Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 259

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The three paragraphs of    Bottomless Abyss become coherent.

   Lu Li, who came here two months later, knew the final whereabouts of Detective Nightingale, and the word "death" in brackets after her name was very eye-catching. I also know why the bottomless abyss, which was tentatively scheduled as an ordinary event, became difficult, and then changed from difficulty to nightmare.

The    bottomless abyss incident tells Lu Li that even investigators are walking on thin ice in the face of the weirdness of this world. No matter how cautious and firm they are, they are only fragile flesh and blood.

   After reading the rest of the three weekly reports, Lu Li did not forget his purpose. He compared the difference between the four months - the weirdness was indeed increasing significantly.

   Remote and deserted villages far from populated areas are disappearing fast, as if they never existed.

  The wild gradually became unwelcome to humans.

   In addition, Lu Li paid attention to the layout of the investigator's weekly report. Usually newspapers are divided into three sections, news, new events, and strange events. The apocalypse forecast is not included in the section because of too little space.

   If you want to earn royalties, Lu Li has to start with these three sections.

   Put away the newspaper, Lu Li looked out of the car. The bumps for half an hour had brought them close to the foot of the mountain, and several carriages were slowly advancing tens of meters ahead.

  As the most prosperous and well-known commercial port city on the Ellen Peninsula, the public security in Belfast and its surroundings is relatively stable.

   This is also the lowest line of Luli.

   If one day there was a mass death or weird flooding in Belfast, he would be ready to leave and move to a shelter.

   turned off the oil lamp, the interior of the car became dark, and Anna, who felt the change of light, turned her head: "Have you read it?"

"Um."

   Lu Li moved out of the carriage, ready to take the reins.

   "Come on, no one can see it's raining anyway." Anna didn't plan to lose her job as a temporary groom, she wanted to do something for Lu Li, no matter how insignificant.

"it is good."

   Lu Li, who never knew what was polite, nodded and went back to the carriage to sit down.

   The carriage bumped slightly, and Lu Li, who was under a blanket, closed his eyes and took a short rest.

   Hurrying on the road is boring, there is no way to pass the time, Lu Li can only doze in the swaying carriage and wait for the time to pass.

   In the intermittent sleep that I woke up every once in a while, at a certain moment, the carriage below me suddenly stopped shaking, and the slightly noisy rut rolling sound disappeared.

   In the sudden silence, Lu Li opened his eyes, and after a short period of time, he looked towards the front of the carriage.

  Anna shrank behind the curtain of the car, revealing only half of her cheeks. Lu Li looked out through the translucent back of her illusory head. A line of cars was blocking the front, and the edge of the building revealed the outline of the building.

"We have arrived?"

   "Yeah." Anna's tone was strange, with sentimentality and nostalgia: "Shimfast... the city where I grew up."

   Lu Li stretched out his hand to lift the curtain of the car, and the light squeezed into the car to dispel the darkness. Lu Li completely saw a city standing on the plain in front of him.

   Belfast has no walls, neither does Shymfast, and all the cities of the Allen Peninsula have no walls. Not only was it time-consuming, laborious and expensive to build the city wall, MacDonald I waved his hand and decided to remove the city wall, but also because the situation on the mainland had stabilized when the Allen Peninsula was colonized and developed, and the endless weirdness forced mankind to unite. Although gaps and contradictions still exist, everything is only a small scale.

   "Do you still know the way?"

   asked Lu Li. Shymfast on the Ellen Peninsula map is just a city icon and a line of text.

   "Of course... I used to walk every street in the city with my mother, and I can still remember them... if it hadn't changed."

  Anna had not been away from Shymfast for too long, and her sadness at this time was more like a sigh of right and wrong.

   "I'll drive next, you tell me the route." A distraught, flat voice came from behind.

  Lu Li's voice is neither warm nor sunny, which makes people think that if one day those big iron blocks made of what is called scientific industry speak, it must be the same as this guy's tone.

   But Anna felt that the voice reassured her, like a mother's soft humming after nightfall.

"Oh."

   Ana, who had recovered her mood, replied obediently, put down the reins and slipped back into the carriage.

  Lu Li lowered his head and got out of the carriage, picking up the reins. But he didn't need to do anything, the old horse who was pulling the carriage knew to move forward slowly with the convoy.

   It takes a few minutes for the carriage to enter the city. Compared with Belfast's relatively practical buildings, the buildings here are more beautiful. The towering top of the Gothic building seems to pierce the dense clouds. In the middle of each intersection, without exception, stands an exquisite stone sculpture.

  Shimfast's city symbol, a 34-meter-high clock tower rang, and the 98-year-old building wafted over the whole city. The bell rang four times, and Anna told Lu Li that it meant four o'clock in the afternoon.

  The sky will not be dark until six o'clock, and they still have plenty of time to find the treasure.

Driving the carriage in the direction Anna pointed, Lu Li observed the shops on both sides of the wide street at the same time. There are more galleries or sculpture museums than Lu Li imagined. There are one or two in almost every street, and there are oil paintings of different styles in the window. or sculpture.

   The Benjamin who took over Mrs. Anne's art gallery was the right choice to move from Shymfast.

   "The city is no longer prosperous, and weirdness and disaster make people not want to appreciate real art."

  Anna's whispered voice suddenly sounded behind her, which obviously did not fit her character.

Before Lu Li turned around, Anna continued to recite: "The falsehood is hung high and praised, while the truth is ignored, and the treasures are dusted. I will no longer keep these portraits that were once treasured by me. Each oil painting is only sold for 50 yuan. shilling……"

   Followed Anna's gaze, she was reading the content written on the roadside stall, and there were dozens of portraits and a cynical-looking old man next to her.

   "Is the thing real?" Lu Li asked.

   "Fake, Shymfast's unique trick, designed to deceive those who come here for the first time."

   Anna raised a smile on the corner of her mouth.

   "But the paintings are really painted. There is an art gallery in front of Wallland Street. The apprentices there are only 6 shillings per painting. If you are an acquaintance, you can buy it for 4 shillings."

  Like Belfast's colorful shells, which are always popular with outsiders, and think a shell is cheap for a shilling - but you can pick up a full basket by the sea in an hour.

   "I think the capital of art is a place where everyone has artistic cultivation."

   "How is that possible." Anna smiled and poked Lu Li's back lightly with her fingers. "Simfast also has thieves and thugs, it's just that there are more artisans here, just as Belfast has more fishermen."

   (end of this chapter)