Bizarre Detective Agency

  Chapter 281 One Hundred Ninety Six. Ancient Books

   did not close the door, the open door is one of the basis for Lu Li to judge whether he is safe or not.

  The wet and cold soles left water marks on the floor. Except for the crunching sound of stepping, there was no other sound, and the house remained eerily peaceful.

  In the living room outside the hallway, in addition to the smell of damp wood, there is also a faint smell of rotting food.

   Considering that no one entered the house for a week after Petra was eaten, it was naturally not cleaned, and it was normal for the leftovers to rot.

  Lu Li remained silent, while Thomas continued to keep talking: "You know, I was investigating the [Cannibal House] in the beginning. If you read those materials."

  Lu Li's eyes fell on Thomas from the surroundings: "I didn't see your name on it."

   "I just chose to be anonymous." Thomas walked to the kitchen, stopped outside the door again, pinched his nose with a disgusted expression, waved his leather-gloved palm, and turned away from the kitchen.

But he still didn't forget to talk to Lu Li: "I heard that Truss said about you, that guy is very optimistic about you, it seems that he has a good vision. So after the base asked me if I wanted to take over the incident, I shied away tonight. The Viscount came to help you at the huge wine party in the manor, and brought a hypnosis box to solve this incident once and for all."

   "Speaking of which, thanks to your investigation into the source."

   After walking around the living room, Thomas returned to Lu Li, thought of something, and said, "Oh, by the way, can I ask you a favor?"

"what."

  Thomas raised his fingers and poked at the kitchen: "I'm a bit of a clean freak, can I ask you to go to the kitchen and investigate?"

   "The pollutant is that ancient book, we just need to find it."

Thomas smiled mysteriously: "But sometimes there will always be some accidents, such as a hard difficulty event I once performed, I and three investigators formed a team to investigate that town, where a lot of people died, We all thought the murderer was the monster wandering in the town and tracked it for a long time-but in fact the murderer was the son of the mayor who had been cooperating with us all the time. A hapless companion was blinded in one eye.

   "So if you've had enough incidents you'll realize it."

   Excluding the bragging plot, what Thomas said was not wrong - until the truth is found out, all inferences and judgments are speculations. It can only be infinitely close to the truth, not equal to the truth.

   Of course, it would have been better if Thomas could have said it in a more acceptable way than in a pompous tone.

   "What am I looking for inside?" Lu Li asked.

  Thomas stretched out **** to match his own eyes: "I know your inspiration is high, pay attention to those things that make you feel that something is wrong."

  Lu Li quietly walked into the kitchen.

   The rancid stench around his body intensified as Lu Li stepped into the kitchen. Its source was a pot of boiled beef on the stove.

  The surface of this pot of broth was almost solidified after more than a week in the rainy season, and cinders and gray-black eyeball-shaped molds climbed on the surface.

  To a certain extent, this pot of food has no less mental impact on some people than facing weirdness.

   For example, a senior investigator with cleanliness outside the living room.

   looked away, and Lu Li swept to the rest of the kitchen. Except for the pot of food, there is nothing here that would make Lu Li uncomfortable.

  Lu Li returned to the living room. Thomas, who took out a handkerchief and wiped his forehead, put away the handkerchief again, looked at Lu Li and said, "Your face tells me you didn't find anything."

"Um."

   "Then go upstairs."

   and Thomas walked to the second floor, Thomas pushed open the door of the study.

  The bookcases on both walls are full of books, and the desk is placed under the window, with notes and several books neatly stacked on it. The arrangement here is like a professor's office.

   "Do you feel that ancient book?" Thomas asked Lu Li, who shook his head.

   "Well, we can only use stupid methods."

   He said, pulling out the first book on the first shelf.

  Thomas flipped through the books one by one, Lu Li walked around the desk and walked to the window. The fog and rain marks blurred the scenery outside the window, and a few figures could barely be seen waiting in the street below.

   knock knock --

  The sound of the glass knocking lightly suddenly entered the study.

   Lu Li was slightly startled, and an invisible finger drew a smiling face on the window. Although the trace was covered again as the finger moved away, the smiling face was still engraved with a pattern in his heart.

"Tsk tsk..."Innsmouth Secret", "Fifty-Eight Cooking Recipes for Tanuki Crabs" and "Occult Astrology", this poor old lady has good taste, oh yes, she used to be a professor."

  Thomas commented and put the book back, and said to Lu Li, "Go to the bedroom and have a look."

   "Have the books been checked?"

   "No, I've only checked the books he's flipped through recently, and the ones that haven't been read in a long time don't make sense--unless we find nothing in her bedroom."

  Lu Li and Thomas left the study and stood in front of Petra's bedroom door.

  The door was pushed open with a creak, and Lu Li, who was standing outside the door, turned his gaze to the bedside cabinet almost at the same time.

  An old book with a black cover is placed on it.

   "You feel it?" Thomas looked sideways.

   "Some kind of whispers pervade the book." Lu Li replied.

   "It seems to congratulate you that your guess is completely correct." Thomas said, entering the bedroom and walking towards the bedside table.

   He stretched out his leather-gloved palm toward the ancient book, and Lu Li's reminder sounded behind him when he was still some distance away.

   "This book is dangerous."

   "If it's dangerous, it won't be easily brought home by a retired old lady." Thomas said, and touched the ancient book with his palm——

   Nothing happened until he picked up the ancient book.

   But when he was about to open it, Lu Li's reminder sounded again.

   "This book is dangerous."

   The same words, but a little more accentuated.

   "You mean that the surrounding furniture and houses will turn into evil things? Don't worry, they have fallen asleep." Thomas smiled indifferently, and handed the ancient book to Lu Li.

   "Or you first?"

   "No way."

  Lu Li has always been grateful for such things of unknown origin.

   "Young man, this is not like an investigator."

  Thomas opened the cover with a chuckle.

   "Because I don't think the above content can help me." Standing outside the door, Lu left the exit.

  Thomas was about to say something when his pupils on the ancient book froze.

"This is……"

   In an instant, his clothes seemed to come alive, exuding a disturbing vile aura, squirming recklessly in an abominable manner, shrinking tightly. Thomas only had time to focus on Lu Li—

  Whoa——

  The mashed meat and clothes were piled up on the floor to form a hill, and only half of the remaining face fell on the top of the hill, and the open mouth wanted to say something.

   In just a few breaths, the senior investigator was smashed into flesh by his clothes in front of Lu Li's eyes.

   (end of this chapter)