Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 404 Three hundred nineteen. Banyan Tree Jungle

   "Mother of the swamp, is the banyan tree your servant?"

   Remembering the last experience, those weird banyan trees with tree holes, and the help from banyan trees when they finally escaped from the swamp, Lu Li asked.

   Lu Li's words didn't get a response, and the sculpture of the mother of the swamp was silent, no different from ordinary clay sculptures, as if the consciousness of the evil **** had left the sculpture.

  Lu Li put the statue of the Mother of the Swamp close to the counter, the counter, which was slowly clucking because Anna was beside him, did not speed up the frequency——

  The Swamp Mother has left.

   Put away the sculpture, Lu Li turned around and told Anna Jojo who was looking at what happened at this time.

   "Is it really a trap?!" Knowing that the Swamp Mother had disappeared, Jojo couldn't think of the second possibility.

   "Not necessarily."

  Black eyes fell in front, Yingchuoren hid behind dead trees, waiting for them to approach.

   If it's a trap, the Swamp Mother should lead them to their destination, not leave them on the way.

   Maybe something happened that they didn't know.

   "It's time for us to leave." Anna, who was silent for a long time, said, opposing Lu Li for the first time: "I won't let you take risks again."

  Jojo's eyes were dim, but also relieved. She noticed Anna's hostility towards her, and pursed her pale lips: "...Anna is right, you shouldn't take any more risks."

  Lu Li looked up at the unwilling Anna: "The Swamp Mother won't let us leave."

   The eyes that were once clear like stars were occupied by scarlet, permeating with a chilling coldness: "Then kill it."

   "We know this is impossible." Lu Li shook his head slightly, and they were already on the same rope as the Swamp Mother after entering the depths. Unless someone between the Swamp Mother or the unknown evil **** fails, Lu Li has no way out.

   "Avoid these banyan trees and follow the Yingchuo people. The ship should be not far ahead." Lu Li left his words and stepped forward.

  Ana's gaze fell on Jojo indifferently, and her figure gradually faded away.

  Qiaoqiao hesitated and followed behind Lu Li.

  The dead trees in the quagmire jungle are gradually replaced by eerie and ominous banyan trees.

   They are dead, their roots hanging down like cloth. The wind can't blow into the banyan forest, the air freezes, everything tends to be still, dead silent and like twilight.

  Yingchuoren, who always hid behind the trees at the periphery of the swamp, no longer approached the surrounding banyan trees, it also avoided them. Maybe it's not wanting to touch the drooping roots, or maybe it's something else.

   In any case, Lu Li, who had seen the bizarre banyan tree attack, would not approach them rashly.

   They are very close to each other, the roots extending in the silt are almost entangled, the unimaginably huge canopy almost covers the sky, and the whispers are surging in the darkness.

   Entering the banyan tree jungle is only a short distance away. The increasingly dark environment and the ground tangled with tree roots forced Lu Li and Qiaoqiao to light oil lamps.

   The dim yellow light lit up and spread all over the body.

   To my astonishment, dust and indescribable flocculents floated in the silent and solidified air. They floated in the air like spirits, moving slowly. As Lu Li and Qiaoqiao approached, they disappeared surging if disturbed.

  Lu Li and Qiaoqiao kept quiet, not to disturb the silence of this jungle.

  Although the lighting of the oil lamps will inevitably make them obvious, there is also good news - no eerie dares to set foot in this dark twilight forest.

   Except for the banyan tree itself.

  Loli They dodged the roots hanging from the thick branches and the crisscrossing roots under their feet, but things were never smooth sailing.

   At a certain moment, Lu Li observed that the silent roots hanging around seemed to be lifted up by the passing air flow, floating slightly, and reaching out to the place they passed.

   Of course they weren't caused by the breeze - the wind couldn't make them point to Lu Li and the others at the same time.

   It's just that Roots doesn't seem to notice Lu Li and Qiao Qiao... but Anna.

  Lu Li stopped, looked at the air where the roots were reaching, and felt that Anna was there.

   He stretched out his hands, the palms slowly approached, and finally closed together.

  Anna understood what he meant, and the aura of resentment that spilled out gradually disappeared, and the roots that were attracted around him drooped slightly, but it did not completely restore calm.

   Before that, it was difficult for Anna to fully restrain her aura, and after the previous outbreak, the degree of her pollution by the inner world increased irreversibly.

  Anna controlled her own breath and distanced herself from Lu Li, so she could help Lu Li at any time without affecting her distance.

   Perhaps because Lu Li and the others avoided the drooping roots and roots under the silt, or perhaps the banyan tree jungle was not interested in them, Lu Li and Qiaoqiao safely crossed a long distance.

  When the surrounding woods began to thin out, Lu Li stopped and looked up.

  Yingchuoren is in front, and the sound of running water is also in front.

  The sound of the river flowing dilutes the tranquility of the swamp and jungle, which makes people feel at ease. Lu Li approached Yingchuo, standing beside Yingchuo who looked like a scorched man, looking forward.

   A few meters away, a gurgling stream about ten meters wide divided the banyan tree jungle, splashed water, and rushed downstream.

  Qiaoqiao didn't dare to look directly at Yingchuoren, so he stopped behind Lu Li and looked away.

  Under no one's attention, Yingchuoren suddenly disappeared, neither on the other side nor downstream.

  In the upper stream, Yingchuo stood in the calf-deep stream. Lu Li looked further upstream, and a hundred meters away, there was a vague outline of a man-made object emerging in the stream.

  Lu Li and Qiao Qiao were walking on the shore. After a certain distance, the approach of the banyan tree forced them to enter the stream. The turbulent water flowed downward, and they flowed upward.

  The surrounding banyan tree jungle has not changed, and the outline of the stream ahead gradually becomes more and more obvious.

   A strange rock was erected more than ten meters away, Lu Li approached it and held up the oil lamp.

   The huge rusted anchor was half smashed into the bottom of the river, and the arm-thick iron chain was spread under the river surface, covered by the silt, and only the silhouette extended forward.

   Walking along the direction of the chain, a minute later, Lu Li and Qiaoqiao reached the huge shadow.

  A masted steamship with rust on the surface lies in the stream, fifty meters or even longer, the bow and stern extend into the banyan tree forest, surrounded by a large number of collapsed banyan trees. The truncated stream bypassed on both sides and reconvened behind the ship.

   They walked under the ship, which was deeply immersed in the silt of the river, but the deck was still 4-5 meters above the height. The rust water light on the surface reflects the light of the oil lamp.

  The sound of the stream was covering up, so Lu Li didn't have to worry about disturbing the banyan tree on the shore: "Anna, look at getting on the boat from there."

  Ana emerges and floats up the deck to find a suitable place to enter.

  Jojo lowered her head nervously. On the water, their reflections were constantly shattering and reorganizing.

  Her brother might be in there.

   (end of this chapter)