a little——

   The continuous sound of the counter on the wrist suddenly shortened the interval between the sounds.

   His black eyes narrowed, Lu Li touched his waist and looked around vigilantly.

   a little—— a little—— a little——

The interval of the    counter was slowly shortening, something was approaching the small wooden boat.

   Something might emerge from the mist on the sea at any time, Lu Li no longer hesitated, and pulled out his psychic gun at this moment.

   A cloud of obscure aura emerged in the perception, not around, but underwater. It's rapidly rising to the surface.

   The flashlight immediately shone towards the sea, and in the dark sea, a shadowy silhouette was circling around the ship.

   It was a light gray tattered dress, which stirred and swam in the water, vaguely forming the outline of a person, as if there was something invisible to the naked eye wearing this dress.

   When the flashlight shone on the strange clothes, the clothes were frightened and rushed to the sea, their sleeves wrapped around the wooden oar on the edge of the boat.

   Lu Li suddenly stretched out his hand to grab the wooden oar, and clenched the psychic gun in the other hand, pointing at the mass of clothing under the water.

   The gunshots did not sound.

   In the perception, suddenly more dark aura emerged from the depths of the seabed, approaching the boat on the sea.

   a little -- a little bit --

   The sound of the counter began to rush.

The power on the other side of the   wood pulp was not strong, he quietly watched the underwater clothes pull the wooden paddle, and suddenly released his palm.

   lost Lu Li's retention, the wood pulp was pulled into the water by the clothes, and another wooden oar behind him was also dragged into the water.

  The group of clothes that emerged from the dark sea floor hovered, and two wooden oars sank into the abyss-like sea floor, disappearing from perception.

   a little -- a little -- a little --

The rhythm of the    counter returned to normal, Lu Li put down his psychic gun and retracted his waist again.

   He ultimately chose not to shoot.

   It's more troublesome for gunshots to attract weirdness than losing oars in the deep sea a hundred nautical miles offshore.

   On the dead sea, the sound of gunfire can easily travel a nautical mile or even further.

   Lu Li sat back in the wooden boat, the bottom of the boat briefly rippled, and then disappeared quickly.

  There is not a slight breeze on the sea surface, it is difficult to follow the current, and a boat without oars cannot go anywhere. Now all he had to do was wait for the fog to clear, for the barque to resurface.

  If it never had an accident and never left.

  The sea around the wooden boat reflects the light and shadow of the boat, the light of the oil lamp spreads on the sea surface, and is twisted and broken due to the insignificant shaking of the wooden boat.

   The brief calm did not last long. After a while, Lu Li found that the surrounding fog was thinning.

   He lifted the oil lamp and found that it was not the illusion of being used to the fog - the fog was receding.

   The clucking sound of the counter became slow, the range illuminated by the oil lamp gradually became clear, the rising sea breeze blew the waves, and the gray mist that enveloped the side dissipated.

  Lu Li held up the oil lamp without making a sound. Outside the small area illuminated by the oil lamp, a vast and rich darkness lingers.

   In the vast deep sea, there is still only a lonely wooden boat.

   At a certain moment, a melodious and desolate dull sound suddenly floated from the sea.

  Lu Li turned to the direction the sound came from. The distant sound seemed to have slowed down several times, the slow sound of a whale.

  The sound of whales in the deep sea drifted into the distance, with pain and heaviness that made people unconsciously sad.

  Lu Li raised the oil lamp to the surface of the sea. Under the deep and dark sea, a thick and huge shadow swam past.

  chi——

   A column of water rose from the sea not far away, and the sea water rose up and scattered like a fountain. Lu Li put on a raincoat and hood, and the next moment the sea fell from the sky and scattered on the wooden boat.

  Some dark viscous black substances are mixed in this falling rain curtain. I don't know what that is, it stinks unbearably.

  Lu Li thought of the news of dead whales on the beach he read in the newspaper a few days ago, and also understood why the whale's voice was full of pain.

  Some of this black substance also fell on the raincoat and was isolated from the skin.

  chi——

   Water mist spewed out of the blowhole again, and the cry of the whale became slower and slower, full of pain.

   A silhouette suddenly appeared on the sea surface, the sea water slid away from both sides, and the whale emerged on the sea surface.

  This whale has long and narrow pectoral fins, and the small area that the oil lamp can illuminate allows Lu Li to distinguish it as a humpback whale.

   It is parasitized with barnacles like eyeballs. But at this time, both the humpback whale's body and the barnacles were covered in a dark, oil-like substance.

  This whale seems to be on the verge of death, it floats weakly on the sea, and a large black mass floats around it.

   Lu Li suddenly realized something, looked underwater, and sure enough, the bottom of the boat was also stained with this kind of thing.

  The whale's life has entered the countdown, and its body begins to turn over uncontrollably, with its abdomen facing the water.

   When Lu Li was thinking of a way to get away from the whale corpse, the mutation protruded!

   The humpback whale, whose belly is facing upwards, the fire of life will be extinguished, suddenly tumbling, and the tumbling of the ten-meter-long behemoth makes the whole waters restless!

  The small wooden boat adjacent to it suffered a disaster. The tail fin next to the wooden boat smashed into the sea water, causing a large sea of ​​water. In the pouring rain, the wooden boat was overturned in an instant, and Lu Li, the backpack and the oil lamp fell into the water together!

   The oil light that fell into the sea flickered a few times, then went out instantly.

   Only the sound of boiling water is left in the entire sea area.

   (end of this chapter)