Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 219 One Hundred Thirty Four. Youth

  The light black light of the oil lamp beside the door shone into the secret door. There were countless rusted iron shelves in this cabin, and a desk and seat were placed behind the door.

  This cabin has apparently been left unattended for a long time, and the black substance secreted on the ground is like the surface of a swamp, that is, it has not dried up, and there are no messy footprints.

  Lu Li's eyes swept across the empty iron frame, towards the desk behind the door.

   A line of footprints extended from the doorway.

   crunch——

The    drawer was pulled open, and there was nothing inside.

   A key cannot open a door that has nothing.

   Following the idea of ​​solving the puzzle in the secret room, Lu Li looked away, swept across the dark corner of the cabin, and landed on the hanger behind the door.

   A hat hangs on a hanger.

   went around the desk to the hanger, Lu Li raised his hand and took off his hat. What was supposed to be a light gray exterior was clinging to the ubiquitous black substance, making it black.

   This hat appears to be the only prop in this cabin.

  Lu Li wrote down the hangers and chairs that might also be useful, and left the brass key room.

   There is no other way out of this corridor, the remaining doors are locked without exception, there are no strange figures, and the brass keys cannot be opened.

   Only the door at the end of the corridor can be opened, revealing a narrow staircase leading down.

  Lu Li saw vines climbing on the wall deep in the stairs, and the vertical pupil eyes on the vines. After watching silently for a while, Lu Li closed the door and did not step behind the door leading to nowhere.

   Back in the previous corridor, by the door of the maintenance worker's cabin, the heads that peeked out shrank back in fright.

   Lu Li walked past the door, and there were still a few pairs of eyes secretly watching the crack of the open door.

   "Grumble!"

   There was a muttering sound from behind the door, and a thin arm stretched out, pointing at the hat Lu Li was holding in his hand.

   The other maintenance worker phantoms also saw the hat in Lu Li's hand, and made a loud murmur.

   "Gollum! Gollum! Gollum!"

   The door of the room opened, and the monsters of maintenance workers gathered behind the door, looking at the hat with a look of longing.

  Lu Li stopped and handed his hat to them thoughtfully.

   "Guru..."

   The maintenance worker phantoms looked at each other, and a phantom was pushed out. It shrunk its neck and stretched its thin arms as far as possible to get the hat that Lu Li handed over.

   "Gollum! Gollum!"

   The phantoms behind the maintenance workers let out an exclamation, surrounded by phantoms with hats.

   With loud, high-pitched mumbles, hats were passed to each other and put on their heads. And every maintenance worker monster wearing a hat would jump and jump for joy.

   They were happy for a while, and when it was passed to the head of a maintenance worker phantom, its mood suddenly became low.

   "Grumble..." It mumbled, pointing to the hat.

   "Grumble rumble..."

   Or because of what it said, the emotions were infected, and the maintenance workers who were cheering were quiet, their eyes looking at the hat seemed to have some regret for missing something.

hat……

   Realizing something, Lu Li briefly left the maintenance worker's cabin. A minute later he came back with a lock of hair in his hand.

   This is the only hat-related prop he has.

   "Guru..."

  The maintenance worker phantom carefully took the hair from Lu Li's hands. This seemed to be what they wanted. They stuffed the hair into their hats and put them on their heads——

  Hair fell from his forehead, covering half of his face.

   "Grumble!"

The    monsters became excited again, and scrambled to grab the hats and put them on their heads.

During the    period, several maintenance worker phantoms ran out of the room with tools, and soon appeared in the corridor with their companions.

   They go and call out the other mechanic phantoms.

   They didn't forget Lu Li, who was still standing outside the door. They whispered to each other for a while. One of the maintenance workers went back to the room and took out an item from the dark compartment under the movable wooden board.

   It was a bottle of clean water, there was no black substance on the surface of the bottle, and it seemed to be wiped frequently.

  Water can be used for drinking and also for washing.

  Lu Li accepted the exchange, took the water bottle and left.

   On the way back to the mortuary, Lu Li saw more ghosts of maintenance workers running back, including the ghosts kneeling on the floor and knocking rivets to work. The hat with hair was like a holy relic to them.

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   closed the door of the morgue, Lu Li swept past the still calm morgue door, and held up the water bottle.

   A heavy-bottomed glass wine bottle with a torn off label, square body, easy to box without rolling around on a rickety boat.

  Lu Li unscrewed the bottle cap, looked through the bottle mouth for a while, and put it on the tip of his nose. There is no weird smell or any smell in the bottle, but it seems to have a fresh breath.

   is indeed water.

  Lu Li untied the cloth on his palm, poured some on his hand, and washed away the black substance at the cut position on his palm. The dried black mass was washed down, revealing a clean wound, free of swelling and mucus, and no infection.

  Lu Li rubbed his wet palm around his eyes and wiped off the black substance around his eyes.

   Speaking of which, the illusion has not appeared for a long time, is it related to the weirdness here?

   But when Lu Li opened his eyes again, the whole body was covered with boundless darkness.

   As the black matter was wiped away, his ability to peculiarly discern black also disappeared.

  Is this kind of thing that can make me see things...

  Lu whispered in the centrifuge, and suddenly his heart tensed as if being grasped by a big hand.

   The breath he exhaled hit something, and it bounced back with a cold and fishy smell. Something in the dark peeped at him, and murmurs echoed through the dark, lightless morgue.

   The curse of Night Calamity fell upon him again.

   also appeared together with the illusion caused by the reduction of Sanity.

   His body stiffened for a moment, and Lu Li immediately raised his arm and rubbed the black substance on his eyelids.

   The whispers and the cold fishy aura suddenly disappeared, Lu Li opened his eyes, his vision returned to normal, and the surroundings turned black with layers.

   It was this strange black substance that prevented Lu Li from being attacked by strange shadows, and at the same time not attacked by darkness and hallucinations.

   Lu Li screwed up the remaining water bottles and put them in the morgue next to the door.

  Water is not used like this, at least not now.

   Put away the water bottle, and Lu Li left the cabin again.

   He still has a pair of shoes to exchange.

   Returning to the corridor, Lu Li saw a strange figure in the corridor, and the seven or eight tentacles extending from its lower body were very recognizable.

   A whimper was blown by the sea breeze. Lu Li approached the octopus monster and saw that it was holding a tentacle, and a rivet was protruding from the floor in front of him.

  Lu Li recalled the ghostly figure of the maintenance worker who hurried away.

   Lu Li's idea of ​​trading shoes was rejected by the octopus monster, but maybe now he can...

   (end of this chapter)