Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 378 Two hundred and ninety-three

  Crash-

   The coldness of the rainstorm almost got into the bone marrow.

  Jojo quickly walked towards the direction where the carriage left, her belly under the poncho bulging, and she supported it with her palm.

  Only in this way will the kraft paper and food not be wet by the rainstorm.

  The steak won't taste good when it's cold.

   "23, 25, 27..."

  By the halo of streetlights, Jojo walked forward through the reflective number plates on the buildings on the street.

   There was not a single person to be seen on the street, and the sound of rain and the sharp whistling of the wind over the top of the brim hat filled his ears, and the raindrops slammed on the poncho.

   "31, 33, 3..."

   The street lights suddenly flickered a few times, making Qiaoqiao unable to see the number plate on the wall.

  Jojo could probably guess what was on it, skipped straight ahead, and continued to walk forward, but after a few seconds, her footsteps suddenly stopped.

   Fifty meters ahead, a row of street lamps suddenly went out like candles that had been extinguished.

  Jojo stopped and looked towards the street ahead with a trace of doubt.

   It was not a coincidence or a faulty wire, and immediately after that, the second adjacent row of street lights went out, and then the third...fourth row.

   As if some kind of existence is approaching Jojo.

  Jojo didn't even think about it, she immediately turned and ran back.

   The darkness spread faster than her running. Rows of extinguished street lights seemed to be turned into reality, swallowing them towards Jojo's back.

   Jojo, who turned back in a hurry, found this, the darkness was spreading rapidly, and it was difficult for her to run back to the restaurant before the darkness arrived.

   There seemed to be something surging in the rich darkness, Jojo bit her pale lips, reached into her pocket and grabbed a newspaper, turned her head and threw it behind her.

   She knows Lu Li's style. If she doesn't go back for a long time, Lu Li will notice the problem, and he will definitely come to see her.

   Turning back for a moment, Qiaoqiao saw that the row of street lights behind him went out, and the darkness eroded the space behind him.

   gritted his teeth, Jojo accelerated and ran to another row of street lights just a few meters ahead.

  Tread——

When    was about to run into the new range of light, the darkness chased after him, and Jojo's figure was swallowed by the darkness along with the sound of running.

  The streets in the rainstorm returned to calm, and the flashing street lights became bright again, as if nothing had happened.

  …

  Tread——

   The falling shoes splashed with water.

   The dim yellow light reflected countless broken worlds in the standing water, and the pale newspapers on the ground shone in reverse.

   A slender palm picked up the newspaper in the stagnant water. The newspaper was torn apart like crumbs, and was swept into the sewer by the current, leaving only a small piece on the palm of the hand.

"a newspaper?"

   "Jojo left it."

   The blurred text on the soaked paper was recognized by Lu Li, and it was from "The True News of the Ellen Peninsula".

   In this weather, the soaked newspaper will be torn to shreds by the rain within a few minutes, and the newspaper will fall within a few minutes.

  Looking around, there was only stagnant water and countless spreading ripples on the road, and there was no food——

  The newspaper was deliberately left by Jojo, and she didn't throw away the food. Was it not serious, or she didn't have time to throw it away?

  Lu Li dropped the piece of paper, let it be flushed down the drain, and went to Huntley to fry the steak.

  Huntley's Delicious Fried Steak Restaurant is about to close, and half of the window has been darkened. When Lu Li arrived, the manager thought he was a guest, and was hesitating whether to make another meal.

   When Lu Li asked Qiao Qiao, the store manager who was called Little Huntley by Aunt Mary looked at Lu Li vigilantly: "Are you her friend?"

   "Mary said your food was cooked quickly, and Jojo hasn't been back for a long time."

Little Huntley suddenly became enthusiastic: "So you are Mrs. Mary's friends. I knew I should give you a 10% discount. Mrs. Mary is really a very good person... Oh, what are you asking? That Girl, right, she just left, maybe less than two minutes, didn't you see her when you came?"

   Maybe it's too late.

  Jojo is very smart, and people who have been in gangs and slums since childhood know best how to survive.

   Leaving the restaurant, Lu Li returned to the spot where he saw the newspaper, his eyes paused on a few dark alleys, and turned his head to the side and said, "Sense the ghost breath nearby, Jojo may be nearby."

   Anna's figure appeared in the void, the rain passed through her soul, and Anna, who was floating in the air, closed her eyes.

   In Lu Li's psychic perception, Anna's breath stretched out like tentacles, getting farther and farther... Suddenly, she was blocked in front of the entrance of an alley.

   It was originally hidden, but revealed in Anna's shroud.

   "Over there." Anna opened her eyes, and the scarlet pupils swept away.

   It was a dark alley hidden in the darkness.

  …

The moment    was shrouded in darkness, Jojo stopped.

  The surroundings are rich in darkness, only the oil lamp in his hand illuminates a small area.

  Jojo calmed her breath and looked around vigilantly, but except for the sound of wind and rain, there was nothing in the darkness——

  Jojo suddenly turned her head and looked at the alley where there was a faint noise.

   "Please don't, save me! Who will save me—"

   There were hurried running sounds and exhausted cries for help from the alley.

  Jojo kept quiet and still, watching how things unfolded.

The screams full of despair got closer and closer to the alley. The next moment, a unkempt face appeared at the alley, in the range of the oil lamp, but the next moment, a pair of big hands stretched out from the darkness behind her, grabbing woman hair.

Jojo saw the pain and despair of the woman at the moment when she was caught and pulled her hair, and saw the hands of countless men stretched out again in the dark, grabbed the woman's body in greed and weird laughter, and dragged her into the light. A dark alley outside.

  Woman molested in an alley? How could it be so simple, but...

   Hearing the woman's wailing, Jojo clenched her fists.

   How could she be indifferent...

  Qiaoqiao approached the alley with clenched teeth. Suddenly, a tall and ferocious figure appeared on the edge of the oil lamp, staring fiercely at Qiaoqiao: "Do you want to meddle in your business?"

   "Uh I..." Jojo almost thought it was a real person, if it wasn't real enough for the scene that had been dragged into the darkness earlier.

   She took out the kraft paper bag hidden in her arms, took out a piece of bread and handed it to the figure, and asked tentatively, "Are you hungry?"

The    figure paused for a moment, and the complex three-dimensional face under the light of the oil lamp became hideous, and he waved open Jojo's palm.

  The bread and the kraft paper bag containing the food fell to the ground, and quickly soaked and broke, and several long loaves of bread rolled out of the alley.

   "Ah food!"

  Jojo looked at the food on the ground subconsciously, but saw a long bread hit a black rain boot.

   Looking up, Qiaoqiao shouted in surprise, "Lu Li!"

  Lu Li looked down at the food that was soaked in the standing water and could no longer be eaten, and frowned slightly.

   The black eyes gradually narrowed.

   (end of this chapter)