Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 277 One hundred and ninety-two. Everyone who was infected

  Contaminants are also called sources of infection, and source of infection is a more advanced term—it means hard to spot, hard to detect, and hard to fight against.

   Like ghosts and ghosts, which are often collectively referred to as ghosts, pollutants and sources of infection are collectively referred to as pollutants, and are subdivided only when needed.

  Contamination usually has a source, it may be an object, a corpse, a book, a piece of text, and the infection methods are also different, it may be infected after contact, infection after reading, and infection after seeing.

   The forbidden ability and content of pollutants will distort all beings infected by it, whether it is mind or body. This infection generally has the negative effect of reducing Sanity.

   Such fluctuations will be caught and alerted by the pollutant detector, which is a common method used by exorcists to detect pollutants.

   But there are still some pollutants that do not cause any fluctuations. They are like mice at the bottom of a cargo ship, following the ship to the shore, and sneaking into the gathering place of human beings silently, no one can detect it.

Exorcists don't have a good way of dealing with such pollutants, and they tend to be treated like this: a group of people in a certain area is crazy/dead/sick - suspect transmission of pollutants - dispatch investigators to investigate - investigate Staff gone mad/dead/sick - can confirm contamination is spreading in the area - the Night's Watch steps in to solve the problem.

   Fortunately, there are not too many contaminants, and their infection rate is limited. For example, the infection is a book, and only those who read it will be distorted by the content, which means that the infection will only spread in a limited range.

   But there are also extremely terrifying pollutants, or sources of infection.

   They are like diseases, even more desperate and frightening than diseases. Maybe if you get close to it and see it, you will be infected by it, and other people who get close to and see the person infected by it will also be infected.

   For example, the "door" on Lu Li's body.

  Price finished telling the secrets about pollutants, quietly watched Lu Li and lowered his head to think. But after waiting for a while, he saw that Lu Li turned his head and paid attention to the group of ordinary people in the innermost part of the shop.

   After Lu Li and the others came back, they were silent for a while, but now they are back to normal, talking in a low voice. Except for one child and two women who didn't chime in, the others seemed to be on good terms.

  Price observed the expressions of those people and Lu Li, and suddenly saw Lu Li pick up a pen and paper from the table and write Petra's name on it, suffixed with the number 1.

   On the next line he wrote the cafe owner and the number 2 and the number 3 at 3 Elm Street.

   The remaining four were written by Lu Li on the last line.

   Waiting for Lu Li to stop writing, Pulis looked away from the paper and asked, "You seem to have an idea."

   "There are some thoughts." Lu Li put on the cap and stroked Petra's name with the pen: "The Petra incident is the first, at least the first in this city, and it can be regarded as the source."

The pen slipped and landed on the name of the cafe owner, and after a short stop it landed on 3 Elm Street: "The cafe incident and the 3 Elm Street incident are the second and third, less than an hour apart, and They are a week apart from the Petra incident and can be considered infections."

  The pen moved to the third line: "The evil consciousness of the remaining four events has not yet appeared, which can be regarded as the second batch of infections."

The pen was removed and the cap was taken off. Lu Li drew a circle around the names of the three lines, including them, and his calm voice sounded in front of the window: "The event of the awakening of the consciousness of the evil thing is about a week, if you want to know the pollutants The reason for the spread, we should investigate the Petra incident and the cafe, 3 Elm Street incident."

   "These three evil creatures have awakened, and we can't get in." Price said.

   "There may not be any clues in the house." Lu Li said, his black eyes falling on the civilians. "The cafe owner seems to know everyone, which means he has access to everyone."

   "So just ask him if any of these people have been to his cafe within a week and it will be clear."

   "I'll go." Matthew, who was standing behind Pulis listening to the entire content, turned his head and swung his ponytail.

   "No, I'll ask." Pulis held her down and walked towards the ordinary people.

   noticed that Price was approaching, and those whispering conversations disappeared immediately.

A few minutes later, Price returned to the window with the answer, looking rather unhappy: "You're right, they've all been to the coffee shop this week, and they're regulars there. More to the point, Pei Tra would come to the café in the morning for tea, and the owner of 3 Elm Street tends to be there an hour or so apart from Petra.”

  Lu Li lowered his head and drew a few straight lines between those names - Petra connects the cafe owner and 3 Elm Street, and the cafe owner connects everyone in the third row.

   Petra infects two people in the second row, and the cafe owner infects everyone.

  Price's expression became more and more ugly, with an unacceptable heaviness: "We have all been in contact with him..."

   This means that everyone present, including Lu Li, was infected by the cafe owner.

   A suffocating breath suddenly filled the void beside Lu Li.

  Price and Matthew, who were the closest to Lu Li, froze.

   "Anna, don't worry." Lu Li whispered to reassure Anna, and explained, "But the infected person is not necessarily a human. I didn't perceive anything abnormal in him or us."

  The gloomy aura gradually faded away, and Pulis pulled away his shocked expression, and quickly said to Matthew, "Tell the base that an infectious agent was found here, block Elm Street to prevent anyone from leaving, and avoid communicating with the people inside."

After    finished speaking, he looked at Lu Li: "You can do anything next, and our 78th team will fully cooperate with you."

   He didn't want the team to be wiped out.

  Lu Li nodded: "Call the cafe owner over."

  The owner of the cafe was quickly brought to the window. Price moved his chair to Lu Li, and suddenly remembered his "assistant". Instead of sitting next to him, he sat on the other side.

  The owner of the cafe sat down where Price had been.

   "Investigate... Mr. Police Officer." The boss said cautiously.

  Lu Li skipped the politeness and asked directly, "Tell me about Petra."

   "What do you want to know?"

   "Everything about her recent visit to your cafe."

"She... She doesn't like talking very much. Every time she comes over with a cup and asks for a cup of tea, she will sit by the window and look at the scenery. Sometimes her former students will come to see her and leave after saying a few words... I I don’t know what they are talking about. Petra usually stays for an hour or two and leaves, and comes every morning in the morning, and the rest… I don’t know.” The boss said with difficulty, he couldn’t recall too much detail. details.

   But Lu Li still noticed the key point: "You just said 'cup'."

  The cafe owner froze for a moment: "...Yes, Petra has a set of cups, and she likes to use that thing to drink tea."

   (end of this chapter)