Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 272

  Lu Li sat behind the desk, frowning tightly.

   Several minutes have passed since the merchant left, and Lu Li has maintained this attitude since then.

   "It's really worth it..." Anna, who was also startled, murmured.

  Dracula portraits are not ghosts, but weird, one of four kinds of weirdness.

   Ghosts are worthless, weirdness is slightly better, but if the weirdness can communicate—

  The merchant offered 400 survey points for this oil painting, plus 5,500 shillings for the deposit, Lu Li had more than enough money to buy a new deep-sea stone.

   The second deep sea stone will be delivered soon.

  The minimum requirement for Liluli is only two deep-sea stones left.

   "So we can raise funds by selling weirdness..." Anna continued to murmur, her eyes glowing. "A lot of weirdness will be born in the rain of weirdness, right!?"

"Um."

  Lu Li looked up and guessed what Anna was thinking.

   This is the way to go, if they can catch the weirdness.

  The postman delivering the newspapers will come a little later, and if no one is at home, he will shove the newspapers under the door. The Crow Messenger will automatically track the investigator's location.

   Now they can go out.

  Lu Li put on his coat and rain boots, put on a black poncho, picked up the oil lamp, and left the detective agency with Anna, who had disappeared.

  The door was closed, and the detective agency returned to peace.

  …

  The cold rain falls, which will not extinguish the liveliness of Belfast in the early morning. Pedestrians on the street were only a little less than usual, either holding umbrellas or wearing raincoats and hurriedly leaving their residences.

   "Are we going to hang out on the streets and try our luck?" Anna's voice sounded in her ears.

  The rain and mist fell on his face, feeling cold to the touch. Lu Li tugged his hood down and said to Anna, who was hiding in the inner world, "Let's go to Elm Street."

   It takes about two hours to walk from Mariner Street to Elm Street.

   is a bit far, but sooner or later they are going there to find a refuge, it is better to drop by now. You can also come back if the elm forest is difficult to access.

  Lu Li wanted to avoid sanity reduction, so this time Anna was the main force, she searched and she solved it.

   It took a few minutes to walk out of the Sailors block, and Anna still hadn't felt those uncomfortable breaths.

  It is worth mentioning that Lu Li has seen several figures of the night watchman, investigators and exorcists in the majestic rain screen. The former usually sits in steam locomotives and wears black uniforms. The latter are usually dressed in black robes, with a mysterious aura, and some have a black crow standing on their shoulders, which is highly recognizable.

The exorcist who stared at Lu Li often noticed the existence of Anna, and focused on the void beside Lu Li, then looked at Lu Li, paused on the three-eyed black crow badge on his chest, and retracted it with various emotions. sight.

   In this rain of mutation that enveloped the entire eastern part of the Ellen Peninsula, Lu Li was not alone in action.

   After walking the second street, Lu Li called for a rental carriage and told the groom that his destination was Elm Street.

   Walking is too slow, and there are many exorcists patrolling nearby. If he wanted to find the weirdness born in the rain, Lu Li had to go further to the edge of the city.

   But until the carriage arrived at Elm Street half an hour later, Anna didn't feel any strange breath, not even the breath of ghosts.

   The problem wasn't with Anna. Lu Li briefly touched the psychic gun and also felt the uncomfortable emptiness around him. Apart from the malicious projections roaming the inner world, he didn't find any breath.

   As if this rain is a rain of purification, not a rain of mutation that brings disaster.

   This is weird.

  The rental carriage slowly went away and disappeared under the rain curtain tens of meters away. Lu Li's eyes fell on the ditch at the edge of the road. The rainwater gathered together and poured down, and the bluestone road was glowing with hazy water.

   This Elm Street on the edge of the city is quiet and there are not many pedestrians on the street. The poor visibility makes it impossible for Lu Li to see the elm forest at the end of the street.

   "Do you still want to move forward?" Anna asked in a low voice.

   "Go ahead, be aware of your surroundings."

   Lu Li said and walked towards the other side of the street.

   Near the middle of Elm Street, Lu Li raised a cordon in front of a single-family house.

  【House of Cannibals】

   This monstrous Elm Street building was featured in the Investigator Weekly on Monday.

   "There is an unpleasant smell in this house..." Anna whispered in her ear.

   "Can you fight?"

   "I don't know...it's not a ghost, I can't detect the intensity."

   "Then forget it."

   Investigators are usually eager for knowledge and new things, so is Lu Li, but he knows how to avoid danger, such as this strange building with unknown strength.

  Lu Li and Anna walked around the [Cannibal House] far away, and just as they were about to move forward, Lu Li suddenly stopped.

"What's wrong?"

  Lu Li looked at the unreal house in the rain screen: "There is a voice calling me."

   As I said before, Lu Li's inspiration is very high. This psychic perception is brought about by the reduced sanity value, the lower his sanity value, the more he can perceive.

   "What did it say?"

   "Call me in, let's go."

  Lu Li turned around, ignoring the call of this strange house, and gradually disappeared into the rain curtain.

After    left the house for a distance, the calling sound disappeared.

   Ten minutes later, Lu Li stood at the end of the street. Further ahead is a muddy dirt road that extends into the woods, turned into mud under the heavy rain.

   "Sure enough, I can't get in..." Anna said a little disappointed.

   After a while, Lu Li returned to the original road and walked to a nearby cafe.

  Squeak-

  The wooden door was pushed open, and the wind and rain poured into the cafe through the open door. After a few seconds, it disappeared as the door closed, and the cafe returned to calm.

   A strange wave reverberated slightly when Lu Li stepped into the cafe, undetected by any existence.

  The transparent window makes the brightness in the cafe not bad, and there is no need to light an oil lamp in this weather.

   Standing behind the door, Lu Li took off his dripping poncho and hung it on a hanger beside him.

   "It's so cold..."

   A faint voice sounded.

  Lu Li ignored him, this kind of auditory hallucinations happened frequently. But when Lu Li stepped on the floor and walked towards the counter, there was another faint voice.

   "His boots got me dirty."

  Lu Li stopped, looked around, there was no one else in the cafe except the middle-aged owner behind the counter.

   "Did you hear that?" Lu Li tilted his head and whispered.

   "Hear what?"

  Lu Li didn't say anything, walked to the counter and sat down.

   "Hi... he's really heavy." A strange complaint came from the chair under him.

   "Hello, what do you want?" the middle-aged boss asked kindly.

  Lu Li ignored the boss's greeting for a while, and said to Anna, "Listen."

   His fingernails ran across the counter top.

   "My face ah ah ah-"

   A miserable scream sounded from the table.

   (end of this chapter)