Bizarre Detective Agency

  Chapter 279 One Hundred Ninety Four. Petra's Home

The    target was almost confirmed, but Lu Li still read the rest of the content, sorted out the paper notes and handed them to Price.

  Price waved his hand and refused: "Just tell me how to do it."

   "The night watchman can't even understand the event that is going to happen." Lu Li asked inexplicably.

   "We are only responsible for execution." Pulis replied.

  The night watchman is more pure than Lu Li imagined.

   But only in this way can we maintain our vitality to a greater extent and not be destroyed by the mysterious and paradoxical weirdness.

  Lu Li didn't say anything. He silently put away the information and said to Price, "Let the Alliance investigate the whereabouts of Hawkinson and the ancient book."

   He and the ancient books are particularly suspicious, and it is estimated that the alliance is already doing this.

   "Contaminant identified?" Price asked.

   "Hawkinson gave Petra an ancient book a week ago, and that may be the source." Lu Li said, after thinking about it, he added: "So we are not actually infected."

If the contaminants were ancient books, then the whole incident would have been clarified: Hawkinson gave Petra ancient books - Petra brought home to read - Distorted knowledge infected all objects in the house - Petra the next day Tra took the infected water glass to the cafe - the cafe was infected by the water glass, 3 Elm Street was infected - the cafe was infected with four buildings left - a week later, the house of Petra was born evil - another one Evil is born at Tin Hau Cafe and 3 Elm Street.

   But Lu Li still has one thing to make sure—

   How many man-eating houses are still undiscovered.

   The guests of the cafe in the past week were by no means the only residents of these five households, but only their homes were infected. Lu Li simply asked some questions and got the results easily, confirming the cause of the infection: they are used to using their own cups, which are usually kept in cafes and will not be taken away.

   This is a relief, since the only customers coming to the cafe are residents of Elm Street, at least recently.

   Just in case, Lu Li asked if any outsiders went to his house after that, and if there were any debris thrown out of the house.

   Residents of four households, including the cafe, fell silent.

  Daily garbage is generated every day.

   An unspeakably depressing breath suddenly descended on the entire store, and some team members' breathing became heavy. They dared not imagine how terrifying the crisis would be if the pollutants spread.

   As the team leader, Price remained calm and said: "Each block has a special garbage station, and it will be cleaned up on Sunday."

   Lu Li reminded: "Today is Sunday."

   "Damn!"

Price couldn't hold his breath for a moment, his calf knocked over the wooden chair and sat up suddenly, turned his head and shouted at Matthew: "Matthew! Tell the alliance to contact the garbage station, you must stop the garbage from Elm Street! Others follow me. Elm Street Dump Station!"

  Price and the others put on ponchos and hurriedly left the shop. The shop was quiet, and only the civilians who had heard some content sporadically looked at each other in confusion.

   A few minutes later, Price and the others appeared outside the window and returned to the store.

  Lu Li noticed that they were missing two people.

   It looks like there is no bad news.

With the hoods piled behind his head, Price sighed and said to Lu Li, "They're still there, and this heavy rain helped us."

   The heavy rain did help them. If it wasn't for the rain of mutation, Lu Li would not have gone out and stopped at the cafe, and he would not have discovered the fact that the [Cannibal House] was an infectious agent. It will stay dormant like this until it explodes a few days later.

   "Investigator Lu Li, what shall we do next?"

   "Investigate Petra's house and find the book." Having said that, Lu Li paused and looked at Matthew: "Have you told the Alliance to investigate Hawkinson and the ancient books?"

   "Not yet."

   "Now go talk."

"Um."

  Matthew turned and walked to the second floor.

  Price took off his poncho, lifted up the fallen chair and said suspiciously, "Investigate Petra's house? We can't get in there."

   "Have you ever heard of fishing? Humans' strength lies in intelligence and tools."

  Price almost understood what Lu Li wanted to convey.

After a while, Matthew came down from the upstairs and said to Lu Li: I told the alliance that you are going to investigate Petra's house. They told me to tell you that they would contact investigators to send helpers to assist, and they would arrive in a short time. .

   "Help?"

   "Yes, a senior investigator."

  Lu Li nodded and looked at Priss, who was freed from his thoughts.

   "I'm calling people right now to get some gadgets that allow us to get things out of the house without going into the house," Price said.

  Lu Li stood up and said, "Then let's go now."

"Now?"

   "I have something to confirm."

  Lu Li picked up the book of wild animals he had read, and reached out to the love novel to return it to the bookshelf——

   The unfolded book suddenly moved to the side, dodging Lu Li's palm.

  "..." After a brief silence, Lu Li turned to the boss and said, "How much does this book cost?"

   "What...?" The boss was confused for a while, and quickly said, "If you like it, I can give it to you."

"thanks."

  Lu Li nodded unceremoniously and said to Anna, "Take it when you leave."

   Returning the illustrated book, Lu Li put on a rain cape that was no longer wet, and went out again with Pulis, Matthew and the others.

  …

  The majestic rain fell to the ground, and the bluestone slab as far as the eye could see was boiling cold, and the rainwater in the drainage channel rushed downstream.

  The rain has not weakened at all.

   It is said that this is just the prelude - the prelude to the arrival of the real rainy season.

  When the real rainy season comes, fishing boats cannot leave the port, and factories stop working. Even the bosses who exploit the workers harshly dare not take the risk and continue to work.

   Coming to Petra's house at No. 33 Elm Street, Lu Li once again felt the evil's malicious call.

   The door was half-closed, it couldn't be locked, and the door would be reopened a few times before.

   "Maybe I can go in and try..." Anna whispered in her ear.

   "That's too risky." Lu Li rejected Anna's proposal, turned around and said to Pulis and the others behind him, "Can you step back to the middle of the street?"

  Price frowned, hesitated for a few seconds and then nodded: "Please be safe."

  The night watchman retreated to the center of the street. As the distance increased, Lu Li and the house began to become illusory, like a portrait drawn with scribbled pencils under the rain curtain.

  Lu Li raised his hand and pressed the outer wall of the house.

   A voice muffled by the rain came from the wall.

  Lu Li focused his attention and whispered to the call in his consciousness.

   "Can you hear me?"

   After waiting for a while, the call of inspiration has not changed. Beneath the gentle appearance is a biting malice that makes blood freeze.

  Lu Li asked, "Who are you?" and "What are you?", but neither got an answer.

  This monster cannot communicate, it has a simple feeding instinct.

   (end of this chapter)