Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 222

  The existing clues are moving closer to Lu Li's speculation, such as the black shadows on the deck are indeed missing one.

   So if this boat was one of those fishing boats that went missing in a hurricane...why did it look like this.

   Those seafood in the bottom cabin... Those strange figures of fish characteristics, where did they come from.

   Lifting off the veil, Lu Li found that there was a larger veil under the veil.

   But one thing is for sure. These must have an inevitable connection with black matter.

   Even if it's not a direct black hand, it's an indirect cause—

   when - when - when -

   The sudden sound of the bell interrupted Lu Li's thinking. He looked up at the window, remembered that the glass had been covered with black matter, went back to the door and removed the chair, opened the door to the corridor.

   Lu Li couldn't tell the source of the bell. It definitely didn't sound on this sailboat. It seemed to come from somewhere in the surrounding deep sea, and it seemed to come from the void.

   The last time the bell rang was meal time.

  Lili looked at the deck, where the shadows stood, indifferent to the rushing bells echoing above the sailboat.

  Lu Li planned to go back to the cabin temporarily, but when he returned to the upper cabin, he suddenly found that the entrance was blocked by countless vines, and there was a random murmuring from the other side of the vines.

  The cabin and deck are divided into two sides by vines.

   This change made the situation full of uncertainty for a moment, as if what was going to happen on the deck——

  Lu Li took a step, ready to touch the vine to let it open the gap, when suddenly he felt a wet sticky touch under his feet.

  Lu Li lowered his head and found that there was an extra layer of black matter on the board at some point, penetrating upwards. Not just under the feet, but the entire deck appeared. And it continued to rise, flooding the deck.

   This is the culprit of the black substance covering the whole ship.

  Lu Li didn't even want to walk up the stairs, and wanted to go back to the uppermost cabin, when a scene suddenly flashed across his mind.

   In the captain's cabin, the tallest on the entire sailboat, even the ceiling was stained with black matter.

  I couldn’t confirm whether it was related to the scene in front of me, but it explained one thing—it’s useless to hide in a high place in front of black matter.

   Then where to hide?

   The black mass has submerged the ankles, which is high enough to overflow the hull, but the truth is that the black mass continues to rise.

   Lu Li turned his head and looked at the shadows on the deck.

  They stand there...

   Lu Li suddenly ran towards the group of strange standing shadows.

  From thinking to deciding, everything happens in just a few seconds. But even so, the upwelling black mass had washed up to ankle height. Lu Li's strength passed quickly. It was only twenty meters from the front of the cabin to the deck where the shadow stood. He ran for nearly ten seconds, and when his physical strength was almost exhausted, he rushed to the empty space in the shadow.

   As soon as he stepped into the queue, Lu Li's body suddenly relaxed, as if all negative situations were pulled away in an instant.

  Lu Li lowered his head, the black matter was still rising, and his thighs were completely submerged by the black matter, but he had no influence. It's like an invisible film emerges outside the skin, blocking the infection of black matter.

  Lu Li calmed his breath, stood in the queue, and observed the surrounding humanoid shadows with his peripheral vision.

   Their legs seemed to be rooted on the deck, only the upper body swayed with the ups and downs of the sailboat.

  They live...

   Are they standing here to avoid the invasion of black matter...

   The black substance on the deck had spread to his chest. If Lu Li had remained outside, he would have been unable to move at this moment and fell on the deck. As for drowning in black matter, or being transformed into weirdness by black matter... Lu Li doesn't know.

   neck, jaw, mouth and nose, right up to the eyes. The surroundings of Lu Li instantly fell into complete darkness.

   The black eyes were slightly condensed, Lu Li was worried that this darkness would cause him to have a disaster in the night, but as time passed, nothing happened around him.

   The black substance is still "protecting" it to some extent.

   Waiting in the dark became tormented and time became long. Lu Chen kept memorizing the time in his heart. When the number was about to reach 1,000, the black matter began to fall back like an ebb tide.

  His eyes were revealed, then his neck and chest.

   They appear and disappear in the same time as the cafeteria.

   The last black substance sank into the gap of the deck, and the tide receded, leaving a sticky trace that was the same as before, but not the same.

   It seems that the reason for the black matter all over the ship has been found.

   The last black tide was two hours ago, will the next time be two hours later?

   Leaned forward slightly, Lu Li planned to leave the queue and go back to the cabin entrance to observe the situation.

   There were also twenty-four shadows around who did the same.

  Lu Li's movements stopped for an instant, but they didn't. The strange shadows dispersed and walked to various places on the deck.

   It seems that the shadow of the captain walks towards the upper cabin, and the other shadows scattered on the deck are doing strange activities. Or two or three shadows get together, or sit on the deck, or do the act of cleaning the deck, although there is no mop and no bucket.

   They maintain all their actions, but all actions do not make a sound.

   An eerie silent pantomime.

  The missing position is Haben, Haben is a sailor...

  Lu Li was the last to leave, he walked to the cabin, thinking about how he should play a sailor.

   It's not very difficult for him, he just played a maintenance man not long ago, he just needs to do what a sailor needs to do.

  Lu Li pretended to have a mop in his hand, bent over and dragged it closer to the cabin.

As he slowly approached the cabin for a while, Lu Li secretly observed everything on the deck. There is no shadow actively approaching the cabin, and the strange shadows will not approach the deck, as if the ship is divided into two parts.

   Back to the cabin, Lu Li looked inside. The barrier composed of vines has disappeared, and the black marks inside and outside the barrier can be observed with obvious color differences.

  The vines are protecting the ghosts in the lower cabin, just like the last time the bell rang.

   And there are two options waiting for Lu Li: pretend to be a sailor and stay on the deck, and pretend to be a maintenance worker and go back to the cabin.

   Going back to the lower cabin may allow Lu Li to avoid the next black tide, but the inexplicably opened morgue made Lu Li realize that the lower cabin is not as simple as what he experienced. And if there is an accident, it will be difficult for him to escape.

   Staying in the upper cabin can also avoid the black tide through special methods, but the judgment of the shadows is only a speculation built by Lu Li, and Lu Li is not sure whether there will be new changes. But in the event of an accident, Lu Li could try jumping into the sea instead of being trapped to death.

  He had found the lifebuoy hanging on the side of the boat.

   One side is a deck that is weird, but finds the rules of action. On the other side are the cabins where you can move freely but hide the danger.

  Landaway opts to stay on deck.

   On this ship, the danger will not necessarily kill Lu Li, but the general idea will be.

   (end of this chapter)